Sentences with phrase «research committee earlier»

In terms of research policy, Busquin is something of an unknown quantity, but he told members of the Parliament's research committee earlier this month that he wants to make better use of the EU's Joint Research Centre, which includes institutes covering fields from space applications to consumer protection.

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From 1993 to 1999, using an earlier iteration of the data form, we collected largely retrospective data on a voluntary basis mainly from direct entry midwives involved with home births approached through the Midwives Alliance of North America Statistics and Research Committee and the Canadian Midwives Statistics» Collaboration.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

(Albany, NY)-- One day after being appointed Ranking Democratic Member of the New York State Senate Elections Committee, Senator Brian Kavanagh today joined with fellow legislators and advocates — including the Brennan Center for Justice, Citizen Action of New York, Citizens Union, Common Cause / NY, the League of Women Voters of New York State, the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), Planned Parenthood, and Transportation Workers United Local 100 and colleagues in the Senate to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to fully fund early voting in the Fiscal 2018 - 2019 Executive Budget.

Mauro has long been one of Albany's best known experts on budget and public policy issues from his work at FPI and earlier as Secretary of the NYS Assembly Ways and Means Committee, director of Assembly Speaker Stanley Fink's Program Development Group, director of research for the last major revision of the New York City Charter, and Deputy Director of the Rockefeller Institute of Government.

Mauro has long been one of Albany's best known experts on budget and public policy issues from his work at FPI and earlier as Secretary of the NYS Assembly Ways and Means Committee, director of Assembly Speaker Stanley Fink's Program Development Group, director of research for the last major revision of the New York City Charter, and Deputy... (read more)

Building on earlier work, our most recent research, published in Parliamentary Affairs, suggests — at least in regard to MPs» engagement with select committees — that perhaps it is not.

With a flourishing research and academic career and experience on hiring committees under his belt, Crowdy is now in a position to advise early career mathematicians.

Earlier this year, a group of concerned scientists and journal publishers signed an open letter known as the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) to encourage review boards and tenure committees to «eliminate the use of journal - based metrics, such as Journal Impact Factors, in funding, appointment, and promotion considerations,» and to encourage the development of alternative metrics (altmetrics) to measure a scientist's research contriResearch Assessment (DORA) to encourage review boards and tenure committees to «eliminate the use of journal - based metrics, such as Journal Impact Factors, in funding, appointment, and promotion considerations,» and to encourage the development of alternative metrics (altmetrics) to measure a scientist's research contriresearch contributions.

Among the CSFR / OSFR early professional ethics initiatives, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission asked the committee to review proposed regulations regarding issues of technical dissent with the agency, OSFR staff surveyed 241 professional societies asking them about the extent of their organization's professional ethics issues and efforts, and the CSFR, the President's Commission on Ethical Problems in Medicine and Research and the group Medicine in the Public Interest cosponsored a workshop on whistle blowing on fraud in biomedical rResearch and the group Medicine in the Public Interest cosponsored a workshop on whistle blowing on fraud in biomedical researchresearch.

In a report published earlier this month, the French committee says: «Contrary to all recognised rules for medical research, the first trials on humans were done even though experiments on animals were still extremely limited.»

«These findings will give women with early stage breast cancer greater certainty that anti-estrogen therapy will decrease their risk of recurrence and increase their chance for survival whereas chemotherapy will not,» said breast cancer survivor Mary Lou Smith, JD, MBA, who helped design the study as a leader in the ECOG - ACRIN Cancer Research Advocates Committee.

Trends in the Early Careers of Life Scientists Committee on Dimensions, Causes, and Implications of Recent Trends in Careers of Life Scientists, National Research Council (National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1998).

The idea is to present, up front, in half a page or so, the information that the committee is most likely to be looking for in the early, screening phase of the search: clearly stated research goals, the most compelling motivation, and the general approach you intend to take.

To better anticipate the next sudden change, the committee recommends the creation of an early warning system and research to better understand the possibilities.

Earlier versions of what the committee approved today have been subject to withering criticism from the research community, including presidential science adviser John Holdren.

Like other bodies that have recently reviewed CRISPR and older genome editing methods, the committee also endorsed basic research using embryo editing to study areas such as early human development.

