Row in India over rules on animal experiments

Additional Experiments on Negative Rules

We implemented the General and Enhanced algorithms as described in our technical report [3] and conducted extensive experiments. We ran our experiments on a comparison shopping dataset provided by Yahoo!. In this application, hundreds of thousands of records arrive on a regular basis from different online stores and must be resolved before they are used to answer customer queries. Because of th...

New thinking on animal experiments

National regulations on animal experiments vary widely between countries but growing numbers of researchers in Britain believe that the procedures are in need of an overhaul. And a new report by a group of members of Britain’s upper house of parliament, the House of Lords, advises a shakeup that both speeds up consideration of researchers’ requests but opens up public scrutiny of such work. The...

EU statistics on animal experiments for 2014.

Animal Experiments and Pharmacology Teaching at Medical Schools in India: A Student’s Eye View

Animal experiments are an integral part of the pharmacology teaching at medical schools in India. Various medical schools in India, and rest of the world, have either introduced alternatives to these experiments or are debating the issue. There have been very few studies that have tried to define the relevance of these experiments and report the attitude of the medical students towards them. Th...

Row over new marine reserve plans

Britain's new move makes a major concession to developing countries. " We are interested in trying to break the deadlock and find ways through some of the issues raised in Copenhagen, " Miliband said. " We do not want to let a technical argument about whether we have one treaty or two derail the process. We are determined to show flexibility as long as there is no undermining of environmental p...