The potential marriage was offered as a way out of the red for Scripps, which had seen a sharp
drop in research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Not exact matches
Findings from a project led by London's Institute of Education and
funded by the Economic and Social
Research Council (ESRC) and the Department for International Development (DFID) show that using new ways of encouraging young children to stay
in regular schooling cut
drop - out rates by 42 per cent
in just a year.
When Silver's acquaintance Dr. Robert Taub started
dropping unmissable hints that he wanted Silver to
fund his mesothelioma
research in exchange for Taub referring terminally ill asbestos victims to Silver's law firm so Silver could reap millions
in finders» fees, Silver went back to unspent money from one of the $ 8.5 million annual Health Care Reform Act stashes and started doling it out.
The
drop has occurred, he said, despite the fact that
in 2003, the National Academy of Sciences recommended the STAR
funding be between 15 percent and 20 percent of the total EPA Office of
Research and Development budget.
Furthermore, the project you're assigned to can get
dropped, because a company's
research plan is always evolving
in response to changes
in funding or to feedback from investors or the board of directors.
Being listed
in an Office of
Research Integrity misconduct filing also correlated with a significant, sustained
drop in funding.
Throughout months of political wrangling,
research funding has been relatively protected from cuts — but the R&D budget will
drop next year, before shooting up
in 2015.
But what the data represent, at least partly, is a
drop in the
funding of university
research by industry.
Funding for military
research is set to increase by a whopping 39.5 % to $ 507 million, largely offsetting a 52 %
drop in 2013.
House appropriators also added over $ 600 million more for medical
research in cancer and other areas, a much smaller amount than that provided
in the FY 2017 omnibus; total medical
research funding would thus
drop by 38.1 percent
in FY 2018.
While 33 percent of NIH
research grant applications were
funded in 1970, that number
dropped to 20 percent by 2016 (NIH Report).
However, looking at this objectively, while BESA's recent «Resources
in English Maintained Schools»
research shows that 2011/12 has seen budget cuts of 1.8 per cent
in primary education and a 2.7 per cent
drop in secondary education, schools still have significant
funds to spend, particularly when compared with budgets ten, five or even two years ago.
Major areas cited
in the
research are declining enrollment, higher shares of special education students and
drops in state
funding — which, the study notes, policy makers control.
The hubs, enthusiastically endorsed by my colleague Tom Friedman, are centers where leading scientists and engineers can
drop long - term work and focus intensively, with five years or more
in funding,
in theory, on specific areas of
research that could lead to substantial breakthroughs.
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drop climate change
research funding; Story: House Energy & Commerce Committee pushes to repeal EPA's authority to regulate greenhouse gases;