Funding Opportunities by Strategic Research Goal
(Note: Some grants appear in multiple categories due to overlap.)
(Note: Information below obtained from Grants.gov, InfoEd, and individual
foundation and government websites.)
| Agency or Organization | Title/Number/Website | Description | Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nanosystems | |||
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | NanoManufacturing (PD-05-1788) |
The NanoManufacturing Program was established in 2001 to promote fundamental research and education at the nanoscale, and to transfer developments in nanoscience and nanotechnology discoveries from the laboratory to industrial application with prominent societal impacts. | 15-Feb-07 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | Combustion, Fire and Plasma Systems (PD-05-1407) |
The Combustion, Fire, and Plasma Systems Program supports fundamental research and education related to the reacting flows found in combustion, fires, and plasmas. Theoretical, experimental, and computational research is supported. Projects are supported across the spectrum of liquid, gas, and solid combustion in premixed, non-premixed, partially premixed, or flow reactor configurations. Projects that intersect nanotechnology and either combustion, fire, or plasma science are of special interest. | 1-Mar-07 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | Fluid Dynamics (PD-05-1443) |
The Fluid Dynamics and Hydraulics Program supports fundamental research and education on mechanisms and phenomena that govern fluid flow. Topics include: hydrodynamic stability; transitional flows and turbulence; Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid mechanics; sediment transport, waves and coastal engineering; multi-scale, multi-phenomena models and computations; bio-fluid mechanics, micro and nanoscale flow phenomena, and microfluidics. | 1-Mar-07 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | Interfacial Processes and Thermodynamics (PD-05-1414) |
The Interfacial Processes and Thermodynamics program supports research in engineering science areas related to interfacial phenomena, mass transport phenomena, separation science, and phase equilibrium thermodynamics. Recently, emphasis is placed on molecular engineering approaches as applied to processing of soft materials, often with bio-molecular functions at the micro and nanoscale. | 1-Mar-07 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | Environmental Technology (PD-07-1179) |
The Environmental Technology Program provides support to develop and test new technologies across the range of sub-areas and activities in the field of environmental engineering. These include new devices and systems for more effective pollutant removal from air and water, as well as new technologies that minimize or avoid the pollutant generation inherent in older commercial and domestic processes and activities. The program emphasizes engineering principles underlying pollution avoidance as well as pollution treatment and remediation. Innovative production processes, waste reduction, recycling, and industrial ecology technologies are important to this program. Current areas of support include: * Nanotechnology, environmental, health, and safety implications and applications; * | 1-Mar-07 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | Particulate and Multiphase Processes (PD-05-1415) |
The Particulate and Multiphase Processes Program supports fundamental and applied research on mechanisms and phenomena governing multiphase processes, granular and granular-fluid flows, particle/bubble/droplet interactions, aerosol science and technology, suspensions, micro-/nanostructured fluids, self and directed assembly of nanostructures, and related instrumentation and diagnostics. Innovative research is sought that contributes to improving the basic understanding, design, predictability, efficiency, and control of multiphase processes with particular emphasis on: new frontiers in nanotechnology, novel manufacturing techniques, nano-metrology, multiphase transport in biological systems, environmental sustainability, critical infrastructure systems, and complex engineering systems. | 1-Mar-07 |
| National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine
(R21) (PAR-07-271) |
This funding opportunity (FOA) is aimed at enhancing nanoscience and nanotechnology research focused on problems in biology and medicine. | 23-Oct-07 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | Biophotonics (PD-07-7236) |
This research program focuses on the development of complex new integrated bio-optical technologies utilizing advances in optical technology such as nanoparticle fluorescent quantum-dots, novel waveguiding structures, plasmon surface resonance, nanofluidics, lens microarrays, nanochannel interconnects, and multi-function focal plane detector/emitter arrays, together with surface science, nanotechnology, and microelectronics to yield integrated optics solutions for a variety of purposes. | 15-Sep-07 |
| High performance computation and visualization | |||
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Office of Science in the United States Department of Energy (DOE) |
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Office of Science in the United States Department of Energy (DOE) are working together to provide humanities scholars with access to DOE supercomputers. These grants provide computer time on DOE machines at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as well as training and support to enable scholars to take full advantage of those resources. Interested scholars will apply directly to NERSC, and hours will be awarded under the terms of the DOE's Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program. The INCITE program was conceived specifically to seek out computationally intensive, large-scale research projects with the potential to significantly advance key areas in science and engineering. With this partnership with NEH, the hope is that comparable research projects in the humanities will be able to take advantage of high performance computing resources. Successful applicants will be given access to computer and support resources at NERSC. In addition, winners will receive travel reimbursement funds to enable them (up to two people per project) to attend on-site training at NERSC. |
15-July-08
