Sentences with phrase «research agency when»

That sounds like a hefty increase for a domestic research agency when the economy is in a slump, a war against Iraq looms, and the budget deficit is growing.

He was one of the first journalists to expose the Internet Research Agency when he went undercover and got a job there in 2013.

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.»

Market research agency BrainJuicer carried out consumer tests of 84 Lumber's Super Bowl TV ad when it was first revealed earlier this month.

The internet was created in response to the launch of Sputnik in 1957, when the United States established the Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) to combat the USSR with technology like computers.

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.

But when I called Burchik, he denied working at the Internet Research Agency.

When I was Research Director at the Riga Graduate School of Law, I visited the government agency in charge of property assessments, and asked how they got the 1 percent.

«We believe it is entirely possible that there will be a connection there,» Zuckerberg said when asked if there was overlap between Cambridge Analytica's harvested user data and the political propaganda pushed by the Kremlin - linked Internet Research Agency during the 2016 presidential election, which Facebook has said was seen by some 126 million people.

We were delighted last year when the Philippine Farmers» Advisory Board, a group composed of national and regional farmers» organizations that provides input on agriculture matters to government agencies, issued a statement of support for our Golden Rice research as well, after our dialogue with their leadership.

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.

What: Project to make antenatal services more father - friendly Agencies: St Michael's Fellowship / University of Bristol / Fathers Direct When: Research funded from 2003 - 05 by DH / DfES Where: Tulse Hill, south London

The North Korean nuclear scientists were allowed to engage in their research in Russia until early 2015 when Pyongyang stopped paying an annual membership fee to the Russian government, Japanese news agency Jiji Press reported Monday.

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

«Steep funding cuts for the federal health agencies are counterproductive at a time when innovative research is moving us closer to identifying solutions for rare diseases, new prevention strategies to protect Americans from deadly and costly conditions, advances in gene therapy, new technologies for understanding the brain, and treatments that harness the ability of our immune system to fight cancer.»

But last week, things got much worse for many of them when Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) President Emilio Lora - Tamayo warned that the agency was facing an impending «cataclysm» due to deep financial trouble.

Things started to change when, in 2005, the newly created French National Research Agency introduced short term, competitive research funding, in line with most other coResearch Agency introduced short term, competitive research funding, in line with most other coresearch funding, in line with most other countries.

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.

When we passed the America COMPETES Act, we bolstered basic funding at the Department of Energy's Office of Science, and we created ARPA - E, an innovative program, modeled after the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, to encourage the pursuit of high - risk, high - reward renewable, clean energy technology development.

So when he got to Georgia Tech and heard the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA, wanted better tech for knee injuries, he thought: [knee - cracking recording] Why not strap tiny microphones to people's knees, to eavesdrop as their legs bend?

Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources and Environment research published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE shows that private landowners trust conservation agencies more and have better views of program outcomes when they accompany conservation biologists who are monitoring habitat management on their land.

When the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency asked him to take a look at traumatic brain injury, he surveyed the literature and found a «hole.»

Earlier this year, after what Morena calls «3 years of carrying on a project that almost nobody within the Spanish funding agencies believed in,» the gamble paid off when he received an award of $ 1 million from the European Research Council in a highly competitive research fundiResearch Council in a highly competitive research fundiresearch funding call.

«That debate was at full boil last week, when the U.S. House of Representatives passed the America COMPETES Act, which sets policy for NSF and two other federal research agencies, and the House Appropriations Committee adopted a 2016 spending bill that includes NSF,» Mervis wrote.

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 technology, part of an 18 - month, $ 2.4 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) undertaking, relies on electroencephalography (EEG) to detect the cascade of neural firing patterns in your brain when you spot something novel or interesting, even if you're unaware of it.

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

When she inquired recently about grant opportunities at one large agency that funds educational research, she was told, «We are interested in reading but not the brain.»

However, when we look across the agency, the data also reveal meaningful differences in patent productivity and downstream economic impact between various areas of NIH - funded research.»

With several groups showing interest in the technology — including NASA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and companies that produce unmanned aerial vehicles — Cadogan might be aiming too low when he says the sky is the limit for these wings.

The agency's last research project on primates began in the early 1970s, when NASA and the US air force studied the effect of radiation on cataract formation in rhesus monkeys.

Since the 1940s, when the U.S. government began to invest seriously in civilian research, the work has been done largely at the nation's universities and paid for through competitive, temporary grants awarded to individual professors by federal funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

Federal research agencies were greeted with varying degrees of fanfare when they finally fired up their Twitter accounts again today.

Schaal's interest in agricultural species was spurred when Rob Bertram, a staff member at the U.S. Agency for International Development, asked if her research on plant DNA sequences could help trace the origin of cassava, a starchy root crop that is a large source of food carbohydrates in the tropics.

It's a small but important silver lining in a year when even NSF's best friends in Congress have turned their backs on the Obama Administration's request for a 13 % increase for the basic research agency as part of the political consensus on reducing the federal deficit.

When it is finished, the portal will provide information and links to other information sources, like ministries, state boards and agencies, universities, and research institutes.

The controversy erupted when Centers for Disease Control scientists published research in The Journal of the American Medical Association based on numbers collected by the agency's National Center for Health Statistics.

«You are more likely to see EVs as a second car for many Americans when they are cheaper,» noted Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander in February at the third summit of the Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy, a government agency that is working on better battAgency — Energy, a government agency that is working on better battagency that is working on better batteries.

Clinton made the prohibition explicit in December 1994, when he forbade the agency from funding the creation of human embryos for research.

It wouldn't make sense — for the agency or the researcher — not to pursue a promising area of discovery when research indicates it.

In this way, we seek to avoid the two - sided performer - user pitfall that we have observed in earlier and related federal agency endeavors to promote research / knowledge utilization: on the one hand, requiring or inducing academic grantees to torque or overstate their research findings in order to connect to immediate policy issues; on the other hand, creating unrealistic or premature expectations on the part of users that early stage fundamental research will be directly relevant to their immediate needs, leading them to be disappointed or disenchanted when well conceived and implemented academic studies fail to produce such information.

One of the key issues in an uproar over grantmaking that has roiled Texas's $ 3 billion cancer research fund receded yesterday when the agency's board approved $ 39 million in research grants that it had set aside earlier this year.

Agency confusion over when research reports should be published has resulted in what the group calls «ghost research» that is «unsearchable in the national archives and exists only in the memories of officials.»

When Congress first added the language in 1996, lawmakers also cut the CDC's budget by $ 2.6 million — the exact amount the agency had spent the year before on such research.

«I know for a fact that the agency will lose half its collaborators when it moves,» says pharmacologist Adam Cohen, who heads the Centre for Human Drug Research in Leiden, the Netherlands.

«This analysis comes at a time when following the transfer of scientific knowledge into industry and the economy is a growing priority for governments and research funding agencies, said David Swinbanks, founder of the Nature Index.

Alarm bells started ringing in 2001, when the first comprehensive research on climate impacts for the park was done by the South African National Biodiversity Agency.

The moratorium was imposed at a time when NIH had no grants out for this type of research, which provided an opportunity for the agency to take stock of scientific and ethical considerations, Wolinetz said.

Brown's research focuses on a user's sense of self, identity and agency when they use devices like DBS or BCIs, and ethical considerations related to experimental testing of neural devices.

Although Dow has been credited for financing the green chemistry center at a time when state funding of research was being cut back, Wilson says the California Environmental Protection Agency provided «foundational funding» for the center.