Search Results for: Research

BY MONICA DOBIE
RESEARCHERS monitoring the health of Walkerton, Ontario, residents in the wake of the May 2000 E-coli drinking water disaster, have discovered new medical problems that can be traced to the contamination. Findings from the second year of a seven-year health study have showed increased incidence of kidney problems producing abnormally high volumes of urine containing protein, suggesting structural damage to kidneys.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL accord providing for joint-research projects on transport air pollution has been struck by the European Union (EU), the United States, Japan and China. Aimed at creating a global system to measure such emissions, the deal will provide for joint vehicle testing and should lead to the next generation of European emission standards for passenger cars and light vans.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union project promoting research into medical crises, including possible bio-terrorist attacks and new diseases such as SARS, has gained the support of the European Commission. The HESCULAEP project (a particularly tortuous acronym for “health emergency national regional programmes for an improved co-ordination in pre-hospital setting”) is being funded by the EU’s research Sixth Framework Programme.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and PHILIP FINE

MILLIONS of fish die annually at the hands of ageing power station water outfalls, when new technology could save many of their lives, marine biologists say.

Dr Peter Henderson, of Britain’s Pisces Conservation Ltd, says whiting, sprat, cod, pout, rockling, stickleback, pipefish, sea-trout and salmon are among the species at risk; seals have died too, although not for many years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CALL has been made to energy researchers across the European Union (EU) to submit informal proposals for grants from the EU Sixth Framework Programme on research, as part of a de facto review of the Euro 16.2 billion scheme.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded project has developed a technical system to search and retrieve the increasing amount of information held in digital moving image video, still photograph or audio archives. Its coordinators say that the project will be very useful for museums and research institutes who store such material.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BINDING energy conservation targets have been proposed for European Union (EU) Member States by the European Commission, a move that could further tighten fuel economy rules for Europe’s transport sector. Brussels has proposed a general energy saving target of one per cent a year from 2006-12, measured against average energy distribution from the previous five years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CALL has been made to nuclear energy researchers to submit informal proposals for grants from the European Union (EU) Sixth Framework Programme on research. The European Commission wants ‘expressions of interest’ regarding future formal applications for EU funding.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to approve a research programme stretching over the next three year at the EU’s joint research centre high flux reactor, at Petten, in the Netherlands. Funded largely by the Dutch government, the Euro 30.6 million series of projects includes studies on improving reactor safety, the development of medical isotopes, fusion, waste management and developing nuclear fuel helping to eliminate weapon grade plutonium, plus basic research and training work.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to approve a negotiated agreement that would allow Swiss researchers to take part in Euratom funded nuclear studies, via the EU’s sixth framework programme for research. The move would amend an existing EU-Switzerland scientific and technology agreement and was negotiated this September by the European Commission and the Swiss government.…