Sentences with phrase «funding agency review»

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The SEC's review comes after the agency put together a dedicated group earlier this year to examine private equity and hedge funds that had to register with it as part of the 2010 Dodd - Frank financial reform law, Reuters first reported in April.

Professor Poole is one of a six - member committee appointed to review collaboration between Australia's public universities and publicly funded research agencies, as part of the Federal Government's higher education reform package.

«Many of those funds are now given out in a way where we do not have the review we would normally have with an agency or a grant,» he said.

The Budget Director may require the head of each administrative unit or any officer or employee thereof and any authorized agency requesting county funds to furnish data and information and answer inquiries pertinent to such review or investigation.

Cuomo's order requires all New York state agencies, departments, boards and commissions to immediately review all requests for state - funded or state - sponsored travel to the state of North Carolina, according to the release.

According to the audit, over a five - year period (2008 - 2013) the agency had awarded funding to six projects that DHCR's staff review had deemed «infeasible» and 13 deemed «feasible but not recommended.»

- Administering the New York State and Local Retirement System for public employees, with more than one million members, retirees and beneficiaries and more than 3,000 employers; - Acting as sole trustee of the $ 129 billion Common Retirement Fund, one of the largest institutional investors in the world; - Maintaining the State's accounting system and administering the State's $ 12.6 billion payroll; - Issuing reports on State finances; - Managing the State's assets and issuing debt; - Reviewing State contracts and payments before they are issued; - Conducting audits of State agencies and public benefit corporations; - Overseeing the fiscal affairs of local governments, including New York City; - Overseeing the Justice Court Fund and the Oil Spill Fund Acting as custodian of more than $ 9 billion in abandoned property and restoring unclaimed funds to their rightful owners;

According to the audit, over a five - and - a-half-year period ending in December 2013, the agency had awarded funding to six projects that HCR's staff review had deemed «infeasible» and 13 deemed «feasible but not recommended.»

Wildfire Funding and Environmental Reviews — Vote Passed (232 - 188, 12 Not Voting) Passage of the bill would allow for a presidential declaration of a major disaster with regard to wildfires, which would allow for the release of funding from Federal Emergency Management Agency's Disaster Relief Fund to fight major wildfires, and would modify the disaster cap under the Budget Control Act to account for expected wildfire fundingFunding and Environmental Reviews — Vote Passed (232 - 188, 12 Not Voting) Passage of the bill would allow for a presidential declaration of a major disaster with regard to wildfires, which would allow for the release of funding from Federal Emergency Management Agency's Disaster Relief Fund to fight major wildfires, and would modify the disaster cap under the Budget Control Act to account for expected wildfire fundingfunding from Federal Emergency Management Agency's Disaster Relief Fund to fight major wildfires, and would modify the disaster cap under the Budget Control Act to account for expected wildfire fundingfunding needs.

The order requires all New York State agencies, departments, boards and commissions to immediately review all requests for state funded or state sponsored travel -LSB-...]

The order requires all New York State agencies, departments, boards and commissions to immediately review all requests for state funded or state sponsored travel to the state of Mississippi, and bar any such publicly funded travel that is not essential to the enforcement of state law or public health and safety.

«Today, I direct all agencies, departments, boards and commissions to immediately review all requests for state - funded or state - sponsored travel to the State of Indiana and to bar any such publicly funded travel that is not essential to the enforcement of state law or public health and safety,» Cuomo said in a release.

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The Western New York Welcome Center received funding as part of Phase II of the Buffalo Billion and construction work got started a few months ago after the Town of Grand Island approved the state environmental quality review (SEQR) and made the state the lead agency on the project.

The agencies that handle the bulk of the state's construction work do not pay contractors for these kinds of expenses, according to interviews and a review of policies and contracts from the state Dormitory Authority, the SUNY Construction Fund, Empire State Development, the Department of Transportation and the Thruway Authority.

And to help keep established stars from hampering innovative ideas by monopolizing funding, Azoulay, Fons - Rosen and Graff Zivin propose that agencies should use double - blind peer review and cap the amounts that any single laboratory can obtain.

In «From funding agencies to scientific agency: Collective allocation of science funding as an alternative to peer review,» the researchers proposed a funding model that they claim would be simpler, cheaper, and fairer than the traditional funding system, and more amenable to high - risk research and chance discovery.

He said that the agency was forming a committee to perform a thorough review and to recommend how the NSF can best invest its limited funds to further critical research areas.

Responding to recommendations made in 2011 by an international review panel, the agency launched a three - pronged reform effort that revamped its funding streams, the way researchers submitted proposals, and the way proposals are reviewed.

This is an open scheme in which national funding agencies, on a voluntary basis, come together to support a priority topic through a joint Call and Programme specification and a single international peer - review process, but with the grants being implemented at the national level.

It also notes that funding agencies and institutional review boards evaluate all animal research, only approving what they consider necessary and humane studies.

