Continued growth in the organic sector will depend on overcoming challenges to production, handling and marketing. These challenges can be met by research, innovation, advancement in the technology, and broad dissemination of the results of that research and development. The methodology will involve analysis of public and private funding of organic agriculture research in the US, Canada, Europe...

1122 to raise the attractiveness of Europe to draw scientists from other parts of the world; and to raise the overall level of research investment in Europe. An ERC that is just a funding mechanism might not be able to achieve this. It was Iain Mattaj, present Scientific Director and the designated Director General of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, who ...

In this report we survey results of our efforts to set up a technical environment, a model for external cooperation and interoperability and an organizational framework for a reliable, truly vivid, ever growing and durable digital archive of mathematical publications. A major step forward has been achieved during the course of the European Digital Mathematics Library (EuDML) project which got i...

In this report we survey results of our efforts to set up a technical environment, a model for external cooperation and interoperability and an organizational framework for a reliable, truly vivid, ever growing and durable digital archive of mathematical publications. A major step forward has been achieved during the course of the European Digital Mathematics Library (EuDML) project which got i...

objective:  the aim of this study was to assess clinical laboratory funding for differential diagnosis of sickle cell disease (scd) and other associated disorders for better understanding of clinical types and prevention of sickling events. material and methods:  this is a descriptive crossed-sectional study that analyzed the peripheral blood film, sickle cell preparation, hemoglobin electroph...

P ublicly funded research involves the distribution of a considerable amount of money. Funding agencies such as the US National Science Foundation (NSF), the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the European Research Council (ERC) give billions of dollars or euros of taxpayers’ money to individual researchers, research teams, universities, and research institutes each year. Taxpayers acco...