Sentences with phrase «government research project»

When he fails to pass the test for military service, a young man (Chris Evans) agrees to take part in a secretive government research project.

Kevin Bacon stars as gifted but arrogant scientist Sebastian Caine, who, while working on a top - secret U.S. government research project, develops a serum that induces complete invisibility.

In fact, the PRISM is based on a government research project design that successfully operated in Idaho for decades, under the name the Experimental Breeder Reactor II, or EBR - II.

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Last fall General Fusion made presentations at the World Energy Congress in Daegu, South Korea, and at workshops hosted by the Chinese Academy of Physics and the U.S. government's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E).

The project brings together scholars of media and communications, government and international relations, physics, philosophy, linguistics, and medicine, and is affiliated with the Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre (SSSHARC), the Sydney Environment Institute and the Sydney Democracy Network.

Many things under way at Other Lab relate to a DARPA project on programmable matter (DARPA being the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the famous federal government research laboratory in which far - fetched ideas are pursued until they become not - so - far - Research Projects Agency, the famous federal government research laboratory in which far - fetched ideas are pursued until they become not - so - far - research laboratory in which far - fetched ideas are pursued until they become not - so - far - fetched.

Pleasing fussy customers like health - care and research facilities has been crucial to that success, as has its participation in public - private partnerships (PPP), which are joint projects between government and private interests.

Instead, he applauded the Liberal government for investing in scientific research and later said he accepted Trudeau's explanation for why Canada needs the Kinder Morgan project.

Through the 1990s Thompson subsisted on smaller government projects for satellites used in research and navigation.

Another high - profile project using laser ignition, HiPER (High Power Energy Research facility), has so far escaped funding grief, but with its host government in the United Kingdom slashing spending across the board, this perennial next - year technology makes an easy target.

Area entrepreneurs can log into the website and research opportunities to do work for the government, indicate their interest and connect with other entrepreneurs who want to collaborate on the project.

The research showed that, within six to eight years, US government spending on highway projects delivered at least one dollar, possibly two to three dollars, in increased output for every dollar spent.

As the director of legal research project the Cardozo Blockchain Project, Prof White urged the US government to develop rules to limit consumer risk on Initial Coin Offerings while allowing firms to access the decentralised cproject the Cardozo Blockchain Project, Prof White urged the US government to develop rules to limit consumer risk on Initial Coin Offerings while allowing firms to access the decentralised cProject, Prof White urged the US government to develop rules to limit consumer risk on Initial Coin Offerings while allowing firms to access the decentralised capital.

Dr. Richard Swart, who heads the Crowdfunding Research Program at the University of California, Berkeley, has cited several experts who project that the size of the securities crowdfunding market will range from «$ 3.98 billion (Nest, Neiss, Stralser & Fleming 2013) to as much as $ 300 billion over the coming years depending on the level of enabling regulation adopted by governments.»

The new tower will also host the Medicine by Design initiative, set to become a leading centre in regenerative medicine at the University of Toronto with the federal government committing $ 114 - million for this project through the Canada First Research Excellence Fund.

The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government is a public policy research institute that conducts studies and related projects on state and local government and finance, American federalism, public management, and New York StaGovernment is a public policy research institute that conducts studies and related projects on state and local government and finance, American federalism, public management, and New York Stagovernment and finance, American federalism, public management, and New York State issues.

Specific policies include researching methods to improve indoor air quality; instituting a Clean Water Act to ensure Albertans have safe drinking water; protecting provincial parks and ecological reserves; requiring government to meet high environmental standards in their operations; requiring Ecological Assessments for all large projects in the province; and establishing an Alberta environmental ombudsman and elected Ecological Impact Assessment Review Panels to monitor environmental impacts and halt projects.

Over 300 guests representing: the investment and life science business communities; Ontario universities, colleges, hospitals and research institutes; and private donors and all three levels of government that have contributed to the project, are expected today at the Design Exchange in Toronto.

This research area covers the evaluation of the costs and benefits of capital projects of Canadian governments, such as roads, ports or public utilities, of financing modes for such projects, such as public - private partnerships, and the contribution of public infrastructure to economic growth.

There is a global movement to liberate government - «owned» data sets, such as census data, environmental data, and data generated by government - funded research projects.

The market has yet to reach critical mass, but given the kinds of projects funded by state and local governments, «the market should be a natural issuer of green and social impact bonds,» notes Victoria Irving, Equity Strategist for the Global Sustainability Research team.

The reason for this multi-partisan support for Housing First is due to the results of the federal - government sponsored research project, At Home / Chez Soi.

Nor has the average school likely sources in industry, government, or organized religion to which it can turn for major grants to fund such projects - or even to fund research with a high enough surcharge for «administrative costs» to help release other funds for innovative projects.

We also partner with other research organisations to ensure the best capability is brought to bear on a problem, such as leading a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded project involving institutions around the world to develop self - reproducing hybrid crops for African farmers or working with the University of Queensland and Queensland State Government researchers to solve challenges faced by the Northern Australian beef industry.

R&D projects can receive even greater support, with the government offering up to 70 % to small companies involved in certain types of research.

The partners in the dairy zone development project include FrieslandCampina, the international animal feed conglomerate De Heus, the Wageningen University and Research Centre, Friesian Agro Consultancy, food consulting company Fresh Studio, the Ha Nam Government, as well as the Dutch Government.

