The Bronx Zoo supports much research and many conservation field projects overseas.
"People who support the development side haven't supported much quantitative research," Jerald said.
After nearly a decade at URI, Evans became a program manager at the Office of Naval Research, which had supported much of his research on the interaction of small and large-scale ocean phenomena.
He's issued a barrage of press releases that ridicule specific awards, championed legislation that would alter NSF's peer-review system and slash funding for the social science programs that have supported much of the research he has questioned, and berated NSF officials for providing what he considers to be inadequate explanations of their funding decisions.
Yes, government financing supported much of the early research, and private corporations enhanced and commercialized the platforms.
The Pew report confirms a notion that had been a widely held belief for years but that had not been supported by much research, according to Lee Rainie, director of Pew's Internet and American Life Project.
There are various techniques, not supported by much research, that involve setting regular routines and then either leaving your baby to get to sleep on its own or sleeping alongside it.
Local executives say NIST's grim future is a reminder that defense spending that once supported so much research won't be replaced easily.
To improve matters, the report's authors suggest that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), which supports much of the research in the field, should conduct assessments of proposed technologies that examine sustainability at all stages of fuel production, including growing or collecting algae and harvesting their oil and converting it into transportation fuels.
"California has the opportunity to once again lead the nation on reforming policy, this time by supporting much-needed research on the causes and impacts of gun violence," Feinstein wrote in support of the bill.
