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Abstracts: Serious flaws in UK funding system. In the name of love? By defining ideas precisely, as science does, fiction would deny its readers freedom of interpretation
Abstracts: Setting a bad example on AIDS: South Africa has a unique opportunity to play a key role in creating effective health-care systems in sub-Saharan Africa. It must not squander this opportunity by rejecting the help offered by science
Abstracts: Setting sail for history. Bagging bursts, swiftly. Satellites aim to shake up quake predictions
Abstracts: Seven billion reasons to go vegetarian. Cassie and Michelle's comeback. Government endorses vegetarian diet
Abstracts: Seven billion reasons to go vegetarian. The fleecing of sheep. Should dog and cats be vegetarian?
Abstracts: Seven-year grant offers immune tolerance a boost. After the flood. Homeland science chief wants quick fixes
Abstracts: Severe chemical ozone loss in the Arctic during the winter of 1995-96. The hole truth
Abstracts: Severe neuropathies in mice with targeted mutations in the ErbB3 receptor. Tha mammalian sodium channel BNC1 is required for normal touch sensation
Abstracts: Sex allocation and clutch size in parasitoid wasps that produce single-sex broods. A comparative study of virginity in fig wasps
Abstracts: Sex-biased predation on moths by insectivorous bats. The influence of genes for melanism on the activity of the flour moth, Ephestia kuehniella
Abstracts: Sex differences in provisioning rules and honest signaling of need in Manx shearwaters, Puffinus puffinus. Food-provisioning behaviour of male and female Manx shearwaters, Puffinus puffinus
Abstracts: Sex differences in the development of termite-fishing skills in the wild chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii, of Gombe National Park, Tanzania
Abstracts: Sex differences in the functional organization of the brain for language. Behaviourally driven gene expression reveals song nuclei in hummingbird brain
Abstracts: Sex, flies and acetate. Oxygen sensation and social feeding mediated by a C. elegans guanylate cyclase homologue
Abstracts: Sex in giant squid. Role of the giant panda's 'pseudo-thumb'. The giant Popocatepetl stirs
Abstracts: Sex of opponent influences response to a potential status signal in house sparrows. Alternative mechanisms of nonindependent mate choice
Abstracts: Sex ratio at birth in Norway rats: comment on Hornig and McClintock. Porcine sex ratios and sex combinations within litters: comment on Meikle et al. (1997) and Mendl et al. (1997)
Abstracts: Sex-related differences in habitat selection in wintering American kestrels, Falco sparverius. Territorial signalling: A new hypothesis to explain frequent copulation in raptorial birds
Abstracts: Sex-role reversal and the absence of extra-pair fertilization in Wilson's phalaropes. DNA fingerprints similarity between female and juvenile brown-headed cowbirds trapped together
Abstracts: Sex roles, parental experience and reproductive success of eastern kingbirds, Tyrannus tyrannus. The detection of and responses to experimental intraspecific brood parasitism in eastern kingbirds
Abstracts: Sex-specific consequences of recent inbreeding in a ancestrally inbred population of New Zealand Takahe. Loss of genetic variation in Greater Prairie Chichens following a population bottleneck in Wisconsin, U.S.A
Abstracts: Sex-specific selection on time to remate in Drosophila melanogaster. Cost of mating in Drosophila melanogaster females is mediated by male accessory gland products
Abstracts: Sex statistics unreliable. Back-door regulation. Psychiatric care
Abstracts: Sexual and seasonal differences in the diet of Lanyu Scops owls based on fecal analysis. Inferring breeding success through radiotelemetry in the marbled murrelet
Abstracts: Sexual behaviour unsurveyed. The next step in AIDS treatment. Refining models of nuclear matter
Abstracts: Sexual coercion in animal societies. Sexual communication by pheromones in a firefly, Phosphaenus hemipterus (coleoptera: lampyridae)
Abstracts: Sexual coercion in a territorial salamander: females punish socially polygynous male partners. Social monogamy in a territorial salamander
Abstracts: Sexual dichromatism in convict cichlids: the ethological significance of female ventral coloration. Effects of competitor-to-resource ratio on aggression and size variation within groups of convict cichlids
Abstracts: Sexual dimorphism and adaptive radiation in Anolis lizards. Genetic variation increases during biological invasion by a Cuban lizard
Abstracts: Sexual identity and smut. Life in extreme environments. Bacterial dehalorespiration with chlorinated benzenes
Abstracts: Sexually antagonistic male adaptation triggered by experimental arrest of female evolution. Light adaptation in cone vision involves switching between receptor and post-receptor sites
Abstracts: Sexually dimorphic sterility phenotypes in Hoxa10-deficient mice. Creation of a biologically active interleukin-5 monomer
Abstracts: Sexual motivation suppresses paternal behaviour of male gerbils during their mates' postpartum oestrus. An exception to the rule: common vampire bats do not learn taste aversions
Abstracts: Sexual reproduction selects for robustness and negative epistasis in artificial gene networks. Epistasis and balanced polymorphism influencing complex trait variation
Abstracts: Sexual segregation in mountain sheep: resources or predation? Herbivore optimization by North American Elk: Consequences for theory and management
Abstracts: Sexual selection and the evolution of mechanical sound production in manakins (Aves: Pipridae). Sexual preferences for mate song types in female song sparrows
Abstracts: Sexual selection for increased male body size and protandry in a spider. Vibratory courtship in a web-building spider: signalling quality or stimulating the female?
