Sentences with phrase «agency use of science»

ACC appreciates this opportunity to provide testimony on Federal Agency use of science in the rulemaking process, and particularly on proposals for improving transparency and accountability.

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The partner agencies on this project — Washington State Department of Agriculture, Washington State Department of Health, the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Washington State University School of Food Science — came together to develop «SAFE Salad Bars in Schools - A Guide for School Food Service» in order to consolidate messages and present clear guidance to school district staff and decision makers, using state - level knowledge and expertise and consulting national sources.

► The secret to the success of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which «is supposed to make sure the U.S. military holds a technological edge over its enemies» and «has earned a reputation for using out - of - the - box thinking,» «is its cadre of program managers,» Mervis wrote in a feature in this week's issue of Science.

The mission of CFS is to provide excellent laboratory services in support of the administration of justice and public safety for the citizens of Ontario by: 1) providing scientific examinations and interpretations in cases involving injury or death in unusual circumstances, and in crimes against persons or property; 2) presenting independent objective expert testimony to courts in Ontario; 3) conducting research; and 4) presenting educational programs on forensic science for agencies using forensic science services.

In science news around the world, Brazil begins work on a new year - round Antarctic station to replace a facility destroyed by fire 4 years ago, China plans a big boost to its investment in science as part of its latest 5 - year plan, the Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to nix a conditionally approved pesticide after further study, the American Statistical Association weighs in on the proper use of p - values, and more.

As part of ensuring the public could trust and access the science produced at federal agencies, the Obama administration directed each of the 24 federal agencies that use or produce science to create a scientific integrity policy.

The Secret Science Reform Act would also require the EPA use only studies for which data is publicly available online — or the agency makes publicly available — in the name of transparency.

Researchers from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A * STAR) Bioprocessing Technology Institute and the National University of Singapore have developed an algorithm and miRNAdetection technology that is much more sensitive than those currently in use.

My next goal is to obtain promising data that I can use to secure long - term funding from a government agency such as the National Science Foundation or the National Institutes of Health.

They will also use seismic and electromagnetic methods to determine the existence of a giant magma buildup, and in collaboration with the Japan Agency for Marine - Earth Science and Technology will carry out a large - scale underground survey, attempting to capture high - resolution visualizations of the magma system within the Earth's crust (at a depth of approximately 30 km).

The bills, introduced by a mostly Republican cast of sponsors in both the House and the Senate, would require that EPA use only publicly available, reproducible data in writing regulations and seek to remake the membership and procedures of the agency's science advisory panels.

An international consortium of scientists that was recently assembled to review the science on BPA for the German UmweltBundesAmt (that country's equivalent of the Environmental Protection Agency) determined that the research FDA used in its safety assessment was flawed because it failed to consider the chemical's effects on behavior and prostate development, according to a copy of the group's conclusions provided to ScientificAmerican.com.

The U.S. House of Representatives could vote as early as this week to approve two controversial, Republican - backed bills that would change how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) uses science and scientific advice to inform its policies.

And while much of the public is aware that the National Science Foundation (NSF) backs a lot of great and useful research, the agency knows that much of it could use more publicity.

The agency hopes that a large sample of data will provide the science needed to both rule out health and environmental hazards and help establish guidelines to ensure the safe use and handling of chemicals infused with nanosize particles.

Government agencies in the United Kingdom do a poor job of keeping tabs on the research they fund to set policies, according to a report released this week by Sense About Science, a London - based group that advocates for the use of scientific evidence in policymaking.

Instead, the agency will work with the Department of Energy (DOE) to create a repository for NSF - funded papers by using an existing DOE system called PAGES (Public Access Gateway for Energy and Science).

The agency will use this value «until an improved estimate of the impacts of climate change in the U.S. can be developed based on the best available science and economics,» an EPA spokesperson said in an email.

On March 9, Republicans on the House of Representatives» Science, Space and Technology Committee approved bills that would bar scientists with current EPA grants from serving on agency advisory committees and require that all scientific data used to justify new regulations be made public.

Government agencies in the United Kingdom do a poor job of keeping tabs on research they fund to set policies, according to a report released today by Sense About Science, a London - based group that advocates for the use of scientific evidence in policymaking.

The budget would not support a separate mission to land on Europa, and also encourages the agency to support initiatives to explore the use of smaller, less expensive satellites for its science.

That's the conclusion of a new study by a team of University of Notre Dame researchers led by Joannes Westerink, chair of the department of civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences and co-developer of the authoritative computer model for storm surge used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the state of Louisiana to determine water levels due to hurricane surge and to design levee heights and alignments.

(Sec. 4004) Requires the NSF Director to establish a clearinghouse, in collaboration with four - year institutions of higher education, industries, and federal agencies that employ science - trained personnel, to share program elements used in successful professional science master's degree programs and other advanced degree programs related to science, mathematics, technology, and engineering.

The first, between the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and Canada's National Research Council (NRC), states that both agencies will use their best efforts to obtain the necessary funding for construction and operation of ALMA.

Furthermore, her research on evaluating oversight through a multi-criteria analytical approach indicates that the US system has strengths in its use of natural science data, but is weak in transparency in operation, inclusivity of a broad range of stakeholders and perspectives, and capacity of regulatory agencies to dealing with changing environments and technologies.

