The agency is debating new rules for assessing global disease outbreaks.
A20 SCIENCE TIMES F1-8 Move to Alter Climate Panel The Bush administration is said to be planning not to reappoint Dr. Robert T. Watson to lead an international panel assessing global warming.
From their lofty perches, first at Spain's central bank and then as the I.M.F.'s top executives assessing global banking risk, José Viñals and Jaime Caruana were well positioned to sound alarms about the looming bank debacle.
Stephen Katona, a former president of the College of the Atlantic, oversees the index, which combines two projects once independently assessing global ocean health and was seeded through contributions from several individual and corporate donors.
After a year of urging from energy industry lobbyists, the Bush administration is seeking the ouster of an American scientist who for nearly six years has directed an international panel of hundreds of experts assessing global warming, several government officials have said.
reuters Spanish Officials Downplayed Concerns About Banks | The New York Times reports: "From their lofty perches, first at Spain's central bank and then as the I.M.F.'s top executives assessing global banking risk, José Viñals and Jaime Caruana were well positioned to sound alarms about the looming bank debacle.
More so than assessing global cycles.
It thus represents a major advantage in terms of detail for assessing global material flows.
Cancer stage at diagnosis is crucial for assessing global efforts to increase awareness of childhood cancer and improve outcomes.
Echocardiography with speckle tracking is a novel, angle-independent technique for assessing global and regional cardiac function.
CO2 evasion from freshwaters is recently included in assessing global carbon budgets, while large uncertainty of global estimates results from incomplete spatial coverage of aquatic carbon emission.
