Plant cryobiology has primarily emerged from the classical fields of cryobiology and plant stress physiology. Cryopreservation tools are now available to geneticists for germplasm preservation and the field itself is advancing significantly through the use of molecular techniques. Long-term preser...

The BESTCapsule will maintain appropriate biological specimens for decades or centuries at cryogenic temperatures in the living state. Maintenance at temperatures below {approximately} {minus}140 C is not a problem. No ordinary chemical reactions in aqueous solutions can occur. The only source of damage will be the slow accumulation of physical damage to DNA from background ionizing radiation. But ...

... A Long Term Strategy to Resolve the Brcko Issue and Achieve Regional Stability in Bosnia. ... The NATO force cannot stay in Bosnia indefinitely. ...

Oxygen transport function is maintained longer in red cells stored in CPD than in ACD-stored red cells. Supplementation of CPD red cells with inosine, ascorbate, dihydroxyacetone and other substances helps to maintain the oxygen transport function during ...

Plant cryobiology has primarily emerged from the classical fields of cryobiology and plant stress physiology. Cryopreservation tools are now available to geneticists for germplasm preservation and the field itself is advancing significantly through the use of molecular techniques. Long-term preservation of vegetatively propagated ...

Plant cryobiology has primarily emerged from the classical fields of cryobiology and plant stress physiology. Cryopreservation tools are now available to geneticists for germplasm preservation and the field itself is advancing significantly through the use of molecular techniques. Long-term preservation of vegetatively propagated ...

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MERIT Awards provide long-term support to investigators with impressive records of scientific achievement in research areas of special importance or promise.

Deposit of useful microorganisms in culture collections requires long-term preservation and successful reactivation techniques. The goal of this study was to develop a simple preservation protocol for the long-term storage and reactivation of the anammox biomass. To achieve this, anammox biomass w...

Our long term goal is to develop techniques to achieve detached solidification reliably and reproducibly, in order to produce crystals with fewer defects. To achieve this goal it is necessary to understand thoroughly the physics of detached solidification...

... more patients are achieving long-term remissions or cures. Sometimes cancer cells may be resistant to the initial drugs ...

Green Port Program. " Green Port Policy adopted by Board of. Port Commissioners in December 2007. " Developed to achieve long-term environmental, societal ...

... Fishing Quotas (IFQs). NOAA�s Draft Catch Share Policy � To achieve long-term ecological and economic sustainability ... of catch share programs...

Dec 1, 2009 ... The Lab's mission is to achieve long term improvements in the reliability of JPL's mission critical software systems. ...

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... Long-term engine affordability, they claim, is best achieved by procuring engines through multiyear contracts from a single source. ...

... Long-term engine affordability, they claim, is best achieved by procuring engines through multiyear contracts from a single source. ...

... Long-term engine affordability, they claim, is best achieved by procuring engines through multiyear contracts from a single source. ...

process strategy in order to achieve long term sustainability. ... Keywords: Business intelligence, cost modeling, risk and reliability model, planning and ...

... �It is in the long-term national interest of the ... instruments of national power, is well suited to achieve both long-term and short-term ... democratization. ...

... ROV SDC Active Network-Level ... the Sentry Toggle Period (STP) is defined as (Ton + Toff), and the Sentry Duty Cycle (SDC) is defined as Ton STP . ...

... immediately adjacent brain, from long term toxicity of odorants. ... achieved via hydroxylation of odorants by cytochrome P450, followed by the ...

Annual goals are the current year's increments toward achieving the monument's long-term goals. Long-term goals, in turn, are five-year increments toward achieving mission goals. Mission goals are statements of ideal conditions pursued 'in perpetuity' to ...

Annual goals are the current year's increments toward achieving the monument's long-term goals. Long-term goals, in turn, are five-year increments toward achieving mission goals. Mission goals are statements of ideal conditions pursued 'in perpetuity' to ...

The achievements of this five-year project are summarized. The primary achievement is the development of a new paradigm to investigate the complex reaction processes that control the behavior of heterogeneous energetic materials in munitions throughout th...

