Today, as described in its 2003 – 2008 strategic plan, the NSF is the only U. S. federal agency with a mandate to support all the non-medical fields of research.

The term " cyberinfrastructure " was used by a United States National Science Foundation ( NSF ) blue-ribbon committee in 2003 in response to the question: how can NSF, as the nation's premier agency funding basic research, remove existing barriers to the rapid evolution of high performance computing, making it truly usable by all the nation's scientists, engineers, scholars, and citizens?

He won an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1984, was the 1987 Connecticut Eli Whitney Entrepreneur of the Year, and in 2003 received the ACM / IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award.

In October 2003, NSF awarded $ 10 million to add four sites to TeraGrid as well as to establish a third network hub, in Atlanta.

In 2003, Claus Schönig published a critical overview of the history of the Altaic hypothesis up to that time.

In 2003, the An Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages was published by Starostin, Dybo, and Mudrak.

The first surviving edition ( bilingual Swedish – Esperanto ) was published in Sweden in 2003.

& C. Black, London, OCLC 4365382, and subsequent editions, 2003 edition published by Kessinger, Whitefish, Montana, ISBN 0-7661-2826-1

During grand jury testimony in December 2003 – which was illegally leaked to the San Francisco Chronicle and published in December 2004 – Giambi allegedly admitted to using many different steroids, including fertility drugs ( which could account for his declining health in the past few years ).

The Beano Specials returned in 2003, and were now published seasonally.

In 2003, a Roman Catholic adaptation of the BCP was published called the Book of Divine Worship.

The rise of comic book specialty stores in the late 1970s created / paralleled a dedicated market for " independent " or " alternative comics " in the U. S. The first such comics included the anthology series Star Reach, published by comic book writer Mike Friedrich from 1974 to 1979, and Harvey Pekar's American Splendor, which continued sporadic publication into the 21st century and which Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini adapted into a 2003 film.

:* Emma Brown, by Clare Boylan, published 2003

The first book, Conan of Cimmeria: Volume One ( 1932 – 1933 ) ( 2003 ; published in the US as The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian ) includes Howard's notes on his fictional setting, as well as letters and poems concerning the genesis of his ideas.

In 1996, the Moldovan parliament, citing fears of " Romanian expansionism ," rejected a proposal from President Mircea Snegur to change the name of the language to Romanian, and in 2003 a Moldovan-Romanian dictionary was published, purporting to show that the two countries speak different languages.

In the United Kingdom the term often retains its positive sense as a reference to natural selection, and for example Richard Dawkins wrote in his collection of essays A Devil's Chaplain, published in 2003, that as a scientist he is a Darwinist.

Inspired by the minority language example of Norsk Allkunnebok, a Swedish-language encyclopedia of Finland was initiated in 1969 and eventually published as Uppslagsverket Finland ( 3 volumes, 1982 – 1985 ; 2nd edition in 5 volumes, 2003 – 2007 ).

In 2003, Matt Stephens and Doug Rosenberg published Extreme Programming Refactored: The Case Against XP which questioned the value of the XP process and suggested ways in which it could be improved.

Certain aspects of XP have changed since the book Extreme Programming Refactored ( 2003 ) was published ; in particular, XP now accommodates modifications to the practices as long as the required objectives are still met.

The repression of memory led to historical revisionism in Italy and in 2003 the Italian media published Silvio Berlusconi's statement that the Benito Mussolini only " used to send people on vacation ", denying the existence of Italian concentration camps, such as Rab concentration camp.

In 2003, its National Research Council published a report whose conclusions called into question 30 years of FBI testimony.

* In the timeline of Robert Heinlein's utopian novel For Us, the Living – written in 1939 but only published posthumously in 2003 – LaGuardia is elected President in 1951 and serves two terms as a militant reforming president, effectively nationalizing the banking system and instituting a system of Social Credit.

Orwell's list, not published until 2003, consisted mainly of writers but also included actors and Labour MPs.

In 2003 an unofficial, but well received conclusion to the series was published under the title GW11 Omega Project-see Gap material below.

In 2003, a fan ( Les Braun ) published GW11 Omega Project on the internet, finishing the Third Edition series by closely following Eastland's original storyline.

In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine published a list called The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.

