When to help farm animals grow faster
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The Agriculture Directorate of the European Commission will be sponsoring the conference scheduled for on Nov 29 to Dec 1, 1995 on the role of growth-promoting substances in animal husbandry and related issues. A variety of growth promoters currently available, analytical methods for their detection and potential health hazards due to them will be the main issues to be addressed in the conference. Scientists from major meat producing countries such as Australia, New Zealand and the United States will be taking part in the conference.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1995
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Forest fires, sandpiles and the like
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A new model of how forest fires develop may be applicable to other systems that maintain a basic organization. Per Bak, Kan Chen and Chao Tang suggest that forest fires illustrate the principle of self-organized criticality: fires grow through a succession of finite steps in which each burning tree does or does not spread the fire according to the probability function p. B. Drossel and F. Schwabl have extended this line of thought by suggesting the properties of forest fires become more complex when p is small or even zero.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1992
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The price of language?
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It is possible that there are links between schizophrenia and a failure to develop the normal asymmetry of the brain represented by the presence of a language processing centre in the temporal region. For right-handed people, this region is situated on the left. Research indicates that people with schizophrenia often do not have significant asymmetry. This is connected with ambiguity about handedness, which has been found to be a considerable disadvantage in school children.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1997
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