Jean-Francis Zinsou, Permanent Representative of Benin to the UN, highlighted the need for globalized research, which is results-driven and focuses on the urgent problems that humanity currently faces.

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This shift in childhood illness may be one reason why his research suggested a lack of knowledge on spotting underweight children and the associated medical problems, he added.

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It then illustrates the types of approaches taken in combining training and research on solutions to field conservation problems.

UNESCO: Natural Sciences

On colorful notes, they wrote problems with car-buying research, car shopping, the retail and the ownership experience.

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"It's now getting to the point where enough companies have been intimidated and have refused to transport animals that we can see a potential worldwide impact of having problems of transporting animals between labs that will massively impact on the collaborative nature of research and will slow research progress, " he said.

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Professor David Segal, director of the University of Maryland's Center for Research on Military Organization, said such strains are a key factor in the surge of suicides, spousal abuse and other problems in addition to sexual assault.

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But currently there remain too many unresolved problems with their generation, and embryonic stem cells are considered a necessary tool in the continued research on how to perfect iPS cells for potential therapeutic use.

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