There are several other initiatives around the world involving humanoid research and development at this time, which will hopefully introduce a broader spectrum of realized technology in the near future.

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

Recent research compared the variation between all of the described Diprotodon species with the variation in one of Australia ’ s largest living marsupials the Eastern Grey Kangaroo and found the range was comparable, with a near continent-wide distribution.

Dr. Rick Strassman, while conducting DMT research in the 1990s at the University of New Mexico, advanced the controversial hypothesis that a massive release of DMT from the pineal gland prior to death or near death was the cause of the near death experience ( NDE ) phenomenon.

The research also located the origin of modern human migration in south-western Africa, near the coastal border of Namibia and Angola.

" Antioch, a coastal city in northern Syria and the third largest in the Roman world, is often mentioned as this later home of the Matthean community, but it could have been any large city in the eastern Mediterranean with large Jewish and Christian populations, and recent research points towards a location near Galilee or Judea.

In scientific research, the behavior of the two fluid phases of helium-4 ( helium I and helium II ), is important to researchers studying quantum mechanics ( in particular the property of superfluidity ) and to those looking at the phenomena, such as superconductivity, that temperatures near absolute zero produce in matter.

Israel attacked Iraq's nuclear research reactor under construction near Baghdad in July 1981.

A small monument in her honour was built near the military research facility in Moscow which prepared Laika's flight to space.

Nanomedicine seeks to deliver a valuable set of research tools and clinically useful devices in the near future.

She notes that not only are the results not very precise, but that other structures mentioned in the research are not in fact pyramids, e. g. a tomb alleged to be the tomb of Amphion and Zethus near Thebes, a structure at Stylidha ( Thessaly ) which is just a long wall, etc.

Another reaction to the aerial bombing was the creation of a back-up research test range near Blizna, Poland.

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is an American private research university located in Stanford, California on an campus near Palo Alto.

The town boasted a " socio-cultural mix ," sat near the exact geographic center of the continental U. S., and Hume and Meyer's research told them that Lawrence was a prime missile target, because 150 Minuteman missile silos stood nearby.

The schools also rank at or near the top in research funding from the National Institutes of Health.

The University also operates agricultural research stations near Glenlea and Carman, Manitoba.

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Later research into airflows near or above the speed of sound used a related approach.

Five years earlier, a photograph of Kaplan had appeared with the front-page newspaper article that was published near the beginning of the intensified period of United States gravity control propulsion research ( 1955-1974 ).

A major contribution to the competitiveness of the region's economy stems from the existence of important research and development centres such as Tecnopolis-CSATA near Bari, the Cittadella della ricerca ( Centre for research and new materials ) near Brindisi and the new software development centres, again near Bari.

conduct engineering research and technical development work to determine, by laboratory and pilot plant testing, the results of the research and studies aforesaid in order to develop processes and plant designs to the point where they can be demonstrated on a large and practical scale ; ;

In this article we will concentrate on the advances in the application of electronics in bio-medical research laboratories because this is where tomorrow's commonplace equipment originates.

The captain of the club, wishing to retain Fleming in the team suggested that he join the research department at St Mary's, where he became assistant bacteriologist to Sir Almroth Wright, a pioneer in vaccine therapy and immunology.

Johnson & Johnson gave more than $ 700, 000 to a research center that was headed by Biederman from 2002 to 2005, where research was conducted, in part, on Risperdal, the company's antipsychotic drug.

By the early 1960s, US research on the Nike Zeus missile system had developed to the point where small improvements would allow it to be used as the basis of a " real " ABM system.

In simpler term, Biotechnology is the research and development in the laboratory that involves bioinformatics for exploration, extraction, exploitation and production from any living organisms and any source of biomass by means of biochemical engineering where high value-added products could be planned ( reproduced by Biosynthesis, for example ), fore-casted, formulated, developed, manufactured and marketed for the purpose of sustainable operations ( for the return from bottomless initial investment on R & D ) and gaining durable patents rights ( for exclusives rights for sales, and prior to this to receive national and international approval from the results on animal experiment and human experiment, especially on the pharmaceutical branch of biotechnology to prevent any undetected side-effects on safety concerns by using the products ), for more about the biotechnology industry, see.

John Sladek used the concept to humorous ends in his first novel The Reproductive System ( 1968, also titled Mechasm in some markets ), where a U. S. military research project goes out of control.

In the manga and anime series Ghost in the Shell, the protagonist Motoko Kusanagi is the fully prosthetic leader of an anti-terrorist force, who lives in a future Japan where the majority of adults are cyborgs and can connect wirelessly to the Internet for real-time communication and data research.

Such a field will usually be represented by one or more scientific journals, where peer reviewed research is published.

These observers recommend careful market research to determine if and where the phenomenon can provide measurable benefits for client interactions, sales and support.

The operational headquarters, where research and development of new products occurred, retained the name Commodore Business Machines, Inc.

In the United Kingdom, the pro-assisted dying group Dignity in Dying cite conflicting research on attitudes by doctors to assisted dying: with a 2009 Palliative Medicine-published survey showing 64 % support ( to 34 % oppose ) for assisted dying in cases where a patient has an incurable and painful disease, while 49 % of doctors in a study published in BMC Medical Ethics oppose changing the law on assisted dying to 39 % in favour.

