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A study by the United States Agency for International Development on the use of sugar cane residues for power in Thailand, Jamaica, the Philippines and Costa Rica found that cane power can have lower unit costs than most of the other power generation options available in these countries. In Thailand the study found that a new cane power plant could supply power at about 0,030 per kilowatt hour. This was well below the cost of power generated in that country with imported coal at 0,044 per kilo-... 

ATSDR. 2006. The United States Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) website, http /w w w. atsdr.cdc. go v/... 

United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization United Nations International Children s Emergency Fund United Nations Industrial Development Organization United Nations Development Fund for Women United Nations Research Institute for Social Development United States Agency for International Development United States Congress... 

Famine Early Warning System - A system established by the United States Agency for International Development to monitor a number of factors that are predictive of famine including climate, availability of food, and nutrition-related morbidity. 

Certain international organizations and United States agencies with international programs prepare summaries and compilations, essentially of the data taken from the national official publications. The principal source of such information, specifically on chemicals in foreign nations, was for a number of years and until the end of 1950 the Office of International Trade of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce since the beginning of 1951 the major part of the program of commodities information has been in the National Production Authority. 

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USAID United States Agency for International Development... 

In 1966, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded a project for the development of a malaria vaccine at the University of Illinois (under Paul Silverman) and later at the University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, New Mexico) (under Karl Rieckmann). By the mid-1970s, USAID decided to diversify and expand its vaccine effort and so it enlisted the support of William Trager to undertake the cultivation of P. falciparum— an enterprise he had abandoned some 5 years earlier. In his proposal to USAID, Trager specifically asked for funds to support a post-doctoral student who was experienced in the cultivation of intracellular parasites. James B. Jensen was the person invited by Trager to fill that position. 

Background and Environmental Exposures to Naphthalene, l Methylnaphthalene, and 2 Methylnaphthalene in the United States. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. http //www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp67 C2.pdf (accessed on October 17, 2005). 

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