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Researcher uses transect line over finger coral or hump coral (Porites compressa) and lobe coral / pohaku puna (Porites lobata) at Lisianski Island in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. Photo by: James Watt/NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, 2002
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Soybean research at the MU Fisher Delta Research Center. Facilities involve cold storage for seeds and germplasm, studies involve students sorting out seeds and using high-tech equipment to find high oleic soybean varieties.
Photo by Kyle Spradley | © 2014 - Curators of the University of Missouri
Trent Haggard, Fisher Delta Research Center Superintendent, speaks at the morning breakfast.
The 52nd Annual Fisher Delta Research Center Field Day was held on August 29, 2013 in Portageville. The morning kicked off with a breakfast at Rone Hall and proceeded with educational tours around the research center.
Images by Kyle Spradley | © MU College of Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources
Rice hay, straws, panicles, grains and husk are a must and staple in decorating the houses in Lucban, Quezon during the Pahiyas festival. (photo by Chris Quintana/IRRI)
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Actinoptychus senarius is a single-celled organism belonging to a group of algae known as diatoms. Diatoms are unique among phytoplankton in having a glasslike exterior made of silica. This centric (circular) diatom usually has six pie-like sections on one side of the cell. This species is found worldwide in cold to warm coastal marine environments. Actinoptychus senarius may be pelagic (free-swimming in open water) or firmly attached to rocks, plants or even animals. Actinoptychus senarius is nontoxic, and there have been no reports of illness or other harmful effects from this species in Florida waters.
Knox College students in a course in research methods use various techniques to discover what's inside a series of boxes.
ICD / ITKE Research pavillon 2011
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Emily Holm '16 presents Children and Change: Engaging Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Youth in Interfaith Dialogue. Faculty sponsor: Todd Green. May 6, 2016.
Historical Survey 1858-1966, Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate, pages 10 & 15.
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Emily Holm '16 presents Children and Change: Engaging Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Youth in Interfaith Dialogue. Faculty sponsor: Todd Green. May 6, 2016.
Thayer Professors Tillman Gerngross and Charles Hutchinson developed a yeast-based protein expression and optimization technology to produce and commercialize therapeutic proteins. Their company, GlycoFi, is now part of Merck.
March 03, 2020 - NREL researchers Robynne Murray and David Barnes laying up a turbine blade in a blade mold at the CoMET at Flatirons Campus. The work is part of the Verdant Power Project being done at Flatirons campus. (Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL)
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Soybean research at the MU Fisher Delta Research Center. Facilities involve cold storage for seeds and germplasm, studies involve students sorting out seeds and using high-tech equipment to find high oleic soybean varieties.
Photo by Kyle Spradley | © 2014 - Curators of the University of Missouri
Photograph from the collection of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema RA, Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham.
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Leptocylindrus is a single-celled organism belonging to a group of algae called diatoms. Diatoms are unique among phytoplankton in having a glasslike exterior made of silica. These thin, cylindrical cells usually form chains. These diatoms are commonly seen in coastal waters all over the world. Occasionally a high concentration of Leptocylindrus results in discoloration of seawater to yellowish brown. This genus is nontoxic, and no adverse effects from a bloom of these cells have been reported in Florida’s waters.
Researcher demonstrates cassava production new techniques to farmers in the field to improve their productivities. (file name: CA_547)
In order to make sure we didn't fuck up our very first batch of home brew, I did copious research online. It was pretty intimidating, but truth be told, the whole process was much easier than they made it seem
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About this photo: Senate Research Ethics Committee (1989): Associate Professor Tim Roberts, Ms Jo Bently, Associate Professor Richard Barry, Dr Don Monro, Dean Graham Lawrence, Associate Professor Roger Smith, Ms Marilyn Rowley, Mr Peter Farley (Secretary), Ms Carol Abela and Professor Cliff Hooker. Absent; Ms Margaret Gibberd.
This photo appeared in the Bulletin, Number 20, November 20 to December 4, 1989. The text was:
"Committee focuses on research ethics
Professor Cliff Hooker describes the Senate Research Ethics Committee as ‘one of the quiet committees of the University’ – quietly working behind the scenes to ensure the University fulfils its responsibilities. Professor Hooker is Chair of the SREC and what follows is an article on the committee’s work, written by him
The primary function of the Senate Research Ethics Committee is to ensure that all research proposals by University staff and students satisfy community ethical standards.
Roughly speaking, SREC tries to ensure to two things:
•That participants in Research (especially patients, clients and student of medical practitioners) have their integrity and autonomy as a person respected and protected, and
•That any physical harm or risks to them from research activities are both minimised and clearly outweighed by the benefits of that research (benefits which either come to themselves directly or to the community at large).
