Sentences with phrase «research agencies now»

This week, the U.S. Congress passed a bill to fund the government until the end of the fiscal year, and research agencies now know how much to spend in 2013.
Federal research agencies now funnel most of their money for graduate students through grants to faculty members.

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Research group Climate Central has created a plug - in for Google Earth that illustrates how catastrophic an «extreme» sea - level rise scenario would be if the flooding happened now, based on projections in a 2017 report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA).
The now - notorious Internet Research Agency — often referred to as a «troll farm» — was reportedly not founded until around 2013, leaving half of the researchers» data free of its influence.
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.
In the $ 164 billion U.S. lodging market, booking fees are now nearly split between online travel agencies such as Expedia, with $ 39 billion, and hotels, with $ 38 billion, according to Phocuswright, a New York - based travel market research company.
He also stressed the need for cooperation with all who work on the alcoholism problem, including the more than one hundred agencies (in the U.S. and Canada) now engaged in rehabilitation, research, and alcohol education.
Most of them are linked to something called Internet Research Agency, a clandestine organization that U.S. military intelligence now believes is «a state - funded organization that blogs and tweets on behalf of the Kremlin.»
After nearly a decade in service to Cuomo, he now looks forward to «being a conduit... helping us communicate smart research to policymakers, to legislators, to Executive Chamber employees, to agencies, to other states looking at New York.»
Now that the submitted proposals have reached a critical mass, the agency wants to «make sure that the projects they are funding are actually proceeding as expected, and that they are able to capture to some extent the great research and educational developments that are bubbling up,» said Mark Milutinovich, director of the Research Competitiveness research and educational developments that are bubbling up,» said Mark Milutinovich, director of the Research Competitiveness Research Competitiveness Program.
Its success in fostering research and education inspired other Brazilian states: all but one now has a similar agency, and most have guaranteed funding linked to taxes.
«The Environmental Protection Agency is now working up a screening program for endocrine - disruption research on mallard ducks and one species of quail,» says Millam.
The AlloSphere is one of dozens of immersive environments that are now routinely used at universities, government agencies and key research centers.
«The agency's move meant that six federal agencies that provide the bulk of the nation's basic research funding now have public access policies required by a 2013 White House order.
The valuable cooling effects of large urban green spaces has been established; now scientists from Forest Research, the research agency of the Forestry Commission, have studied small and medium sized parks in London to determine the optimum size, distribution and composition of urban green spaces needed to achieve urban Research, the research agency of the Forestry Commission, have studied small and medium sized parks in London to determine the optimum size, distribution and composition of urban green spaces needed to achieve urban research agency of the Forestry Commission, have studied small and medium sized parks in London to determine the optimum size, distribution and composition of urban green spaces needed to achieve urban cooling.
DARPA [the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency] used to play a major role, and they're completely application - driven now, or almost completely.
Many US agencies now have policies banning political manipulation of research — but ambiguities remain.
From the establishment of the National Research Agency (Agence Nationale de la Recherche, ANR) in February 2005 to new laws on research and university autonomy passed in April 2006 and August 2007, France is now on a road to modernization which aims both to simplify and rejuvenate what President Nicolas Sarkozy described last March as «an old moth - eaten system (un vieux statut mité)Research Agency (Agence Nationale de la Recherche, ANR) in February 2005 to new laws on research and university autonomy passed in April 2006 and August 2007, France is now on a road to modernization which aims both to simplify and rejuvenate what President Nicolas Sarkozy described last March as «an old moth - eaten system (un vieux statut mité)research and university autonomy passed in April 2006 and August 2007, France is now on a road to modernization which aims both to simplify and rejuvenate what President Nicolas Sarkozy described last March as «an old moth - eaten system (un vieux statut mité).»
Until now, research in France has been divided among five different types of organizations: universities, elite higher education institutions (the grandes écoles), national research agencies such as the National Center for Scientific Research (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS), foundations such as the Pasteur Institute, and privaresearch in France has been divided among five different types of organizations: universities, elite higher education institutions (the grandes écoles), national research agencies such as the National Center for Scientific Research (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS), foundations such as the Pasteur Institute, and privaresearch agencies such as the National Center for Scientific Research (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS), foundations such as the Pasteur Institute, and privaResearch (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS), foundations such as the Pasteur Institute, and private labs.
Although it notes that the evidence available «has limitations» and recommending further research, the agency says that all neonicotinoids should now be assessed for their potential developmental neurotoxicity.
Now a portable production system, designed to manufacture a range of biopharmaceuticals on demand, has been developed by researchers at MIT, with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Researcher Developer Dr Rachel Westwood, Research Fellow Mr Sam Toon, and Emeritus Professor Peter Styles from Keele's School of Geography, Geology and Environment — together with Professor Nigel Cassidy who is now at Birmingham University — have published their study advising on hydraulic fracturing safety guidelines for legislative bodies, including governments, environmental agencies, health and safety executives and local planning authorities.
