Sentences with phrase «year experiment funded»

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And beginning this year, well - funded, large - scale, long - term experiments in Finland and Kenya will examine whether providing a guaranteed income is an effective way to relieve poverty and cushion the effects of economic dislocation without encouraging idleness and sloth.

Long story short, with 2009 under my belt as a bounded tentpole of a worse case real world experiment, I envisage a 1 - year bonded income equivalent tranche of emergency funds backed by a 2 - yr income equivalent tranche dividend fund (Vanguard's low - cost dividend growth, for ex.).

Year 2 — 2013 — fund / experiment — fire a lot of «bullets» (make a lot of investments) in a lot of different areas, and see which ones hit

After a troublesome few years for Bitcoin within the headlines when it comes to its funds weak point, consideration may lastly be turning to Litecoin — which admittedly has existed below the shadows of the trendy ICO craze and even the Bitcoin Cash experiment.

STOCKTON — A consortium of policy experts, researchers and academics has awarded $ 1 million to Stockton to fund an experiment that aims to assess the social benefits of providing a guaranteed monthly income for one or more years to a tiny segment of the city's residents, Mayor Michael Tubbs announced Wednesday...

Wine makers are so concerned about the impact of global warming on the $ 5.7 billion industry that they funded a government - backed experiment in the Barossa vineyards to simulate the drier conditions expected in 30 - 50 years» time.

Over the last year we've experimented with deconstruction with some county funds, and we've learned how to be greener in how we do that.

McGlinn has secure funding for the first 5 years of experiments in Melbourne; Rosenthal has been given tacit assurances that the rest of the funding will come.

Sixty - four years after a U.S. - funded scientist ran an experiment that infected his Guatemalan patients with syphilis, the U.S. government today issued a formal apology to the Central American nation.

The same model could work for paralyzed humans, but without funding, we haven't been able to repeat the experiment in five years.

To promote better understanding of the ethics of research and the inclusion of individuals in research experiments, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced last year a new funding initiative: Research on Ethical Issues in Human Studies.

Final approval to spend CERN funds on the experiment would then need to come from CERN's Council of Member States, possibly at a meeting in June when an updated 5 - year plan for the lab is due to be presented.

Over the past few years, researchers around the world have organized an effort to identify and save tissue archives from all the major animal irradiation experiments, and they have won support from a diverse range of funding agencies, including the European Commission, the US National Cancer Institute and the US Department of Energy.

This 1.5 year grant will fund Dr. Aldred's study on two drugs, ataluren and amlexanox, and perform experiments to understand why some mutations respond well to the drugs, whereas others do not.

With generous funding from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, we are in the process of conducting a longitudinal analysis of several nudge experiments we have conducted over the last several years, to investigate whether these interventions have positively affected persistence and completion in addition to enrollment.

And when she describes the results from the federally funded Washington, D.C., experiment, she focuses only on the fourth - year achievement results, which showed a positive effect but fell short of the conventional standard for statistical significance by having a p =.06 instead of.05.

In the past few years, a number of states have created and funded pilot programs to experiment with the concept of school restructuring.

H aving served fourteen years in the Wisconsin state legislature before coming to Congress, I had a front - row seat to witness the growth of the nation's first and largest taxpayer - funded voucher experiment.

They ignore the results of failure for the past 20 years of experimenting with untested methodology and the terrible impacts that have accrued to public schools, especially from stealing limited funds earmarked for public education.

(Calif.) A change in law last summer that suspended most statewide testing next year threatens a federally - funded randomized controlled experiment in teaching algebra to at - risk eighth graders.

-- Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has recommended scrapping the School Reform Commission, which has governed Philadelphia publicly funded schools for the last 15 years, saying it is time for «the experiment to end.»

In the much - heralded New Orleans charter experiment, the Investigative Fund found that «eight years after Hurricane Katrina... seventy - nine percent of RSD charters are still rated D or F by the Louisiana Department of Education.»

They will be trying new books as rights holders come forward to join the experiment — perhaps poets or authors of books related to this year's election, or nonprofits with great content to release in return for reasonable crowd - funded compensation.

Vanguard Group, the fastest - growing U.S. investment manager in recent years, has green - lighted blockchain - based experiments to more efficiently update the firm's index funds as underlying stock prices change.

After a somewhat hidden ~ 7 year experiment with other bond funds, last week I returned our portfolio to VBTLX.

This evening the U.S. House of Representatives by voice vote passed a bipartisan amendment to the defense appropriations bill that will end taxpayer funding for painful experiments on dogs at Veterans Affairs hospitals for fiscal year 2018.

Earlier this year, we decided to experiment with funding larger projects than we normally do.

Similarly, a 10 - year partnership with the Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund of the New York Community Trust has enabled Roulette to offer year - long fellowships to a number of outstanding young artists to create, rehearse, experiment, and investigate new directions in their craft.

Recognizing that at some point in the future, the planet's ancient energy trust fund will be pretty well tapped out or located in places that are impossibly costly — financially, environmentally, politicly — to reach, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus has been coaxing his branch of the U.S. military into experimenting with biofuel alternatives to the free stuff Mother Nature took millions of years to blend at no cost to us.

You are most certainly asking me to fund the experiment: to the tune of $ 1700 per year from me personally (according the Obama Administrations own research).