Sentences with phrase «national agencies like»

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It's a paradoxical situation to be in — he wishes things like the U.S. National Security Agency's PRISM program weren't happening, but they are, and that's giving his perfectly timed work a bump.

In fact, Canada could use a standing body like Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, which is mandated to investigate scientific matters of national importance, suggests Canada West Foundation vice-president of research Will Kimber, who used to work for the agency.

Painter recommends that Congress pass a law right now that would require that when a President or his businesses have specific matters pending before a federal agency — like, say, an Internal Revenue Service audit, or a case before the National Labor Relations Board or the Securities and Exchange Commission, or a licensing issue before the Federal Communications Commission — that the matter must be decided by a career civil servant, rather than by a political appointee.

The FAA, with the help of a consortium of aviation experts, government agencies, and companies like Amazon (amzn) and Google (goog), debuted the national drone registration system in December 2015.

There is now decades of research backed by organizations like the US federal agency the National Institutes of Health that have linked regular meditation to physical changes in the brain.

While trashing your employer on social media may sound like a recipe for disaster, a national labor agency has just ruled that it is not necessarily a fireable offense.

On Tuesday, The Intercept reported that Edward Snowden furnished documents which demonstrate that the National Security Agency (NSA) has kept a careful eye on digital currencies, including bitcoin, through codenamed projects like OAKSTAR and MONKEYROCKET.

Or, a letter to the national office of groups like The Family Service Association of America (44 East 23rd Street, New York, New York 10010), American Association of Marriage and Family Counselors (6211 West Northwest Highway, Dallas, Texas 75219), or The American Association of Pastoral Counselors (201 East 19th Street, New York, New York 10003), will get information regarding the nearest treatment agencies.

Like the National Organic Program in the U.S., accredited third - party organizations certify organic products to the standards.The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is the authority over this program in Canada, and the official Organic Canada / Biologique Canada seal is pictured here.

Peter Laufer: Yes, except in the environment that we have and the type capitalism we practice the regulatory agency in question which is the USDA, the United States Department of Agriculture; the National Organic Program, the NOP, is serving business at least as much as it's servicing the rest of us and maybe more and it's the position of the USDA that if companies like Trader Joe's or others decide that the origin of their products is a proprietary business tool, then they are successfully able to hide behind that claim and not tell you where something you're going to buy and eat came from.

At times this offseason it's felt like that's how many clubs were trying to add him, but at this late stage in his free agency, the field has narrowed to just three: the Giants, Nationals, and Mets.

He has 20 years of national ad agency experience, with several Cannes Lions, Effies and Clios to his name, for brands ranging from industry leaders like Coca Cola, Southwest Airlines and Stonyfield Farm, to successful next generation companies like renewable energy start - up Southwest Windpower and social enterprise Better World Books.

Because the USDA houses the National School Lunch Program, and the agency's main job is to sell highly subsidized conventional crops (like corn, soybeans, rice, and wheat) and farmed foods (like dairy and beef), behemoths like Chartwells wind - up pushing cheap, low - quality surplus food into our schools.

Like all other U.S. certification boards for health care professionals, the IBLCE operates under the direction of the U.S. National Commission for Certifying Agencies and maintains rigorous professional standards.

Officials of Ministries of Home and Telecommunication and agencies like the Intelligence Bureau (IB), National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) and Computer Emergency Response Team - India (CERTIn) are deliberating on immediate measures to combat the growing use of cyber space for spreading communal hatred.

NITDA ISSUES GUIDANCE ON COMBATING CYBER SECURITY THREATS The management of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) would like to bring to the attention of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), other government establishments, the organised private sector and the general public of potential cyber-attacks likely to be experienced this year as well -LSB-...]

Ed Miliband supports giving back more control to national parliaments, and for the UK this must include control over social legislation like working hours and agency workers.

«We are not looking at other agencies under the National Assembly like the Public Complaints Commission, National Institute for Legislative Studies, the National Assembly Service Commission and supporting staff.

According to the government, the some of the agencies had purchased the properties they were occupying while others like National Population Commission (NPC) had promised to pay next week.

Officials of NADMO have partnered with other emergency response agencies like the Joint Operations of the Ghana Armed Forces, the Western Regional Naval Base, the Police and the Ghana National Fire Service to help bring the situation under control.

Should the federal government set up a national anti-doping agency for horse racing, like they do for Olympic athletes?

U.S. Rep. John Katko said Monday that agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Endowment for the Arts and grants that fund Meals on Wheels may see their budgets trimmed, but Congress will not let them be eliminated.

