Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 133 Document Number: D11400
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4 pages., Online via website., Results of a national survey among U.S. adults indicated: "A majority of Americans are skeptical of the impact that industry funding has on scientific research and on the recommendations made by practitioners ... The public is somewhat more positive - though still ambivalent - about the effects of government funding on research and practitioner recommendations."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 119 Document Number: C13540
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7 p., APEN (Australasia Pacific Extension Network) 2001 International Conference, Oct3-5, 2001, at University of South queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29915
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Pages 35-49 in Richard Holliman, Jeff Thomas, Sam Smidt, Eileen Scanlon and Elizabeth Whitelegg (eds.), Practising science communication in the information age: theorizing professional practices. Oxford University Press, Oxford, England. 238 pages.
1 page., Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of International Communication Association. Special issue article., Authors meta-analyzed 57 studies, conducted in 13 countries with a cumulative N of 42,854. Findings suggested that while pictorial warnings increased affective and some cognitive risk appraisals, they did not increase beliefs about disease risk.
Ramanujan, Krishna (author) and Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
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News release
Publication Date:
2006-02-22
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USA
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C23733
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Archived 2/22/2006 at http://archives.foodsafetynetwork.ca/agnet-archives.htm, Via Food Safety Network. 2 pages., Insect-damaged sagebrush has a novel way of broadcasting to nearby plants that a predator is in the area. It releases a bouquet of airborne odors and perfumes. If wild tobacco is growing nearby, it will "eavesdrop" on these chemical signals and fortify its defenses against such plant-eaters as caterpillars.
