Sentences with phrase «funding the study of»

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.

«These findings are the result of years of NHLBI - funded studies of the molecular mechanisms of action of GPIHBP1 and are an excellent example of how basic science can lead to scientific advances with direct clinical implications.»

Elias Zerhouni, the director of NIH, which was funding the suspended trial as well as dozens of others aiming to prevent cancer or Alzheimer's disease with Celebrex, said in a press conference that he has ordered a review of all NIH - funded studies of COX - 2 inhibitors.

«Basically, they're selling a warm, fuzzy feeling,» says Dennis King, a University of Maryland researcher and the author of an EPA - funded study of carbon sequestration.

NIH will look at whether its staff improperly urged the beverage industry to fund a study of whether moderate drinking has health benefits.

His organization is one of dozens that are essentially crowd - funding the study of ocean radiation after the federal government opted not to track the spread of cesium 134 from Fukushima toward the United States.

However, this project was a spin - off from a NSF - funded study of ways to make scientific research more efficient.

Researchers examined the data of 314 overweight and obese Latino children who were between 8 and 15 years old when they enrolled in the National Institutes of Health - funded Study of Latino Adolescents at Risk of Type 2 Diabetes (SOLAR) study, a 12 - year undertaking.

The US government actually funded a study of the concept in 1958, an ambitious program called Project Orion that seriously proposed, among other things, building a nuclear - pulse spacecraft that could send humans to the moons of Saturn as early as the 1970s.

The DRC project resulted from an National Institutes of Health - funded study of malaria transmission led by Steven Meshnick, MD, PhD, professor and associate chair of epidemiology at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.

Four two - year grants totaling $ 713,000 fund studies of functional and cognitive deficits in individuals with traumatic brain injury

Penn State College of Medicine and University of Wisconsin have been awarded a five - year, $ 2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund the study of a novel way to treat iron deficiency anemia in children.

An NIH - funded study of rats found that blocking digestive enzymes in intestines increases survival, reduces organ damage, and improves recovery after shock.

NIDILRR fellowship funds study of the impact of Family - Clinician Collaboration on stroke rehabilitation outcomes

According to a 2011 U.S. National Institutes of Health - funded study of 2,000 adults, people who regularly walked their dogs were more physically active and less likely to be obese than those who did not.

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

In my recent involvement with the six - nation * European Union - funded study of Science Education and Diversity, headed by Rupert Wegerif at the University of Exeter, I worked with the Dutch team (leader, Michiel van Eijck) using questionnaires, interviews and focus groups with 10 - 14 year olds in the six nations.

For example, the failure to find positive student - achievement impacts in a series of IES - funded studies of professional development programs has produced a broader appreciation of the difficulty of adult behavior change and more healthy skepticism about the traditional approach to teacher training.

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

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.»

In 2012, Schnare filed a lawsuit challenging EPA - funded studies of human exposure to airborne particulates, claiming those studies were equivalent to the Nazi experiments on Jews during the Holocaust.

In particular they should not fund any studies of the connection between CO2 and global temperature because the theory that there exists such a connection is not policy neutral.

A state - funded study of the Oregon Columbia River levee system highlights the growing need to strengthen local flood control systems.

We would like to acknowledge the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for funding the Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development.

This has included an NIMH funded study on EMDR and NCCAM funded study of yoga, and, in recent years, the study of neurofeedback to investigate whether attentional and perceptual systems (and the neural tracks responsible for them) can be altered by changing EEG patterns.

With the assistance of WSCAR's Government Affairs Director Bob Mitchell, WSCAR and the Spokane Association of REALTORS ® collaborated to submit a request to the National Association of REALTORS ® for a $ 15,000 Smart Growth Action Grant to help fund a study of housing needs in and around Spokane's University District.

Not exact matches

The study was funded by EnCana, the drilling company whose wells the EPA had initially blamed for the contamination.Though the role of fracking remains contested, the advising scientists recommend that the EPA should qualify its conclusions about the risks posed by acknowledging gaps in the existing data and concerning cases like Pavillion.

According to the Wells Fargo / Gallup study, women business owners said their top three sources of initial funding for their business are cash or savings (85 percent), personal credit cards (37 percent) and financial gifts or support from family or friends (29 percent).

The report is part of a larger study, funded by $ 150,000 from Citi Community Development, to learn more about the challenges and needs of female entrepreneurs.

An Environmental Defense Fund - commissioned study by consultancy ICF International found that Canada's oil and gas industry could achieve a 45 per cent methane emission reduction at an average cost of $ 2.76 per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent.

Critics of the corporate tax cut predicted the tax windfall would mostly go to fund share buybacks and dividends, citing studies of the 2004 tax break as precedent.

The study, published by the Environmental Defense Fund's (EDF) Climate Corps program, says that solar and wind jobs have grown at rates of about 20 % annually in recent years, and sustainability now collectively represents four to four and a half million jobs in the U.S., up from 3.4 million in 2011.

Such systems typically involve a sizable investment of funds, so it is wise for managers and business owners to undertake a careful course of study before making a purchase.

If you haven't heard of royalty financing, now may be the time to study up and land that startup funding you need.

Another answer to the perplexity surrounding rejected funding came from a revelation in the study about owners» understanding of credit issues.

In 2014, the fund okayed pay packages at nearly 80 % of the companies in its portfolio with excessively compensated CEOs, the study says.

At the companies with the most overpaid CEOs, the 25 funds listed in the study went along whatever the compensation committees recommended about 80 % of the time, on average.

The fact that the VC industry is so male — 89 % of partners — doesn't help, Wiedenmiller says, noting a Stanford study saying that in 2013 women entrepreneurs received only 4.2 % of VC funding.

His family moved to Canada from Turkey when he was a child and, with the funds from the sale of a redesigned buzzer system for quiz show Reach for the Top, Lazaridis studied engineering at the University of Waterloo.

Funding for health IT has reached more than $ 956 million in 2014, according to an October 2014 study by HIT Consultant, bringing with it an explosion of startups.

We learned a major pain point at this life stage is the lack of funding for those critical out - of - classroom experiences (i.e., study abroad and attending conferences / seminars) that can change lives.

In fact, recent studies by both the International Monetary Fund and the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development concluded that Canadian renters get a better deal compared to their owner counterparts than renters in almost every other wealthy country.

Washington has approved funding of up to US$ 1.2 million towards the new study.

The study showed Dodge & Cox and Franklin Templeton Investments had the highest percentage of female fund managers at 25 % and 14.7 %, respectively.

Only 2.7 % of venture funding currently goes to female CEOs, according to a 2014 study by Babson College.

Perth - based Sheffield Resources has tapped investors for a $ 17.1 million capital raising to fund completion of a bankable feasibility study on its $ 271 million Thunderbird mineral sands project near Derby.

A new government - funded study suggests that addictive opioid painkillers may not be better than other, non-opioid kinds of drugs for treating chronic back pain and arthritis.

Yet another study is forthcoming from the International Performance Assessment Centre for the Storage of CO2, but since this agency is funded by the Saskatchewan government and Royal Dutch Shell, a dismissal of the Kerrs» claim would not likely sway many minds.

Here in Canada, the Conference Board of Canada has recently released two studies on inequality, funded by 24 influential corporations.

The alert noted that in a recent SEC Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations study of 75 financial firms, 5 percent of broker - dealers and 26 percent of advisors and investment funds did not conduct periodic risk assessments of critical systems to uncover vulnerabilities, potential business consequences and other cybersecurity threats.