Specific weaknesses in the text include: it does not stipulate guidelines for the ' non-detriment ' finding required of national Scientific Authorities ; non-detriment findings require copious amounts of information ; the ' household effects ' clause is often not rigid enough / specific enough to prevent CITES violations by means of this Article ( VII ); non-reporting from Parties means Secretariat monitoring is incomplete ; and it has no capacity to address domestic trade in listed species.

Suggestions for improvement in the operation of CITES include: more regular missions by the Secretariat ( not reserved just for high profile species ); improvement of national legislation and enforcement ; better reporting by Parties ( and the consolidation of information from all sources-NGOs, TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network and Parties ); more emphasis on enforcement-including a technical committee enforcement officer ; the development of CITES Action Plans ( akin to Biodiversity Action Plans related to the Convention on Biological Diversity ) including: designation of Scientific / Management Authorities and national enforcement strategies ; incentives for reporting and timelines for both Action Plans and reporting.

ICOMOS is also involved, through its International Secretariat and its National and Scientific Committees, in the preparation of reports on the state of conservation of properties inscribed on the World Heritage List.

The Committee is also supported by a Scientific Advisory Committee, a Secretariat and an Archive.

The Office implements the decisions of the General Assembly and of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space ; performs functions of the Secretariat of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and its Scientific and Technical and Legal Subcommittees ; coordinates the inter-agency cooperation within the United Nations on the use of space technology ; implements the United Nations Programme on Space Applications ; maintains coordination and cooperation with space agencies and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations involved in space-related activities.

:" The Scientific Advisory Board Secretariat has suggested that this project not be declassified for a variety of reasons, chief among which is that no scientific explanation for any of the fireballs and other phenomena was revealed by the report and that some reputable scientists still believe that the observed phenomena are man-made.

In the United States in the early 1920s articles in Popular Astronomy by Russell W. Porter and in Scientific American by Albert G. Ingalls featuring Porter and the Springfield Telescope Makers helped expand interest in the hobby.

In 1955, Powell, also a member of the World Federation of Scientific Workers, added his signature to the Russell-Einstein Manifesto put forward by Bertrand Russell, Albert Einstein and scientist Joseph Rotblat, and was involved in preparations for the first Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs.

She also worked with the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation on promoting micro-finance initiatives through their ' Knitting Together Nations ' project, helping women refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina and with Bibi Russell on her ' Fashion for Development ' program in Bangladesh.

* Albert Graham Ingalls, Scientific American editor who wrote stories about Russell W. Porter and the Springfield Telescope Makers

Around the entryways are the stone heads of various associates of Yale University, including Vance McCormick, former chairman of the Yale Corporation's architectural planning committee, and Russell Chittenden, former director of the Sheffield Scientific School.

* Russell Henry Chittenden ( Professor of Physiological Chemistry ) was Director of the Sheffield Scientific School from 1898 to 1922.

* Chittenden, Russell H., History of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, 1846 – 1922.

* Neuroscience and the Person: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action ( Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action Series ) by Robert J. Russell, et al.

He was Chairman and President of Sessions at the 1966 Russell Tribunal, and member of the Scientific Committee of the Russell Tribunal in Rome in 1974.

After reading an article by Russell W. Porter on telescope making, he arranged a visit by Porter to New York in June 1925, out of which came an article later that year in Scientific American.

13th Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice ( SBSTTA-13 ) held from 18 to 22 February 2008 in the Food and Agriculture Organization at Rome, Italy.

# 2006 Rome: Angelo Cangelosi, Andrew D. M. Smith, Kenny Smith The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, World Scientific, ISBN 981-256-656-2.

* Faggin F., Capocaccia F. " A New Integrated MOS Shift Register ”, Proceedings XV International Electronics Scientific Congress, Rome, April 1968, pp. 143 – 152.

" He also says that the " Tulli Papyrus ", cited by von Däniken in one of his books, is likely cribbed from the Book of Ezekiel, and quoted Dr. Nolli ( through Dr. Walter Ramberg, Scientific Attache at the U. S. embassy in Rome ), then current Director of the Egyptian Section of the Vatican Museum, as " suspect that Tulli was taken in and that the papyrus is a fake.

