Sentences with phrase «research council reports»

The Family Research Council reports that regardless of income, nationality, race, age, sex and education, married individuals enjoy better health than their unmarried peers.

The Insurance Research Council reports that, as of 2007, 18 % of Californians were uninsured.

We reported on the release at the National Academy of Sciences of a set of three new National Research Council reports, part of the larger America's Climate Choices study requested by Congress.

See for example these National Research Council reports: «Natural Climate Variability on Decade - to - Century Timescales (NAP, 1995)» and «Decade - to - Century - Scale Climate Variability and Change (NAP, 1998).

The new law now «presumes that dog owners know that all dogs can bite (regardless of breed), preserves the dog owner's ability to present evidence in their dog's defense, and holds dog owners strictly liable for injuries inflicted while a dog is running at large,» the National Canine Research Council reports.

The Insurance Research Council reports that, as of 2007, 18 % of Californians were uninsured.

The National Research Council report («A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society») reminded me of Jerry because his life seemed to refute one of the book's principle claims: that the «culture of poverty» has little or nothing to do with persistently high rates of black poverty.

A crucial National Research Council report issued in 2009 noted that most forensic disciplines have not been subjected to rigorous scientific study, arising as they have from crime labs, not academia.

«The National Research Council report offers helpful advice about the appropriate size of our astronaut corps as we enter this exciting new era of space exploration and crew transport operations,» said Mike Curie, a NASA spokesman at the space agency's Washington headquarters.

In 1984, the US National Research Council reported that rates of ozone loss were less than anticipated — fractions of 1 per cent.

Despite leading the world in pioneering anti-smoking laws, cancer screening and controlling high blood pressure, the US trails its richer «peer» countries in almost all other measures of health and longevity, says a US National Research Council report published last week.

Such a situation, Matloff writes, quoting a National Research Council report, «is consistent with actions taken by employers motivated by the reduction of labor costs.

The Golden Spike announcement came just a day after a National Research Council report concluded that NASA lacked direction and in fact had a mission statement so «generic» it could apply to any government research agency.

This event will provide an overview of the recent National Research Council report, «Successful K - 12 STEM Education,» as well as give examples of innovative research - based tools for engineering education funded by the National Science Foundation's Directorate for Education and Human Resources.

Lawyer Philip Cooney, a CEQ chief of staff and a 15 - year veteran of the American Petroleum Institute, spent the first term of the administration editing science reports from various agencies on climate change to downplay the role of greenhouse gas emissions — emphasizing elements of uncertainty from a 2001 National Research Council report on climate change, according to an investigation by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

«There is not any information on what is the environmentally relevant level of dispersants,» says toxicologist Carys L. Mitchelmore of the University of Maryland, who helped to write a 2005 National Research Council report on dispersants.

A crucial National Research Council report issued in 2009 noted that most forensic disciplines have not been subjected to rigorous scientific study.

According to a recent National Research Council report, the discovery of subglacial lakes «opened an entirely new area of science in a short period of time.»

No one knows how many innocent people have been convicted based on junk forensic science, but the National Research Council report recommends substantial funding increases to enable labs to conduct experiments to improve the validity and reliability of the many forensic subfields.

But a 2001 National Research Council report says biologists already have difficulty detecting microbes in soil samples from Earth, so detecting something we've never encountered before strains the imagination.

FANS of James Bond know that biometric systems can be fooled to gain access to secure areas: now a US National Research Council report commissioned by the CIA, DARPA and the Department of Homeland Security confirms it.

A paper published today in Nature explains why past predictions of extinction rates — for example, a 1980 US National Research Council report predicting losses of millions of species by the year 2000 — have not been realized.

In fact, a 2009 National Research Council report on forensic science eviscerated all other identification techniques, from fingerprinting to bite mark analysis, holding DNA as uniquely capable of reliably distinguishing between any two people on Earth.

In fact, according to the 2000 National Research Council report, Addressing the Nation's Changing Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists, Ph.D. scientists were named as PIs on more clinical grants funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality than M.D.s or M.D. / Ph.D. s in fiscal year 1997 in the United States.

Last year, a National Research Council report recommended the development of alternatives to animal research.

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.

