appropriation
Political Science
(noun)
Public funds set aside for a specific purpose.
Art History
(noun)
The use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them.
Examples of appropriation in the following topics:
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Authorization and Appropriation
- The separation of authorization and appropriation functions are enforced through House and Senate rules that divide committee jurisdiction between authorization and appropriations bills .
- Points of order also prohibit certain provisions in appropriations measures.
- For instance, the House and Senate prohibit language in appropriations bills that provides appropriations not authorized by law, also known as unauthorized appropriations.
- In reality, the separation between authorization and appropriation measures is imperfect.
- Other authorized programs receive no appropriated funds at all.
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Student Learning Outcomes
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Student Learning Outcomes
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Conflicts
- Destruction, mislabeling, appropriation, and repossession can contribute to conflicts surrounding the preservation of art.
- Plunder, appropriation, and spoliation are related terms that describe the process of looting.
- Dadaist and Surrealist works, for example, typically utilize a great deal of appropriation, as seen in Marcel Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q.
- However, after that time is up, the work of art might be appropriated and used by others, thereby creating conflict.
- The internet has further complicated issues surrounding ownership and appropriation, especially in art.
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Budget Resolutions
- The budget resolution serves as a blueprint for the actual appropriations process and provides Congress with some control over the process.
- Even though the budget resolution covers at least five fiscal years, the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations receive allocations only for the upcoming fiscal year because appropriations measures are annual.
- After the appropriations committees receive their spending ceilings, they are responsible for dividing the amount among their respective subcommittees.
- Instead, the budget resolution serves as a blueprint for the actual appropriations process and provides Congress with some control over this process.
- The Congressional Budget Act also prohibits House and Senate floor consideration of appropriations measures for the upcoming fiscal year before the budget resolution is completed.
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The Role of the Federal Budget
- Appropriations subcommittees then approve individual appropriations bills to allocate funding to various federal programs.
- If Congress fails to pass an annual budget, a series of appropriations bills must be passed as "stop gap" measures.
- Congress may also combine all or some appropriations bills into an omnibus reconciliation bill.
- In addition, the president may request and the Congress may pass supplemental appropriations bills or emergency supplemental appropriations bills.
- If it cannot pass a Federal Budget, it must pass appropriation bills as a "stop gap. "
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The Cost of Maintaining the Government
- Budget resolutions specify funding levels for appropriations committees and subcommittees.
- Once appropriations committees pass their bills, the House and Senate consider them.
- In recent years, Congress has not passed all of the appropriations bills before the start of the fiscal year.
- The budget resolution serves as a blueprint for the actual appropriation process and provides Congress with some control over the appropriations process.
- Authorizations for many programs have long lapsed, yet still receive appropriated amounts.
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Dr. Miller's Pharmacy Class
- Even though they finally learned to use patients' situations to suggest the appropriate dosages to their teams and work professionally with doctors and nurses during the rotation program, they struggled to get through.
- She assigns students to groups of five and has them discuss the appropriate medication and the appropriate doses of the suggested medications based on patients' situations.
- After students clearly identify the patients' state, they begin to identify resources online and from professional journals for the appropriate therapy.
- In the next class, students suggest not only the appropriate medication and the reasonable dosage for each patient, but also describe their rationales for the medication they suggested.
- Miller thinks that with case-based learning, her students are more engaged in the process of examining patients' cases and suggesting appropriate medications to the doctors.
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Optional Collaborative Exercise
- Discuss how many intervals you think is appropriate.
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Introduction to small sample hypothesis testing for a proportion
- In this section we develop inferential methods for a single proportion that are appropriate when the sample size is too small to apply the normal model to ˆ p.