Bosnia Herzegovina is a volatile, dangerous place. The fighting has stopped but there still is no peace. Bosnia today has at best, achieved a condition of Not War. The NATO force cannot stay in Bosnia indefinitely. At some point, the cost and danger of th...

The lecture is concerned with how much energy might be saved by combining public electricity supply with public heat supply and how much of other resources have to be utilized to achieve that saving. Only in the long term can worthwhile savings be achieve...

In Part I of this report, general formulas for the long term mean and mean square concentrations of linearly reactive pollutants were derived from Lagrangian diffusion theory. The derivation was achieved by subdividing the long term averaging interval into three disjoint domains designated the ...

, usually, to a decrease in receivers' fair rates. We examine how the ideas in [11, 8, 18], that coordinate to achieve long�term average max�min fair rates through joins and leaves. The idea of using long term averageThe Impact of Multicast Layering on Network Fairness \\Lambda Dan Rubenstein, Jim Kurose, and ...

In Part I of this report, general formulas for the long term mean and mean square concentrations of linearly reactive pollutants were derived from Lagrangian diffusion theory. The derivation was achieved by subdividing the long term averaging interval int...

Instrumented fixtures were built to measure coil assembly stress and relaxation rates in samples of CBA and SSC coil sections. The effects of constant temperature and thermal cycling on short and long term relaxation are presented. Conclusions and suggestions are presented to achieve minimum long ...

Instrumented fixtures were built to measure coil assembly stress and relaxation rates in samples of CBA and SSC coil sections. The effects of constant temperature and thermal cycling on short and long term relaxation are presented. Conclusions and suggestions are presented to achieve minimum long ...

Most existing mechanisms cannot be relied on to achieve long-term growth of renewable energy, either because of their own weaknesses or because of unpredictable variables. If there is widespread support for pursuing the benefits of renewable energy, then its growth should be ensured through ambitious, long-term, and widespread ...

Long-term protection and antibody response for the subunit vaccine F1-rV270 were determined by using the mouse model. Antibodies to F1 and rV270 were still detectable over a period of 518 days. The complete protection against lethal challenge of Yersinia pestis could be achieved up to day 518 after primary immunization.

The meeting showed that there is continuing confidence in the use of wet storage for spent nuclear fuel and that long-term wet storage of fuel clad in zirconium alloys can be readily achieved. The importance of maintaining good water chemistry has been id...

Long term ground stability is essential for achieving the performance goals of the Next Linear Collider. To characterize ground motion on relevant time scales, measurements have been performed at three geologically different locations using a hydrostatic level system developed specifically for these studies. Comparative results from ...

Characteristics/Vision What the future holds Personalized medicine will be a reality � a physician will be able - Long term goal of targeted or even personalized medicine Medicine: What We Need to Measure and Why Rationale: to provide for quality results to achieve long term vision of ...

The reasons for the European commitments to space are reviewed, and the aims and structure of ESA are described. Attention is given to ESA efforts in space science, earth observation, telecommunications, commercial space ventures, and manned spaceflight. The European long-term space plan is summarized, and the roles of autonomy and cooperation in fulfilling ESA's ...

In March 2009, the RAND Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition hosted a workshop called "Shaping Tomorrow Today: Near-Term Steps Towards Long-Term Goals." The workshop gave policymakers and analysts an opportunity to explore new methods and tools that can help improve long-term decisionmaking. The intent ...

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Successful long-term weight loss maintenance can be achieved by various means. A combination of dietary and physical activity interventions, along with one or more behavioral approaches, has proven successful in some persons, as documented by the National Weight Control Registry, but is limited by adherence to a consistent weight loss regimen. Successful ...

Eight sets of studies are reported that support a model my colleagues and I have developed which views WM as a system consisting of those long-term memory traces active above threshold, the procedures and skills necessary to achieve and maintain that acti...

