Sentences with phrase «work funding the studies»

Gifts of any amount are always appreciated, and we put them right to work funding the studies that improve the lives of cats everywhere.

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«Today's historic action by the EPA will finally begin the process of restricting the remaining sources of asbestos, which is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans,» said Sonya Lunder of the Environmental Working Group Action Fund, which studies toxic substances.

But did you also know that the budget cuts are «gutting» Indian education, «stalling» Meals on Wheels programs, «hitting» work - study funds, and «hurting» medical research?

We use advertising revenue to subsidize the cost of providing journalism to the campus, and to fund over fifty students who are on our work - study program.

This is based on an in - depth study conducted by a good friend of mine who works at a public pension fund.

A colleague of mine who works at a pension fund did a study last year in which he concluded that, because of the extreme degree of public pension underfunding, a 10 % decline in the stock market for a sustained period — i.e. more than 3 or 4 months — would cause every single public pension fund to blow up.

While industry partners have come together to fund various studies with regard to sustainability and water efficiency, one of the most promising programs currently in the works is in the Peanut Genome Initiative.

His work there — allegedly a study on cyberbullying — was funded by a block grant provided by the Russian government.

He has lead the payload team on a NASA - funded CubeSat project, taken multiple space - policy study abroad trips, and worked internships at Cummins Engine Company, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and Northrop Grumman.

Generally speaking, the culture at boutiques works more in favour of clients than the big firms, but there are some terrific funds at the big firms — ultimately you need to study each fund in turn and decide on their individual merits.

All that work is proceeding as Spectra continues to investigate the feasibility of its proposed Fort Nelson project - a study that is being funded, in part, by a $ 3.4 million grant from the province.

Recommendations from the study included increasing the quality of child care, especially for infants and toddlers, but also, importantly, educing the amount of time that children need to spend in child care through promoting paid parental leave and flexible working hours, and funding programs that support sensitive and responsive parenting.

The Trust for the Study of Adolescence is running free, government - funded «evaluation champions» training courses across the UK, for anyone working with children, young people or families, in the voluntary or statutory sectors.

Her work has been funded by several NIH agencies and her current study, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars Program, examines the interaction between genome - wide association and social environmental factors related to blood pressure among African American hypertensive parents and early risks for high blood pressure among their untreated children.

Working exploring the use of breast pumps as part of the BABI study which is funded by Glasgow Children's Hospital Charity and NHS Health Scotland

Her scholarly work includes the national, CIHR - funded Canadian Birth Place Study examining attitudes to place of birth among maternity care providers; and Changing Childbirth in BC, a provincial, community - based participatory study of women's preferences for maternity Study examining attitudes to place of birth among maternity care providers; and Changing Childbirth in BC, a provincial, community - based participatory study of women's preferences for maternity study of women's preferences for maternity care.

But if the monies were also used to part fund local authority major roads, the study says, these networks would work much more effectively.

Q - Step is funding fifteen universities across the UK to establish Q - Step Centres that will support the development and delivery of specialist undergraduate programmes, including new courses, work placements and pathways to postgraduate study.

David Comerford is a Research Fellow in Economics at the University of Stirling, working with Prof David Bell, on ESRC funded grants, studying issues around the economics of constitutional change in Scotland, before and after the independence referendum in September 2014.

Crain's reports that the $ 2.5 billion project has been left out of the Economic Development Corporation's budget, thus meaning that preliminary design work and an environmental study have no funding to move forward with.

Universal Pre-Kindergarten teachers who are working toward their certification should have funding for the support and teacher training they need to provide quality education while they are studying for their certification.

Rio Tinto is accelerating the development of the Simandou iron ore project in Guinea with the approval of a further US$ 211 million for continued studies and US$ 1.117 billion of funding for commitments for early works and procurement of long - lead items.

Citizens Union and Common Cause both took grants from a key faction of the labor - backed Working Families Party that funded studies meant to promote publicly funded elections, a top labor priority.

«I want to see more details of the governor's proposal to understand how this would work, where the funding would come from, when students would qualify for and receive the free tuition and what would happen if a student doesn't complete their college studies,» Little told the Sun in an email.

«The government has a marvelous way of exempting itself from something like this,» Schramm said, since most students who work in Food Services are funded through federal work - study, he added.

The study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), is based on in - depth interviews with 100 women, men and transgender migrants working in the London sex industry.

To mark, and celebrate, its first decade of path - breaking work the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR) is convening a major international conference on building legitimate authority in global and regional governance in cooperation with GARNET, the EU - funded Network of Excellence on Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation: The Role of the EU.

Seleznow said employers can also use federal financial aid and federal work study to fund apprenticeship training and employment.

DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos said his agency will now work with the fund to study how to best protect the properties, adding that the state was «grateful» for the purchase.

Older people and those who work non-standard hours are less likely to feel integrated into society, according to a study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

Assemblyman Zebrowski will be working to secure funding in this year's budget to study this proposal, and others that will provide a long term workable framework for the district.

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

«I think we should fund [the Department of Health] to do a study, let them work with the State Police, other agencies, look at the health impact, the economic impact, the state of the law,» Cuomo said.

Last June, at a Summit on Working Families in Washington, D.C., Perez, the labor secretary, said states could apply for grants from a $ 500,000 fund, to help government officials study the costs associated with paid family leave.

A long - studied plan to protect Fire Island and the South Shore from powerful storms advanced Tuesday as Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone vowed to work together to secure $ 700 million in federal funding.

«This was actually excellent for my undergraduate studies because... there was a lack of funding, and I could work independently,» Pàl says.

The project worked with NASA to develop a job placement system for handicapped scientists, and conducted NSF funded studies on science and mathematics education and handicapped students.

Although the U.S. government puts stringent restrictions on funding for research on embryonic stem cells, individual states such as California have set up institutes to perform that work and general stem cell studies.

Females working in forensic science labs were almost two times more likely to report high stress levels than males, according to the study, funded by the U.S. Department of Justice.

He wanted about $ 3.3 million in research funding to work on blue - light devices and also a year off to study metallorganic chemical vapor deposition, or MOCVD, at the University of Florida.

(Baldwin and Collins worked to get funding for the National Academies study as well.)

While several organizations like the World Bank, European agencies, nonprofit agencies and USAID have commissioned studies, experts yesterday acknowledged that no one has emerged with a systematic approach to understanding local climate change adaptation efforts or using them to inform the work of the multibillion - dollar Green Climate Fund.

Other efforts are afoot to fund work studying the national security implications of gene drives.

At times White has done the work for the U.S. team for no charge, but he keeps his lab going with funding from other projects, such as a study he did for an elliptical bike maker to examine whether the product maintained fitness in high - level athletes, working with collegiate teams, and donations from former rowers.

The Asian Scholarship Foundation (ASF), a not - for - profit organization funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation, funds research by young and middle - level scholars in the field of Asian studies — which includes some social sciences — as well as work involving travel to other Asian countries.

The study seems to suggest «that these people who are funded for these small amounts of money and who are able to work in someone else's well - endowed lab... are able to do somewhat risky research,» Stephan says.

She's writing about «people who study people and the things they left behind» — archaeologists who endure stingy funding, ruthless competition, long hours and often intolerable working conditions, all in hopes of documenting a past long gone before developers or the passage of time destroy a site forever.

The work was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, the US National Science Foundation, the NERC / DFID Future Climate for Africa Programme, and the France - Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies.

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Another EDF - funded study is also underway in Boston, where Harvard University professor Steven Wofsy and others are working to use measurements of methane in the atmosphere above the city to determine how much of the gas is being released.