Interacademy Programs Between the United States and Eastern Europe 1967-2009 The Changing Landscape (2009) / Chapter Skim
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scholars and specialists of policy developments in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The new program encouraged visits to little-known facilities and to areas of social or economic importance within the region and provided support for investigations leading to joint publications with colleagues from the region.
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This flotilla also included a research vessel that provided a laboratory base for sampling and observing representative portions of all three branches of the Danube River. The Romanian scientists, with participation by the Americans, collected water and soil samples for nutrient analysis, zooplankton measurements, and benthic invertebrate enumeration.
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In the Czech Republic the visits focused on health impacts of coal mining, heavy manufacturing industries, lead smelting, and related ground water pollution that entered the food chain. In Slovakia the group visited a cellulose plant and paper mill that discharged heavily contaminated effluents, and the Americans toured a controversial hydropower station that raised issues about the effectiveness of water management schemes.
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SCIENTIFIC TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR YOUNG INVESTIGATORS During the late 1990s, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) began drawing on the capabilities of the NRC to support training programs for young scientists (both Ph.D.
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The 20 students came from 11 countries and had an average age of 33. Sixteen senior researchers from Europe and the United States presented lectures on the fundamentals of DNA microarray analysis and proteomics.
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REGIONAL MEETINGS IN EASTERN EUROPE Dozens of international scientific meetings are held each year in the region. The European Union, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, the European Academy of Sciences, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are among the organizations that regularly support regionally oriented meetings on a variety of policy-oriented and research-oriented topics.
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Zagreb: Croatian Ministry of Science and Technology and United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.
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