The FBI's Strategic Information and Operations Center (SOIC) posted its "Social Media Application" market research request onto the web on 19 January, and it was subsequently flagged up by New Scientist magazine.
The recent request for proposals by Microsoft Research to address challenges at the intersection of human trafficking and technology offers a promising example.
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John Kirkhope, a solicitor and academic who made the initial FOI request as part of his research into the Duchy of Cornwall, said it was "astonishing" that ministers had tried to prevent its publication.
Despite that, we have never received a request for funding based purely on research into fibrosis.
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At the request of BLM, the National Research Council studied these issues and made recommendations, including a series of steps to help properly manage the helium reserve for the long term, strategies to protect the most vulnerable of users such as scientists, and ways to develop and implement a plan to protect this very important resource.
The society has told officials that if they were to request consent from relatives to carry out research it would compromise their neutrality and breach the trust they have built up with the public.
In the book, I sketch out a few of the early examples of anti-leaking technologies, including those described in a request for proposals launched by the Pentagon research arm known as the Defense Advanced Resource Projects Agency in 2010 that suggested methods of monitoring all employees in a firm or agency for leak-like behaviors.
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The finding is the result of research commissioned by the Scottish Executive at the request of senior police officers.
The governors rejected the girl's request to wear the bangle after a "significant period of research" examining the uniform policy and human rights legislation in detail.
School governors previously rejected her request to wear the bangle after a "significant period of research" examining the uniform policy and human rights legislation in detail.
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The governors of the school rejected her request to wear the bangle after a "significant period of research" examining the uniform policy and human rights legislation in detail.
Meanwhile Shawn Spott, manager of corporate intelligence and research at RBC Wealth Management, responded to a request for better insight into sales and market performance by taking a couple of years to think about what information executives needed and how complex data could be presented simply.
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Update: I have removed the link to the report at the request of Credit Suisse, which typically limits distribution of its full research notes and intended to do so in this case.
Another prosthesis maker, Freedom Innovations, has been developing custom feet for amputees designed to facilitate skiers, swimmers, and most recently, a special request for a would-be Olympic snowboarder, said Steven Reinecke, executive vice president of research and development.
Last week Beresford had planned to present the Siemens vulnerabilities in a research talk at the Dallas security conference TakeDownCon, but the talk was canceled at the request of Siemens and the Department of Homeland Security.
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The organisation is also concerned that if they were to agree to this request it would be the thin end of the wedge and lead to more requests for them to carry out research.
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