What these notions usually have in common, besides a snappy concept and a persuasive spokesperson, is a weak scientific foundation.
Although these recent floods have been severe there is no scientific foundation to propose that these are anything other than natural occurrences.
And anyway, most of that money went to establishing an excellent technical and scientific foundation for any deep geologic disposal site anywhere, especially for how to package and transport highly radioactive waste to wherever it will go.
Our scientific foundation is considerably more fragile than many appreciate (a fact definitely not lost on most biotech investors these days), and industry plays a vital role in pressure-testing this knowledge, unfortunately discovering in the process just how shaky it is.
But that basic scientific research is the foundation that private sector research is built on.
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The foundation supports scientific research aimed at developing vaccines that do not require refrigeration, preventing insects from transmitting disease, and growing healthy crops in harsh climates.
How well Butrint survives tourist pressure will depend on collaboration between Richard Hodges, the foundation's scientific director and principal fund-raiser, and Auron Tare, head of the newly created national park.
Glinka with the support of the UNESCO Moscow office for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, the Republic of Moldova, and the Russian Federation, and the Intergovernmental Foundation for Educational, Scientific and Cultural Cooperation (IFESCCO).
The Scientific Ice Expedition '99 is part of a five-year scientific mission between the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Navy to learn about the geology, physics, chemistry and biology of the Arctic.
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So it looks like firefighters may be the next unlucky professionals replaced by cheap robotic labor, at least if a snakebot built by the Foundation for Industrial and Scientific Research in Norway (SINTEF) ever makes it into mass production.
The Conference is organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia with support of the UNESCO Moscow Office for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, the Republic of Moldova and the Russian Federation, Intergovernmental Foundation for Educational, Scientific and Cultural Cooperation (IFESCCO) and in partnership with the Armenian Linguistic University "Interlingua" and the Russian Institute for Cultural Research.
As simply one example of many, the Broad Foundation invests in advancing innovative scientific and medical research in the areas of human genomics, stem cell research and inflammatory bowel disease.
"You've got all these young kids running around with this diagnosis, yet many of them have never, ever had a manic episode, which is the hallmark of bipolar disorder, " said Carroll, now the scientific director of the Pacific Behavioral Research Foundation.
Divers become expert fish spotters, helping compile a database of species for the foundation, which is then used for scientific papers and research.
We are currently collaborating with the Wild Foundation and other partners to provide a strong scientific basis for this idea.
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His foundation has come up with a plan to fund scientific projects that will identify biological targets on which drugs can be based.
In this context, UNESCO organized a workshop on the Global Microscience Experiments in partnership with the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) and in collaboration with the Guri Vie Meilleure Foundation, founded by the First Lady of Niger.
The company is working with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, the National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on a scientific version of the computer called PERCS (Productive, Easy-to-use, Reliable Computing System).
The survey was conducted for the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (UK), which describes itself as promoting "scientific education, rationalism and humanism".
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