Sentences with phrase «international colleagues tested»

Infection researchers from the German Primate Center (DPZ)-- Leibniz Institute for Primate Research have in cooperation with international colleagues tested a new vaccination strategy against the HIV - related simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) in rhesus monkeys.

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His research group has developed RT - QuIC over the past decade at RML, where he also has trained many international colleagues to use and advance the test.

Together they formed the International Workshops on Molecular Gastronomy and began corralling colleagues keen on kitchen science: the American food scholar Harold McGee and the British physicist Peter Barham along with open - minded chefs, critics, and writers who were passionate about food and good - humored enough to put their dearly held ideas (not to mention their egos) to pitiless scientific test.

That's the message of a new report by Stanford education professor Martin Carnoy and two colleagues that calls on U.S. educators to stop paying so much attention to the many nations who rank above it on international tests and instead delve deeply into results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often referred to as the nation's report card.

As colleagues and I have documented on numerous occasions, rankings on international tests do not relate to international indicators of economic strength, global competitiveness, creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship, or any other economic indicators that reflect a strong economy (e.g., Tienken, 2008; Tienken & Mullen, 2014).

To test the REDD project's effectiveness, Gaveau and colleagues from the University of Kent, UK, Wildlife Conservation Society Indonesia Program, Great Apes Trust of Iowa, US, Conservation International, US, and Center for International Forestry Research, Indonesia, examined satellite maps and modelled future deforestation for two scenarios — the current plan of implementing REDD within a new upland protected area, and an alternative arrangement that uses REDD across landscapes outside protected areas.

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