Sentences with phrase «rising number of grant»

In recent years, the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, Virginia, has struggled with the logistics of evaluating a rising number of grant proposals that has propelled funding rates to historic lows.

«In recent years, [NSF] has struggled with the logistics of evaluating a rising number of grant proposals that has propelled funding rates to historic lows,» but «one piece of the agency has found a potentially powerful new tool to flatten [submission] spikes and cut the number of proposals: It can simply eliminate deadlines,» Eric Hand reported last Friday.

Not exact matches

The rapidly increasing number of individual donor - advised fund accounts make them the fastest - growing vehicle in philanthropy; and the rising value of charitable dollars granted from donor - advised funds also makes them the most active type of charitable giving vehicle.

The USDA's Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program grants help address issues associated with the rising age and decreasing numbers of U.S. farmers.

Despite those anemic numbers, Rose still provides an upgrade over the combination of Calderon and Grant.

Since then, however, the number of postdocs — and the percentage supported on professors» grants rather than the more effective fellowships or training grants — has risen sharply.

Many established researchers hiked the number of grants they receive and the number of scientists working in their labs, but newer investigators saw virtually no rise in funding through the Research Project Grant Program (R01) grants considered crucial to establishing an independent scientific career, Stephan found.

On the bright side, total funding for postdocs, both stipend fellows and grant employees, rises 4.9 %, but the number of NSF - supported postdocs is simultaneously slated to fall slightly, from an estimated 6240 in 2004 to an estimated 6080 in 2005.

NIH Director Elias Zerhouni says he hopes to protect the number of funded investigators by shifting money from some clinical and center grants that expire in 2006 into new and competing grants, which will rise for the first time since 2003.

Since its launch in 2007, ERC has received a rising number of applications, and only about 10 % of them receive grants.

The report cites both a rise in Ph.D. degrees being granted in clinical disciplines and a decrease in the numbers of physicians engaging in research as reasons for this trend.

AMHERST, Mass. — Cognitive neuroscience researcher Joonkoo Park at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who recently received a five - year, $ 751,000 faculty early career development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to address basic research questions about how our brains process number and magnitude and how such processes give rise to more complex mathematical thinking, has co-authored a paper that reports this week where in the brain numerical quantity evaluation is processed.

Jean is not alone and is one of a rising number of women to fall victim to this particular form of online dating fraud, where the scammer... granting leave differ among the branches of the US Armed Forces, the request and authorisation to...

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The new grants are part of the Department's Everyone Is a Pedestrian campaign to help communities combat the rising number of pedestrian deaths and injuries that have occurred from 2009 through 2012.

One result showed that the number of loans granted by fintech firms rose significantly in the given timeframe.

We received generous grants from Best Friends, ASPCA, HSUS the Petco Foundation and generally our number of donors and donations have risen substantially.

The USDA's Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program grants help address issues associated with the rising age and decreasing numbers of U.S. farmers.

He has also acted in a number of actions giving rise to complex issues as to jurisdiction and the grant of interlocutory relief including anti-suit injunction.

Although patent litigation has been on the rise over the past decade, the number of successful grants of attorneys fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285 has not tracked this rise, and remains low.

In recent years, the USPTO has come under increasing scrutiny over the quality of its patent examinations.1 The growing push for reform of the patent system is fueled by the rapid rise of technology, financial services, telecommunications, and other innovations driving the information economy, all straining the USPTO's ability to evaluate and issue quality patents.2 Problems with patent quality occur when the Patent Office grants patents on claims that are broader than what is merited by the invention and the prior art. 3 In fact, a number of these problematic patents have been issued and publicized to much fanfare, including the infamous Smuckers» peanut butter and jelly patent where the company asserted a patent on their method of making the UncrustiblesTM crust-less peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, among others.4 These «bad» or improvidently granted patents impact the USPTO's ability to promote overall patent quality which, I will show, has serious implications for the public domain.

In addition, as the native title system progresses, the number of PBCs in the country is rising, and the focus of native title policy is to some extent moving from interpretation of the Native Title Act to implementation of the rights granted.