Abstracts: Sexual selection for white tail spots in the barn swallow in relation to habitat choice by feather lice. Indirect selection and individual selection in sociobiology: my personal views on theories of social behavior
Abstracts: Sexual selection in a lekking Hawaiian Drosophila: the roles of male competition and female choice in male mating success
Abstracts: Sexual selection in the Gulf Coast toad, Bufo valliceps: female choice based on variable characters. Sexual selection in the raucous toad, Bufo rangeri
Abstracts: Sexual selection in the lek-breeding European treefrog: Body size, chorus attendance, random mating and good genes
Abstracts: Sexual selection, parasites and bower height skew in a bower-building cichlid fish. Local traditions of bower decoration by spotted bowerbirds in a single population
Abstracts: Sexual selection resulting from extrapair paternity in collared flycatchers. Phenotypic plasticity in the expression of sexually selected traits: neglected components of variation
Abstracts: Shag at the rocks. Roo poo tells all. Blind gudgeon
Abstracts: Shaken, not stirred. Taiwan's high-tech industries shaken not stirred by quake
Abstracts: Shake-up planned for Galileo as it steals quietly past Earth and on to Jupiter. Galileo 'will still meet most scientific goals.'(NASA's Galileo space mission to Jupiter)
Abstracts: Shaking the foundations. Welcome to the dark side. Cosmologists cluster to plot course towards dark energy
Abstracts: Shape control of CdSe nanocrystals. Observation of quasiparticles with one-fifth of an electron's charge. Many-body and correlation effects in semiconductors
Abstracts: Shape memory in spider draglines. Sexual dimorphism and distorted sex ratios in spiders. Liquid crystalline spinning of spider silk
Abstracts: Shaping of diamond films by etching with molten rare-earth metals. Direct electrochemical reduction of titanium dioxide to titanium in molten calcium chloride
Abstracts: Shared conservation experiences. A common thread to a new global paradigm. The natural imperative for biological conservation
Abstracts: Shared neural control of attentional shifts and eye movements. Neural progenitor cell engraftment corrects lysosomal storage throughout the MPS VII mouse brain
Abstracts: Shared neural control of attentional shifts and eye movements. part 2 Restricted attentional capacity within but not between sensory modalities
Abstracts: Sharing research tools is a tradition worth defending: Increasingly tough conditions being attached to the transfer of experimental tools between researchers are threatening science's tradition of open communication. Agreement on optimal terms would help all side.s
Abstracts: Sharp shift in diet at onset of Neolithic. Where all the lithium wentx. Bacterial photosynthesis genes in a virus
Abstracts: Shattering developments. Use it or lose it. Asymmetric leaves 1 mediates leaf patterning and stem cell function in Arabidopsis
Abstracts: Shear heating as the origin of the plumes and heat flux on Enceladus. Cracks under stress
Abstracts: Shedding light on dark matter. Universal peekaboo. Less expansion, more agreement
Abstracts: Sheep cloned by nuclear transfer from a cultured cell line. Viable offspring derived from fetal and adult mammalian cells
Abstracts: Sheep, lilies and human genetics. The tumour-suppressor genes Igl and dlg regulate basal protein targeting in Drosophila neuroblasts
Abstracts: Sheep self - medicate when challenged with illness - inducing foods. Urban bioacoustics: it's not just noise
Abstracts: Shelter crisis plagues New York. PAC-ing on the Political Weight. Getting animals on the state slate
Abstracts: She-oak up in smoke. The red sea. Stored in the rings
Abstracts: Sherry DeBoer. Migratory massacre. Summit resolutions
Abstracts: Shifting seas in the greenhouse? Role of vertical mixing in controlling the oceanic production of dimethyl sulphide
Abstracts: Shiga-like toxins are neutralized by tailored multivalent carbohydrate ligands. Structure of a serpin-protease complex shows inhibition by deformation
Abstracts: Shigella flexneri induces apoptosis in infected macrophages. Rips repaired
Abstracts: Shikimate pathway in apicomplexan parasites. A photosynthetic alveolate closely related to apicomplexan parasites
Abstracts: Shiny cowbirds follow the 'shotgun' strategy of brood parasitism. Spatial patterns of shiny cowbird brood parasitism on chestnut-capped blackbirds
