Sentences with phrase «international research groups for»

Our high performance computers are used by national and international research groups for various research projects.

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Apple would have done better to focus on China's regional trends rather than develop the payment service for a global market, says Kitty Fok, managing director of the China group at the market research firm International Data Corporation.

Jason McCandless heads the mergers and acquisitions and proxy contest research group at Glass Lewis, which is responsible for all domestic and international merger, acquisition, and contested proxy research.

Prior to taking up his position with CBRE Richard was a Director of Research for the Grosvenor Group an international business with circa $ 10bn of capital under management in real estate.

CHAMPIONS INCLUDE: Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Gilbert Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Former White House Chef, Founder of TROVE and Venture Partner, Acre Venture Partners Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Rajiv Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

I believe international research organisations and organic industry groups are a lot more committed to achieving a great result for their producers.

The group mentoring discussions were also key pointers for investing time in international research engagement, as crucial paths to advance a single disciplinary niche into a multi-disciplinary prospect.

At a hearing this week, Rep. Lamar Smith (R. - Texas) lashed out at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the group that assesses cancer risk for the UN's World Health Organization.

He was previously Director - General of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Africa Rice Center for a decade, where he was instrumental in introducing and promoting New Rice for Africa, or NERICA, a high - yield, drought - and pest - resistant variety developed specifically for the African landscape.

Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Senior Food Analyst at NBC News and former U.S. White House Chef Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

Her awards include Fellowship in the American College of Nurse - Midwives and the American Academy of Nursing, the Lamaze International Research Award to the ACNM Optimality Working Group, the Margretta Madden Styles Award for Excellence in Nursing, the Rhode Island State Nurses Association President's Award for Service to Nursing, a Governor's Citation for Service to the State of Rhode Island, and the Irving Harris Visiting Professorship at the University of Illinois - Chicago.

Several examples of the work of IBFAN groups were mentioned: the collaboration in Argentina of the Buenos Aires provincial breastfeeding program; in Albania the Group for the Protection and Promotion of Breastfeeding serves as a centre for child feeding expertise; in Brazil, Canada, Guatemala, Mauritius, Pakistan and Uruguay the groups place particular emphasis on Code implementation, related marketing research and public information activities; national surveys in Benin, Burkina Faso, Gabon and Senegal to monitor International Code implementation show numerous violations even where national measures are adopted.

A sizeable international group of researchers grappled with these questions for several years with the help of the European Research Council, the London School of Economics, and the University of Oxford.

In a new Demos report released today, I therefore describe a clear and realistic vision for a better WCA, based on a four - year research project that includes international comparisons, many focus groups with experts and the public, and a new survey.

