A survey of publicly funded research specifically targeting alternatives to animal testing was conducted over 2006/2007. Responses were received from 16 European countries (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom). The responses were compiled by national agencies or nati...

Acknowledgements: This research was partially supported by DIMACS, a collaborative project of Rutgers University, Princeton University, ATT Labs-Research, Bell Labs, NEC Laboratories America and Telcordia Technologies, as well as affiliate members Avaya Labs, HP Labs, IBM Research, Microsoft Research, Stevens Institute of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology and Rensselaer Polytechnic In...

P.J. DeMott, D.J. Cziczo, A.J. Prenni, D.M. Murphy, S.M. Kreidenweis, D.S. Thomson, and R. Borys Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO, USA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Aeronomy Laboratory, Boulder, CO, USA Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA Desert Research Institu...

Can cognitive research generate usable knowledge for elementary science instruction? Can issues raised by classroom practice drive the agenda of laboratory cognitive research? Answering yes to both questions, we advocate building a reciprocal interface between basic and applied research. We discuss five studies of the teaching, learning, and transfer of the “Control of Variables Strategy” in el...

The authors analyzed the relevance and expediency of using smartphone-based laboratories in physics. purpose study is to analyze effectiveness smartphone laboratory formation research skills among students. article deals with use mobile applications not replace real experiment, but supplement it. To determine when performing work physics, an experiment was conducted 9th grade students at a scho...

We here propose the implementation of a simple and effective method to enhance the quality of basic and preclinical academic research: critical incident reporting (CIR). CIR has become a standard in clinical medicine but to our knowledge has never been implemented in the context of academic basic research. We provide a simple, free, open-source software tool for implementing a CIR system in res...

Deep convective injection of boundary layer air into the lowermost stratosphere at midlatitudes H. Fischer, M. de Reus, M. Traub, J. Williams, J. Lelieveld, J. de Gouw, C. Warneke, H. Schlager, A. Minikin, R. Scheele, and P. Siegmund Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany CIRES and NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado, USA Institute for Atmospheric Physics, DLR, Oberpfaffenho...

Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC Tectonics Observatory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota, Minnesota, USA Institute of Geology, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium, Pingtung, Taiwan, ROC Instit...

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