Sentences with phrase «controls research spending»

At present, the science ministry controls research spending only through the science councils — some 17 per cent of the total spend.

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«The benefits of NFLX - produced original content including attractive economics and greater control are clear and we believe returns on original spend are high,» J.P. Morgan Securities (jpm) analyst Doug Anmuth said in a research note.

Blackstone - controlled investment vehicle LocusPoint Networks LLC bought at least 16 stations from San Francisco to Miami, spending $ 66 million since 2012, according to FCC filings and data from research firm SNL Kagan.

Spend time to craft thoughtful e-mails, do your research, control your online reputation on social media sites, and practice, practice, practice!

BlackRock has managed to keep its funds» spending on commissions for research under control.

And no one's doing much to improve the situation — a nation that spends $ 600 million developing new cosmetics and fragrances each year has exactly one pharmaceutical company still conducting research on improved methods of birth control.

Female consumers represent a driving economic powerhouse, controlling 65 %, or approximately $ 20 trillion annually, of global spending and more than 80 % of U.S. spending, according to the Harvard Business Review and the Continuum's Women and Children Research Group.

The left - leaning Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) argued that although the localism agenda was promising, it will be largely meaningless unless the coalition delivers «real powers with new funding streams that give local people more control over how their taxes are spent».

Even so, the increase for nondefense discretionary spending — a category that covers just about every research agency including NIH, NASA, and the National Science Foundation — is the largest since the original caps were first put in place in 2011 through the Budget Control Act.

Next, she spent a year researching tobacco use prevention and control at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, where it occurred to her that she could use her mathematics background to help people.

I - Chueh Huang has spent 13 years researching how the human immune system controls viral infections.

But imagine the clout of the person who controlled the tens of billions dollars that the federal government currently spends on research and development.

«Chinese media are reporting that the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) may hand control of the lion's share of research spending to as - yet - unidentified «independent institutes,» the state - run People's Daily reported on 21 October.»

Since the discovery of carp DNA in the waterways near Chicago in 2009, the Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee, which consists of federal, state, and local agencies, has spent $ 100 million on carp research and control.

«Instead public money should be spent for the public benefit and focussed on control of compliance with management rules, data collection, scientific research and stock assessments.»

But if MOST were to relinquish control of research spending, «that's a big deal,» says Cao Cong, an expert on Chinese science at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom.

The research offers support for the recommendations of organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control, Institute of Medicine, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, all of which have advocated increasing the amount of time that elementary school children spend in gym class, says lead researcher and Cornell professor of policy analysis and management, John Cawley, who conducted the study with Chad Meyerhoefer of Lehigh University (Cornell Ph.D. 2002) and David Frisvold of Emory University.

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We've spent a lot of time researching the fastest, safest, and most effective NATURAL nutrients for blood sugar control...

We need to be spending a billion dollars for high - quality long - term big - scale randomized, controlled trials, but most of the research we do in nutrition suffers from a shoestring budget.

The authors» «research methods» were virtually non-existent and they didn't control for any factors other than hours spent wearing a bra — an obvious one being obesity, which is a well - known risk factor for breast cancer.

I also try to research and understand consumerism to better control my own behavior and spending patterns.

In addition to dipping into his private fortune for unlimited campaign ads touting his test score gains, he has total control of a $ 15 billion education empire that doles out jobs and no - bid contracts to potential critics and spends millions on a well - oiled public relations machine, but spends nothing on independent research or evaluation of classroom programs.

And while Microsoft's research is targeted to the bottom line ($ 8.6 billion is on cloud computing, the profit center of the future), IES spends almost nothing examining the most important aspect of schools: the decisions and actions that individual teachers control or make.

The fact is that most research finds, after controlling for demographic factors, no consistent causal relationship between expenditures and achievement over the current range of spending levels.

Summary A randomized control trial by Mathematica Policy Research and Stanford University found that compared to control schools, Students are more physically active at Playworks schools: There was a 43 % difference in the amount of time students spent in vigorous...

Summary A randomized control trial by Mathematica Policy Research and Stanford University found that compared to control schools, Students are more physically active at Playworks schools: There was a 43 % difference in the amount of time students spent in vigorous activity during recess at Playworks schools compared to non Playworks schools.

After soliciting input for over a year from education groups, research and advocacy organizations, students and parents, the State Board of Education on Friday approved final regulations governing how districts spend funds they receive through the Local Control Funding Formula, the state's new school financing law.

The US military is spending millions of dollars researching techniques that could allow pilots to control their planes by thinking about it, or allow soldiers to communicate directly to each other through thought.

Fortunately, if you research various blogs and consult BB eBooks, who are willing to answer your questions free of charge, chances are you will gain more control of your manuscript and your budget spending.

He places a strong emphasis on risk control and spends a tremendous amount of time studying and researching.

For shoppers tired of not being able to control their ballooning credit card balances, we have 23 research - proven psychological tricks to help spend less when pulling out the plastic.

Since 2008, $ 2.2 million has been spent by the federal government on feral cat research and control.

Research shows that they control $ 20 trillion in global spending, and that 92 percent pass along information about deals or finds to their friends.

I have to admit I am a bit of a control freak when it comes to planning a trip and do spend an unhealthy amount of time researching a holiday!

New planets can be colonized by spending a culture token and a ship in orbit, letting you place a control node and then expand from there by adding research stations, production facilities and cultural hubs, depending on what that particular planet can support and the resources you have at your disposal.

It budgeted nearly $ 150 million in 2007 alone on its campaign to ban DDT production and use — but spent a lousy $ 22 million researching alternatives to DDT for vector control.

All of the major federal agencies that it relies on for research grants — including the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, NASA, and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration — are feeling the squeeze of shrinking spending in an effort to control the ballooning federal budget deficit.

One litigator outlined: «My first year and a half was spent typically doing junior associate tasks like case management, discovery related work and heavy research but in the last half a year I've taken on a substantial amount of drafting, taken control of briefs and second chaired depositions.»

The Research Triangle Area Chapter of the ACC presents a session on how law departments can optimize operational performance by improving productivity and efficiency, controlling spend, maximizing resource allocation, making informed decisions faster, and increasing collaboration with outside counsel.

The idea is that by giving people control of how they spend their health money, they'll be more conscious of the price of health care, shop for the best deals and spur competition among providers, said Paul Fronstin, director of the health research program at the Employee Benefit Research Inresearch program at the Employee Benefit Research InResearch Institute.

They also detail how the costs associated with patent trolling have gone out of control, and how large companies like Google and Apple both spent more last year on patents than they did on actual research and development.

Monitor and document items recalled from Stores and maintain controlled items, create customer replenishment listings in system for automatic inventory re-order of stock when required by customer, effectively reducing time spent on researching recently purchased supplies.

After soliciting input for over a year from education groups, research and advocacy organizations, students and parents, the State Board of Education on Friday approved final regulations governing how districts spend funds they receive through the Local Control Funding Formula, the state's new school financing law.

She spent two and a half years at the Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council of NSW and at the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation respectively.