Later, as these schools organized, I supported the formation of the OpenCourseWare Consortium, and since the Consortium incorporated in 2008 I have had the privilege of serving as the organization's president.
Propelling the formation of the consortium is the need for more precise and accurate measurements, particularly as more consumers watch TV on the Internet and mobile devices.
An anaerobic, thermophilic microbial viscosity reducing consortium TERIB 90 was isolated from formation fluid of an oil reservoir located in India.
He had a shrewd eye for picking winners and was a key motivator in the formation of the consortium brought together to set up Camelot, the company that successfully bid for the first licence to operate the national lottery.
In a statement, it called the formation of the consortium "a positive move which allows us to talk to eight leading publications at the same time and see how they can best use Google products for mutual advantage".
I know a little bit about this because in January I was invited to a meeting at the A.P.'s headquarters with about two dozen other publishers, most of them from the print world, to discuss the formation of the consortium.
The essential need to understand the neurobiology and impact of adolescent drinking on adulthood resulted in the formation of a consortium called NADIA, funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, which addresses the contribution of adolescent alcohol abuse to adult psychopathology.
A promise for better elucidating the genetics of lithium response has been created by the formation of the Consortium on Lithium Genetics (ConLiGen) to establish the largest sample, to date, for the GWAS of lithium response in bipolar disorder.
What emerged from the meeting was the formation of a consortium of laboratories dedicated to providing the research community with gene knockouts (i.e. deletions or KOs) upon request [reviewed in Moerman and Barstead (2008)].
