The agency has been criticized by some in the Administration for supporting research designed to back specific technologies and companies threatened by international competition.

The Simon Flavell laboratory focuses on translational research designed to bring benefits to patients directly.

During the coming year it was intended to undertake research designed, if possible, to show what would be the effect of any such change.

It also made possible a telling piece of research designed to find ways to fight such acts of bigotry.

The Commission engages in research designed to strengthen the peanut market by developing new production methods and uses for peanuts.

Many of the hospital's physicians engage in research designed to provide patients with new treatments.

The new research made use of technical refinements designed to minimize the false results.

"Although this book is in the form of a guidebook with maps, it is based on research designed for use by scholars and students," she said.

RSPs may be developed as a result of direct experience with devices or by applied research designed to counter the threat.

Rather, resources should be concentrated on selective priorities, giving preference to near-market research designed to improve Europe's industrial performance.