The Steering Group agreed the terms of reference for the review and, in consultation with the UK Human Geography community, appointed an International Panel of leading international experts, chaired by Professor David Ley, University of British Columbia, Canada The International Panel visited the UK for one week in May 2012 and met with about 150 stakeholders in UK Human Geography Prior to its UK visit, the Panel was provided with a range of background data including: Overviews of research trends and outputs since 2000 completed by representatives of the nine Human Geography sub-disciplines Two - page assessments by Heads of UK Geography Departments of strengths, weaknesses, overall health, and future opportunities and challenges to Human Geography in the UK (15 submissions were received) A statistical profile of UK Human Geography: Briefing Document: Statistical Overview and Commentary by Paul Wakeling (2012) Bibliometric Data for the ESRC International Benchmarking Review of Human Geography by Thomson Reuters (2012) A Short Introduction to UK Research Funding Policy by David Mills (2012) Survey of Users of Human Geography Research by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian International Panel of leading international experts, chaired by Professor David Ley, University of British Columbia, Canada The International Panel visited the UK for one week in May 2012 and met with about 150 stakeholders in UK Human Geography Prior to its UK visit, the Panel was provided with a range of background data including: Overviews of research trends and outputs since 2000 completed by representatives of the nine Human Geography sub-disciplines Two - page assessments by Heads of UK Geography Departments of strengths, weaknesses, overall health, and future opportunities and challenges to Human Geography in the UK (15 submissions were received) A statistical profile of UK Human Geography: Briefing Document: Statistical Overview and Commentary by Paul Wakeling (2012) Bibliometric Data for the ESRC International Benchmarking Review of Human Geography by Thomson Reuters (2012) A Short Introduction to UK Research Funding Policy by David Mills (2012) Survey of Users of Human Geography Research by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian international experts, chaired by Professor David Ley, University of British Columbia, Canada The International Panel visited the UK for one week in May 2012 and met with about 150 stakeholders in UK Human Geography Prior to its UK visit, the Panel was provided with a range of background data including: Overviews of research trends and outputs since 2000 completed by representatives of the nine Human Geography sub-disciplines Two - page assessments by Heads of UK Geography Departments of strengths, weaknesses, overall health, and future opportunities and challenges to Human Geography in the UK (15 submissions were received) A statistical profile of UK Human Geography: Briefing Document: Statistical Overview and Commentary by Paul Wakeling (2012) Bibliometric Data for the ESRC International Benchmarking Review of Human Geography by Thomson Reuters (2012) A Short Introduction to UK Research Funding Policy by David Mills (2012) Survey of Users of Human Geography Research by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian International Panel visited the UK for one week in May 2012 and met with about 150 stakeholders in UK Human Geography Prior to its UK visit, the Panel was provided with a range of background data including: Overviews of research trends and outputs since 2000 completed by representatives of the nine Human Geography sub-disciplines Two - page assessments by Heads of UK Geography Departments of strengths, weaknesses, overall health, and future opportunities and challenges to Human Geography in the UK (15 submissions were received) A statistical profile of UK Human Geography: Briefing Document: Statistical Overview and Commentary by Paul Wakeling (2012) Bibliometric Data for the ESRC International Benchmarking Review of Human Geography by Thomson Reuters (2012) A Short Introduction to UK Research Funding Policy by David Mills (2012) Survey of Users of Human Geography Research by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian Millsresearch trends and outputs since 2000 completed by representatives of the nine Human Geography sub-disciplines Two - page assessments by Heads of UK Geography Departments of strengths, weaknesses, overall health, and future opportunities and challenges to Human Geography in the UK (15 submissions were received) A statistical profile of UK Human Geography: Briefing Document: Statistical Overview and Commentary by Paul Wakeling (2012) Bibliometric Data for the ESRC International Benchmarking Review of Human Geography by Thomson Reuters (2012) A Short Introduction to UK Research Funding Policy by David Mills (2012) Survey of Users of Human Geography Research by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian International Benchmarking Review of Human Geography by Thomson Reuters (2012) A Short Introduction to UK Research Funding Policy by David Mills (2012) Survey of Users of Human Geography Research by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian MillsResearch Funding Policy by David Mills (2012) Survey of Users of Human Geography Research by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian MillsResearch by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian Mills (2012).

When her appointment came to a close, a colleague rolled his chair over to her one day and suggested her for a data scientist job with the Stanford - based Data Coordination Center of the ENCODE (Encyclopedia of DNA Elements) Consortium, an international collaboration of research groups funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Mresearch groups funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MResearch Institute at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.

An international research collaboration led by Drexel's Yury Gogotsi, PhD, Distinguished University and Trustee Chair professor in the College of Engineering and director of its Nanomaterials Research Group, has created a two - dimensional carbon / sulfur nanolaminate that could be a viable candidate for use as a lithium - sulfur research collaboration led by Drexel's Yury Gogotsi, PhD, Distinguished University and Trustee Chair professor in the College of Engineering and director of its Nanomaterials Research Group, has created a two - dimensional carbon / sulfur nanolaminate that could be a viable candidate for use as a lithium - sulfur Research Group, has created a two - dimensional carbon / sulfur nanolaminate that could be a viable candidate for use as a lithium - sulfur cathode.

The World Agroforestry Centre and CGIAR (formerly the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) and Office of International Programs, College of Agricultural Sciences, Penn State, supported this work.

IFPRI's fellows in the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research system are developing, for example, drought - tolerant or heat - resistant varieties of staple crops such as wheat and rice.

