biological
RSS biologicalAccess to the Nation's Biological Resource Information
White Paper The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) program is managed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) needed to integrate biological data from multiple sources and present the collected information in a common and searchable format for... [05 Jul 2008]
Integrated Biological Information System for a Coffee Farm
White Paper This paper describes an integrated biological information system for a coffee farm. The authors have made a precise map of the UCC coffee farm at Kona in Hawaii and integrated biological information into it. [03 Jul 2008]
Means for Protecting US Industry within an Effective Compliance Regime for the Biological Weapons Convention
White Paper The Biological Weapons Convention of 1972, which has no verification measures, has not prevented the proliferation of biological weapons, even in some countries that are parties to the Convention. The international community now has an unusual... [03 Jul 2008]
Routine and Challenge: Two Pillars of Verification
White Paper The Geneva negotiations on a protocol for verifying compliance with the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) have so far been unable to produce agreed provisions for visits of inspectors to declared facilities that are especially suited for... [03 Jul 2008]
Establishment of the Southwestern Genomics and Biotechnology Alliance
White Paper Genomic research has led to the rapid development of new areas of biological inquiry, including functional genomics, proteomics, and computational biology. The terms Functional Genomics and Proteomics have evolved to describe "high throughput... [03 Jul 2008]
Towards a Theory of Embodied Literary Experience
White Paper This paper advances a theory of embodied literary engagement that aims to render more explicit the complex relationships between cultural experiences and biological structures. The argument presented draws on research literatures from neuroscience... [03 Jul 2008]
Regulatory Strategy for Pharmaceutical Products with Photo Co-Carcinogenic
White Paper Presently there are no international guidelines addressing the potential biological/toxicological consequences arising from the interaction between solar UV and drug products. Solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation is a known human carcinogen. [03 Jul 2008]
Opportunities in Molecular Biomedicine in the Era of Teraflop Computing
White Paper Advances in computer technology, along with the explosive growth in the size of biological databases, are bound to increase the role of and need for computers in biomedical research even further. High-performance computers are now, more than ever... [03 Jul 2008]
Some Limits to Global Ecophagy by Biovorous Nanoreplicators, with Public Policy Recommendations
White Paper The maximum rate of global ecophagy by biovorous self-replicating nanorobots is fundamentally restricted by the replicative strategy employed; by the maximum dispersal velocity of mobile replicators; by operational energy and chemical element... [03 Jul 2008]
EMC Sings Legato, Adds a Little Dantz
White Paper But assimilating Dantz's biological and technological distinctiveness into EMC's own will further adapt the company to serve the needs of a broader audience - one that scales downward into SMB, small offices, and even homes in addition to its... [03 Jul 2008]
The Future of the Common Fisheries Policy
White Paper As far as conservation is concerned, many stocks are at present outside safe biological limits. Almost twenty years from its inception, the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is confronted with major challenges. [03 Jul 2008]
Biotechnology Information Sharing System
White Paper Under these circumstances, it seemed quite natural that the Centre, fully supported by its constituency, indicate its availability to collaborate with the Ad Hoc Group of States Parties (AHG) to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC... [03 Jul 2008]
The Price of Progress: Assessing the Need for a Mobile Computing Migration
White Paper Birds fly south every winter because instinct tells them their biological systems can't withstand changing weather conditions. For birds, the choice is simple: migration or extinction. The migration decision for enterprise mobile computer owners is... [01 May 2008]
Photos: Discover high-tech India
Photo The centre works on telecommunications, e-governance, biological sciences, ports and shipping. Bangalore is India's most famous offshore location but the city of Hyderabad is also one of the country's tech hotspots, and silicon.com went to see it... [28 Apr 2008]
Geographic Surveillance and Hotspot Detection for Homeland Security: Network Analysis of Biological Integrity in Freshwater Streams
White Paper This study employs the network version of the upper level set scan statistic to characterize biological impairment along the rivers and streams of Pennsylvania and to identify subnetworks that are badly impaired. [10 Apr 2008]