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| National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Neuroimaging Informatics Software Enhancement for Improved Interoperability and Dissemination (R03) (RFA-EB-07-002) | FOAs intend to support modification, and enhancement of existing neuroimaging informatics tools and resources that are hosted or being considered for inclusion into the NIH Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC). Examples of such tools include image segmentation, image registration, image processing pipelines, statistical analysis packages, spatial alignment and normalization algorithms, and data format translators. Resources include well-characterized test datasets, data formats, and databases, among others. The proposed work shall significantly improve the interoperability and adoptability of neuroimaging informatics tools and resources and result in enhanced dissemination, adoption, and evolution of such tools and resources by the broader neuroimaging research community. | 23-Feb-07 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | Emerging Models and Technologies for Computation (EMT)
(07-523) |
The EMT program seeks to advance the fundamental capabilities of computer and information sciences and engineering by capitalizing on advances and insights from areas such as biological systems, quantum phenomena, nanoscale science and engineering, and other novel computing concepts. To bring fundamental changes to software, hardware and architectural design aspects of future computing models, collaborations among computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians, biologists and other disciplinary scientists are imperative. Research of interest should move beyond evolutionary technological advances to innovations that enable fundamentally different ways of computing. These innovations should promise much higher speeds/chip densities or should solve more complex problems than traditional approaches currently permit. | 14-Feb-07 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) | Digital Humanities Start-up Grants |
NEH invites proposals for the planning or initial stages of digital initiatives in all areas of the humanities. Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants may involve: research that brings new digital approaches to the study of the humanities or that examines the implications of the use of emerging technologies for humanities scholarship; new digital modes of publication facilitating the dissemination of humanities scholarship in advanced academic as well as informal or formal educational settings at all academic levels; and programs addressing the innovative use of emerging digital technologies in formal and informal educational settings, including public forums such as museums, libraries, historic sites, and broadcast media, and K-12 schools and post-secondary institutions. | 3-Apr-07 |
| National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Exploratory Innovations in Biomedical Computational
Science and Technology (R21) (PAR-06-411) |
This particular FOA is intended to support exploratory biomedical informatics and computational biology research—applications should be innovative, with high risk/high impact in new areas that are lacking preliminary data or development. Programs may target one or multiple areas of biomedical computing that will enable progress in biomedical research. Examples of data types that could be considered include but are not limited to genomic sequences, biomedical images, qualitative descriptors for health and social science, remote sensing and geospatial images, and pathway data. | 25-Jun-09 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | Digitial Government Research Program |
"The Digital Government Society (DGS) is a multi-disciplinary
organization of scholars committed to digital government (i.e. the
use of IT to support public policies and government operations).
It appears to be a group comprised of social scientists and computer
engineers." There are currently stakeholders at UCLA. |
Ongoing. Depends on project. Contact NSF. |
| Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The | Research in Information Technology Program |
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation program in Research in Information Technology (RIT) is dedicated to supporting the thoughtful application of information technology to a wide range of scholarly purposes. The Foundation is interested in promoting the study of uses of digital technologies that can be applied to research and online and distance learning and teaching. The Foundation also supports investigations of new technical approaches to the archiving of textual and multimedia materials that require improved search and storage techniques and improvements in user-interfaces. The impact of information technology (and especially digitization) on scholarship, scholarly communication, and libraries is indisputable. | Ongoing. Contact the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation |
| Arts and Entertainment (and humanities) | |||
| Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts | No specific titles or
grants. |
The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, created in 1956 by a bequest from prominent Chicago architect Ernest R. Graham (1866-1936), is committed to providing project-based grants to individuals (architects, artists, scholars and others) and institutions working to address issues in architecture and the built environment. | Anticipated deadline: September 2007 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) | Digital Humanities Start-up Grants |
NEH invites proposals for the planning or initial stages of digital initiatives in all areas of the humanities. Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants may involve: research that brings new digital approaches to the study of the humanities or that examines the implications of the use of emerging technologies for humanities scholarship; new digital modes of publication facilitating the dissemination of humanities scholarship in advanced academic as well as informal or formal educational settings at all academic levels; and programs addressing the innovative use of emerging digital technologies in formal and informal educational settings, including public forums such as museums, libraries, historic sites, and broadcast media, and K-12 schools and post-secondary institutions. | 3-Apr-07 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) | Challenge Grants |
