The aim of the 17 month-long Mars500 project was to study the physical and psychological effects that the much longer journey to Mars might have on future astronauts.
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The government refused to endorse a feasibility study needed to move the project forward.
The present phase of the project is to present final results of the study, which ends in December 2012.
In what the researchers said is the largest project to examine leadership and stress, the study recruited 148 leaders and 65 non-leaders from the Boston metro area and from a Harvard executive education program designed for senior-level officials in the public sector, which included members of the military.
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The energy which ought to go into the Titian study is eventually devoted to an entirely different project, absurd in its solemnity: to give up watching the television, which in the process almost becomes human.
He directs the MedSeq Project, the first National Institutes of Health study to examine the impact of whole genome sequencing in the practice of medicine.
Markram and IBM both emphasize that the project would not create artificial intelligence but a way to study how neurons in the brain interact with one another.
Although the state courts have studied the issue of cameras in the courtroom to death over the past 10 years (and concluded that cameras can be manged so as to not interfere with the fair adminstration of justice) the federal courts recently announced a two year pilot project in a few isolated courts to study the issue.
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In the meantime, the state is working to study and better understand other aspects of the project as well.
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For the programme and fields of study offered please refer to ANNEX II of the project document (PDF - 466 KB).
It is also involved in the International HapMap Project, a five-country initiative launched in October, to follow up the Human Genome Project with a large-scale study of human genetic variation and its relation to disease.
"We are just starting to understand the ripple down effects and the repercussions of losing amphibians, " said Jamie Voyles, a biologist at New Mexico Tech in Albuquerque and one of the principal investigators of Project Atelopus, an effort to study and protect frogs of an endangered genus in Panama.
The forthcoming project will study productivity and nesting success and look at the foraging habits of the species to see what ancillary habitats are used for foraging.
In Lake Village, Arkansas, a grant-aided project to renovate and study Lakeport, the last remaining cotton plantation in the state, has aroused little public interest.
The Pavlopetri Underwater Archaeology Project 2009 is at the start of a five-year study of the site which aims to define the history and development of Pavlopetri.
David Altshuler, co-chair of the steering committee for the 1000 Genomes Project, said the people who enrolled in the study were told that all steps would be taken to keep them anonymous, but that technological advances one day might make it possible to identify them.
Wagner was a sterling linguist who said his post-examination project was to learn Coptic as a prelude to the study of Egyptian.
An ongoing UK study, The Warwick Microwind Trial Project appears to cast further doubt over the usefulness of turbines in urban environments.
Nature groups like the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and government-funded research organizations such as Connecticut Sea Grant and the Long Island Sound Study sponsored Mr. Yarish's seaweed project to show how seaweed can keep nutrient pollution in check.
The project will look at bioscience approaches from agriculture to economics, and will also study the ethical implications of all this new biotech work.
First, one of the main points is the high environmental cost and how long it will take for the project to become carbon neutral: 71 years, according to a UC Berkeley study.
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And only 2% of people in the U.S. aged 16 or older have ever borrowed an e-book at all, according to a new study from the Pew Internet and American Life project.
In his "Space Project, " Vincent pays homage to the world's great centers of space exploration and study: Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia, Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, various observatories and antenna arrays, and, most recently, the Ariane Space Center in French Guiana.
One study, called the Achilles project, looked at 76, 475 pairs of feet belonging to people from 18 European countries.
The pre-feasibility study is underway and we look forward to keeping you up to date on this promising project.
Originally the San Francisco researchers had hoped to do a comparative study of different agencies' programmes, but for this project only Compassion chose to take part.
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