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Do the SBE Sciences Advance the Missions of Other Federal Agencies?
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From page 21... ... Then, beginning in the early 1990s, the FCC began using research (some of which had been funded by NSF; see Box 2) 107 that had developed mathematical principles to ensure that auction winners would pay a fair price.108,109 The FCC tested and adopted an algorithm to use with communication companies that allows companies to compete profitably but also ensures that con sumers are not overcharged and taxpayers are not subsidizing unreasonable corporate profits. Read the entire page →
From page 22... ... Counter to the commonly held belief at the time that women left welfare through marriage, the data showed that most women left welfare through work.113 The PSID also showed that women on welfare worked much more than most people assumed, but that their work was too poorly paid to lift them out of poverty. These findings influenced the inclusion in the welfare reform legislation of work requirements on welfare recipients combined with programs to provide the work-based assistance women needed to care for their families and become self-sufficient, such as child care services, cash income supplements and medical care for mothers and children, transportation assistance, and help for job searches. Read the entire page →
From page 23... ... For example, because traditional methods of burial that call for the washing and touching of the dead are believed to have been responsible for 70 percent of new cases of infection in Sierra Leone,120 anthropologists developed a burial framework that allowed local people to see the body, but not have direct contact with it, and to include burial objects in the body bag prior to burial.121 The success of anthropologists as mediators in these situations led Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) to include anthropologists as part of their outbreak response to increase understanding and to facilitate rela tionships with local populations.122 Similarly, the World Health Organization is recruiting anthro pologists to join its Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak Response Teams to advise on social, cultural, and behavioral factors involved in the spread of Ebola worldwide.123 The understanding, tools, and methods provided by the social, CONCLUSION 2 behavioral, and economic sciences -- including research support ed by the National Science Foundation -- provide an essential foundation that helps other agencies achieve their missions. Read the entire page →

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... Then, beginning in the early 1990s, the FCC began using research (some of which had been funded by NSF; see Box 2) 107 that had developed mathematical principles to ensure that auction winners would pay a fair price.108,109 The FCC tested and adopted an algorithm to use with communication companies that allows companies to compete profitably but also ensures that con sumers are not overcharged and taxpayers are not subsidizing unreasonable corporate profits.

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... Counter to the commonly held belief at the time that women left welfare through marriage, the data showed that most women left welfare through work.113 The PSID also showed that women on welfare worked much more than most people assumed, but that their work was too poorly paid to lift them out of poverty. These findings influenced the inclusion in the welfare reform legislation of work requirements on welfare recipients combined with programs to provide the work-based assistance women needed to care for their families and become self-sufficient, such as child care services, cash income supplements and medical care for mothers and children, transportation assistance, and help for job searches.

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... For example, because traditional methods of burial that call for the washing and touching of the dead are believed to have been responsible for 70 percent of new cases of infection in Sierra Leone,120 anthropologists developed a burial framework that allowed local people to see the body, but not have direct contact with it, and to include burial objects in the body bag prior to burial.121 The success of anthropologists as mediators in these situations led Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) to include anthropologists as part of their outbreak response to increase understanding and to facilitate rela tionships with local populations.122 Similarly, the World Health Organization is recruiting anthro pologists to join its Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak Response Teams to advise on social, cultural, and behavioral factors involved in the spread of Ebola worldwide.123 The understanding, tools, and methods provided by the social, CONCLUSION 2 behavioral, and economic sciences -- including research support ed by the National Science Foundation -- provide an essential foundation that helps other agencies achieve their missions.

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Do the SBE Sciences Advance the Missions of Other Federal Agencies? Pages 21-23

Do the SBE Sciences Advance the Missions of Other Federal Agencies?
Pages 21-23