Sentences with phrase «policy research set»

That is the question that researchers from Harvard's Center for Education Policy Research set out to determine, summarizing their findings in The Best Foot Forward Project: Substituting Teacher - Collected Video for In - Person Classroom Observations.

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That's a term E.J. Reedy, the foundation's director of research and policy, uses to describe people who set out as their product's first customers, motivated to develop solutions to personal or professional dilemmas they are facing.

The hearing is set for September 20, and according to Isaac Boltansky, director of policy research at Compass Point, it will likely evoke memories of the 2013 London Whale hearing, where the bank's top brass were dragged up in front of lawmakers.

(Setting a policy about what's appropriate to post should limit employee indiscretions, he insists, and internal research apparently shows that cute cat pictures and the like make up only a tiny percentage of Yammer posts.)

The authors of the report say that people doing federal research on things like income, spending and health should also ask questions about happiness because of the more developed view it could lend to in setting policies to improve people's lives.

News, policy, research and practice articles of relevance for professionals working within early years services, such as Health Visiting, Sure Starts and Family Centres, with a focus on engaging successfully with fathers in those settings.

The relative cost effectiveness of the different birth settings will also be of interest to policy makers and is being compared in another component of the Birthplace Research Programme.19

A recently published study by researchers in the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital is the first to compare and describe the occurrence and distribution patterns of basketball - related injuries treated in emergency departments and the high school athletic training setting among adolescents and teens.

The participating public interest NGOs bring particular value - added to the gBICS through their firm stand on the need to avoid or adequately manage conflicts of interest.The influence of the baby food industry in research, the medical profession and in policy - setting is pervasive, both through direct sponsorship and through Public - Private for profit Partnerships (PPfpPs).

In early July, we informed our partners and constituents of this issue and have since set a policy that when USA Football commissions research, we will share it only once it has been peer reviewed and published.

Daren Bakst, a research fellow in agricultural policy at the Heritage Foundation think tank, said sue and settle has led to «egregious antics» that have «effectively handed over the setting of agency priorities to environmental pressure groups,» and has led to rushed rulemaking by the agency.

Findings also showed it as an empirically and conceptually innovative, diverse, vibrant discipline that in many areas sets the intellectual agenda The UK publishes more than its share of major disciplinary journals; bibliometric indicators reveal international primacy both in volume and citation impact; and a large number of the seminal publications (books as well as articles) continue to have a UK origin UK human geography is radically interdisciplinary and with the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences has become an exporter of ideas and faculty to other disciplines There was confidence that research in human geography had substantial impact on policy and practice and would successfully meet the challenges of the current impact agenda

Both the Welsh Policy Committee and Federal Policy Committee, which are responsible for the party's policy - making process, can set up Policy Working Groups to research and write a Policy Paper for debate at ConfePolicy Committee and Federal Policy Committee, which are responsible for the party's policy - making process, can set up Policy Working Groups to research and write a Policy Paper for debate at ConfePolicy Committee, which are responsible for the party's policy - making process, can set up Policy Working Groups to research and write a Policy Paper for debate at Confepolicy - making process, can set up Policy Working Groups to research and write a Policy Paper for debate at ConfePolicy Working Groups to research and write a Policy Paper for debate at ConfePolicy Paper for debate at Conference.

Between 2004 and 2006 John was full time Deputy Director and then Director of the Conservative Research Department under Michael Howard and David Cameron during which time he set up the secretariat for the Conservative Party's Policy Review Groups.

Kelly was a member of a commission set up by the Institute for Public Policy Research into the Private Finance Initiative, which expressed some scepticism about the operation of the pPolicy Research into the Private Finance Initiative, which expressed some scepticism about the operation of the policypolicy.

In this role she was a key player in the first stages of the «modernisation» of the Labour Party, and along with Clive Hollick, helped set up the Institute for Public Policy Research and was its deputy director 1989 — 1994.

Rather than do what New York City now does, which is to set its educational policy by a political agenda, the commission could look at the research about what really works in schools»

In 2002 he set up the influential policy research institute Policy Excpolicy research institute Policy ExcPolicy Exchange.

The Forum on Human Germline Interventions, organized by AAAS, convened a multi-disciplinary group of scientists, ethicists, and theologians to participate in discussions regarding scientific freedom and responsibility issues; the history and status of religious involvement; ethical and theological issues; therapeutic vs. enhancement applications; and setting policy and developing guidelines on human germline research and applications.

Speakers at this event discussed what we know at the basic research level; what we still need to determine; how we can apply scientific findings to the clinical setting; and how we must develop humane and effective policies nationwide as our population ages.

... Buried within it, the plan describes a few significant policy changes,» including the end to the 10 % budget set - aside for AIDS research, as Kaiser reported last Friday.

Having said that, there are examples of excellent provision in some universities, and policy frameworks and awards such as the European Charter for Researchers and the HR Excellence Award set out guidelines for institutions, including career support for postdoctoral research staff.

► In other climate change news, Leigh Dayton wrote on Tuesday that in April, «the University of Western Australia (UWA) in Perth announced plans to set up an Australian Consensus Centre (ACC), chaired by [global warming skeptic Bjørn] Lomborg, that would conduct policy research on overseas aid, Australian prosperity, agriculture, and regional issues.

Brownson, who also is director of the university's Prevention Research Center, and his co-authors set out to determine the effectiveness of three federal policies aimed at reducing childhood obesity: afterschool physical activity programs, a one - tenth - cent per ounce sugar - sweetened beverage excise tax, and a ban on fast food television advertising to children under 12.

«That debate was at full boil last week, when the U.S. House of Representatives passed the America COMPETES Act, which sets policy for NSF and two other federal research agencies, and the House Appropriations Committee adopted a 2016 spending bill that includes NSF,» Mervis wrote.

