The filibuster on $7.4 billion in medical care and compensation for the workers at ground zero will be harrowing for the tens of thousands who labored tirelessly for weeks and eventually had to seek care under a patchwork of temporary medical and research programs in the city.
For Dr. Calkins and Dr. Gee, who received their Ph.D.'s in 2001 and 2003, respectively, crowd funding is just one more way to scrape together a patchwork of funding and incremental bits of research aimed at larger goals.
Through tireless research and a patchwork of audio and video footage, obtained with extraordinary determination, McGinn and Blackhurst have tried to assemble the ultimate account of a familiar and persistent story.
Though Mr. Safire calls for a greater federal role in guiding stem cell research, he says a patchwork of state laws "would be no disaster".
For example, management and political barriers often make it complex to build and share expensive, pan-European research facilities, and a patchwork of vastly different pension and social security systems can make moving across borders very impractical or financially unattractive.
"Once a jewel of biomedical research," McKinnell said, "Europe today is a patchwork of price controls, formulary restrictions, product diversions, intentional gaps in patient information and mandated intrusions into the relationships between patients and their doctors".
A patchwork of nearly 30 companies — from industries as disparate as retail, energy and medical research — has weighed in with their own anti-Volcker Rule sentiments.
A patchwork of several definitions ranging from electronic markets as agora 3 [31] to information systems [9] hampers respective research.
"We already have a patchwork of better disclosure in the city and nonexistent disclosure at the state level," said Adam Skaggs, senior counsel to the Brennan Center for Justice, a research and advocacy group.
We're a patchwork of small towns".
