But the research, conducted by the U.S.-based National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Colorado's National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), demonstrates that the 18 models on which the IPCC has based its current recommendations could already be out of date -- and that the retreat of the ice could already be 30 years ahead of the IPCC's worst case scenario.
Even those in the National Weather Center -- a building on the University of Oklahoma campus with tenants that include the National Severe Storms Laboratory and NOAA's Storm Prediction Center -- "have been urged to stay away from windows due to potential for 80-90 mph winds, " according to a tweet from weather service's Norman office, which also is based in the building.
In addition, Dr. Leitner is a Professor with the National Center for Biodefense at George Mason University as well as a Senior Fellow and Professor with the Center for Advanced Defense Studies responsible for Terrorism, Intelligence, and Cyber War issues.
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"Cray is a leader in the high-end of the supercomputing industry, and the Cray XC30 system promises to continue the Company's strong standing in the market for designing, building and installing leadership-class supercomputers, such as the 'Titan' system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the 'Blue Waters' supercomputer at the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications, " said Earl Joseph, IDC program vice president for HPC.
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According to the General Social Survey, conducted by the National Policy Opinion Center at the University of Chicago, the prevalence of gun ownership has declined steadily in the past few decades.
The widespread blazes are more typical of the wildfires that break out in the grasslands of the Midwest and Great Plains this time of year, said Mark Svoboda, a climatologist at the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Keep extra blankets on hand and consider investing in a generator that will power essentials, says Irwin Redlener, founder and director of Columbia University's National Center for Disaster Preparedness.
"We had really significant problems in leadership coordination, " said Irwin Redlener, the director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University and the co-chairman of the NYS Ready Commission, which is investigating the response to the storm.
The GK110 GPU is expected to be incorporated into the new Titan supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and the Blue Waters system at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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The company is working with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, the National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on a scientific version of the computer called PERCS (Productive, Easy-to-use, Reliable Computing System).
The study, by a joint team from the US National Jewish Medical and Research Center and University of Colorado, classed normal weight as someone with a body mass index below 25, overweight over 25 but below 30, and obese as 30 and above.
In a settlement announced Wednesday by the National Women's Law Center, the university agreed to send a memo to all professors and administrators reminding them that all schools getting government funding are required to give pregnant students the same options to make up work that they give to pupils who suffer illnesses or injuries that cause them to miss classes.
In a settlement agreement announced Wednesday by the National Women's Law Center, the university agreed to send a memo to all professors and administrators reminding them that all schools getting government funding are required to give pregnant students the same options to make up work that they give to pupils who suffer illnesses or injuries that cause them to miss classes.
"The eccentric planetary orbits seen in these systems are essentially scars from past disruptions caused by the companion star, " co-author Sean Raymond, of the University of Bordeaux and the National Center for Scientific Research in France, said in a statement.
In July 2008, the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA) wrote to Eric Schmidt, then Google's chief executive, saying it found "prominent displays of ads for rogue Internet pharmacies" in a Google search for controlled drugs.
Chen was building on research from Emory University's Yerkes National Primate Research Center, which has been working with capuchins for years because of their strong instincts for cooperation and working in groups (in the wild, they eat large squirrels, which require at least two monkeys to capture).
Professor SCOTT SILLIMAN (Center for Law, Ethics and National Security, Duke University): It is conceivable that the Supreme Court would continue on to want to look at the issue.
"We don't have to be married to enjoy many of the benefits that traditionally were exclusive to marriage, " said Susan Brown, co-director of the National Center for Family and Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
Roger, you are the head of what is perhaps the most prestigious atmospheric science laboratory on the planet, and, as such, I presume that you will always go the extra mile to protect the reputation of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and its related University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR).
Kramer, distinguished research fellow in the Center for Technology and National Security Policy at the National Defense University and a former deputy security of defense.
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"Parents are often thinking about school physicals and sports physicals as the school year begins, but they also need to think about the critical importance of mental-health screening, " says Laurie Flynn, executive director of the TeenScreen National Center for Mental Health Checkups at New York's Columbia University.
Mark Rosekind, a National Transportation Safety Board member who formerly directed a sleep research center at Stanford University, says it's a pervasive problem that requires a culture change to fix.
Candler Professor at Emory University and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, both in Atlanta.
These partners include the University of Maryland, Penn State, Georgia Tech, the National Climate Data Center and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
He held posts at the University of Chicago, where he also was a researcher at the National Opinion Research Center.
With help from a National Science Foundation grant, Milwaukee created a collaborative research center that links together the research from UW-Milwaukee, Marquette University and six area businesses.
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