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(The first in a series looking at promising research projects being supported by the University Research Award program.)

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To keep the initiative rigorous, Moonrocks is working with Cheskin Research, in Redwood Shores, Calif., specialists in the market segmentation, to ensure that ideas picked up by Lunar are aimed at sufficiently promising and well - defined markets.

It's a big promise, and to shepherd her game into the healthcare arena, McGonigal has taken an «entrepreneurial sabbatical» of undetermined length from her role as director of games research and development at Palo Alto, Calif.'s Institute for the Future.

Leading to new as well as enhanced methodologies to make buyer insights research and buyer persona development effective at shaping their future direction — as well as fulfilling promises to their customers.

«DNA is so unique, and there are so many data sources out there, that it is incredibly hard to fully anonymize — and more so to promise and provide any absolute guarantee that the data are anonymized,» says Laura Lyman Rodriguez, the director of policy, communications and education at the National Human Genome Research Institute.

The insurance companies have promised to make timely interest and principal payments on any bonds covered by insurance if Puerto Rico defaults, said Rob Williams, director of income planning at the Schwab Center for Financial Research.

Several years ago, at Family Research Councils Values Voter Summit, Southern Baptist leader Richard Land said he'd vote for a Jewish pro-life politician who promised to raise his taxes before he'd vote in a Christian pro-choice candidate who promised to cut them.

At the same time, those who claimed that embryonic research was the only promising way forward can unite around a promising new technique that presents no ethical dilemmas.

The marriage of form and content at the abovementioned colleges, which neither specialize nor departmentalize nor ignore mathematics and science any more than literature and philosophy, is a promising alternative to the research university.

At the annual meeting held in 2015, a member of the R&D team presented research done on Healthy Flour's organic sprouted grains and pitched the idea for a sprouted grains cereal as part of their Organic Promise ® line of breakfast foods.

But what the research I've described here makes clear is that intervening in the lives of disadvantaged children — by educating them better in school, helping their parents support them better at home, or, ideally, some combination of the two — is the most effective and promising anti-poverty strategy we have.

Well, there are several... Don't — make your kids promises until you have a reservation confirmation number... Do — a bit of research to see if there are any special restaurants you'd like to eat at and book them immediately... and Don't be surprised when your trip to Disney turns you into one of those crazy «my kid has to have everything» moms!

At that time, she left a promising research career within the field of gastrointestinal physiology in order to study the positive and health promoting effects of oxytocin.

Identifying core components of interventions found to be effective and understanding what it takes to implement those components with fidelity to the program model is critical to successful replication and scale - up of effective programs and practices in different community contexts and populations.7 There is growing recognition in the early childhood field of the importance of effective implementation and the need for implementation research that can guide adoption, initial implementation, and ongoing improvement of early childhood interventions.8, 9,10 The promise of implementation research and using data to drive program management is compelling because it offers a potential solution to the problem of persistent gaps in outcomes between at - risk children and their more well - off peers.

Bill Mahoney, the research coordinator at NYPIRG, said after reviewing the documents that the Commission appeared to have gotten off to a promising start with an unprecedented review of a system plagued by wildly inconsistent reporting by campaigns and lax oversight by the state Board of Elections.

Adding all two - year public institutions would alleviate concerns of free community college redirecting students away from the four - year schools, which research showed occurred in Tennessee, said Martha Kanter, executive director of the national College Promise Campaign and senior fellow at the Steinhardt Institute.

Magu, according to a statement by the commission's spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, also promised to sponsor anti-corruption research works at doctorate level for the next 10 years.

Officials at SUNY Polytechnic Institute, which developed the film hub, promised the facility would benefit from research and educational programs at the university.

At noon, Sen. Tony Avella will hold a joint press conference with The Humane Society of the United States, fellow elected officials, a representative from the Jane Goodall Institute and others to urge the New York Blood Center to keep its promise to provide lifetime care to a colony of chimpanzees exploited by the center for decades of research and then abandoned, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

At 9 a.m., Approximately 900 specialists from a variety of scientific, psychological, social service and educational communities will gather at The Egg, Center for the Performing Arts Hart Theatre to consider promising research on how, through understanding the emerging connections between trauma and the science of brain development, children can overcome the long - term consequences of extreme trauma and adversitAt 9 a.m., Approximately 900 specialists from a variety of scientific, psychological, social service and educational communities will gather at The Egg, Center for the Performing Arts Hart Theatre to consider promising research on how, through understanding the emerging connections between trauma and the science of brain development, children can overcome the long - term consequences of extreme trauma and adversitat The Egg, Center for the Performing Arts Hart Theatre to consider promising research on how, through understanding the emerging connections between trauma and the science of brain development, children can overcome the long - term consequences of extreme trauma and adversity.

Jerry Gretzinger, a spokesman for SUNY Poly, said SolarCity had actually increased the total number of jobs it had promised throughout the state — 5,000 in 10 years — though automation at the Buffalo factory meant that fewer jobs would be in manufacturing and more would be in research, sales and management.

The launch of the Buffalo High - Tech Manufacturing Innovation Hub at RiverBend, fueled by the attraction of Silevo and Soraa and the promise of additional corporate partners in the future, further builds the Governor's high - tech Erie Canal and positions Western New York as a nexus for advanced research and manufacturing for clean energy technologies.»

