Sentences with phrase «swiss federal research»

«Much of the continent's topsoil layers are still radioactively contaminated,» says Ulf Büntgen, Head of the Dendroecology Group at the Swiss Federal Research Institute (WSL) and lead author of a new study measuring something dear to a foodie's heart: the contamination level of Burgundy truffles (Tuber aestivum), like those pictured below.

Miro is a trained truffle dog that belongs to Simon Egli, a co-author of the Biogeosciences paper based at Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL.

This was the conclusion reached by a nationwide survey conducted by the Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) among 567 companies in the construction, waste management and transport sectors.

«Much of the continent's topsoil layers are still radioactively contaminated,» says Ulf Büntgen, Head of the Dendroecology Group at the Swiss Federal Research Institute (WSL) and lead author of the study.

A team led by agronomists Paul Mäder of the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture in Frick, Switzerland, and David Dubois of the Swiss Federal Research Station for Agroecology and Agriculture in Zürich began the 1.5 - hectare trial in 1978 near Basel, Switzerland.

«Looking back on 2500 years, there are examples where climate change impacted human history,» says the study's lead author, Ulf Büntgen, a paleoclimatologist at the Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape in Zurich.

Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland.

The paper, «Recent enhanced high - summer North Atlantic Jet variability emerges from three - century context,» by Trouet and her co-authors Flurin Babst of the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL in Birmensdorf and Matthew Meko of the UA is scheduled for publication in Nature Communications on Jan. 12.

Not exact matches

Last week, Switzerland - based blockchain association Crypto Valley Association announced that, during an educational visit to Zug (also known as Crypto Valley), Federal Councilor and Head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research Johann Schneider - Ammann affirmed that he would petition the Swiss Federal Council to allocate 150 million Swiss Francs to local startups.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL.

To find out, Valerie Trouet at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Birmensdorf and colleagues studied the growth rate of trees in Morocco and a stalagmite in Scotland, both dating back 1000 years, to determine rainfall levels during the MCA.

Zurich is home to the University of Zurich, an IBM research centre and one of the two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology.

Climate was likely a factor alongside political failures and barbarian invasions, says Ulf Büntgen of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Birmensdorf.

The Queen's scientists have been working alongside a team of experts from Switzerland (ETH Zurich, Empa — Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology), USA (Florida State University) and Taiwan (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, National Synchrotron Radiation Research Centre).

The remote - controlled robot, named Paraswift, is a collaboration between Disney Research and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, and was initially built to entertain visitors to theme parks.

Ingo Potrykus at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology is engineering a novel strain of rice fortified with extra iron and vitamin A. Charles Arntzen, president of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at Cornell University, is working on perhaps the most ambitious genetically engineered food of all: an edible vaccine.

Along with its sister institute, the EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) is a true heavyweight when it comes to translating scientific research into novel business ideas.

Her recent research on this issue, as well as work carried out by Wolfgang Tress and colleagues at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, shows the way in which a current — voltage measurement is carried out will dictate the efficiency value you obtain.

A group of researchers led by Felix Kienast from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) has investigated this issue as part of the National Research Programme «Sustainable use of soil as a resource» (NRP 68).

Now a team led by chemist Donald Hilvert of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, working at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, has taken this approach in a slightly different direction by trimming down an enzyme.

Giardini, a seismologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, was one of a number of scientists appointed in August last year by the then research minister Mariastella Gelmini to take up the reins of Italy's research institutes.

Dr. Kubicek studied synthetic organic chemistry for his undergraduate degree at the Vienna University of Technology and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and received his Ph.D. in in molecular biology at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna.

«Greenhouse gas emissions due to human activity have affected the odds of floods in England and Wales,» says physicist Pardeep Pall of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), who led the research published February 17 in Nature.

A study conducted by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) shows that storm - ravaged woodland is approximately twice as rich in insect species as undamaged forest.

One potential obstacle to further research on near - death experiences will be analyzing them experimentally, says cognitive neuroscientist Olaf Blanke at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne in Switzerland, who has investigated out - of - body experiences.

Climate fluctuation was a contributing factor alongside political failures and barbarian invasions, says Ulf Büntgen of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Birmensdorf, Switzerland, who led the project.

The research paper, done in collaboration with scientists at the Broad Institute, Eawag Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Sciences and Georgia Institute of Technology, in addition to international scientists in the cichlid research community, appears in the September, advance online edition of Nature.

Yann Barrandon, M. D., Ph. D, is a joint professor of Stem Cell Research and of Experimental Surgery at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and head of the Department of Experimental Surgery at the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV).

National Institutes of Health (NIH)[U41HG006104, U41HG007822, U41HG002273, R01GM080646, G08LM010720, P20GM103446]; British Heart Foundation [RG / 13/5 / 30112]; Parkinson's Disease United Kingdom [G - 1307]; Swiss Federal Government through the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation; National Science Foundation [DBI - 1062520]; European Molecular Biology Laboratory core funds.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

The new study, done in collaboration with scientists at Eawag Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Sciences and Georgia Institute of Technology, in addition to more than 70 scientists from the international cichlid research community, appears in the September 3 advance online edition of Nature.

A research team from Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology) and the University of Applied Sciences Bern, Laboratory for Exhaust Emission Control, reports that ethanol blending appeared to reduce genotoxic emissions from a flex - fuel Euro - 5 gasoline direct injection (GDI) vehicle (a Volvo V60 with a 1.6 L...

1 University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA 2 Earth Cryosphere Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Siberian Branch, Tyumen, Russia 3 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA 4 Arctic Center, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland 5 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, MD, USA 6 Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, People's Republic of China 7 Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland 8 University of Joensuu, Joensuu, Finland 9 University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland 10 Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Scientists from INRA, in collaboration with the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL and European...

Co-developed by Disney Research and a student team at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Beachbot is an autonomous robot with a rather special talent; it can draw massive pictures in sand.That's just about it really, but the end results... Read more