A biological survey conducted in early 2005 indicated erosional effects of the tsunami wave on Diego Garcia and other islands of the Chagos Archipelago.

The club was also involved in a survey of wetlands around Bangalore in collaboration with the Forest Department of the Karnataka state and was involved in a comprehensive survey of water quality parameters including chemical, physical and biological status.

The anoxic environment, which is hostile to many biological organisms that destroy wood in the oxygenated waters, provides an excellent testing site for deep water archaeological survey.

* 1909 Ornithologists James Chapin and Herbert Lang begin a six year biological survey of the Belgian Congo.

A biological survey was carried out in 1993, near Rother Valley Country Park, and only seven types of invertebrates were found, all of which were highly tolerant to pollution.

The field lab strives to survey and catalog the biological diversity found along the Yarapa River Basin.

One of its first undertakings, the 1948 biological survey of the Conestoga River Basin in Pennsylvania, is regarded as a milestone in environmental research.

In his 1894 book, " Materials for the study of variation ", Bateson took this survey of biological variation significantly further.

The main aim of the expedition was to extend the magnetic survey of New Zealand by investigating Auckland and Campbell Islands but botanical, biological and zoological surveys were also conducted.

An extensive programme of marine survey and biological research was carried out.

From 1949 to 1953 he was Oceanographer at Pacific Oceanic Fishery Investigations, Honolulu, O. E. Sette, then Director, and Cromwell initiated a far-sighted and intensive survey of the physical and biological characteristics of Pacific equatorial waters, which had been the subject of much speculation but little observation.

This collection includes specimens of Brisinga endecacnemos, possibly collected during his biological survey of the Hardangerfjord in the 1850s.

Between 1909 and 1911, the Belfast naturalist Robert Lloyd Praeger led an exhaustive biological survey of the island, the Clare Island Survey, which was unprecedented at the time and served as a template for future studies.

Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Charles Doolittle Walcott reached an agreement with Federico Boyd to conduct a biological inventory of the new Canal Zone in 1910, and this survey was subsequently extended to include all of Panama.

* Gallery of photos from a 2010 biological survey

But even the best survey of Iraq's WMD programmes will not show much advance in recent years on the nuclear, missile or CW / BW ( chemical or biological weapons ) fronts: the programmes are extremely worrying but have not, as far as we know, been stepped up.

As the vessel was only supposed to be conducting a biological survey, the crew investigates.

" Nichols later documented the occurrence of the great white shark in his biological survey Fishes of the Vicinity of New York City ( 1918 ), " Carcharodon carcharias ( Linn.

Much more detail on the vegetation zones of Mount Shasta, and their associated flora and fauna, can be found in C. Hart Merriam ’ s important early biological survey, published in 1899. http :// ia700202. us. archive. org / 18 / items / resultsofbiologi00merr / resultsofbiologi00merr. pdf

The main aim of the expedition was to extend the magnetic survey of New Zealand by investigating Auckland and Campbell Islands but botanical, biological and zoological surveys were also conducted.

A recent study on radiation exposure by the AEC's division of biology and medicine stated: `` The question of the biological effect of ( radiation ) doses is not considered '' herein.

The behavior of a biological aerosol, on a much smaller scale, is illustrated by a specific field trial conducted with a non-pathogenic organism.

The inhibition of the enzyme by very low concentrations of lanthanum ion is probably the strongest known biological effect of rare earth salts.

These dynamic relationships, between what can be observed on the ground, as opposed to what can be observed by compiling many local observations remain fundamental in any kind of anthropology, whether cultural, biological, linguistic or archaeological.

However, algorithms are also implemented by other means, such as in a biological neural network ( for example, the human brain implementing arithmetic or an insect looking for food ), in an electrical circuit, or in a mechanical device.

Some modern historians theorize that Nero's decision to kill Agrippina was prompted by her plotting to set Gaius Rubellius Plautus ( Nero's maternal second cousin ) or Britannicus ( Claudius ' biological son ) on the throne.

Furthermore, its activity was not inhibited by biological constituents such as pus, unlike the synthetic sulfonamides.

* Anaerobic digestion, a biological process mediated by bacteria occurring naturally and used in the treatment of various wastes

Acid-producing gasses are also created by biological processes that occur on the land, in wetlands, and in the oceans.

The first biological clock genes, for example, were identified by examining Drosophila mutants that showed disrupted daily activity cycles.

Scientific classification in botany is a method by which botanists group and categorize organisms by biological type, such as genus or species.

Examples of relevant biological information processes studied in the early days of bioinformatics are the formation of complex social interaction structures by simple behavioral rules, and the information accumulation and maintenance in models of prebiotic evolution.

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There is an overlap between biological warfare and chemical warfare, as the use of toxins produced by living organisms is considered under the provisions of both the Biological Weapons Convention and the Chemical Weapons Convention.

Offensive biological warfare, including mass production, stockpiling and use of biological weapons, was outlawed by the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention ( BWC ).

The rationale behind this treaty, which has been ratified or acceded to by 165 countries as of 2011, is to prevent a biological attack which could conceivably result in large numbers of civilian fatalities and cause severe disruption to economic and societal infrastructure.

Many countries, including signatories of the BWC, currently pursue research into the defense or protection against biological warfare, which is not prohibited by the BWC.

The last known incident of using plague corpses for biological warfare purposes occurred in 1710, when Russian forces attacked the Swedes by flinging plague-infected corpses over the city walls of Reval ( Tallinn ).

Considerable research into biological warfare was undertaken throughout the Cold War era ( 1947 – 1991 ) by the U. S., U. K. and U. S. S. R., and probably other major nations as well, although it is generally believed that such weapons were never used.

This view was challenged by China and North Korea, who accused the U. S. of large-scale field testing of biological warfare against them during the Korean War ( 1950 – 1953 ), but this claim has been disputed.

The U. S. maintained a stated national policy of never using biological warfare under any circumstances since an Executive Decision in November 1969, by President Richard Nixon.

Actual biological warfare use of trichothecenes mycotoxin in Southeast Asia and Afghanistan is strongly supported by epidemiological and intelligence assessments as well as trichothecene assays, although reports in the open literature have discounted this contention.

In some countries private, local, and provincial ( state ) capabilities are being augmented by and coordinated with federal assets, to provide layered defenses against biological weapons attacks.