Sentences with phrase «national research council»

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rather than try to count each and every American for the 2000 census, the U.S. Census Bureau should use sampling techniques to estimate the number of people not tallied by traditional surveys, according to a report released here today by the National Research Council (NRC).

The National Research Council in Washington, D.C., estimates that dairy cows account for as much as 20 percent of human - induced emissions of methane, a potent climate change — causing greenhouse gas.

An Interim Report on Assuring DoD a Strong Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Workforce, which was released last week by the National Research Council and the National Academy of Engineering, is an example.

The 2000 National Research Council report concluded that the risk documented by Grandjean «is likely to be sufficient to result in an increase in the number of children who have to struggle to keep up in school.»

Ratti's co-authors on the paper are Remi Tachet, a researcher at Senseable City Lab (who is the corresponding author); Oleguer Sagarra of Senseable City Lab; Paolo Santi, a research scientist at Senseable City Lab and a senior researcher at the Italian National Research Council CNR; Giovanni Resta of the Italian National Research Council CNR; Michael Szell, a researcher at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; and Steven Strogatz, a mathematician at Cornell University.

As eagerness to explore the Arctic's oil and gas resources grows, the threat of a major Arctic oil spill looms ever larger — and the United States has a lot of work to do to prepare for that inevitability, a panel convened by the National Research Council (NRC) declares in a report released today.

Check out the Benchmarks established by AAAS's Project 2061, and the National Research Council's National Science Education Standards, for more information.

After receiving his doctorate, he got a 3 - year postdoctoral appointment through the National Research Council, in the quantum optics group at Redstone Arsenal, an army post located near Huntsville, Alabama.

Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A OR6, Canada

As eagerness to explore the Arctic's oil and gas resources grows, the threat of a major Arctic oil spill looms ever larger — and the United States has a lot of work to do to prepare for that inevitability, says a new report from the National Research Council.

«It's no secret that mercury exposure is highly toxic,» says toxicologist Alan Stern, a contributor to a 2000 National Research Council report on mercury toxicity.

But the political fights over that shift may continue into the administration's second term, if a report released today by the National Research Council of the U.S. National Academies is any indication.

The hearing sparked a National Research Council investigation, which confirmed the data behind the graph.

A 2011 decadal survey of the field by the National Research Council of the U.S. National Academies ranked a giant segmented - mirror telescope as one of its top three priorities for ground - based optical and infrared astronomy.

Since 1999, I have been working as a Visiting Fellow at the National Research Council of Canada in the Functional Materials Program.

In 2009 the National Research Council evaluated the state of forensic science and, shockingly, concluded that many of the techniques used in court actually have no scientific basis.

The laggards are the National Research Council (CSIC) and the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.

Pablo García Borboroglu, president of the Global Penguin Society and an ecologist for the National Research Council of Argentina, says although the recent weather - related deaths are a growing factor in chick death, they're still not the biggest concern.

This is precisely the opposite of what was recommended by the National Research Council report and the NCFS.

You won't, however, see that 150,000 figure in the main body of the Washington, D.C. — based National Research Council report on near - Earth object (NEO) surveys and mitigation strategies.

The U.S. National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine recommended limits on such research in 2005, among them that no human stem cells be added to primate embryos and that animal - human chimeras not be allowed to breed.

4 in Resources and Man, Report of the Committee on Resources and Man of the National Academy of Sciences / National Research Council, W. H. Freeman, 1969.

The organizers of the committee — the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the National Research Council — revealed in an oblique note on 8 June that Chair

Over the past decade, committees convened by the National Academy of Sciences» (NAS») National Research Council have identified shortcomings of IRIS assessments.

Almost 40 scientists from 11 countries have signed an open letter to the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), the station's parent organization, to protest his «surprising and unexpected dismissal.»

A National Research Council (NRC) report released today warns that the United States is underfunding its program intended to increase the country's resistance to the next catastrophic earthquake.

