Left unfinished was a project to determine how ants manage to cling to glass ceilings.
The National Park Service has been at work for a decade on a project to determine the authenticity of sites.
The National Science Foundation, meanwhile, has started a 10-year project to determine the functions of all the genes and how they work together.
To that end, it raced the publicly financed Human Genome Project to determine the full sequence of the genetic code -- a competition that effectively ended in a tie.
But city budget analysts have been asked to review the $173 million project to determine whether it might be scaled down or postponed, the officials said.
It's a matter of being really clear on what the primary goal is for the project to determine the right approach.
— Federal regulators on Tuesday announced a yearlong "smart car" project to determine whether wireless communication between vehicles can improve safety on the nation's highways.
Celera Genomics, which competed against the publicly financed Human Genome Project to determine the sequence of human DNA, will now cooperate with it to unravel the genetic code of the laboratory rat.
He is working on a project to determine which crops in a given area are threatened by global warming, what could be grown in their place and where those crops that have been replaced could be grown instead.
The move by the companies, Monsanto and the Pioneer Hi-Bred International unit of DuPont, is at least partly aimed at persuading the government to undertake what could be a complex and expensive project to determine the entire DNA sequence of corn, something that could aid in efforts to develop crops with higher yields, resistance to drought or other desirable traits.
Last year, the DoD's Minerva Initiative funded a project to determine 'Who Does Not Become a Terrorist, and Why?' which, however, conflates peaceful activists with "supporters of political violence" who are different from terrorists only in that they do not embark on "armed militancy" themselves.
