Sentences with phrase «national findings project»

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A comprehensive 2016 study from the National Employment Law Project, however, found that the economists» fears aren't justified.

He founded his company Weedmaps, a sort of Yelp for marijuana dispensaries, in 2008, and now serves on the board of directors for the National Cannabis Industry Association, the Marijuana Policy Project and the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, which most people know as NORML and for which he also serves as treasurer.

Immigrants who avoid ICE face the possibility of exploitation by employers: A 2008 survey from the National Employment Law Project found that 51 % of all undocumented workers in New York City were underpaid by more than $ 1 per hour, and 47 % said they were required to work after sustaining an injury on the job.

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

For a $ 199 check and mouth swab sent to the National Geographic's Genographic Project you can find out if your relatives co-mingled with these extinct species of hominids.

Of course those formed in the theological vision behind the National Project may well not think the above findings of factual ignorance are particularly lamentable.

Founded in 1998 by the creators of the Academy Award - winning short film TREVOR, The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ young people (ages 13 - 24).

They find scapegoats upon whom to project our national fears (witches in the l8th century, foreigners in the l9th, communists and atheists in the 20th).

A promising place to begin is found in two sentences in a report by the Rutgers National Marriage Project: «Most Americans continue to prize and value marriage as an important life goal, and the vast majority of us will marry at least once in a lifetime....

He is a past chair of the National Organic Standards Board, a founding board member of Pennsylvania Certified Organic, the Chairman of the Board of Director of The Seed Farm, part of the Green America Non-GMO Working Group, a Project Member of The Noble Foundation's Soil Renaissance project, and a Board Member of PA FarProject Member of The Noble Foundation's Soil Renaissance project, and a Board Member of PA Farproject, and a Board Member of PA Farm Link.

He has been very involved in many aspects of domestic and international agricultural policy and practice development, organizing, food labeling, standards, certification and accreditation work over the years, including: Founding Chair of the USDA / National Organic Standards Board, A founder of Domestic Fair Trade Association, National Organic Coalition, and Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, Founding member of National Family Farm Coalition and National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, Board member of the International Organic Accreditation Service, Former NGO delegate to UN Codex / FAO / WHO Food Labeling Commission and WTO, Founding partner of Agricultural Justice Project, which has developed domestic fair trade standards for North America.

He is a past chair of the National Organic Standards Board, a founding board member of Pennsylvania Certified Organic, the Chairman of the Board of Director of The Seed Farm, part of the Green America Non-GMO Working Group, a Project Member of The Noble Foundation's Soil Renaissance project, and a Board Member of PA Farm Link and IFOAM North America, among other organizProject Member of The Noble Foundation's Soil Renaissance project, and a Board Member of PA Farm Link and IFOAM North America, among other organizproject, and a Board Member of PA Farm Link and IFOAM North America, among other organizations.

National Conference to Address New Market Realities in «Cross Industry Dialogue» By Elizabeth Hans McCrone As millennial consumption continues to drive marketplace innovation and all sectors of the alcohol beverage industry are projected to rise, wine, beer, cider and spirits segments may be finding increasing reasons to work together for their proverbial common good.

One of the key findings uncovered in our Innovate UK, a government - funded research project between OAL and the University of Lincoln at the National Centre for Food Manufacturing, showed that Steam Infusion cooking enables fat reductions of up to 20 % in dairy based sauces.

Another massive project of Allen's involves finding out where and when National Leaguers of the last century died.

Interestingly, it was after the Clean Label Project investigated pet food that consumers expressed interest in contaminants found in infant formula and baby food, perhaps a testament to our national priorities.

A recent report from the National Marriage Project, «Date Night Opportunity,» found that couples who spend time together at least once a week were 3.5 times happier in bed.

Meta - analyses of this expanded research base confirm the model's impacts on a range of risk and protective factors associated with child maltreatment.7, 8,9 In addition, all of the major home visitation models in the U.S. are currently engaged in a variety of research activities, many of which are resulting in better defined models and more rigorous attention to the key issue of participant enrolment and retention, staff training and quality assurance standards.10 For example, recent findings emerging from the initial two - year follow - up of the Early Head Start National Demonstration Project confirm the efficacy of home visitation programs with new parents.

Findings from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a rigorous Congressionally - mandated study, indicate that the program had modest but positive impacts on EHS children at age three in cognitive, language, and social - emotional development, compared to a control group.xxiii In addition, their parents scored higher than control group parents on such aspects of the home environment as parenting behavior and knowledge of infant - toddler development.

We asked Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project, to take us through the findings in the report, and respond to some of the criticism it has received:

For example, if you look at the 19th century revolutionary project in Europe, or the anti-colonial movement in the second half of the 20th century, you will find the majority of texts and pamphlets of the dozens of organizations in any country, and their principles, charters, and oaths, all locate the fight for the establishment of free republics as an international project, and not a national one.

There are already, new National Assembly Business Environment Roundtable (NASSBER) research findings projecting that our priority bills will have an output impact equivalent to an average of 6.87 per cent of GDP over a five - year period on the economy.

The CEO of cocoa board and his propagandists should find out what President Kufour wanted to do with the facility in 2002 when CRIG won the privilege of being the research wing of his government's National Cashew Development Project.

