Sentences with phrase «national research activities»

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The research mirrors what a team led by Giovanni Chiodini from the Italian National Institute of Geophysics reported late last year, when they too modelled Campi Flegrei's activity and found that it's dangerously close to hitting a critical pressure point that could trigger another eruption.

The 2012 Report on Angel Investing Activity in Canada, the third of its kind, was released in partnership with Industry Canada, BDC Capital, FedDev Ontario and National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

After learning that the Canada Revenue Agency is auditing  the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives  on the grounds that it allegedly engages in politically partisan, biased and one - sided research activity,  a number of university professors  have drawn up an open letter asking the Minister of National -LSB-...]

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

An additional five cents goes to the National Dairy Promotion & Research Board for generic dairy promotion activities at the nationaNational Dairy Promotion & Research Board for generic dairy promotion activities at the nationalnational level.

«Menu trends today are beginning to shift from ingredient - based items to concept - based ideas, mirroring how consumers tend to adapt their activities to their overall lifestyle philosophies, such as environmental sustainability and nutrition,» said Hudson Riehle, Senior Vice President of Research for the National Restaurant Association.

The action guide includes best practices for promoting healthy eating and physical activity for children from infancy through school age, based on current science, public health research, and national recommendations and standards.

Meta - analyses of this expanded research base confirm the model's impacts on a range of risk and protective factors associated with child maltreatment.7, 8,9 In addition, all of the major home visitation models in the U.S. are currently engaged in a variety of research activities, many of which are resulting in better defined models and more rigorous attention to the key issue of participant enrolment and retention, staff training and quality assurance standards.10 For example, recent findings emerging from the initial two - year follow - up of the Early Head Start National Demonstration Project confirm the efficacy of home visitation programs with new parents.

In 2014, MI - AIMH divided into two organizations: MI - AIMH (focused on state efforts) and the Alliance for the Advancement of Infant Mental Health (focused on continued national and international activity specific to global support for use of the MI - AIMH Competency Guidelines ® and the MI - AIMH Endorsement ®, research, and practice).

Several examples of the work of IBFAN groups were mentioned: the collaboration in Argentina of the Buenos Aires provincial breastfeeding program; in Albania the Group for the Protection and Promotion of Breastfeeding serves as a centre for child feeding expertise; in Brazil, Canada, Guatemala, Mauritius, Pakistan and Uruguay the groups place particular emphasis on Code implementation, related marketing research and public information activities; national surveys in Benin, Burkina Faso, Gabon and Senegal to monitor International Code implementation show numerous violations even where national measures are adopted.

The School Nutrition Foundation — along with the other Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom (National Association of Elementary School Principals Foundation, NEA Healthy Futures, and Food Research and Action Center (FRAC)-RRB--- has submitted the final report to the Walmart Foundation for Cycle 3 of the grant, which covered activity in 2014 and 2015.

Serving as Director - General of the Electoral Institute of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), he was at the forefront advocating for free, fair, credible and participatory electoral system through research, capacity building for the staff of the Commission, and engagement of vigorous voter education activities.

A physician who allegedly conducted human brain - activity experiments on people associated with the NXIVM corporation has apparently not published a scientific study in years and there is no indication his private research was being overseen by an independent review board, according to a medical expert and records of the NIH and U.S. National Library of Medicine.

In addition, says Denecke, «We have facilities that are not available elsewhere, like the Dalton Cumbrian facility» — a research facility connected to the Dalton Nuclear Institute that hosts national nuclear research activities.

[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).

Empa's research activities on novel batteries for stationary electricity storage systems are embedded in the Swiss Competence Center for Heat and Electricity Storage (SCCER HaE), which coordinates research for new heat and electricity storage concepts on a national level and is led by the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI).

In the study, the phage, called «CR5,» showed high antimicrobial activity against the bacterium, Cronobacter sakazakii, as well as against several other species of Cronobacter, which can also cause dangerous illness, said coauthor Sangryeol Ryu, professor in the Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea.

The government is also combining separate nuclear weapons research programs at Kahn's lab and the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission under a new entity, the National Defense Complex, leaving the commission to manage civilian nuclear activities.

Nathaniel Pitts, director of the Office of Integrative Activities at the National Science Foundation (NSF), encouraged him «to gain the best training I could in a basic research setting and then apply that to developing world agriculture.»

Similarly, investments in research through the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy, to name a few, have resulted in billions of dollars in economic activity, created thousands of jobs, and help position the U.S. to maintain its global leadership in innresearch through the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy, to name a few, have resulted in billions of dollars in economic activity, created thousands of jobs, and help position the U.S. to maintain its global leadership in innResearch Projects Agency and the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy, to name a few, have resulted in billions of dollars in economic activity, created thousands of jobs, and help position the U.S. to maintain its global leadership in innResearch Projects Agency for Energy, to name a few, have resulted in billions of dollars in economic activity, created thousands of jobs, and help position the U.S. to maintain its global leadership in innovation.

The amendment did exclude those research and technology programs administered by the National Nuclear Security Administration and the nondefense Office of Nuclear Energy, as well as other DOE activities related to radioactive waste cleanup.

Founded in 1976, Toyohashi University of Technology — one of Japan's most dynamic science - and engineering - based universities — is a vibrant, modern national institute with research activities reflecting the modern era of advanced electronics, engineering, and life sciences.

