According to an analysis of government data, the National Institutes of Health spends between $12 billion and nearly $14.5 billion on animal testing every year.According to NIH documents, about 47 percent of research grants have an animal research-based component.This number has been fairly stable over the last decade. â$14.5 billion could provide a lot of tax relief for Americans.It could help pay down national debt or help prevent a shutdown,â says Anthony Bellotti, founder and executive director of the watchdog group, White Coat Waste Project.$14.5 billion could provide a lot of tax relief for Americans. It could help pay down national debt or help prevent a shutdown,â says Anthony Bellotti, founder and executive director of the watchdog group, White Coat Waste Project.
2. A diminished chord is the root, the flatted third, and the flatted fifth. So the notes in a C diminished chord are: C, Eb, & Gb. (It is like a C minor, {C, Eb, & G} with the fifth, G, also flatted.) A C diminished chord would typically be denoted either: C dim, C Dim and occasionally as C-. 1  3 Edit step.
It is not a melody, but merely the displaced metric accent which musicians call syncopation, rung on the notes of the familiar chord formed by piling three minor thirds on top of one another (technically, the chord of the minor ninth, ci-devant diminished seventh).