Sentences with phrase «in federal research dollars»

DOD accounted for 12.3 % of the $ 40.1 billion in federal research dollars universities received in 2012, up from about 8 % a decade ago.

The agencies together receive about US$ 60 billion in federal research dollars each year, with about half going to the NIH, so the number of papers available annually could double under the proposal, says Heather Joseph, another petition leader and executive director of the pro-open access Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, based in Washington DC.

Not exact matches

Almost six in 10 adults (57 %) say they would be willing to pay one dollar more per week in taxes to increase federal funding for the scientific research into the causes and treatment of pain.

Based on the chart you have on Katusa Research of the U.S. dollar versus gold and in the wake of the Federal Reserve's inaction at its last meeting, what's your thesis for gold for the rest of 2015?

In all likelihood, soon after he is sworn in, federal dollars will start flowing toward research on new embryonic stem - cell lines, bringing with it new battles to fighIn all likelihood, soon after he is sworn in, federal dollars will start flowing toward research on new embryonic stem - cell lines, bringing with it new battles to fighin, federal dollars will start flowing toward research on new embryonic stem - cell lines, bringing with it new battles to fight.

As the New York Times article discusses more fully, the impetus for the price increase was a finding by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a research organization in Washington, that by keeping the price of the full meal too low, the paid meals were effectively being subsidized by the federal dollars which are supposed to be allocated to the meals provided to kids who are on free / reduced lunch.

«The Government expects that Dr. Taub will testify that for many years he disapproved of [Silver's] law firm Weitz & Luxenberg because it made millions of dollars from representing mesothelioma victims (enough to buy «private jets»), and yet it did not donate money to support mesothelioma research,» federal prosecutors wrote in the new court papers, which were filed Monday.

«Depending on whether you're a Republican or a Democrat, passage of the Scientific Research in the National Interest Act (HR 3293) is either a simple reminder that federal dollars should be spent wisely, or an unwise and unwarranted intrusion into NSF's grantsmaking process.»

They then argue that «By creating a financial incentive for embryonic stem cell research — an incentive that by NIH's own admission involves investments of «hundreds of millions of dollars» — and by specifying the precise means by which embryos must be destroyed in order to qualify for federal funding, the NIH necessarily and knowingly subjects embryos to a substantial risk of injury or death.»

That surprising conclusion is the top recommendation in a report out [Tuesday] by a National Academies committee that Congress asked to examine the current regulatory jungle confronting universities that receive federal research dollars,» Mervis wrote that day at ScienceInsider.

«It's important to have federal dollars in the game as a match,» says Thomas Van Arsdall, director of the National Coalition for Food and Agricultural Research.

Despite a recent budget proposal from the Obama administration to increase spending on federal R&D by 7 % next year, dollars flowing to research have largely been flat in recent years, and declining when inflation is taken into account.

Senate lawmakers would also like to see DHS consider a grant program aimed at increasing the amount of extramural research funding going to universities in states whose scientists typically fare poorly in the competition for federal science dollars.

Republican budgetmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives signaled their support for basic research and their reluctance to invest federal dollars in applied research today in their markup of a bill that would set the budget for the Department of Energy (DOE) next year.

In effect, the federal government already made this decision around 2003, because its support of basic research has stagnated in constant dollars since theIn effect, the federal government already made this decision around 2003, because its support of basic research has stagnated in constant dollars since thein constant dollars since then.

Price also advocated streamlining the Food and Drug Administration's approval processes for new antibiotics and medical devices, and giving scientists more discretion in how federal research dollars are allocated.

«Rather than inject politics into this process, our discussion today should instead concentrate on how to safeguard the often unexpected process of discovery inherent in scientific inquiry, while ensuring that federal dollars spent on research remains completely and fully accountable taxpayers.»

Money can be spent immediately: Federal funding for non-defense research has fallen in real dollars every year since 2004 for the life sciences and far longer for the physical sciences.

In the end, George Bush tried to split the difference with a partial ban that limited the kinds of embryonic stem cell research that could be paid for with federal dollars.

The scientists claimed that, because they used adult stem cells exclusively in their research, the new rules would increase competition for federal research dollars, thereby affecting their ability to obtain funding.

That bill, based on one from Rep. Diana DeGette, D - Colo., would have allowed federal dollars to flow toward research on stem cell lines using embryos left over from in vitro fertilization, slated for disposal and donated by the parents.

In 2013, over 5 billion dollars were awarded by the National Science Foundation to support research and education [3]; the National Institutes of Health dispenses even more money for health - related research and clinical studies Since everyone benefits from progress in science, the US federal government should be praised for financially supporting so many university researchers and research projectIn 2013, over 5 billion dollars were awarded by the National Science Foundation to support research and education [3]; the National Institutes of Health dispenses even more money for health - related research and clinical studies Since everyone benefits from progress in science, the US federal government should be praised for financially supporting so many university researchers and research projectin science, the US federal government should be praised for financially supporting so many university researchers and research projects.

Maris Vinovskis calls attention to the misuse of the federal research dollar in education and the need for a basic restructuring of the federal research enterprise.

Senator Rand Paul, a Republican presidential hopeful, recently wrote in an op - ed that «the federal government has awarded taxpayer dollars toward research that few Americans would consider to be in the national interest.»

In education, the medical research model — using federal dollars to build a knowledge base within a community of experts — has manifestly failed.

In last week's State of the Union address, Obama promised more federal research and development dollars to fund more efficient vehicles but again emphasized his goal for 1 million EVs on the road by 2015.

Such a dilemma brings to question the debate over government subsidies, as well as the billions of dollars in federal spending that gets dumped into the research well.

Ambiguous scientific statements about climate are hyped by those with a vested interest in alarm... Indeed, the success of climate alarmism can be counted in the increased federal spending on climate research from a few hundred million dollars pre-1990 to $ 1.7 billion today.

To date the federal government has invested on the order of $ 5 billion dollars in CCS research, including $ 4.8 billion under the Obama administration and millions of dollars during the Bush administration.

Because of such marginalization, some $ 42 billion dollars has been spent on ACW by the US federal government in the past 15 years — 90 % of all research dollars on the matter worldwide.

Since 1973, the federal government has spent $ 40 billion (in 2012 dollars) on coal R&D, including President Bush's $ 2 billion Coal Research Initiative designed to «improve coal's competitiveness in future energy supply markets.»

Though not exclusively an energy bill, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provided for more than four billion dollars in federal tax credits to homeowners for energy efficiency improvements, authorized additional renewable energy and efficiency research and development, and called for reductions in diesel engine emissions.

«It has always been in their interest to portray global warming as alarming, and therefore in need of even more federal research dollars,» Michaels wrote.

These rights figure in the Bayh - Dole Act of 1980, which is intended to ensure that valuable inventions reach the public by allowing universities and other recipient of federal research dollars to apply for patents that protect resulting inventions, and provide incentives for their development.

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Arthur J. Rolnick of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis writes that, «Careful academic research demonstrates that tax dollars spent on early childhood development provide extraordinary returns compared with investments in the public, and even private, sector.

Research by Pew has found that, though most states fund at least one of the evidence - based models identified in the federal criteria, the majority do not direct their dollars toward proven home visiting programs.