Sentences with phrase «major scientific effort»

Capitalizing on new technologies will require a major scientific effort and policy initiatives to accelerate adoption of new technologies.

«This is a lot of money for an archaeology project,» says Miller, «but very inexpensive for a major scientific effort such as this one.»

At least three major scientific efforts were conceived and initiated during Collins» tenure at NHGRI: the Human Genome Project (HGP), the International Haplotype Map Project (HapMap), and most recently, the 1,000 Genomes Project (TGP).

Not exact matches

«This study represents a major milestone for the UC - II ® brand, and it validates our efforts to develop new paradigms for joint health products for the aging population, while also addressing the needs of an expanding group of younger, active, health - conscious consumers,» said Dr. James Lugo, Chief Scientific Officer of the Consumer Health & Nutrition Business Unit of Lonza.

Viteri notes that Acme has developed research alliances with Cornell University, University of Delaware, major ingredients suppliers and industry trade associations, which enables Acme Smoked Fish to include the latest scientific advances in its quality and safety efforts.

In the January issue of Environmental Science & Technology the researchers described their efforts mapping nearly 5,900 natural gas leaks of varying severity across 1,500 road miles of Washington, D.C. To learn more about the state of the gas pipelines running through several major U.S. cities — in particular those serving New York City — Scientific American interviewed Robert Jackson, professor of environmental sciences at Stanford and Duke universities and the study's lead author.

As part of an effort organized by 13 major scientific societies, Susan addressed scientists on how best to communicate the science of climate... Continue reading →

These integrated, multi-investigator centers involve partnerships among universities, national laboratories, nonprofit organizations, and for - profit firms that conduct fundamental research focusing on one or more «grand challenges» and use - inspired «basic research needs» identified in major strategic planning efforts by the scientific community.

«The scientific academies in the leading industrialized and emerging countries — which often control the purse strings for major research grants — must orchestrate a serious and transparent international research effort funded by their governments,» Victor and his colleagues wrote in the paper.

Catalyst for a Cure (CFC) is a major collaborative scientific effort in the field of glaucoma that represents an entirely unique approach to research, both by its design and its intent.

A major Center that will propel scientific efforts to pinpoint the specific genes involved in causing immune diseases, cancer and other diseases will be opened today at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology.

From the Human Genome Project, we have learned that teamwork really pays off when it comes to scientific discovery,» said Dr. Collins, who noted that over the past five years, the MIT, Washington University and Baylor centers were major participants in the highly successful public effort to sequence, assemble and analyze the genomes of the human and several other organisms commonly used in biomedical research.

Universities were a major supporter of this effort, as newly formed departments and schools of education, seeking to establish their scientific bona fides, embraced scientific management in the training of (primarily male) superintendents and distanced themselves from the pedagogical training of the (primarily female) teaching force.

Through this major funding effort, researchers, for the first time, will have the resources they need to work towards establishing the causes and pre-dispositions for bloat,» said Dr. Shila Nordone, Chief Scientific Officer of CHF.

A major part of these efforts are to support scientific research into the causes and cures for genetic diseases and general health of our beloved Berners.

[24] Odwyer's Magazine describes Exxon's efforts as misleading: «ExxonMobil, absurdly praised in August by Forbes as «green company of the year,» was discovered the same month by the New York Times to have given major funding to industry groups like the now - defunct Global Climate Coalition, an organization that had silenced its own scientific reports and falsified information for more than a decade.»

One major constraint when it comes to adaptation is poorly institutionalized communications efforts that can disseminate scientific information to ensure that developing country policy - making is based on evidence.

With most scientists now recognizing that the jihad against CO2 emissions was not really supportable by the empirical evidence, new scientific efforts are being conducted to determine what are the major factors influencing global warming / cooling.

Our knowledge of the Canadian Arctic has increased tremendously during the last decade as a result of increased sampling effort made possible by a dedicated research icebreaker (CCGS Amundsen) and the emergence of major scientific programs (e.g. CASES, ArcticNet, CFL, CHONe, C3O, IPY, Arctic Census of Marine Life).

As part of an effort organized by 13 major scientific societies, Susan addressed scientists on how best to communicate the science of climate... Continue reading →

The major advance in knowledge was the International Geophysical Year (IGY) in 1957, while scientific efforts to assess Antarctic climate began as recently as the third IPY in 2007.