There are two primary groups within the federal government working collaboratively to advance the use of these tools, namely the Federal Community of Practice on Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science (CCS) and the Agency Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing Coordinators.

Since 1972, the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), Australia's tropical marine science agency, has been committed to the protection and sustainable use of Australia's marine... ReScience (AIMS), Australia's tropical marine science agency, has been committed to the protection and sustainable use of Australia's marine... Rescience agency, has been committed to the protection and sustainable use of Australia's marine... Read more

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CPD sources and associations • The National Centre for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics (www.ncetm.org.uk) • T3 — teachers teaching teachers to provide professional development for the appropriate use of educational technology in the teaching and learning of mathematics and science (www.tcubed.org.uk) • The Training and Development Agency CPD database (www.cpdsearch.tda.gov.uk).

Specifically, the agency will build capacity both in computer science and open instructional materials, the OSDE encourages schools and districts creating and curating instructional materials to make use of the exciting #GoOpen campaign, of which Oklahoma is a partner state.

Criss gave a preview of his paper, published later in the Journal of Earth Science, arguing that the statistical methods used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to define flood risk are outdated.

He has recently decided that the National Science Foundation — a globally respected agency of scientific research and investigation — should no longer use peer review to fund grants.

But contrary to the Journal's claim that the EPA disavowed that finding because the agency had been «barraged by plaintiff attorneys and Hollywood celebrities,» it was actually changed after the EPA's scientific advisory board, which evaluates the agency's «use of science,» pointed out that the draft conclusion wasn't supported elsewhere in the report:

The construction of datasets like those used in climate science is a complex process, and Karl failed to follow his agency's established procedures for documentation and quality control, which had been instituted due to past problems with data quality.

Dr. Goklany's exposure of the WHO's politicized science fraud come quickly on the heels of another WHO scandal in which the UN agency is being accused by African doctors of using tetanus vaccines in Kenya that are a disguise for population control.

White House and Climate Change Science Program officials have never offered an honest public explanation of why the terms of that dismissal would have legally required (as distinct from an unofficial, secret political agreement) that the White House and the federal agencies suppress a taxpayer - funded, scientifically based assessment sponsored by the federal global change research program, even for purposes of using it as a scientific document or in program planning for research and future assessments.

The vast majority of hard - science research scientists are now coming to the belief that the climate models used by the UN's IPCC and major climate agencies are seriously in error, based on this latest research and empirical evidence.

The IQA is intended to ensure the quality, integrity, credibility and reliability of any science used by federal agencies to justify regulatory actions.

It could use the processes of discovery and cross-examination to expose plenty of examples of lying about climate science on the part of politicians and government agencies.

Title XIV: Miscellaneous - Subtitle A: General Provisions -(Sec. 1401) Expresses the sense of Congress that federal agencies assessing risks to human health and the environment from energy technology, production, transport, transmission, distribution, storage, use, or conservation activities shall: (1) use sound and objective scientific practices in assessing such risks; (2) consider the best available science (including peer reviewed studies); and (3) describe the weight of the scientific evidence concerning such risks.

Congress created the EPA Science Advisory Board, or SAB, in 1978 to «review the quality and relevance of the scientific and technical information being used by the EPA or proposed as the basis for Agency regulations.»

Vitter, a leading critic of the EPA's machinations — often justified using what he calls «secret science» — said the latest scandal was typical of the agency and its operations.

Agencies that participated in the use of science as a tool of government propaganda will probably have to be closed down before leaders will get serious about addressing the problem.

By ending the use of «secret science,» Pruitt is taking a major step towards making Agency science conform to the scientific method, the basis of all science.

The R / V Marcus G. Langseth, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation for use by universities, research institutes and government agencies across the nation, will generate CAT - scan - like 3D images of magma chambers, faults and other structures miles below the world's seabeds.

The Bush administration has essentially buried this study by refusing to discuss it and has directed federal climate science program leaders in the agencies to refrain from any substantive reference to or use of the National Assessment in public statements, reports to Congress, and research planning.

But before we do anything else, Neufeld says, we need to make sure that many of these forensic disciplines, developed by law enforcement agencies for use in law enforcement, are grounded in science.

Under a three - year, $ 700,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, faculty from two UMass research centers, the Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution and the Electronic Enterprise Institute, will work with the National Mediaton Board, an independent federal agency that works to help resolve labor relations disputes in the railroad and airline industries, to investigate the use of technology and ODR to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the process.

These, of course, include chairs, vice-chairs and members of judicial tribunals (or, to use the more common terminology, adjudicative tribunals); chairs and members of regulatory agencies; members of the bureaucracy; politicians; lawyers, paralegals, and community legal workers with experience in acting for users of the system; academics in the fields of both law and political science; students in either of those fields; and, of course, individuals and business that have experienced the system as «parties» before particular tribunals, or who can anticipate that role in the future.

SciReg Lab teaches students about the use of emerging science and technology in the regulatory agencies and courts through the drafting and submission of comments to federal rule - makings and amicus briefs.