Sentences with phrase «study advances effort»

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Protestant pioneers include the Shalom Institute in Washington, D.C., under the direction of Tilden Edwards; the Institute of Advanced Pastoral Studies in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, directed by Jack Biersdorf; and the Journal Workshops and Process Meditation efforts of Ira Progoff.

Additionally, the agency would continue efforts to advance precision medicine and cancer genomics in support of the Million Veteran Program (MVP), which aims to collect blood samples and health information from one million veteran volunteers to study how genes affect health.

«We believe these studies and clinical trials that combine immunotherapy with chemotherapy are advancing efforts toward better clinical care and more positive outcomes for our patients at CTCA,» said Dr. Vivek Khemka, Medical Oncologist, CTCA at Western and the WCLC study abstract's principal investigator and senior author.

To increase scientists» confidence, the result must be verified by other experiments and additional tests, says theoretical cosmologist Matias Zaldarriaga of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. Several other efforts to detect the signal are already under way.

The study of microbes is likely to dominate scientific research in the years to come as efforts to inventory the tiny creatures advance.

Prof Inzé (VIB - Ghent University): «This study provided major insights into how plants cope with water - limiting conditions, which can direct advanced breeding and genome engineering efforts to create high - performing, drought - tolerant crop plants.

The study provided major insights into how plants cope with water - limiting conditions, which can direct advanced breeding and genome engineering efforts to create high - performing, drought - tolerant crop plants.

While there have been advances in early detection and many studies involving the treatment of children with ASD, few efforts to date have focused on interventions for adults.

In a collaborative effort, researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and the Sant «Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy, developed a bionic fingertip that allowed an amputee to distinguish between smooth and rough textures with 96 percent accuracy.

Myrabo is now collaborating with the Brazilian Air Force on efforts to boost laser power in tests at the Institute for Advanced Studies in São José dos Campos, Brazil

In a study published April 2 in the journal Advanced Materials, a University at Buffalo - led research team describes how kirigami has inspired its efforts to build malleable electronic circuits.

The study was an international collaborative effort, involving key contributions from Vikas Yadav and Kaustuv Sanyal at the Jawarharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore, India; Christina Cuomo at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Minou Nowrousian at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany; Teun Boekhout at CBS in the Netherlands; and Jean - Luc Souciet, Betina Porcel and Patrick Wincker at Genoscope in France.

The goal of the study, she said, was to help guide conservation efforts in advance of the expected rise in ocean temperature and acidity by the end of this century, as forecast by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Our findings in these new studies will advance our clinical efforts to develop more effective, personalized treatments for children.»

Now, a study, recently published in the open access Biodiversity Data Journal, suggests that the latest advances in both digitization and machine learning might together be able to assist museum curators in their efforts to care for and learn from this incredible global resource.

Sanford Research has sought to establish a core of scientists that are studying disease at a fundamental level with the expectation that these current efforts will pay off in the future by advancing disease therapy and prevention.

In the past two weeks we've learned of a major advance in ongoing efforts to halt the spread of HIV, two separate clinical studies have reported that a daily regimen of a pill called Truvada as a pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is highly effective in preventing infection in high risk groups.

And cancer research now involves collaborative efforts from researchers in disciplines such as physics, advanced mathematics, structural biology, nanotechnology, and many more, who have introduced new concepts and approaches to studying cancer.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have used clues from studying fish and chickens to advance efforts to regrow hair cells in humans.

The study, which appears as a Nature Chemical Biology Advance Online Publication on March 28, 2016, began as an effort in the Cravatt laboratory to discover and characterize new serine / threonine hydrolases using fluorophosphonate (FP) probes — molecules that selectively bind and, in effect, label the active sites of these enzymes.

The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E) has announced a two - year, $ 3.8 million award for Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) to study the potential of combining two different technologies to further advance their research efforts to produce controlled fusion reactions.

Almost in an effort to escape these implications, this advanced medical training has, at some sites, been rebranded as Consultation - Liaison Psychiatry, to invoke the seemingly more legitimate study of psychiatric symptoms emerging in medical and surgical patients.

In fact, across all four tracks studied — honors / advanced, academic, general (reference), and vocational / other — effort had significant, positive effects on achievement in every track.

Noguera recently received awards from the Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences, from the National Association of Secondary Principals, and from the McSilver Institute at NYU for his research and advocacy efforts aimed at fighting poverty.

The study's findings suggest advanced course enrollment rates for English learner students can improve in Washington, especially if efforts to accelerate Spanish - speaking students» mastery of academic content in early and middle grades are successful.

He is Project Director for «Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering as a Driver of Cross-Curricular Change,» a multi-district $ 3.4 million U.S. DOE i3 grant with Smithsonian and the University of Virginia and leads the district's efforts in a NSF grant, «MAKER: Studying the Role of Failure in Design and Making» with Indiana University.

She was involved with overseeing curriculum development and coordinating various efforts in the areas of reading / language arts, early childhood, mathematics, science, social studies, gifted, advanced placement, foreign language, visual and performing arts, library media, textbooks, the Mississippi Virtual Public School, and Response to Interventions (RtI).

Both Common Core and Singapore - style math emphasize a deep study of the most basic elements of math in an effort to help students build a solid foundation before moving on to more advanced math.

The study, published in Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, provides a better understanding of the prevalence and source of such disorders, and could advance efforts to prevent and treat genetic disorders in both dogs and humans, the researchers say.

In this lecture, David Freedberg, Pierre Matisse Professor of the History of Art at Columbia University and Director of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, will demonstrate how the drawings in the exhibition Power and Grace: Drawings by Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordaens reveal not just his artistic virtuosity, but his efforts to seek peace in his time.

The UT study, which only deals with the extraction phase of the natural gas supply chain, is the opening chapter in this broader scientific effort designed to advance the current understanding of the climate implications of methane emissions resulting from the U.S. natural gas boom.

«Given the quantifiable impacts of climate change in India and other developing nations in the coming decades, both rich and poor countries should be ramping up our efforts to combat global climate change instead of turning our backs on commitments we have made to the international community,» said Steven J. Davis, an earth system scientist at the University of California Irvine and one of the partners in the Science Advances study.

SRM4G is coordinated by Johannes Gabriel, Sean Low, Miranda Boettcher and Stefan Schäfer, and is a collaborative effort between the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies and Foresight Intelligence.

Lunch Hour Legal Marketing is a joint effort of Mass LOMAP, Suffolk University Law School's Advanced Legal Studies, the Chicago Bar Association's Law Practice Management & Technology, and the Massachusetts Bar Association.

You will find among your «followers» many who appreciate the effort and will readily share what you bring to the conversation, and like the arts organizations in the Pew study, you too may find greater success in advancing your primary objectives.

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This report is a research effort of the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for Family Studies that explores whether and how strong and stable families advance the economic welfare of children, adults, and the nation as a whole.