Programmatic science funding goes to universities in the form of grants and contracts funding research proposals generated by the faculty.
Just as important, it takes little time, paperwork or glad-handing to get approval and generous funding for research proposals, according to Dr Tam.
The extra money will allow us to fund even more research proposals.
The Clinton administration proposed to fund research proposals that adhered to this distinction, though no funding was granted before President Clinton left office.
This is the case regardless of whether the peer review is performed by editors considering articles submitted for publication or performed by funding agencies to review the merits of competing research proposals.
But at the moment, that process is still at the research stages, and they haven't made any proposals from their research as of yet, as far as I'm aware.
They rarely have any extensive research or meaningful policy proposals.
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From 1977-78 he submitted nine separate proposals for research grants--including work on the controlled release of cancer drugs and the inhibition of angiogenesis--but was rejected by the National Institutes of Health and various foundations.
Last month DARPA, the U.S. Defense Department's research agency, invited proposals from robotics experts to build a "chemical robot" made from soft, flexible materials and capable of squeezing through gaps smaller than its regular dimensions.
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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In a new call for research, Darpa is asking for proposals to devise prototype implantable biosensors.
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There are also proposals for a permanent research and development tax credit, temporary expensing of business investment, and payroll tax holidays.
So were recent Obama proposals to make the research and development tax credit permanent, and to accelerate business' ability to write off expenses.
Just prior to WCIT, European experts published research demonstrating that some countries were advancing proposals in that forum that were at odds with their WTO obligations.
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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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According to the Investor Responsibility Research Centre, this year a record 275 shareholder proposals are critical of bosses' pay.
Institutional Review Boards, the local bodies that check research on humans and are the main overseers of such research, are swamped with work, sometimes examining hundreds of proposals a year.
Dr Evetts says that researchers putting proposals to the European Space Agency are aware that microgravity research is a long haul.
However, he accepts that more modest proposals (such as a small carbon tax or investments in research) would have ranked higher on the list.
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The proposals are due April 1 of this year, and the Langley Research Center in partnership with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and with Lockheed Martin, with the Draper Lab and Aurora Flight Sciences, is proposing a robotic airplane to fly over the surface of Mars, about a mile above the surface.
During this meeting, policy-makers, researchers, and civil society actors shared their experiences and mutual practices in order to, notably, develop proposals to strengthen regional cooperation and promote the contribution of regional social science research institutes in the development of public development policies.
There are one or two aspects we want to talk about further - some of our changes on the research system, for example - but it is a white paper which sets out our proposals clearly.
As yet, nobody is making the sort of radical proposals that would wholly remove the conflicts of interest for instance, by requiring research and investment banking to take place in separate firms.
Worse, such proposals may severely damage the ability of companies such as ours to invest in cutting edge research and development, including investment in the many talented scientists who dedicate their lives to finding life changing medical advances.
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There are also proposals to explore and sample Lake Ellsworth in west Antarctica by a team involving 14 UK universities and research institutions, plus scientists from Chile, the US, Sweden, Belgium, Germany and New Zealand.
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Baroness Finlay, a doctor and former president of the Royal Society of Medicine, highlighted the importance of research when treating patients, and asked how the government plans to preserve academic health partnerships in light of its proposals to reform the healthcare system in England.
These proposals include a more generous, permanent extension of the tax credit that goes to companies for all the research and innovation that they do here in America.
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