Sponsored research

The AEG sponsored research ia the program known as Systems for Nuclear AuxiHary Power (SNAP) as early as the 1950s. Most of the systems developed iavolved the radioisotope plutonium-238 as a heat source for a thermoelectric generator. Such electrical suppHes permitted radio transmission to earth from spacecraft such as Pioneer and l qyager. 

Research. Much of the research on commercial-size distiUation equipment is being done by Fractionation Research, Inc. (FRI), a nonprofit, industry-sponsored, research corporation. The industrial sponsors are fabricators, designers, and constmctors, or users of distiUation equipment. PubHcations include Hquid mixing on sieve plates (91), bubble cap plate efficiency (92), and sieve plate efficiency (93,94). A motion picture of downcomer performance is also avaUable (95). References 96 and 97 cover the Hterature from 1967 to 1990. 

A nonprofit research and educational organization that senses as a national forum for professionals of all disciplines in the environmental field. Conducts and sponsors research on environmental law and policy sponsors workshops, seminars, and conferences and maintains an extensive publishing program and an environmental law information clearinghouse. 

Feedstock recycling processes for treating PVC rich waste streams should be eapable of recovering both the chlorine and hydrocarbon contents. ECVM sponsored research and development work to identify potential technologies for building a pilot plant is described. 3 refs. 

It is essential that, with the use of evidence-based medicine to inform decisions in health care, the processes used in program development be as transparent as possible. Information about the limited evidence and inherent uncertainty should be disclosed and available for scrutiny, even within the software itself. In fact, in an attempt to maximize transparency, some have advocated open source development and publication of interactive software models [49, 50]. Certainly, details of methodologies, sources, and other techniques employed for development of the underlying models must be acknowledged. However, the proprietary nature of many of these programs must be taken into consideration and measures put into place to ensure confidentiality. Requested publication of all NIH-sponsored research online (in PubMed) [51] within a reasonable time frame after journal acceptance will help to ensure that these data are available in the public domain in short order. 

On the GM debate and biosafety research, a review of results performed under the European Commission supervision ( EC-sponsored Research on Safety of Genetically Modified Organisms , edited by C. Kessler and I. Economidis) is available also online at the EU-website http //europa.eu.int/ comm/research/quality-of-life/gmo/. An update on current research in food safety, nutrition and food-related disease might be found in the websites of the World Health Organization, http //www.who.int/fsf/GMfood/index.htm, and of the UK Food Standards Agency, http //www.foodstandards.gov.uk/. 

The relatively low entry level instrumentation cost and the relatively simple experimental methods associated with GARField - both comparable to a standard bench-top relaxation analysis spectrometer as commonly used by the food industry, for example, for water/fat ratio determinations - offer potential advantages to the industrial based user. Indeed, the overwhelming majority of the applications development work described here has been carried out in collaboration with major multi-national industrial corporations such as ICI Paints, Unilever and Uniqema, with industry sponsored research laboratories and associations such as Traetek, and with a range of small-medium sized enterprises. 

The American Petroleum Industry is currently sponsoring research on the toxicology of hydrogen sulfide. These studies include examinations of neurotoxicology, reproductive and developmental toxicology (including developmental neurotoxicity), and the development of a PBPK model. 

The insurance industry as a whole has a substantial self interest in analyzing accidents, sponsoring research and issuing publications in the methods tc prevent accidents or mitigate their effects. Hence their data is the... 

Perhaps this charge will be less credible in the future. American public interest in alternative medicine has expanded dramatically in recent years. According to polls, interest is particularly strong among persons of above average education who are in relatively poor health. The alternative medications they adopt are available largely as food supplements and herbal remedies in 1997 the market for these commodities amounted to 3.6 billion. Orthodox medicine has not ignored this solid trend, and many American medical schools now offer courses and sponsor research into alternative... 

Conference is to review progress in sponsored research for solution of both pollution and the farmer s problems by blending com starch polymers with polyethylene (1,2). There are several problems in blending these two polymers of very different polarities. 

CLINICAL TRIAL AGREEMENT EOR PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY SPONSORED RESEARCH IN NHS TRUSTS... 

Recognizing the importance of research to successful development of any fishery and the limited monies available for research purposes, we are directing both our inhouse and sponsored research toward ... 

Since the bottleneck on the clinical trial for taxol was in the supply, the NCI turned in 1989 to industrial partners, and issued a request for a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, and selected Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) in 1991 as the partner in taxol development. BMS would take responsibility for the short-term supply of taxol, and NCI would sponsor research to deal with long-term supply. BMS collected 750,000 lbs of dried T. brevifolia bark from 38,000 trees during the 1991 growing season, sufficient to yield 25 kg of pure taxol to treat about 12,000 cancer patients. Hauser Chemical Research of Boulder, Colorado, was overseeing collection of yew bark and processing of the bark to extract taxol. BMS prepared the final dosage formulation and delivered it to the NCI for use in clinical studies. 

The Nickel Producers Environmental Research Association (NiPERA) is sponsoring research to develop toxicokinetic models to be used to predict health effects in humans and is comparing the toxicokinetic properties of nickel in various animal species. 

The Nickel Producers Environmental Research Association (NiPERA) is sponsoring research on the application of inductively coupled plasma-mass spectroscopy (ICP-MS) to isotopic analysis of nickel in biological samples, on the development of sampling instrumentation for assessing workers exposure to nickel in the nickel industry, and on methods for utilizing newly developed analytical methods, such as laser beam ionization mass spectrometry, for the identification and speciation of nickel compounds in powders and dusts with particular reference to nickel refining. 

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