All formal research proposals conducted by University staff and students are provided with an ethics application form which is completed at the same time as the research proposal is drawn up. All of the ethics application forms, together with copies of the original research proposal, are then bought before SREC and discussed in detail.
The Committee has to come to a clear understanding of what is involved for both participants and researchers in a particular piece of research and to decide if everyone’s best interest’s have been carefully taken into account.
Often the committee will seek to come to an agreement with the researcher to alter the proposed research so as to improve the care with which it treats the people involved. In these cases it is typically not because the researcher had been careless, but because it is often beyond any one person’s ability to see all the ways in which people are affected by the research activity, especially ways which lie outside of the research focus itself. The non-research, community members of SREC play an especially valuable role here.
Typical concerns
Here are some typical concerns that arise in SREC discussions.
Researcher A will be asking for volunteers from a hospital outpatient clinic to conduct a drug trial. Is there a clear statement of the nature of this testing which sets out fully and clearly the possible side effects and their likely severity?
Researcher B wishes to do some blood testing with similarly selected volunteers. Is there the voluntary consent form which can be handed to the volunteers and on which they may record in writing their voluntary consent to participate? Ensuring well-informed voluntary consent is a primary way in which the integrity and autonomy of people is respected.
Researcher C wishes to conduct some skills testing in primary schools so as to better understand how children learn in social group, but there is some danger from the way the procedures are proposed that some children may be labelled ad ‘dumb’ or poor learners, by either teachers or their fellow students. In this case SREC will be keen to ensure that research procedures are not discriminatory in this way as well as, e.g. not being discriminatory on religious, racial, sexual or other grounds.
Researcher D wishes to take blood samples from student, accompanied by a variety of other information, for genetic research of a general statistical nature. Nonetheless, SREC will be concerned that the anonymity of the donors is fully protected, perhaps by ensuring that samples are indentified only by a number after they are take, or that all indentifying information is kept under lock and key and subsequently destroyed once the statistics have been extracted.
On the other hand, SREC will be equally concerned to ensure that sample are taken under the supervision of qualified medical personnel, that people for whom it might be not be advisable to give the blood sample are screened on (e.g. pregnant women) and that there is access to medical assistance for the rare case where that may be required. In this case SREC will be equally concern to ensure that the safety of staff taking the blood samples is protected through the use of proper procedure for handling blood.
Researcher E wants to conduct a questionnaire in private hones concerning consumer spending patterns, family income, etc, but the real focus of the research cannot be made explicit without spoiling the responses which people given.
SREV will be concerned to ensure that people are approached courteously and with care for their voluntary participation, and it will also want to ensue that any sensitive information taken is treated with proper confidentiality. But, especially in this case, it will require that all those who did agree to participate are subsequently fully informed of the aims and results of the research so as to clearly indicate by its value the worth-whileness of having participated.
All of which means a great deal of work for the SREC Committee members. During the course of any one year more than 50 major research grant applications would have been reviewed and about the same number of senior students research project would also be reviewed.
In addition to this the committee is constantly discussing the principles on which it operates and also the new documents on research ethics which regularly appear from various groups such as NH&MRC.
Committee members
The committee member is made up entirely of volunteers. About half of these are drawn from the most involved sections of the University research staff. The other half are community representatives. Your current SREC Committee is:
Ms Carol Abela, lawyer in private practice; Richard Barry, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine; Ms Jo Bentley, Lecturer, Department of Legal Studies; Ms Margaret Gibberd, businesswomen; Cliff Hooker, Professor of Philosophy (Chairperson); Graham Lawrence, Dean, Christchurch Cathedral; Dr Don Munro, Psychology; Tim Roberts, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences; Ms Maralyn Rowley, Nurse and Patient Advocate and Roger Smith, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine.
Besides their responsibilities to individual researchers, the Committee maintains a fruitful liaison with the Hunter Area Research and Ethics Committee, based at Royal Newcastle Hospital, and participates in the national network of institutional ethics committees which seeks to improve the quality and consistency of ethical decision making in research.
The SREC’s responsibilities continue to widen. Most recently, for example, NH&MRC have been pressing ethics committees to monitor on-going research to ensure that ethical standards continue to be met.
And there is and ever-widening range of University activities for which SREC is expected to offer ethically-informed guidance.
And the ethical responsibilities go on growing more complex as community expectations and legal involvement rise. For both the small committee of ‘quiet volunteers’ and the University which supports them, the future will present some very interesting challenges!"
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