Sentences with phrase «research agency did»

If CA was able to obtain information on voters through Facebook, they would know where to specifically target propaganda to influence elections — just as Russia's Internet Research Agency did in 2016.

Not exact matches

When it comes to financing business growth, the stats are grim: «Women raise 50 % less capital than men do,» explained Geri Stengel, president and founder of digital media and market - research agency Ventureneer and a Forbes columnist whose writing focuses on successful female entrepreneurs, during a breakout session, «And, often, capital means success.»

The company, founded in 2009, has developed a large clientele of academic research institutions, space agencies, mining firms and defence departments for its signature yellow - and - black products, thanks in part to the fact that Clearpath robots don't need someone holding a remote control to operate them.

Knowing how important it was to research and quietly plant the seeds for rebranding, she didn't hire an agency right away.

While still at MIT, Vogt also programmed a Ford F - 150 to drive itself across the Nevada desert, for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Grand Challenge in 2005, though his team didn't make it past the qualifying round.

According to History.com, the «first workable prototype of the Internet came in the late 1960s with the creation of ARPANET, or the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network,» and the online world as we know it today really did not take on its form until 1990, when Tim Berners - Lee, a computer scientist, invented the World Wide Web.

Nearly 80 % of the country's population does not have access to banking services, according the international research agency, Enhancing Financial Innovation and Access.

Outsourcing agencies have done the research — they know what works.

«Most of the paid ads the Internet Research Agency ran on Facebook prior to the 2016 election didn't mention Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump — but they did mention divisive political issues like guns, LGBT rights, immigration, and racial issues,» said Sen. Mark Warner, D - Va., who along with Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D - Minn., and John McCain, R - Ariz., have sponsored the bill.

Green's volume didn't earn him embraces from many official agencies, but subsequent research by others has backed his conclusions.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

According to research performed by consumer agency Haystack, Ruby chocolate meets consumer needs in a way no chocolate has ever done before.

The Philippines is a leader in working towards ending malnutiriton with many agencies and NGOs doing important and valuable work to help, including the Department of Health, National Nutrition Council, and the Food and Nutrition Research Institute.

I just came from a 4hour workshop being put on by a Marketing agency that told a room full of people that they should «partner with bloggers» more research into the advertising agency I learned that not only was Nestle was one of their clients (I did notice this when they passed around some of Nestle's sophisticated social brochures) but they were in part (not entirely sure if it was in whole or not) behind the Nestle Family Blogger program.

If couples do not elect to freeze the extra embryos for later use, they can donate their embryos for research, for stem cells research, to another couple, to an embryo adoption agency, or simply discard them.

You would question the exhaustive research and testing done by a government agency?

If you've done your research, you know there are many surrogacy agencies out there to choose from, so why choose Circle Surrogacy?

What UK Thinks Poll of polls — a poll averaging only the six most recent polls, done by a non-partisan website What UK Thinks, run by the NatCen Social Research agency.

The state invested more than $ 12.2 million to finance the Doe Fund's development of Webster Green Apartments, including: a $ 1.2 million allocation of Low Income Housing Tax Credits and a $ 4.5 million Medicaid Redesign Team program loan through HCR; $ 6.5 million in Homeless Housing Assistance Program funds through OTDA; and a $ 159,000 New York State Energy Research and Development Agency (NYSERDA) energy efficiency grant.

The state's fact sheet does not cite the most recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency health advisory on PFOA, which came out in May after five years of research and directly connects a series of health problems to PFOA.

There is no clearly defined role of the Manhattan Borough President in terms of transportation and street safety, meaning that it could be anything from supporting non-profits with the Borough President's discretionary funding to doing research on street safety to coming out in support of Department of Transportation and other city agencies» proposals.

In fact, they often face retaliation, as he did when District and federal agencies cut his research funding and tried to discredit his research.

The research was done in collaboration with Kyoto University and funded by the European Research Council, the Japan Science and Technology Agency, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of research was done in collaboration with Kyoto University and funded by the European Research Council, the Japan Science and Technology Agency, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Research Council, the Japan Science and Technology Agency, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Critics of the reform that led to UKRI didn't see the need for a new agency and worry about a loss of independence for the research councils.

Kiran Kumar, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation in Bengaluru, India, agrees: He doesn't see space agencies setting aside rivalries and working in concert on standardized instruments.