However, when I was offered my first academic clinical position with a mandate to obtain «peer - reviewed external funding from agencies such as the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) within a 3 - year span,» it was soon evident that, despite my solid training, I had a lot to learn if I was to be able to be seen as a competent scientist and be able to survive the tough peer - reviewed grant process.

Using this approach, I have been able to secure peer - reviewed external research funding from agencies such as the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and CIHR.

Mark Ferguson, director general of the funding agency Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), says the projects were first reviewed for scientific excellence by a panel of leading international researchers.

Farajidavar secured priceless advice about grant funding practices from his PI, who had served on review panels for several national agencies.

She suggested that the directorate follow the example of other science agencies like the National Science Foundation in giving out grants, and «that funds be awarded on a competitive basis based on scientific peer review except in cases when that is clearly not feasible.»

«I agree that competition is good, and that peer - review is one means of assuring that we are selecting high quality projects,» he said, adding that at least some of DHS - funded research projects — including proposals funded through the agency's Centers of Excellence at universities — were indeed selected using peer - review.

► Later, at ScienceInsider, Jocelyn Kaiser reported that «[o] pen - access advocates are heralding a Senate panel's approval [that day] of» the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act, which «would require U.S. science agencies to make the peer - reviewed research papers they fund freely available to the public.

NSF has been looking for another body to take over the running of the iconic facility ever since a 2006 review suggested the agency ramp down its funding to free up money for newer projects.

For example, many funding agencies don't rely on scores alone to award all grants; they have program managers who review the scores and use them as one, albeit important, guide to picking winners.

These issues are very much on the minds of policymakers and funding agency administrators... so much so that an explicit and measurable focus on training — scientific and soft skills — may well become a review criterion at NIH in the near future, even for pure research grants.

Responding to recommendations made in 2011 by an international review panel led by Elias Zerhouni, the former head of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the agency launched a three - pronged reform effort that revamped its funding streams, the way researchers submitted proposals, and the way proposals are reviewed.

Many funding agencies encourage you to call the review officer / program manager / grants officer to discuss your reviews.

Last week, a coalition of universities and professional societies warned legislators working on the defense bill that «a mandatory increase in the SBIR - STTR allocation across federal agencies will result in funding cuts for investigator initiated, peer - reviewed grants that are the cornerstone of the nation's research enterprise.

Science lobbyists and House Democrats have complained sharply about proposed changes to NSF's peer - review process and a 40 % reduction in authorized funding levels for the agency's social science research programs in the bill.

But the agency will appoint a new external committee to review the role of statistics in science and how NSF should fund statistical research, Edward Seidel, NSF's assistant director for mathematical and physical sciences, said at an advisory committee meeting.

In the coming months, the government is expected to establish an agency akin to the U.S. National Science Foundation that will distribute research funds through competitive, peer - reviewed grants.

Funding agencies, meanwhile, spend more and more time and money reviewing growing stacks of applications.

This morning, many research agencies had suspended activities because of the funding lapse, shutting down public websites, preparing to shutter laboratories, and planning to postpone grant review panels.

ScienceInsider has learned that the European Commission will announce on Thursday that it has heeded the advice of an independent review panel that recommended putting a scientist in charge of the ERC, the E.U's funding agency for basic research.

The Global Research Council (GRC), comprised of the leaders of publicly funded science agencies from about 50 nations, also released its first work product, a common set of principles that frame how funders should review and choose the most worthy research projects.

Controversial studies of animals containing human stem cells could be funded if they pass agency ethics review

They say that federal science agencies already go to great lengths to make their peer - review system transparent, to attract fresh reviewers, and to provide plenty of feedback to those whose proposals are not funded.

The Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA), which has identical versions in the House of Representatives and the Senate, would expand to other research agencies the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) 4 - year - old policy requiring investigators it funds to submit copies of their peer - reviewed manuscripts for posting in a public database.

Hold on to your application forms — starting with the NIH, the review process of different funding agencies comes under the scrutiny of Next Wave!

DOE is responding to a February 2013 memo from the White House directing federal research agencies to come up with a plan for allowing free access to taxpayer - funded, peer - reviewed manuscripts within 12 months after the paper appears in a journal.

Ethical review panels may be hesitant to approve the use of a dosage that exceeds the LOAEL, funding agencies may be hesitant to provide the funds needed for such study, and study subjects themselves may have or develop reservations that could lead to poor study compliance.

The OSR pre-award office is responsible for reviewing all research applications to government and private funding agencies to ensure that proposal - related costs are accurate and proposals comply with Sponsor and the University guidelines.

The review is a «call to awareness for patients, physicians and regulatory agencies of the risks of this kind of minimally regulated, patient - funded research,» commented Jeffrey Goldberg of Stanford University School of Medicine (CA, USA), co-author of the paper.

Other posters will explain how the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation choose which projects to fund, learn about the role of peer / merit review, and leave with a better appreciation for research that has beaten long odds to be funded by these competitive, world - class U.S. science agencies.