Sentences with phrase «first research act»

(But it's not all bad news; the money that used to be earmarked for nominating conventions now goes toward the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act, which helps fund research into pediatric cancer and disease.)

Two windfalls — the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act and the end of the huge National Children's Study — left NIH with an extra $ 150 million and a mandate to spend it on pediatric research.

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Origin has hired Yu Pan, a co-founder of PayPal and the first employee at YouTube, to act as its Research and Development Engineer.

In May 2005, during the Senate hearing, she shared that it was her third time to appear before a Senate: the first was in May 1978 at the US Senate before the Sub-committee on Health and Scientific Research of the US Committee on Human Resources and the second was in 1989 at the Philippine Senate hearing that was a prelude to the enactment of The Rooming - in and Breastfeeding Act Republic Act 7600.

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In one of her first acts as Regents chancellor, Betty Rosa announced the creation of a research workgroup, marking a new era of healing as the board seeks conciliation.

Even so, the increase for nondefense discretionary spending — a category that covers just about every research agency including NIH, NASA, and the National Science Foundation — is the largest since the original caps were first put in place in 2011 through the Budget Control Act.

«We hope that this research on dental calculus from the Norris Farms site acts as the first step toward future paleogenomic investigations of prehistoric North American remains in a respectful and non-destructive way that interests and benefits both descendent communities and anthropologists,» said Andrew Ozga, OU doctoral graduate, and currently postdoctoral candidate at Arizona State University.

• On Thursday at ScienceInsider, Mervis described a markup session by the research panel of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the notorious H.R. 4186, aka the Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science, and Technology (FIRresearch panel of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the notorious H.R. 4186, aka the Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science, and Technology (FIRResearch, Science, and Technology (FIRST) Act.

► For weeks in this space, we have chronicled (via ScienceInsider) the fate of the Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science, and Technology Act (FIRST) Act in the U.S. House of Representatives.

In this announcement, the agency says that it is «posting the first batch of annual reports of research institutions and inspection reports» resulting from a «comprehensive review» that began with the complete removal of previously public documents that are generated by the agency as it enforces the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) and the Horse Protection Act.

On Tuesday, Mervis ran the numbers, concluding that «it takes some unorthodox arithmetic to square the claims by the chair of the House of Representatives science committee with the actual numbers in his Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science, and Technology Act (FIRST) Act.»

He gained research experience at the UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and also acted as a project manager and system engineer on the first UA student team charged with building a miniaturized satellite for space research.

Whiting hopes his research findings serve to inform the public that the alligator was here first, and we should act accordingly by preserving the animal's wild populations and its environment.

But Arvizu says that none of the specific language in the bill, dubbed the FIRST (Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science, and Technology) Act, was even discussed.

«The findings challenge the conventional wisdom about how and where in the brain the processing of visual orientation information first occurs,» commented Michael A. Steinmetz, acting director of the Division of Extramural Research at the National Eye Institute, which provided funding for the study.

The first article in this two - part series described how even Albert Einstein — acting like a typically uncommunicative scientist — exasperated his wife, Elsa, by ducking her requests for a layman's explanation of his research.

McCain voted in favor of the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act and in the first Republican presidential debate he reiterated his support for federal funding.

But that bill, called the Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science, and Technology (FIRST) Act, contains several other elements that have enraged most scientists.

The amendment was one of just a few passed yesterday evening as the House science committee deliberated over the Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science, and Technology (FIRST) Act, a controversial bill that would reauthorize the National Science Foundation (NSF) and several other science agencies.

Playing flawless defense, Representative Lamar Smith (R — TX) and the committee's Republican majority rejected all 13 Democratic amendments to the Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science, and Technology Act (FIRST) Act, which covers programs at NSF and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

The Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science, and Technology (FIRST) Act has already met with a lot of opposition from university groups and Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

«The microfluidic cell cultures reproduced functions of the airway tissues such as mucus secretion and acted as a barrier to molecules,» said Katelyn Sellgren, Ph.D., a postdoctoral research scientist at RTI and first author of the paper.

Cabrera Times «A first step has been taken to lift the ban on therapeutic cloning in Canberra research laboratories after the ACT Government tabled legislation this week.»

Okyanos» purpose - built stem cell therapy surgical center was the first to become licensed under the Bahamas Stem Cell Therapy and Research Act.

