Panel reviews NASA science plan

The Populus Genome Science Plan Tissue Culture & Transformation Panel

Background Although scientists often generically refer to the procedure by which plants are genetically engineered as “transformation”, it really entails two separate processes. The first, transformation, involves stable integration of DNA into the chromosome of an individual plant cell. The second step, regeneration, is the process by which individual transformed cells are coaxed, through horm...

Science Results — NASA Final Report December 2008

NASA Ocean Vector Wind Science Team Meeting

Professor Mark Bourassa Florida State University 200 R.M. Johnson Building, 2035 E. Paul Dirac Drive, PO Box 3062840 Tallahassee, FL 323062840 USA [email protected] Barry Vanhoff (Oregon State University) David E. Weissman (Hofstra University) Contributed Talk Calibration/Validation and definitions Scatterometers have long been considered to respond to surface turbulent stress. They have b...

Science Plan and Implementation Strategy

Preface The global environment is changing due to human and natural causes. The challenge of understanding global environmental change and of providing the policy-relevant knowledge base required by societies to deal with this change reaches across many aspects of scientific endeavour. Research combines observations, process studies, manipulative experiments and modelling, to improve the capabi...

Invited commentary: panel reviews of trauma mortality.

It is not surprising that surgeons were the first group of physicians to publish their mortality results or disease categories. When a surgeon intervenes in a disease process the results are immediate and definitive. In contrast, in internal medicine, the physician primarily intervenes in chronic diseases with pharmaceutical agents and the results are relatively nonspecific. The surgeon must im...