The recommendation comes amid federal budget debates over reducing the nation's spending levels and controlling debt, which had prompted some discussion about scaling back the project's size and scope or possibly keeping the current research lab in New York.

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Members of the NFLPA say the proposed research is unprecedented in both scope and resources, at least as it relates to NFL player health.

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The point is, there are many different types of clinical study, covering all aspects of medicine, so the scope of research in the NHS goes way beyond most people's perception.

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Dr. XX believed that Dr. Dennis Marcus was engaging in serious research misconduct and terrible wrongdoings in clinical trials that were sharing with Emory University and the MCG, the scope of which alarmed her.

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Interest in the site grows annually as both the number of Wiki pages and the scope of the research continues to expand.

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It is a nonprofit medical research organization launched in 2003 and which Allen compares, in scope, to the Large Hadron Collider and the Human Genome Project.

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