He also serves on the boards of the World Wildlife Fund, Scleroderma Research Foundation, US Ski Team, ASK Group, Boise Cascade, the AES Corporation, and McKesson.

A review by the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality found that much of the evidence for the off-label use of antipsychotics ( for example, for depression, dementia, OCD, PTSD, Personality Disorders, Tourette's ) was of insufficient scientific quality to support such use, especially as there was strong evidence of increased risks of stroke, tremors, significant weight gain, sedation, and gastrointestinal problems.

The US Library of Congress Federal Research Division reported it in 2006 as having generally good freedom of speech and human rights records, while Freedom House listed it as " free " in 2011, giving it scores of 2 for political rights and 2 for civil liberties.

According to the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, indirect comparison indicates that side-effects from benzodiazepines may be about twice as frequent as from nonbenzodiazepines.

In 1988, the US National Research Council concluded that it "... finds no scientific justification from research conducted over a period of 130 years, for the existence of parapsychological phenomena.

Dartmouth College and the US Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory are located there.

Less than a month later, Pei suspended his work at Harvard to join the National Defense Research Committee, which coordinated scientific research into US weapons technology during World War II.

* Congressional Research Service ( CRS ) Reports regarding the US Insurance industry

An early 6 kW version, built in England by the General Electric Company Research Laboratories, Wembley, London ( not to be confused with the similarly named American company General Electric ), was given to the US government in September 1940.

The variable temporary population of 4 – 20 " non-occupants " are staff and scientists employed by various departments of the US government and The Nature Conservancy, as well as a rotating mix of Palmyra Atoll Research Consortium scholars pursuing research.

In the United States, the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research ( NBER ) is generally seen as the authority for dating US recessions.

Even the National Bureau of Economic Research ( NBER ) takes a few months to determine if a peak or trough has occurred in the US.

Research on ASDIC and underwater sound was expanded in the UK and in the US.

Three percent of the 3, 475 research institutions that report to the US Department of Health and Human Services ' Office of Research Integrity, indicate some form of scientific misconduct.

* Children's Environmental Exposure Research Study ( CHEERS ) ( in the US )

Most US experts who've heard or processed the tape have usually supported that conclusion, but the result of Idiap Research Institute shows that " there is serious room for doubt " that the speaker is bin Laden.

The National Center for Atmospheric Research ( NCAR ) was Cray Research's first official customer in 1977, paying US $ 8. 86 million ($ 7. 9 million plus $ 1 million for the disks ) for serial number 3.

Research on MPD thrusters has been carried out in the US, the former Soviet Union, Japan, Germany, and Italy.

Currently, only twenty-four nations have spaceflight technology: Russia ( Russian Federal Space Agency ), the United States ( NASA, the US Air Force, SpaceX ( a U. S private aerospace company )), the member states of the European Space Agency, the People's Republic of China ( China National Space Administration ), Japan ( Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ), and India ( Indian Space Research Organisation ).

Hulburt of the US Naval Research Laboratory and associates Gregory Breit and Merle A. Tuve of the Carnegie Institution of Washington explored the possibility of equipping Robert H. Goddard's rockets to explore the upper atmosphere.

The first detection of a Coronal mass ejection ( CME ) as such was made on December 1, 1971 by R. Tousey of the US Naval Research Laboratory using OSO 7.

In 1977 the US Congress created the National Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research to investigate allegations that psychosurgery — including lobotomy techniques — were used to control minorities and restrain individual rights.

* FragileX. org The National Fragile X Foundation ( US ) – Support, Awareness, Education, Research and Advocacy since 1984

The DARPA Agent Markup Language ( DAML ) was the name of a US funding program at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) started in 1999 by then-Program Manager James Hendler, and later run by Murray Burke, Mark Greaves and Michael Pagels.

* US National Ataxia Foundation

ISI's government customers include the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, US Geological Survey, and Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Homeland Security and Justice.

In 2005, James Randi offered her the James Randi Educational Foundation US $ 1 million prize to demonstrate her claims.

It is ranked by the Carnegie Foundation as one of the top 77 public research universities in the US and one of the top 76 in community engagement.

A request for reviewing the WARF patents 5, 843, 780 ; 6, 200, 806 ; 7, 029, 913 US Patent and Trademark Office were filed by non-profit patent-watchdogs The Foundation for Taxpayer & Consumer Rights, and the Public Patent Foundation as well as molecular biologist Jeanne Loring of the Burnham Institute.

Gilbert has also been honored by the National Academy of Sciences ( US Steel Foundation Award, 1968 ); Massachusetts General Hospital ( Warren Triennial Prize, 1977 ); the New York Academy of Sciences ; ( Louis and Bert Freedman Foundation Award, 1977 ), the Academie des Sciences of France ( Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer Award, 1977 ).

The 2008 Believe campaign results included Macy's collecting 1. 1 million letters from Santa Mail Red Letter boxes located in Macy's stores, that were then mailed to him through the United States Post Office " Operation Santa ", and Macy's making a matching $ 1 million US contribution to the Make-A-Wish Foundation for the letters collected by Macy's.

Some of the better known modern experiments include the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland, Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, Twin Oaks and Los Horcones ( inspired by B. F. Skinner's Walden Two ) and The Farm in the US, ZEGG in Germany, Camphill Communities ( all over, but originating in Europe ), and Auroville in India.

He was invited and then trained with former US Vice President Al Gore as a Climate Change Presenter ( now named Climate Reality ), launched Clean up the World Day with The UN in New York, and is an Ambassador for Greenpeace, Australian Conservation Foundation, Planet Ark and National Tree Day.

Cooney and Morrisett procured additional multi-million dollar grants from the US federal government, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations CPB and the Ford Foundation.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation | EFF's US $ 250, 000 DES EFF DES cracker | cracking machine contained over 1, 800 custom chips and could brute-force a DES key in a matter of days.

PMD Foundation ( US )

The training was the result of a " Chile Project " organised in the 1950s by the US State Department and funded by the Ford Foundation, which aimed at influencing Chilean economic thinking.

His whereabouts remain unknown and a news article states ," Like many protesters, Wilson Mesilien, coordinator of the pro-Aristide 30 September Foundation wore a T-shirt demanding the return of foundation leader Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, a human rights activist and critic of both UN and US involvement in Haiti.

To seek more support from its alumni in the US and cement its collaboration with Yale University, Fudan University launched the Fudan University Education Development Foundation in New York in February 2008.

According to the Sloan Foundation reports, there has been an increase of around 12 – 14 percent per year on average in enrollments for fully online learning over the five years 2004 – 2009 in the US post-secondary system, compared with an average of approximately 2 per cent increase per year in enrollments overall.

Primary advocates for supporting Massoud included two Heritage Foundation foreign policy analysts, Michael Johns and James A. Phillips, both of whom championed Massoud as the Afghan resistance leader most worthy of US support under the Reagan Doctrine.

In 1957, the first US conference was held on St. Simons Island, Georgia, with $ 30, 000 from the Ford Foundation.

In 1989, he established the Annenberg Foundation, and 1993, created the Annenberg Challenge, a US $ 500 million, five-year reform effort and the largest single gift ever made to American public education.

Since 1995, Inverness has been recognized as a Tree City USA by the National Arbor Day Foundation and the US Forestry Service.

The charitable foundation was reported by the business newspaper The Economist in May 2006 to be technically the world's wealthiest charity – with an estimated value of at least US $ 36 billion in 2006 ( larger than the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ) – but its primary purpose is corporate tax-optimization and anti-takeover protection for IKEA.