* Correction, 16 June, 4:35 p.m.: The report is from the National Research Council as well as the Institute of Medicine, both part of the National Academies.

The critique from an Institute of Medicine (IOM) and National Research Council (NRC) panel raises questions about whether the National Children's Study (NCS) can sustain the political support needed to assure funding for the ambitious effort, which has already cost $ 1 billion and could require billions more in coming years.

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There is broad agreement that first - rate scientists and engineers have helped make the U.S. military one of the most potent fighting forces in the world, notes the report from the U.S. National Academies» National Research Council and the National Academy of Engineering that was requested by the Department of Defense (DOD).

Perhaps Shermer should go back and look at Scientific American's own coverage of fluoride [see «Second Thoughts about Fluoride,» by Dan Fagin; January 2008] or, better still, read the science in the 2006 National Research Council report «Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA's Standards.»

A draft plan to restore endangered habitat and fish species in the California Bay Delta east of San Francisco is incomplete and contains major scientific gaps, according to a new report out today from the National Academies» National Research Council (NRC).

Melting ice and changing ecosystems will pose complicated new questions, says National Research Council

Philip Walther, a physicist at the University of Vienna, and colleagues recently reported a similar result in a paper posted to the arXiv preprint server, as did Roberto Osellame of the Italian National Research Council and the Polytechnic University of Milan, and colleagues.

In Paris yesterday, researchers from the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK - CEN) in Mol, the French National Research Council (CNRS), and France's Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) reported that they had successfully operated a research reactor called Guinevere by boosting its nuclear reactions with an externally produced beam of neutrons.

To Americans, who have worried about being usurped by China since the National Research Council released its 2007 study, Rising Above the Gathering Storm, the Royal Society's findings are hardly news.

Rationale The rationale for describing this proposal as an initial step derives from a corpus of published research on the incorporation of research findings into policymaking (e.g the 1978 National Research Council report, Knowledge and Policy: The Uncertain Connection) as well as the project directors» own professional experiences in a number of academic and professional settings about the intellectual and networking challenges of fostering substantive dialogue across analytical perspectives, including the subfield perspectives on science policy.

In 2005, NOAA asked the National Research Council of the U.S. National Academies for advice.

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.»

«You just don't go to RadioShack and buy a bunch of PCs and configure them for this kind of thing,» explains EVLA project manager Mark McKinnon of the correlator, designed and built by a team from the National Research Council of Canada Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in British Columbia.

The Spanish National Research Council, which is in severe financial difficulty, gets a 0.1 % budget increase.

Extremely poor public funding is a chronic problem for Italian research affecting both universities and National Research Council institutes.

«We are not saying that the decline is only due to parasites,» says co-author and bee biologist Carolina Morales of Argentina's national research council.

Bell, one of the authors of a 2011 National Research Council (NRC) report that identified future areas for scientific research in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, notes that the communications issue came up frequently in the report, and has been an issue for over a decade.

Italy's National Research Council (CNR), a $ 1 billion funding agency, would see its budget decrease by 1.2 % this year and 3.3 % each of the next 2 years.

An Earth - monitoring satellite initially proposed by Vice President Al Gore won scientific endorsement last week from a panel of the National Research Council.

Others do less well: The Research Centre for Energy, Environment, and Technology and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) get only 3.6 % and 1.0 % more, respectively, whereas institutes for research in agriculture and mining see their budget slightly decrease.

► Tomorrow, Italian optical physicist Massimo Inguscio will take over as president of the National Research Council, Italy's largest research organization, Edwin Cartlidge reported on Thursday.

The survey, which relies on observations made at the Canada — France — Hawaii Telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii, is led by astrophysicist Alan McConnachie, a research fellow at the National Research Council Canada's Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Victoria, British Columbia.

Weisberg and Sobsey were among the experts on the committee for a recent National Research Council (NRC) report that addressed indicators of waterborne disease.