... AreaPlanted985520-25% GLOBAL STATUSOFCOMMERCIALIZED BIOTECH/GM CROPS: 2004 Global Statusof Biotech Crops in 2004• 2004 is the penultimate year of the first decade of the commercialization of genetically ... biotech crops on a global basis.• Another way to provide a global perspective of the adoption of biotech crops is to express the global adoption rates for the four principal biotech crops as ... biotechin 2004, up from 25% in 2003. Thus, close to 30% of the aggregate area of the four crops, PREVIEW: GlobalStatusofCommercialized Biotech/GM Crops: 20047INDIA Biotech CottonCropCottonNationalHectarage‘000...
... because professorsare highly educated. Still, incomeinequality is a matter of concern inhigher education, especially insofaras it decreases faculty members’recognition of their shared profes-sional ... faculty, the av-erage salaries of full professors rose more than the pay of facultyin other ranks, but all ranks saw real increases of more than 1percent.The lower half of the table presents figures ... Cheryl Hill of Hampden-Sydney College for theirassistance in obtaining other dataused to prepare this report. Currentmembers of the AAUP’s Committeeon the Economic Statusof theProfession also...
... understanding of the role of coastal seas in global nutrients and carbon cycles, and the impact of eutro-phication on local, regional and global scales. It was designed to develop globally applicable ... DPSI(W)R2Projects of the land-based sources of pollution portfolio cover a wide spectrum of issues ranging from analysis of the present state of the coastal and near-shore environ-ment to the response of ... to reduce impacts of land-based sources of pollution; and to increase public awareness and understanding of the effects of land-based sources of pollution on water quality of the coastal ecosystems.2.2...
... overview of the current state of the industry has shown, the mindsets of consumer goods CEOs are converging on a common understanding of the importance of sustainability, as long-term drivers of ... of sustainability principles to their companies, an awareness of both the societal and business value of more sustainable operations and products, and a strong sense of what the next era of ... amongst CEOs of large multinationals in the sector.This is one of the most significant findings of a new study from the United Nations Global Compact and Accenture, “A New Era of Sustainability.”...
... Government Printing Office. Available at www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/p60-239 .pdf. U.S. Federal Reserve Board. 2011. “Flow of Funds Accounts of the United States, Second Quarter 2011. ” Z.1 Release ... OCTOBER 2011 35FIGURE A6Incidence of Mutul Fund Ownership Increses with Household IncomePercentage of U.S. households within each income group* owning mutual funds, 1994 2011 Incidence of mutual ... OCTOBER 2011 23FIGURE 21Mutul Fund Owners’ Dily Use of the InternetPercentge of mutul fund–owning households with Internet ccess, 2011 Household had Internet accessFrequency of use1Never...
... of women’s reproductive healthA global review of the literature22Mental health aspects of women’s reproductive healthet al., 1994), but there is consistent evidence that certain modes of ... characterized by high levels of con-trol and low levels of care were at increased risk of postpartum depression. However, fear of in-timidation and actual experience of abuse were not ascertained. ... Professor, School of Psychology, University of Victoria, AustraliaMeena Cabral de Mello, Scientist, Department of Child and adolescent Health and Development, WHOJane Fisher, Associate Professor,...
... extent telomere shortening,initially considered to be an essential marker of Fig. 2. Schematic of mechanism of action of the telomeric quadruplex ligand BRACO-19.G-quadruplexes as cancer drug ... be aDNA damage signal, producing responses analogousto those of other mediators of telomere damage [12].The biological function of induced telomeric quadru-plexes remains to be fully clarified; ... there is no direct evidence of a role for telo-meric G-quadruplexes in the functioning of telomeresin normal human cells.Telomerase is overexpressed in 80–85% of cancercells and primary...
... www.cwoutcomes.acf.hhs.gov/data/downloads/pdfs/florida .pdf 40 Widom, C., & Maxfield, M. 2001. An update on the “Cycle of Violence.” Research Brief. Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, ... www.nwlc.org /pdf/ StateChildCareAssistancePoliciesReport08 .pdf 25 See reference #14 26 See reference #14 27 Matthews, H. (2006). Child care assistance helps families work: A review of the effects of ... percentages of children at various levels of “readiness.” 20.9 21 20.8 19.6 18.7 0 20 40 60 80 100 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Percentage Children of mothers with fewer than 12 years of...
... financial well off are associated profile of the respondents; b) level of family support towith health statusof elderly people. All these process elderly people and c) health statusof elderly ... support and health statusof elderly people. Also 4. Liu, X., J. Liang. and S. Gu, 1995. Flows of Socialthe calculated value of Kendall’s tau-b statistical test is Support and Health Status among ... Health status of elderly people in rural area of Gujrat. Status in a National Sample of Elderly Israelis, Soc.CONCLUSION 6. Ren, X.S., K. Skinner and A. Lee, 1999. SocialThe situation of the elderly...
... (2006)Creation of the status of State ResearchCenter(1993)Creation of the status of Federal Researchand ProductionCenter (1995)Creation of the status of Science City(”Naukograd”) (2000)Creation of ... EconomicDevelopmentMinistry of TradeMinistry of Communicationsand InformatizationMinistry of CommunicationsMinistry of Defence(In charge of coordination of civilan R&D budget)Creation of the Ministry of Science, ... innovativefirms emerge, often as spin-offs of public research.But innovation remainslow on the agenda of most large, oftenstate-owned enterprises.FDI and R&D centres of multinationalcorporations...
... research systemsNAS National Academy of SciencesNEPA National Environmental Policy ActNGO nongovernmental organizationOSS Office of Special StudiesOSTP Office of Science and Technology PolicyPPA ... precursor of vitamin A. The benefits of the current va-rieties of GM crops include yield increase, reduced agricultural inputssuch as pesticides and fertilizers, reduced vulnerability to the whims of ... precondition for the emergence and development of agriculture (Boserup, 1965).xxvi The Future of Genetically Modified Crops • Robert L. Paarlberg, Professor of Political Science, WellesleyCollege•...
... that is truly global both geographically and in its coverage of the impact of work on the health of indi-viduals, families, and societies—has not been drawn.The relative paucity of attention ... impact of working conditions on thehealth of families, societies, and the global community is evident from an examina-tion of published research on occupational health and a review of what ... country of ori-gin—who cares about the quality and dignity of life of all people.Boston J.H.x AcknowledgmentsThis page intentionally left blank 6 IntroductionCurrent Context of Rapid Globalization:...
... aspects of children’s health.Structure of the ReportAmerica’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2011 presents a set of key indicators that measure important aspects of children’s ... standard of living context. Multiple measures of family income or consumption, some of which might incorporate estimates of various family assets, could produce more reliable estimates of changes ... proportion of the total U.S. population. In 2010, children made up 24 percent of the population, down from a peak of 36 percent at the end of the “baby boom” (1964). Children’s share of the population...