According to the Overseas Development Institute Odi, however, just 12% of disaster-relief funding in the past two decades has gone on reducing risks in advance, rather than recovery and rebuilding afterwards.

In one 1990s experiment, a team including psychologist Joel Cooper of Princeton asked participants to write essays opposing funding for the disabled.

But I'd rather spend my college days funding out how children learn.

But if aging were recognized as a disease, he said, It would attract funding and change the way we do health care. What matters is understanding that aging is curable.

It's expected to raise $410 million over the next five years, most of which will go toward funding a universal pre-kindergarten program for the city.

Funding agencies note that data paid for with public money should be public information, and the scientific community is recognizing that data can now be shared digitally in ways that were not possible before.

But the barriers are disappearing, in part because journals and funding agencies worldwide are encouraging scientists to make their data public.

About 250 students so far have gone through the program, which receives funding from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation.

We need more funding and more effort to return these languages to everyday use, says Fred Nowuski of the National Museum of the American Indian, We are making progress but money needs to be spent on revitalising languages, not just documenting them.

More than $100 billion in funding has been put on the table for supporting developing nations to reduce emissions.

Other funding agencies, public and private, are moving in a similar direction.

Recently, the UK National Stem Cell Network warned the UK could lose its place among the world leaders in stem cell research unless adequate funding and legislation could be assured.

In the UK, research is concentrated: less than 25% of universities receive 75% of the research funding

fair distribution of funding for universities and research institutions

Growth of cultured meat is also under way in the Netherlands\, Mironov told Reuters in an interview, \but in the United States, it is science in search of funding and demand.

Mironov say about the funding for their research

However, at a time of financial crisis, funding diminished and little changed.

It is also critical for socially charged neuroscience issues such as the genetic basis for a particular behavior, the therapeutic potential of stem cell therapy for neurodegenerative diseases, or the use of animal models, areas where the public understand

More than $100 billion in funding has been put on the table for supporting developing nations to reduce emissions.

Spurred on by funding policies, half of European research articles had international co-authors in 2007.

The issue of climate change also illustrates how the public acceptance and understanding of scienceor the lack of it can influence governmental decision-making with regard to regulation, science policy and research funding.

There're currently 21.5 million students in America, and many will be funding their college on borrowed money.

This period was one of inter-elite rivalry, in which nobles sought to increase their influence by funding the construction of churches and other buildings.

Rage Against the Haze failed once state funding was cut.

The problem is not necessarily the amount of available funding.

The European Union Framework funding programs have long had a category specifically targeted at social scientists.

Social scientists who complain about a lack of funding should not expect more in today’s economic climate.

And in Europe, some are up in arms over a proposal to drop a specific funding category for social-science research and to integrate it within cross-cutting topics of sustainable development.

To encourage innovation and competition, the report calls for increased investment in research, the crafting of coherent curricula that improve students’ ability to solve problems and communicate effectively in the 21st century, increased funding for teachers and the encouragement of scholars to bring their learning to bear on the great challenges of the day.

A town of culture award could, it is argued, become an annual event, attracting funding and creating jobs.

In Britain the move towards open access publishing has been driven by funding bodies.

Social scientists who complain about a lack of funding should not expect more in today's economic climate.

To encourage innovation and competition, the report calls for increased investment in research, the crafting of coherent curricula that improve students' ability to solve problems and communicate effectively in the 21st century, increased funding for teac

While the government's commitment to long-term funding may have changed, the very pressing need for more affordable housing is real and is not going away.