Winter management of Californian rice fields for waterbirds
1. Recent legislation designed to reduce air pollution has restricted Californian rice‐farmers from burning rice stubble after harvest. Intentional flooding of fields during win...
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The Genome Sequence of the Leaf-Cutter Ant Atta cephalotes Reveals Insights into Its Obligate Symbiotic Lifestyle
Leaf-cutter ants are one of the most important herbivorous insects in the Neotropics, harvesting vast quantities of fresh leaf material. The ants use leaves to cultivate a fungu...
Effect of screening and lifestyle counselling on incidence of ischaemic heart disease in general population: Inter99 randomised trial
A community based, individually tailored intervention programme with screening for risk of ischaemic heart disease and repeated lifestyle intervention over five years had no eff...
The Life History of the Superb Blue Wren<i>Malurus cyaneus</i>
SummaryA completely colour-banded population of these small, sociable, multibrocded passerines of the sub-family Malurinae was studied fur more than tour years at Gungahlin. Can...
Reproducibility and responsiveness of quality of life assessment and six minute walk test in elderly heart failure patients
Objective To examine the reproducibility and responsiveness to change of a six minute walk test and a quality of life measure in elderly patients with heart failure. Design Long...
Deforestation Predicts the Number of Threatened Birds in Insular Southeast Asia
The world’s tropical forests are being cleared rapidly, and ecologists claim this is causing a massive loss of species. This claim has its critics. Can we predict extinctions fr...
Activation of Transferrin Receptor 1 by c-Myc Enhances Cellular Proliferation and Tumorigenesis
Overexpression of transferrin receptor 1 (TFRC1), a major mediator of iron uptake in mammalian cells, is a common feature of human malignancies. Therapeutic strategies designed ...
Methods for measuring levels of well-being for a health status index.
Three psychological scaling procedures—category rating, magnitude estimation, and equivalence—were used to measure the levels of well-being that student and health-leader judges...