Sentences with phrase «first field trial»

A dog - handler team approaches the line, ready to run in their first field trial.

The Western Washington English Springer Spaniel Club was conceived in 1945 and its members hosted their first field trial in 1946.

The authors discussed the results of the first field trial and and their hopes for the future of this approach.

The first field trial, in 2000 children in Mozambique, showed that RTS, S lowered the risk of developing malaria symptoms by 30 %, with no severe side effects.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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)

They collected samples and undertook field trials, and it was from these trials that the first pepper to officially challenge the Red Savina took the Guinness World Record with a heat rating of 1,001,304 SHU.

Kart, though, was one where we were on an even - ish playing field at first, and then it was off to the literal races, in the sense that I kept playing and playing each day, in cups going for gold or in time trials just trying to defeat Past Marc, and eventually it wasn't much fun for dad anymore.

Almost three decades have passed since the Colorado businessman made his first visit to Union Springs where, by coincidence, the old Continental Club was running a modest field trial.

Though major trials were first run at Sedgefields in 1937, it was not until 1950 that the Alabama Shooting Dog Field Trial Club inaugurated the National Shooting Dog Championship.

FIELD TRIALS — McCASKELL»S MR. RANGER, a 3 1/2 - year - old liver - and - white pointer from Rockingham, N.C, won his first national title by taking the Open Shooting Dog Championships in Orange, Va..

They didn't know it then, but they were holding the first public field trial in America.

Returning to the track on a solo bike after several years as a tandem pilot, Rachel James rode first out of the field of 16 riders and set a time of 35.139 for the two - lap time trial.

Dr Simon Kemp, head of sports medicine at the Rugby Football Union and a member of the International Rugby Board's PSCA working group, has revealed that a review of the first year of the trial - including the Smith incident - has led to a number of «refinements» to the trial that was originally introduced in the hope of creating a more appropriate environment and process for doctors to assess players with suspected concussion and ensure those displaying symptoms of such an injury were not returned to the field of play.

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

Ishii notes that if the clinical trial begins as planned, it would be the latest in a series of firsts for China in the field of CRISPR gene editing, including the first CRISPR - edited human embryos, and the first CRISPR - edited monkeys.

And it launched its first two phase I trials without announcing what diseases they targeted — a decision Bancel attributes to fears that financial markets would prematurely pigeonhole the company into a particular field.

The first of its kind, the study applies the method of field experiments, or randomized controlled trials, to the question of how effective PES is.

The latter trial addresses one of the most fundamental questions in the field, which is what should be the first ALK inhibitor that patients receive.»

«It took us six years to get the first product in Nigeria to the field trial level and another five years to get full registration status from regulators,» explained plant pathologist Ranajit Bandyopadhyay via e-mail.

A magnitude - 9 earthquake in Japan, a momentous climate change summit, reports on future global «hyperwarming», and rumblings about some of the first geoengineering field trials all made 2011 a remarkable year for the environmental sciences.

In a unique study set - up, the scientists first compared simulation results from a large ensemble of wheat crop growth models with experimental data, including artificial heating experiments and multi-locational field trials.

«This is the first blinded trial or sham controlled trial in the field of renal denervation.

The patient was the first in a gene therapy trial to die of the therapy itself; his death is the latest blow to a field that has been struggling to live up to the promise and hype surrounding the first gene therapy trials a decade ago.

During field trials, POINTER was tested rigorously in structures that simulated the type of environments first responders work in.

«If the trial proves successful, it represents a big moment in this field of medicine: For the first time we could have an FDA - approved form of noninvasive brain stimulation to help people with stroke by promoting concrete motor improvements.»

The 30,000 petunias that the team planted in a trial were the first transgenic plants ever released into the field in Germany, notes Meyer, now at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom.

The first year of the trial, labelled by journalists as «the whiffy wheat» trial, caused significant public attention when Take the Flour Back was formed to campaign against the field trial and held a protest at the site.

Dr Alan Dewar: «My business carries out contract field trials for the ag - chem industry and I was also involved in independent assessments of the first and subsequent neonic seed treatments in the sugar beet crop when employed at Broom's Barn.

«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.»

The first phase of developing this methodology for rodents involves proof - of - concept trials under controlled simulated field conditions.

Late last year the preeminent firm in the field, Silicon Valley's Geron, abdicated its leadership position in the midst of the first - ever FDA - approved clinical trial for an embryonic - stem - cell therapy.

«The Educational Value of Field Trips,» by Jay P. Greene, Brian Kisida, and Daniel H. Bowen, which appeared in the Winter 2014 issue of Education Next, is the first large - scale randomized - control trial designed to measure what students learn from school tours of an art museum, this one in Bentonville, AR.

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

The first is to conduct a randomized field trial along the lines of Project STAR in Tennessee.

At first blush, the most rigorous methodology, randomized field trials (RFT), appears not to fare well, since few such studies made the list.

Matthew Chingos and I have just released a study that for the first time makes use of data from a randomized field trial to identify the impact of school vouchers on college enrollments.

I was no less enthusiastic than those standing on the podium as this was for me an opportunity to evaluate for the first time a school voucher initiative by means of a randomized field trial, the gold standard for evaluating the effectiveness of a program, the same design as the pill - placebo design used in medical research to ascertain whether pills are effective.

Randomized field trials were used to examine the impact of the Teacher Study Group (TSG), a professional development model, on first grade teachers» reading comprehension and vocabulary instruction, their knowledge of these areas, and on the comprehension and vocabulary achievement of their students.

A study by Jay P. Greene, Brian Kisida and Daniel H. Bowen, «The Educational Value of Field Trips,» was the first large - scale randomized - control trial designed to measure what students learn from school tours of an art museum.

During the first four years of the CREATE study, researchers developed individual interventions and tested them in tightly controlled experiments and randomized field trials with classroom teachers in the middle grades.

[172][175] The first phase of the field trial ended in June 2010 and included 16 families, all employees of Volvo or Vattenfall, who had the car for 1.5 weeks to one month.

Finally, the contrasting silver and yellow livery reminds of the MINI E, the first all - electric MINI vehicle that debuted in 2008 and was driven by private users as part of an extensive field trial.

Macon Creek Tucker (Tucker) owned by Dick Croll handled by Dan Murray, March 9/10, 2013, placed first in the Open at the N. Colorado Springer Spaniel Club Field Trial

Each of our 2 spaniels earned 4 ribbon placements in puppy stakes, and one dog earned a 2nd place in her first all - age field trial, during the fall of 2014.

They attended their first of many field trials, competitions whose purpose is to reward high quality hunting dog work.

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