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Similar extended studies from the Institute for the Study of Human Variation at Columbia University involving twins indicate that genetic factors are operative in the control of the excretion of certain amino acids.5,6 Sutton and Vandenberg4 have also studied variation in human excretion patterns. 

I in the spring of 1973, my colleagues at the institute for the Study of Human Consciousness and I heard an exceptionally lucid presentation by Dean Brown, Stanford Research institute, of the basic... 

The other institution currently involved in financing the hospice project is the Joseph and Rose Kennedy Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction and Bioethics at Georgetown Uni-veristy. (3)... 

Cannabis in Costa Rica (Institute for the Study of Human Issues, Wm. Carter, ed, 1982) The Book of Grass, Andrews Vinkenoog (Grove Press, 1967)... 

Sens DA West Virginia University, North Morgantown, WV Validation of cultured human proximal tubule cells as a model for the study of human metal-induced nephropathies National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences... 

Two good sources of information on SNPs/biomarkers are Harvard University and Harvard-Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics (www.hpcgg.org) and the Broad Institute for the Study of Postgenomic Human Genetics and Medicine (www.wi.mit. edu/nap/features/nap feature broadinstitute.html). Additional reference data sources for SNP/biomarker Mapping include ... 

Subjects were all students or employees of the University of Nebraska who maintained their usual work, study and social activities except for the eating of the experimental diets and nothing else, making collections of excreta, giving blood samples, and filling out various questionnaires. All were assumed to be in good health as evaluated from health histories by medical personnel of the University of Nebraska Health Center. Signing of subject consent forms was required of all participants prior to participation. This project was approved for human subject participation by the University of Nebraska Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Research Subjects. 

In the United States it was as a direct result of the revelation of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study that the next U.S. medical ethics initiative emerged. The National Research Act of 1974 was passed (Public Law 93348), which required regulatory protection for human subjects and created the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. In 1979 this commission produced the Belmont Report, named after the Smithsonian Institution s Conference Center, where the discussions were first held in 1976. The report established three ethical principles to allow problems to be solved in the area of ethics in clinical research (1) respect for persons, (2) beneficence, and (3) justice. In general terms, these categories were equivalent to informed consent, risk-benefit assessment, and an appropriate choice of subjects for the research. 

Hiroshi Matsuhisa was born in Osaka, Japan in 1947. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Kyoto University in 1970, and his MS in industrial engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology 1972 and his doctoral degree from Kyoto University for the study of vibration and noise of train wheel in 1982. Since 1976 he has been an instructor, associate professor and professor at Kyoto University. His main fields of research are vibration control, noise control and human dynamics. 

Humanities Department, Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616, USA e-mail davism iit.edu... 

Acknowledgments Bets and all of us elephant researchers owe a large debt of gratitude to many members of the community of humans who study, care for, and work for the survival of the majestic, magnificent mammals the elephants. She would want us to thank all those she has worked with over the years. While many organizations and institutions have played major roles in her research activities and successes, we are sure she would want especially to thank Riddle s Elephant and Wildlife Sanctuary, the Ringling Center for Elephant Conservation, and the Oregon Zoo. 

Subjects were primarily young female adults, undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Nebraska. All were assumed to be in good health and received medical clearance for participation prior to the start of each study from the University of Nebraska Division of Student Health Services. The project was approved by the University of Nebraska Institutional Review Board Involving the Protection of Human Subjects. 

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