Grants

Young People's Chorus of New York City, Inc.

Youth

Wildlife Conservation Society

Afterschool Enrichment Initiative

Young Men's Christian Association of Greater New York

Youth

Oregon Afterschool for Kids

The goal of this project is for OregonASK to form partnerships with six libraries throughout Oregon to increase the resources available to afterschool professionals. By increasing the resources available, the long term outcome would be to increase connections within the community and increase quality of programs offered to children and youth.

City of Gainesville

Agape Faith Center

City of Hermiston

Agape Food Bank Storage Project

NIA - National Institute on Aging

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Difficulties finding one’s way in novel environments may lead to anxiety and restrictions in daily activities for older adults. There is a substantial literature documenting age-related deficits in spatial navigation, with particular deficits observed in the acquisition, retrieval and use of a cognitive map of the environment relative to route learning. This is particularly problematic as cognitive mapping permits more flexible navigation, such as taking shortcuts. However, the most common design involves learning and retrieval in a single session. However, the typical study design used in this literature involves learning and retrieving a novel virtual environment in a single session, which could lead to an under-estimation of the full navigation capacities of older adults. Thus, we have gained knowledge of the nature of age deficits in cognitive mapping in the early phases of acquisition and retrieval, but we now need an enhanced understanding of the evolution of older adults’ environmental knowledge and flexible navigation behaviors over more extended time frames, which is more similar to our everyday navigation. Our underlying model is that age-related limitations in processing speed as well as in attentional control and associative processes slow acquisition of relevant associative details of an environment thereby limiting flexible navigation; as well as contribute to greater forgetting and impaired retrieval of this knowledge and thus a reduction in flexible navigation after an extended delay. We will test this model in a paradigm that entails study-test trials across 3 days and a 2-week retention interval. During study, participants will take a “tour” of our city art museum. During test, measures of environmental knowledge and flexible navigation will be obtained. Our experiment will be conducted in a real-world environment as this provides a strong foundation for acquisition, flexible navigation and retention for older adults. Furthermore, it is estimated that around 20-30% of healthy older adults have elevated Alzheimer disease (AD) pathology (i.e., preclinical AD). Enhanced understanding of whether there are specific patterns of acquisition or enhanced forgetting over time in preclinical AD would be useful in developing more sensitive cognitive indicators of the earliest disease stages. In addition, the presence of AD pathology is generally not taken into account in much of the healthy aging literature on spatial navigation. Thus, what is considered an “aging” deficit may to some degree reflect the preclinical AD stage. Thus, the proposed research will determine (1) the pattern of age differences in acquisition and use of a cognitive map over multiple learning episodes; (2) the pattern of age differences in long-term retention and use of a cognitive map; and (3) the role of AD pathology in acquisition and retention of a cognitive map. We will secondarily consider the roles of basic cognitive abilities (i.e., processing speed, attentional control and associative learning), visual attention, and sleep quality as potential contributing factors to spatial navigation deficits. Collectively, these aims will provide a strong basis for programmatic research investigating an array of encoding and retention manipulations to enhance cognitive mapping in older adults. Examining the role of AD pathology provides a foundation for additional cognitive tools for distinguishing healthy aging from the very earliest stages of AD.

Health and Human Services Department

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the Agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), Federal Agencies are required to publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including each proposed extension of an existing collection of information, and to allow 60 days for public comment in response to the notice. This notice solicits comments on adverse event reporting by FDA on new animal drugs and product manufacturing defects.

Health and Human Services Department

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the Agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), Federal Agencies are required to publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information and to allow 60 days for public comment in response to the notice. This notice solicits comments on approved organizations involved in the licensure and inspection process for wholesale drug distributors ("wholesale distributors") and third-party logistics providers ("3PLs"), as directed by the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA).

Health and Human Services Department

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the Agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), Federal Agencies are required to publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including each proposed extension of an existing collection of information, and to allow 60 days for public comment in response to the notice. This notice solicits comments on the information collection provisions of our recordkeeping and records access requirements for food facilities.

Health and Human Services Department

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the Agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), Federal Agencies are required to publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including each proposed extension of an existing collection of information, and to allow 60 days for public comment in response to the notice. This notice solicits comments on information collection relating to the draft guidance, "Expedited Program for Serious Conditions--Accelerated Approval of Drugs and Biologics."

Health and Human Services Department

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the Agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), Federal Agencies are required to publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including each proposed extension of an existing collection of information, and to allow 60 days for public comment in response to the notice. This notice solicits comments on the collection provisions of our regulations mandating the application of hazard analysis and critical control point (HACCP) principles to the processing of fruit and vegetable juices.

Health and Human Services Department

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the Agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), Federal Agencies are required to publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including each proposed extension of an existing collection of information, and to allow 60 days for public comment in response to the notice. This notice solicits comments on information collection associated with investigational new drugs and investigational new drug applications.

Health and Human Services Department

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the Agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), Federal Agencies are required to publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including each proposed extension of an existing collection of information, and to allow 60 days for public comment in response to the notice. This notice solicits comments on information collection associated with the Mammography Quality Standards Act.

Health and Human Services Department

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the Agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), Federal Agencies are required to publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including each proposed extension of an existing collection of information, and to allow 60 days for public comment in response to the notice. This notice solicits comments on information collection associated with Medication Guides for prescription drug products.

Health and Human Services Department

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the Agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), Federal Agencies are required to publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including each proposed extension of an existing collection of information, and to allow 60 days for public comment in response to the notice. This notice solicits comments on information collection relating to our Patent Term Restoration regulations.

Health and Human Services Department

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the Agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), Federal Agencies are required to publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including each proposed extension of an existing collection of information, and to allow 60 days for public comment in response to the notice. This notice solicits comments on the information collection associated with safe and sanitary processing and importing of fish and fishery products.

Justice Department

The Office on Violence Against Women, Department of Justice, will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

Labor Department

In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), DOL is soliciting public comments regarding the proposed revision of this Office of the Assistant Secretary for Veterans' Employment and Training Service (VETS) sponsored information collection for the authority to collect information requirements under a new information collection request (ICR) titled "Required Components of the Jobs for Veterans State Grants State Plans".

Labor Department

The Department of Labor (the Department), in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, provides the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and continuing collections of information. This helps the Department assess the impact of its information collection requirements and minimize the public's reporting burden. It also helps the public understand the Department's information collection requirements and provide the requested data in the desired format. The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) is soliciting comments on the proposed extension of the information collection requests (ICRs) contained in the documents described below. A copy of the ICRs may be obtained by contacting the office listed in the ADDRESSES section of this notice. ICRs also are available at reginfo.gov (http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain).

Commerce Department

The Department of Commerce, in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), invites the general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and continuing information collections, which helps us assess the impact of our information collection requirements and minimize the public's reporting burden. The purpose of this notice is to allow for 60 days of public comment preceding submission of the collection to OMB.

Commerce Department

The Department of Commerce, in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), invites the general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and continuing information collections, which help us assess the impact of our information collection requirements and minimize the public's reporting burden. The purpose of this notice is to allow for 60 days of public comment preceding submission of the collection to OMB.

Interior Department

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the Bureau of Indian Affairs is proposing to renew an information collection without change.

Interior Department

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE, we) is proposing to renew an information collection without change.