Now, an international collaboration of physicists led by Dr. Eleftherios Goulielmakis, head of the research group «Attoelectronics» at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, researchers from Texas A&M University, USA, and the Lomonosov Moscow State University, have been able to track the effect of this delay for the first time.

The challenge ahead is that with the growth of personal income and activity, there's a greater need of mobility,» said Dario Hidalgo, senior transport engineer for EMBARQ, a group researching international transport at the World Resources Institute.

This model is widely used by both UK and international groups for research into ocean circulation, climate and marine ecosystems, and operationally as part of the UK Met Office's weather forecasting.

«We hope the ongoing scientific and clinical research being conducted through the International PSC study group will help improve the outlook for those currently suffering at the hands of this disease»

«The task for the year ahead,» Kraut says, «is to continue to demonstrate to those on the Hill what all of us in the community already know, that the nation's most pressing problems — the violence of terrorism, economic well - being, learning and literacy, international negotiations, ethnic and minority group discrimination — all have at their core a social and behavioral base that simply can not be addressed without the knowledge from the social and behavioral research that NSF supports.»

Even though this plan received full approval from the FAO, it was rejected at a meeting in Delhi of the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research, the informal group of donors that funds the IGroup for International Agricultural Research, the informal group of donors that funds the Igroup of donors that funds the IARCs.

Researchers who participated in the research are: Bru Cormand, Claudio Toma, Bàrbara Torrico and Alba Tristán, from the Department of Genetics and the Institute of Biomedicine of the University of Barcelona (IBUB), affiliated centres with the campus of international excellence BKC; Concepció Arenas (Department of Statistics of the UB) and Mònica Bayés, researcher from the National Centre for Genome Analysis (CNAG), located at the Barcelona Science Park (PCB - UB), and the groups led by Amaia Hervás, coordinator of the Child and Adolescence Mental Health Unit at the Mutua de Terrassa University Hospital, and Marta Maristany, from Sant Joan de Déu University Hospital, affiliated centres with the campus of international excellence HUBc.

It consists of work groups from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, TU Kaiserslautern, and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz and offers excellent national and international doctoral candidates in natural science disciplines an exceptional training in materials science.

In a discovery that advances the understanding of how marijuana works in the human body, an international group of scientists, including those from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), have for the first time created a three - dimensional atomic - level image of the molecular structure activated by tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the active chemical in marijuana.

Kensuke Kobayashi (Professor, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University) and Sadashige Matsuo (Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo), in cooperation with research groups led by Teruo Ono (Professor, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University) and Kazuhito Tsukagoshi (Research Fellow, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science), produced graphene samples capable of forming p - n junctions by combining gate electrodes and performed precise measurements of current - fluctuation («shot noise») in the graphene p - n junction in the QH regime in the strong magnetic fields and at low temperesearch groups led by Teruo Ono (Professor, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University) and Kazuhito Tsukagoshi (Research Fellow, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science), produced graphene samples capable of forming p - n junctions by combining gate electrodes and performed precise measurements of current - fluctuation («shot noise») in the graphene p - n junction in the QH regime in the strong magnetic fields and at low tempeResearch, Kyoto University) and Kazuhito Tsukagoshi (Research Fellow, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science), produced graphene samples capable of forming p - n junctions by combining gate electrodes and performed precise measurements of current - fluctuation («shot noise») in the graphene p - n junction in the QH regime in the strong magnetic fields and at low tempeResearch Fellow, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science), produced graphene samples capable of forming p - n junctions by combining gate electrodes and performed precise measurements of current - fluctuation («shot noise») in the graphene p - n junction in the QH regime in the strong magnetic fields and at low temperatures.

In recognition for spearheading this bounce back, the Governing Board of this Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research institute appointed current director general, William D. Dar, a Filipino horticulturist, for an unprecedented third consecutive 5 - year term.

A research group led by Olga Malyshevskaya and Yoshihiro Urade of International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI - IIIS), University of Tsukuba, discovered that seizures, a life - threatening condition, can be induced by natural Δ9 - tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ9 - THC, main constituent of marijuana) or the synthetic cannabinoid JWH - 018 (main component of synthetic blend «Spice») in mice.

