Sentences with phrase «change their research focus»

During the duration of the award, Fellows have freedom to change their research focus and follow their own curiosity.

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Our focus as a company has not and will not change: We remain committed to moving the science of cognitive training forward and contributing meaningfully to the field's community and body of research.»

Dr. Victoria Keener, a research fellow at the East - West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, whose research focuses on the impact of climate change in Pacific Island communities, expressed similar sentiments.

«The pace of change has been so fast and housing supply has not kept up and the transit system has not kept up,» said Alan Durning, executive director of Sightline Institute, a nonprofit research group in Seattle focused on sustainability.

These include: C$ 4.5 billion to support research, training, and infrastructure at universities and colleges; a Strategic Innovation Fund that will provide C$ 1.26 billion for business innovation in the aerospace and automotive sector; a Connect to Innovate Program that will invest C$ 500 million to bring high - speed Internet to remote and rural communities by 2021; and, C$ 70 million over six years to support agriculture innovation with a focus on climate change, and soil and water conservation.

Jibek Baihodjoeva is a principal in Strategic Africa Partners consulting and research with a focus on strategic change and research both at an enterprise level and for the consumer experience.

And one major financial services institution told customers that it was making a major shift in focus from being a financial retailer to a financial adviser, but, a year later, research showed that the customer experience with the company had not changed.

Due to increasing complexity and length of annual and quarterly financial reports, meeting these criteria requires a focused effort and, perhaps, significant changes in the way research is created by most firms.

How we are focusing our research efforts to avoid on the fixed income side and being lenders effectively out into the economy about what the disruption and the changes it applies here means to these established companies that may have a lot of debt outstanding.

Much of the prior research on indices has focused on the stock price implications of changes in index composition.

«Through this cooperation with Alibaba in connectivity, our focus is on human - centric innovations that provide our customers with a digital experience, both in and outside the vehicle, in order to meet their changing needs,» Hans Georg Engel, head of Mercedes ‐ Benz Research and Development China, said in a statement.

A geophysicist at the University of Washington and director of the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, he is at the forefront of research on geoengineering, a science that focuses on manipulating the environment to, among other ends, combat climate change.

Emerging research from the fields of neuroscience and nutrition shows that by changing what you eat, you can stabilize your mood, improve your focus, and boost your brain health, all while trimming your tummy.

With the UK described as a «shop window on the world of wine», Harpers Editor Andrew Catchpole brings together leading figures at the forefront of NPD, exploring the latest consumer focused developments, the economic imperative of embracing research and change, while asking why wine appears to be lagging behind rival categories of spirits and beers, plus the advances embraced in other global markets

Research focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving soil management and climate change adaptation.

Through the CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program, a research that focuses on the development and adaptation of climate - smart technologies for sustainable intensification of farming systems in South Asia is in pResearch Program, a research that focuses on the development and adaptation of climate - smart technologies for sustainable intensification of farming systems in South Asia is in presearch that focuses on the development and adaptation of climate - smart technologies for sustainable intensification of farming systems in South Asia is in progress.

[1 - 9] As a 2013 research paper [7] and a number of other recent studies [12 - 15] show, education alone (or at least that which focuses on educating athletes about the signs and symptoms of concussion and not changing attitudes about reporting behavior) does not appear capable of solving the problem, because the reasons for under - reporting are largely cultural, [2,3,9,10, 12 - 15] leading the paper's author to conclude that «other approaches might be needed to identify injured athletes.»

First, I could not solely focus my research on mathematics instruction; because the education I witnessed was so integrated and was indicative of best practices, I changed the study to be part of a growing body of knowledge on school restructuring and reform.

As a result, much of the research has focused upon mothers and their parenting, adjustment, and lifestyle changes.

Despite decades of research on sleep training, most studies have focused on outcomes related to sleep and daytime behavior, but few have examined babies» stress responses to this change.

Also, misconceptions abound as the field of infant sleep research is limited and the research is primarily focused on one area: behavioral changes.

Therapy treatments rooted in cognitive research focus on helping people change these negative thinking patterns and replace such thoughts with more positive and realistic ones.

He is a planner, geographer and urbanist, and his research focuses on the contemporary restructuring and retrofitting of urban regions, with a particular emphasis on the changing dynamics of race, class and segregation across space and place.

