Sentences with phrase «national research initiative»

Schlecht also helped lead the development, distribution, and analysis of the provider survey for the Voices of Youth Count (VoYC) initiative, a national research initiative focusing on the experiences of runaway and homeless youth.

Vinton Gray Cerf of MCI and Robert E. Kahn, president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives.

The Bone Marrow Failure Program at Dana - Farber / Boston Children's In addition to providing information and access to local and national research initiatives, our clinic offers multidisciplinary care (physician specialists, dentists, nurse practitioners, social workers) and consultative services for patients with Diamond - Blackfan anemia.

In addition to providing information and access to local and national research initiatives, our clinic offers multidisciplinary care (physician specialists, dentists, nurse practitioners, social workers) and consultative services for patients with Shwachman - Diamond syndrome.

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And Georgetown's Ellen Davis is the Senior Vice President of Research and Strategic Initiatives at the National Retail Federation, where her claim to fame is coining the phrase, «Cyber Monday.»

NDP commitments include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (already implemented by the Conservatives (but with a different phase in); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; and, increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI).

NDP promises include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented in the budget by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (also already implemented by the Conservatives); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI); and restoring the 6 % annual escalator to the Canada Health Transfer.

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.

Hangzhou City, People's Republic of China (21 September 2017)- Agriculture research heads of 14 Asian countries supported the ASEAN +3 Rice Breeding and Genetics Initiative - a long - term regional investment and collaboration initiative in rice breeding aimed to address regional food security and national rice sector strategies.

Based upon research conducted by the National Center for Fathering (NCF) and our experiences with local court initiatives, this curriculum provides «culturally» relevant material that addresses many issues for fathers involving fragile families in urban areas.

As the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom (PBIC) initiative enters its third round of funding, the founding partners — NEA HIN, the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), School Nutrition Foundation (SNF), and the National Association of Elementary School Principals Foundation (NAESPF)-- are working to increase access to school breakfast for students around the country.

The APC national leader said the theme of the symposium was apt and timely, commending the Aminu Kano Centre for Democratic Research and Training and Bayero University for the initiative.

Among the initiatives up for possible state funding is Syracuse University's proposed National Veterans Resource Complex, which would help «solidify» central New York as the «hub» of research and programming connected to veterans and military affairs.

A national Republican group that specializes in opposition research targeting prominent Democratic candidates is starting a new initiative on Wednesday to undercut Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York ahead of his 2018 re-election bid — and sully his image should he run for president in 2020.

Syverud also successfully obtained from the initiative $ 12.5 million for the National Veterans Resource Complex, part of SU's flagship effort to transform central New York into the «hub» of research and programming connected to veterans and military affairs.

I attended the daylong «National Convocation on Revitalizing the University - Industry - Government Partnership in Support of Research in Science, Engineering, and Medicine» in hopes of learning about initiatives to help students and postdocs who are preparing to leave academe and find careers in those other, unfamiliar sectors.

«Cancer research is a high priority for both countries — just witness the launch of a new National Cancer Moonshot initiative in the United States early this year,» said Tom Wang, chief international officer at AAAS and director of the AAAS center, referring to the plan President Barack Obama unveiled earlier this year to direct $ 1 billion toward battling cancer.

He directs The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), an initiative of the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute.

The research focused on seventh - and eighth - grade students participating in the Camden Youth Development Study, an initiative funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health.

Project 2061 participates in a number of national assessment efforts and consults on a wide range of assessment research and development initiatives.

On a national level, the research councils have a number of initiatives aimed at encouraging the commercialisation of research.

The agency supports network science through individual institutes (for example, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences funds nine National Centers for Systems Biology, academic centers that emphasize network biology) and through agencywide initiatives (such as the National Technology Centers for Networks and Pathways, funded by the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research and the recently announced Human Connectome Project, which aims to map the connections among the human brain's 100 billion neurons).

In a project sponsored by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Carbon Monitoring System research initiative, researchers from the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI) found that global livestock methane (CH4) emissions for 2011 are 11 % higher than the estimates based on guidelines provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) research initiative, researchers from the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI) found that global livestock methane (CH4) emissions for 2011 are 11 % higher than the estimates based on guidelines provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Research Institute (JGCRI) found that global livestock methane (CH4) emissions for 2011 are 11 % higher than the estimates based on guidelines provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2006.

The study was partially funded by Columbia University Research Initiatives for Science and Engineering (RISE) award; the Office of Naval Research; NOAA's Climate Program Office's Modeling, Analysis, Predictions and Projections; Willis Research Network; and the National Science Foundation.

Meanwhile, at the national research agencies, some relatively recent initiatives are giving promising early career researchers their own funds and lab space, to foster their independence.

Initiatives include the creation of a new funding agency in 2005, the National Research Agency (ANR, L'Agence nationale de la recherché), a decentralization of universities to give them more independence, and financial incentives to internationalize laboratories, which is part of the «government push to attract faculty from abroad,» he describes.

And now with support from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme and related national initiatives, the continent seems poised to advance even further, creating more attractive opportunities for foreign scholars looking to contribute to its research endeavors.

Just as scientists begin to unmask the microbiome — they're even working with the White House to launch a national microbiome research initiative — they're realizing that many microbiomes are threatened.

Seeded with $ 110 million from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the initiative has a heavy focus on technology development, says Tom Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), one of four NIH institutes that together contributed $ 40 million to the pot.

