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Abstracts: Predicting seed yield of moist-soil plants. Effects of Agricultural Cultivation on Demographics of Southern High Plains Amphibians
Abstracts: Predicting spontaneous recovery of memory. Distance determined by the angular declination below the horizon. Looking down is looking up
Abstracts: Predicting the CJD epidemic in humans. BSE transmission data pose dilemma for UK scientists. Sex surveys and drug users
Abstracts: Predicting the endpoints of earthquake ruptures. Variations in earthquake-size distribution across different stress regimes
Abstracts: Predicting the risk of extinction through hybridization. An Evaluation of Threatened Species Categorization Systems Used on the American Continent
Abstracts: Predicting where we walk: models than link human behaviour to the way paths are formed provide excellent predictions of path geometry
Abstracts: Prediction of carcass characteristics by real-time ultrasound in barrows and gilts slaughtered at three weights
Abstracts: Prediction of carcass characteristics by real-time ultrasound in barrows and gilts slaughtered at three weights. part 2
Abstracts: Prediction of Emperor-Hawaii seamount locations from a revised model of global plate motion and mantle flow. Diversity and endemism of the benthic seamount fauna in the southwest Pacific
Abstracts: Prediction of performance of progeny from test station boars. Effect of light intensity on circadian profiles of melatonin, prolactin, ACTH, and cortisol in pigs
Abstracts: Predictive accuracy of population viability analysis in conservation biology. Catastrophic extinctions follow deforestation in Singapore
Abstracts: Predictors of fertilization in the Japanese quail, Coturnix japonica. Effect of female brooding behaviour on male mate choice in Japanese quail, Coturnix japonica
Abstracts: Predictors of white-tailed deer grazing intensity in fragmented deciduous forests. The importance of environmental variability and management control error to optimal harvest policies
Abstracts: Preferences for colored bower decorations can be explained in a nonsexual context. Complex male display and female choice in the spotted bowerbird: specialized functions for different bower decorations
Abstracts: Preferences for ultraviolet partners in the blue tit. Ultraviolet vision and mate choice in zebra finches. The effect of flicker from fluorescent lights on mate choice in captive birds
Abstracts: Preferential cis-syn thymine dimer bypass by DNA polymerase eta occurs with biased fidelity. Low fidelity DNA synthesis by human DNA polymerase-eta
Abstracts: Pregnancies from biopsied human preimplantation embryos sexed by Y-specific DNA amplification. Genetics and the public interest
Abstracts: Pre-laying time budgets in rock pipits: priority rules of males and females. Pseudo concorde fallacy in the willow tit?
Abstracts: Pre-meiotic S phase is linked to reductional chromosome segregation and recombination. Selective elimination of messenger RNA prevents an incidence of untimely meiosis
Abstracts: Preparation of muscle samples for comparative electron microscopy. The effect of live weight gain and live weight loss on body composition of Merino wethers: dissected muscle, fat, and bone
Abstracts: Preparing pure photon number states of the radiation field. Correlated electron emission in multiphoton double ionization
Abstracts: Presence of conspecifics, time of day and age affect willow tit food hoarding. Alarm calling by willow tits, Parus montanus, as mate investment
Abstracts: Presenilin is required for activity and nuclear access of Notch in Drosophila. Presenilin is required for proper morphology and function of neurons in C. elegans
Abstracts: Present and future taxonomic selectivity in bird and mammal extinctions. Taxonomic stability and avian extinctions
Abstracts: Present and future trends in the atmospheric burden of ozone-depleting halogens. A decrease in the growth rates of atmospheric halon concentrations
Abstracts: Presentation of viral antigen controlled by a gene in the major histocompatibility complex. Playing upon both sides
Abstracts: Preservation of miocene glacier ice in East Antarctica. Evidence for recent climate change on Mars from the identification of youthful near-surface ground ice
Abstracts: Pre-social benefits of extended parental care. Ant parasite queens revert to mating singly. Insurance-based advantage to helpers in a tropical hover wasp
Abstracts: Pressure-induced changes in the compression mechanism of aluminous perovskite in the Earth's mantle. The elastic constants of MgSiO3 perovskite at pressures and temperatures of the Earth's mantle
Abstracts: Pressure stepped up on embryo research. IVF: regulation or prohibition? Deciding about embryo research
Abstracts: Pressure to publish stifles young talent. Older bull elephants control young males. Jet propulsion is essential for young stars
Abstracts: Presynaptic mechanism for the long-term potentiation in the hippocampus. Reversal of long-term potentiation by inhibitors of haem oxygenase
Abstracts: Prevention of HIV-1 IIIB infection in chimpanzees by CD4 immunoadhesin. Soviets enact new law
