The Science Report was written by a team of international experts.
It should be noted that the Summary was published before the WG1 report and the editors of the Summary , incredibly , asked the authors of the Science report to make their reports conform to the Summary rather than the other way around.
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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.
But William Steiger , head of the U.S. delegation, said his concern is with the science underlying the report and said it put too much of the burden for diet reform on states and not enough on individuals.
Launch of the UNESCO Science Report 2010 by Mrs Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO.
As a part of the Interparliamentary Forum programme the UNESCO Science Report will be presented.
The UNESCO Science Report depicts a rapidly changing landscape.
This is especially important given the findings of the UNESCO World Social Science Report 2010, revealing the marginal presence of South Asia in the domain of international social science research and its limited impact on policy making.
The Secretary-General tasked Ms Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, the UN specialized agency with a mandate for science, to take the lead on following up on the science-related recommendations of the report.
The gene is called APOC3, and researchers found that 5 percent of the people they studied -- who were all Amish, in this case -- had the protective mutation, according to the report in Science.
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On the same day the report was published, the Institute for Science and Security (ISIS) published an analysis of the IAEA report, showing that in the reporting period Iran increased its operational efficiency in almost every parameter.
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Writing in the journal Current Science, the Indian scientists report finding ACE-inhibiting properties in six varieties of banana.
The Ad Hoc Group was charged with addressing the science-related recommendations of the report.
The Director-General also informed the President about the new assignment given by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to UNESCO in the field of a new UN-systemwide science initiative for sustainability, in the wake of the High level Report on Global Sustainability, and the formation of a new Science Advisory Board, to be hosted and managed by UNESCO.
Tracking researchers whose recent published papers recorded notably higher levels of citations during 2011, along with the most highly cited individual papers of the year, the annual report spotlights emerging trends in science and the innovators behind them.
Just last week, the Chronicle of Higher Education ran a story that referenced a report from the National Science Board showing that in all but seven states, funding for major public research universities has been cut.
The High-Level Roundtable occurred against the backdrop of a recent National Academy of Science's report which recommended the "delegitimizing" and ultimate "abolition" of all nuclear weapons.
Margo Wootan, the director of nutrition policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said the report was consistent with what she has seen in restaurants.
And the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC, the Working Group I report, which deals with the science of climate change, that will be finalized in an intergovernmental meeting which will finish on the first of February.
"Detailed analysis of the results will be completed over the summer, and a report issued to the educational and science communities, " Dr Pike said.
Last year the Im Tirtzu student group published a report on the state of Political Science studies in Israeli universities.
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The science group said in the report that although global warming is getting worse, it is not clear how much of the problem is caused by human activity.
But, like the best science fiction, Minority Report didn't shy away from tackling big ideas, and it had as much to say about our present condition as it did about the future.
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The Defense Science Board Task Force report on DoD Energy Strategy emphasized that fuel cells present an enormously compelling strategy for avoiding the risks associated with over-reliance on the national electrical grid.
As the team report in this week's Science, all 27 of the cosmic rays they looked at did, indeed, come from the direction of galaxies in the catalogue.
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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Shaukat Abdulrazak, Secretary and CEO of the National Council for Science and Technology, likewise congratulated UNESCO on the report.
The Royal Society, Britain's national science academy, published a report that analysed the bewildering range of biofuels on the market.
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Indeed.com, the Google-like job listing aggregator, recently got in touch with me to report that the number of computer science job listings is more robust than ever, and the compensation is relatively good.
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