Sentences with phrase «first worldwide effort»

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Even people who don't like them in other ways have to admit they give amazing first - response efforts worldwide.

The good news is that since 2005, the WHO has been coordinating a worldwide effort to find new TB drugs, and as of December 2013 two new classes of drug had been approved, the first for 40 years.

But «by observing light going 17 meters per second, it gave impetus to a worldwide effort in that direction,» says Stephen E. Harris of Stanford University, who collaborated with Hau and first demonstrated electromagnetically induced transparency and slowed light with it in the early 1990s.

Virginia Tech researchers, Wu Feng and David Mittelman, have won the first worldwide $ 100,000 research award from the NVIDIA Foundation, as part of its «Compute the Cure» program — an effort to fight cancer.

In this document, openly available for download, we provide an overview of the effort; our framework for the first draft of the atlas; descriptions of the technology and data analysis tools available to build the atlas; an introduction to the Data Coordination Platform that will host the data for researchers worldwide; a deeper look at biological systems we plan to explore and map; and details on the organization and governance of the HCA consortium and its relationships to the public (including ethical considerations regarding organ and tissue donors) and to funding support.

A White Paper, openly available for download, provides an overview of the effort; our framework for the first draft of the atlas; descriptions of the technology and data analysis tools available to build the atlas; an introduction to the Data Coordination Platform that will host the data for researchers worldwide; a deeper look at biological systems we plan to explore and map; and details on the organization and governance of the HCA consortium and its relationships to the public (including ethical considerations regarding organ and tissue donors) and to funding support.

SKA was first conceived in 90s at the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) which established the Large Telescope Working Group to begin a worldwide effort to develop the scientific goals and technical specifications for a next generation radio observatory.

We also received confirmation that the talented crew over at Nintendo of Europe will once again be handling localization efforts, set for release simultaneously worldwide — a franchise first.

In 2013 we became the first kayak tour operator to join the World Cetacean Alliance's Responsible Whale Watch Partnership in an effort to raise the standards of whale watching worldwide.

Today we are pleased to introduce the World Justice Project (WJP) Open Government Index ™ 2015, the first effort to measure government openness based on the general public's experiences and perceptions worldwide.

Ray's stellar career with Coldwell Banker earned him numerous awards including being recognized as the top agent for units sold internationally among 3,600 offices, the first time ever that a Canadian had surpassed the efforts of more than 100,000 Coldwell Banker sales professionals worldwide.