Results are reported from sixteen different sets of studies on a model of working memory capacity. We see WM as a system consisting of those long-term memory traces active above threshold, the procedures and skills necessary to achieve and maintain that a...

be achieved by measuring the success of improved management practices and by adjusting conservation policies as needed to ensure long-term protection. Version 1.0 Posted January...

Transportation demands a large and increasing share of total energy consumption in Europe. At the same time many European countries are facing difficult decisions in achieving their long term environmental goals. Therefore energy policy, environmental pol...

The most effective way to achieve long-term environmental results is through the use of a consistent set of metrics and decision-making framework. The U.S. EPA has developed TRACI, the Tool for the Reduction and Assessment of Chemical and other environmental Impacts, which allows...

A long term goal of multimedia environmental management is to achieve sustainable ecological resources. Progress towards this goal rests on a foundation of science-based methods and data integrated into predictive multimedia, multi-stressor open architecture modeling systems. The...

A case of superior vena cava obstruction due to carcinoma of unknown origin is reported. A superior vena cava bypass with polytetrafluoroethylene was performed by suturing the prosthesis to the left innominate vein and the right atrium, respectively. Long-term satisfactory results were achieved.Images

Space technology is a new and rapidly expanding science. As the United States develops this technology to make more extensive use of space for communications, navigation, materials, and energy processing, it will become increasingly important to protect o...

Jun 16, 2011... strategies to vegetation cover levels in the absence of weed control. ... ranging from two consecutive years of weed control on a silt-loam soil ...

Against the backdrop of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a changing strategic environment in the broader Middle East, political leaders now are confronting the difficult question of how to achieve long-term stability. The toppling of the Taliban-led gover...

The Soviets have long understood the prerequisites for achieving combat success at the operational and tactical levels of war. Among these prerequisites is the necessity for conducting efficient, rapid maneuver. Long-term Soviet belief in the utility of o...

Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) are a well studied paradigm for programming autonomous robots, where the robot sequentially chooses actions to achieve long term goals efficiently. Unfortunately, for real world robots and other simi...

The technique of space processing for chalcogenide glass was developed. The process and equipment are described. Successful long term levitation of objects in a l-g environment was achieved. Glass beads 4 mm diameter were containerless melted and fused to...

A long term goal of multimedia environmental management is to achieve sustainable ecological resources. Progress towards this goal rests on a foundation of science-based methods and data integrated into predictive multimedia, multi-stressor open architecture modeling systems. The...

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Federal involvement in renewable energy R and D focuses on long-term needs to achieve national policy goals. Industry tends to focus on short-term rather than long-term activities and is generally reluctant to invest in projects that do not produce tangib...

The 1996 Amendments to the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act focused increased attention on the importance of habitat protection to achieving sustainable fisheries. Congress stated in the Act, one of the greatest long-term threats t...

The long term objective of this project was to understand the processes responsible for the formation and evolution of the oceanic crust. In order to achieve this goal, we initially focused our efforts on understanding the relationship between the physica...

The major thrust of the Advanced Research and Development Subprogram is to achieve technical feasibility for various advanced material technologies through long term, high risk, and potentially high payoff research and development. Two approaches are bein...

... progress toward achieving long-term goals. The Environmental Chemistry Research Program of the USGS Columbia Environmental Research ... Performance Improvement is fundamental to the CERC Environmental Che...

This report provides a program evaluation of the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund (PCSRF) at the programs six year mark. The purpose of the evaluation is to examine the extent to which PCSRF is on track to achieve its long term outcome of ensuring the...

pilot programs to secure water for the environment through savings achieved with water conservation and community outreach about water conservation as a mechanism to provide water for the environment. Both of inefficient water use on degrading the natural environment. Long term support for a Conserve to Enhance

Forward deployment of Navy aircraft carrier battle groups is a primary means for the United States to achieve overseas interests. The Navy maintains the forward presence of aircraft carriers in three major Areas of Responsibility (AORs): the Mediterranean...

A long term goal of multimedia environmental management is to achieve sustainable ecological resources. Progress towards this goal rests on a foundation of science-based methods and data integrated into predictive multimedia, multi-stressor open architecture modeling systems. The...

