He's twice won the nonfiction Pulitzer Prize and is the leading authority on the study of ants.
The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand, and oral approval was granted after a detailed presentation of the research proposal within the management of Impact Foundation Bangladesh, the authority of the study hospital, before conducting the study.
But after analysing previously unpublished animal track records and aerial surveys from Belarusian authorities and scientists, the authors of the study, which was published in the journal Current Biology, found no long-term impact to population numbers from the radiation released by the accident.
Staff at the SANIVAT office at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, local partners at Centre for Preventive Medicine of Lao Cai, authorities of the two study communes and assistants Ms. Trương Thị Phương Nhi and Ms. Nguyễn Hoàng Hạnh Quyên, are all gratefully acknowledged for their support and work.
Our interviewees noted the relative success of some senior research clinicians in recruiting patients into studies either because of their authority, knowledge of the study, or communication skills.
The American Muslim community has been the single largest source of tips that have brought terror suspects to the attention of authorities, the study found.
After consultation with the authorities, formal approval of the study by the Ethics Committee of Hannover Medical School was not necessary because no patient data was collected and no experiments were performed on human beings.
2. Permission was obtained from the authorities of the hospitals where the study was conducted.
The recent outbreak of Q fever in The Netherlands warned European health authorities of the need of studying Coxiella burnetii.
