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After 12 years of research, hog-waste disposal still reeks | Dr. Mike Williams, CALS Animal & Poultry Waste Management Center, comments on promising new technologies

After 12 years of research, hog-waste disposal still reeks | Dr. Mike Williams, CALS Animal & Poultry Waste Management Center, comments on promising new technologies | Research from the NC Agricultural Research Service | Scoop.it
Much has changed in the 15 years since state officials first got serious about finding a cleaner way to treat the waste from North Carolina’s 9 million-plus hogs. But much hasn’t.

 

But Dr. Williams, who is closely involved in the regulatory process, states that a new waste treatment system "seems to meet nearly every criterion to be named an official 'Environmentally Superior Technology' under the 2000 [Smithfield, NC] agreement"; and while the method may need tests for ammonia removal capacity, the technique is promising.

 

 

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New Treatments, Your Health and Statistics

New Treatments, Your Health and Statistics | Research from the NC Agricultural Research Service | Scoop.it
Statisticians and statistics are even more fundamental in this era of personalized medicine, as sponsors seek to target treatment to patients most likely to benefit and develop "adaptive" study designs to identify these patients sooner.
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Think statistics has nothing to do with you? CALS Statistician, Dr. Marie Davidian, President of the American Statistical Association explains in her Huffington Post blog how stat is used in drug discovery, clinical trials, and pharmaceutical development. Read "New Treatments, Your Health, and Statistics."  |  http://tinyurl.com/cp96men

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Statistician links medicine, genetics in lecture at Elon | The Pendulum

Statistician links medicine, genetics in lecture at Elon | The Pendulum | Research from the NC Agricultural Research Service | Scoop.it
Marie Davidian, a statistics professor at North Carolina State University, connected the seemingly unrelated topics of statistics and the Human Genome Project by explaining their role in determining the best ...
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Not Your Average Statistician

Not Your Average Statistician | Research from the NC Agricultural Research Service | Scoop.it
Media coverage of the big data revolution has lots of people talking about statistics. Leading the discussion is NC State's Marie Davidian, who speaks softly but reaches a big audience.
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