Hafsat runs a conditional cash transfer project for the state, where poor pregnant women are encouraged to use available healthcare facilities for safer pregnancies in a bid to reduce maternal mortality rates.

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Drawing heavily on the latest research in neuroscience, Pirozzolo is working with Steven Levitt, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago and the co-author of "Freakonomics, " on a golf research project to determine which transfer techniques work and which don't.

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In the private sector Segal has a suggestion for getting a foreign transfer: First get yourself assigned to a short-term overseas project.

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The document proposed that Chinese partner Guangdong Provincial Highway Construction Co. agree to the transfer of the extra cost from Hopewell's balance sheet to that of the project in the form of shareholder loans.

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The Scorpio project was also the subject of congressional scrutiny in testimony provided by the Center on February 28th before the Technology Transfer Caucus.

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With this project she will develop a new label-free biomolecular detection method, based on a technique called Plasmon Resonance Energy Transfer (PRET), to monitor biochemical pathways involved in the differentiation of stem cells.

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