While the U.S. Office of Research Integrity (ORI), part of the Department of Health and Human Services, is chartered with rooting out science fraud, investigators must rely on allegations submitted by scientists in the field.
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In effect, Duchenne patients could develop a milder form of the disease, known as Becker muscular dystrophy, says Petra Kaufmann, a neuromuscular researcher who directs the Office of Clinical Research at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
Before he died (and before the first ignition in New Mexico), he wrote a letter to Vannevar Bush, director of the wartime Office of Scientific Research and Development, which oversaw building of the atomic bombs.
Mr. Happer is a professor of physics at Princeton University and a former director of the office of energy research at the U.S. Department of Energy.
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The research was supported by Intel through a gift to UCLA, and by the Office of Naval Research.
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The fuel cell technology, which is being developed with support of the U.S. Office of Naval Research, will be tailored to integrate with solar PV panels, which will reduce the amount of fuel needed to support forward operating military bases.
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According the Office of Naval Research, the Navy hopes to meet that goal by 2015.
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In addition, the NIH Office of AIDS Research recently released a report on HIV and aging.
Roosevelt to the director of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development.
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It sounds esoteric, but America's Office of Naval Research is using the results to help design better unmanned submarines.
The study was sponsored by the US Office of Naval Research, which invests in projects to benefit the US Navy and Marine Corps.
It took over a year to find a candidate to head up the new Office of Financial Research, created by the Dodd-Frank bill.
Meanwhile, researchers at Advanced Ceramics Research in Tucson, Arizona, are developing rapid prototyping to create replacement bones, with funding from America's Office of Naval Research.
In December, the Office of Naval Research successfully conducted a world-record 33-megajoule shot of the Electromagnetic Railgun aboard Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division.
The next year he was appointed to a desk job, being named NASA's deputy associate administrator for aeronautics in the office of advanced research and technology.
Funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research, project leaders envision "smart underwear" that measures a soldier's sweat for warning signs and automatically trigger an appropriate medical dosage.
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By Friday SIFMA should have a recommendation for the Office of Financial Research (OFR) on who should be in charge of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI), the first step toward improving global regulation.
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His main job at the outset will be helping the Treasury to build an office of financial research, created by the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory law to mine market data for threats to financial stability.
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The Office of Navy Research's interest comes from potential future applications, working side-by-side with military personnel out on missions, which along with iRobot 110, forms the early foundations for the cyber army of our childhood imaginations.
"BP is not doing this because they want to fund basic research, " says Aristides Patrinos, the former director of the Office of Biological and Environmental Research and now president of biotech startup Synthetic Genomics.
The power of wishful thinking is on display in the office of Robert Saxe, chairman of Research Frontiers.
Joel directs the Office of Tax Policy Research at the University of Michigan.
He is said to have done so in order to ensure that intelligence information he was relying upon was not being distorted by analysts with their own agenda in Foggy Bottom's Office of Intelligence and Research.
Absenteeism relating to "Sick Building Syndrome" also decreased when plants were part of the office, according to research by Professor Tove Fjeld of the Agricultural University in Oslo, Norway.
"Shipwrecks help to fill in some of the unwritten pages of history, " said Frank Cantelas, a maritime archaeologist with NOAA's Office of Ocean Exploration and Research.
This is especially important after the demise of the Office of Technology Assessment, a research office within Congress that, until the mid-1990s, provided independent analyses on issues up for congressional debate.
What is impressive about the PAC, regarded as pretty much the flagship select committee, is the depth of research behind its work, the product of the prestigious National Audit Office.
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In addition, the Council shall provide advice to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget concerning the agencies' research and development budget submissions.
But she carries pages from the Till file nearly everywhere she goes, and several more boxes of FBI research await her at her office each day.
Before enacting the law, says Thomas McCool , head of financial research at the General Accounting Office, Congress did not calculate what it would cost to comply.
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