As part of its mission to engage with early career investigators, the Early Career Member Committee hosted a webinar titled «Strategies to Build a Successful Research Program in Obesity - Related Research» on Thursday, February 19, early career investigators, the Early Career Member Committee hosted a webinar titled «Strategies to Build a Successful Research Program in Obesity - Related Research» on Thursday, February 19, Early Career Member Committee hosted a webinar titled «Strategies to Build a Successful Research Program in Obesity - Related Research» on Thursday, February 19, 2015.

Key Dates Abstract deadline: January 31 (Sun) 2016 Early - bird registration deadline: December 31 (Thur) 2015 — closed Youth Travel Awards application deadline: December 15 (Thu) 2015 — closed Registration — closed Contact us [email protected] Organizing Committee: Chih - Feng Chen National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan Bon - Chu Chung Academia Sinica, Taiwan Hsu - Chen Cheng National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan Pin - Chi Tang National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan Yi - Chiao Chan National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan Shyh - Jye Lee National Taiwan University, Taiwan Jun - An Chen Academia Sinica, Taiwan Shen - Ju Chou Academia Sinica, Taiwan Ting - Xin Jiang University of Southern California, US Randall Widelitz University of Southern California, US Masafumi Inaba University of Southern California, US Ta - Ching Chen National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan / University of Southern California, US Gee - way Lin University of Southern California, US Program Committee: Cheng - Ming Chuong University of Southern California, US Bon - Chu Chung Academia Sinica, Taiwan Claudio Stern University College London, UK David Clayton Queen Mary University of London, UK Koji Tamura Tohoku University, Japan Bertrand Pain Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute, INRA, France Rusty Lansford University of Southern California, US Organizers: Center for the integrative and Evolutionary Galliformes Genomics (iEGG), National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Co-organizers: Taiwanese Society of Developmental Biology, Taiwan Center for Systems Biology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Research Center for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taiwan World's Poultry Science Association - Taiwan Branch

The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs (COMNAP) and the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) are working together to attract talented early - career researchers, scientists, engineers and other professionals to strengthen international capacity and cooperation in fields such as climate, biodiversity, conservation, humanities and astrophysics rResearch (SCAR), the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs (COMNAP) and the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) are working together to attract talented early - career researchers, scientists, engineers and other professionals to strengthen international capacity and cooperation in fields such as climate, biodiversity, conservation, humanities and astrophysics researchresearch.

Additionally, she serves on the Editorial Boards of Breast Cancer Research, Carcinogenesis: Integrative Biology, the Journal of Computational Biology and JCO Precision Oncology and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) Adaptive Oncology Initiative and the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Early Detection Research Committee.

At a Science Committee hearing held earlier this year, NSF Director France Córdova agreed with a legislative effort to uphold a national interest standard for taxpayer - funded research grants.

He founded the field of nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) in the early 1990s, and since then he has published broadly on nanoscience, lectured at most major research centers worldwide, and is active on many national and international committees promoting these fields.

Gary currently sits on the advisory board of Impossible Labs, the American Society for Cell Biology's LGBTQ Working Group, the steering committee of Rescuing Biomedical Research, and is an advisor to the Genetics Society of America Early Career Scientists Policy Group.

1 Based on surveys conducted by the National Opinion and Research Center, the report was released earlier this year by the American Jewish Committee.

In its report Eager to Learn, the Early Pedagogy Committee of the National Research Council recommended that «the next generation of research... examine more rigorously the characteristics of programs that produce beneficial outcomes for all childrenResearch Council recommended that «the next generation of research... examine more rigorously the characteristics of programs that produce beneficial outcomes for all childrenresearch... examine more rigorously the characteristics of programs that produce beneficial outcomes for all children.»

Decades of best practice, cutting edge research in early education including the Head Start Impact Study, expert advice, and The Secretary's Advisory Committee's recommendations all culminate in a call to action for policy changes that ensure all Head Start programs provide a consistently high quality early learning experience that prepares children for Kindergarten and has long - term effects on their academic success and overall health.

Before coming to Committee for Children in early 2018, Tricia worked as a research analyst at the University of Washington's Center on Reinventing Public Education.

Priscilla Little, associate director of the Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP) at HGSE, was one of four witnesses invited to testify at the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education hearing, After School Programs: How the Bush Administration's Budget Impacts Children and Families, for the U. S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor on March 11.

