Bush nominates NJIT space explorer Louis Lanzerotti to NSF governing board
...critical to NSF's future, approves NSF's strategic budget directions, approves annual budget submissions to the Office of Management and Budget, and approves new programs and major awards. In i......han apples, but oranges cost more. Given a certain budget for fruit, the utility function says how many of each you should buy. Similarly, Krding and colleagues observed people's preferred movements, then inferred an underlying utility function that presumably describes bias in the nervous system for differ...DFG announces three percent budget increase
...ng and Research Promotion approved a three percent budget increase for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (...he DFG, will not decrease. With the assurance of a budget increase this year and professed intentions of the federal government that such rises will also be i...U.S. President's budget proposal means 5-year cuts 'well below historic levels'
Washington, D.C., 22 April 2004 -- With a budget deficit estimated at $521 billion this year, coupl... in five years, U.S. President Bush is proposing a budget that would mean cuts in research and development (R&D) funding for all but three federal agencies, a...The Hunter's Breath tells a story of adventure and discovery in Antarctica
... also gained insights into how the seals manage to budget their oxygen supplies during dives that typically range from 20 to 40 minutes and sometimes last more than an hour. Learning what it takes for a top predator to survive in the ocean is critically important for conservation efforts, Williams ......f taxation of social 'bads' such as pollution, and budget subsidies of social 'goods' such as research and development of new technologies, in order to align social costs and benefits; inter-governmental cooperation; participation by civil society; and greater corporate social responsibility. 4. These probl...Support needed for elderly breast cancer patients and for independent academic research
...ed for the allocation of money from the EU central budget for example the Tobacco Fund - to translational research, and for the encouragement of private donations to breast cancer research by increasing tax deductibility levels in Member States. Increasingly, women wish to know about their individual risk ...Should publicly funded research be free and available to the public?
...the rejection rate, the larger becomes the expense budget that must be met from the fixed revenue from author fees. Additional costs will be added if their journal attempts, as ours does, to present news of science and perspective pieces that interpret new findings for those outside the subdiscipline. Obvio...PNNL recognized for commercializing technologies
..., technicians and support staff, and has an annual budget of nearly $600 million. Battelle, based in Columbus, Ohio, operates PNNL for the federal government....A lost world: Two previously unknown dinosaurs discovered in Antarctica
...l fields of science andengineering, with an annual budget of nearly $6 billion. NSFmanages the U.S. Antarctic Program, which coordinates almost allU.S. research on the southernmost continent and in thesurrounding oceans. The event will be Webcast live at http://www.connectLive.com/events/nsf . Members of ...The EMBC agrees to six-year budget for EMBO
... extraordinary session to discuss the multi annual budget for its activities, which are delivered by the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). The unanimously accepted outcome was a 33 percent increase over six years. Earlier proposals had requested higher levels of funding in order to meet the...Symposium examines the growing influence of aerosols on climate
...It has become clear that local effects on the heat budget from aerosols can be substantially larger than those from greenhouse gases. I believe we are at a very early stage of understanding the effect of aerosols," said Richard Somerville, a professor of meteorology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at...Major boost for European zebrafish research
...ive years, these institutions will receive a total budget of 12,400,000 Euros. 12,000,000 Euros will be contributed by the European Commission and 400,000 Euros by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The partners of the ZF-MODELS project will join forces to work towards a common goal: to gain new insigh...ESA to select new Earth Explorer missions
...ing mission) Compared with the Earth's total water budget the amount that is available as freshwater is extremely small. Precipitation is a crucial element affecting life on Earth and constitutes the foremost exchange process within the water cycle. EGPM is part of the bigger international GPM (Global Preci...The President's FY 2005 budget for USGS highlights
The President has proposed a budget of $919.8 million for the Department of the Interi...ogical Survey (USGS) in Fiscal Year 2005. The 2005 budget will emphasize core USGS science programs that focus on water resources and water availability, natu......percent of the respondents favor a doubling in the budget for the National Cancer Institute to $10 billion. Cancer remains second only to heart disease as the leading cause of death, claiming about 1,500 American lives daily. Economically, the United States lost about $172 billion in the year 2002 from t...Study finds evidence for global methane release about 600 million years ago
... fields of science and engineering, with an annual budget of nearly $5.3 billion....Abandoned penguin colonies may help refine Antarctic climate studies
... fields of science and engineering, with an annual budget of nearly $5 billion. Emslie said the evidence points to four conditions that suggests penguins once nested in an area: the terrain was ice-free; there was open water close to the colony that allowed them to expend less energy to reach their food by...Virginia Tech and North Carolina State University to run Forest Nutrition Research Cooperative
...th Yield Cooperative at Virginia Tech. The annual budget for the program will include projects involving graduate students and postdoctoral students in Blacksburg. It will also provide opportunities for exchange of graduate students between the two institutions. "This formal partnership will generate man......st in BioMed Central membership because of current budget constraints on both their member libraries and the OhioLINK central budget. The combination of financial constraints and the continued rising costs of journal subscriptions stimulated the need to seek out alternative publishing models. Tom Sanville,...