Sentences with phrase «studies by federal agencies»

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Much work needs to be done to help ensure female entrepreneurs can fully contribute to the Canadian economy, according to the study released Wednesday and co-funded by the Bank of Montreal, the federal government, Carleton University and the Beacon Agency.

After the recent study by the federal emergency management agency of the flood risk, more than 5,200 properties in Dutchess County are now designated in the high risk category.

Compiled by scientists at 13 federal agencies, it contains the results of thousands of studies showing that climate change caused by greenhouse gases is affecting weather in every part of the United States, causing average temperatures to rise dramatically since the 1980s.

The study, published today in the journal Environmental Research Letters, is based on a new high - resolution model that maps flood risk across the entire continental United States, whereas the existing regulatory flood maps produced by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) cover about 60 percent of the continental U.S.

Researchers analyzed data from 1,453 respondents in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and other federal agencies.

Shuhbha researched and drafted two reports for use by the agency in its internal study of patent litigation and the federal judiciary.

The report, which pokes fun at 20 studies funded by NSF, the National Institutes of Health, and other agencies, is the latest in a barrage of attacks from Republicans in Congress against individual federal grants.

Accidents involving chlorine «were more likely to result in events with victims, evacuations and decontaminations when compared with non-chlorine events,» according to another study by the same federal agency published in 2002.

That's the conclusion of a new study by a team of University of Notre Dame researchers led by Joannes Westerink, chair of the department of civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences and co-developer of the authoritative computer model for storm surge used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the state of Louisiana to determine water levels due to hurricane surge and to design levee heights and alignments.

This effort builds on previous investigations, such as the USGS Central Valley Regional Aquifer System and Analysis (CV - RASA) project and several other groundwater studies in the Valley completed by Federal, State and local agencies at differing scales.

The study will be coordinated by two federal health research agencies, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry.

The research, which was funded by the Food and Drug Administration and other federal health agencies, contradicts numerous earlier studies that did find an increased risk of infection associated with the drugs, known as tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors.

Two well - known commercial reading programs, which have been adopted by some of the nation's largest school districts and have met the strict requirements for research - based programs under the federal Reading First initiative, failed to earn ratings from the What Works Clearinghouse because they do not have any studies that satisfy the agency's rigorous evidence standards.

The long - term study on the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, released last week by the National Council on Disability, an independent federal agency, looks at the law's implementation since its passage in November 1975.

An extensive study conducted by the National Credit Reporting Agency and the Consumer Federal of America revealed that 29 percent of individuals had significant errors in their credit report that translated into a 50 - point or more error in their credit score.

College Work Study (CWS): Funded by the federal government, CWS is a program designed to provide college monies to students through employment in exchange for services to the university, state or other agency.

The Associated Press is reporting the results of these studies were not made public by microchip companies or federal regulatory agencies.

The study was sponsored by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The landmark global warming law, which is being enforced in phases, could put the state's businesses at a competitive disadvantage unless other states and the federal government come up with similar plans, the study by the nonpartisan agency said.

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The Bush administration has essentially buried this study by refusing to discuss it and has directed federal climate science program leaders in the agencies to refrain from any substantive reference to or use of the National Assessment in public statements, reports to Congress, and research planning.

The federal agency's safety announcement was issued after an examination of data belonging to a 5 - year analysis of an Actos study that was conducted by Takeda.

To examine this issue further, the Federal government funds the National Incidence Study (NIS), which is an attempt to provide a more accurate estimate of the incidence of child abuse and neglect by including in its sample, children who were investigated by child protective service (CPS) agencies, children screened out by CPS without investigation, and children seen by community professionals who were not reported to CPS.

SFBT has had a large number of empirical studies, in fact enough to have been examined in two recent meta - analyses and to be officially supported as evidenced - based by numerous federal and state agencies and institutions, such as SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence - Based Programs & Practices (NREPP).

Effective July 14, 2014 the federal Universal Accreditation Act requires that ALL prospective adoptive families wishing to adopt a child from a Covention OR Non-Convention country must have their home study conducted by an agency that has acheived Hague Accreditation from the Council on Accreditation.

Many of these studies are funded by Federal agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services, which include:

This will allow the Federal Emergency Management Agency to complete an affordability study that was mandated by BW - 12; propose targeted regulations to address any affordability issues found in the study; and give Congress adequate time to review those regulations.

This bicameral, bipartisan legislation introduced by Reps. Michael Grimm, R - N.Y., and Maxine Waters, D - Calif., and by Sens. Bob Menendez, D - N.J., and Johnny Isakson, R - Ga., would delay further implementation of major rate changes until the Federal Emergency Management Agency completes an affordability study required by Biggert - Waters; creates an office of the Advocate to investigate flood insurance rate increases; and reports to Congress with proposed solutions to any identified problems.