Sentences with phrase «largest field trial»

To test this idea, de Leon and her colleagues at 12 agricultural universities in the U.S. and Canada devised a large field trial with more than 850 unique corn varieties at 21 locations across North America.

Via:: Green Car Congress: Large Field Trial Shows Miscanthus Could Meet US Biofuels Goals With Less Land (news website)

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There is a very large number of trials in this field and this number continues to grow.

This year, Rocke hopes to conduct larger - scale field trials to determine the levels of immunity required for success in a mass vaccination.

Many scientists believe that small or medium scale field trials may be needed to understand the risks of large - scale geoengineering projects.

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.

A large group of government researchers from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Merlewood, Rothamsted Research, and the Scottish Crop Research Institute designed a trial that would pit three GM crops against conventional counterparts in some 60 fields across the country.

Dr. Rocke is currently leading a large - scale field trial in 8 western states of the U.S. to determine if oral vaccination through consumption of vaccine - laden baits prevents plague in wild prairie dogs, thus reducing the risk of disease for the endangered black - footed ferret, other animals, and possibly humans.

It should be noted that large comparative trials are lacking in this field.»

«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.

As is his wont, he ignores the results from a randomized field trial, conducted by Johns Hopkins researchers, that found that Success for All has large, statistically significant positive effects on student literacy.

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.

New evidence has been collected from publicly funded voucher programs in Florida and Cleveland; new findings from randomized field trials conducted in New York City, Dayton, Charlotte, and Washington, D.C., are now available; and a growing body of evidence collected abroad provides a comparative perspective on the probable effects of large - scale choice initiatives.

The effort has also become a large - scale field trial of using classroom video, to help teachers improve and to evaluate them remotely.

She investigates these processes both in the laboratory and in large - scale, randomized controlled trials in the field.

The purchase of the trailers was made possible by $ 44,000 in donations and grants from the members of the Airedale Terrier Club of America, American Miniature Schnauzer Club, American Rottweiler Club, Arapahoe Kennel Club, Bernese Mountain Dog Club of the Rockies, Buckhorn Valley Kennel Club, Cairn Terrier Club of Denver, Colorado Kennel Club, Colorado Springs Kennel Club, English Springer Spaniel Field Trial Association, Evergreen Colorado Kennel Club, Gordon Setter Club of America, Greater Denver Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier Club, Greeley Kennel Club, Irish Setter Club of Colorado, Metro Mile Hi Kennel Club, Peak to Peak Working Dog Association, Pembroke Welsh Corgi Club of the Rockies, Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen Club of America, Pharaoh Hound Club of America, Plum Creek Kennel Club, Rocky Mountain All Terrier Club, Field Spaniel Society of America, Flatirons Kennel Club and AKC Reunite, the nation's largest non-profit pet identification and recovery service.

The purchase of the trailer was made possible by more than $ 22,000 in donations and grants from the Siberian Husky Club of Greater Chicago, the English Springer Spaniel Field Trial Club of Illinois, the Golden Retriever Club of Illinois, the Prairieland Standard Schnauzer Club of Central Illinois, the English Springer Spaniel Foundation, the English Cocker Spaniel Club of America, the Alaskan Malamute Club of America, the Standard Schnauzer Club of America, Kate Weems, the Kishwaukee Kennel Club, and AKC Reunite, the nation's largest non-profit pet identification and recovery service.

With contributions by Anthony Vidler and Peter Wollen Due in large part to the bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building, the crash of TWA Flight 800, and the O. J. Simpson trial, the once - arcane field of forensics has taken hold of the popular imagination.

Free - air concentration enrichment (FACE) technology has now facilitated large - scale trials of the major grain crops at elevated [CO2] under fully open - air field conditions.

While Vogel acknowledges that it will be difficult to set up «large - scale field trials... particularly for an extended period of time in a large geographical area,» he believes the 540 % figure could be increased further with better land management and breeding techniques and with improvements in cellulosic ethanol production technologies.

His model predicted, in different fields of medical research, rates of wrongness roughly corresponding to the observed rates at which findings were later convincingly refuted: 80 percent of non-randomized studies (by far the most common type) turn out to be wrong, as do 25 percent of supposedly gold - standard randomized trials, and as much as 10 percent of the platinum - standard large randomized trials.»

Scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign have just staged the largest known field trial for Miscanthus, a giant perennial grass.

Paul has been involved in some of the highest profile reported court cases and investigations over the last 25 years, including the Lockerbie trial, the largest class action in the UK in the pharmaceutical sector, the Shard of Glass litigation, the Oil for Food Programme investigation, the BTA Bank v Ablyazov case, the split capital trust investment litigation, the worldwide deep vein thrombosis litigation, and some of the leading cases in the field of aviation law.

Results - oriented, hands - on large clinical trial experience in cardiovascular devices and medications; one and half year Chief Medical Officer in an International hospital in China, more than ten years invasive / interventional cardiologist and five years Director of Coronary Care Unit (CCU) in one of the first - class hospitals in China; more than ten years preclinical research experience in the field of cardiovascular disease...

This presentation will share results from this qualitative interview and discuss implications for future groups and larger trials being run in this growing field.

The conclusions stand to be confirmed or amended by subsequent randomised controlled trials and large N field studies of outcomes.

She has been extensively involved in the design, implementation, and evaluation of several large - scale field trials of psychosocial stimulation — delivered via home visits and / or group sessions — and nutrition in Colombia and India.