Sentences with phrase «u.s. small department»

In the U.S. small department programs collateral to ITER do exist but established researchers funded by these programs are also already committed to ideas that either represent small departures from ITER or very radical departures.

Not exact matches

Women typically own smaller businesses, according to a 2010 report from the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economics and Statistics Administration for the White House Council on Women and Girls.

Bon - Ton, which is usually the main department store in smaller U.S. markets, last year merged with another company.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has given conditional approval to 18 states to run their own Small - Business Health Options Programs (SHOPs) and to another 17 to run their own insurance exchanges for individuals.

In 2010, the Alliance became an Advanced Defense Technologies Cluster, funded in part by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and endorsed by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).

The contracts include early - stage technology R&D (such as Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), Cooperative R&D Agreements (CRADAs) and Broad Agency Announcements (BAAs); late - stage technology (such as the highly competitive Department of Defense (DoD) Rapid Innovation Fund); and commercial off - the - shelf technologies, such as one APC Member that sold its unique temperature - retention fabric to the Pepsi Corporation, after it was developed for the U.S. Army.

On April 21, 2015, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it would press criminal charges against Mr. Navinder Singh Sarao, a 36 - year - old small - time British day - trader.

The department store competitor owns a collection of smaller shops, including Home Goods and Marshalls, that have an even bigger footprint than the largest clothing shop in the U.S., another off - price chain called Ross.

She serves as a member of the U.S. Department of State's International Council on Women's Business Leadership (ICWBL) Subcommittee on Access to Markets; is an active collaborator on Small Business and Women & Girl's initiatives through the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI).

If and when the U.S. Department of Labor's fiduciary rule survives several legal challenges, the small and midsize 401 (k) plan market stands to be revolutionized.

The Transportation Department regulates the nation's vehicles, airplanes, railroads, pipelines, ports and highways - including whether to allow the use of small unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, over people and whether U.S. fuel efficiency standards should be revised.

Earlier this year (March 2017) we reported how the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture issued «cease and desist» orders to a few small - scale Amish egg farmers in Wisconsin who have been shipping soy - free cage - free eggs to customers across the U.S. for over 7 years.

Measuring this market for modesty is tricky; the overall U.S. women - and - girls apparel market amounted to about $ 179 billion in 2015, according to Commerce Department statistics, and the modest fashion niche so far is just that — a niche so small it's not measured by government or commercial economic analysts, at least in America.

Today, State Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh and State Senator Daniel Squadron released the following statement in response to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)'s decision that changes to the Section 8 Small Area Fair Market Rent (SAFMR) policy — which could have had severe unintended consequences for NYC Section 8 tenants — will not apply to cities with low vacancy rates, like NYC.

House Republicans are seeking to cut the U.S. Education Department's budget by $ 2.4 billion, or 3.5 percent — a substantial reduction, though far smaller than the $ 9.2 billion in cuts that Trump proposed.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) contributed one million to EIT through its Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program by way of the Governor's Office for Small Cities (GOSC).

He did not speak specifically to any appointees other than Carson, but Democrats have expressed dismay over the selection of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions for U.S. Attorney General, fast food executive Andrew Puzder to head the Department of Labor, former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon to lead the Small Business Administration, mega-investor Wilbur Ross for the Department of Commerce, billionaire businesswoman Betsy Devos for the Department of Education, ex-Goldman Sachs executive Steven Mnuchin for Department of of the Treasury and Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt for the Environmental Protection Agency.

The Justice Department is preparing to announce charges in a cyberattack on Bowman Avenue Dam, a small flood - control structure in Rye Brook about 20 miles outside NYC, a case U.S. officials have linked to Iran, a person familiar with the matter said.

(Fortunately, the U.S. Department of Agriculture condemned the existing small slaughterhouse in New Square because it was unbelievably filthy and that killed the deal.)

On July 6, the U.S. Department of Agriculture OK'd a small open - air trial of GM diamondback moths (Plutella xylostella), which the agency says do not pose a threat to human or environmental health.

For instance, NIH, the Department of Energy's Office of Science, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) account for much larger shares of the nondefense budget today compared to where they were thirty years ago, while NASA, the Department of Agriculture, and the U.S. Geological Survey are smaller.

AHRQ, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, is responsible for improving the quality of healthcare in the U.S. Chesley's office oversees much of AHRQ's external research awarded through grants and small - business contracts.

«We send DNA to be sequenced by the Joint Genome Institute, which is part of the U.S. Department of Energy, and they sequence it in lots of very small fragments.

Built mainly by students and hitching rides into orbit on NASA and U.S. Department of Defense launch vehicles, the small, low - cost satellites have been making history.

When they began to search for ways to fund the start - up, they came across an SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) announcement from the U.S. Department of Energy, which was looking for methods to detect environmental pathogens using portable devices.

The survey, which asks both commercial and small - scale beekeepers to track the health and survival rates of their honey bee colonies, is conducted each year by the Bee Informed Partnership in collaboration with the Apiary Inspectors of America, with funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have identified the microenvironment surrounding microvasculature — the small blood vessels that transport blood within tissues — as a niche where dormant cancer cells reside.