The report examines the site-specific impacts of the Channeling Demonstration in an effort to determine whether any one site or group of sites was more successful than others in achieving the objectives of the demonstration. Overall, the core case managem...

Long term closed chest partial and total cardiopulmonary bypass by peripheral cannulation for severe right and/or left ventricular failure is achieved by the use of a percutaneous coil positioned in the pulmonary artery across the pulmonary artery valve t...

In this note, the authors present an outsider's view on the mathematical description of long term biological evolution as driven by natural selection. It is an outlook to the future, more than an account of what has been achieved so far.

This report examines the environmental behavior and fate of nonradioactive hazardous chemicals, methods for assessing environmental impacts, and alternatives for achieving land decontamination and cleanup. Nonradioactive hazardous chemicals can be reactiv...

... patterns observed in nature (Loreau et al. 2001). Scaling up from small plots in single ecosystems. One of the difficulties in achieving this reconciliation and extrapolating results from small, control...

This report examines the various sources of radiological land contamination; its extent; its impacts on man, agriculture, and the environment; countermeasures for mitigating exposures; radiological standards; alternatives for achieving land decontaminatio...

The flow and transport model of Shoal is used to design a three-well monitoring network to be part of the long-term monitoring network for the site and achieve two objectives: (1) detect the presence of radionuclides in case they migrate to the monitoring...

In November 1989, after receiving a General Accounting Office (GAO) report highlighting excess unoccupied bed space in military corrections facilities, the Secretary of Defense directed the army to lead the Services in developing recommendations to achiev...

Improved parabolic trough concentrating collectors will result from better design, improved fabrication techniques, and the development and utilization of improved materials. The difficulty of achieving these improvements varies as does their potential fo...

Progress is reported on achieving accurate, precise and stable standards for monitoring air quality compliance for carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, nitric oxide and sulfur dioxide concentrations in earth atmosphere. (PCS)

The continuing long-term goal of the SDC Speech Understanding Research (SUR) project is to develop and implement a data management system that is controlled and operated by its users through free-form spoken English. The basic approach taken to achieve th...

Government effect-oriented environmental policy is aimed at achieving and maintaining an environmental quality which guarantees the health and well-being of people, plants and animals as well as sustainable social development (Indicative Long-term Program...

A preliminary identification of innovative industrial-materials processes that have the potential for significant energy conservation, yet require long-term research to achieve that potential is described. Potential alternative processes in eight major ma...

To control problem solving activity, a planner must resolve uncertainty about which specific long-term goals (solutions) to pursue and about which sequences of actions will best achieve those goals. A planner is described as one who abstracts the problem ...

An implantable drug-delivery device that utilizes a nanopore diffusion membrane in combination with a microporous hydration membrane for achieving long-term, zero-order release of a therapeutic compound or agent. The device comprises a housing, wherein th...

A long term goal of multimedia environmental management is to achieve sustainable ecological resources. Progress towards this goal rests on a foundation of science-based methods and data integrated into predictive multimedia, multi-stressor open architecture modeling systems. The...

The Nuclear Materials Stewardship Initiative was established in January, 2000, to accelerate the work of achieving integration and cutting long-term costs associated with the management of nuclear materials. As part of that initiative, the Department of E...

With the increasing use of graphite/epoxy composites in aircraft primary structures to achieve weight and cost savings, the long term integrity of such structures is a matter of concern. In comparison with metals, it is known that the aerospace environmen...

The effective utilization of Education in Environmental Chemistry (EEC) in addressing global and societal environmental problems requires integration between educational, technical, financial, ethical and societal considerations. An interdisciplinary approach is fundamental to efforts to achieve long-term solutions.

The goal of this project is development of a percutaneous access device (PAD) which satisfies long-term performance criteria. To achieve this goal, epidermal cell proliferation is to be controlled and the tissue-PAD seal protected from strain. Recognizing...

