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Malcolm Bennett

Poppy, who also was a co-organiser of the meeting, leads a new research project called ASSETS (Attaining Sustainable Services from Ecosystems through Trade-off Scenarios). This project investigates two model regions at the forest–agriculture interface, one in Colombia and one in Malawi. The case studies cover around two million people, but the researchers believe that the results they obtain wi...

Malcolm Burrows

At the international level, there is an increasing awareness that many of the environmental problems that our civilisation has brought upon itself are either focused on the shorelines or most obvious in their vicinity. Fertiliser run-off from agricultural lands produces eutrophication of coastal waters, marine litter washes up on Norway’s otherwise flawless beaches, and disoriented whales as we...

The Coffin-Lowry syndrome.

Coffin-Lowry Syndrome

Disease characteristics. Coffin-Lowry syndrome (CLS) is characterized by severe to profound mental retardation in males. Intellect ranges from normal to profoundly retarded in heterozygous females. The facial appearance is characteristic in the affected, older male child or adult. The hands are short, soft, and fleshy, often with remarkably hyperextensible fingers that taper from wide (proximal...

Profile of Malcolm

S tretching across the periodic table, in the gulf between the hyper-reactive alkali metals and stoic noble gasses, are the often overlooked transition elements. For Malcolm H. Chisholm, Distinguished Professor of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at Ohio State University (Columbus, OH), however, that vast expanse holds some of the most fascinating chemistry. In the tongue-twisting element of ...