Sentences with phrase «scientific purposes»

This includes the protection of wildlife, zoo animals, farm animals, animals in transport and animals used for scientific purposes.

The basic unit can also be adapted for use as a limited - range communications satellite, or for other scientific purposes.

Aside from scientific purposes, the partnership aims to deliver benefits to the industries of space research and tourism.

First, except possibly for certain scientific purposes, power as commonly understood is seldom defined as the capacity to suffer or undergo an effect.

Aside from virtual tours of our universe, what scientific purpose does a map like this have?

Only it's not working perfectly enough for current scientific purposes.

It sets out all the guidelines referring to the protection of animals used for experimental and other scientific purposes.

These data sets are free to use for scientific purposes.

But ten years later, he is returning to the sub-equatorial continent with a clear scientific purpose: he wants to understand exactly how human cells respond to infection with HIV and tuberculosis.

Whenever possible, surplus males are used for other scientific purposes e.g. the production of pseudo-pregnant females.

Whale sharks are listed in appendix 2 of the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES), which stipulates that they can only be held for scientific purposes provided that it does not harm the survival of the species.

«Abstract Model calibration (or «tuning») is a necessary part of developing and testing coupled ocean - atmosphere climate models regardless of their main scientific purpose.

Whilst the Japanese are allowed by the International Whaling Commission to hunt for an annual quota of 945 whales for scientific purposes there has been intense global pressure to prevent the whalers from being able to fill their quota.

French law N ° 2001 - 486 of June 6th 2001 being the official French publication of the European Convention concerning the protection of vertebrates used in experiments or for other scientific purposes (convention adopted in Strasbourg March 18th 1986 and signed by France on September 2nd 1987).

Its new mission may be a signal of China's expanding prowess in space — not only for scientific purposes, but perhaps for showcasing strategic intentions, experts say.

Rescheduling marijuana into a different classification wouldn't undo the prohibition on the drug, but it would likely result in increased access to the drug for scientific purposes.

Despite changing international attitudes towards marijuana and enforcement, the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on the World Drug Problem met this year and decided to keep its prohibitionist policies around drugs to continue the criminalization of all drug use that's not for medical or scientific purposes.

Current and proposed policy in Canada allows the import / export of marijuana for medical or scientific purposes.

The study's protocol was approved by the Scientific Ethics Committee of VU University Amsterdam before the start of data collection and all food manufacturers provided written approval to use their data for scientific purposes.

The Government launched a consultation on the transposition of the new EU directive 2010 / 63 / EU - protection of animals used for scientific purposes - to run until 5 September 2011.

«In particular, the 1961 Convention as amended, establishes that the parties to the [UN Convention on drugs] should take such legislative and administrative measures as may be necessary «to limit exclusively to medical and scientific purposes the production, manufacture, export, import, distribution of, trade in, use and possession of drugs».

Zerbo also spearheaded efforts to make the monitoring data more accessible for scientific purposes.

When Brossard asked UW scientists how they use social media for scientific purposes, Wikipedia came first for almost 30 percent of them.

Trying to set them up as planet serves no scientific purpose.

They aim to reduce the harmful use of prohibited drugs and facilitate access to these drugs for medical and scientific purposes.

Harvey managed to secure a retroactive blessing from Einstein's son Hans Albert, with the stipulation that the brain would be used only for scientific purposes.

Attaining diamonds for scientific purposes can be a challenge, however.

Such cameras could be useful for any number of military, commercial, or scientific purposes, the researchers suggest, changing the central challenge of photography from «Where should we point the camera?»

This week, the ICJ ordered Japan to revoke existing permits to catch whales for scientific purposes and to stop granting such permits in the future.

There are people currently saying that they're whaling for scientific purposes.

Obtaining the images usually requires a strong bond between individuals at a university and in industry to persuade to companies to release the data for scientific purposes, observes senior exploration geologist Richard Davies of the 3DLab at Cardiff University in Cardiff, U.K. «Individuals that are presently spearheading it in academia have usually worked in the oil and gas industry in a previous life,» says Davies, who worked for ExxonMobil for eight years.

All data collected may also be suitable for scientific purposes, and are made available to astronomers through ESO's science archive.

In 2010 the National Science Foundation teamed up with the University of Michigan to create the first CubeSat with any scientific purpose: studying the effect of space weather on radio transmissions or GPS.

It lacks a clear definition or scientific purpose.

Although Norway and Iceland (which did not agree to the moratorium) also kill whales, Japan is the lone nation to claim it is whaling for scientific purposes.

Although creativity is difficult to define for scientific purposes, researchers consider a creative person to be someone who takes novel approaches requiring cognitive processes that are different from prevailing modes of thought or expression.

For scientific purposes, the Antarctic ice sheet is often divided into catchment basins so that comparative measurements can be taken to work out how the ice in each basin is changing and discharging ice to the oceans.

The Golden Spike Company, based in Colorado, announced on 6 December that it will start sending people to the moon for scientific purposes, to mine for resources or for bragging rights by 2020.

Named for the final spike driven into the first US transcontinental railroad line, Golden Spike plans to market to governments, corporations and individuals to routinely send people to the moon for scientific purposes, to mine for resources or simply for prestige.

... I have to have a scientific purpose.