As a leading partner in the U.S. BRAIN Initiative, launched in 2013, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is advancing fundamental research of the brain's structure, activity and function.

Michael Kurilla, director of the office of biodefense research affairs at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, describes a target as «some molecular entity where — if its activity is impaired or enhanced — you can intervene in some productive way in a part of a pathological process.»

Since 2009 clinical psychologist Bruce Cuthbert and his team at the National Institute of Mental Health have been constructing a classification system based on recent research, which is revealing how the structure and activity of a mentally ill brain differs from that of a healthy one.

She was given lab space and funding to hire three Ph.D. students to start her own research group on telomerase activity, her salary being provided by El Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (the Spanish National Research Cresearch group on telomerase activity, her salary being provided by El Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (the Spanish National Research CResearch Council).

The regulations are meant to provide federal protection and to reassure the public that their health and research information are safe, but at the same time the proposal also calls for the exchange of data without patient consent for «national priority activities» — which include research.

Support for the seminar series, including refreshments and travel, lodging, and honorarium gifts for the speakers, is provided by the Alabama National Science Foundation Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) and Oak Ridge Associated Universities Visiting Industrial Scholars ProgramThe UAB Graduate Student Association, the UAB Graduate School, and the UAB Office of Postdoctoral Studies currently support special activities such as Career Day.

Research was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facilities operated by Argonne National Laboratory (contract DE-AC02-06CG11357), the National Institute of Mental Health at the National Institutes of Health (grant U01MH109100), the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity MICrONS project, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency SIMPLEX program (contract N66001 -15-C-4041) and DARPA GRAPHS program (contract N66001 -14-1-4028).

The findings across three independent research papers show that human activity did increase the damage inflicted by Hurricane Harvey, said Michael Wehner, a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

The two papers released yesterday follow research published last month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that found that human activity could make another Hurricane Harvey far more likely.

While he has offered few details on policies for biomedical research, Trump said last year that he has heard «terrible» things about the US National Institutes of Health; he has also derided NASA as a «logistics agency for low - Earth orbit activity ``, and said he would expand the role of the commercial space industry in the US space programme.

The team also recently obtained a grant from the National Medical Research Council in Singapore to pursue a study using the probe to examine the relationship between key Parkinson's disease - linked genes and MAO - B expression and activity to further understand the causes of the disease and illuminate the role of MAO - B in this.

A Japanese research group led by Prof Norihiro Sadato, a professor of the National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS), National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), has found that people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have decreased activity in an area in the brain critical for understanding if his / her movement was imitated by others.

The research team also encouraged the men to exercise on their own, per national guidelines that recommend at least 150 minutes of physical activity a week and 10,000 steps per day.

$ 20 million for the National Science Foundation (NSF), to support research into the development of nanoscale probes that can record the activity of neural networks; information processing technology that can handle the flood of data generated by BRAIN research; and better understanding of the neural representation of thoughts, emotions, actions, and memories

First, the Ministry of Education and Research appointed two bridgehead organisations — the Archimedes Foundation and the Estonian Academy of Sciences — to work mostly at the national level and coordinate the activities of the network.

The competition, outlined in their National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, was designed to answer the question: Are persuaded innovators less capable than those who naturally gravitate to innovative activities?

Here, the research team led by Associate Professor Yukio Nishimura, National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS), Natural Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), and Masahiro Sawada, a former graduate student of Kyoto University, and Dr. Hirotaka Onoe, a team leader at RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies found that the nucleus accumbens, that control motivation in the brain, activates the activity of the motor cortex of the brain, and then promotes recovery of motor function during the early stage of recovery after spinal cord injury.

The first, Schatz's amendment, cites scientific bodies like the National Research Council and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in asking whether it's the «sense of Congress» that «climate change is real» and that «human activity significantly contributes to climate change.»

The legislation, which sets policies affecting research programs at NSF and the National Institute of Standards and Technology as well as science education activities across the federal government, would replace the 2010 America COMPETES Act, which expired last year.

The exact amount of funding under scrutiny isn't made clear in the indictment, but the grants came from the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Naval Medical Research Center.

Undertaking research in the Parc National des E?crins, the long - running study investigates the development of human activity over the last 8,000 years at high altitude in the Southern Alps.

The findings are in line with other studies that suggest that cognitively stimulating activities can indeed increase cognitive reserve and delay cognitive decline in older age» says Anja Leist who is supported by a postdoctoral research fellowship of the National Research Fund Luxresearch fellowship of the National Research Fund LuxResearch Fund Luxembourg.

The research was supported by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, and the Office of Naval Rresearch was supported by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, and the Office of Naval RResearch Projects Activity, and the Office of Naval ResearchResearch.

The PRB serves as the US national committee to SCAR, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, a nongovernmental organization charged to initiate, promote, and coordinate international scientific activity in the Antarctic.

(3) coordinate the innovation activities of Hubs with those occurring through other Department of Energy entities, including the National Laboratories, the Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy, and Energy Frontier Research Collaborations, and within industry, including by annually --

But in fact, most nations will be touched by developments in the Arctic because the region's shipping, fishing, energy and mineral production, scientific research, and other activities affect national economic welfare and security.

Support career enrichment activities by providing opportunities for research presentations with feedback, networking activities, and financial support for attending national scientific conferences.

of the Statutes define the scope of the Library's activities: «The Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences disseminates knowledge and promotes scientific research, historically it is a national institution making available traditional (printed, manuscript, and archival) holdings as well as other information media».