Providers national

Provide national procurement of nuclear munitions and of selected non-nuclear commodities as assigned... 

Lichtenberg (2001b) examined rare diseases (treated with orphan drugs) and HIV/AIDS as case studies to illustrate the impact of new therapies on life expectancy. His focus on rare diseases and HlV/AlDS is particularly interesting because these areas provide national experiments of two very different sorts (also, see Lichtenberg, Chapter 7, and Sloan and Eesley, Chapter 6). 

Bureau of Standards or National Bureau of Standards(NBS), Washington 25, DC. It was established in 1901 as a part of the Treasury Dept and was transferred in 1903 to the Dept of Commerce and Labor. The fundamental purpose of the Bureau is to provide national leadership in the development and use of accurate uniform techniques of physical measurements. It conducts fundamental research in physics, chemistry,... 

The OECD Guidelines for National GLP Inspections and Study Audits document serves as a companion document to the Principles and is intended to provide national authorities additional guidance in preparing and implementing their national GLP compliance programs. 

The demand for Certified Reference Materials is much higher than the international infrastructure of metrology institutes can provide. National metrological institutes are often not well enough equipped for efficient production of these materials. 

It follows then, that predominant libertarian values are deeply entrenched in the notion of the self-made person and that social rewards should only accrue if they are deserved and earned. The role of government is, therefore, limited to those functions that absolutely do not abridge the rights of the individual to exert his or her own will for what he or she believes to be best. Moreover, government s role would be limited to those functions and needs for which individuals could not provide (national defense, negotiation of treaties, etc.). 

National Arsenic Occurrence Survey (NAOS) sampled raw water from approximately 270 public supply wells in all 50 states, and predicted arsenic concentrations in finished water based on known treatments implemented by the systems (Frey and Edwards, 1997). Frey and Edwards (1997) also provided national estimates based on reexamining the NIRS data and a dataset of finished water from 60 large systems (serving >10,000 people) sampled by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (Davis et al, 1994). In 1973 to 1997, the USGS analyzed for arsenic in 18,850 raw-water samples from wells in 49 states (all but Hawaii) and Puerto Rico this dataset included 2,262 samples from public supply wells (Focazio et al., 2000). Several older national surveys of arsenic have been described in documents prepared for the USEPA (ISSI Consulting Group et al., 2000). 

There are currently 110 active member bodies in the ISO. These are the standards bodies of the participating countrie.s, which, in addition to providing national input to the ISO, and sometimes regional standards work, are also generally responsible for monitoring the preparation of their own national standards. 

An entity of the Department of Homeland Security s Federal Emergency Management Agency, whose mission is to provide national leadership to foster a solid foundation for our fire and emergency services stakeholders in prevention, preparedness, and response. 

Occupational disease registries provide national data based on the notification of occupational skin diseases and are available in many countries. Although the comparison of national data are hampered by differences across countries in reporting occupational diseases, the IR of registered OCD in most countries lies... 

To the contrary, there is significant likelihood that public funding of science will be reduced, since politicians will no longer see it as vital to national security. Since we all obviously believe that science has more to offer to the benefit of society now than it ever did in the past, we need to persuade the policy makers that peaceful international competition in non-military arenas, such as those listed earlier by Prof. Whitesides (manufacturing, information, environment), is at least as beneficial as providing national security by military means was in the past. Judging by mankind s past record, we only have a limited period of essentially effortless military security without major threats on the horizon, but one can hope that this period will be long on the scale of human lifespan, and science needs to adjust to the political conditions that will prevail in this period. 

National Institute for Farm Safety http //nifsagsafety.org/ (accessed September 29, 2010). NIFS is an organization dedicated to the professional development of agricultural safety and health professionals, providing national and international leadership in preventing agricultural injuries (from the Web page). 

What is urgently needed is for the Government to clarify its position on SEN - specifically on inclusion and to provide national strategic direction for the futine. 

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