American Academy Of Ophthalmology Sun Microsystems To Present Technology Seminar
...care and medical school settings, global standards initiatives and computer-based patient records development. Co-sponsored by the Academy's New Education Technology Committee, INFOACCESS '97 is presented as part of the Academy's 1997 Subspecialty Day program prior to its Annual Meeting in San Francisco. S...Low Cholesterol? Reduced Sodium? What Do These Terms Really Mean?
...occurred. The FDAneeds to conduct more educational initiatives if food labels are to be useful.Otherwise, labels ...bout nutrition. Future Directions There are two initiatives that must be undertaken for the goals of the NLEA tobe effective. First, consumers must be made awar...Molecular Mechanochemistry: An Emerging Discipline At The Nexus Of Biology And Physics
...ulties tosupport research, education, and business initiatives for bioengineeringprojects. Davies will present a review of his laboratory's latest findings atthe 1998 American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting inPhiladelphia in a session entitled, "How Mechanical Forces are Sensed,Generat...University At Buffalo Energy-Conservation Projects Record Highest Savings Among Campuses
... 214,000 pounds. Other money-saving environmental initiatives at UB include: A new campus energy policy in the emerging deregulated market for electricpower that calls for innovative purchasing contracts that buy power fromenvironmentally clean sources, incorporates energy-conservation services andavoids rat...IFT/NCFST Symposium To Address Safety Of Fresh Produce
...trade dimensions of fresh produce safety, industry initiatives to enhance thesafety of fresh produce, microbial ecology in fruits and vegetables, and anoverview of current microbiological perspectives on fresh produce. On Wed., May 13, good agricultural practices and postharvest handling offresh fruits a...DFG To Set Up 14 New Collaborative Research Centres
...ences and engineering sciences.The large number of initiatives to set up collaborative research centres has remainedunchanged. Equally high is the number of applications rejected after very strict review andassessment. In the last round of decision-making, for instance, seven out of a total of 21applications wer...Flexibility In Cutting Toxic Releases Yields Dividends
... Their findings suggest that the new environmental initiatives "havebeen effective in motivating corporations to ...luntary program, theynoted, adding that "voluntary initiatives alone are unlikely by themselvesto generate the desired changed in corporate behavior." Khanna and ...Frog Pond Picnic To Launch National 'Frog Force'
..." The Frog Pond Picnic will launch a number of new initiatives to enlist thesupport of families and educators to assist in monitoring the health offrog and toad populations in their communities, and to use the Internet torecord and share their observations, leading to better understanding ofthe places and situat...Genetic Code Of Chromosome Of Malaria Parasite Deciphered
...elop a malariavaccine. Other important NIH malaria initiatives include: **Laboratory, field-based and clinical research in malaria pathogenesis,parasite biology, vector biology, diagnostics, immunology, and drug discoveryand development. This research is conducted on the NIH campus and elsewhere inthe United St...Wildlife Conservation Society Receives $700,000 Grant From Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
...dation. "We are committed to funding conservation initiatives that are based on soundscience and research, employ market-based approaches and partnerships, andbroaden public awareness and participation in environmental stewardship." "This very generous gift of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation will helpinsur...Bruce Babbitt Calls For Linking Open Space And Conservation
...nced by the passage of morethan 140 "smart growth" initiatives nationwide last year. Babbitt envisionstaking advantage of this keen public interest by combining smart growth and conservation biology in a new discipline called "urban bioplanning". Forinstance, when deciding what areas to preserve as open space, w......nue with follow upand assessments inview of future initiatives in other reserves", Anders Arnell says. The practical work was carried out by fire-fighting staff from the CountyForestry Board. Theywere helped by Wildland Fire, a Canadian company specialised in forest fires,which has workedtogether with timber com...Children and environmental toxics: special symposium at New Orleans scientific meeting
...ion-making process, anddiscuss several significant initiatives to do so. (B. Shurdut - Comm. onAgriculture, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.; ENVR 6; Sunday,Aug. 22, 8:35 a.m.; Convention Center, Room 209. See page 88 in the finalprogram.) Measuring Children's Exposure to Environmental Hazards ...Revolutionary genomics project launched
...e genomics initiative is one of five campus growth initiatives that have been earmarked for rapid implementation. The push for a campus emphasis on genomics initially came from faculty members in the plant sciences and was taken up by many campus constituencies that worked together in planning for putting the m...Evergreens help block pesticide from crop fields
...er zone and water quality initiatives -- as well as the stewardship programs in the EPA and USDA -- towards a common environmental goal seems enormous," continued Hall. "But it is a multidisciplinary approach and ...DFG to set up 21 new collaborative research centres in 2000
...he Natural and Engineering Sciences. The number of initiatives for the collaborative-research-centres programme remains as high as ever. More competition means that a growing number of applications for the institution of collaborative research centres are being rejected, in all 10 from the last 31. Equally strin...ASM statements on FY 2001 federal budget proposal: NIH, CDC, NSF
...t, includes $4.6 billion in research and education initiatives for the National Science Foundation. The $675 million increase (17%), if approved by Congress, would double the previous largest dollar increase in the NSF's 50-year history. The American Society for Microbiology endorses the President's unpreceden...Freedom of information - The impact of free access on biomedical science
...o all online. PubMed Central and other free access initiatives are making it clear that the way science is communicated, used and done will change forever. But what will the impact of free access publishing be on the working lives of scientists, publishers, librarians and the general public? And what effect will...Biomedical scientists from Russia to Rio to explore biology's frontiers at HHMI in June
...ion on the evening of Wednesday, June 21, about US initiatives to foster international scientific collaboration. Although the scientists have gathered before at regional meetings -- in Prague, Warsaw, Budapest and Moscow, and in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro -- this will be the first time they will come tog...