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ABSTRACT Balancing ecosystem‐service supply and demand is central to understanding both the natural and social dimensions of ecosystem services and to enhancing human well‐beings. Concurrently, collaborative efforts are underway to improve multiple ecosystem services, including the promotion of carbon neutrality and water purification (WP) within basin
Jing Cheng +5 more
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The biggest problem that we\u27re facing right now has to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all, and that\u27s what I intend to reverse when I\u27m president of the United ...
Ruhl, J.B., Salzman, James
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Abstract Background UK Biobank (UKBB) provides extensive genetic, imaging, and health data for ~500,000 participants, enabling studies of prodromal phases of diseases like Parkinson's disease (PD). However, during analysis, we became concerned about the accuracy of diagnosis timing.
Sheida Zolfaghari +15 more
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Understanding community assembly for wild species in anthropogenic settings has become increasingly important as biodiversity and ecosystem services are threatened by development pressures. Urban hardscape habitats such as parking lots are widespread, extreme, terrestrial anthropogenic environments that influence plant community assembly by way of ...
Lauren J. Frazee +3 more
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US President Warms Up as Genome Tempers Cool
Nature leads this week with a story about hints that the Bush administration may be softening its position on global warming. Science kicks off with a story about how an effort to sequence the rat genome makes for strange bedfellows.
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Now is NOT the Time for the Columbia FTA [PDF]
[Excerpt] The U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement is the wrong trade model at the wrong time. Instead of helping workers here or in Colombia, the U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement would reward a country with a history of extreme violence that has utterly
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A new combination and typification of Pouzolzia peteri Friis (Urticaceae)
Pouzolzia peteri, a lesser‐known species from the African continent, is currently classified as a member of the genus Pouzolzia. However, based on the morphological characteristics of its male flowers and leaf venation, its transfer to the genus Gonostegia is proposed.
Amit Gupta, Vijay V. Wagh
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A Budget in Hand is Worth Two in the Bush
Nature leads off this week with by speculating on the possible science policy consequences of the soon-to-be-inaugurated Bush administration. The top Science story this week is the announced budget increase for the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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Bush Administration Ergonomics Plan Fails to Protect Workers From Crippling Injuries [PDF]
[Excerpt] On March 20, 2001, President Bush--in his first major legislative action--signed legislation repealing OSHA’s ergonomics standard. This important worker safeguard, issued in November 2000, was ten years in the making and would have prevented ...
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The Eurasian steppe area has been a dynamic vegetation biome during the Pleistocene with its repeated cycles of forest advances and retreats. Such a scenario allows the evolution of ecotypes at the ecotone with the potential for parallel evolution in different parts of the distribution area.
Dirk C. Albach +4 more
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