In 2008, Penny Sartori, an intensive care nurse from Swansea, published a book about near death experiences following 10 years of research.

On 14 April 2008, in a UK Channel 4 documentary, Tudor Parfitt, taking a literalist approach to the Biblical story, described his research into this claim.

In 2008, JPL spent over $ 1. 6 billion on research and development and employed over 5, 000 project-related and support employees.

Caltech manages research expenditures of $ 270 million annually, 66th among all universities in the U. S. and 17th among private institutions without medical schools for 2008.

A series of 2008 research shows that CRM systems, among others, need to be more open to flexibility of technical writers, allowing these professionals to become content builders.

This practice was initially proposed as a long research paper in a workshop organized by Philippe Kruchten and Steve Adolph ( See APSO workshop at ICSE 2008 ) and yet it is the only proposed and applicable method for customizing XP.

Pertinent to a non-partisan study on the 2008 U. S. Presidential election, the Population Reference Bureau, a demographic research organization based in Washington, D. C., cited Generation X birth years as falling between 1965-1982.

Scientists have genetically engineered several organisms, including some mammals, to include green fluorescent protein ( GFP ) for medical research purposes ( Chalfie, Shimoura, and Tsien were awarded the Nobel prize in 2008 for GFP ).

While George Mason University is young compared to established research universities in Virginia, it has grown rapidly, reaching an enrollment of 30, 714 students in 2008.

Jakarta is listed as a global city in the 2008 Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network ( GaWC ) research.

According to research, the vulture population has undergone a sharp decline on the Indian subcontinent, 95 % decline in 2004, 99. 9 % decline as of 2008 due to the use of diclofenac in animals.

Dimmendaal ( 2008 ) summarized the general view with, " it has to be concluded that Greenberg ’ s intuitions on the genetic unity of Khoisan could not be confirmed by subsequent research.

She also has helped with breast cancer awareness ; in September 2008 she participated in the Stand Up to Cancer telethon, to help raise funds to accelerate cancer research.

In 2008, President David Leebron issued a ten point plan titled " Vision for the Second Century " outlining plans to increase research funding, strengthen existing programs, and increase collaboration.

Although Ibsen died in 2008, her son Michael gave a mouth-swab sample to the research team on 24 August 2012.

The university has a " very high " level of research activity and received $ 463. 7 million in sponsored research from 2008 to 2009.

In 2008, the National Post and the Ottawa Citizen recognized UNB as being among the top three comprehensive research universities in Canada for the highest percentage growth of research income across a five-year period.

Murphy Student Centre ( 2002 ), MacLauchlan Arena ( 2004 ), Bill and Denise Andrew Hall residence facility ( 2006 ), expansions to the Atlantic Veterinary College ( 2007 and 2009 ), Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre ( 2007 ), a research and development laboratory which is home to the National Research Council of Canada, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, and other partners, and Don and Marion McDougall Hall ( 2008 ).

It concluded in 2008 that Taleyarkhan's name should have appeared in the author list because of his deep involvement in many steps of the research, that he added one author that had not really participated in the paper just to overcome the criticism of one reviewer, and that this was part of an attempt of " an effort to falsify the scientific record by assertion of independent confirmation ".

On July 18, 2008, Purdue University announced that a committee with members from five institutions has investigated 12 allegations of research misconduct by Rusi Taleyarkhan.

As the largest employer in Orange County, UCI contributes an annual economic impact of $ 4. 2 billion with an operating budget of almost $ 1. 9 billion for 2008 including $ 328 million in extramural research funding.

In 2008, Cosmos Magazine reported on research into creating an artificial replica of Earth ’ s magnetic field around a spacecraft to protect astronauts from dangerous cosmic rays.

* The State of American Cuisine-A report issued by the James Beard Foundation in July, 2008.

* BBC News report on handover, 14 August 2008

It was announced on 31 December 2007 as a policy to be implemented by the Rudd ALP government, and initial tests in Tasmania have produced a 2008 report.

A 2008 New York Times report claims that Yemen has over 1 million of these discriminated and ostracized Al-Akhdam people, that is about 5 percent of Yemen population.

These are contained in the report, " Opportunity not Opportunism: Improving conduct in Australian Franchising " tabled by a Parliamentary inquiry into franchising on 4 December 2008.

Singer prepared an NIPCC report called " Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate ," published in March 2008 by the Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank.

* EFSA GMO Panel deliberations on the Austrian report " Biological effects of transgenic maize NK603 x MON 810 fed in long term reproduction studies in mice " ( Part of the minutes of the plenary meeting held on 3 – 4 December 2008, see on page 9 )

In spite of the amount spent on health care in the U. S., according to a 2008 Commonwealth Fund report, the United States ranks last in the quality of health care among developed countries.

Harvey Mudd today still maintains the highest rate of science and engineering Ph. D. production among all undergraduate colleges and second highest ( Caltech ranks second and MIT third ) compared to all universities and colleges, according to a 2008 report by the National Science Foundation.

A report in 2008 predicted that the population of the country would reach 6. 7 million by 2060.

Funded by the John Templeton Foundation, IMU released a report in 2008 " Mathematics in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities " on the current state of mathematics in Africa and on opportunities for new initiatives to support mathematical development.

Reporting on these developments in his annual report to the Authority in April 2008, Secretary-General Nandan referred also to the upward trend in demand and prices for cobalt, copper, nickel and manganese, the main metals that would be derived from seabed mining, and he noted that technologies being developed for offshore extraction could be adapted for deep sea mining.

On June 11, 2008 Newsweek published an account of material from a " A previously undisclosed CIA report written in the summer of 2002 ".

However, according to a 2008 report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, overall, ethnic Albanians, not only from Kosovo, supply 10 to 20 % of the heroin in Western Europe, and the traffic has been declining.

* Trade union membership 2003 – 2008 — European Industrial Relations Observatory report on membership trends in 28 European countries

In their annual report, the Board has criticised many governments, including Canada, for permitting the medicinal use of cannabis, Australia for providing injecting rooms and the United Kingdom for proposing to downgrade the classification of cannabis, which it has since done ( although this change was reversed by the Home Secretary on 7 May 2008 against the advice of its own commissioned report )

The investigation portion of the response plan was completed with the release of the final report on 7 World Trade Center on November 20, 2008.

According to Beverage Digests 2008 report on carbonated soft drinks, PepsiCo's U. S. market share is 30. 8 percent, while The Coca-Cola Company's is 42. 7 percent.

In March 2008, the United States Department of State published a report to Congress, " Contemporary Global Anti-Semitism ", that described Return to Castle Wolfenstein as an " anti-Semitic video game " with no qualifications.

* Background note: " Sorry ": the unfinished business of the Bringing Them Home report, Australian Parliamentary Library, 4 February 2008

In 2008, the AIUM published a 130-page report titled " American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine Consensus Report on Potential Bioeffects of Diagnostic Ultrasound " stating that there are indeed some potential risks to administering ultrasound tests, which include " postnatal thermal effects, fetal thermal effects, postnatal mechanical effects, fetal mechanical effects, and bioeffects considerations for ultrasound contrast agents.

According to one report, no operations have been carried out since 2000, although the Victorian Psychosurgery Review Board dealt with 3 applications between 2006 and 2008.

The most recent report was published in 2008.