DNA profiling in 1999 found Syrah to be the offspring of two obscure grapes from southeastern France, Dureza and Mondeuse Blanche.

This study, under the Taino genome project started in 1999 through a grant from the National Science Foundation, tested mitochondrial DNA throughout the island, identifying that-10 percent of Puerto Ricans today are of Amerindian descent.

DNA tests conducted in 1999 support the theory that the origin of the Yayoi people was an area south of the Yangtze.

A comprehensive review, including an analysis of the osteological characters, by Schodde and Mason in 1999 illustrated three groupings, classified as subfamilies below: Testing of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA revealed some changes, and proposed sinking of Tregellasia into Eopsaltria as the White-breasted Robin's closest relatives appear to be the two taxa of Tregellasia.

* Spear, Steven, and Bowen, H. Kent ( September 1999 ), " Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System ," Harvard Business Review

* Arbogast, B. S. ( 1999 ): Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography of the New World flying squirrels ( Glaucomys ): implications for Pleistocene biogeography.

Despite failing to carry out a proper DNA test in 1999 and its ' Inconclusive ' results.

( 1999 ): Relationships of the extinct moa-nalos, flightless Hawaiian waterfowl, based on ancient DNA.

( DNA Press, 1999 ).

In 1999, DNA profiling conducted by ampelographers in Austria suggested that Chenin blanc may be a parent of Sauvignon blanc.

Another unique feature are small, circular gill openings covering tufted gills, very unlike the crescent shaped gill openings and ridged gills of most fish species ( Lourie 1999 ) Current research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography is investigating the evolutionary relationships of the Syngnathidae and the DNA variation of the two seadragon species across their ranges.

In 1999, his book The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging was published, in which he writes that obviating damage to mitochondrial DNA might by itself extend lifespan significantly, though he said it was more likely that cumulative damage to mitochondria is a significant cause of senescence, but not the single dominant cause.

A 1999 study by Lucotte and Smets studied the DNA of 38 unrelated Beta Israel males living in Israel and 104 Ethiopians living in regions located north of Addis Ababa and concluded that " the distinctiveness of the Y-chromosome haplotype distribution of the Beta-Israel from conventional Jewish populations and their relatively greater similarity in haplotype profile to non-Jewish Ethiopians are consistent with the view that the Beta Israel people descended from ancient inhabitants of Ethiopia and not the Levant.

* Pfosser, M. and Speta, F. ( 1999 ) Phylogenetics of Hyacinthaceae based on plastid DNA sequences.

" Surreal nightmare ... DNA seems to have gone berserk " – The New York Art World Magazine, November 1999

( 1999 ): Systematics of the genus Capra inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequence data.

This has been determined by phylogenetic analyses of mitochondrial DNA sequences ( Lanyon 1992, Johnson and Lanyon 1999, Lanyon and Omland 1999, in Lowther, 2004 ).

* Rocket To DNA ( 1999 )

DNA testing in 1999 at BOLD ( Bureau of Legal Dentistry ), a forensic DNA lab in Vancouver, British Columbia found standard X and Y chromosomes in two samples taken from the skull, " conclusive evidence that the child was not only human ( and male ), but both of his parents must have been human as well, for each must have contributed one of the human sex chromosomes.

In the studies of human globulin genes, it has long been supported that the gene conversion event or branch migration events can either be promoted or inhibited by the specific motifs that exist in the vicinity of the DNA sequence ( Papadakis and Patrinos, 1999 ).

A DNA sequencing project was undertaken in 1999, which mapped the complete genome of Anabaena, which is 7. 2 million base pairs long.

* Revolution DNA ( 1999 )

After several years of designing, coding, and testing, the new JFS was first shipped in OS / 2 Warp Server for eBusiness in April, 1999, and then in OS / 2 Warp Client in October, 2000.

Until 1999 the islanders received US $ 180M for continued American use of Kwajalein atoll, US $ 250M in compensation for nuclear testing, and US $ 600M in other payments under the compact.

Although Congress refused to ratify the CTBT in 1999, the United States has adhered to the spirit of the treaty by maintaining a moratorium on nuclear testing since 1992.

PETA employees have themselves volunteered for human testing of vaccines ; Scott Van Valkenburg, the group's Director of Major Gifts, said in 1999 that he had volunteered for human testing of HIV vaccines.

