Sentences with phrase «despite decades of work»

Despite decades of work, neuroscientists still struggle to describe how neural activity in the brain relates to the movements being generated.

Despite decades of work and billions of dollars spent to combat cancer, the odds were that no one could definitively answer either question for Robert Martensen.

But despite decades of work, researchers could get the blobs of plasma to last only about 0.3 milliseconds before they broke up or melted away.

Despite decades of work, no effective treatment exists, never mind a cure.

Despite decades of work by public - health researchers hoping to prove their case on a scientific basis, conclusive evidence is nowhere to be seen.

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It's counter-productive and it's insulting to the fans, most of whom will never see ten percent of what he earns in his NFL career, despite working several decades longer.

The Windrush scandal has seen people of Caribbean descent facing deportation and the loss of access to public services despite living and working in the UK for decades.

Copelli's frustration — about the difficulty of getting things done in a system that, despite a recent infusion of cash, remains unwieldy and impoverished by decades of neglect — seems common among scientists working to create or overhaul research programs, especially in the country's less - developed northeast.

Despite decades of sending costly hardware to Mars, Boston believes that what is still missing is a sense of harmony between instruments, allowing them to work together to support a search for alien life.

But despite the tension surrounding the matter, exacerbated by the recent release of a Kremlin document suggesting the possibility of armed conflict within a decade, there is growing evidence that any disputes will be worked out through cooperation and not confrontation.

A new network of 25 regional stroke centers and satellite facilities - the NIH Stroke Trials Network (NIH StrokeNet)-- is working to change the way stroke research is conducted in the U.S. Despite advances of the last two decades, stroke remains a major public health problem.

Since I've tolerated enough «steady state cardio is dead» and «aerobics doesn't work» nonsense for the better part of the last decade, despite the transformation success stories I keep churning out that clearly show otherwise, (not to mention my own bodybuilding success, which includes regular cardio), I thought I should not only answer my reader, but also make this the topic for today's blog to share with all of our readers.

Despite this, it's a highly entertaining space story that works off the premise that friendly aliens have been watching our TV for decades; they believe the cast of hit TV series Galaxy Quest (among them Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman) are in fact Earth's mightiest heroes, and whisk them away in the hope the crew will win their war for them.

«I would like to be very clear,» Brown wrote on Facebook, «That despite over a decade of work as the director of international programming at Fantastic Fest, I had no advance knowledge of this decision nor knowledge that Devin was contributing to the program guide.

Despite becoming ever - higher on Hollywood's list of favourite composers, James Newton Howard's finest work was roughly a decade ago with two outstanding scores in quick succession, Wyatt Earp and Waterworld, and fans have been waiting a long time for him to return to the same sort of epic territory.

Despite decades of relying on standardized test scores to assess and guide education policy and practice, surprisingly little work has been done to connect these measures of learning with the measures developed over a century of research by cognitive psychologists studying individual differences in cognition.

And yet consumer - end MathML support in digital works is still lacking, despite two decades of work in W3C.

Despite decades of assurances from groups like HSUS, the ASPCA and PETA that the reason animals are dying in shelters is because shelters are doing the «dirty work» of an uncaring American public, laws such as Delaware CAPA prove that, in fact, quite the opposite is true.

But despite two decades of work to bring them back, their numbers are still declining.

Despite a career of more than seven decades, which encompassed an extraordinary output of work in all media — painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and installation — Louise Bourgeois (1911 - 2010) is irrevocably associated with one particular form: the spiders, often enormous, that she sculpted throughout the 1990s.

Despite a decade of tremendous artistic achievement and consistently favorable reviews, Lewis never received the kind of recognition and financial success his white colleagues enjoyed, and it was only in the late twentieth century that his work began to occupy a central place in histories of American art.

A former Guerilla Girl and founding member of A.I.R Gallery, New York, Bernstein has worked consistently for over five decades despite censorship and periods of art world neglect.

For most of his artistic career, Flood has created collages, paintings and sculptures, and altered found ephemera that serve to critique and highlight consumer culture and the perversity of the art world.Gratest Hits presents the deep wisdom and humor of three decades of work while ultimately revealing the true achievement of an artist who has produced many highly praised works and had an active career despite remaining barely visible at the museum level.

While the art world has become global in reach during the past several decades, contemporary artists from Africa are still vastly underrepresented at art fairs, galleries and museum in the West, despite the creative energy and innovation of artists who either make their home on the continent, or who work as part of the worldwide African diaspora.

Gratest Hits shows the deep wisdom and humor of three decades of Flood's work while ultimately revealing the true achievement of an artist who has produced many highly praised works and has an active career despite remaining barely visible at the museum level.

Despite the striking differences between the early and later decades of Bluhm's oeuvre, the changes in his work always came gradually; there's never a dramatic break.

They can't even predict the next decade, much less ten decades; despite tuning they only poorly replicate the historical climate; their equations can't be shown to converge; the number of tunable parameters is far too large for comfort; they show absolutely no skill at regional scales; their results for things they are not tuned to replicate (e.g. rainfall) are abysmal — in short they are glorified Tinkertoy ™ models which have one common characteristic... they don't work well.

The physics behind it is now solid thanks to the decades of work of many different scientists, and despite the first highly respected skeptic ever who put the CO2 theory on hold for half a century.

Despite what many are preaching about the increasing capability of machines to do legal work, he doesn't foresee a decade of unemployment for lawyers but rather one of «redeployment.»

Despite the exhaustive routine, the looser mentality of a startup has been a breath of fresh air, after working at Ford — most recently as the global chief engineer for the Fusion — over the last decade.

Despite nearly a decade of politically motivated attacks that try to discredit Planned Parenthood through dangerous, unnecessary, and often unconstitutional restrictions, the facts remain clear: Americans trust the work of Planned Parenthood and support the nonprofit's mission.

The stories inspired by the #MeToo movement reveal that despite decades of struggle for gender equality at work, patriarchy, misogyny, and the sexual objectification of women run deep.