The effort is extensive, including a commercial, magazine advertisements, coupon inserts in newspapers, content on the Balance Bar Web site, online banner ads, ads in stores, a public relations initiative, sampling programs and a presence in social media like Facebook and Twitter.
The sampling loop was designed using NeSSI (New Sampling/Sensor Initiative) sampling blocks that provide a simplified flow path past the ballprobe.
This paper proposes an initiative of sample capsule retrieval and onboard biosafety protocol in international waters for future biological and organic constituent missions to bring samples from possible habitable bodies in the solar system.
In the frame of the German Biodiversity Exploratories, initiative soil samples were collected from 9 forest and 9 grassland plots of the German Biodiversity Exploratory Schwäbische Alb.
In order to obtain more direct measurements of the impact of the One Million Initiative, a sample was drawn of 80 communities from 9 of the 18 districts covered by the Initiative.
In the future, sampling in logging concessions and projects (e.g. conservation initiatives) could be integrated with the NFI method that the REDD+ country would adopt.
I have no idea how successful the overall promotion was -- the Uber initiative, the pedicab sampling program that ran in other select cities using the @Lays Twitter handle, or the sampling via Amazon's #amazon cart program.
"There's a nuclear-power side that's very quick to be dismissive and say, 'Don't worry your pretty little heads, you're not in harm's way,' " Ken Buesseler, a marine-chemistry researcher at Woods Hole and the organizer of the sampling initiative, told me.
Currently, the initiative is selling sample packs of 15 seeds for $25 each, but the plan is eventually to link to individual partner breeders through the site, so customers can buy directly, Kloppenburg said.
Last week, in my home state of Delaware, our hospitals announced that they've become the 3rd in the nation to 'Ban the Bags.' This initiative removes the samples of formula provided free of charge in gift bags that are given to new moms and baby when they are discharged from the hospital.
In addition, we gratefully acknowledge the TCGA Consortium and all its members for the TCGA Project initiative, for providing samples, tissues, data processing and making data and results available.
