Scientific organizations unite to influence science policy and promote the ERC
...nizations. A mass petition of this kind on science policy is almost unheard of in Europe. The conference will also feature the Founding Meeting of ISE, the first independent body established to provide a common voice and an action mechanism for European science organizations....Report: How 10 top new technologies will help world reach globally-agreed goals by 2015
...al cooperation to exchange knowledge; Improve the policy environment (including intellectual property laws and regulation); Foster private sector growth, encouraging it to address local health needs, and strengthening linkages between public and private sectors to create new biotechnology goods and servic......voted to research, treatment, education and public policy on depressive disorders....New Jersey Institute of Technology environmentalist receives Fulbright Chair award
...ackson heads the graduate program in environmental policy studies in the department of chemistry and environmental science at NJIT. Her research focuses on coastal processes on beaches and dunes in estuarine and low wave energy environments. She is currently studying the relationship between beach processe...Study confirms link between head and neck cancer and common Asian nut
...will prove helpful in shaping future public health policy on this issue." Chewing betel quid, traditionally practiced in many parts of Asia and in Asian-immigrants around the world, can be likened to tobacco use in the states. It is often rolled like a cigar or intricately folded and ge...Medical geneticists elected to Institute of Medicine
..., which conduct a broad range of studies on health policy issues. "We are thrilled that the Institute of Medicine has recognized Drs. Guttmacher and Nussbaum for their outstanding professional achievements and commitment to service. Along with many others at NHGRI, these two physicians have been at the fo...Scientists fear threat of second wave of 'mad cow' prion infection
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...blem areas, educating communities, and influencing policy and management practices. Summit Objectives: We aim to bring together people from across Appalachia to learn about the usefulness of citizen environmental monitoring (CEM) to promote environmental awareness in communities and achieve various sta...ENCODE consortium publishes scientific strategy
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...the research are expected to inform European Union policy about discards. Discards are mainly young or damaged fish or sea life that cannot be sold because there is no market for them, or, if taken back to shore, would exceed the fishers' catch quota. Almost one million tonnes in weight and many millions ...Global climate change threatens reindeer, caribou
...aid Gary Kofinas, CARMA organizer and professor of policy and management at IAB. "Everyone is observing unprecedented changes in the Arctic such as an overall increase in temperature, changes in the variability of weather, changes effecting hunters' access to animals because of changes in snowpack and ti...International marine survey of coral death
...ng of coral reef ecosystems so that management and policy interventions can be strengthened globally," accor..."We hope the new information will guide management policy on marine organisms of all kinds. But first we have to learn what's killing the corals," she says. T...MIDI, Inc receives Official Methods(SM) status for the confirmatory ID of the anthrax pathogen
...e does not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of the Government and no official endorsement should be inferred...New study links low fish supply to increased bushmeat hunting
... harvesting of fish by the EU Fleet and called for policy reform to minimize the impact of foreign fleets on... The authors of the paper say that reforming EU policy will not completely resolve the problems of diminishing natural resources in Ghana and other West Af...New report offers recommendations to spur interdisciplinary research
...tions that provide science, technology, and health policy advice under a congressional charter. Copies of FACILITATING INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH will be available from the National Academies Press; tel. 202-334-3...How city dwellers and living things put the green into our urban open spaces
... of urban green space. "And our findings challenge policy makers and scientists to engage the knowledge of ordinary local people more constructively in the future."...Study gives US a 'C' for lagging support of international reproductive health and population efforts
...lation Action International (PAI) - an independent policy and research organization based in Washington, D.C...tion, details recent developments in international policy and funding, profiles 21 donor countries, and grades each of them on their contributions toward the ...Obesity gets you where you live, UH study finds
...avioral medicine, community psychology, geography, policy science, social ecology and social marketing. ...Rob DeSalle and Michael Yudell to appear at the American Museum of Natural History
... Natural History, where his work focused on genome policy and ethics, and the position of health policy analyst at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. He is the editor, with Rob DeSal...Study reveals developing countries with recipe for thriving health biotech industries
...viewed. Published papers and books, background and policy documents, and patent data were also analyzed. The findings were subsequently validated through verification of the case studies with interview participants and presentation at the Canadian Program on Genomics and Global Health's (CPGGH) Ge...