Sentences with phrase «field research trials»
The Cornel lab at Kearney and the Consolidated Mosquito Abatement District are conducting myriad laboratory and field research trials to evaluate insecticide treatment options, to minimize potential mosquito breeding sites, and to understand Aedes aegypti biology and behavior in order to inform control decisions should such an outbreak occur.
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By Jesse Barrett — Rodale Institute, Organic Allentown Program Manager After assisting Rodale Institute Research Technicians, Tara Caton and Emily Lesher, with collecting the zero to twenty centimeter soil samples from our FST (Farming Systems Trial) fields, I was left... Continued
Over the next four years, Rodale Institute will conduct a research project on Industrial Hemp through two field trials, a Variety Trial and Weed Suppression Trial, and one greenhouse study.
By Mary Edmonds, Rodale Institute Seasonal Research Technician Rodale Institute is currently in the second year of a series of field trials investigating organic weed management using cover crops.
Improved postharvest practices: A recent research study undertaken by WFLO with funding by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation provides an great assortment of data on the results of 12 past projects, postharvest losses % for 26 crops, a description of the value chain for 30 crops in 4 countries (Rwanda, Benin, Ghana and India) and 21 field trials of postharvest technologies suitable for helping small farmers reduce losses and improve their incomes.
After the intense opposition from various farmers and consumers groups, including the uprooting of the clandestine field trial in Camarines Sur, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) postponed the commercialization, citing the failure of Golden Rice to produce better yields.
«Research - based field trials and knowledge transfer are essential to enhance the transition to a more sustainable coffee future.
The Department of Agriculture — Regional Field Unit 5 (DA - RFU 5) together with the DA - Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) have completed two seasons of multi-location field trials of Golden Rice in Camarines Sur - a province in the PhilippField Unit 5 (DA - RFU 5) together with the DA - Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) have completed two seasons of multi-location field trials of Golden Rice in Camarines Sur - a province in the Philippfield trials of Golden Rice in Camarines Sur - a province in the Philippines.
These field trials form part of the Golden Rice project that the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is working on together with other leading nutrition and agricultural research organizations to develop and evaluate Golden Rice as a potential new way to reduce vitamin A deficiency in the PhilResearch Institute (IRRI) is working on together with other leading nutrition and agricultural research organizations to develop and evaluate Golden Rice as a potential new way to reduce vitamin A deficiency in the Philresearch organizations to develop and evaluate Golden Rice as a potential new way to reduce vitamin A deficiency in the Philippines.
The Philippine Rice Research Institute, in partnership with the International Rice Research Institute and other partners, have recently finished two seasons of field trials in the Philippines, but this doesn't mean that Golden Rice is now ready for planting by farmers.
Dr. Bruce Tolentino makes a statement that Golden Rice research to improve nutrition will continue despite field trial vandalism.
Despite vandalism in one of the five multilocation field trials in August this year, data are being readied for submission to government regulators who will review Golden Rice against international standards for biosafety, according to Antonio Alfonso, coordinator of the biotechnology program of the Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA) and leader of the Golden Rice project at the DA - Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA - PhilRice).
The field trials were permitted by and followed the safety standards of the DA - Bureau of Plant Industry (DA - BPI), the national regulatory authority in the Philippines for biotechnology research and development.
If you care to look closer, you can see the Golden Rice field trial approvals: Golden Rice is on page 5 and 6 under the Philippine Rice Research Institute.
The field trials were permitted by the Department of Agriculture Bureau of Plant Industry (DA - BPI), the national regulatory authority in the Philippines for crop biotechnology research and development, after establishing that the trials will pose no significant risks to human health and environment.
However, we would like to join the ranks of people, including the more than 6,000 supporters who have signed the petition to stop the destruction of field trials of GM crops, in calling for anti-GM activists and other concerned citizens to not take action that could delay the assessment and ongoing research of Golden Rice as a potential new way to reduce vitamin A deficiency and reduce the damage it can do to the precious vision and eyes of children.
We are really disappointed that our Golden Rice field trial was vandalized, but it is just one trial and we will continue our Golden Rice research to improve human nutrition.»
A third season of multi-location field trials has been completed in the Philippines as part of research to ensure its safety and effectiveness.
Additional research including further field trials will produce information that will be used by the Department of Agriculture to assess the safety of Golden Rice.
Part 2: Field Trial Results and Identification of Research Needs for Selected Crops.
Field trials of GM wheat were targeted last year in the UK, and now some 400 farmers in the Philippines have stormed a government - owned GM research fField trials of GM wheat were targeted last year in the UK, and now some 400 farmers in the Philippines have stormed a government - owned GM research fieldfield.
