On the academic side, the ISTC-EC co-principal investigator is CMU Associate Professor Priya Narasimhan.
This was a key driver for the establishment by UNESCO International Hydrological Programme (IHP) of the global International Sediment Initiative (lSI), and for the creation of the European Sediment Network (SedNet) funded by EC DG-Research under the 5th RTD Framework Programme as a Thematic Network.
The ISTC-EC will pursue research jointly with Carnegie Mellon in the use of embedded technology in retail, automotive, and home markets.
In the ISTC-EC project, Chen will take a systematic look at how people interact with machines and will oversee the creation of algorithms that embody these interactions.
The FTO also said that it backed calls for "a much-needed EC safety directive which encompasses pool safety" and that it also encouraged greater effort by national and local governments on compliance and enforcement.
One fire-chief, EC president Jose Manuel Barroso wants to collect fire service fees (FTT) even before putting out the fire.
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These funding mechanisms will take into consideration the work done in this field so far by others and will align its functioning with other initiatives by the World Bank and EC, providing parallel co-financing and further enhancing the innovation potential of the programme.
But it hurt the IMF in another way, too, because of concerns that the pro-austerity ECB and EC had outmuscled the fund.
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These include Britain's membership of the EC, increased travel abroad, more multi-national companies and international labour mobility.
While aid workers were arriving and nations around the world were sending help to rebuild disaster-struck Thailand, the European Commission (EC) was sending it threats to complete a purchase of six A380 Airbus aircraft.41 The deal was allegedly on hold over EC discrimination against Thai seafood and poultry exports.42 Five days after the Tsunami, the EC raised the stakes and enacted billions of dollars in additional tariffs.
London-based Mace will team up with British firm EC Harris to create the Kingdom Tower in Jeddah.
The EC said it recognised that Scotland had one of the fastest-growing rates of chronic liver disease and cirrhosis in the world, but its view was that minimum pricing was a "disproportionate" response.
The EC will have to examine not only the nature of the international express-package market today, but also how it is changing.
Per agreements between the UN, World Bank and European Commission on post-crisis cooperation, the World Bank has requested UN and EC participation in the assessment.
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In response, the EC has stated that it will insist upon these new guidelines if the multi-billion dollar project hopes to qualify for European financing.
Although the act in Scotland received Royal Assent in June it is not yet in force due to the EC's concerns and a legal challenge by the Scotch Whisky Association and wine-producing European Union nations such as France, Italy and Spain.
Although Microsoft has touted a 12, 000-page submission and free technical support to its rivals as the answer to the EC's ruling, the Commission says the hefty manual is still not usable.
Some clean-air campaigners question the mayor's commitment, arguing conspiratorially that he agreed to reinstate the pollution-charging scheme only after it became clear that British attempts to wheedle more time from the EC were not going well.
Microsoft has demonstrated persistence over antitrust rulings before when it confronted the Europe Commission, and while Korea's anti-trust ruling is said by the company to have been "more extreme" than the EC's, the the software giant looks set to display the usual chutzpah.
Second, and more interestingly, the browser environment looks very different today than it did in the mid-2000s (when the European Commission pursued its investigations) or in December, 2009 (when the EC and Microsoft reached their legal settlement).
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