Abstracts: Preview of 1994 US budget emphasizes big projects. Congress warns NASA not to raid science funds. Congress touts budget boost for NASA and the NSF
Abstracts: Prey attraction as a possible function of discoid stabilimenta of juvenile orb-spinning spiders. Foraging in agricultural fields: local 'sit-and-move' strategy scales up to risk-averse habitat use in a wolf spider
Abstracts: Prey availability and selective foraging in shorebirds. Development-related effects of an acanthocephalan parasite on pairing success of its intermediate host
Abstracts: Prey selection of dragonflies in relation to prey size and wasp-like colours and patterns. A test of prey-attracting and predator defence functions of prey carcass decorations built by Cyclosa spiders
Abstracts: Prey-size selection, gape limitation and predator vulnerability in Australian blindsnakes (Typhlopidae). Invasion and the evolution of speed in toads
Abstracts: Priceless proposals. Environmental protection or imperialism? Growing with environmental care
Abstracts: Pricing policy for tourism in protected areas: Lessons from Komodo National Park, Indonesia. Changing species richness and composition in Canadian national parks
Abstracts: Primary afferent tachykinins are required to experience moderate to intense pain. Molecular mechanisms of nociception
Abstracts: Primary cortical representation of sounds by the coordination of action-potential timing. Cortical remodelling induced by activity of ventral tegmental dopamine neurons
Abstracts: Primary neurogenesis in Xenopus embryos regulated by a homologue of the Drosophila neurogenic gene Delta. Notch signalling and the synchronization of the somite segmentation clock
Abstracts: Primary structure and functional expression of mouse inward rectifier potassium channel. Adherens junctions inhibit asymmetric division in the Drosophila epithelium
Abstracts: Primate origins: plugging the gaps. Hybrid speciation. Ant soldiers are not modified queens
Abstracts: Primate work faces German veto. Jurgen Graeser. Futuristic center under fire from German science council:
Abstracts: Primed for a biotech boom. Bound for Boston. Capital collaboration Washington DC
Abstracts: Prime time for neuropeptide Y. Sex and the single copepod. Beauty on the brain
Abstracts: Prime-time progress. The loader of the rings. Stirring the primordial soup: RNA world: Does changing the direction of replication make RNA life viable?
Abstracts: Primitive dinosaur skeleton from Argentina and the early evolution of Dinosauria. Cannibalism in the Madagascan dinosaur Majungatholus atopus
Abstracts: Primordial black holes in globular clusters. Stellar black holes in globular clusters. A black hole in a globular cluster
Abstracts: Primordial soup or crepes? Momentum creation by vortices in superfluid 3Helium as a model of primordial baryogenesis
Abstracts: Principal pathway coupling agonist binding to channel gating in nicotine receptors. SOL-1 is a CUB-domain protein required for GLR-1 glutamate receptor function in C. elegans
Abstracts: Principle of least astonishment. Time of reversal. A magnetic reversal record
Abstracts: Priorities in astronomy. Wise council. Report fuels criticism of UK research council
Abstracts: Prioritizing global conservation efforts. Human population in the biodiversity hotspots. Turning up the heat on hotspots
Abstracts: Prior oviposition, female receptivity and last-male sperm precedence in the cosmopolitan pest Callosobruchus maculatus (Coleoptera: Bruchidae)
Abstracts: Prior residence has a gradual influence on dominance in captive white-throated sparrows. Estimating the distance to a source of sound: mechanisms and adaptations for long-range communication
Abstracts: Prisoner's dilemma in an RNA virus. From Cinderella's dilemma to rock slides. A strategy of win-stay, lose-shift that outperforms tit-for-tat in the Prisoner's Dilemma game
Abstracts: Privacy bill under threat from researchers. Sequencing funds 'must remain focused.' (US researchers working on genome sequencing warn National Human Genome Research Institute of dangers of becoming distracted with other activities)
Abstracts: Private industrial forests and bird conservation in the northeastern United States. The boulder darter: a conservation challenge
Abstracts: Prizes fail to quell disquiet over UK policy. Physics bears the brunt of research council's accountability demands
Abstracts: Probable detection of starlight reflected from the giant planet orbiting tau Bootis. Production of O2 on icy satellites by electronic excitation of low-temperature water ice
Abstracts: Probable observation of a supersolid helium phase. Low-temperature shear modulus changes in solid [He.sup.4] and connection to supersolidity
Abstracts: Probing bulk states of correlated electron systems by high-resolution resonance photoemission. Quasicrystalline valence bands in decagonal AlNiCo
Abstracts: Probing met repressor-operator recognition in solution. Insect pheromone in elephants. Pheromone binding to two rodent urinary proteins revealed by X-ray crystallography