Katko said he supports the continued existence of arts and cultural agencies like the NEA and the National Endowment for the Humanities, though he could not say they would not face budget cuts.

Also, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), last month, alerted Nigerians to prepare for more frequent and severe weather disasters like flood, windstorm, drought and epidemics.

Former Senator (D — NY) and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said she «would increase funding for scientific research at agencies like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation.»

The researchers saw fewer uses of sensitive search terms — including both words likely to be flagged as suspicious by the National Security Agency, or NSA, and potentially personally embarrassing words, like those related to health issues — after the government surveillance revelations.

[1] These reductions would hit most agencies, including both civilian science and technology programs like the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DOE), as well as basic and applied research activities in the Department of Defense (DOD).

Ellis is a clinical scientist, a designation reserved for specific scientific positions within the National Health Service (NHS) and in satellite agencies like HPA.

Some large agencies like NIH and the National Science Foundation have actually seen average annual budget growth above four percent in recent decades, even with periods of decline.

Some agencies like the National Institutes of Health won increases in research funding, while other agency research spending accounts remained flat or decreased.

A proposal to study a mysterious object, with no guarantee that the effort will pay off at the end, is not very appealing to agencies like the National Science Foundation, which expect well - defined goals and concrete results from the research projects they support.

The spotlight on dynamic systems is a major shift for agencies like the Army Corps, which in the past paid more attention to engineered solutions, Bostick said last week during an event at the National Academy of Sciences that focused on the state of resilience in the country.

«This study shows that local events like forest die - offs in one part of the globe influence climate and ecology in other, often distant locations,» said Tim Kratz, program director at the funding agency, the National Science Foundation.

Organizations like Google and the National Security Agency (NSA) have access to an unprecedented capacity of information regarding what we buy, with whom we communicate, and which websites we visit.

And it looks like a big one, says Wenju Cai of CSIRO, Australia's national research agency, in Melbourne.

While local branches of agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have received effusive public praise at this week's conference, relations aren't always so smooth.

This post is part of a blog carnival called Public Science Triumphs, a project that shows the great value of public funding of basic science at a time when Congress is considering deep cuts to agencies like the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

The summer after my freshman year in college, I thought I would have to decline a great research opportunity because the position was funded by the National Science Foundation, which — like all federal agencies — has restrictions on funding noncitizens.

The resulting increases for agencies like the National Institutes of Health would be critical for addressing Alzheimer's disease and other pressing health challenges.

She suggested that the directorate follow the example of other science agencies like the National Science Foundation in giving out grants, and «that funds be awarded on a competitive basis based on scientific peer review except in cases when that is clearly not feasible.»

Stamper would like to see the federal government put out requests for proposals and provide grants to develop best practices curriculum at the national level, although given the way our police forces are organized, he says, local agencies would still have to pick up the tab for actual training, which means fund appropriations from city or state politicians and taxpayers.

The $ 23.3 billion National Institutes of Health (NIH) has received similarly Scrooge - like news for the holidays: The White House has offered less than a 1 % hike, not even enough to cover inflation, although NIH's parent agency, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is appealing.

To her, this sounded like a lot, but the national Gaelic Development Agency was pleased: it's about the number of bilingual speakers they were already aiming to produce through classes and programs, a spokesman told The Scotsman when Kandler's study came out.

That might sound like a good deal to all kinds of American researchers and foreign scientists currently working in the U.S. in light of massive looming Trump budget cuts at the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Department of Energy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Geological Survey and, of course, the Environmental Protection Agency.

Scientists who receive grants from agencies like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) should not be trusted to «self - regulate» on matters involving a potential conflict of interest, suggests a letter released today by two Republican members of the House Science Committee.

Moreover, some say that the agency — modeled on long - established outfits like the U.S. National Science Foundation and the German Research Foundation — introduces a type of personal competition that simply isn't right for France.

«Do funding agencies like the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation look at the safety and environmental record of the [principal investigator] before they award funding?»

That became clear in the meeting's closing moments, when both Yuste and Bargmann offered goals and suggestions — like the idea that national agencies fund worthy applicants from any country; and the convening of a committee that tackles the links between international projects — but no specific plan for moving forward.

The top Democrat in the U.S. Senate has blocked a House of Representatives plan to restore current funding levels for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through 15 December, saying House Republicans shouldn't be allowed to pick and choose which federal agencies they'd like to reopen.

«Studies like this one help advance our understanding of autism and improve the way scientists and clinicians develop new treatments,» said Lisa Gilotty, Chief of the Research Program on Autism Spectrum Disorders at the National Institute of Mental Health, one of the agencies that funded the study.