In 2003, Kodansha published Ghost in the Shell 1. 5: Human-Error Processer, a collection of manga chapters previously unreleased by Shirow.

* The Lord Is My Shepherd: Healing Wisdom of the Twenty-third Psalm published in 2003

In 2003, a meta-analysis of the efficacy of hypnotherapy was published by two researchers from the university of Konstanz in Germany, Flammer and Bongartz.

The emergence of antibacterial resistance has prompted restrictions on antibacterial use in the UK in 1970 ( Swann report 1969 ), and the EU has banned the use of antibacterials as growth-promotional agents since 2003.

On 17 July 2003, Kelly, an employee of the Ministry of Defence, apparently committed suicide after being misquoted by BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan as saying that Tony Blair's Labour government had knowingly " sexed up " the " September Dossier ", a report into Iraq and weapons of mass destruction.

In 2003, a Gartner report estimated that more than $ 1 billion had been spent on software that was not being used.

According to a 2003 report in the New York Post, the Britannica management has eliminated employee 401 ( k ) accounts and encouraged the use of free images.

In a 2003 European Commission report, TU / e was ranked as 3rd among European research universities ( after Cambridge and Oxford, at equality with TU Munich and thus making it the highest ranked Technical University in Europe ), based on the impact of its scientific research.

The 2003 University of California Berkeley report credits the estimate to the website of Caltech researcher Roy Williams, where the statement can be found as early as May 1999.

The 2003 Berkeley report stated that in 2002 alone, " telephone calls worldwide on both landlines and mobile phones contained 17. 3 exabytes of new information if stored in digital form " and that " it would take 9. 25 exabytes of storage to hold all U. S. calls each year.

In 2003, at a gathering for the Agency of Cultural Affairs, twelve policies were proposed in a written report to allow public-made films to be promoted and shown at the Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art.

In October 2003 Amnesty International issued a report which stated that their trial had been a miscarriage of justice.

The Education of Historians for Twenty-first Century ( 2003 ) report by the Committee on Graduate Education of the American Historical Association

* Trade union membership 1993 – 2003 — European Industrial Relations Observatory report on membership trends in 26 European countries

* Trade union membership 2003 – 2008 — European Industrial Relations Observatory report on membership trends in 28 European countries

A 2003 report by the Open E-book Forum found that close to a million e-books had been sold in 2002, generating nearly $ 8 million in revenue.

According to a 2003 House of Commons report, commuters faced a " daily trauma " and were forced to travel in " intolerable conditions ".

Despite a report by the Greater London Authority in support of continued use, the railway was closed in the early hours of 31 May 2003.

In a 2001 report, NASA found the ozone thinning over Antarctica had remained the same thickness for the previous three years, however in 2003 the ozone hole grew to its second largest size.

In 2002 – 2003, the team at LBNL attempted to generate the isotope < sup > 271 </ sup > Mt to study the chemical properties by bombarding uranium-238 with chlorine-37, but without success .< ref name = GSI2003 >" The search for < sup > 271 </ sup > Mt via the reaction < sup > 238 </ sup > U + < sup > 37 </ sup > Cl ", Zielinski et al .., GSI Annual report, 2003.

There is no official government report on the exact ethnic make-over but a map appeared in the November 2003 issue of the National Geographic magazine showing Tajiks 60 %, Hazaras 10 %, Pashtuns 10 %, Turkmen 10 %, and Uzbeks 10 %.

The lack of access to the foreign media and the tradition of secrecy in North Korea means that there is little news about political conditions, but Amnesty International's 2003 report on North Korea says that " there were reports of severe repression of people involved in public and private religious activities, including imprisonment, torture and executions.

Based on that data, the law mandated law enforcement agencies to submit a report to the law enforcement agencies ' governing body beginning March 1, 2003 and each year thereafter no later than March 1.

In 2003, the Delhi non-profit Centre for Science and Environment published a disputed report finding pesticide levels in Coke and Pepsi soft drinks sold in India at levels 30 times that considered safe by the European Economic Commission.

A US Government report published in 2003, estimates that 800, 000-900, 000 people worldwide are trafficked across borders each year.

According to an October 23, 2003 United Nations report, the smuggling and exportation of coltan has helped fuel the war in the Congo, a crisis that has resulted in approximately 5. 4 million deaths since 1998 – making it the world ’ s deadliest documented conflict since World War II.