NEH challenge grants help institutions and organizations secure long-term improvements in and support for their humanities programs and resources. Awards are made to museums, public libraries, colleges, research institutions, historical societies and historic sites, public television and radio stations, universities, scholarly associations, state humanities councils, and other nonprofit entities. Challenge grants most commonly augment or establish endowments that support humanities activities in education, public programming, scholarly research, and preservation. | May 1, 2007 and November 1, 2007 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) | Collarborative Research Grants |
Collaborative Research Grants support: original research undertaken by a team of two or more scholars; or research coordinated by an individual scholar that, because of its scope or complexity, requires additional staff and resources beyond the individual's salary. The program supports research that significantly adds to knowledge and understanding in the humanities; and research that uses the knowledge, methods, and perspectives of the humanities to enhance understanding of science, technology, and medicine. | 1-Nov-07 |
| Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The | Museums and Art Conservation program |
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation program for art museums is designed to help excellent institutions build and sustain their capacity to undertake serious scholarship on their permanent collections; to preserve these collections; and to share the results of their work in appropriate ways with scholarly and other audiences. Supports basic research intended to enable curators, conservators, and other professionals to devote intensive study to the objects in their care, and to make their knowledge and professional expertise available to others in new as well as in more traditional ways. | Ongoing |
| Social Inequities and Solutions | |||
| National Science Foundation (NSF): Law and Social Science Program | Title: Law and Social Science Program (PD-98-1372) |
The Law and Social Science Program at the National Science Foundation supports social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules, institutions, processes, and behaviors. These can include, but are not limited to, research designed to enhance the scientific understanding of the impact of law; human behavior and interactions as these relate to law; the dynamics of legal decision making; and the nature, sources, and consequences of variations and changes in legal institutions. The primary consideration is that the research shows promise of advancing a scientific understanding of law and legal process. Within this framework, the Program has an "open window" for diverse theoretical perspectives, methods and contexts for study. | Full Proposal Target Date: 1/15/2007 |
| National Institutes of Health: Department of Health and Human Services | Title: Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research via
Methodological and Technological Innovation in the Behavioral and
Social Sciences (R21) (RFA-RM-07-004) |
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits applications to develop new/innovative measures, methods, and technologies that support the interdisciplinary integration of human social and/or behavioral science with other disciplines across varying levels of analysis. -This FOA is part of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research Initiative. | Application Submission / Receipt Date(s): 2/23/2007 |
| Russell Sage Foundation, The | The Social Dimensions of Inequality |
This program provides grants for research in social
inequality. In 2002, a group the UCLA Working Group on Spatial Aspects of Inequality, comprised of Robert D. Mare, Janet Currie, V. Joseph Hotz, Anne Pebley, and Meredith Phillips, and Narayan Sastry fr |
Proposal deadline: 4/1/2007 |
| Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | Title: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Examining the
Links Between Social Stressors, Biodiveristy and Human Health (EPA-G2007-STAR-F1) |
These awards may include geospatial information. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is seeking applications proposing to use interdisciplinary approaches to study the relationship between anthropogenic stressors (within ecosystems), changes in host and/or vector biodiversity, and infectious disease transmission. Research will focus on understanding the environmental and social factors that contribute to biodiversity change, the population dynamics of animal reservoirs and vectors of disease, biological mechanisms that influence disease transmission to humans, and the processes by which infectious diseases emerge and spread. Research on the links between anthropogenic stressors, biodiversity and infectious disease can have an important impact on our view of biodiversity, the services provided by natural ecosystems, and how we manage these resources to protect human health and the environment. | Solicitation Closing Date: 4/19/2007, 4:00 pm Eastern Time |
| John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, The | Provides grants for original social science research
into policy issues of the Los Angeles region. The foundation focuses
all of its grants on the Los Angeles region. |
Funds are restricted to: *Original social science research into policy issues of the Los Angeles region, *Research into the history of Southern California, *Archival and cataloging projects important to Los Angeles, *Dissertation fellowships at research universities in the five-county Southern California region. The Foundation does not utilize application forms for the submission of grant proposals. Rather, it requires applicants to submit, via the U.S. postal service or other mail delivery service, 15 proposal “packages. |
Major Research Grant Proposal Deadlines: 3/2/2007, 5/4/2007, 9/7/2007 and 11/2/2007 |
| National Institutes of Health: Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research | Title: Methodology And Measurement In The Behavioral
And Social Sciences (R03) ( PA-06-344 ) |
