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The trading statement comes a day after Halifax reported that house prices jumped by 2.6% in May, the biggest one-month rise in more than six years. Last week, Nationwide also reported a rise in prices, although analysts have suggested that the small number of actual sales may be distorting the picture.
Despite its cautious tone, Bellway said it was looking to start buying land suitable for traditional two-storey housing, the first housebuilder to return to the land market.
In a research note on the company, Panmure Gordon described this as "the interesting part" of the statement: "We believe that this is the stage where those housebuilders with a strong balance sheet (Bellway/Bovis) will be able to gain advantage. Other housebuilders with weaker balance sheets (Barratt/Redrow/Taylor Wimpey) remain focused on debt reduction (which they need to do), and will have to rely on significantly dilutive fundraisings (which Taylor Wimpey has recently undertaken) in order to resume build activity/land purchases."
Bellway's first trading update since it announced its results at the end of March, which included an 80% cut in the firm's dividend, said "there has been no major change in demand for our products".
"First-time buyers continue to struggle to raise deposits and, consequently, access to the first step on the housing ladder remains difficult. With entry to the mortgage market still restricted and lenders' valuation policies remaining inconsistent, cancellation rates are still running at historically high levels," said Bellway, which last year held tentative merger talks with rival Redrow.
Despite this, net reservations - the number of buyers agreeing to buy a house, usually by paying a deposit, minus the number of cancellations - have continued to average 105 per week since 1 February.
To persuade people to buy, the company has continued to use discounts, part exchange and shared equity but Bellway said the offers were "not increasing as a percentage of selling prices, therefore bringing some stability to our pricing structure".

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Science and technology is a growing and flourishing field in Pakistan. Since its independence from Great Britain in 1947, the newly-found nation of Pakistan has seen a large influx of scientists, engineers, doctors, and technicians assuming an active role in Pakistan's fields of science and technology. Pakistan has been known internationally for some of its major achievements in science and technology such as its possession of strong weapons in the military, growing base of doctors and engineers, and also a fair amount of its new influx of software engineers, which is however as not as much as counterpart India. Pakistan has achieved goals in Nuclear science,Space Science, Aerospace industries, biological industries, Communication technology and many other science. Pakistan is also the home country of many prominent scientists such as Dr. Abdus Salam who won a Nobel Prize in Physics.

Still, current NASA missions to Mars take precautions with sterilization and clean rooms to prevent contamination prior to launch.

"I'm not overly worried that we're contaminating landing sights," Schuerger said. "I'm not suggesting that we relax planetary protection protocols, either, but current ones appear to be very good."

That's not to say that NASA missions don't pose any contamination risk, given the dust that may get kicked up and cover surviving microbes with a protective layer, he added. Future missions that have landers or rovers digging deeper beyond the top 10 or 20 centimeters of the Martian surface may require additional risk studies.

"Whether or not microbes will survive when we drill down to depth, that's a wide open question at this point," Schuerger cautioned. Studies like Schuerger's, and more complex robotic or human missions to Mars over the next several decades, may provide some answers.

Turns out that P. cryohalolentis finds precious little shelter from UV radiation, even under global dust storm conditions or sitting inside a salt mineral matrix.

"We found that the UV radiation was readily and easily able to penetrate the salt-organic matrix that the bacterial cells were embedded in," Schuerger said.

Such findings suggest that this type of extremophile poses little risk of spreading across the surface of Mars — at least not on its current-day hostile surface environment. P. cryohalolentis even fared poorly under the dry conditions on the lab bench, let alone inside the Mars simulator.

The study points to a need for future investigations on how much UV protection a microbe can find in salt mineral layers within the Martian regolith.

"The research emphasizes the point that you're not going to automatically get protection from UV when embedded within salt deposits," Schuerger noted. "Some salt encrustations might protect with just a few millimeters of salt, while others might need 5 to10 centimeters."

UV is not the only challenge facing hitchhiking microbes. Schuerger's past research found at least 13 separate factors on Mars that can kill Earth microbes, not counting perchlorate salts uncovered by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander in the polar region of Mars.