Despite vandalism in one of the five multilocation field trials in August this year, data are being readied for submission to government regulators who will review Golden Rice against international standards for biosafety, according to Antonio Alfonso, coordinator of the biotechnology program of the Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA) and leader of the Golden Rice project at the DA - Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA - PhilRice).

From a very low base in 1990, the project has helped develop a functional national rice research system involving more than 120 government officials and technicians.

One of the key findings uncovered in our Innovate UK, a government - funded research project between OAL and the University of Lincoln at the National Centre for Food Manufacturing, showed that Steam Infusion cooking enables fat reductions of up to 20 % in dairy based sauces.

«This collaborative research project will be coordinated regionally by the Wodonga and Mildura based Murray - Darling Freshwater Research Centre's, which will be undertaken with other research organisations and government agencies working in the Basin,» Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Senator Simon Birmingham sairesearch project will be coordinated regionally by the Wodonga and Mildura based Murray - Darling Freshwater Research Centre's, which will be undertaken with other research organisations and government agencies working in the Basin,» Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Senator Simon Birmingham saiResearch Centre's, which will be undertaken with other research organisations and government agencies working in the Basin,» Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Senator Simon Birmingham sairesearch organisations and government agencies working in the Basin,» Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Senator Simon Birmingham said today.

The project — which has been approved by the RMIT Human Research Ethics Committee — is supported by a grant from the Australian Government through Enterprise Connect and Australian Organic.

Through the Australian Government's Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), the MYRice project is working to transform the rice sector of lower Myanmar — the Ayeyarwady and Bago regions — that account for more than half of the total rice - harvested areas in the country.

The German government has supported IRRI research since 1974 and, as of May 2015, had funded 61 projects for a total amount of about USD 59 million.

IRRI has many projects in partnership with the Philippine Government, particularly with the Department of Agriculture through the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice).

Results of a multi-breed research project conducted by a Canadian Government Experiment Station, reveal that the Galloway ranks second only to the Buffalo in hair density tests.

Sydney's Food Futures (2015 - 2016) is a collaborative research project being undertaken by the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney, in conjunction with a number of government and industry partners (see About the project).

Governments, development banks, other financial institutions, businesses, and philanthropic organizations should increase financing for food loss and waste reduction technologies, processes, and research and help make projects more investment - ready.

These projects are led by Indian research institutions, with additional funding sought from the government of India.

A year after the coalition government was formed I embarked upon a research exercise which I called Project Blueprint.

As I found in Project Red Alert, my research on Labour's prospects at the end of last year, a third of those who would consider voting Labour say the party hasn't yet learned the right lessons from what went wrong during its time in government, and can not yet be trusted to run the country again.

The company was deeply involved in a project known as Cuomo's «Buffalo Billion» initiative in Buffalo, part of a state government plan to finance programs that boost manufacturing and research across New York's upper tier.

The CEO of cocoa board and his propagandists should find out what President Kufour wanted to do with the facility in 2002 when CRIG won the privilege of being the research wing of his government's National Cashew Development Project.

«The data that we have collected over the past three years shows that participatory budgeting is a gateway to civic engagement for New Yorkers that are often left out of politics and government such as youth, immigrants, and low - income people,» said Alexa Kasdan, Director of Research and Policy at the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center.

This singular focus on research arises from a longstanding funding model that uses students and postdocs as inexpensive labor on professors» grant projects while neglecting their own professional development, which leads to another question McNutt posed: Should federal and state governments consider new models for financing research?

Chajet declined to comment, but his letter makes it clear that he seeks to persuade journals to delay publishing or distributing papers containing results from the Diesel Exhaust in Miners Study (DEMS), a government - funded research project.

This work was supported by the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science under the auspices of the project «Convergent Science and Technology for Measurements at the Nanoscale» (15011053), grants from the National Research Foundation of Korea (2014-023563, NRF -2008-0061906, NRF - 2013R1A1A1076141, NRF - 2012M3C1A1048861, 2011-0017605, BSR - 2012R1A2A2A01045496 and NMTD - 2012M3A7B4049888) funded by the Korea government (MSIP), a grant (2011-0031630) from the Center for Advanced Soft Electronics through the Global Frontier Research Program of MSIP, the Priority Research Center Program (2012-0005859), a grant (2011-0030786) from the Center for Topological Matters at POSTECH, the NSF (DMR - 1122594), AFOSR (FA95550 -09-0705), ONR (N00014 -13-1-0662), Army Research Office (ARO) grant W911NF -13-1-0471 and the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QInF) 2013.

The Cyber Corps Program prepares students for a variety of cybersecurity career trajectories, including research, operations, project management, and executive - level positions in the federal government.

She then joined the South Australian government, helping to translate health care and other research projects into policy and practice, before taking her current position at the Genomics Policy and Researcresearch projects into policy and practice, before taking her current position at the Genomics Policy and ResearchResearch Forum.

McGill receives over $ 235 million in research funding annually; currently the university is involved in more than 100 international projects worth in excess of $ 70 million, funded by federal and provincial government agencies, foreign governments, international financial institutions, and private foundations.

He persuaded a faculty member who had equipment, space, and money (but a different research focus) to sponsor his research project — on the condition that tenOever apply for a permit from the Canadian government to carry out the work.