WWW project aims to address worldwide decline in amphibians

HEAL Project Aims to Regenerate Human Limbs by 2030

The human genome project aims for 2003.

Bold is the operative word for the goals in the new five-year plan for the U.S. Human Genome Project as presented at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) advisory council meeting on September 14, 1998. (See Box 1 for an overview of the 5-year plan. The complete plan is published in the October 23, 1998 issue of Science.) The plan itself includes such words as ‘‘ambitious’’ and e...

Habitat split and the global decline of amphibians.

The worldwide decline in amphibians has been attributed to several causes, especially habitat loss and disease. We identified a further factor, namely "habitat split"-defined as human-induced disconnection between habitats used by different life history stages of a species-which forces forest-associated amphibians with aquatic larvae to make risky breeding migrations between suitable aquatic an...

Comment on "Habitat split and the global decline of amphibians".

Becker et al. (Reports, 14 December 2007, p. 1775) reported that forest amphibians with terrestrial development are less susceptible to the effects of habitat degradation than those with aquatic larvae. However, analysis with more appropriate statistical methods suggests there is no evidence for a difference between aquatic-reproducing and terrestrial-reproducing species.

The AIMS Project: Creative Experiments in Musical Sonification

The Applications in Musical Sonification (AIMS) project is dedicated to creative experiments in musical sonification. It studies sonification in the context of algorithmic composition, focusing on the design and implementation of these experiments in software. An initial distribution of cross-platform, open-source software is now freely available that implements some basic mappings, including h...