Now we're in the final stage: Private research companies are being bought by large advertising agencies.
Some $ 76 million of the research increase, however would come from giving NSF control of three research programs now at other agencies: the Sea Grant marine research program controlled by the Department of Commerce, and hydrology and environmental education programs run by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Environmental Protection Agency, respectively.
The agency will now require that scientists voluntarily post all federally funded research on the institute's free - access Web site, www.pubmed.com, within 12 months, not the 6 months originally proposed.
Under DL 180, public research agencies are for now exempt from the 10 % cut in nonmanagerial staff mandated by Legge 133/08.
«The agency is now encouraging you to speak publicly about your research instead of putting roadblocks in your way,» he says.
Named to the panel are Patrick Aebischer, president of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland; Brazilian stem cell biologist Stevens Rehen; and Alan Rudolph, a former official of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency now with the International Neuroscience Network Foundation in New York City.
In fact, the Pentagon is now extending its desire to manage information all the way to a soldier's brain, where DARPA and other research agencies are seeking to exploit neuroscience in pursuit of better battlefield technology.
Arecibo is now designated a federally funded research and development center, which curtails researchers at the facility from applying for grants across federal agencies.
Boston Dynamics, which is now part of Google, built Spot for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as proof they could create a nimbler, quieter version of the company's previous quadrupeds.
«But the big picture right now is funding for research like this is declining rapidly given the current state of government agencies, and it's important for research like this to continue to move forward so we can better understand one of the important and charismatic species in the Northwest and the nation.»
Much of the research funds formerly disbursed by RAS — about $ 1.3 billion planned for 2014 to 2016 — will now be distributed competitively by the Russian Scientific Fund, a new agency that will operate independently of both the academy and FASO.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), for example, is now «very interested in mixing disciplines such as computing, physical science, and biology together,» says DARPA spokesperson, Jan Walker.
Now Fong Wee Teck and colleagues from the Institute for Infocomm Research at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research in Singapore have developed a haptic controller that looks a lot like a normal tennis racket.
Now, in a three - way collaboration with Hoechst - Marion - Roussel and Transgene, Denis Pompon and colleagues at the Center for Molecular Genetics at the French national research agency CNRS in Paris have overcome these problems by reprogramming baker's yeast to cook up progesterone and its precursor, pregnenolone.
Once a researcher and now working for the Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO), I am often asked, especially by young scientists keenly embarking on a research career, how I ended up working for an international funding agency.
The fellows have been dispatched to government agencies, where they are working with supervisors on specific research and policy projects, while also staying in close contact with mentors, who are alumni of the AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships now working in Southeast Asia.
AVAcore, aided by funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is now working to develop a smaller version for less than $ 1,000 that can be worn like a glove.
The Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics, a coalition of organizations that rely on federal statistics, has funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a survey of how agencies now manage administrative records, says Kitty Smith, the council's executive director who for many years led the Economic Research Service, the chief statistical agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
«We urge President Obama to act now to implement open access policies for all federal agencies that fund scientific research
By expanding NOAA researchnow at about $ 10 million, but the agency requested a 50 % boost for FY 2011 — the agency would be able to do more ecological and technological analysis to improve and monitor the sustainability of aquaculture operations.
For now, the U.S. Defense Department's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched a two - year, $ 10 - million project encouraging scientists to work on ways to manipulate this quirk of quantum electrodynamics.
Previously thought too complicated to solve, researchers at Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A * STAR), Singapore, have now developed a computational model to simulate the motion of an elliptical vortex ring in a slow - moving fluid in a range of different situations, allowing for a more realistic description of vortex rings.
The challenge to developing efficient and cheap commercially available solar panels has, until now, been dominated by silicon, with emerging alternative solar cells considered minor players, says Wei Lin Leong from Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A * STAR) Institute of Materials Research and Engineering.
Jeremy is now a Senior Energy Analyst in the Climate and Energy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, conducting analytical work on the Environmental Protection Agency's carbon regulations and other areas of energy research.
While Organ - Chips were first developed in an academic setting, a collaborative ecosystem of researchers spanning the pharmaceutical industry, regulatory agencies, research hospitals, and universities are now developing and qualifying the technology for a broad range of applications.
A number of alumni now hold key positions in the country's agricultural research agencies.
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Phil is also co-Director of the Protein Data Bank (PDB), whose vast store of data-most major journals and funding agencies now require scientists to submit relevant protein structure data to PDB - has become a key resource for the biology and genomics research communities.
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