More recently, the psychologist Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia, began an effort, informally known as the Reproducibility Project, to replicate research findings, a high percentage of which he has estimated may not hold up.
These are embryonic stages to what is perhaps humankind's most ambitious scientific and engineering project: to replicate the Sun here on Earth.
A two-year project to replicate the Zone in Jacksonville, Fla. saw its largest private donor, the Chartrand Foundation, back out when it appeared that the program would be run by government officials and lack the Zone's accountability.
Aside from Russia's somewhat grandiose "Skolkovo" project to replicate a Silicon Valley-style startup campus just outside of Moscow, entrepreneurs who have preferred to stay outside any governmental overtures have resolutely stuck to the city, just as Startups in the Bay Area, post 2001, gravitated towards San Fransisco.
A breakthrough came during a project to replicate the snail farm.
In 2008, the Canadian federal government allocated Can$110 million to the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) for the implementation of a four-year research pilot project to replicate and adapt the Housing First program (2009 2013).
The overall aim of this project is to replicate, expand, and improve upon findings from Project Ice Storm to increase understanding of the mechanisms responsible for the effects of maternal exposure to varying levels of hardship imposed by a severe, independent stressor: a natural disaster.
Eventually the Champion Tree Project hopes to replicate enough exemplary trees for a nationwide reforestation project.
We present the data from a crowdsourced project seeking to replicate findings in independent laboratories before (rather than after) they are published.
Victor Restrepo, chairman of ISSF's scientific advisory committee, said the broader project aims to replicate what has already been achieved in some other fisheries by combining expertise held by fishermen with scientific findings.
