The meetings also identified possible directions forward in achieving the conservation and sustainable and equitable use of biodiversity, including the establishment of an independent intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services (IPBES) and the development of an agreed regime for accessing biodiversity and for equitably sharing its benefits.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar asked the academy in May to probe the Gulf disaster, saying he wanted "a set of fresh eyes on the issues surrounding" the incident and an independent, science-based understanding of what happened.
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The answer to that question was laid out in damning detail in a 2003 report issued by the Defense Science Board, a panel of independent advisors that set up a task force to figure out why everything seemed to be going haywire in military space.
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Nonetheless, the term multitasking originally comes out of the computer science literature, and refers to independent computing threads run at the same time.
Gunkel, who once worked as an independent researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, came up with the science of ideas, called ideonomy.
But religion is only part of the problem, and it cannot fully explain the resistance to independent science in the Chinese and Muslim cultures.
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The Center calls for independent reviews by the President's Science Advisor and the General Accounting Office of the foreign availability of the personal computers affected by this decontrol action.
Written by a team of independent experts who are each covering the country or region from which they hail, the UNESCO Science Report 2010 analyses the trends and developments that have shaped scientific research, innovation and higher education over the past five years, including the impact of the current global economic recession.
Prof Edward Acton was speaking in front of the Science and Technology Committee on 27 October 2010 along with Muir Russell who wrote the independent report into the so-called "Climategate" affairs.
These conclusions are based on multiple independent lines of evidence, and contrary assertions are inconsistent with an objective assessment of the vast body of peer-reviewed science.
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