The institute's research director, Mark Teffeau,says the flowerpot works well for vegetables and small flowering plants like geraniums and impatiens.

VOA: special.2010.06.01

In the nineteen seventies, a supervisor asked her if she would like to do clinical research about pain.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

Research has linked participation in sports to positive effects like better self-image, fewer teen pregnancies and higher grades.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

She says they are still considered research tools in the United States, and not used as much as in places like Britain and Japan.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

"Get on the Internet. Do some research. This industry is like the Wild, Wild,West right now.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

She says words and phrases like "guy" and "you know" now appear in research papers.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

He says research like the frog genome project helps humans understand the history of evolution.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

But others are like Larry Martin, a University of Kansas member of the research team.

VOA: special.2010.03.16

A good example is a university job like a teaching or research assistantship.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

Bhutan's main research center collects a wide variety of data to measure this, including things like psychological well being, good governance, ecological diversity and living standards.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

University-level research papers, she says,are now being peppered with casual phrases like "you know" and words like "guy" informal usages that were absent almost a decade ago.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

According to Ben Urbonas, president of the Urban Watersheds Research Institute, these nutrient contaminants tend to be more of a problem in closed water systems,like lakes, where concentrations can build up.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

But John VandeBerg of the Southwest National Primate Research Center says if the proposed legislation to phase out medical research on chimpanzees is passed, scientists like him will have to end their work.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

While he acknowledges that there is much to be learned from alternative research methods like cell culture a process by which cells are taken from a living organism and grown under controlled conditions VandeBerg says they have learned a lot more from research on chimpanzees.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

Some want an independent review. And the trial's researchers, like Dr.Nelson Michael, of the Walter Reed Institute of Research in the United States, say it's unclear what difference the findings will make for areas like Africa where rates of HIV/AIDS are much higher than among the test population and where there are many strains of the virus.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20