The sponsor offers support for research that will improve the quality and scientific power of data collected in the behavioral and social sciences, relevant to the missions of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers. Research that addresses methodology and measurement issues in diverse populations, issues in studying sensitive behaviors, issues of ethics in research, issues related to confidential data and the protection of research subjects, and issues in developing interdisciplinary, multimethod, and multilevel approaches to behavioral and social science research is particularly encouraged, as are approaches that integrate behavioral and social science research with biological, physical, or computational science research or engineering. This program announcement encourages applications addressing four general areas of methodology and measurement research in the social and behavioral sciences. These areas include research design, data collection techniques, measurement, and data analysis. | Opening date: 1/5/2007 |
| The Pew Charitable Trusts | Advancing Policy Solutions |
The Trusts is an advocate for policy solutions on important issues facing the American people when the case for change is compelling and where the facts are clear. At both the national and state levels, we engage the foremost leaders, thinkers, researcher | Ongoing. Contact foundation. |
| W.M. Keck Foundation | The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative |
The Futures Initiative will: convene two gatherings a year of outstanding researchers from diverse disciplines to ask new questions, share new ideas, and set priorities in an important and exciting interdisciplinary field; award seed grants to selected re | Ongoing. Contact foundation. |
| Climate Change, Clean Energy and sustainability | |||
| Air Resources Board (ARB) | Innovative Clean Air Technologies Program (ICAT) |
ICAT is an Air Resources Board program that co-funds the demonstration of innovative technologies that can reduce air pollution. Its purpose is to advance such technologies toward commercial application, thereby reducing emissions and helping the economy of California. | 30-May-2008 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | Environmental Sustainability (PD-07-7643) | The Environmental Sustainability program supports engineering research with the goal of promoting sustainable engineered systems that support human well-being and that also are compatible with sustaining natural (environmental) systems, which provide ecological services vital for human survival. | 1-Mar-07 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | Environmental Technology (PD-07-1179) |
The Environmental Technology Program provides support to develop and test new technologies across the range of sub-areas and activities in the field of environmental engineering. These include new devices and systems for more effective pollutant removal from air and water, as well as new technologies that minimize or avoid the pollutant generation inherent in older commercial and domestic processes and activities. The program also supports research on the development and refinement of sensors and sensor network technologies that can be used to measure a wide variety of physical, chemical, and biological properties of interest in characterizing environmental systems. The program emphasizes engineering principles underlying pollution avoidance as well as pollution treatment and remediation. Innovative production processes, waste reduction, recycling, and industrial ecology technologies are important to this program. The program supports research on innovative techniques to restore polluted land, water, and air resources. | 1-Mar-07 |
| Conservation, Food, & Health Foundation | Research grants |
The Foundation provides targeted grants to suppport research to help solve specific problems (in the areas of conservation, food and health) in the Third World. | Concept Application February 1, 2007; Request for Proposal February 15, 2007; Full Proposals Due March 1, 2007 |
| Earthwatch Institute | Preliminary
proposals for research are accepted and
reviewed year-round and should be submitted 18 months in advance
of the anticipated fieldwork. Due to the large volume of proposals
received, Earthwatch is no longer accepting preliminary proposals
for the 2007 field season. Preliminary proposals for the 2008 field
season (October 1, 2007 through September 30, 2008) are now being
accepted. |
Earthwatch Institute is an international non-profit organization that supports scholarly field research worldwide in the biological, physical, social, and cultural sciences. The Research Program at Earthwatch is responsible for soliciting, reviewing, and recommending research proposals for support. | 15-Apr-07 |
| Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | Title:
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Examining the Links Between Social
Stressors, Biodiveristy and Human Health (EPA-G2007-STAR-F1) |
These awards may include geospatial information. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is seeking applications proposing to use interdisciplinary approaches to study the relationship between anthropogenic stressors (within ecosystems), changes in host and/or vector biodiversity, and infectious disease transmission. Research will focus on understanding the environmental and social factors that contribute to biodiversity change, the population dynamics of animal reservoirs and vectors of disease, biological mechanisms that influence disease transmission to humans, and the processes by which infectious diseases emerge and spread. Research on the links between anthropogenic stressors, biodiversity and infectious disease can have an important impact on our view of biodiversity, the services provided by natural ecosystems, and how we manage these resources to protect human health and the environment. | Solicitation Closing Date: 4/19/2007, 4:00 pm Eastern Time |
| Cognitive Neuroscience | |||
| National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Neuroimaging Informatics Software Enhancement for Improved
Interoperability and Dissemination (R03) (RFA-EB-07-002) |
