Sentences with phrase «much of the research effort»

Steve says he spends much of his research effort in understanding the nature of material between stars, called «the interstellar medium.»

Much of the research effort to find new drugs to treat this disease has focused on the senile plaques, but so far these drugs have all failed in late - stage clinical trials.

Not exact matches

The team behind the announcement is not the first to attempt something of this nature, and previous efforts by other companies have been criticized for having too little research behind them or focusing too much on detection rather than treatment.

Kogan described it as a «big leap» to connect the piece of research to Kremlin efforts to use online platforms to interfere in foreign elections — before essentially going on to repeat a Kremlin talking point by saying the US and the UK engage in much the same types of behavior.

While it's hard to say if the punishing number and intensity of storms were due to climate change, climate scientists have now determined — in two separate research efforts — that Hurricane Harvey's record - blasting rains (best measured in feet for much of Houston) were likely amplified by climate change.

You need to put in some effort (research historical prices, etc.) and be reasonable, but the IRS would much rather you do a little bit of reasonable estimation as opposed to just not reporting anything.

According to the findings of a new research study, interest in church planting is on the rise, some of America's best and brightest ministry leaders choose planting as their career path and church planting efforts are much more successful and promising than anticipated.

I don't have much time so I find it easy to get help from others who have already done the hard work of research and study and in this modern age it really saves time the youtube and computer certainly are plus in educting our self with the least amount of effort

One major development that has driven much of that growth and become the center of the company's research and development efforts came in 2002, when it first produced pellet - fired smokers.

After a lot of research I realised that despite the best efforts of many ceramicists, in most people's minds working with mud is pretty much always seen as craft, and therefore somehow lower than art.

So much of putting this issue together came down to doing the research and soul - searching to really understand the differences between shame and guilt, and shame as a normal emotion and when it crossed into unhealthy territory and the effects of that toxic shame and then the sheer enormity of effort that must take place for a person to heal from a shame - based self - image.»

And, Bradshaw noted, much of the improvement coincides with the Obama administration's efforts to fund research and use its, ahem, bully pulpit to improve school climate.

The first is the more challenging of the two reactions, which is why research puts so much effort into the development of efficient and sustainable water oxidation catalysts.

The effort is part of a much broader debate that spans research and clinical care over which genetic results should be returned — an ethical, legal, and practical minefield.

As a result, not only has industry's share of the research enterprise grown much more quickly than the corresponding academic - based share, but the nature of certain academic - based research efforts has changed.

It's rare for a postdoc to head up a research effort that involves several faculty members, but Murphy doesn't make much of this; in fact he credits his independence to his bosses.

While there is only so much that can be done in terms of policy and research, raising awareness around the need for more organ donors remains paramount in the effort to save more lives.

In addition to much needed conservation efforts, Detwiler and her team also are working to solve the evolutionary puzzle of the Dryas monkey using genomic research to test the hypothesis that this species is a close relative of the Vervet monkey.

«There is massive uncertainty in this figure, and until much more research is done no serious scientist should express any confidence in such estimates,» of iron fertilization's geoengineering potential, cautions oceanographer Richard Lampitt of the National Oceanography Center in England, who also argues that more research into such potential geoengineering techniques is needed due to the failure of global efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

In her list of fatal errors, one respondent wrote: «Poorly covering or misstating the literature, grammatical or spelling errors, and, near the top of the list, writing research plans that ask for too much effort on the part of the reader — they should be clear and concise.»

But the U.K. Met Office (national weather service), the U.S.'s National Center for Atmospheric Research and other partners around the globe aim to change that in the future by developing regular assessments — much like present evaluations of global average temperatures along with building from the U.K. flooding risk modeling efforts — to determine how much a given season's extreme weather could be attributed to human influence.

At the UCLA Brain Injury Research Center, neuropsychologist David Hovda spent much of the 1990s examining rat brains in an effort to understand what happens after traumas that leave brain cells alive and the animals conscious.

In an effort to get all the players onboard, the bodies representing the research councils and universities, and other organizations are nearing the completion of a much - delayed «concordat» on investigating research misconduct, due to be released in March or April of this year.

«While much additional research must be done to determine the feasibility of this nanoparticle approach as a vision restoration therapy, our results encourage further effort aimed at achieving this critical clinical objective,» said study co-author David Pepperberg, PhD, Searls - Schenk Professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at UIC.

However, despite highlighting lung, oesophageal and pancreatic cancers as areas of priority in our previous strategy, we did not see research effort increase by as much as is needed.

Though much less variable than HIV, there are still possible areas of overlap between the HIV and flu vaccine research efforts.

