A living individual about whom an investigator conducting research obtains (1) data through intervention or interaction with the individual or (2) identifiable private information.
What is a Human Subject?
100
OMB Circular that sets forth the cost principles for universities.
What is OMB A-21?
100
A financial statement that reports an entity's financial performance over a specific accounting period. Also known as profit and loss statement or statement of revenue and expense.
What is an Income Statement?
100
NSF's proposal submission system.
What is FastLane?
100
Costs incurred in support of sponsored programs, in general, but not identifiable with any single project.
What are Facilities & Administrative (F&A) Costs?
200
A formal description and design for a specific research project involving human subjects, vertebrate animals, or biohazards.
What is a Protocol?
200
The Administrative portion of the F&A rate cannot exceed this percent.
What is 26%?
200
A method of invoicing in which the recipient invoices for actual costs after they are incurred.
What is Cost Reimbursable invoicing?
200
Government publication that serves as a comprehensive handbook of current federal funding programs.
What is the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA)?
200
Method by which some cost categories are excluded when calculating F&A costs. Examples of exclusions: tuition, equipment.
What is Modified Total Direct Cost (MTDC)?
300
A specifically constituted review body established or designated by an entity to protect the welfare of human subjects recruited to participate in funded biomedical or behavioral research.
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
300
F&A method available to universities with direct funding under $10,000,000 and used when all major functions benefit from indirect costs to approximately the same degree.
What is the Simplified Method?
300
The type of document required by NIH as part of the Change of Institution process that allows an extramural grantee institution to transfer an active grant to another institution.
What is a Relinquishing Statement?
300
NASA's electronic portal for research administration.
What is NSPIRES?
300
MTDC = $40,000. F&A Rate = 50%. Total Cost = ??
What is $60,000?
400
An agreement between a research institution and DHHS to comply with federal regulations concerning research involving human subjects, including the ethical principles outlined in the Belmont Report and the DHHS regulations 45 CFR Part 46.
What is the Federal Wide Assurance?
400
Gross income earned by the non-Federal entity that is directly generated by a supported activity or earned as a result of the Federal award during the period of performance.
What is Program Income?
400
Federal contractors are required to maintain an acceptable subcontracting plan if they are a large business (including all affiliates) and the estimated dollar value of the base contract and all option periods exceeds, or is expected to exceed this amount.
What is $700,000?
400
The individual(s) designated by the applicant organization to have the appropriate level of authority and responsibility to direct the project or program supported by the award.
What is the Principal Investigator (PI) or Project Director (PD)?
400
Costs that can be identified specifically with a particular sponsored project, an instructional activity, or any other institutional activity, or that can be directly assigned to such activities relatively easily with a high degree of accuracy.
What are Direct Costs?
500
A significant financial interest that could directly and significantly affect the design, conduct, or reporting of research.
What is a Financial Conflict of Interest (FCOI)?
500
A process mandated by the federal government to verify that direct labor charges to federally sponsored projects are reasonable and reflect actual work performed.
What is Effort Reporting?
500
The "Federal Financial Report" Form used to submit financial information about grant awards.
What is the SF-425?
500
The official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents.
What is the Federal Register?
500
Type of budget allowed by NIH for certain research grant applications from domestic organizations requesting $250,000 or less per year for direct costs. This budget is less detailed and is calculated in increments of $25,000.