Similarly, the National Engineering Research Centre for Beijing Biochip Technology is headed by Cheng Jing, an engineer and molecular biologist trained in Britain and America.
Not so, according to Alison Park, research director at the National Centre for Social Research.
Richard Weber, an expert on airborne allergens at the National Jewish Medical and Research Centre in Denver, Colorado, notes that new homeowners insist on planting and watering foreign vegetation.
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Lefkaritika are included in the Heritage Archives of the Municipality of Lefkara and in the Archives of Oral Tradition of the Scientific Research Centre of Cyprus as well as at the National Heritage Index being created by experts at the Cyprus Research Centre.
NASA, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, the British National Space Centre and Britain's Defence Evaluation and Research Agency hope to collaborate with researchers in the terrestrial telecoms industry to establish new standards.
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The study, by the National Centre for Social Research, shows a varied picture, with Oxford and Cambridge accounting for half the new funds.
Mr Obama's nominee for secretary of energy is Steve Chu, a Nobel-prize-winning physicist and head of the Lawrence Berkeley national laboratory, an important research centre.
At the time he was head of America's National Centre for Human Genome Research, part of the country's National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Professor Asis Datta, director of the National Centre for Plant Genome Research, says more crops with enhanced nutrition are needed - and he believes industry will not provide them.
Why should farmers enjoy special protection? (A silly question, perhaps, in a world where governments routinely stuff rustic pockets with taxpayers' money, but one that needs to be asked.) Another worry, says John Copeland, a professor at the National Centre for Agricultural Law Research and Information in Fayetteville, Arkansas, is that tobacco firms might use these laws to bankrupt their critics.
Dr Tom Mackay, a consultant respiratory physician at the Scottish National Sleep Centre at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, said the research showed sleep deprivation provoked a typical stress response in the body, characterised by raised cortisol and glucose levels.
With the active participation of communities and relevant non-governmental organizations, the Tsiattista was included in the National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Cyprus created by the Cyprus Research Centre.
This event was hosted by the UK National Commission for UNESCO (UKNC) Scotland Committee in partnership with the Centre for Research and Development in Adult and Lifelong Learning ( CRADALL) at Glasgow University, Stirling University, the Communities Teams in Learning Teaching Scotland and the Scottish Government Directorate for Lifelong Learning.
Funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and hosted within the International and Strategic Partnerships Office at the National Oceanography Centre, the UK delegation to IOC coordinated the UK's contribution to IOC.
In Europe, by contrast, there is no shortage of research ideas, many of which will be discussed at a space environments conference at the UK's National Space Centre in Leicester in November.
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