Sentences with phrase «project research goals»

«U.S. Human Genome Project Research Goals

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The goal of this research project is to help VC marketers make more informed decisions about those activities.
Justin Sonnekalb, a technical designer at Irrational Games who is working on this project, says the game play experience will allow users to walk or drive the Mars Rover prototype across several square miles of actual Martian terrain while pursuing research - oriented mission goals.
Research shows that only a quarter of Kickstarter pitches in the technology and design categories were delivered on time, and even after an eight - month delay, 75 percent of projects with reached goals then delivered.
However, Astro Teller, X's leader, insists that cybersecurity has been on the backburner for several years at X. Creating research projects to tackle the planet's biggest problems that can be spun into independent companies has always been the goal, not just creating out - of - this world technology for the sake of grabbing headlines.
Developed by NASA and the FAA, NASA - UTM is a multi-year collaborative research project with the goal of developing and demonstrating a possible UTM system that can safely enable drone operations.
MaRS Innovation (MI) and the Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD) are pleased to announce that they have entered into an agreement to collaborate on projects of mutual interest with a goal to advance and commercialize early - stage health - related discoveries.
As the end goal of my research was to develop a prospect list of vendors (crowdfunding sites) that could help locate equity investors for for - profit projects in the US, I assumed this would be a simple, easy research project.
In addition, CAC is taking a new look at production research, emphasizing funding projects that are driven by growers» needs and focused on practical outcomes with the goal of improving production.
With this end goal in mind, James immediately researched Rodale Institute to learn more about our projects and offerings.
Sustained and accessible rice supplies, and globally competitive Filipino rice farmers — enjoying high productivity and higher income — are the overarching goals of the seven multi-disciplinary projects comprising the FSSP's rice research and development component.
Depression has been associated with negative views of parenting and limited knowledge of child development.18 In the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project, 6 depressed mothers showed deficits in mother - child interaction and in obtaining education and job goals relative to those without depression.
The project will produce a series of policy papers that translate academic research into practical and policy - relevant advice that helps democracy promoters to pursue their goals more effectively.
The overall goal of the project is «to establish a strategic research, technology outreach, business development, manufacturing, and education and training venture... with a qualified local developer and / or construction contractor in the greater Plattsburgh area,» according to the RFP
Cari F. Herrmann Abell, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Associate at AAAS Project 2061 and contributes to the development of curriculum and assessment resources aligned to K — 12 science learning goals.
Project 2061 aligned its assessment items to its own historic Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which lays out learning goals that ensure students achieve science literacy, as well as to the National Research Council's National Science Education Standards.
To achieve that goal, Project 2061 conducts research and develops tools and services that educators, researchers,...
Cari F. Herrmann Abell, Ph.D., joined AAAS Project 2061 in 2005 as a postdoctoral fellow for the Center for Curriculum Materials in Science and is currently a senior research associate contributing to the development of curriculum and assessment resources aligned to K - 12 science learning goals.
Cari F. Herrmann Abell, Ph.D., joined AAAS Project 2061 in 2005 as a postdoctoral fellow for the Center for Curriculum Materials in Science and is currently a senior research associate contributing to the development of curriculum and assessment resources aligned to K — 12 science learning goals.
To achieve that goal, Project 2061 conducts research and develops tools and services that educators, researchers, and policymakers can use to make critical and lasting improvements in the nation's education system.
And along with an array of goal - based projects, he would foster «curiosity - driven research» and reward outstanding scientific and technological achievement by establishing major prizes.
Other goals include increased funding for nuclear weapons research; increased research on nanotechnology; space station, moon, and Mars projects at NASA; work on hydrogen fuels; and support for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) fusion project.
A current project focuses on evaluating programs that aim to change behaviors that lead to teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections; the goal of the research is to see which programs work and assess their cost - effectiveness.
A proposal to study a mysterious object, with no guarantee that the effort will pay off at the end, is not very appealing to agencies like the National Science Foundation, which expect well - defined goals and concrete results from the research projects they support.
The projects are guiding research in mice, zebrafish and fruitflies, with the goal of unpicking the mechanisms of mental disorders.