Abstracts: Probing the calcium-induce conformational transition of troponin C with site-directed mutants. The genome sequence of the plant pathogen Xylella fastidiosa
Abstracts: Probing the human stereoscopic system with reverse correlation. Vertical disparities, differential perspective and binocular stereopsis
Abstracts: Problems delay emergence of Moscow research centre. Russian science nearing collapse. Russian research may be put on lean diet
Abstracts: Problem solving and functional design features: experiments on cotton-top tamarins, Saguinus oedipus oedipus. Interspecific communication in mixed-species groups of tamarins: evidence from playback experiments
Abstracts: Proceed with caution, says UK report on ethics of GM foods. Defining misconduct: US Academy offers strict definitions but ducks other urgent issues
Abstracts: Process and production. Back at the last interglacial. Mediterranean vegetation, lake levels and palaeoclimate at the Last Glacial Maximum
Abstracts: Processing of mutant cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator is temperature-sensitive. Ion channels lose the rhythm
Abstracts: Processive AID-catalysed cytosine deamination on single-stranded DNA simulates somatic hypermutation. Roles of E. coli DNA polymerases IV and V lesion-targeted and untargeted SOS mutagenesis
Abstracts: Producer-decomposer co-dependency influences biodiversity effects. Paradise sustained
Abstracts: Producing primate embryonic stem cells by somatic cell nuclear transfer. Photoelectrochemical cells
Abstracts: Production and evolution of light elements in active star-forming regions. Dodecahedral space topology as an explanation for weak wide-angle temperature correlations in the cosmic microwave background
Abstracts: Production of heparin-binding angiogenic factor(s) by bovine corpora lutea during pregnancy. Accelerated lambing using exogenous progesterone and the ram effect
Abstracts: Production of sperm reduces nematode lifespan. A message from the gonads. Regulation of lifespan by sensory perception in Caenorhabditis elegans
Abstracts: Production of the antimalarial drug precursor artemisinic acid in engineered yeast. Golgi maturation visualized in living yeast
Abstracts: Proffesional secrets. Viral blitzkrieg. Parasitic turncoat
Abstracts: Progesterone receptor stimulates transcription of mouse mammary tumour virus in a cell-free system. Syncytin is a captive retroviral envelope protein involved in human placental morphogenesis
Abstracts: Programme aids developing world. US panel disagrees on cancer testing method. Mahoney centre set to tackle brain cancer head on
Abstracts: Progress at the K-T boundary. Net progress. Neurofibromin progress on the fly
Abstracts: Progress by poisoning. Fast forward to fusion. Tetanus and botulinum-B neurotoxins block neurotransmitter release by proteolytic cleavage of synaptobrevin
Abstracts: Progress in determining the causes and treatment of multiple sclerosis. Presenting an odd autoantigen
Abstracts: Progress in plant protection. Looking back, forging ahead. Two decades of change
Abstracts: Progressive field-state collapse and quantum non-demolition photon counting. Atomic recorder for light quanta
Abstracts: Projected increase in continental runoff due to plant responses to increasing carbon dioxide. Acceleration of global warming due to carbon-cycle feedbacks in a coupled climate model
Abstracts: Projection domains of MAP2 and tau determine spacings between microtubules in dendrites and axons. Dendrites go up, axons go down
Abstracts: Projection structure of rhodopsin. Observations of light-induced structural changes of retinal within rhodopsin
Abstracts: Project to sequence human genome moves on the starting blocks. Altruism through beard chromodynamics
Abstracts: Prolactin and helping behaviour in the cooperatively breeding Florida scrub-jay, Aphelocoma c. coerulescens. Life and death in the fast lane: Demographic consequences of road mortality in the Florida Scrub-Jay
Abstracts: Prolactin and luteinizing hormone secretion in the pregnant pig. Effects of dietary energy on control of luteinizing hormone secretion in cattle and sheep
Abstracts: Proliferation and muddle. A proliferation of programs. Bmk1/Erk5 is required for cell proliferation induced by epidermal growth factor
Abstracts: Promega, Roche clash over use of Taq in labs. UK gets rough ride over call for space cuts. Clash over too demanding Euro-water standards
Abstracts: Prometheus unbound. Ultra-remote stereocontrol by conformational communication of information along a carbon chain
Abstracts: Promiscuity in transgenic plants. Plants combat infection by gene silencing. Engineering disease resistance in plants
Abstracts: Promises and threats of the knowledge-based economy: The need to place scientific knowledge at the heart of economic and social policy has underlined some of the limitations of focusing on trade liberalization. Developing countries should be a prime beneficiary
Abstracts: Promises to cleanup industry fail to convince. The rough guide to the genome. Draft guidelines ease restrictions on use of genome sequence data
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