But the National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN), part of a 10 - year, half - billion - dollar initiative launched in 2014 by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to enhance the diversity of the biomedical workforce, has gotten off to a rocky start.

R&D spending includes everything from the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's initiatives in the Defense Department relating to biosecurity and technological tracking devices, to the National Institutes of Health's projects relating to research into precision medicine and advances in the understanding of thResearch Project Agency's initiatives in the Defense Department relating to biosecurity and technological tracking devices, to the National Institutes of Health's projects relating to research into precision medicine and advances in the understanding of thresearch into precision medicine and advances in the understanding of the brain.

The National Institute of Disability Management and Research (NIDMAR) is a labour - management initiative of the Disabled Workers Foundation of Canada and is supported by public and private funding.

The European Union - funded CO-REACH initiative, for example, is a consortium of 12 national bilateral research programmes with China that commands a combined annual budget of $ 12 million.

The work was partially funded with a $ 100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation's citizen science initiative, which encourages scientists to find ways to expand knowledge of and access to research.

While Allison's early research that led to Yervoy was funded by the National Cancer Institute, «since then, there have been no major initiatives to accelerate progress in this area.»

Their research is part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) initiative announced July 15 to develop the next generation of wireless technologies.

Today, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History has announced a $ 30 million privately funded initiative on human evolution that will sponsor a permanent museum exhibit, educational programs, and research.

But there was a nary a sign of monies for special initiatives that the community had sought, such as the one proposed by Canadian Institutes of Health Research President Alain Beaudet to craft the parameters of a national dementia strategy.

The National Institutes of Health has launched a five - year, $ 120 million program called 4D Nucleome that is sure to build momentum in the nuclear - architecture research community, and a similar initiative is being launched in Europe.

A forward - looking initiative called the Research Domain Criteria project, financed by the National Institute of Mental Health, promotes clinical research to match biochemical and genetic indicators of mental illness with treResearch Domain Criteria project, financed by the National Institute of Mental Health, promotes clinical research to match biochemical and genetic indicators of mental illness with treresearch to match biochemical and genetic indicators of mental illness with treatments.

Now, translational research has emerged as a field in its own right, aided in large part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap for Medical Research, a collection of initiatives that prioritize efforts to shepherd biomedical discoveries into clinical applresearch has emerged as a field in its own right, aided in large part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap for Medical Research, a collection of initiatives that prioritize efforts to shepherd biomedical discoveries into clinical applResearch, a collection of initiatives that prioritize efforts to shepherd biomedical discoveries into clinical application.

«These results highlight the potential for an infusion of resources and staff at established MPAs — and at MPAs in the pipeline — to enhance MPA management and ensure that MPAs realize their full potential,» said Dr. Helen Fox of the National Geographic Society, who led the research initiative together with Dr. Michael B. Mascia of Conservation International.

Still, Sheehan said neuroscience already is one of the leaders in data sharing and management, with such resources as the NIH - funded National Database for Autism Research; an NIH - Defense Department sponsored data base on traumatic brain injury; the NIH - funded Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC), which helps researchers to develop, share and collaborate on software tools for doing functional and structural imaging studies of the brain; and the Neuroscience Information Framework, an NIH initiative that makes neuroscience resources - data, materials, and tools - accessible via any computer connected to the Internet.

To promote better understanding of the ethics of research and the inclusion of individuals in research experiments, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced last year a new funding initiative: Research on Ethical Issues in Human research and the inclusion of individuals in research experiments, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced last year a new funding initiative: Research on Ethical Issues in Human research experiments, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced last year a new funding initiative: Research on Ethical Issues in Human Research on Ethical Issues in Human Studies.

Michael Huerta, associate director of the National Institute of Mental Health, was instrumental in starting, in 1993, the Human Brain Project (HBP), a large - scale, multi-institute initiative that combined informatics with basic research and clinical studies in neuroscience.

Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)-- which is funding this initiative jointly with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute — says that having the genomes of three of the most important mammals in biomedical research in hand «will greatly speed the unraveling of the genetics and physiology» of human Research Institute (NHGRI)-- which is funding this initiative jointly with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute — says that having the genomes of three of the most important mammals in biomedical research in hand «will greatly speed the unraveling of the genetics and physiology» of human research in hand «will greatly speed the unraveling of the genetics and physiology» of human disease.

We got funding from the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy and the Tufts Collaborates initiative to pursue this new area of research.»

The program has three major components: the Director's R&D Fund, which develops new capabilities in support of the Laboratory's research initiatives, the Seed Money Fund, which is open to all innovative ideas that have the potential for enhancing the Laboratory's core scientific and technical disciplines, and the Named Fellowships, open to outstanding doctorate - level candidate scientists and engineers to achieve experience in areas of science and technology of national importance.

The research was conducted as part of the Human Microbiome Project, a major initiative funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that largely has focused on cataloging the body's bacterial ecosystems.

Research reported in this news release was supported by grants from the USDA - ARS Area - wide project as a part of i5K initiative, the USDA - ARS Office of International Research Program from a grant provided by the USAID Feed - the - Future program (58 -0210-3-012), the U.S. National Science Foundation (IOS - 1110080, IOS - 1109989 and IOS - 1354309), USDA NIFA (2016 -67013-24756), the Swedish Research Council, and the Israel Science Foundation.