Major Results and Research Challenges in Cotton Molecular Genetics at CIRAD(France)

CIRAD(Montpellier,France) develops research activities centered on tropical and sub-tropical agricultural systems.Among others crops,cotton is the focus of a series of research programs in different disciplines from economics to breeding.Major areas in genetics and breeding relate to(1) genetic diversity,(2) cultivar development through classical and molecular breeding,and(3)

The CAS System of New Drug Research and Its Key Results

The Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), the top national research hub for natural sciences, has always been committed itself to the national target of research and development (R&D) of new medicines. During the past several decades, a great number of R&D achievements have been attained. During the period from 1986 to 1999, for example, 135 pharmacutical projects won prizes of the CAS awards for natural sciences, inventions and S&T progress (roughly ac-

Research and perspectives on criteria for evaluation of nursing research achievements

This paper introduces concepts related to scientific research achievements, analyzes current evaluation methods with regard to nursing research achievements and their application at home and abroad, and summarizes findings from the investigation of obstacles to the application of nursing research results in China, aiming to provide reference points for the evaluation and application of nursing research results in China.

Research on Construction of the Public Technique Terrace in High-tech Result Conversion

The public technique terrace is the research organization for providing the middle experimentation and applying research for technology conversion. Firstly, the paper analyzes the important function of the public technique terrace. Secondly, some suggestions on how to build up the public technique terrace are put forward from five aspects including government, enterprise, media organization, and so on.

Using Bayesian Model to Analyze the Efficient Allocation of Research Funds

Using Bayesianmodel, we explore the efficient allocation of research funds. With the theory of standard and all-pay auctions, we obtain the applicant＇s equilibrium payout and the committee＇s expected return in a symmetric independent private value and asymmetric independent private value model. Moreover, we compare two different evaluated manners. We obtain that applicants will be more aggressive when the committee valuates by the research plans than by the research results, but both situations give the same effect to the committee in a symmetric independent private value model. However, when applicants are asymmetrical, the committee will prefer allocating research plans to research results. Finally, we analyze applicant＇s equilibrium payout when the award the winner gets is related to the applicant＇s value of research plans or results.

A Brief Introduction to a Major Project——The Physical-Chemical Processes in the Lower Atmosphere and Their Interaction with the Ecological System over the Yangtze Delta

With rapid industrialization and agricultural modernization in the past two decades, the Yangtze Delta Region in China has been one of the regions in the world most influenced by human activity. How has the economic development impacted on ecosystem, environment, agriculture and regional climate in this region ？ What are the mechanisms of the interactive processes and feedbacks？ What will be the future changes under different development scenarlos？ These are questions of critical importance to sustain the rate of social and economic development. A Major Project, The Physical-Chemical Processes in the Lower Atmosphere and Their Interaction with the Ecological System over Yangtze Delta, as one of the Ninth Five-Year Major Programs （1996-2000） funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, NSFC, just focused on those questions. Under the leadership of Prof. Zhou Xiuji, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences this project has made significant achievements and great progress in answering the above questions.