Assuming the winner didn't capture a majority of the vote, second place would have been good enough to get Westin into a May runoff for the chance to unseat Representative John Culberson, a nine - term Republican who chairs a spending panel that shapes the budgets of several federal research agencies.

However, even though it can raise the stipends for National Research Service Awards, which are given to individual postdocs, the agency does not have complete control over the salaries of postdocs who are paid directly from their advisor's grants — that is often up to the advisor.

The research into the fate of glaciers and the permafrost soils — done by the United Nations, China's scientific agencies, and several independent scientists — is not focused on the railway.

«It seems that this budget is put together on the basis of ideology and imaginary economics rather than hard facts about... what research is productive according to the agencies where the research is funded and done,» Holt said.

Although Wellcome does not have the power of a government agency, it does wield a sword of Damocles over universities and research institutes hesitant to enforce its planned rules: the threat of making them ineligible for Wellcome grants.

But it did not include numbers for some key research agencies, such as the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The White House wants to slash nearly half the budget of EPA's Office of Research and Development, which does most of agency's science work

Republicans control both houses of Congress, but they don't speak with one voice when it comes to funding research at the National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA, and other agencies.

The Clinton administration official told E&E News that, while he doesn't know Sam Clovis — reported to be Trump's pick for undersecretary for research, education and economics — scientific knowledge is especially useful in a position that requires coordination with scientific agencies within the government.

«[S] ome federal agencies do have specific requirements on safety,» it continues, «but it is not a general practice to require proposals to contain a) identification of hazards in the proposed research, b) strategies [for] how those hazards will be mitigated, and c) information regarding how lab workers will be trained on the project hazards.»

One agency that does demand such information is the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which sponsored Preston Brown's research at Texas Tech; it instituted these requirements in the aftermath of the explosion there, as the CSB report notes.

For agencies devoted to seeking knowledge, NSF and NIH have shown strikingly little curiosity about many of the scientists doing the research they support.

A: There are few immigration - status restrictions on research grants from the major funding agencies and they do not require that you have a faculty position.

Furthermore, whereas French research groups traditionally have received national public funding mostly through their own research agency or university and through specific calls from French ministries, several national agencies have been set up to fund more research projects on a nationwide competitive basis, such as the Agence National de la Recherche (ANR) or the Institut National du Cancer.

ASTRONET — a network of European funding agencies and research organizations set up in 2005 to develop a strategy for European astronomy over the next 20 years — was almost done identifying key scientific priorities, and program officials were looking for a postdoctoral scientist to help coordinate the development of a road map to build the necessary infrastructure.

Although the Internet did not get its name until the mid-1980s, December 5, 2009, marks the 40th anniversary of the day when the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) connected four computer nodes to create a «network of networks» — a fateful link - up that would evolve into the Internet

Apple, Nokia and Research In Motion (RIM) gave Indian intelligence agencies secret access to encrypted smartphone communications as the price of doing business in the country, according to what appear to be leaked Indian government documents.

All the federal security agencies and many large companies have research arms devoted to developing cybersecurity technologies and finding more effective ways to educate users so that they don't compromise computer systems.

Pierre Touboul, a physicist at ONERA, the French aerospace research agency, thinks he can do a hundred to a thousand times better.

Another investigator, Prof. Junichi Haruyama of Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, mentioned the significance of this research, saying, «A smaller celestial body like the Moon cools faster than a larger one like the Earth does.

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) started investing in metamaterials way back in 2001, and while it doesn't like to reveal specific intentions, the agency would certainly be interested in cloaks that conceal soldiers and military equiAgency (Darpa) started investing in metamaterials way back in 2001, and while it doesn't like to reveal specific intentions, the agency would certainly be interested in cloaks that conceal soldiers and military equiagency would certainly be interested in cloaks that conceal soldiers and military equipment.

The much - anticipated 184 - page guide sets out how to do just that, suggesting that those wielding the «most power» — advisers, research institutions, and funding agencies — strive to rectify problems that fuel neglect and exploitation of postdoctoral researchers.

Tom Holder — the director of Speaking of Research, an international organization that supports the use of animals in scientific labs — says he hopes the agency doesn't bow to political or animal rights pressure.

And we haven't been able to get research support to build something entirely different, because government agencies want you to say exactly what you'll do each month of your contract.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy, or ARPA - e, is intended to invest in high risk, high reward energy research that probably wouldn't be done otResearch Projects Agency for Energy, or ARPA - e, is intended to invest in high risk, high reward energy research that probably wouldn't be done otresearch that probably wouldn't be done otherwise.