The goal of this project is development of a percutaneous access device (PAD) which satisfies long-term performance criteria. To achieve this goal, epidermal cell proliferation is to be controlled and the tissue-PAD seal protected from strain. Recognizing...

... strategic, science-based planning process, called Conservation by Design, which helps us identify the highest-priority places, ... the long term. In other words, Conservation by Design allows us to achiev...

The diagnosis of renal pathology in cases of systemic lupus erythmatosus (SLE) is important in terms of administering the most appropriate treatment and achieving the best long-term therapeutic results. It is for this reason that new biochemical and other...

Electrical power generation by controlled fusion may provide a partial solution to the world's long-term energy supply problem. Achievement of a fusion reaction requires the confinement of an extremely hot plasma for a time long enough to allow fuel burnu...

A long term goal of multimedia environmental management is to achieve sustainable ecological resources. Progress towards this goal rests on a foundation of science-based methods and data integrated into predictive multimedia, multi-stressor open architecture modeling systems. The...

The broad, long-term objective of this IDEA proposal is to achieve optimized image quality for DM within acceptable limits of radiation exposure by developing innovative approaches for controlling DM exposures. These approaches entail using the digital de...

Energy efficiency is a fundamental issue for outdoor sensor network systems. This paper presents the design and implementation of multi-dimensional power management strategies in VigilNet, a major recent effort to support longterm surveillance using power...

... Personal Author(s) : He, Tian ; Vicaire, Pascal ; Yan, Ting ; Cao, Qing ; Zhou, Gang ; Gu, Lin ; Luo, Liqian ; Stoleru, Radu ; Stankovic, John A ...

Look AHEAD (Action For Health in Diabetes) is a multicenter randomized clinical trial to examine the effects of a lifestyle intervention designed to achieve and maintain weight loss over the long term through decreased caloric intake and exercise. Look AHEAD is focusing on the di...

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...under SCSEP; (d) Long-term projections for job growth in industries and occupations in the State that may provide employment...SCSEP grantees and program operators to better achieve the goals of the program; this may include recommendations to the...

The long term cost and efficiency goals of the recently issued National Photovoltaics Program Five-Year Research Plan, technical goals which are based on a constant dollar electricity cost target of 6.5 cents/kWh is dsecribed. Material requirements for estimating the potential of different PV technologies to meet these goals are assessed. This assessment ...

In this report, we examine effects of the New Hope Project on childrens academic achievement and achievement motivation eight years after random assignment (five years after the program ended) by comparing program-group and control-group children. Specifi...

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: This study of chronically ill patients with schizophrenia aimed to identify patients who achieve sustained favorable long-term outcome - when the outcome incorporates severity of symptoms, level of functioning, and use of acute care services - and to identify the best baseline predictors of achieving this ...

BackgroundThis study of chronically ill patients with schizophrenia aimed to identify patients who achieve sustained favorable long-term outcome - when the outcome incorporates severity of symptoms, level of functioning, and use of acute care services - and to identify the best baseline predictors of achieving this sustained favorable ...

This report describes studies conducted at the Massachusetts General Hospital on the preservation of blood cells for later transfusion.

Evidence of long-term response to lenalidomide in heavily pretreated patients with multiple myeloma is lacking. This study sought to assess whether long-term responders exist, long-term responders' characteristics, and predictive factors of a long-term response. One hundred and four patients with multiple myeloma treated with lenalidomide and dexamethasone ...

Contents: Preface and Acknowledgments; Long Term Care: Description and Definition; The Growing Need for Long Term Care; Home and Community-Based Long Term Care Services; The Recipients of Long Term Care; The Providers of ...

It is recommended that the emphasis of biomaterials research and development for the future should be to achieve improved reliability. Use of increasing numbers of implants per year coupled with decreasing long term (greater than 5 years) success rates are resulting in progressively larger numbers of reparative implant operations. This ...

This paper centers on the expansion from elite to mass higher education in China and its effects on China's economic development. These effects are twofold, including both the immediate influence of expanded enrollment in higher education on China's economy, and the human capital accumulation for the long term. The paper first provides a description of key ...