No place for secrets in scientific research

No Place for Predators?

Braced for savagery and sacrifice, European settlers in the New World came to the Pacific Northwest to tame the final frontier, the last refuge of “dismal wilderness.” While colonists in the East were poisoning, shooting, and trapping cougars to extinction during the 1880s, hundreds of thousands of pioneers flooded into what would soon become the new state of Washington. Following the well-worn...

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL ACHIEVEMENTS OF RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR AQUACULTURE No

Study on effect of salinity and stocking density on 21 day-old Snubnose pompano (Trachinotus blochii Lacepède, 1801) was conducted in three experiments. Experiment 1: Fish were stocked at different salinity levels at 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 and 35‰ in 48 hours; experiment 2: Fish were stocked at different salinity levels at 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 and 35‰ in 28 days; and experiment 3: Fish were stocked a...

No Place for the Teenager

Two and a half years ago the Ministry of Health asked the 15 regional hospital boards to expand their psychiatric facilities for adolescents. The National Association for Mental Health then collected detailed information about the boards' expansion plans. But late last year a further NAMH survey revealed that in the 2\ years since the Ministry's call there had been a national increase of only 3...

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Promoting Scientific Research Culture in Youth through Empirical Inculcation

  Background: Empirical inculcation is vital for producing quality research professionals and upon realizing the increasing demand of emerging scientific research professionals, National Academy of Young Scientist (NAYS) launched its science for youth (S4Y) program in Pakistan with its emphasis on empiricism. Methods: S4Y team was galvanized to undertake this task and different scientific activ...