Sentences with phrase «called global research»

That same year, a job service called Global Research Report on the online task site Mechanical Turks was shut down by host Amazon after a report in the Guardian revealed that the service was another offshoot of SCL, and that the data workers were being asked to provide was being harvested by Cambridge Analytica.

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In a paper recently published in Geophysical Research Letters, they highlighted something called black carbon — soot, really — that is distinct from carbon dioxide, the gas primarily associated with global warming.

What happened was a company called Global Science Research (GSR) released a personality quiz app on Facebook.

John Kirton, co-director of the G - 20 Research Group at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, called the summit a «very solid success,» pointing to broad agreement on the agenda, much of it focusing on less controversial issues such as women's empowerment and promoting digitalization.

Cambridge academic Aleksandr Kogan and his company Global Science Research created an app called «thisisyourdigitallife» in 2013.

Our style of investment is referred to as impact investing, which J.P. Morgan Global Research and Rockefeller Foundation in a 2010 report called «an emerging alternative asset class» and defined as investing with the intent to create positive impact beyond financial return.

A year ago, when many economists seemed resigned to weak global growth, Morgan Stanley Research called for new momentum in the U.S. and other markets in its 2017 Global Ouglobal growth, Morgan Stanley Research called for new momentum in the U.S. and other markets in its 2017 Global OuGlobal Outlook.

The global research hub has sponsored some interesting new research on Canadian high - tech companies in Asia, zeroing in on about 200 Canadian firms that have locations in high - growth Asian markets, and including 120 so - called «micro-multinationals,» which in addition to having a presence in Asia, also have locations in either the European Union or the United States, or both.

Glass Lewis, the leading independent provider of global governance services, appreciates the opportunity to respond to the Call for Evidence: Impact of the Best Practice Principles for Providers of Shareholder Voting Research and Analysis.

Facebook confirmed that the data was obtained from an app called «thisisyourdigitallife «built by University of Cambridge psychology professor Dr Aleksandr Kogan through his company Global Science Research (GSR) in collaboration with Cambridge Analytica.

Facebook acknowledged that it allowed Kogan — a University of Cambridge researcher in cognitive and behavioral neuroscience who obtained the data through his role at a company called Global Science Research — to collect that information with user permission.

Here's a better idea for this so - called «governor» to consider: Take a look at the research done by your alma mater, Texas A&M, on global warming and the effect it will have on Texas (higher temps and greater stress on water through decreased rainfall and increased evaporation)... then stop poopooing the efforts to mitigate the effect humans are having on climate change.

The idea that relations are bad has become «somewhat less common» over the past five years in the United States, Britain, France, Germany and Russia, according to the survey, called «Muslim - Western Tensions Persist,» produced by the Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project.

Shedd Aquarium is teaming up with an international research project called Global FinPrint, a Paul G. Allen initiative, to engage Chicagoland teens with a hands - on STEM application through citizen science.

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Food Standards Agency (FSA), under the Global Food Security programme are delighted to announce the five successful grants of the «Understanding the Challenges of the Food System» call.

Academic Aleksandr Kogan and his company Global Science Research created an app called «thisisyourdigitallife» in 2014.

Cambridge academic Aleksandr Kogan and his company Global Science Research created an app called «thisisyourdigitallife,» which used psychological tests to gather data on users.

Whistleblower Christopher Wylie, who worked with Cambridge Analytica, claimed it amassed the data of millions of people without their consent through a personality quiz on Facebook called This is Your Digital Life that was created by an academic for Global Science Research.

«For example, by using the methods called for in this bill, we will be able save taxpayers $ 22 million for construction of the UB - Kaleida Health global vascular research building being constructed in downtown Buffalo.»

Now, a 15 - year, 30 - nation research collective called Geotraces is embarking on an ambitious global survey of ocean chemistry to quantify trace elements and shed light on how chemical concentrations fluctuate in response to changing environmental conditions.

Both Acts called for a doubling of the Federal investments in basic research at the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Department of Energy's Office of Science to maintain the United States» position at the forefront of global innovation.

«Global health leaders call for global biomedical research and development fund, mechanism.&Global health leaders call for global biomedical research and development fund, mechanism.&global biomedical research and development fund, mechanism.»

Of the $ 1.65 million for biodiversity and climate change work, $ 750,000 is for a global change research program primarily dealing with long - term forest research, $ 250,000 for a species identification program called Barcode of Life, and $ 300,000 for an online database of species called the Encyclopedia of Life.

Given the nature of the challenges the country faces in global economic competitiveness, energy, and health, the President will call for the U.S. to surpass its record investment in research and development, set in 1964 at the height of the space race, exceeding three percent of GDP.

We discuss the position, it's called something impressive like «Head of Global Research;» the salary is going to be so enormous that I'll be able to retire in a small number of years.

David Hughes, of Global Sustainability Research Inc., pointed out that production from tight oil fields like North Dakota's Bakken and Texas» Eagle Ford plays quickly reach what he called «middle age,» when production begins to fall off.