Perhaps Shermer should go back and look at Scientific American's own coverage of fluoride [see «Second Thoughts about Fluoride,» by Dan Fagin; January 2008] or, better still, read the science in the 2006 National Research Council report «Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA's Standards.»

You won't, however, see that 150,000 figure in the main body of the Washington, D.C. — based National Research Council report on near - Earth object (NEO) surveys and mitigation strategies.

This is precisely the opposite of what was recommended by the National Research Council report and the NCFS.

«It's no secret that mercury exposure is highly toxic,» says toxicologist Alan Stern, a contributor to a 2000 National Research Council report on mercury toxicity.

The 2000 National Research Council report concluded that the risk documented by Grandjean «is likely to be sufficient to result in an increase in the number of children who have to struggle to keep up in school.»

The 2000 research council report evaluated the Faeroe, Seychelles, and New Zealand studies and recommended that the EPA set safety standards based on Grandjean's more sobering findings.

The U.S. National Research Council report, Bridges to Independence, discusses how postdocs can prepare to move beyond the training phase.

According to a National Research Council Report (See «Severe Space Weather Events — Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts: A Workshop Report» [2008]-RRB-, damages from the most extreme solar storms could range between $ 1 trillion - $ 2 trillion within the first year and four to 10 years for full recovery.

[Response: Check out the transient vs. equilibrium climate discussion in our National Research Council report, «Climate Stabilization Targets» (free from the NAS web site.

Mike Wallace's talk was about the «National Research Council Report on the «Hockey Stick Controversy»... The charge to the committee, was «to summarize current information on the temperature records for the past millennium, describe the main areas of uncertainty and how significant they are, describe the principal methodologies used and any problems with these approaches, and explain how central is the debate over the paleoclimate record within the overall state of knowledge on global climate change.»

While some topics remain in controversy, I note that neither the National Research Council Report nor the Wegman Report in 2006 identified any errors in our work; that the Wegman Report, in particular, strongly endorsed our work and that Gerald North, the Chairman of the National Research Council report, when asked, stated that he agreed with the conclusions of the Wegman Report.

This National Research Council report identifies the need for stronger STEM education in U.S. schools, citing national assessment data that indicate students are underperforming in math and science.

WASHINGTON — The federal government's scientific and regulatory policies are «seriously deficient» in protecting infants and children from the potentially harmful health effects of pesticides in their diets, according to a National Research Council report.

Fact - checking analysis of recent National Research Council report shows that seemingly modest gains are significant

He should instead examine the extensive 2006 National Research Council report on «Systems for State Science Assessment» or the excellent assessment section in the draft «National Educational Technology Plan 2010,» from the U.S. Department of Education, which describes multiple ways of making alternative assessments practical.

A story in the May 26, 2004, issue of Education Week («NRC Urges Multiple Studies for Math Curricula») furnished an incorrect Web address for accessing a National Research Council report on the effectiveness of mathematics curricula.

But the test's scores shouldn't be the determining factor in a college application if they are used properly in the admissions process, according to a National Research Council report issued last week.

In light of claims made about both the purpose and results of the National Research Council report, it is important to clarify its main findings and recommendations.

The National Research Council report is the first in a series of mandatory reports under the law that allowed then - Mayor Adrian Fenty to take control of the city's public schools and unilaterally appoint Rhee as chancellor.

NEW YORK — Education policies pushing more tests haven't necessarily led to more learning, according to a new National Research Council report.

A new National Research Council report, commissioned by the Center for Veterinary Medicine of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), concluded that current regulations addressing animal dietary supplements are in «disarray.»

In reporting their findings, the researchers made clear that the breeds of dogs said to be involved in human fatalities had varied over time, pointing out that the period 1975 - 1980 showed a different distribution of breeds than the later years.8 Subsequently, Karen Delise of the National Canine Research Council reported that, in the decade 1966 - 1975, fewer than 2 % of all dogs involved in fatal attacks in the United States were identified as of the breeds that figured prominently in the CDC study.

With all of this in mind, even amid Papalpalooza over #PopeforPlanet, it's worth drawing attention to the new National Research Council report aiming to clarify the risk, putting the onus back on Congress and the White House to figure out how to put more of the responsibility for building in harm's way on those doing the building.

Readers of your weblog should also visit my Climate Science weblog [/ / climatesci.org /], where other viewpoints are presented, including that of a 2005 National Research Council report entitled