Tatra also went back to its roots and decided to produce once again a bonneted CBE heavy duty off road truck to continue the successful line started with T111, so in 1999 the T163 Jamal was put in to full production after first prototypes were built in 1997 and followed extensive testing including at Siberia, as a heavy duty dump truck, once again based on proven backbone tube chassis construction with the cabin designed by Jiří Španihel The T163 6 × 6 is used mainly on construction sites and in quarries.

The Ministry of Defence had by 1999 fired more than 6, 350 depleted uranium rounds into the Solway Firth from its testing range at Dundrennan Range.

These new units began testing in 1999 and eventually evolved into the two models the company deployed system-wide in 2008 – 2009.

Due to logistical problems and lobbying from some schools opposed to increased regulation, CIPRIS was not implemented beyond initial testing and was retired in 1999.

* On December 5, 1999, a cargo version of the Ilyushin Il-114 suffered a crash during testing at Domodedovo, killing five and injuring two.

In 1999, it introduced a policy of " teacher testing ", requiring teachers to take examinations on a regular basis.

The pre-production set, C0, was delivered in October 1997, and underwent endurance running mainly between Tokyo and Shin-Osaka until early 1999, including a short period of testing as an 8-car formation on the Sanyō Shinkansen.

The US testing program was begun in 1999 and was expected to be completed in 2004.

Brucellosis ring testing of milk and cream, as well as testing of slaughter cattle, ended April 1, 1999.

CBS utilized WRAL-HD in testing its own high-definition programming some time later, and starting in 1999 began providing the station with a regular schedule of primetime programs in HD.

Evans Foundation Scholarship, 1970 ; University of Kansas Honor Scholarship, 1970 ; Summerfield Scholarship, 1970 – 1973 ; Veta B. Lear Award, 1970 ; Stranathan Award, 1972 ; Outstanding Physics Major Award, 1973 ; University of California Regents Fellowship, 1974 ; Group Achievement Award for software testing at the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory, 1981 ; NASA Outstanding Performance Award, 1981 ; NASA Superior Performance Award, 1981 ; Group Achievement Award for Second Orbiter Test and Checkout at Kennedy Space Center, 1982 ; Quality Increase, 1982 ; NASA Space Flight Medal ( 1984, 1986, 1990, 1997, 1999 ); Group Achievement Award for JSC Strategic Planning, 1987 ; NASA Exceptional Service Medal ( 1988, 1991 ); Special Achievement Award, 1988 ; Exceptional Service Medal for Return to Flight, 1988 ; Outstanding Leadership Medal, 1990 ; Special Achievement Award, 1990 ; Haley Flight Achievement Award, 1991 ; Kansan of the Year Award, 1992 ; Group Achievement Award for ESIG 3000 Integration Project, 1994 ; Presidential Rank Award ( 1994, 1999 ); Group Achievement Award for Space Shuttle Program Functional Workforce Review, 1995 ; Group Achievement Award for SFOC Contract Acquisition, 1997 ; Kansas Aviation Hall of Fame, 1997 ; University of Kansas Distinguished Service Citation, 1998 ; NASA Distinguished Service Medal ( 1998, 2000 ); Aviation Week & Space Technology Laurel Citation for Space, 1998, V. M.

Two separate patents were issued to Harvard College covering methods for providing a cell culture from a transgenic non-human animal (; filed Mar 22, 1988, issued Feb 11, 1992, expired Feb 11, 2009 ) and testing methods using transgenic mice expressing an oncogene (; filed Sep 19, 1991, issued Jul 20, 1999, expires July 20, 2016 ).

Since the 1999 publication of GMPs for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients, by the International Conference on Harmonization ( ICH ), GMPs now apply in those countries and trade groupings that are signatories to ICH ( the EU, Japan and the U. S .), and applies in other countries ( e. g., Australia, Canada, Singapore ) which adopt ICH guidelines for the manufacture and testing of active raw materials.

This lasted until late 2005, when NHTSA learned not all 1990 through 1999 Skyline models would perform identically in crash testing.

In IIHS frontal crash testing the 1999 and newer GS was given a " Good " overall score.

* Cohen, N., Muir, E., Lojkasek, M., Muir, R., Parker, C., Barwick, M. and Brown, M. ( 1999 ) ' Watch, wait and wonder: testing the effectiveness of a new approach to mother-infant psychotherapy.

Melvill is a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots ; in 1999, he received their Iven C. Kincheloe award for his work in high-altitude development testing Scaled's Model 281 Proteus.