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Effectiveness of school - based violence prevention for children and youth: Cluster randomized controlled field trial of the Roots of Empathy program with replication and three - year follow - up.

Mijin Blockchain Infrastructure Field Trial It is worth noting this field trial of Mijin blockchain infrastructure was not a typical trial of securities system, but rather to see if the blockchain can be a

Greenpeace says there's not enough info on Golden rice, yet at the same time it says research and field trial of golden rice need to stop

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A Greenpeace raid destroyed a government - run field trial of a wheat variety engineered to improve its nutritional content.

Though only one year of data is available for analysis at this point, the study has involved a randomized field trial of over 400 teachers and administrators broken into test and control groups.

A field trial of the survey was completed with a graduate class for elementary education majors.

Around 20 English schools and nurseries will take part in a field trial of the OECD's international early learning and child wellbeing study, which is to be run by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) between October and December this year.

The effort has also become a large - scale field trial of using classroom video, to help teachers improve and to evaluate them remotely.

The researchers conducted a randomized field trial of software that organizes first grade reading instruction.

The 60 charter schools operating in New York City have provided a unique opportunity for the New York City Charter Schools Evaluation Project, of which we are a part, to conduct a randomized field trial of the impact of charter schools on student achievement.

The Swiss Federal Court has put a preliminary halt to a field trial of genetically modified wheat that would have been Switzerland's first field trial of a GM crop.

The letter from Pete Riley of campaign group GM Freeze questioning a field trial of genetically modified wheat illustrates one...

We are elated with the Court of Appeals» decision to stop field trials of Bt - talong.

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.

Medina stressed that with recent ruling on Bt eggplant and the evidences on the experience of GM corn farmers, it is but fitting that the commercialization of GM corn, the continued field trials of Golden Rice and the importation of other GMOs be stopped.

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 Philippines.

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.

For example, two years ago, when we first began identifying potential sites around the Philippines for our multi-location field trials of Golden Rice varieties, one of our considerations was that the local government units and other community leaders should be well - informed and interested in the project and willing to support the conduct of the trials.

This information was first published on the web site of PhilRice: Multi-location field trials of Golden Rice (Fact sheet tab)

Field trials of genetically modified (GMO) eggplant are now permanently banned in the Philippines, according to a new ruling handed down by the country's Supreme Court.

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 field.

↵ * B. Chassy et al., «Global scientific community condemns the recent destruction of field trials of Golden Rice in the Philippines»; http://chn.ge/143PyHo (2013).

In the Zambian village of Macha, many villagers had to walk up to 5 kilometres to reach a hill where they can get a signal on their phones, says Mariya Zheleva, who led the field trials of Kwiizya.

There he got involved in the first GM field trials of Agrobacterium - transformed potatoes.

Field trials of this method in the Cayman Islands (2009 - 10), Panama (2014) and Brazil (ongoing) showed good results, the company says.

In 1991 the WHO decided to support Uganda, Rwanda, Thailand and Brazil in preparing for the first field trials of AIDS vaccines, but of these only Thailand is close to starting a trial.

Garry, who is working with diagnostics firm Corgenix of Bloomfield, Colorado, has just completed initial field trials of his Ebola test in Sierra Leone.

«It's crucial that we conduct field trials of the various methods to find the most cost - effective, practical, and sustainable strategy or combination of strategies,» he says.

In 2014 field trials of the new High Oleic Hemp are being rolled out across Europe in order to establish agronomic performance and yield under a range of environmental conditions in advance of launching a commercial crop.

http://doi.org/bfk7; 2016), and field trials of crops that bear the resistance gene variant have begun in South America.

An Indian advisory panel has called for a decadelong moratorium on field trials of genetically modified plants, including cotton (above) and food crops.

Then in August, a panel appointed by India's Parliament stated that field trials of GM crops «under any garb should be discontinued forthwith» and that all R&D should «only be done in strict containment.»

Last summer, agribusiness giant Syngenta, based in Basel, Switzerland, conducted the first field trials of maize (corn) containing engineered mini-chromosomes, and showed that the mini-chromosomes, which carried multiple genes for insect and herbicide resistance, were stable in the field.

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.

Anne Glover, the European Commission's chief scientific adviser, says she strongly supports controlled field trials of GM plants.»

Field trials of GM insect control have been under way for some time, including a recent test of Oxitec's mosquitoes in the Brazilian city of Jacobina, where mosquito populations plummeted by 79 per cent between June and December last year, the company claims.

The action would halt ongoing field trials of Bt cotton by the St. Louis - based biotechnology firm Monsanto.

Then a 100 year study of the latest field trials of field trials of field trials?

Updated below, Aug. 28, 12:14 p.m. Mark Lynas has done the world a service in providing on - the - ground reporting from the Philippines, digging in on some vital questions related to the destruction of field trials of non-commercial, genetically modified, vitamin - fortified Golden Rice there in early August:

She has been extensively involved in the design, implementation, and evaluation of several large - scale field trials of psychosocial stimulation — delivered via home visits and / or group sessions — and nutrition in Colombia and India.

Not exact matches

'' [M] oving our work from the laboratory to the field is not only an important milestone for our group of biologists, engineers, and automation experts, but it's also a critical step in bringing our long - term vision to reality,» Verily scientist Jacob Crawford wrote in a blog post announcing the trial.

In the last few years, the number of clinical trials in this field has exploded, along with the flurry of money from Big Pharma and investors, stirring optimism in the fight against cancer.

The last new drug approved was back in 2003, and a slew of failed trials in the beginning of 2017 has cast a shadow over the field.

The new Alzheimer's framework may not be much of a surprise given numerous, high - profile, late - stage clinical trial failures in the field by companies like Eli Lilly and Merck, and the decision by other companies (such as Pfizer) to back away from the risk - prone field.

Through talking to experts in the field over the past year, Gates said he had identified five areas of need: Understanding better how Alzheimer's unfolds, detecting and diagnosing it earlier, pursuing multiple approaches to trying to halt the disease, making it easier for people to take part in clinical trials of potential new medicines, and using data better.

Katherine High, Spark's president and chief scientific officer, expressed her enthusiasm for the early clinical data related to SPK - 8011: «The encouraging start of our SPK - 8011 clinical trial reinforces the strength of our gene therapy platform, delivers human proof - of - concept in a second liver - mediated disease — a significant achievement in the gene therapy field — and positions us well to potentially transform the current treatment approach for this life - altering disease with a one - time intervention.»

Specialist Angela Euson of Joint Base Lewis - McChord's Warrior Transition Battalion returned to Washington state with seven gold medals from events in swimming and track and field earned during the 2018 Warrior Games Army Trials March 2 to 9 at Fort Bliss, Texas.

There might be a field report from a brave, exuberant missionary, or an expert's measured critique of the sex and violence on television (ending not with a plea for censorship, but with an expression of dismay — these people learned something from the Scopes trial).