The Director of Research at the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), Dr. Joe Amoako - Tuffour, has cautioned the New Patriotic Party (NPP), government against «hurried» tax cuts, given the nature of its campaign promises en route to election victory.

Speakers at this event discussed the current state of neuroscience research on TBI in the context of sport and combat; the areas of research that seem most promising for preventing and treating TBI; and a personal account of the effects of TBI on U.S. soldiers.

«Big data, while promising, interesting, and useful, is not synonymous with complete or representative data,» said Megan Price, director of research at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group.

The year's most prominent science issue, federal support of embryonic stem cell research, is so controversial that the sons of Ronald Reagan gave dueling speeches at the opposing party conventions; Michael Reagan backs President George W. Bush's policies, including the ban on funding for research on new stem cell lines, while Ron supports Senator John Kerry's promise to lift restrictions.

Although the new research looks «promising,» the newly identified compounds have not been tested outside of the lab, says James Logan, scientific director of the Arthropod Control Product Test Center at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who did not contribute to the study.

And of course, it is not lost on Markovic — and certainly not on his wife, he says — that this promising line of inquiry might never have been explored, had that female colleague not been working as a medical research scientist at the Mayo clinic eight years back; had she not volunteered to donate her blood for Markovic's research; and had she not continued to work — and donate — after becoming pregnant.

But that outlay for dementia research falls well short of those announced in recent years by the United States and the United Kingdom and even lags Canada's promise at the G8 dementia summit 2 years ago in London to significantly ramp up its investment in research on neurodegenerative diseases as part of a global bid to find a cure for dementia by 2025.

Several labs at Harvard Medical School and the National Institutes of Health picked up on these findings and conducted research suggesting tDCS was promising for stroke rehabilitation and chronic pain.

In August the National Science Foundation affirmed the promise of synthetic biology with a $ 16 million grant to establish the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC), a collaboration among such institutions as Harvard University, MIT, the University of California at San Francisco, and the University of California at Berkeley.

Given this promise — in addition to a February 2012 Department of Energy announcement of a $ 30 million competition aimed at finding ways «to harness our abundant supplies of domestic natural gas for vehicles» — Duoba and his colleague have been ramping up vehicle systems analysis and engine research and testing around CNG as a way to wean ourselves off of foreign fuel sources.

«Less than 10 years ago, Steve Jobs promised that smartphones «will change everything,»» said Kostadin Kushlev, a psychology research scientist at the University of Virginia, who led the study with colleagues at the University of British Columbia.

When meteorologist Elena Stautzebach, who is overwintering at the German research base Neumayer - Station III in Antarctica, tells you «the weather forecast isn't very promising,» you know it's bad.

This research highlights the power of translational precision medicine and the promise of the proposed Translational Precision Medicine Complex (TPMC) at the University of Missouri.

At a time when we are the verge of major new breakthroughs and the burden of chronic disease continues to grow, we should not shortchange a priority as important as promising medical research.

«It's a good idea, with some promising applications,» says Scott Morris, an engineer working at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign's Bioacoustics Research Laboratory.

After a promising lead with a mining museum in Saint Petersburg failed to pan out, Igor Huskić, a graduate student in the Friščić research group at McGill turned his attention to synthesizing analogues of the minerals in the lab — and succeeded.

Likewise in the agricultural space, Crispr promises to develop solutions for growers with greater precision and accelerated timelines, says Neal Gutterson, vice president of research and development at DuPont Pioneer.

«Site - specific oral therapy for intestinal disorders is a promising avenue of research,» says Chung, whose findings formed the basis for his doctoral thesis at UB.

Meanwhile, at the national research agencies, some relatively recent initiatives are giving promising early career researchers their own funds and lab space, to foster their independence.

Other unknown factors involved This means there are other factors at play, Leakey said, although they remain a mystery and an area of promising future research.

«Biofuel production also shows promise for directly offsetting some reliance on fossil fuels,» says Stephen Ogle, an ecosystem research scientist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

The x-ray crystallographer at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California, is leading an international effort to develop a potent mix of monoclonal antibodies against the virus, some of which have already shown promise in animals.

The initiatives he oversaw at NCI «will greatly accelerate cancer research» and «hold potential and promise for great advances,» von Eschenbach said.

Davis is now responsible for leading teams through the adoption of new high - throughput methods of research and development in polymer science — generating dozens of unique materials at a time and rapidly screening them — and finding ways to implement the most promising candidates in R&D labs across the company.

Despite its promise, the only nations in Africa that could bring a GM crop to market are Egypt, South Africa and Burkina Faso, according to Guillaume Gruere, a research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Inresearch fellow at the International Food Policy Research InResearch Institute.

A drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for melanoma in combination with a common cholesterol - lowering drug may show promise in controlling cancer growth in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to new research from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Research presented today at the 117th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology shows promising data about a device that helps people who have lost their vision due to a blinding genetic disease to recognize common objects.

A molecule in cells that shuts down the expression of genes might be a promising target for new drugs designed to treat the most frequent and lethal form of brain cancer, according to a new study by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — James).