For example, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the official journal of the National Academy of Sciences, allows NAS members submitting papers for publication in PNAS to select their own referees.
The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Instituteof Medicine, and National Research Council make up the National Academies.
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Foreign-born scientists are more than twice as likely to win a U.S.-based Nobel Prize as their American-born colleagues, and are overrepresented in the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering.
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The Navy chooses to ignore two RAND studies, a report by the National Academy of Sciences, a report by the German Academy of Sciences, and a raft of recent lifecycle analyses that all indicate that biofuels accelerate fossil fuel use, have higher lifecycle GHG emissions, and increase environmental damage.
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He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.
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The study, published in the journal "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, " suggests that the number of amphibian species in Madagascar has been significantly underestimated.
Participants in the training included staff of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tajikistan, the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, the Tajik National Conservatory, representatives of public and private museums, representatives of NGOs taking part in the preservation of intangible cultural heritage, as well as artisans and musicians.
UNESCO: Culture Sector - Intangible Heritage - 2003 Convention
The President will be required to ask the National Academies (National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and the National Research Council (NRC)) to conduct a one year study of existing accreditations and report after one year.
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Four professional bodies - the Academy of Medical Sciences, the British Academy, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society - have all said use of "smart" drugs raise serious ethical, philosophical, regulatory and economic issues.
For example, in a study published last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences a group of researchers looked at crustaceans (crabs, shrimps, woodlice and so on) over the past 550m years and found far more examples of groups of species evolving towards complexity than in the other direction.
He was made head of the country's Academy of Sciences and collected dozens of international honours.
As they write in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Bjorn Wallace of the Stockholm School of Economics and his colleagues have shown this by playing the ultimatum game with twins.
The meeting will open with welcome addresses by Vassya Bankova, chair of RSC, Mario Scalet, Head of Science unit - UNESCO Venice Office, and Berhanu Abegaz, Executive Director - African Academy of Sciences and vice chair of the Consultative Board - International Basic Sciences Programme (IBSP).
But a piece of research just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Paola Sapienza of Northwestern University, near Chicago, suggests an alternative that it is not a person's sex, per se, that is the basis for discrimination, but the level of his or her testosterone.
At a ceremony held in the premises of the Polish Academy of Sciences for the inauguration of the West Polesie Biosphere Reserve, and in the presence of the Undersecretary of State for the Environment, Mr. Janusz Zaleski, the Director-General emphasized the role of Poland in the field of international scientific cooperation.
Four professional bodies - the Academy of Medical Sciences, the British Academy, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society - say that while human enhancement technologies might improve our performance and aid society, their use raise serious ethical, philosophical, regulatory and economic issues.
Her review in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences looks at the findings of over 100 studies on Gulf-war illnesses.
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The Chinese Academy of Sciences, with a staff of 54, 600 academics, is the biggest science and technology research organization in the world.
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These congressmen were part of a group allowed to visit the Krasnoyarsk radar in September 1987 at the invitation of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Soviet Committee of Scientists Against the Nuclear Threat.
It weighed about 10 tonnes when it entered the Earth's atmosphere and broke apart 30-50km (20-30 miles) above ground, according to Russia's Academy of Sciences, releasing several kilotons of energy - the equivalent of a small atomic weapon.
In one Ikaria-funded study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine's David Lefer found that low doses of hydrogen sulfide slashed heart damage by 72% in mice after heart attacks, even without inducing hibernation.
In 2012, the National Academy of Sciences warned that a combination of budget pressure, program delays and a pair of launch failures in 2009 and 2011 left the United States facing a "rapid decline" in its capability to monitor land and seas from space.
Between them: Palamar Natalya, Director of the Laboratory of Biochemical protection and restoration of documents of Archive of the Academy of Sciences, Petrova Natalya, Head of restoration department in IEGRC after Academician I.
This project pooled the resources of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the UNESCO Moscow Office of Siberia to establish a framework for protecting and reviving these languages.
Research published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and conducted at the University of California, San Francisco pinpoints a particular molecule that resets your food clock every time you change your eating habits.
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And perhaps the Karolinska could spare a thought for Leroy Hood, who invented the sequencing technique that made the whole thing possible though that work might, more properly, fall within the purview of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, which decides the winners of the chemistry (and also the physics) prizes.
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With assistance from UNESCO, the Education Ministry of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and the Institute of the Indigenous Peoples of the North of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences undertook to promote the transmission of Yukagir oral traditions to youth and digitize the language and cultural materials, facilitating both transmission and preservation.
In 2002 the Institute of Medicine (which is not part of the NIH, but is the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences) called for the creation of a National Vaccine Authority that would have sweeping responsibilities, including market research, the establishment of priorities, control of intellectual-property rights, the conduct of in-house research and development and the financing of clinical trials of candidate vaccines.
This forum will bring together various partners of UNESCO, as the International Council for Science (ICSU), the World Federation of Engineering Organizations, the International Council of Social Sciences (ICSS), the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation and the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
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