Sentences with phrase «challenging years of his research»

As it turns out, these were the most challenging years of his research career.
The findings, which appear in the Dec. 1 edition of the journal Nature, are the first direct evidence of what the ancient atmosphere of the planet was like soon after its formation and directly challenge years of research on the type of atmosphere out of which life arose on the planet.

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This year's Summit is shaping up to be our best to date, as we have a full slate of sessions aimed at overcoming your top challenges with actionable training, grounded in rigorous research and science.
After five years of global sovereign asset management research, we've gained a deep understanding of the strategies they use to overcome their unique challenges.
With regard to the challenge of improving Canada's long - term productivity growth, the government's response was to reduce the tax benefit of the Scientific Research and Experimental Tax credit and to reallocate the savings of only about $ 1 billion over five years to a number of small government programs, for which no details were provided.
«It will have to contend with the saturation of a slowing athleisure market,» wrote Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData Retail, in a recent research note, adding that the year ahead will be challenging for Lululemon.
One notable finding from this year's research is the challenge of accurate measurement and tracking of food waste across all industry sectors.
«I think that the LMP1 category provides a fantastic challenge for us but we can rely on a lot of experience gained over the years, in particular those spent in Formula 1, relating to the management of the design, research, testing and development processes that are so important for a successful LMP1 team.»
These are the main results of the research carried out on a sample of 350 young girls and boys representing the Italian population aged 9 - 17 years old «Smartphones, social network and instant messaging services: challenges for children, parents and teachers» presented today in Rome at the «Global Trends in Online Safety: Creating a National Framework» conference, an event developed and co-hosted by the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) and TIM.
Denise Pope, the founder of Challenge Success, in August released a book, «Overloaded and Underprepared,» that provides practical recommendations for schools based on years of academic research on workload and achievement.
Research conducted last year by my former graduate student, David Yeager [now a professor at the University of Texas], on 18,000 students entering ninth grade, shows us that students who took growth - mindset workshops are seeking more challenges.
However, some more recent research examining if introduction of these foods in the first year of life may actually help prevent food allergy is beginning to challenge the more traditional approach to introducing these foods.
By late April, University at Buffalo will begin a two - year research project studying the operation and challenges of running a driverless bus — with an eye toward the day it could eventually shuttle students and faculty to and from other modes of travel and be integrated into a new transportation age.
New York State is not alone in this phenomenon; research from the Guttmacher Institute has found that the number of challenges and restrictions to reproductive rights on state levels have skyrocketed in recent years.
An article this week in Science looks at the challenge of organizing and maintaining research programs at 2 - year institutions, and the faculty who take it on — partly to prepare their students for futures in the scientific workforce and partly to suit their own desire to keep doing research.
The filing supports the Arizona Board of Regents and the University of Arizona's custodian of public records in their efforts to deflect the legal challenge of a group seeking the public release of 13 years of the two Arizona scientists» emailed correspondence with other scientists and organizations about their research.
Also at the conference Tuesday, a major alliance of science, research and United Nations bodies launched a 10 - year initiative — Future Earth Research for Global Sustainability — to commence next year to coordinate scientific research into the major social and environmental challenges from climate change as they emerge over cominresearch and United Nations bodies launched a 10 - year initiative — Future Earth Research for Global Sustainability — to commence next year to coordinate scientific research into the major social and environmental challenges from climate change as they emerge over cominResearch for Global Sustainability — to commence next year to coordinate scientific research into the major social and environmental challenges from climate change as they emerge over cominresearch into the major social and environmental challenges from climate change as they emerge over coming years.
Despite years of research by scientists around the world, the extraordinarily small size of matter at the nanoscale has made it challenging to learn how motion works at this scale.
This boost in science capital, up 9 percent from last year, is part of the European Union's (EU) Seventh Framework Programme for research and technology development (FP7), and will fund research that will «tackle the biggest societal challenges facing Europe and the world.»
Fedder, whose complex engineered systems institute is an outgrowth of an NSF engineering research center that closed 15 years ago, acknowledges that CMU and other universities are taking a calculated risk that their faculty members will find sufficient intellectual challenges in tackling problems to advance the technologies that underpin additive manufacturing.
To do this, the research team enrolled 65 healthy volunteers aged 18 to 50 years in the human challenge study — a type of research study in which individuals are exposed to disease - causing pathogens under carefully controlled conditions.
In the Science perspective, the researchers discuss the gains they have made in understanding latency over the past five years and the challenges that remain as the team of academic and industry investigators — from UNC, Duke University, Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, the University of California at San Diego, Emory University, MacroGenics, and other institutions — embark on the next steps in HIV cure research.
The «Algae for a Healthy World» (A4HW) project has a budget of one million euros for a term of two years, and is co-financed by the European Union via the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) within the «Cooperation Challenges» programme by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (specifically, the «Food Safety and Quality Challenge: Productive, Sustainable Farming, Natural Resources, Marine and Maritime Research»).