Behind all of Hockfield's goals for bolstering the scientific enterprise lies the idea that brought success to the MIT projects she once shepherded — the concept of articulating the power and potential of scientific research in order to encourage participation and funding.
A common goal for a statistical research project is to investigate causality, and in particular to draw a conclusion on the effect of changes in the values of predictors or independent variables on response or dependent variables.
And although patenting isn't a major goal of most MURI research efforts, about 25 % of the projects ultimately generate an average of four patents each.
The goal, Staffin says, is not just to fund «interesting basic research, but [projects that are] ready to step on the gas» and realize advancements in knowledge.
Chalfie says his strategy for populating the lab, generating projects, and accomplishing research goals is «flexible.»
In fact, Professor David Martínez argues that these and other issues are among the goals of a research project requested to the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness in the last call for national projects that are still pending resolution.
«One of the original goals of the project was to use scientific research to ease tensions during the Cold War.
But the projects he works on are all applied research; the goal is to impact policy in ways that improve the situation of children.
You also need to actively manage your research project by developing a realistic but challenging plan, ensuring that the relationship with your supervisor and other stakeholders is effective, and monitoring your progress against clearly defined goals.
When my research project sank, I moved briefly into medical writing but found that field too remote from my goal.
The goal of the project and its relationship to other work in the area are discussed, and the student is instructed in the techniques necessary to conduct the research.
This is risky, because unrelated projects, however exciting, can be a diversion from the main research goals, and achieving those main research goals is necessary for grant funding and renewal.
And it tweaks the rules governing existing activities, from the fledgling Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy at DOE to long - running training programs at NSF, with the goal of getting a bigger economic payoff from federal investments.
This is also the goal of many other current research projects of the Department of Computational Systems Biology, which focuses on research on pathogens, microbial communities and molecular interactions between species adopting a system - oriented approach.
To ensure that such goal - oriented interdisciplinary research takes place, groups of collaborators will work toward solving specific problems rather than pursuing disparate research projects.
Jongschaap is spearheading one of the research projects looking for different types of jatropha with the goal of matching plants to growing conditions and maximizing oil yields.
«The long - term goal of this research group is to bridge the disciplines of hydrology, geochemistry and marine biology to help answer pressing questions regarding the source and impact of nutrient pollution in Hawaiian coastal waters,» said Craig Glenn, Henrietta Dulaiova and Celia Smith, the collaborating principal investigators and co-authors of the Hawai'i Sea Grant project.
The project is provisionally named K - DEMO (Korean Demonstration Fusion Power Plant), and its goal is to develop the design for a facility that could be completed in the 2030s in Daejeon, under the leadership of the country's National Fusion Research Institute (NFRI).
«The goal of this project is to help build consensus around a shared set of facts about gun policy by demonstrating where scientific evidence is accumulating,» said Andrew Morral, the project's leader and a behavioral scientist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.
BGI was set up as an independent research institute in 1999 in order to represent Chinese scientists in the Human Genome Project (www.genome.gov/10001772), and recently signed an agreement with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to collaborate on genetics studies tied to global health and agricultural breakthroughs envisioned as part of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (www.un.org/millenniumgoals).
I am the Associate Director of the BCM Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (IDDRC), Director of the BCM IDDRC and Texas Children's Hospital (TCH) Neurobehavioral Core Facilities, and am the Academic Lead for the behavioral phenotyping component of BCM's Knock Out Mouse Project, an NIH Common Fund Research Program contributing to the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium's overall goal to create and characterize a null allele of every protein - coding gene of the mouse.
The European project ChipCAT, which funded this research, aims precisely to achieve this goal.
Congress also appears to think more fondly of DOE's Advance Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E), whose goal is to take the promising ideas from basic research and quickly develop them into fledgling technResearch Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E), whose goal is to take the promising ideas from basic research and quickly develop them into fledgling technresearch and quickly develop them into fledgling technologies.
DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), the supporter of the development of the Internet, has declared the rapid engineering of biology one of the highest national priorities, but achieving that goal will require a different mind - set as we move from a discovery - based to an application - based biology.
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