Bert Tolkamp said he and his colleagues were running several research programmes aimed at improving animal health and welfare.
The evaluation of the performance of steel connections at elevated temperatures has been a topic of several research programmes in the last few years.
During the last decade, several research programmes have been designed to assess the effectiveness of training workshops (TW) aiming at the improvement of HCP communication skills (CS).
In Europe, there are various research programmes into new designs.
Several recent research programmes have investigated new methods to help drivers by detecting periods of inattention.
The paper reports on an experimental research programme in which several monolithic and laminated glass configurations were exposed to a radiant heat flux to study the different phenomena that occur upon exposure to fire conditions, including the ratios of absorbed, transmitted and reflected heat flux to the incident heat flux.
This programme aims to answer several research questions and has been previously described extensively [ 4– 6].
Since the programme was launched in April 2009, several research projects, partially grouped in joint research projects, are focusing on the design and examination of improved biomass utilisation technologies.
The US national Intelligence Council lists the IoT among the six technologies that may impact US national power by 2025; in addition, the European Commission is financing several research projects on the subject within the Framework Programme; moreover, in Asia increasing research efforts are being devoted to the definition of technologies for the IoT (Iera et al. 2010).
In 1996, the Malawi National Tuberculosis Control (NTP) Programme embraced the concept of operational research and started a research programme that translated directly into several improvements in policy and practice [ 2, 3].
A research programme at the University of Arizona conducted several studies comparing the participants' own assessments of their habits with the record provided by their rubbish.