James Gates, a physicist at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the report's other co-chair, says that it's just as important to help students at 2 - year colleges and those seeking technical training as it is to address the challenges at a large research university like his.
Since then, it has declined sharply and reached a plateau around $ 3 billion to $ 4 billion a year — a tiny fraction of the roughly $ 100 billion of total public research and development funding in the U.S. Public support for energy research is now inching up, but the effort falls short of that needed to tackle the climate challenge.
And this year marks our 10th anniversary of challenging scientists around the world to turn their esoteric Ph.D. research into dance videos that delight and inform the public.
One research challenge involves having just a few decades or a century of high - quality weather data with which to make sense of events that might occur once every 1,000 or 10,000 years in a theoretical climate without human influence.
«Sustaining and growing support for research and development under the kinds of constraints that we have experienced in the federal budget» is one of the top S&T - related challenges — along with others involving climate change, NASA funding, and STEM education — facing the Obama administration in its last year and a half, said Holdren who is the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and assistant to the president for science and technology.
Unfortunately, in addition to the challenges of doing research with undergraduates while teaching four or more courses per year, they find themselves faced with obstacles strewn in their paths by oblivious administrators.
«Last year, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge raised a remarkable amount of money to support ALS patients and research,» Dr. Petrucelli says.
Moreover, the integral «Assured Challenging Employment» guarantees them a job in Singapore upon successful completion of their postdoctoral training — returning AGS PhDs are committed to work in A * STAR's Research Institutes for not less than 3 years.
For more than 20 years, her research has insistently challenged the idea that humans alone are capable of real thought and real language.
This is the 6th year of the contest, which challenges scientists to explain their doctoral research through the medium of interpretive dance.
Results of the study, which earlier this year won first prize in the inaugural «PAN Challenge» for research on improving access to critical medications for Americans with chronic and rare diseases, showed that patients in the latter, high - cost group were significantly less likely (45.3 percent vs. 66.9 percent) to have a Part D claim for a TKI prescription within six months of their CML diagnosis, compared to the subsidized, low cost - sharing group.
A new assessment of the first years of Horizon 2020, the EU's research and innovation programme, shows that it is on track to help create jobs and growth, tackle our biggest societal challenges and improve people's lives.
The Expanded VLA will provide the improved observational capabilities needed to meet the research challenges of the coming years.
Despite over 15 years of extensive research, these approaches remain challenged by problems with efficacy, by their complexity and expense, and by regulatory hurdles7, 10,11,17.
THE BRAIN INITIATIVE, a grand challenge in science and technology launched two years ago by President Obama, is already fueling the creation of next - generation brain research tools.
March 24, East Hanover, NJ / New Brunswick, NJ — Kessler Foundation, a global leader in rehabilitation research, and Children's Specialized Hospital, the nation's leading provider of inpatient and outpatient care for children facing special health challenges, have renewed their collaboration by signing a three - year agreement, with a funding level of $ 2.1 million, to continue their research program for children with disabilities.
The study, «Alcohol Challenge Responses Predict Future Alcohol Use Disorder Symptoms: A 6 - Year Prospective Study,» was supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation, the University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center, the National Center for Research Resources, the National Institutes of Health Roadmap for Medical Research and the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
And the challenge is real, even after years of intensive cancer research in this country.
PULLMAN, Wash. — A WSU research team was awarded the TechConnect Defense Innovation Award at this year's Defense Innovation Technology Acceleration Challenges summit for their invention of an electrochemical scaffold to combat drug - resistant bacterial wound infections
During their visit in Sweden, this year's winners also got to attend the Nobel Prize ceremony, visit SciLifeLab in both Stockholm and Uppsala and meet with high school students to discuss the rewards and challenges of pursuing a career in research.
The President's announcement of a national Grand Challenge on the BRAIN is a spectacularly exciting culmination of a year and a half effort to enhance brain research and technology development through a new national effort.
A five - year mixed methods research project explored the ethical challenges of CRTs.
«The big challenge has been that there hasn't been much research in nonpregnant women of childbearing years.
There has been a lot of research and other theories developed that challenge the whole calorie notion over the last 10 years... Read More»
Dr. Sara's Detox Challenge is the result of years of research and testing what works (and what doesn't work) when it comes to detoxing for hormone balancing and weight loss.
The group was challenged to figure out how to become a 5 billion dollar business by the year 2012, instead of the 1.9 billion dollar estimate from a Jupiter Communication's research study.
Through the use of Upside - Down Pilates, anatomical knowledge, and years of research in training the body, Upside - Down Pilates strives to free people held captive in their own bodies, as well as, challenge athletes to go further than ever thought possible
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