The ladybird has been introduced in Holland as a biological control to get rid of sap sucking pests like aphids.
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Meanwhile a team of UK scientists is researching biological control of knotweed with fungus and a species of beetle which keeps the plant to a manageable size in its native Japan.
"Non-infectious vaccines would clearly provide a safeguard against this risk", said Dr Andrew Macadam, a virologist specialising in polio at the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control in Hertfordshire.
When comprehensive lifestyle changes are offered as treatment (not just as prevention), significant cost savings occur in the first year because the biological mechanisms that control our health and well-being are so dynamic.
The hand itself has several degrees of motion, and is controlled using the same nerve signals that are used to control a biological hand.
It is ironic that this statement was juxtaposed with a pronouncement that Saddam Hussein would not be allowed to have biological and other WMD capabilities. (4) After all, the fact that such a threat has to be made at all is evidence of the utter futility of seeking verifiable arms control limitations on biological weaponry.
But early biological predispositions beyond the individual's control propelling them on a flight path to violence?
So he's in control of the nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs.
Specifically, Hussein's evident capacity to use chemical and biological weapons illuminates the folly of arms control agreements that were supposed to "rid the world" of such deadly means of mass destruction.
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He was joined by fellow grand slam winners Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal in demanding stricter tests and in March the International Tennis Federation announced it would be introducing a Biological Passport program - a more stringent control against doping.
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For comparison, Keyes and colleagues also interviewed a control group of teenagers raised by their biological parents.
Let's start with two related questions: If early biological and genetic factors beyond the individual's control make some people more likely to become violent offenders than others, are these individuals fully blameworthy?
In other words, the United States is now apparently prepared to see Saddam Hussein remain in power and in control of large quantities of chemical, biological and possibly nuclear weapons, and therefore retain the ability to engage in new aggression in the future virtually at will provided he gives up his most-recent, ill-gotten gains.
Sadly, as a result, a future one may be the ability of the council to uphold other international arms-control regimes nuclear, chemical or biological.
Mark Smolinski, in charge of predicting and preventing disease and drought, knew Brilliant while he was at the Center for Disease Control, and more recently ran research in biological weapons programs at Ted Turner's Nuclear Threat Initiative.
Chief among these interests are: counter-terrorism, disposal of Soviet-built chemical and biological weapons, security of nuclear and radiological materials, arms control, nonproliferation, and the responsible withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan.
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They were also concerned about who would control the weaponry, including an existing arsenal of chemical and biological weapons, after al-Assad's fall.
The initiative allowed the state to carry out limited wolf control by aircraft only in the case of a scientifically documented biological emergency when no other alternative was available.
The growing evidence that the U.S. disarmed, while nations that might use chemical or biological weapons against us did not, was only one of the dangerous absurdities of the arms control delusion.
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Largely ignored in the discussion of these dangers to date, however, is the extent to which such threats contrast with the way proponents of arms control said the world would be if only the United States eliminated its own chemical and biological stockpiles.
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