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Changing petroleum engineering education to meet industry demand

Department of Petroleum Engineering

The Department of Petroleum Engineering at Curtin University had its inception in 1998. For the last 10 years,it lectured the Masters in petroleum engineering course to local Australian and international students, graduatingmore than 200 students. The rapid increase in the price of oil during...

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The economics of biosafety: implications for biotechnology in developing countries

Biostrategy Associates

risks of biotechnology products and "accident" costs to the society; increased predictability for a research organization of … research and development activities. Developing countries should balance these potential benefits with the tangible costs of … increase the research lag, production costs, transaction costs and marketing costs. Given the scarcity of human and physical …

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Biotechnology, Biosafety and Impact Assessment: Field Trials of Transgenic Crops in Developing Countries

Biostrategy Associates

The deliberate release of transgenic crops is often taken to be an indicator of agricultural biotechnology development. However, less than 10% of the field trials world wide have been carried out in Developing Countries (DCs) and it seems that more than 80% of these were carried out by...

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