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China should surpass Japan this year to become the world's No. 2 investor in research and development after the United States, an international economic group said.

CEO Kevin Plank's comments on CNBC praising Trump make it «nearly impossible to effectively build a cool urban lifestyle brand in the foreseeable future,» according to the note by Susquehanna International Group, an industry research firm

The Stockholm Environment Institute is a non-profit, international research group based in Sweden with seven offices on four continents.

Prior to this role Stuart was a Portfolio Manager in the Global Active Quantitative Equity Team where his responsibilities included management of the global and international small cap strategies, coordination with the European team across all group strategies as well as research within the team.

Prior to his role with Knowledge Infusion, Jason was a research director at Yankee Group, leading the company's human capital management and talent management advisory and consulting services.He also spent six years with Flextronics International, where he worked with large, multi-national clients in developing their outsourced manufacturing and supply chain strategies.

The TTP is an international group of individuals from educational and research institutions that use Micro Focus, NetIQ and SUSE solutions in their workplace.

He joined IIFL in July 2007 as President — Institutional Equities and International operations, based out of Singapore and moved back to Mumbai in July 2012 as Head of Research and assumed the role of Group CFO in January 2016.

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.

According to industry research group International Data Corporation, the authorization, authentication and administration market is expected to grow 18 % year over year to reach $ 3.7 Billion in 2003.

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

After the intense opposition from various farmers and consumers groups, including the uprooting of the clandestine field trial in Camarines Sur, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) postponed the commercialization, citing the failure of Golden Rice to produce better yields.

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.

HO CHI MINH, Vietnam — The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) will be assisting the Loc Troi Group, a leading provider of agricultural services and products in Vietnam, to ramp up its sustainable agricultural practices and tools in the country.

The event is jointly organized by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart), in partnership with the U.S. Embassy - Manila, Amazon Web Services, freelancer.com, Windows Azure, Google Developers Group, Jollibee Group Foundation, Soft Microenterprises, USSE, and Mozilla - Philippines.

The committee included an international group of academics with expertise in various aspects of food culture and gastronomy such as Joxe Mari Aizega, General Manager of Basque Culinary Center; Jorge Ruiz Carrascal, Professor of the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen; Marta Miguel Castro, a Research Associate at the CIAL Institute of Research in Food Science, who studies how food components could prevent disorders such as diabetes and obesity; Melina Shannon Dipietro, executive director of Rene Redzepi's MAD project; and Dr F. Xavier Medina, author, social anthropologist and leading scholar of Food and Culture at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona.

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.

The group solely exists to serve as a voluntary vigilante assemblage of hard core and die - hard members of the New Patriotic Party to help the party win elections through constant advocacy, research and defence of the traditions and records of the party in the Ghanaian and international media or any other appropriate forum.

Dr Naylor (@TristenNaylor) is Departmental Lecturer in Diplomatic Studies at the Oxford Department of International Development and Deputy Director of the G20 Research Group, London.

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.

Other experience includes a year on the US 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review, a year at the Kabul - based Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, two years in Beirut, Lebanon, shorter project management roles in Jordan, Pakistan, and Iraq, political risk forecasting in a London - based firm, and stints with the International Crisis Group and the US Embassy in Kuwait.

The Thumbay Group, is a UAE — based diversified international business conglomerate, headquartered in Dubai, with operations across 20 sectors including Education, Healthcare, Medical Research, Diagnostics, Retail Pharmacy, Health Communications, Retail Opticals, Wellness, Nutrition Stores, Hospitality, Real Estate, Publishing, Technology, Media, Events, Medical Tourism, Trading and Marketing & Distribution.

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.

AAAS implemented the MWIRC program, with support and funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), with the goal to foster participation of U.S. female scientists and engineers in international science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) research and education collaborations, particularly female STEM faculty from underrepresented minority groups and with physical disabilities.

All three discs are staggered and this breaks with everything we have seen so far,» says Christian Brinch, assistant professor in the research group Astrophysics and Planetary Science and the Niels Bohr International Academy at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.

New research from an international group led by Min Zhao, professor of ophthalmology and of dermatology at the University of California, Davis, shows that, in animal models of diabetes, slow healing is associated with weaker electrical currents in wounds.

The nonprofit group Wetlands International and Dutch research institute Deltares have created permeable dams to aid in mangrove restoration.

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.

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.

«I can't think of any right - wing groups that have taken on animal research before,» says Tom Holder, the director of Speaking of Research, an international organization that supports the use of animals in scientifresearch before,» says Tom Holder, the director of Speaking of Research, an international organization that supports the use of animals in scientifResearch, an international organization that supports the use of animals in scientific labs.

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, and in the Netherlands have discovered how a group of three closely related fungal pathogens have evolved into a lethal threat to the world's bananas, whilst an international consortium led by scientists from Wageningen UR (University & Research Centre) has unravelled the DNA of the fungus that causes black Sigatoka disease in bananas.

A new research study in the International Journal of Business Environment suggests that content providers must take a pragmatic view based on social consensus to persuade illicit downloaders that their behaviour is economically and ethically unacceptable behaviour among their peer group or other social group to which they belong.

Working with an international group of scientists from Cardiff University, Stanford University and Duke University in addition to screening post-mortem brain samples from the Stanley Medical Research Institute, the scientists are the first to identify a molecular genetic component of the blood brain barrier with the development of schizophrenia.

The secret to finding safe water lies in the color of sediment obtained from well boring, says Prosun Bhattacharya, Professor of Groundwater Chemistry at Stockholm's KTH Royal Institute of Technology and coordinator of the KTH International Groundwater Arsenic Research Group.

«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.

An international joint research group found that the cause of heart arrhythmia in myotonic dystrophy was RNA abnormalities in the sodium channel in the heart, clarifying the symptom's mechanism.

Chalker adds that the government also supports work in other centres of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, which house seed collections.

An international team led by Stefanie Hardung from the research group of Professor Ilka Diester, a member of Bernstein Center Freiburg and the Cluster of Excellence BrainLinks - BrainTools, has now identified the roles five subareas in the prefrontal cortex play in making decisions on movement.

Marjolein Soethoudt, a PhD candidate in Van der Stelt's research group, studied together with 12 international academic groups, the National Institute of Health (US) and pharmaceuticals concern Hoffman - LaRoche (Switzerland), the 18 most commonly used reference substances, including the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, Δ9 - THC.

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.

In the research, published in the October 2012 issue of Geriatrics and Gerontology International, participants were divided into three groups, each of which completed twice - weekly activities that involved working with either a piece of velvet, canvas or VelcrIn the research, published in the October 2012 issue of Geriatrics and Gerontology International, participants were divided into three groups, each of which completed twice - weekly activities that involved working with either a piece of velvet, canvas or Velcrin the October 2012 issue of Geriatrics and Gerontology International, participants were divided into three groups, each of which completed twice - weekly activities that involved working with either a piece of velvet, canvas or Velcro.

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 marijuanIn 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 marijuanin 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 marijuanin 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.

This vital element could become sparser in soils of major agricultural regions as the climate changes, an international research group announced online February 21 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.