Sentences with phrase «national research body»

Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety (ANROWS) Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety (ANROWS) is Australia's first national research body on reducing violence against women and their children.

► In a Tuesday ScienceInsider, Leigh Dayton reported «that up to 30 astronomy jobs will be eliminated at [Australia's] national research body, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).»

The new technology was developed at the Division of Manufacturing Technology of the CSIRO, Australia's national research body.

French court clears anti-GM vine protesters: More than 50 protestors who destroyed a field of genetically modified grapevines being trialled in Eastern France have had their convictions quashed, to the annoyance of the country's national research body...

The overall budget goes up slightly for many national research bodies; the National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology gets a 9.8 % budget hike, for example, and the Spanish Institute of Oceanography will have 4.3 % more.

Not exact matches

The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation announced yesterday that it was presenting its prestigious 2017 Lasker - DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award to a pair of National Cancer Institute researchers, Douglas Lowy and John Schiller, who created a vaccine to prevent human papilloma virus, or HPV, from taking hold in the body.

In fact, Canada could use a standing body like Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, which is mandated to investigate scientific matters of national importance, suggests Canada West Foundation vice-president of research Will Kimber, who used to work for theResearch Organization, which is mandated to investigate scientific matters of national importance, suggests Canada West Foundation vice-president of research Will Kimber, who used to work for theresearch Will Kimber, who used to work for the agency.

Since leaving politics, Mr Kerin has served with bodies including the Australian Meat and Livestock Corporation, CSIRO, the Poultry Cooperative Research Centre, the Australian Weed Research Centre, the CRC for Tropical Savannas Management, UNICEF Australia and the National Ovine Johne's Disease Programme Advisory Committee.

The DMI board consists of the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board and the United Dairy Industry Association board, working as a unified body.

After a string of scandals have engulfed Australian Wool Innovation, senators have today referred the marketing and research body to the national audit office.

Studies about the lasting importance of a child's experiences in the first three years of life, once relegated to scientific or academic journals, are now fueling a broad national conversation about what this growing body of research means for families and communities across the country.

Northwell Health President & CEO Michael J. Dowling said, «The $ 30 million award announced today will permit Northwell Health to continue to grow the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research as one of the major national and international centers focused on bioelectronic medicine, which combines implanted computer technology with next - generation analytics to use the body's own neural pathways to fight and cure disease.

Yet every serious international body, including the IMF, the OECD, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research — as well as Nobel prize - winners — forecast we will be poorer outside the EU.

As the accrediting body for the more than 850 Children's Advocacy Centers and Chapters in all 50 states around the country, NCA provides training, financial support, technical assistance, leadership, national advocacy and access to current research findings on a national level to children's advocacy centers around the country as well as numerous developing centers, multi-disciplinary teams and child abuse professionals.

Fed up with the large projects that strangled their research in top - down bureaucracy, science leaders began calling for a European body more like the U.S. National Science Foundation or the National Institutes of Health.

The research, which underlines the importance of maintaining a healthy body weight both before and after pregnancy, is led by Dr Cuilin Zhang, senior investigator, and Dr Wei Bao, post-doctoral fellow, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the US National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, USA, and colleagues.

Australia's other main grant funding body, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), invests its A$ 700 million yearly budget in fields that cover the government's health priorities, such as dementia, obesity and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's health.

Given this heavy burden, it is greatly concerning that many aspects of the body of research on gun violence have been deemed inadequate and inconclusive by expert panels of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (4 — 6).

Jackson, the author of the BEST report, issued a similar warning in March under the auspices of the Government - University - Industry Research Roundtable, an unusual hybrid body staffed by the U.S. National Academies.

Scientists at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Intramural Research Program (IRP) have uncovered evidence that shows a more complex and elaborate role for the body's hard - working G protein - coupled receptors (GPCRs) than previously thought, suggesting a conceptual advance in the fields of biochemistry and pharmacology.

The new plan specifies that the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), the Italian Space Agency, the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, and nine other institutes overseen by Profumo's ministry would be merged to form a single body with the same initials as that of the largest of the dozen, the National Research Council.

A new essay by the oversight body of the National Science Foundation explains what federal research officials must do if the United States hopes to remain the world's leading scientific power.

The national research funding body in Finland is the Academy of Finland, which offers opportunities both for Finnish researchers who want to work abroad and for foreign researchers who would like to visit Finland.

Dr Rick Body, who is also National Institute for Health Research Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Honorary Lecturer in Cardiovascular Medicine at The University of Manchester, said: «I think the beauty of this technique is its simplicity.