As a result, the number of research field trials in Europe, where policymakers are generally more skeptical than in the United States, has decreased.
Individual countries can regulate gene - drive research and field trials.
Field trials were conducted during the 2009 and 2010 growing seasons at two sites: the Crop Sciences Research and Education Center in Champaign - Urbana (CU), and the Dixon Springs Research Center in southern Illinois (DS).
The research team used conventional plant breeding techniques to develop the plants into a «High Oleic Hemp» line and higher oleic acid content was demonstrated in a Yorkshire field trial.
The results came as a surprise to HIV - vaccine skeptics in the AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) research field, whose numbers have increased after years of failed vaccine trials.
To make up for those shortcomings, the report called for a research program, including smaller scale field trials, whose goal «should be to improve understanding of the range of climate and other environmental effects of albedo modification, as well as understanding of unintended impacts.»
Helena Kraemer, a biostatistician at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, who was responsible for field trials of diagnostic categories proposed for DSM - 5, says that Insel is right that the NIMH's new program, called Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) is «the direction we have to go.»
Switzerland will provide security for field trials of genetically modified crops at this research station near Zurich.
It recommended that GM «field trials under any garb should be discontinued forthwith» and that research and development should «only be done in strict containment.»
A large group of government researchers from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Merlewood, Rothamsted Research, and the Scottish Crop Research Institute designed a trial that would pit three GM crops against conventional counterparts in some 60 fields across the country.
The field tests are essential to confirm the alteration works, says team member Malcolm Hawkesford of Rothamsted Research in Harpenden, UK, where the trials will begin in spring 2017 if they get the go - ahead.
With its innovative Clinical Trials Network, influential annual meeting and high - impact journals, SNMMI encourages and facilitates research and science for the nuclear medicine and molecular imaging field.
Just hours before this latest Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute study was published, another blow to the field came when Merck announced it was discontinuing a Phase 3 clinical trial into a drug called verubecestat, following a recommendation suggesting, «it was unlikely that positive benefit / risk could be established if the trial continued.»
Pedro de Noronha Pissarra, chief executive officer of Biotecnol said: «We're very proud to work with Cancer Research UK on the development of advanced clinical trial approaches in this competitive and highly promising field of immuno - oncology.
In order to obtain the comprehensive designation, which is the highest ranking the National Cancer Institute (NCI) gives, a center must meet strict criteria that include a strong core of basic laboratory research in several fields, the ability to translate those research findings into therapies that can one day be used to treat patients, a program of high - priority clinical trials, and a commitment to community service and outreach activities related to cancer prevention and control.
The full results of the controversial GM wheat field trial held by Rothamsted Research in 2012 - 2013 were published today in the journal Scientific Reports.
She has over 10 years of experience in the research field in various areas including clinical trials studies, neuroimaging studies, drug addiction, and developmental psychology.
Precision medicine, immunotherapy, clinical trials... 2016 will be a year of many changes in science and medicine — and nowhere is this more obvious than in the field of cancer research.
Therapies applying this paradigm to clear β - amyloid protein (Aβ) plaques and soluble aggregates from patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an extremely active field of research, with multiple active and passive Aβ vaccines currently in human clinical trials.
Latest clinical trial developments in the field of stem cell research and regenerative medicine compiled from publicly available information and press releases from non-academic institutions April 01 — May 31, 2017.
«We are finally ready to break ground on this field with the first trials,» says Dr. Robert Lanza, «It's taken a decade of extensive research to get to this point.»
It has been set up to address the problem of fragmentation in the rare disease research field, where individual efforts often have poor interoperability and do not systematically connect data across the levels of clinical phenotype, genetics and omics data, biomaterial availability and research / trial datasets.
Last August, 400 protesters uprooted and destroyed crops at one of the Filipino Department of Agriculture's five trial fields at a gated research complex in Camarines Sur province.
Human clinical trials are becoming an increasingly important part of the fast - changing field of implantable brain - computer interface (BCI) research.
The School comprises of many experts in the field of public health, producing innovative and dynamic research and projects in the areas of epidemiology, biostatistics, clinical trials, clinical registries, evidence synthesis and health social science.
Our results came from randomized field trials, which are generally thought to be the gold standard for research on human subjects.
If social scientists can reach opposite conclusions from the same data set, then research, even from randomized field trials, may do little to inform policy debates.
Whitehurst rightly insisted, again and again, that valid information on the impact of an educational intervention can only be obtained through experimental research, most preferably by using a randomized field trial (RFT).
Most randomized field trials involve measuring the effects of an intervention on individual research participants.