Donald Boyd of the Rockefeller Institute of Government, the public-policy research arm of the State University of New York, found that in the recessions of the early 1980s and 1990s state tax revenues declined at about the same rate as the national economy.
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For example, spearheaded by the Institute of Public Relations, the lead research and measurement organization in the public relations business, a number of public relations organizations have come together to develop universal measurement standards.
Many scientists within the influenza community have a bona fide need to know the details of this research in order to protect the public, especially if they currently are working with related strains of the virus.
There are areas of science where the impetus for further research is not so much the inherent scientific interest but rather the mobilizing of public anxiety, which creates a demand for research to assess the problem.
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.
The study has been commissioned and undertaken by the Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy (SCPHRP) at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Stirling's Centre for Population Health and Public Health Research.
The database is run by the independent research organization that Ma directs: the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs in Beijing, founded in 2006.
The Tyneside outpost of the Institute of Public Policy Research, IPPR North, has published a report that says the north of England risks being squeezed out by the relative economic success of Scotland and London - unless, that is, it gets some strong leadership.
The ratings also affect the amount of public funding for research that the universities can attract.
"One of the key purposes of the grant was to make this research public, " says Rebecca Freeman, a 26-year-old doctoral student in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering.
The less civil the accompanying comments, the more risk readers attributed to the research, a finding that has implications for the public understanding of science.
The 40-year-old Tobacco Institute and the Committee for Tobacco Research -- the public relations organ and the funder of tobacco research -- were disbanded as a part of the settlement.
The MoJ has also commissioned some research into the financial cost of FOI for public authorities, but this is not expected to be completed until the new year.
The research team, led by Mark Petticrew of the Medical Research Council's Social and Public Health Sciences Unit in Glasgow, said a link between the way people cope with cancer and their chance of survival was "biologically plausible".
The committee expressed concern at the lack of public access to research findings, and at the rising price of journals.
Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of the Health Research Group -- part of the nonprofit consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen -- isn't hopeful about the development of an effective and safe weight-loss drug.
Though the supposed smoking gun revealed by Sidney Wolfe , director of the Public Citizen Health Research Group, raises concern about the actions of the drug's manufacturer, Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ), it appears to be far from a final word on Celebrex.
Some of the research will be unveiled to the public for the first time, including insights into the colouration of dinosaur feathers, a spokesperson from the university said.
In the '90s, most of the growth in the Hispanic population was due to in-migration, but today births are the driving force, said David Drozd, research coordinator at the Center for Public Affairs Research at the University of Nebraska in Omaha.
In tandem came some of the world's finest research institutes, many of them part of the public-sector and multi-campus University of California.
Norman Fenton, a professor of risk information management, studied data for road deaths in Europe and the United States, and outlined his findings for Queen Mary, the public research university that is part of the University of London.
He said there was support among "the great majority of the public" for medical research using animals as well as a "revolution" in reproductive medicine made by such research.
Next year she will undertake research work at the Institute for Food and Agricultural Research and Technology, a public corporation of the Catalan government in Spain.
CIRCLE, based at the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy, promotes research on the involvement of young Americans in political and civic life.
Billy Tauzin says his top mission as president and CEO of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America is to recapture the trust of the American public.
Also, I completely agree with Matt Yglesias that he, Aaron, and I agree on the underlying issue here: importance of free public access to the results of academic research.
"Regardless of this firm's expertise on purely technical matters unrelated to policy formation, Ecology and Environment's participation in a trade association and lobbying effort in support of authorizing high-volume hydraulic fracturing in New York fundamentally disqualifies the firm and its work" for the DEC environmental impact study, Russ Haven of the New York Public Interest Research Group said in a statement released Wednesday.
"Steps to reduce abuse of the student visa system are welcome but if the government's net migration target is to be met, they also need there to be a dramatic fall in the numbers of genuine students, " said Sarah Mulley from the Institute of Public Policy Research.
The Public Knowledge Project is dedicated to improving the scholarly and public quality of research.
At APEC WES, I assembled a panel of five great women leaders representing the key sectors of the new innovation economy: Education and research, government and public policy, social entrepreneurs, and business and technology.
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