Sentences with phrase «number of international scientists»

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The China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology in Beijing has designed a spaceplane that can be scaled up to carry a large number of people, academy rocket scientist Lui Haiquang told the International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, last week.

In 2006, 20 years after reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was encased in cement, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency released a report compiled by a panel of 100 scientists on the long - term health effects of the level 7 nuclear disaster and future risks for those exposed.

Indicators also includes a number of other new features — globalization and international comparisons; information on attitudes toward biotechnology; age and retirement trends; and more information on foreign scientists and mobility patterns.

International career mobility is not as efficient as it should be, especially in the case of the increasing number of interdisciplinary scientists who are embedded in a team science setting.

Young scientists may enter a number of international contests, including the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) contest and BIOMOD, an annual biomolecular designinternational contests, including the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) contest and BIOMOD, an annual biomolecular designInternational Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) contest and BIOMOD, an annual biomolecular design competition.

In the last century, however, the role of the forensic scientist in the judicial system has become increasingly important, particularly since a number of scientific methods — including DNA typing — have gained international recognition for their evidentiary value.

And without strong new protections, «there [are] a substantial number of mammals that are likely to disappear,» adds John Fa, a conservation scientist at Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom who also works with Indonesia's Center for International Forestry Research but was not involved with the study.

He doubled the number of postdocs HHMI funds, revived graduate student awards with an emphasis on foreign students, and refocused HHMI's international programs on younger U.S. - trained scientists.

For example, as a result of its open access policy, India's Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope significantly increased the country's exposure to top international scientists who sought to use the telescope — thereby raising the number of international collaborations, boosting cross-pollination of ideas, and so forth.

The study culminates many years of effort by an international team of scientists who have discovered a large number of the satellite galaxies, developed new techniques to measure their distances, and have used the Keck Observatory with colleagues to measure their radial velocities, or Doppler shifts (the speed of the galaxy relative to the Sun).

«The Science for Life Laboratory is fortunate to have on its International Advisory Board a number of excellent scientists with a vast experience of research and research administration», says Carl - Henrik Heldin, Chairman of the SciLifeLab Board.

John Allen, an associate research scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University, who, with colleagues, came out with the first seasonal tornado forecast last year, expects a below - normal number of tornadoes in the south central U.S.

Rather, star names are selected on a non-commercial basis by a small number of international organizations of astronomers, scientists, and registration bodies, who assign names consisting usually of a Greek letter followed by the star's constellation name, or less frequently based on their ancient traditional name.

Less Diversity in Gut Bacteria Increases Obesity and Disease Risk: An international team of scientists have established links between the number of different bacterial species in the gastrointestinal tract and obesity, further weight gain, and the development of obesity - and inflammation - related diseases.

Emissions rose 5.9 percent in 2010, according to an analysis released Sunday by the Global Carbon Project, an international collaboration of scientists tracking the numbers.

For the new study, scientists from the National Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, and a number of other international institutions analyzed data from a wealth of U.S. and European epidemiological health studies.

According to a report at the time by Sovereignty International, Professor Robert Watson, the former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), was asked in a press briefing in 1997 about the growing number of climate scientists who challenge the conclusions of the UN that man - induced global warming is real and promises cataclysmic consequences.

WASHINGTON — The number of large - scale projects to capture and bury carbon dioxide has fallen to 65 from 75 over the last year, a worldwide survey has found, despite a consensus among scientists and engineers that such projects are essential to meet international goals for slowing the buildup of climate - changing gases.

«I am pleased that with this publication we have been able to build on over a decade of Winrock's leadership and expertise in this area working with a number of recognized organizations including the Clean Development Mechanism, The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, International Tropical Timber Organization, Voluntary Carbon Standard and California Climate Action Registry,» said Dr. Sandra Brown, Winrock's Chief Scientist, whose team developed the standard.

80) A substantial number of the panel of 2,500 climate scientists on the United Nation's International Panel on Climate Change, which created a statement on scientific unanimity on climate change and man - made global warming, were found to have serious concerns.

This article by Shell International Chemical Company's Dr. M. A. Matthews, «The Earth's Carbon Cycle,» was featured in the October 1959, Volume 6 Number 151 edition of the weekly publication The New Scientist.

Number one is Dr. Syun - Ichi Akasofu, a legendary space scientist, and Founding Director of the International Arctic Research Center of the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

The end result of these calculations - the estimates that we have from a major review paper that was done by international scientists last year - was that about 20 to 25 teragrams per year of methane could be emitted by the end of the century from the continental shelf, and you need to compare that number with the current emissions just from wetlands of 100 to 230 teragrams per year.

This letter follows a number of international letters in recent years (from faith leaders, scientists, Nobel laureates, company founders and others) addressed either to the UN or the global community in support of actions to prevent the development of autonomous weapons.