Sentences with phrase «federally funded studies»

Zapharis has actually helped train dogs to detect early stage lung and breast cancers for two federally funded studies, as well as nine dogs who were trained to detect ovarian cancer.

A week after IES published the evaluation, which reported the negative effects of the D.C. voucher program, the Republican - led Congress passed a bipartisan budget deal with a prohibition to the use of the experimental design evaluation method in any future federally funded studies of the D.C. voucher program.44 Instead, IES must use «an acceptable quasi-experimental research design.»

Over the last decade, two federally funded studies of teacher - development programs reached similar conclusions.

The prior federally funded studies of instructional materials, such as textbooks, were focused on earlier standards and not the CCSS.

In general, industry - funded studies are also subject to far less oversight than comparable federally funded studies.

Smith, the senior Republican on the House of Representatives science committee, issued a controversial subpoena to EPA on 1 August for all the raw data from a number of federally funded studies linking air pollution to disease.

Former Harvard University psychologist Marc Hauser fabricated and falsified data and made false statements about experimental methods in six federally funded studies, according to a report released yesterday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services's Office of Research Integrity (ORI).

Studies involving rabbits and larger mammals, for example, are overseen chiefly by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Washington, D.C. Federally funded studies of rats, mice, and birds are subject to different rules and a different overseer, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.

New York Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney is pushing for a federally funded study by the Centers for Disease Control to better understand the long - term health effects of exposure to PFOS and PFOA after many residents tested above the national average.

«During development, both male and female embryos start out having certain fetal tissue called the Müllerian duct mesenchyme,» said Jose Teixeira, professor of reproductive biology in the College of Human Medicine and lead author of the federally funded study.

«Depression is a very frequent condition associated with Parkinson's, so we became interested in whether an antidepressant could modify how the disease progresses,» said Tim Collier, lead author of the federally funded study and a neuroscientist at MSU.

The federally funded study, now published online in Neurology, the official publication of the American Academy of Neurology, is also one of the first to follow black people.

Andrechek's federally funded study looked at mice containing all subtypes and compared the makeup of the rodent tumors and the way the genes acted, known as gene expression, to human tumor data.

The federally funded study, published in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology, showed how a stress receptor, known as corticotropin - releasing factor, or CRF1, can send signals to certain immune cells, called mast cells, and control how they defend the body.

A 2002 federally funded study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, for one, found that regular practice improved reasoning and memory in older adults.

Forensic scientists generally are stressed but happy with their jobs — and female scientists are particularly stressed, finds a federally funded study led by Thomas Holt, professor of criminal justice at Michigan State University.

Findings from a federally funded study, which are being withheld from release by Education Department officials, cast doubt on the efficacy of magnet schools for desegregating school districts.

Federally Funded Study Will Refine and Validate Tool to Measure Instructional Leadership Skills

That's the implication of a rigorous federally funded study released Sept. 10 that examines the impact of TFA and a second popular program, both of which quickly train and place top college graduates and career - changers in underresourced classrooms.

The second federally funded study was supported by a field - initiated grant to the National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE).

USA Today: Evidence of plagiarism and complaints about the peer - review process have led a statistics journal to retract a federally funded study that condemned scientific support for global warming

He has completing a federally funded study on the impact of parents» legal status and detention / deportation on citizen - children, and has authored Forgotten Citizens: Deportation, Children, and the Making of American Exiles and Orphans (Oxford, 2015).

Not exact matches

The federally funded WIC Mother / Baby Breastfeeding Study was designed to improve each woman's chance to meet her personal breastfeeding goals.

Within the database of federally funded medical research, there are 70 studies on erectile dysfunction; there are 10 on lactation failure.

She studied milk consumption in federally funded preschools across Connecticut where only white milk was offered, and found that those children drank it happily.

Another comprehensive evaluation of BPA studies is expected to be released next week by a federally funded panel.

Cohen cited studies showing that every federally funded SNAP dollar generates $ 1.79 in economic benefits to a community for every dollar spent on groceries, and that every $ 1 billion spent on SNAP produces close to 10,000 jobs.

The city government is also in the process of implementing a near $ 390,000 federally funded traffic study on Broadway and the Washington Avenue corridor.