In supporting his bill, Paul said, «Hoosiers in Senate District 27 have found that cities like Indianapolis and Cincinnati have large, national businesses who often submit lower contract prices to gain the upper - hand in area projects.»

Huge sums that are supposed to fund the National Health Service are finding their way into yet more offshore tax havens, channelled through Private Finance initiative (PFI) projects.

The National Audit Office found the universal credit project had been badly managed and provided poor value.

The National Audit Office found there had been «early setbacks» and the project had been «over-ambitious» and provided poor value for money.

The Project 2061 research team presented their findings this spring at meetings of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) and the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in San Antonio, TX.

Findings from two studies conducted by researchers at AAAS's Project 2061 will be presented at the following sessions taking place during the annual meetings of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) and the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

With more than 2500 science teachers expected to attend, the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Baltimore Area Conference in October offers Project 2061 researchers a chance to showcase their latest research findings and curriculum and assessment resources.

In a project sponsored by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Carbon Monitoring System research initiative, researchers from the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI) found that global livestock methane (CH4) emissions for 2011 are 11 % higher than the estimates based on guidelines provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2006.

The 10th annual Albany Medical Center Prize — the U.S.'s biggest prize in biomedicine — will go to three scientists who conceptualized the Human Genome Project: Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health; Eric Lander, founding director of the Broad Institute at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and David Botstein, director of Princeton University's Lewis - Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics.

Other priorities include: upgrading the LHC, which shut down in February for two years to boost its energies from 7 TeV to 14 TeV; plans to build an International Linear Collider in Japan, to collide beams of electrons and positrons as a complement to the LHC's proton findings; and a major US project to exploit high - intensity neutrino beams generated at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.

To find more absorption systems, a research team including Ryo Ando (a graduate student at the University of Tokyo), Kotaro Kohno (a professor at the University of Tokyo), and Hiroshi Nagai (a project associate professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) collected the calibration data from the ALMA Data Archive.

So when the US National Genome Project started three years ago, a group of influential molecular biologists led by James Watson decided that the sensible approach would be to concentrate first on mapping the genes and finding out their functions.

A National Academies evaluation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy finds that it is neither failing nor in need of reform

And researchers at the «Seattle project», an effort funded by the National Cancer Institute to find new anticancer drugs, are mutating genes in yeast cells — such as the ATM gene or the mismatch repair genes — that often lead to cancer in humans.

A University of Illinois researcher examined the results of a multi-million dollar European Union aid project in West Africa and found that a country's national governance quality can affect the livelihoods of families who rely on resources from national parks and other protected areas.

Led by the National Center for Scientific Research «Demokritos», in Greece, the project team aims to find ways to induce and stabilise the silicon and germanium and prove for the first time that silicene has a physical existence.

The researchers found that potential colonization of species in U.S. National Parks exceeds potential extirpation in more than 60 % of parks, and if projected extirpations and colonizations were realized, the average park would have 29 % more species in winter and 6 % more species in summer.

Rationale The rationale for describing this proposal as an initial step derives from a corpus of published research on the incorporation of research findings into policymaking (e.g the 1978 National Research Council report, Knowledge and Policy: The Uncertain Connection) as well as the project directors» own professional experiences in a number of academic and professional settings about the intellectual and networking challenges of fostering substantive dialogue across analytical perspectives, including the subfield perspectives on science policy.

Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) projects would add additional value of 5 or 6 cents per kilowatt hour to utility - scale solar energy in California where 33 percent renewables will be mandated in six years, a new report by the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory has found.

As low - wage jobs continue to show strong gains since the recession, findings from the Low - Wage Workers» Health Project led by Upstate Medical University is offering insight into how these jobs affect public health and the economy in Syracuse, N.Y., and reflect national trends in issues related to low - wage workers.

When the team checked the DNA of a larger group of nearly 111,000 people, they found that about one in 200 carried one of the four APOC3 variants, reported Jacy Crosby of the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, who represented a large consortium called the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Exome Sequencing Project.

Researchers walking across Tai National Park found their likelihood of running into signs of chimpanzees declined the farther they got from the research project or from a tourist site — but their likelihood of encountering signs of poaching increased.

Funding for the DES Projects has been provided by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Ministry of Science and Education of Spain, the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom, the Higher Education Funding Council for England, ETH Zurich for Switzerland, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, the Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos, Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico and the Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the collaborating institutions in the Dark Energy Survey, which can be found at www.darkenergysurvey.org/collaboration.

UNC - Chapel Hill researcher Jessica Y. Islam, in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reported findings Wednesday at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting that the total number of HIV - positive cancer patients in the United States is projected to decrease through 2030.

UNC researcher Jessica Y. Islam, in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reported findings today at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting that the total number of HIV - positive cancer patients in the United States is projected to decrease through 2030.

In addition to the partnership of 14 institutions, BIOACID closely cooperates with other national and international research projects such as the UK Ocean Acidification Research Programme (UKOA) and the European project Mediterranean Sea Acidification in a Changing Climate (MedSeA), stakeholders such as the International Ocean Acidification Reference User Group (IOA - RUG) and the newly founded Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre (OA - ICC).

When analyzing research projects listed in the NCI Funded Research Portfolio database my team found that the combined research funding dedicated toward this initiative and other physical sciences - based cancer research only accounts for less than one percent of the annual research budget of the National Cancer Institute.