Sentences with phrase «basic research lines»

The Wearable Computing Laboratory, ETH Zürich led by Prof. Gerhard Tröster is an interdisciplinary group focusing on three basic research lines: embedded wearable platforms, context ‐ aware systems, and textile engineering.

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Whereas some companies a decade ago may have only lent their might to academic research that was likely to result in a relatively quick return, we now find them pitching in on higher quality, more basic research projects that are not necessarily in line with their core work but still on their radar.

CMRB has two parts: the Cell Line Bank of Barcelona, which generates and maintains embryonic stem cell lines, and the CMRB research centre, which carries out basic and applied research to design future strategies for regenerative medicine.

British newspapers reported this weekend that Ian Wilmut, the University of Edinburgh biologist who led the team that in 1997 cloned Dolly the sheep, is getting out of the cloning business in light of the new findings, which seem to offer researchers a likely new source of stem cell lines for basic research that could one day lead to new treatments and perhaps cures for spinal injuries, diabetes and debilitating disorders such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.

It turned out that most of them have a passion for doing basic and long - term research and they think this is only possible in academia, a perception that is largely in line with our own experience and was confirmed by those workshop participants who had experience working in industry.

It's a small but important silver lining in a year when even NSF's best friends in Congress have turned their backs on the Obama Administration's request for a 13 % increase for the basic research agency as part of the political consensus on reducing the federal deficit.

By conducting basic research in the same cell lines that will be used in patients, researchers should also be able to speed the translation of their discoveries to treatments, says Crook.

The Army's basic research account — known as the 6.1 budget line in Washington parlance — would grow 2 % to $ 444.2 million; the White House had proposed a 3 % reduction.

These include government or private nonprofit funders of basic research, such as the National Institutes of Health in the United States or the Wellcome Trust in the United Kingdom; academic scientists; multinational pharmaceutical firms and smaller biotech companies; and, at the end of the line, government regulatory agencies responsible for drug approval.

«We are interested in the ideas other scientists or businesses might have for how this might impact their basic research or bottom line.»

But the type of science that instead aims to fill gaps in our understanding of the world — known as «basic» or «foundational» research — doesn't focus on specific applications, like a disease cure or a drought - resistant crop, so no one can predict the real - world impact of any individual line of inquiry.

Instead of regurgitating a list of basic facts that anyone could find out through a Google search, go deeper into your research — look at the company press releases, Glassdoor listings and LinkedIn postings to read between the lines of what past and former employees have to say.

«By creating this new line of water care and nutritional products for the marine aquarium, we are able provide consumers with all of the basics of marine fishkeeping in a clear, easy - to - follow manner from a trusted name that is synonymous with high quality, innovative and well - researched products.»

Rosemary Collard is an Australian artist who has spent 45 years researching ways to compose pictures with the basic visual elements of art — colour, form, line, shape, space, texture and value.

The basic imperative is backed by multiple lines of economic and scientific research, and robustly affirmed by common sense: If we're going to make our climate prospects better, we have to stop making them worse.

Arnoud Arntz will discuss the findings and methods of this current line of research as they relate to findings that have emerged from his series of RCTs centered on schema therapy and how they relate to basic research he has been engaged in on psychopathology and its treatment and the development of well - being.

Among several other principles, the authors suggest that researchers interested in measuring gambling's impact should avoid applying arbitrary monetary values to non-monetary impacts, create impact profiles instead of a bottom line, examine micro and macro geographic impacts, compare impacts with changes in control communities, apply basic economic principles to their evaluation, and use longitudinal research designs when possible.