Colorado First District Representative Diana DeGette has re-introduced her Stem Cell Research Advancement Act.

Our research found that colors can act as a warning sign or attracting beacon on a first date.

Therefore you owe it to yourself to spot scams on the act by being extra cautions, having a set of healthy relationship standards, and doing your research first before plunging in.

Please only act on any tips below if you've fully researched them first.

If you're a mum or dad, Please only act on any tips below if you've fully researched them first.

The first extended «action» seen in the film (and also in the American trailer, above) tracks ACT UP as they splatter blood around a drug company they think is slow - rolling anti-HIV research.

As a new presidential administration nears the close of its first year in office and educators across the country grapple with the challenges and opportunities in implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act, the nation's educational performance earns a grade of C from Quality Counts 2018, the 22nd annual report card issued by the Education Week Research Center.

This post, co - authored by Vivian Tseng and Anu Malipatil, is the first in our eight - part blog series on using research evidence under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

Kris Perry, executive director of the First Five Years Fund says that ESSA represents a historic gain for early childhood education, «a moment in troubled times when a Congress came together and acted on overwhelming research from experts, demand from voters, and actions taken by state and local leaders across the country to support the development of children from birth to age 5.»

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), a major rewrite of the much - maligned No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), is the first federal education law to define the term «evidence - based» and to distinguish between activities with «strong,» «moderate,» and «promising» support based on the strength of existing research.

The National Reading Panel (NRP) study in 2000 identified the specific components necessary to teach reading, and the subsequent passage in 2001of the No Child Left Behind Act and its accompanying Reading First initiative mandated that schools be accountable for providing scientific, research - based reading programs (with financial block grants to states that adopt such curriculum).

Please only act on any tips below if you've fully researched them first.

The first exhibition in the new space highlights key issues within this theme and act as a starting point for the research undertaken during the residencies.

The first exhibition in this new space will highlight key issues within the theme of food politics and act as a starting point for research undertaken during selected artists» residencies.

The proposed Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science, and Technology (FIRST) Act, which is the House Republicans alternative to the America Competes Act, is producing a strong reaction from the science community.

Despite the utility of the National Assessment, the Administration, most aggressively from the second half of 2002 onward, acted to essentially bury the National Assessment, i.e., by suppressing discussion of it by participating agencies for purposes of research planning by the Climate Change Science Program; suppressing references to it in published program documents including annual program reports to Congress; withdrawing support from the coordinated process of scientist - stakeholder interaction and assessment that had been initiated by the first National Assessment; and making clear that no second National Assessment would be undertaken.

• With the benefit of 20 years of experience since the development of the original Global Change Research Act and 10 years since the first National Assessment of Climate Change Impacts was carried out, the Senate should update and strengthen the requirements for climate change impacts assessments.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), signed into law by US Democrats in response to the international financial meltdown of 2008, offered the biggest boost for renewables since President Carter first funded solar research in the»70s.

At first glance, it might appear paradoxical that the tobacco industry would sponsor laws ostensibly designed to ensure transparency of research, such as the Data Access Act of 1998.

First, some background: The USGCRP was created as a presidential initiative in the late 1980s and codified by Congress in the Global Change Research Act of 1990.

On February 11th, Center for Regulatory Effectiveness requested that the United States Global Change Research Program and the Office of Science and Technology withdraw the First National Assessment on Global Climate Change because it violates the objectivity, utility and reproducibility requirements of the Data Quality Act and OMB's guidelines implementing the Act.

The bill, titled S. 1397, the «Electronic Device Recycling Research and Development Act,» would push for dealing with e-waste through not only better disposal methods, but also having designers consider end - of - life product design in the first place.

Much of the blame for this can, of course, be attributed to lax regulations; in the U.S., the first (and last) major wave of national legislation addressing ocean and coastal conservation was enacted in the 1970s, with the enactment of the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act (MPRSA) and Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA), amongst others.In recent years, we've seen coastal states taking the initiative in forming regional partnerships aimed at protecting and promoting their dwindling oceanic and coastal resources.

This research shows that they are a first port of call for many businesses, but a number of these consultants do not have any professional qualifications and may employ the goal of eliminating all risk from the workplace rather than setting a proportionate approach to dealing with the Health and Safety at Work Act and other legal requirements.

The first step in creation of this document / ebook / research tool / reference source was to download a Word version of the Act.