The new project is run by an alliance of 10 major research bodies, including the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Max Planck Society, and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany's main funding agency.

The work, funded by national charity Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund, uncovers new evidence that PAK4 plays a key role in enabling cancer cells to grow and to spread from the pancreas into other areas of the body, a process called metastasis.

The National Research Council, one of The National Academies in Washington, D.C., (scientific advisory bodies for the federal government) charges that the 18 government bodies, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) tasked with assessing chemical safety, have failed to prove that the diminutive particles are not dangerous.

A study by a joint research team including professor Kazuyo Tsuzuki of Toyohashi University of Technology, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and Asahi Kasei Homes revealed that airflow from an air conditioner (AC) stimulates the human body while sleeping and impacts on sleep conditions even if the mean airflow velocity is lower than an insensible level.

Far from seeing ANSTO as compensation for the loss of three divisions to the proposed national institute of marine science, the CSIRO regards the nuclear research body as an extra burden.

«This study adds to an important body of work that has shown the ubiquity of a circadian clock across species, including humans, and its role in metabolic regulation in cells, organs, and organisms,» said Dr. Michael Sesma, Program Director in the Division of Genetics and Developmental Biology at the of the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of General Medical Sciences, which partially funded the research.

NASA is researching the possibility of developing a management body — including internal and external elements — to manage ISS research, which would make the ISS National Laboratory similar to other national laborNational Laboratory similar to other national labornational laboratories.

I took up a position at the National Research Council, this time as a manager dealing with international scientific collaboration and external relations with the local political and administrative bodies.

But the board, the oversight body for the National Science Foundation (NSF) warns that, in toto, the reductions are making it harder for those elite institutions to train the next generation of scientists and engineers and carry out world - class research.

«Our results underscore the importance of attaining a healthy body weight before pregnancy,» said the study's lead author, Cuilin Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., a researcher in the Division of Intramural Population Health Research at NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

The presidentially appointed oversight body for the National Science Foundation (NSF) is considering whether to revise a portion of the agency's statistical bible because it might be seen as out of step with the new administration's views on renewable energy research.

The study, funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia, investigated the body's «famine reaction'to continued dieting and its impact on weight loss in men with obesity.

The first, Schatz's amendment, cites scientific bodies like the National Research Council and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in asking whether it's the «sense of Congress» that «climate change is real» and that «human activity significantly contributes to climate change.»

You won't, however, see that 150,000 figure in the main body of the Washington, D.C. — based National Research Council report on near - Earth object (NEO) surveys and mitigation strategies.

FRANKFURT — Germany's 16 national research centers — a sprawling, $ 2 - billion - a-year array of labs ranging from the DESY synchrotron in Hamburg to the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin — are too insular, according to a new report from the nation's top scientific evaluative body.

«The assumption is that everything in our body is promoting differentiation,» says Manuel Serrano of the Spanish National Cancer Research Center in Madrid.

The vast majority of national institutes, academy bodies, and key research centers are located in Beijing.

Since 2003, Kevin Hall, PhD — a physicist turned metabolism researcher at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases — has been using data from dozens of controlled feeding studies conducted over decades of nutrition research to build mathematical models of how different nutrients affect human metabolism and body weight.

Ovidiu Andronesi, an assistant professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, says he and many other members of one body, the National Research Council (NRC), learned they had been dismissed in an email received just before midnight on 31 January — almost at the same time as the government passed an emergency decree that decriminalized some corruption offences, sparking the widespread protests.

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have uncovered new clues about the risk of cancer from low - dose radiation, which in this research they define as equivalent to 100 millisieverts or roughly the dose received from ten full - body CT scans.

«Our goal is to discover what microbial communities exist in different parts of the human body and to explore how these communities change in the presence of health or disease,» said National Human Genome Research Institute Director, Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., co-chair of the Human Microbiome Project Implementation Group.

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The research was conducted as part of the Human Microbiome Project, a major initiative funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that largely has focused on cataloging the body's bacterial ecosystems.

Scientists at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Intramural Research Program (IRP) have uncovered evidence that shows a more complex and elaborate role for the body's hard - working G protein - coupled receptors (GPCRs)...

From a climate policy perspective, the bill can be seen as part of the Conservative ongoing effort to 1) gut environmental assessments and scientific research; 2) attack ENGOs that disagree with government policy to promote unfettered development of the oil sands; and 3) to sideline and even eliminate inconvenient advisory bodies like the National Roundtable on Energy and the Environment.

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