FOAs intend to support modification, and enhancement of existing neuroimaging informatics tools and resources that are hosted or being considered for inclusion into the NIH Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC). Examples of such tools include image segmentation, image registration, image processing pipelines, statistical analysis packages, spatial alignment and normalization algorithms, and data format translators. Resources include well-characterized test datasets, data formats, and databases, among others. The proposed work shall significantly improve the interoperability and adoptability of neuroimaging informatics tools and resources and result in enhanced dissemination, adoption, and evolution of such tools and resources by the broader neuroimaging research community. | 23-Feb-07 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | Cognitive Neuroscience Program |
The Cognitive Neuroscience Program seeks highly innovative and interdisciplinary proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior, including how such processes develop and change in the brain and through time. | 14-Jul-07 |
| National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Neurodevelopment and Neuroendocrine Signaling in Adolescence:
Relevance to Mental Health (R01) (PA-07-208) |
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits research grant applications that propose to identify neurodevelopmental and neuroendocrine mechanisms that impact emotional and cognitive development and emerging psychopathology during adolescence, utilizing animal models and human studies. | 6-Jul-08 |
| National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Research on the Cognitive Sequelae of Parkinson's Disease
(R01) (PA-07-198) |
Under this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), the National Institute on Aging (NIA), and the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) invite research grant applications that address the underlying neurobiological mechanisms associated with the cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease (PD), that address the development of clinical interventions and therapeutics for cognitive impairment in PD, or that promote improved clinical diagnosis or treatment of cognitive impairment in PD. A goal of this FOA is to begin a process where basic and clinical scientists from various disciplines can overcome barriers to cross-disciplinary and biobehavioral research and examine all aspects of cognition in the context of the diagnosis and treatment of Parkinson's disease. | 6-Nov-08 |
| New frontiers in medicine and human development | |||
| National Institutes of Health: Department of Health and Human Services | Title: Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research via
Methodological and Technological Innovation in the Behavioral and
Social Sciences (R21) (RFA-RM-07-004) |
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits applications to develop new/innovative measures, methods, and technologies that support the interdisciplinary integration of human social and/or behavioral science with other disciplines across varying levels of analysis. This FOA is part of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research Initiative. | Application Submission / Receipt Date(s): 2/23/2007 |
| National Institutes of Health: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) | Title: Interdisciplinary Partnerships in Environmental
Health Sciences (R21) (PAR-06-179) |
This initiative is intended to support collaborations between scientists with basic and clinical expertise to advance understanding of the etiology, prevention, and treatment of environmentally-induced human diseases. | Application Submission Dates(s): 1/11/2007 and 1/11/2008 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | Biophotonics (PD-07-7236) |
This research program focuses on the development of complex new integrated bio-optical technologies utilizing advances in optical technology such as nanoparticle fluorescent quantum-dots, novel waveguiding structures, plasmon surface resonance, nanofluidics, lens microarrays, nanochannel interconnects, and multi-function focal plane detector/emitter arrays, together with surface science, nanotechnology, and microelectronics to yield integrated optics solutions for a variety of purposes. | 15-Sep-07 |
| National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine
(R21) (PAR-07-271) |
This funding opportunity (FOA) is aimed at enhancing nanoscience and nanotechnology research focused on problems in biology and medicine. | 23-Oct-07 |
| National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Exploratory Innovations in Biomedical Computational
Science and Technology (R21) (PAR-06-411) |
This particular FOA is intended to support exploratory biomedical informatics and computational biology research—applications should be innovative, with high risk/high impact in new areas that are lacking preliminary data or development. Programs may target one or multiple areas of biomedical computing that will enable progress in biomedical research. Examples of data types that could be considered include but are not limited to genomic sequences, biomedical images, qualitative descriptors for health and social science, remote sensing and geospatial images, and pathway data. | 25-Jun-09 |
| National Institutes of Health: Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research | Title: Methodology And Measurement In The Behavioral
And Social Sciences (R03) ( PA-06-344 ) |
The sponsor offers support for research that will improve the quality and scientific power of data collected in the behavioral and social sciences, relevant to the missions of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers. Research that addresses methodology and measurement issues in diverse populations, issues in studying sensitive behaviors, issues of ethics in research, issues related to confidential data and the protection of research subjects, and issues in developing interdisciplinary, multimethod, and multilevel approaches to behavioral and social science research is particularly encouraged, as are approaches that integrate behavioral and social science research with biological, physical, or computational science research or engineering. This program announcement encourages applications addressing four general areas of methodology and measurement research in the social and behavioral sciences. These areas include research design, data collection techniques, measurement, and data analysis. | Opening date: 1/5/2007 |
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