The ESRC Centre for Research on Socio - Cultural Change (CRESC) is the first major Research Centre in Britain to develop a broad, empirically focused account of cultural change and its economic, social and political implicaChange (CRESC) is the first major Research Centre in Britain to develop a broad, empirically focused account of cultural change and its economic, social and political implicachange and its economic, social and political implications.

Our research, to be published in Westminster next Tuesday, shows how the cumulative impact of the welfare reforms has been to push people into survival mode, squeezing them to focus on short - term, day - to - day getting by and preventing them from being able to make long - term positive changes to their lives.

Her research is focused on the behavioral and neuromaturational changes that precede psychotic disorders.

Medical research focusing on epigenetics is currently trying to block the enzymes that regulate these changes thereby silencing cancer promoting genes.

Her research focuses on global change ecology and climate adaptation; she was among the first to propose and study ways to reduce the impact of climate change through new techniques in conservation management.

Future research should focus on how relationships between religious or spiritual involvement and health change over time, and whether support services designed to enhance particular aspects of religion and spirituality in interested patients might help improve their well - being.

Dr. Jefferson's research focuses on urban watersheds and stormwater management, hydrologic responses to climate variability and change, and landscape evolution.

Hellmann focuses on interdisciplinary research and projects that increase the resiliency of human and natural communities to the risks of environmental change.

Norgaard was surprised Morano had noticed her, because although her university had written a press release, she hadn't seen much coverage of her research, which focuses on why it is so difficult for societies to take action to respond to climate change.

His research focuses on the changes in diet and activity in the U.S., China, Brazil, the Philippines and other countries and his article appears in the special September issue of Scientific American magazine, which is called feast and famine, all about diet, health and food.

A current project focuses on evaluating programs that aim to change behaviors that lead to teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections; the goal of the research is to see which programs work and assess their cost - effectiveness.

And we know from behavioral research that focusing on what people already think is important can make changes easier for people to accept.»

Whereas academic research careers often involve steps orchestrated years in advance, many other tracks require changing focus and positions quickly.

Other researchers, like Tony Koslow, a research oceanographer emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and former director of the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations, have focused on how the changes in oxygen levels affect marine life.

«It really now calls upon the research field to start focusing on this area,» he says, «to look at drug effects in this area, to look at the types of changes that go on during addiction in this area, to understand what the basic function of this area is and why it would be important in this kind of context.»

Marcia Castro's research focuses on infectious diseases (particularly mosquito borne), environmental change and health, environmental management for vector control, spatial patterns of disease transmission, and infant & child mortality.

Mortelliti, whose lab research focuses on the effects of land - use change on mammals and birds, will focus on the northward movement of plant species as temperature increases.

In 2009, the Army named Hale commander of its Dental and Trauma Research Detachment, which was changing its focus from dentistry to facial trauma.

Others wish to return to basic science research so that they don't have to wonder whether corporate priorities are forcing them to change focus.

But as far as Genentech's research focus and unique culture — which includes a vibrant postdoctoral program as well as free cappuccinos and Friday evening parties — are concerned, those will not change, says Tessier - Lavigne.

Mortelliti, who holds degrees from the La Sapienza (University of Rome), is an Assistant Professor in Wildlife Habitat Conservation at the University of Maine, where his lab's research is focused on the impact of land - use change on vertebrate species (mammals and birds).

With a focus on medical research, the environment, and education, the Foundation aims to catalyze inquiry and innovation to bring about long - term change.

Other research by C. Nathan DeWall and his colleagues used linguistic analysis to show that popular song lyrics became more self - focused and antisocial (i.e., violent, more profanity) between 1980 and 2007, a psychological shift that may have translated into changes for musical elements of songs.

Changes to the rate of wastewater injection in disposal wells may have contributed to conditions that led to last year's Pawnee earthquake in Oklahoma, according to a new report published May 3 as part of a focus section in Seismological Research Letters.

New research from scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the Hawaiʻi Department of Land and Natural Resources brings into clearer focus just how dramatically Hawaiʻi beaches might change as sea level rises in the future.

This study in Science, published on April 18, underlines this emerging reality, giving it a new and worrisome precision and leading Nick Gotelli and his co-authors to conclude that there «is need to expand the focus of research and planning from biodiversity loss to biodiversity change.»

In early 2014, his focus shifted from an emphasis on climate change and the environment to biomedical research.