Abstracts: Ship row flags up funding of war in Africa. Natural history collections in crises as funding is slashed. Bioprospectors hunt for fair share of profits
Abstracts: Shipwrecked tube worms. Genes make worms behave. Twitching worms catch S100
Abstracts: Shock breakout caught on camera. Discovery of a supernova explosion at half the age of the Universe. The thermal imprint of galaxy formation on x-ray clusters
Abstracts: Shock fronts in Hawaii. From bench to briefs. Seeking connections
Abstracts: Shocking states of matter. Solid oxygen takes shape. Turning off the water
Abstracts: Shoemaker crater as the source of most ejecta blocks on the asteroid 433 Eros. The landing of the NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft on asteroid 433 Eros
Abstracts: Short-circuiting the Z-scheme. Boreal forest plants take up organic nitrogen. Large-scale forest girdling shows that current photosynthesis drives soil respiration
Abstracts: Short magma chamber residence time at an Icelandic volcano inferred from U-series disequilibria. Discovery of a magma chamber and faults beneath a Mid-Atlantic Ridge hydrothermal field
Abstracts: Short-range control of cell differentiation in the Arabidopsis root meristem. PLETHORA proteins as dose-dependent master regulators of Arabidopsis root development
Abstracts: Short-term costs and correlates of play in cheetahs. Behavioral costs and constraints of lactation in free-living cheetahs
Abstracts: Short-term effects of fire and other fuel reduction treatments on breeding birds in a southern Appalachian upland hardwood forest
Abstracts: Short-term effects of understory and overstory management on breeding birds in Arkansas oak-hickory forests. Large-scale habitat relationships of neotropical migratory birds in Virginia
Abstracts: Short-term rate maximization when rewards and delays covary. The effect of divergent selection for uterine capacity on fetal and placental development at term in rabbits: maternal and embryonic genetic effects
Abstracts: Shotgun sequence assembly and recent segmental duplications within the human genome. The DNA sequence of human chromosome 7
Abstracts: Shotgun sequence assembly and recent segmental duplications within the human genome. part 2 Common sense for our genomes
Abstracts: Shot prevalences and diets of diving ducks five years after ban on use of lead shotshells at Catahoula Lake, Louisiana
Abstracts: Should courts decide on euthanasia? Research assessment's ups and downs. Care in the community
Abstracts: Shyness and boldness in pumpkinseed sunfish: individual differences are context-specific. Differential responses of yellow-breasted chats, Icteria virens, to male and female conspecific model presentations
Abstracts: Sickly channels in mild disease. Cuddling up to channel activation. Shake, rattle or roll?
Abstracts: Sick seas. US satellite system loses climatic sensors. US to rule on research patent
Abstracts: Sick veterans pin hopes on Gulf war inquiry. Regulation of PDGF signaling and vascular remodeling by peroxiredoxin II
Abstracts: Sidestepping the selection rules. Spin-dependent exciton formation in conjugated compounds. Injecting spin into electronics
Abstracts: Sightings: News from the last great places on earth. Reflections on a fallen oak. The wildest hopes
Abstracts: Sighting the seas of Europa: planetary exploration. Sublime solar system ices. Killer acid at the K/T boundary
Abstracts: Signal but not noise changes with perceptual learning. Speed perception fogs up as visibility drops. Perceptual learning without perception
Abstracts: Signalling displays during predator-prey interactions in a Puerto Rican anole, Anolis cristellus. Trends in animal behavior research (1968-2002): Ethoinformatics and the mining of the library databases
Abstracts: Signalling downstream of activated mammalian Notch. Heritabilities and paradigm shifts. Heritability of a sexually selected character expressed in both sexes
Abstracts: Signalling in a mutualistic interaction. The geometry of stimulus control. The evolution of cooperation in mobile organisms
Abstracts: Signalling in planktonic larvae. Sulphur, climate and the microbial maze. The planktonic life of octopuses
Abstracts: Signalling the fat controller. Polyisoprenyl phosphates in intracellular signalling. Neurotactin, a membrane-anchored chemokine upregulated in brain inflammation
Abstracts: Signalling through the lipid products of phosphoinositide-3-OH kinase. TAK1 is a ubiquitin-dependent kinase of MKK and IKK
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