The National Treatment Improvement Evaluation Study (NTIES), a Congressionally - mandated five - year study, found that whereas many clients served by federally - funded programs cut their drug use in half up to a year after treatment, many eventually relaStudy (NTIES), a Congressionally - mandated five - year study, found that whereas many clients served by federally - funded programs cut their drug use in half up to a year after treatment, many eventually relastudy, found that whereas many clients served by federally - funded programs cut their drug use in half up to a year after treatment, many eventually relapsed.

This summer a federally funded panel will conclude a study on the proper «role and size» of its 60 - member astronaut corps, perhaps recommending layoffs or slashing training budgets.

In New York City, the average temperature has increased about four degrees Fahrenheit since 1880, and could get 10 degrees hotter by 2100, according to a study commissioned by the federally funded U.S. Global Change Research Program.

Two decades ago he contributed to the first federally funded report on the relationship of diet to cancer, an influential study that helped establish the nutritional importance of grains, fruits, and vegetables.

The study found that the federally funded vaccine, made by the French drug firm Sanofi - Aventis, is safe and capable of producing antibodies to ward off the current strain of avian flu.

«Between 1985 and 2009, federally - funded studies per 10,000 deaths per year were 294 for stroke but only eight for cardiac resuscitation,» said Dr. Bobrow.

For their data analysis, the Johns Hopkins researchers used previously gathered information from the federally funded Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study beginning in 1987 and collected from 10,342 participants initially free of heart or vascular disease.

NIH also announced a plan to work with federally funded community health centers to find cohort volunteers from underserved groups; an ethics review board for the cohort study; and a pilot project to work with companies on apps for allowing people to share their data for research.

In all, 276 children enrolled in a federally funded Head Start program for at - risk children in the Pacific Northwest participated in the study.

Last week, Congress sent legislation to Bush that would allow federally funded scientists to study cells from frozen embryos that fertility clinic patients no longer need and have chosen to donate instead of discard.

The medical center also is engaged in federally funded clinical studies on alcoholic hepatitis, hepatitis B, and hepatocellular carcinoma, as well as clinical trials in hepatitis C, PBC, primary sclerosing cholangitis, and hepatic encephalopathy.

Taylor received a $ 1.16 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense for the study, which was affiliated with the STRONG STAR Consortium, a federally funded network of national experts seeking the best ways to treat behavioral health problems impacting post-9 / 11 service members and veterans.

«It's become evident that women who request federally funded sterilization are subject to a set of policy barriers that impede their reproductive autonomy,» explained Sonya Borrero, M.D., M.S., assistant professor of medicine, Pitt School of Medicine, and lead author of the study.

Several large - scale, federally funded epidemiological studies are under way to pinpoint possible environmental triggers, as well as early biomarkers of autism.

The 26 - year - old Common Rule protects people who volunteer for federally funded research studies.

Scientists also hope to gain crucial insights into autism's risk factors from several large new studies, including the federally funded Early Autism Risk Longitudinal Investigation, which will enroll 1,200 mothers of autistic children at the start of a subsequent pregnancy and then track the newborn child's first three years of development.

According to the study published in Marine Biodiversity, it was discovered in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands during an expedition of the Okeanos Explorer — the «only federally funded U.S. ship assigned to systematically explore our largely unknown ocean for the purpose of discovery and the advancement of knowledge.»

Results of the federally funded HUSTLE study — Hydroxyurea Study of Long - Term Effects — appeared online this week in the American Journal of Hematostudy — Hydroxyurea Study of Long - Term Effects — appeared online this week in the American Journal of HematoStudy of Long - Term Effects — appeared online this week in the American Journal of Hematology.

The researchers studied how diabetes care changed at 17 Midwestern FQHCs that participated in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Health Disparities Collaboratives — a national, federally funded quality - improvement initiative launched in 1998.

Federally - funded studies essential to managing possible risks from this cutting - edge technology should be guided by a top - down strategy tied to projected commercialization, expected human and environmental exposures, and the regulatory decision - making process.

Congresswoman Lois Capps addressed the benefits of these studies Wednesday for the Energy and Commerce Committee's Health Subcommittee hearing on stem cell research in Washington, D.C., applauding researcher's diligence despite administration interventions prohibiting federally funded embryonic stem cell research.

They are one of eight centers in the U.S. to have dual model systems in traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury — a system of coordinated care and research that conducts in - depth collaborative studies that address the recovery and outcomes following an injury, federally - funded by the National Institute on Disability & Rehabilitation Research.