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Ozone depletes oil seed rape productivity

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

With rising ozone levels scientists have found that high ozone conditions cause a 30 percent decrease in yield and an increase in the concentration of a group of compounds with toxic effects to livestock, but anticarcinogenic ...


Jurors fail to understand rape victims

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Rape trial juries need better guidance in the courtroom -- and a better understanding of rape victims -- to help them reach their verdict.


Experiences of rape unique to Rwandan women survivors of genocide

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 10, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In recent conflicts, most notably in Rwanda, women and girls have been systematically raped as a policy of war. During the Rwandan Genocide of 1994, Hutu leaders ordered their troops to rape Tutsi women as part of their genocidal ...


Oil seed rape grown for biofuel can help clean up toxic soils

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 09, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Oil seed rape grown for biofuel in Ireland could help clean up contaminated soils, scientists heard today at the Society for General Microbiology's Autumn meeting being held this week at Trinity College, Dublin.


Framing technique can be used as a public relations strategy in cases of sexual assault

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 27, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 4

In Spring 2006, when three White Duke University lacrosse players were charged with raping a Black female student from nearby North Carolina Central University, Duke University officials framed the crisis in terms of institutional ...