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International collaborations will also add tremendous value to our research and development efforts. Indeed, another activity in progress right now is a look (by NER4C) at our future infrastructure needs to support the domestic and international nuclear establishment. We would be happy to discuss our findings in an international context. 

The work has been supported by EU 5 Framework Programme projects (QLK5-1999-01267, QLK3-2000-01528, QLK3-2001-01676) and by domestic sources (OTKA, FKFP, OMFB, OM KFHAT). International collaboration within the EU network COST Action 841 is greatly appreciated. 

Cooperation international, domestic, and cross-disciplinary collaborations are a requisite. GNEP and Framework Programs of the EU are good examples. In particular, support by synthetic chemists is critical. 

Last spring, I missed a few of the best gardening days to visit the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. There, Dr. Barbara Schaal spoke about her studies with rice weeds. In collaboration with colleagues in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Schaal s research team found that a wild rice species can cross-hybridize with domesticated non-GE rice at a low frequency resulting in a hybrid variety of rice (Schaal 2007). The hybrids do not thrive in the wild because the wild rice species is better adapted and therefore quickly dominate the hybrids. For Thai farmers, however, the hybrids create a weedy nuisance. The weeds are hard to remove because the seeds shatter and build up in the soil leading to more weeds the next season. Yields of the rice crop decline proportionately with the increase in weeds. 

We are working on atomic and molecular data and their application with the collaboration of Japanese scientists as well as foreign scientists in the Data and Planning Center (DPC) of the National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS). We organize working groups to compile atomic data and to apply atomic data in plasmas. The atomic numerical databases in NIFS can be used through the World Wide Web. They are explained in this paper. The domestic and international collaboration in our center are described. 

Dibromochloropropane (DBCP) in California and Hawaii. DBCP has now been found in 2500 private domestic, public, and irrigation wells in California, and was recently found to have leached 400 feet downward through the unsaturated or vadose zone (44). California State Assembly Bill 1803, passed in 1984, requires the state health department to monitor 40 priority pesticides and other organics. The remaining use of DBCP on pineapples in Hawaii was cancelled (45). In a collaborative effort between EPA and USGS,... 

Hazewinkel, H. A., I. Schoenmakers, D. Pelling, M. Snijdelaaar, J. Wolfswinkel, and J. A. Mol. 1999. Biological potency and radioimmunoassay of canine calcitonin— Calibration by international collaborative study. Domestic Animal Endocrinology 17 333-344. 

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