«If you have too much sodium and too little potassium, it's worse than either one on its own,» said Dr. Thomas Farley, New York City's health commissioner, who has led efforts to get the public to eat less salt... «Potassium may neutralize the heart - damaging effects of salt,» said Dr. Elena Kuklina, one of the study's authors at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention... The research found people who eat a lot of salt and very little potassium were more than twice as likely to die from a heart attack as those who ate about equal amounts of both nutrients.

research, Spring 2007) is surely right: present - day «dispositions» standards have their roots in much earlier efforts to measure and mold the «personality» of the American teacher.

For our analysis of the relationship between district improvement efforts and state influences (see also section 3.3), we focused mainly on the small - to medium - sized districts, given that more than 90 % of school districts in the United States serve less than 25,000 students, and given our impression that much research on the district role in educational reform is concentrated on the experiences of large, urban districts.

We have learned much from this large body of work, but we are also the first to concede that our research and on - the - ground efforts do not answer many big questions about how to nurture professionals who can lead urban schools from failure to success.

There has been some research on retention bonuses, but much of it has found mixed results, probably because of the varying size of the bonuses and their context (some were pieces of larger initiatives, others were stand - alone efforts).

My earliest and most enduring research efforts have revolved around improving the social side of schools — perhaps because, during my days as a social studies teacher, I was so much more interested in the adolescents I taught than the content that I taught them.

The quality of teacher relationships seems to be correlated to how much effort students put forth in their school work, and indeed, research indicates that effort is more important than innate ability when it comes to achievement (Dweck, 2006).

This young organization has already contributed so much to its local community in the areas of anti BSL efforts, Trap Neuter Return of feral cats in West Baltimore, and researching puppy mills while working to help keep pet stores selling puppies in compliance with disclosure laws.

«Efforts to address animal homelessness often focus on helping animals in shelters, but this research and our own community - focused programs show we need to focus just as much on keeping pets from entering shelters in the first place, specifically by helping owners access critical resources,» said Matt Bershadker, president and CEO of the ASPCA.

The likely problem is that getting together the key government research managers across such a wide range of disciplines is very difficult — it is very hard for them to find the time and sustain their interest and efforts in creating such broad - based programs given their responsibilities to make much larger, narrower efforts work.

We found that too much effort in the department is devoted to research on technologies that are multiple generations away from practical use at the expense of analyses, modeling and simulation, or other highly relevant fundamental engineering research activities that could influence the private sector in the nearer term.

But Christopher Essex, a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Western Ontario, who has become a prominent critic of climate models, said Wednesday that more research on climate simulation, while a useful enterprise, was unlikely to produce much more clarity than these efforts provide now.

«This activity is being done by the forest department and MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) for restoration of Pichavaram mangroves, much in tune with the government of India's effort to protect them.»

If the original work was top notch, then I would expect that the replication of any scientific research would be much easier than the initial effort.

I think we need to put a much higher proportion of the total research effort into understanding impacts.

«Why I Spend So Much Time and Effort on Climate Skepticism New Research Report on the Validity of Global Average Surface Temperature Data and EPA's GHG Endangerment Finding»

Wigley may not have thought much of the effort, but NASA did — and spent a lot of money doing the research.

-- expand drilling / fracking to extract as much domestic energy as possible, — use clean natural gas, where possible, to replace dirtier coal and for heavy transportation vehicles; — support basic research efforts aimed at finding economically viable green energy technologies; — at the same time, install new nuclear power generation capacity in place of new coal plants, wherever this makes economic sense.

In the pharmaceuticals manufacturers» efforts to gain as much promotional «noise» as possible from research conducted in compliance with FDA and EMEA requirements for marketing approval, this comes under the heading of publications planning, the extraction from available study data of as many additional articles and presentations as can be managed.

Much of his recent research efforts are focused on using boron isotopes in the calcareous shells of foraminifera to reconstruct the state of the oceanic carbonate system in the geological past.

There's a lot of effort and research going in to the persuasion of people as individuals and en masse, and much of academia are complicit with this political agenda.

In «Quantifying and Driving the ROI in Legal Directories and Awards Submissions», the presenters — Benjamin Greenzweig from Momentum and Arielle Lapiano of Paul Hastings — will reveal the results of research conducted by the LMA and Law Firm Media Professionals into how much time and effort law firms spend on legal directories.

I soon realized that although another lawyer in our firm may have recently spent many hours researching the same issue, much of the knowledge was not effectively captured, and it was necessary for me to duplicate the effort to understand the relevant law and apply it to the facts of my case.

Despite the fact that many large firms have libraries (and this is indeed a small number of firms), and despite the efforts of the law librarians,, most lawyers do not appear to put much stock in legal research.