That report — a world first — fuelled global deliberations over the ethics of modifying embryos and human reproductive cells, and led to calls for a moratorium on even such proof - of - principle research.

Meanwhile, the episode prompted the U.S. government to rapidly restart a long, moribund process aimed at tightening oversight of so - called «dual use» research — and WHO to complain that the deal could imperil a carefully negotiated global agreement to share flu viruses and research results.

After noting the U.S. government has made major investments in scientific research, the President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Clinton pointedly called on other countries to do more.

In the end, any call to stop collecting voucher specimens will simply fuel the anti-collecting sentiments of people who just don't understand how scientific collecting, taxonomy, museum research or global biodiversity really work.

The AAS joins the AGU in calling for continued peer - reviewed climate research to inform climate - related policy decisions, to provide a basis for mitigating the harmful effects of global change, and to help communities adapt and become resilient to extreme climatic events.

With a view to fostering the global competitiveness of research groups operating in Hungary, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, hereinafter referred to as MTA) launches a call for applications for inviting internationally acclaimed foreign researchers as Visiting Fellows (hereinafter referred to as Visiting Fellow) to conduct joint research work in research groups operating at MTA's research network or in research groups receiving MTA funding and operating at Hungarian universities.

Bulik, who holds the first endowed professorship in the field of eating disorders in the country, is currently leading a global research initiative called The Anorexia Nervosa Genetics Initiative — or ANGI — to analyze 26,000 genetic samples and isolate genes that play important roles in the underlying biology of eating disorders.

The white paper depicts China's vision for Antarctica as pursuing an approach of peaceful use of Antarctica, safeguarding the stability of the Antarctic Treaty System, elevating Antarctic infrastructure and support capabilities, enhancing scientific investigation and research capability, while calling for strengthened Antarctic environmental protection and coordinating global governance of the continent.

MIT and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) operate LIGO on behalf of a global research community called the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC), which includes members from more than 80 scientific institutions worldwide and more than 900 scientists.

According to a 2011 Pew Research report called «Global Christianity ``, there are over 2bn Christians worldwide — a figure that has almost tripled since 1910.

As I went onto the Internet to find out the latest research on global warming, I came upon a call for help: Gore had set up a nonprofit organization, the Climate Project, to spread awareness and challenge citizens and governments to take action to combat global warming.

(These include a RAND Corporation resource, called the Promising Practices Network; the Comprehensive School Reform Quality Center, from American Institutes for Research; the Best Evidence Encyclopedia, out of Johns Hopkins University; and even a global survey called the International Campbell Collaboration.)

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To that end the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and others have been calling on governments to orchestrate, essentially, a repeat of 2009 fiscal stimulus programs — this time with a focus on big infrastructure projects that pave the way for growth in decades to come — alongside structural reforms to promote global trade, research and education and an overhaul of inefficient tax policies.

Karen Weaver, global head of securitization research at Deutsche Bank Securities, called it «the tip of the iceberg» and predicted a rise in subprime mortgage defaults over the next two years.

The so - called Global Tactical Asset Allocation (GTAA) strategy grew out of Faber's widely read research paper, A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation, first published in 2007.

In 2011, she founded the Global Tourism Economy Research Centre which organizes an internationally renowned exchange platform called the Global Tourism Economy Forum, and co-publishes an annual research report on Asia Tourism Trends with the World Tourism OrganResearch Centre which organizes an internationally renowned exchange platform called the Global Tourism Economy Forum, and co-publishes an annual research report on Asia Tourism Trends with the World Tourism Organresearch report on Asia Tourism Trends with the World Tourism Organization.

The exhibition title is a call for further research, practice and the promotion of cross cultural, networking and greater experiential opportunities for contemporary tapestry at a time of global uncertainty, when the focus on the here and now and its legacy is more pertinent than ever.

Polling and sociological research imply that Mr. Gore has his work cut out if he hopes to fit global warming into what experts call the «finite basket» of worries that most people routinely fill up with concerns about money and health.

So we have the name - calling of peer - reviewed research papers which specifically attempt to quantify probable global trends as «scary», «unfounded», «propaganda», and «wild», all on the basis of alleged incompatibility with empirical evidence from «local topographical studies.»

But I find it worrying that the call to shift scientific research on Earth systems and change out of NASA isn't paired with a call to raise the profile of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, created under President George H.W. Bush research on Earth systems and change out of NASA isn't paired with a call to raise the profile of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, created under President George H.W. Bush Research Program, created under President George H.W. Bush in 1989.

I first dug in on behavioral and social science research related to global warming views and responses in 2006, and it quickly became clear that this was the scariest body of science of all — topping ice - sheet instability and even calling into question the utility of my profession.

My readers know that I frequently call for more research and better modeling techniques on the issue of global climate change and global warming.

3:28 p.m. Updated I contacted Kevin Trenberth, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research who was just interviewed by Joe Romm on extreme precipitation and warming, to see if he thinks it's appropriate to call such storms «global warming type» events.