The university is in an area where several companies active in technology are doing their research, like Philips, ASML and DAF.

However, through careful research relating to paper construction, handwriting development, and the established principles of textual criticism, scholars can be rather certain about where these errors and changes appeared and what the original text probably said.

To continue the research where it would not pose a public health hazard, the reactor was disassembled and moved to a wooded site outside Chicago, where Fermi directed research on reactors and other fundamental sciences.

Some work in university settings where they carry out research on the cognitive and social processes of human development, learning and education.

Hubble continued his research at the Mount Wilson and Mount Palomar Observatories, where he remained active until his death.

Specifically, several research groups have reported that pre-eclampsia, a life threatening complication that sometimes arises in pregnancy, is much less frequent in couples who have practiced oral sex, and even more rare in couples where fellatio regularly ended with a woman's swallowing of her partner's semen.

After leaving Winchester he joined the operational research section at RAF Bomber Command, where he remained for the rest of World War II.

From 1950 to 1953, he was attached to the U. S. Embassy in London as a scientific liaison officer with the Office of Naval Research, where he studied research programs in Europe into cosmic radiation and nuclear physics.

In view of the increasing shortage of usable surface and ground water in many parts of the Nation and the importance of finding new sources of supply to meet its present and future water needs, it is the policy of the Congress to provide for the development of practicable low-cost means for the large-scale production of water of a quality suitable for municipal, industrial, agricultural, and other beneficial consumptive uses from saline water, and for studies and research related thereto.

While one-third of alternative treatments have some published literature supporting their use, research on alternative medicine is frequently of low quality and methodologically flawed, which might cause these results to be exaggerated.

André Weil (; 6 May 1906 – 6 August 1998 ) was an influential French mathematician of the 20th century, renowned for the breadth and quality of his research output, its influence on future work, and the elegance of his exposition.

In general, the difference between a statistics program and a biostatistics program is twofold: ( i ) statistics departments will often host theoretical / methodological research which are less common in biostatistics programs and ( ii ) statistics departments have lines of research that may include biomedical applications but also other areas such as industry ( quality control ), business and economics and biological areas other than medicine.

Outcomes based research on quality of life improvements and psychosocial benefits associated with breast reconstruction served as the stimulus in the United States for the 1998 Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act, which mandated health care payer coverage for breast and nipple reconstruction, contralateral procedures to achieve symmetry, and treatment for the sequelae of mastectomy.

The institute, which is a partnership between a number of private industries, government and post-secondary institutions, was designed to help increase the scale, quality, internationalization and impact of marine research in the region.

Thus, the quality of evidence to support a clinical decision is a combination of the quality of research data and the clinical ' directness ' of the data.

Evidence-based medicine attempts to objectively evaluate the quality of clinical research by critically assessing techniques reported by researchers in their publications.

In 1967 he accepted the position of deputy assistant secretary with the U. S. Department of the Interior, where he was in charge of water quality and research.

By selecting the best quality and most suitable research designs for meta-analysis they narrowed their focus down to 57 controlled trials.

Several perspectives or branches of such academic dictionary research have been distinguished: ' dictionary criticism ' ( or evaluating the quality of one or more dictionaries, e. g. by means of reviews ( see Nielsen 2009 )), ' dictionary history ' ( or tracing the traditions of a type of dictionary or of lexicography in a particular country or language ), ' dictionary typology ' ( or classifying the various genres of reference works, such as dictionary versus encyclopedia, monolingual versus bilingual dictionary, general versus technical or pedagogical dictionary ), ' dictionary structure ' ( or formatting the various ways in which the information is presented in a dictionary ), ' dictionary use ' ( or observing the reference acts and skills of dictionary users ), and ' dictionary IT ' ( or applying computer aids to the process of dictionary compilation ).

However, recent research suggests that neurocognitive, psychosocial, quality of life, growth, nutrition, bone pathology are slightly suboptimal if diet is not supplemented with amino acids.

This is particularly valuable in cancer research, as it results in an increase in the statistical quality of the data ( subjects can act as their own control ) and substantially reduces the numbers of animals required for a given study.

Considerable research and development of silicon materials occurred during the war to develop detectors of consistent quality.

Activities related to obtaining products and materials from outside suppliers involve resource planning, supply sourcing, negotiation, order placement, inbound transportation, storage, handling and quality assurance, many of which include the responsibility to coordinate with suppliers on matters of scheduling, supply continuity, hedging, and research into new sources or programs.

Despite such criticisms, there is some educational quality to the group's activities and they have helped to foster a good deal of valuable research, especially in the area of medieval crafts.

It is notable for its long history of presenting scientific information on a monthly basis to an educated, but not necessarily research based public, through its careful attention to the clarity of its text as well as the quality of its specially-commissioned color graphics.

Penn is consistently included among the top five research universities in the US, and among the top research universities in the world, both in terms of quality and quantity of research.

In terms of health services, WHO looks to improve " governance, financing, staffing and management " and the availability and quality of evidence and research to guide policy making.

* March 21 – Canadian paraplegic athlete and activist Rick Hansen sets out on his 40, 000 km, 26 month Man in Motion tour which raises $ 26M for spinal cord research and quality of life initiatives.

Here policies are directed towards promoting an open and competitive digital economy, research into information and communication technologies, as well as their application to improve social inclusion, public services, and quality of life.