They include Kai - ming Cheng, a professor at Hong Kong University who has been a member of the Hong Kong Education Commission, is intimately familiar with the Shanghai reforms and was recently appointed to the China State Advisory Committee on Curriculum Reform; Tom Corcoran, Co-director of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education at Columbia University and an early observer of the work of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission; Ben Jensen, a principal at the Grattan Institute in Melbourne, Australia, whose research on several aspects of the Shanghai system have drawn the notice of many observers; Vivien Stewart, Senior Advisor to Asia Society for education, and earlier, to the United Nations, who has been visiting, observing and leading delegations to China for more than a decade; and Minxuan Zhang, President of Shanghai Normal University and deputy director of the Shanghai Education ComResearch in Education at Columbia University and an early observer of the work of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission; Ben Jensen, a principal at the Grattan Institute in Melbourne, Australia, whose research on several aspects of the Shanghai system have drawn the notice of many observers; Vivien Stewart, Senior Advisor to Asia Society for education, and earlier, to the United Nations, who has been visiting, observing and leading delegations to China for more than a decade; and Minxuan Zhang, President of Shanghai Normal University and deputy director of the Shanghai Education Comresearch on several aspects of the Shanghai system have drawn the notice of many observers; Vivien Stewart, Senior Advisor to Asia Society for education, and earlier, to the United Nations, who has been visiting, observing and leading delegations to China for more than a decade; and Minxuan Zhang, President of Shanghai Normal University and deputy director of the Shanghai Education Commission.

The letter to the SEC from members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, led by California Democrat Ted Lieu, cites recent separate investigative series by InsideClimate News and The Los Angeles Times regarding Exxon's early research into climate change.

ARCUS works closely with other organizations with Arctic interests, such as the U.S. Arctic Research Commission (USARC), the Polar Research Board (PRB), the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), the Arctic Institute of North America (AINA), the European Polar Board, the Arctic Council and its scientific working groups, the Association for Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS), and Polar Educators International (PEI).

This year, the Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee of the Canadian Bar Association has undertaken a project to develop an «Ethical Practices Self - Evaluation Tool» for use by Canadian law firms that is scheduled to be available in early fall 2013 (full disclosure: I am the Research Director for this project).

The HFCC organizing committee is pleased to announce that nominations are now open for the 2017 Triple P Research Network Early Career Research Award and the Triple P Practice Excellence Award.

This pragmatic trial was designed in accordance with the consolidated standards of reporting trials guidelines54 and was conducted by a research team independent of the programme, with an independent trial steering committee including chairman, parental representation and members with expertise in statistics; early years» intervention studies; and child psychiatry.

See also National Research Council and Institute of Medicine, Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development (Shonkoff and Phillips, eds., National Academy Press 2000), Committee on Integrating the Science of Early Childhood Development, Board on Children, Youth and Families, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Chapter 14, Conclusions and Recommendations, p. 391.

Committee for Children, a Seattle - based nonprofit that develops research - based bullying prevention curricula for children from early learning through grade 8, has joined ConnectSafely.org's steering committee for the Safer Internet Day Committee for Children, a Seattle - based nonprofit that develops research - based bullying prevention curricula for children from early learning through grade 8, has joined ConnectSafely.org's steering committee for the Safer Internet Day committee for the Safer Internet Day campaign.

As a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Developmental Outcomes and Assessment for Young Children, Hebbeler was a contributing author to the 2008 report, «Early Childhood Assessment: Why, What and How?»

The Early Childhood Intervention Study was a multi-component collaborative effort sponsored by Tennessee Voices for Children, the Regional Intervention Program Advisory Committee, Inc., and the University of Colorado at Denver, with funding provided by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, Research to Practice and the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities.

Dr. Clark has been committed to conducting research to inform policy and practice and has been asked to serve on state and national scientific advisory committees including the Wisconsin Governor's Early Intervention Coordinating Council, the Lt. Governor's Task Force on Women and Depression, the Department of Health Services Maternal - Child Health Advisory Committee, the Wisconsin Task Force on Perinatal Mood Disorders, the National Institute of Mental Health Roundtable on Perinatal Depression and the NIMH Workgroup on Assessment of Infant / Toddler Mental Health.

After reviewing research conducted with REALTORS ® and consumers in late 2015 and early 2016, NAR's Consumer Communications Committee recommended and NAR's Leadership Team approved a targeted digital buy for these spots, to further test their performance in - market.