Combined with R&D funding from EPRI and the U.S. Department of Energy, the investment allowed them to build a small R&D facility.

Although drawing conclusions about small population subgroups — such as kids at risk of violence — from broad population trends can be dicey, it is still worth noting that as violent video games proliferated in recent years, the number of violent youthful offenders fell — by more than half between 1994 and 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

The one possible turn in the otherwise rough road in the West could be a shift in technology toward small, modular reactors (SMRs), which U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Secretary Ernest Moniz said could be deployed as soon as 2022 with his agency's support.

The Texas Department of Agriculture is working with researchers at Texas A&M University in College Station and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stop the ants, which, along with biting humans, feed on other insects (including the beloved ladybug) and even eat the hatchlings of a small, endangered grouse called the Atwater prairie chicken.

A small but important step toward this goal has been achieved by an international collaboration of researchers from China's Tsinghua University and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) working at the Advanced Light Source (ALS).

Deep in a laboratory tucked away in the basement of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), intern Mark Thom punched commands into a computer as two other students checked a chamber where a silver robotic arm extended from a small port.

Funding: Carbon Sequestration Initiative funded by Laboratory Directed Research and Development at PNNL and by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences through a Single Investigator Small Group Research (SISGR) grant.

We are pleased to announce that a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between our wholly owned subsidiary SMR, LLC and the U.S. Department of Energy Savannah River Office (DOE - SR), along with the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL), has been executed to situate our first 160 MW (e) small modular reactor at the Savannah River Site (SRS).

Starting in 2000, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funded research for the development of a small nuclear power plant that might be used in multiple applications.

We are pleased to announce that the Company has partnered with NuHub, a collaborative group of public, private, academic, and community development groups working to maximize the economic and job creation impact of the nuclear renaissance on the Midstate of South Carolina, to compete for one of two federal grants from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for small modular reactor (SMR) development.

Use smaller plates, drink more water, and start implementing the plate model MyPlate enforced by th U.S. Department of Agriculture.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Nutrient Data Laboratory, one small apple with the peel contains about 21 grams of total carbohydrates, including 3.6 grams of dietary fiber.

In 2006, a U.S. Department of Education report noted that black graduates were more likely to take on student debt, and in 2007, an Education Sector analysis of the same data found that black graduates from the 1992 - 93 cohort defaulted at a rate five times higher than that of white or Asian students in the 10 years after graduation (Hispanic / Latino graduates showed a similar, but somewhat smaller disparity).

Included: The U.S. Department of Education hosts a satellite workshop on applying for Smaller Learning Communities grants on June 8 from noon to 1:30 p.m.

In addition, the Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is considering using extant surveys to provide small - area estimates of the proportion of children eligible for free and reduced - price benefits.

The U.S. Department of Education has finalized its rules governing $ 3.5 billion in school improvement grants for states and districts, making only small changes despite criticism that its four models for turning around the nation's worst schools are too prescriptive.

Policies that promote school integration by race and class took a significant hit last week when the U.S. Department of Education announced that it was killing a small but important federal program to support local diversity efforts.

We've come a long way since then, thanks in no small part to Russ Whitehurst's leadership of the Institute of Education Sciences within the U.S. Department of Education.

In fact, a growing number of Federal agencies (U.S. Departments of Education and Justice, CDC, SAMHSA and IES), state departments of education (Connecticut, Georgia, Minnesota and Massachusetts) and large and small districts (from Chicago to Westbrook, Connecticut) are developing school climate policies and / or laws that support students, parents / guardians, school personnel and even community members learning and working together to create safer, more supportive, engaging and flourishing K - Departments of Education and Justice, CDC, SAMHSA and IES), state departments of education (Connecticut, Georgia, Minnesota and Massachusetts) and large and small districts (from Chicago to Westbrook, Connecticut) are developing school climate policies and / or laws that support students, parents / guardians, school personnel and even community members learning and working together to create safer, more supportive, engaging and flourishing K - departments of education (Connecticut, Georgia, Minnesota and Massachusetts) and large and small districts (from Chicago to Westbrook, Connecticut) are developing school climate policies and / or laws that support students, parents / guardians, school personnel and even community members learning and working together to create safer, more supportive, engaging and flourishing K - 12 schools.

Topics discussed include petition filed by principals from high schools in Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) on the district to apply for federal small learning community (SLC) grant from the U.S. Department of Education, early college credit options through dual enrollment, dual credit offered by academies and views of student Mohamad Obaid on the same.

Research points to the beneficial effects of smaller classes on students» academic success, and many states have turned to class - size reduction to raise student achievement (U.S. Department of Education, 2000).

Garrett also spent time as a social worker in her native city of Detroit, a human resources specialist and recruiter for the U.S. Department of Defense in Indianapolis, as well as a strategic consultant to the DC Small Business Center, Howard University and SPG & Associates, all in Washington DC.

The U.S. Department of Education this week named only two small states — Delaware and Tennessee — as first - round winners of the unprecedented competition known as Race to the Top for shares of $ 4...