«It is our intent to have one set of benefit plans for all these individuals,» says Jean Fort, assistant vice chancellor for research at UC San Diego and chair of the systemwide consortium that spent 6 years revamping the policies regarding postdocs.

«A body of research shows that people who take the more deliberative approach of setting goals have a better likelihood of meeting them,» observes Jennifer Hobin, Ph.D., Director of Science Policy at the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB).

«It'd probably be an easier sell to start with if it was a research - relevant placement, so going to a company to do some research activity [or to] a policy setting perhaps where they can apply their research in different ways» can be good options, Hardwick says.

Once you have your research dream team, set ground rules, says Barry Bozeman, an Arizona State University professor of public policy who is studying the dos and don'ts of collaborations for the NSF.

The attendees agreed on a common set of Principles and Guidelines in Reporting Preclinical Research (www.nih.gov/about/reporting-preclinical-research.htm) that list proposed journal policies and author reporting requirements to promote transparency and reproducibility.

Based on this and other similar reports, several universities and research institutions set up committees and task forces in the last 3 years to put forward recommendations for PDF guidelines and policies.

The new research finding has important policy implications, according to Dr Santella: «If rapid HIV testing was widely available in dental settings it could help to reduce the spread of the virus by informing people who aren't aware that they are HIV - positive.

Commissioner Busquin has now launched a policy initiative to set up a common European Research Area (ERA) for the following reasons.

GenConnect is a searchable alphabetical listing of over 300 organizations worldwide that are involved in setting policy regarding the legal, ethical, and social issues that stem from human genetic research.

In its comment on the draft policy, the the International Society for Stem Cell Research asks NIH to define some «core principles» covering what is ethically acceptable rather than set explicit rules that might exclude «lines that have been in routine use for the past ten years.»

It broadened science education across several agencies, launched the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy at DOE, and set government - wide science priorities to be managed by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

It asks Congress to set up a quasi-governmental entity, which it calls the Research Policy Board (RPB), as a mechanism to come up with better ways of overseeing the U.S. research entResearch Policy Board (RPB), as a mechanism to come up with better ways of overseeing the U.S. research entresearch enterprise.

While assisting international research, COS faces its own set of challenges regarding various national policies and laws.

The task we set ourselves was a synthesis of all the new findings so that coral scientists, conservationists and policy makers could get a really good over-view of what research areas are most promising as global climate continues to change.

Finally, the government should set up a policy framework that combines basic research, city transportation planning, environmental responses and governance direction in relation to human behavior.

Academicians help set the nation's science policy, influence funding decisions, and some of them control large sums of research money.

This will give policy makers a comprehensive picture of where there's been a lack of funding relative to the impact of the disease and help to set global research investment priorities,» Dr Clarke adds.

And although setting science policy won't be part of his job, don't be surprised if he weighs in on one important aspect of federal research policy, that is, how to foster innovation to improve U.S. competitiveness.

In Ireland, Donnelly helped to set up the Trinity Research Staff Association, which aims to support the growing number of postdocs who have faint prospects of tenure - track jobs by encouraging the university to provide courses in such issues as research management and policy deveResearch Staff Association, which aims to support the growing number of postdocs who have faint prospects of tenure - track jobs by encouraging the university to provide courses in such issues as research management and policy deveresearch management and policy development.

So, a group of researchers from the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research at Beijing Institute of Technology, the Collaborative Innovation Center of Electric Vehicles in Beijing, and the Sustainable Development Research Institute for Economy and Society of Beijing set out to find out what motivates or influences consumer to purchase electric vehicles within seven cities in China.

The legislation, which sets policies affecting research programs at NSF and the National Institute of Standards and Technology as well as science education activities across the federal government, would replace the 2010 America COMPETES Act, which expired last year.

Rationale The rationale for describing this proposal as an initial step derives from a corpus of published research on the incorporation of research findings into policymaking (e.g the 1978 National Research Council report, Knowledge and Policy: The Uncertain Connection) as well as the project directors» own professional experiences in a number of academic and professional settings about the intellectual and networking challenges of fostering substantive dialogue across analytical perspectives, including the subfield perspectives on scienceresearch on the incorporation of research findings into policymaking (e.g the 1978 National Research Council report, Knowledge and Policy: The Uncertain Connection) as well as the project directors» own professional experiences in a number of academic and professional settings about the intellectual and networking challenges of fostering substantive dialogue across analytical perspectives, including the subfield perspectives on scienceresearch findings into policymaking (e.g the 1978 National Research Council report, Knowledge and Policy: The Uncertain Connection) as well as the project directors» own professional experiences in a number of academic and professional settings about the intellectual and networking challenges of fostering substantive dialogue across analytical perspectives, including the subfield perspectives on scienceResearch Council report, Knowledge and Policy: The Uncertain Connection) as well as the project directors» own professional experiences in a number of academic and professional settings about the intellectual and networking challenges of fostering substantive dialogue across analytical perspectives, including the subfield perspectives on science pPolicy: The Uncertain Connection) as well as the project directors» own professional experiences in a number of academic and professional settings about the intellectual and networking challenges of fostering substantive dialogue across analytical perspectives, including the subfield perspectives on science policypolicy.

The board has the statutory authority to set policy for NSF and to advise the president and Congress on national research and science education issues.

Government agencies in the United Kingdom do a poor job of keeping tabs on the research they fund to set policies, according to a report released this week by Sense About Science, a London - based group that advocates for the use of scientific evidence in policymaking.

The Commission sets out key priority actions for the next two, five and ten years for the research and policy communities, and outlines key treatment recommendations and procedures for doctors treating patients with MDR - or XDR - TB.