In 2009, the International Agency for Research on Cancer responded to the research by classifying tanning beds as a Group 1 carcinogen, placing it in the same category as cancer - causing agents such as cigarette smoke, X-rays and aResearch on Cancer responded to the research by classifying tanning beds as a Group 1 carcinogen, placing it in the same category as cancer - causing agents such as cigarette smoke, X-rays and aresearch by classifying tanning beds as a Group 1 carcinogen, placing it in the same category as cancer - causing agents such as cigarette smoke, X-rays and asbestos.

The research group led by Mahesh K. Kaushik and Yoshihiro Urade of the International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI - IIIS), University of Tsukuba, investigated the effect of various components of Ashwaganda on sleep in mice by recording electroencephalogram and electromyography.

A report from the Impact Group for Iter Canada explains why Canada wishes to host the second most expensive international research collaboration (after the International Space Statinternational research collaboration (after the International Space StatInternational Space Station) to date.

Last week the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) disclosed plans for a World Cereal Center that would consolidate efforts at the Mexico - based International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the Philippines» International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

It would be wonderful to have free international scientific websites for every subject matter, where all the groups can share their manuscripts, thesis papers, books, and opinions related to a specific research topic.

The research was supported by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, the Pew Environmental Group and the International Whaling Commission.

The study was authored by a group of international scientists from Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Switzerland and Singapore and marked a major collaboration between Duke - NUS and the Bioinformatics Institute (BII), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A * STAR).

And the event as such was studied in unprecedented detail by a team of international scientists, amongst them a group from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences.

The research was conducted by international group of researchers from Indonesia (Summit Institute of Development, the study leader, and the Center for Research on Language and Culture, University of Mataram), the United States (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the University of California, Davis, and Georgetown University) the United Kingdom (University of Lancaster) and Australia (Deakin Univresearch was conducted by international group of researchers from Indonesia (Summit Institute of Development, the study leader, and the Center for Research on Language and Culture, University of Mataram), the United States (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the University of California, Davis, and Georgetown University) the United Kingdom (University of Lancaster) and Australia (Deakin UnivResearch on Language and Culture, University of Mataram), the United States (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the University of California, Davis, and Georgetown University) the United Kingdom (University of Lancaster) and Australia (Deakin University).

Atmospheric science professors Nate Brunsell and David Mechem in KU's Department of Geography are co-authors of a new study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by an international research group that evaluated the effects of large wind farms on atmospheric flow and its implications for how much renewable energy the turbines can generate.

Multi-center, international collaboration The publication is the result of a collaboration between the Medical University of Vienna (Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, working group led by Winfried Mayr), the Otto - Wagner Hospital (Neurology Center, Heinrich Binder), Vienna University of Technology (Institute for Analysis und Scientific Computing, Frank Rattay) and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX (Milan R. Dimitrijevic) and is funded by the Vienna Science, Research and Technology Fund (WWTF) and by the «Wings for Life — Spinal Cord Research Foundation.»

An international consortium of scientists that was recently assembled to review the science on BPA for the German UmweltBundesAmt (that country's equivalent of the Environmental Protection Agency) determined that the research FDA used in its safety assessment was flawed because it failed to consider the chemical's effects on behavior and prostate development, according to a copy of the group's conclusions provided to ScientificAmerican.com.

This group is usually composed of seasoned advisors who have achieved national and international recognition for their research.

An international group headed by the Molecular Systems Joint Research Team at the HZB and Humboldt - Universität zu Berlin has now been able to demonstrate that this is not the case for either oligothiophene or polythiophene.

«Updated criteria for diagnosing multiple myeloma published by international research group.»

Although collaborative efforts benefit from as many voices as possible, Llewellyn Smith said that it was important for those running such projects, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, to strike a balance between a desire to include everyone and an overemphasis on doing so at the expense of quality science.

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«Even then, it is not one of the most dangerous mycotoxins for health and it is included in group 3 within the categories laid down by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC),» Monsalud del Olmo pointed out.

As a group, PCBs are classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as known human carcinogens, and their manufacture was banned in the U.S. in 1979.