Federal funding agency

Financial assistance from NSERC, the federal funding agency of Canada, is acknowledged. 

All these actions, together with his intense participation in the advisory board of funding agencies in Brazil, certainly helped to recognize theoretical chemistry as an independent sub-area of research in physical chemistry by the Brazilian most important federal funding agencies (CNPq and CAPES) in the last decades. 

The information provided by such an assessment will provide federal funding agencies with a sound basis for planning their future investments in both disciplinary and cross-disciplinary research. 

Acknowledgement. The initial portion of this research was supported by Agricultural Research Service, U.S.D.A., contract No. 12-14-100-9493(34) administered by Crops Research Division, Beltsville, Maryland. Appreciation goes to Dr. S. K. Mukerji and Kay Jolley for their participation. The final stages of the work in which John Perchorowicz and Lance Evans participated was supported by Federal Funds from the Environmental Protection Agency under grant number 801311. 

Acknowledgement. This project has been financed in part with Federal funds from the Environmental Protection Agency under grant number 801311. The contents do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of EPA, nor does mention of trade names or commercial products constitute endorsement or recommendation for use. The authors would like to thank Ms. Joan Vereen for technical assistance and Dr. Robert J. Beaver for statistical analysis. 

The research described in this report was sponsored hy the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). The research was conducted jointly hy RAND Health s Center for Military Health Policy Research and the Forces and Resources Policy Center of the National Defense Research Institute, a federally funded research and development center supported hy the OSD, the Joint Staff, the unified commands, and the defense agencies under Contract DASWOl-Of-C-0004. 

In 2004, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) gave microprocess engineering a research priority under its frame program Microsystems [46]. In 2005, six industrial cooperation projects were launched, supervised by the funding agency VDI/VDE-IT, which are described in detail in the following. The target is the development of pilot plants for different reactions in several application fields for... 

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