Sentences with phrase «if research progresses»

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These observations are consistent with current research if we assume the researchers were observing babies with a fairly typical nursing pattern, where baby has a longer sleep period at night and gradually decreases the amount of time between nursing as the day progresses.

One critical question from a policy perspective is whether research progress is as rapid as it could be if data sharing were maximized.

Still, an academic career will involve interacting with people, particularly if you progress into holding a lectureship — in which you'd be involved in teaching and departmental administration — or into running your own research group — where you would direct the work of students and postdoctoral researchers.

She made some mistakes, as we all do, and at times I felt the research would progress more efficiently if I just did it myself.

The hope is now to progress this research further, to demonstrate if this benefit can be extended to other venoms containing toxins causing similar pathologies.

«But if it is not, then delaying the progress of stem cell research is morally indefensible.»

International collaborations are easy to organize if we understand that all of us, no matter where we live, have to contribute to pending research questions, and not for the money or reputation but for the sake of scientific progress.

Dr. El Khoudary and her research team are working on seeking more funds to evaluate whether cardiovascular fat volumes progress over time in midlife women, and, if so, whether this progression will be associated with greater evolution in atherosclerosis and more cardiovascular events in post-menopausal women.

If things become complicated, we just add transistors,» says Jim Handy, an analyst with the semiconductor market research firm Objective Analysis in Los Gatos, Calif. «As flash storage has progressed, it's common to have more errors, so we have needed more algorithms with fancier math and a greater number of transistors to perform the corrections.»

As Kenneth Shine and I emphasized 15 years ago in this journal, if science is to flourish and attain its appropriate role in aiding human progress, «It is incumbent upon all of us in the scientific community to help provide a research environment that, through its adherence to high ethical standards and creative productivity, will attract and retain individuals of outstanding intellect and character to one of society's most important professions.»

DARPA will assess the groups» progress in early 2011 to see if any practical applications might emerge from the research.

These results, if validated by other research groups, could provide a new marker for identifying DCIS that are more likely progress to invasive disease, however more importantly may highlight a group of DCIS patients where no treatment is necessary.

Advocates of embryo - destructive research and related practices, in particular, are treading on a very thin layer of ice that could easily crack beneath them if some new development underscores the ethical questions surrounding such research, rather than the potential for medical progress alone.

The ECI Stop Vivisection, which aims to prohibit the use of all animals in research, is based on flawed arguments, and if allowed to progress, could lead to the annulment of the 2010 EU Directive regulating the use of animals in research.

While malaria deaths have been halved, this progress is at risk if artemisinin ceases to be effective,» says Nick Day, Director of the Mahidol - Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) in Bangkok, Thailand.

Rather than waiting for the glacial progress of modern biomedical research, which needs decades to assemble sufficient evidence to get an application for funding for a clinical trial past skeptical reviewers, anyone with a brain or neurological condition should simply experiment with a ketogenic diet themselves to see if it helps.

As you progress in the diet, you might be able to reintroduce certain cheeses at some point, but it is important to research which cheeses are the lowest in lactose, and then experiment to see if you can tolerate them without having them spike your insulin and cause weight gain.

According to this article http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18996878 telomerase activity increases in the presence of cancer cells... if Dr Ornish's research was done on subjects with cancer... might not the increase in telomerase activity indicate that the cancer was progressing and not an indication that the telomere's were lengthening?

She said: «I can't say definitely based on my research but we do know that teacher expectation and assessments can have a longterm effect on pupil progress, because it can affect their interaction, in terms of the groups they are put in... If you are an average - scoring boy from a lower income family, or an average - scoring girl in maths, and you are placed in a lower set then that is going to potentially depress your longterm trajectory.»

According to Australian Council of Educational Research (ACER) analysis of PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) data, 45 per cent of Year 4 students in Australia say they only read if they have to.

Almost half of university students (47 %) predict they would achieve better grades if their lecturers were able to track their study habits and progress throughout the academic year, according to new research.

The inquiry report does highlight research (Cooper, 2007) showing that students are more likely to complete homework if they know teachers are keeping track of their progress and giving feedback on errors and areas for improvement.

Instead, most research into these topics has been conducted with small samples, non-representative samples (e.g., Kane & Staiger, 2012) or by research projects that use diverse instruments, meaning that it is difficult to ascertain what, if any, progress has been made toward the three goals.

If the research community were to combine IES's post-2002 emphasis on evaluating interventions with more creative strategies for engaging state and local decisionmakers, U.S. education could begin to make more significant progress.

If students are free to blaze more individualized paths, it will be difficult to compare their progress with other students» at a single moment in time, much the way research (and current accountability regimes) require.

If we take our understanding of pedagogy and look into published research undertaken into homework, we can begin to answer the question; does homework really make a difference to student progress and outcomes?

In particular, this history demonstrates that while these data provided only mixed progress towards the stated goal of greater educational equity, they proved «useful» in other ways: providing researchers and policymakers with an array of possible research and policy targets and sustaining the belief that the education system, if properly tweaked and optimized, could ultimately secure educational equity.

If significant progress is to be made, best practices research and the use of quality materials should drive the components and content of the lesson plan.

As analysts Michael Horn and Julia Freeland have noted, this dominant paradigm of educational research is woefully incomplete and must change if we are going make progress in our understanding of how to help students learn:

Puzzlingly, lack of research evidence has not stimulated rigorous research (funded by the federal government or the nation's many foundations, for example) into why so little if any progress occurred and how federal money was actually used by the schools or departments of education that spent it.

If you do not have a trustworthy opinion and a convenient argument when you start out, you can still carry on with your writing because most of these will be gotten as the research and writing progress.

You could progress without taking these measures if you are lucky, but the game wants you to do your research, even though it isn't very clear on this.

But if «little or no progress» on this problem has been made in the tropical Atlantic «over the past decades,»...» [Xiuquan Wana, Ping Changa, Charles S. Jacksonn, Link Jia, Mingkui Lia 2011: Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography]

If the Paris Agreement's goal of no more than 1.5 °C (2.7 °F) warming is to be reached, significant progress towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions must be made soon,» the research group said in a press release.

But Prof Glen Peters, from the Centre for International Climate Research, in Oslo, said: «The core part of Paris [is] the global stock - takes which are going to happen every five years, and after the stock - takes countries are meant to raise their ambition, but if you can't track progress sufficiently, which is the whole point of these stock - takes, you basically can't do anything.

If you work in a university department you're likely to be part of a research team and, as your career progresses, you may become principal investigator leading a team.