Sentences with phrase «basic research environment»

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Despite the constrained budget environment, Federal investments in research continue to be a top priority, particularly basic research, which holds the key to our future.

SHANGHAI, CHINA — China today unveiled a sweeping revamp of its bureaucracy that is expected to reap benefits for public health, the environment, and combatting climate change — while raising questions about the management of basic research.

► This week's issue of Science also includes a brief recap of the 40th annual AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy, attended by «more than 400 elected officials, government and business leaders, researchers, educators, and others» on 30 April and 1 May in Washington, D.C. «The importance of basic research for the nation's scientific and economic future was a recurring theme,» and «participants delved into the factors driving the tight budget environment» scientists are currently facing.

Although juggling all of these issues can be demanding and at times stressful (such as during the recent highly publicized temporary suspension of clinical research on our campus), working in a clinical environment has allowed me to develop my interpersonal and communication skills to a level that I never would have achieved in a purely basic science setting.

These cooperative projects include basic research projects, as well as more applied efforts, agriculture, human health, and the environment.

The main focus is on complex scientific - technical questions and cross-program basic research, as well as the operating of scientific large - scale equipment, technology development, national long - term programs, and national preventive research in the field of environment and health.

If you are working in a basic - research environment, you may not have even considered the possibility that you might come up with an invention with commercial value.

For this growing group of research pioneers, Science Careers takes a look at the Indian research environment, discusses opportunities for conducting basic scientific research, and shares the experiences of recently returned science exchangees from India.

The new institute's major goal is to create a collaborative environment where scientists doing basic research and clinicians can work closely together.

About the Salk Institute for Biological Studies: The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is one of the world's preeminent basic research institutions, where internationally renowned faculty probes fundamental life science questions in a unique, collaborative and creative environment.

* Define and improve standards of clinical care * Generate new knowledge in clinical and basic sciences * Provide a diverse and inspiring educational environment * Disseminate knowledge and expertise to our community and scientific colleagues * Foster the advancement of clinical and research leaders

This is a great advantage in basic biology research, but creating that predictability means that a controlled environment, and not the survival pressures of the outside world, shaped the microbiotas of laboratory mice.

By taking advantage of the excellent clinical environment coupled to the outstanding basic research carried out at Ospedale San Raffaele, the center will allow the Institute as a whole to advance towards integrative translational research.

Our research program aims at producing an inspiring scientific environment where clinical research and basic research in urology and urological pharmacology interact on a daily basis.

'' It is a research area which connects the clinic with basic biology research and industry, which makes it a very dynamic and applied research environment that I appreciate,» says Lena Claesson - Welsh.

«Managing this phase requires new organizational programs allowing the synchronous develpment of basic science, advanced technologies, clinical research and welfare initiatives, all working together in an international environment.

The center, a five - story, 237,000 - square - foot building that opened in 2012, brings under one roof several of the world's leading clinical and basic research programs in a collaborative environment.

The St. Jude Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences will train the next generation of academic researchers in a one - of - a-kind interdisciplinary environment — one that brings together diverse scientific disciplines to work at the interface between basic and clinical research.

He spent his basic research career studying the mechanisms of steroid hormone action on the brain, behavior, and mental health, and the influences of the environment and stressors on those actions in laboratory rodents.

A collaborative environment and interdisciplinary approach bring students together with clinical and basic scientists to give them the experience of being a contributing member of a research team working on significant scientific problems that aid in our understanding of medical issues.

Sponsors: This work was supported by IDREAM (Interfacial Dynamics in Radioactive Environments and Materials), an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences

The Faculty of Medicine at Lund University is one of Europe's most research - intensive university environments, covering a wide range of fields from basic experimental research to applied research within the clinical, health and social sciences.

Hunter's breakthrough, which set the story in motion, was a product of basic research on a chicken RNA tumor virus: the 1979 discovery of the first tyrosine kinase paved the way for our understanding of how cells perceive their environment and respond appropriately to growth signals.

The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is one of the world's preeminent basic research institutions, where internationally renowned faculty probes fundamental life science questions in a unique, collaborative, and creative environment.

The competition was launched as research carried out by Dulux revealed that a staggering two thirds of schools lacked the funding to make basic refurbishment improvements, with an overwhelming majority of teachers and head teachers considering the school environment to affect pupils» academic life.

After joining Jane Goodall's worldwide organization, Roots & Shoots, aimed at youth making a difference in their community and its environment, they wrote a proposal to the national nonprofit organization What Kids Can Do, which funded their basic expenses with a small Student Research for Action grant.

Year 4 Science Assessments Objectives covered: Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C) Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases Identify common appliances that run on electricity Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors

To achieve its objectives, the Society is funding projects in two main areas: basic and environment cancer research.

The Sierra Leone Journal of Biomedical Research publishes papers in all fields of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences including Basic Medical Sciences, Clinical Sciences, Dental Sciences, Behavioural Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Biotechnology in relation to Medicine, Environment and Health, Nursing Sciences, Health Education and Primary Health Care.

There's plenty more he can do, of course, including making the case for boosted investments in basic science, basic research by industry and programs that foster youth and public understanding of science and the environment.

Because AGI [Artificial General Intelligence] safety is so under - researched, we're likely to find low - hanging fruit even in investigating basic questions like «What kind of prior probability distribution works best for formal agents in unknown environments?»

So, no one is saying you can't do basic research on any geoengineering method, no matter how potentially risky or benign, effective or ineffective it might be, but if you want to take that research beyond that small - scale you have to be able to prove you're not going to radically screw up the environment that previous human activity is already screwing up.

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Research related to optimal youth development has begun to delineate critical dimensions of important social contexts.8 — 11 For example, some researchers propose 3 basic experiences (ie, connection, regulation, and autonomy) to define youth's main associations with their environment that can be measured across multiple settings.8, 12,13 Others have articulated similar concepts and expanded the number of dimensions to include characteristics, such as adequate nutrition, health, and shelter; physical and psychological safety; adequate and appropriate supervision and motivation; supportive relationships; support for efficacy and opportunities for skill building; and integration of family, school, and community efforts.10, 11

Recent developmental neuroscience work suggests that because of its dependence on the maturation of prefrontal - limbic connections, the development of self - regulatory processes is relatively protracted, 24 from the development of basic and automatic regulation of physiology in infancy and toddlerhood to the more self - conscious and intentional regulation of cognition emerging in middle childhood.25 From a developmental perspective, then, opportunities for success and failure of self - regulation are numerous over the course of childhood, particularly given the potential of environmental factors such as parenting to facilitate or disrupt development in these domains.26 The next generation of temperament research will focus a great deal on the complex biological processes involved in these developmental pathways and the way these processes may be modified by the environment.

Her research projects and collaborations include 1) basic science studies on commitment, cohabitation, aggression, infidelity, family background, relationship processes and psychopathology, military families, and adolescent and child adjustment as well as 2) studies on the effectiveness of preventive relationship interventions for couples and individuals (including gene - environment interactions).

Her published work in the area of gene - environment interplay emphasizes the translation of basic research findings to help refine the selection of malleable environmental targets in the context of prevention and intervention studies.