He was secretary of the Scientific Qualifying Committee between 1984 – 1990, from 1985 he has been a member of the Harvard Academy of International Commercial Law, from 1988 a member of the steering committee of the Rome international institute ( UNIDROIT ) for unifying private law, while from 1989 he was appointed as a central judge on the Washington-based international selected court for states and foreign investors.

Angelo Gallippi, a physicist, has been teaching Scientific and Technical Communication at the University “ La Sapienza ’ in Rome.

Some early ideas by Douglas Engelbart were developed in 1959 funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research ( now Rome Laboratory ).

It was also in that period when the Scientific Station in Rome replaced the Rome Expedition.

He is at present a member of the Post Asian Synodal Council in Rome, Italy ( since 1998 ), Chairman of KCBC Commission for Education ( since 1986 ), Founder and Chairman of Inter Church Council for Education, Chairman of Inter Religious Fellowship, member of the Pro Oriente Foundation at Vienna, Austria ( since 1993 ) and member of the Scientific Commission of International Publication ‘ Oasis ’ from Venice, Italy.

* History and Principles of the Civil Law of Rome as Aid to the Study of Scientific and Comparative Jurisprudence ( 1883 )

She was furthermore vice-president of Scientific Methods Inc. from 1961 – 1981 and has presided as president of the company since 1982.

Although there are seven other types of annual awards presented by the Academy ( the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, the Scientific and Engineering Award, the Technical Achievement Award, the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, and the Student Academy Award ) plus two awards that are not presented annually ( the Special Achievement Award in the form of an Oscar statuette and the Honorary Award that may or may not be in the form of an Oscar statuette ), the best known one is the Academy Award of Merit more popularly known as the Oscar statuette.

by Sir Alan Walsh at the CSIRO ( Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization ), Division of Chemical Physics, in Melbourne, Australia.

Botany was greatly stimulated by the appearance of the first " modern " text book, Matthias Schleiden's, published in English in 1849 as Principles of Scientific Botany.

Scientific classification in botany is a method by which botanists group and categorize organisms by biological type, such as genus or species.

A subsequent review of these tests by the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory Panel points out that while " the negative results decrease the probability that the Cry9C protein is the cause of allergic symptoms in the individuals examined ... in the absence of a positive control and questions regarding the sensitivity and specificity of the assay, it is not possible to assign a negative predictive value to this "

Starting in the 1980s, an expanding community of neuroscientists and psychologists have associated themselves with a field called Consciousness Studies, giving rise to a stream of experimental work published in books, journals such as Consciousness and Cognition, and methodological work published in journals such as the Journal of Consciousness Studies, along with regular conferences organized by groups such as the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.

It has a temperate climate and provides a unique geological and biological environment that has been recognised by the designation of several Sites of Special Scientific Interest.

Rogers is widely considered to be one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy research and was honored for his pioneering research with the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions by the American Psychological Association in 1956.

Although the concept of consilience in Whewell's sense was widely discussed by philosophers of science, the term was unfamiliar to the broader public until the end of the 20th century, when it was revived in Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, a 1998 book by the humanist biologist Edward Osborne Wilson, as an attempt to bridge the culture gap between the sciences and the humanities that was the subject of C. P. Snow's The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution ( 1959 ).

Only one PDP-3 appears to have been built, in 1960, by the CIA's Scientific Engineering Institute ( SEI ) in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Scientific knowledge is gained by observation and testing, not believing from some subconscious stipulation, as Hubbard would have us believe.

It was given its current name by Frank Beckwith, leader of the Arches National Monument Scientific Expedition, who explored the area in the winter of 1933 – 1934.

a reprint of a paper first published in 1981 in Scientific Explanation, edited by A. F.

She has been called " the world's most famous sheep " by sources including BBC News and Scientific American.

On his 100th birthday, he was interviewed by Scientific American magazine.

As such its general structure and management is determined by the Wet op het Hoger Onderwijs en Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek ( English: Law on Higher Education and Scientific Research ).

Among the various GNSS users identified by the Galileo Joint Undertaking, the GEO6 project addresses the Scientific User Community ( UC ).

Brundtland was recognized in 2003 by Scientific American as their Policy Leader of the Year for coordinating a rapid worldwide response to stem outbreaks of SARS.

A March 1906 Scientific American article by American hydrofoil pioneer William E. Meacham explained the basic principle of hydrofoils.

* Scientific American article on holographic principle by Jacob Bekenstein