Sentences with phrase «data for research projects»

Psychological assessment is used for a variety of purposes, ranging from screening job applicants to providing data for research projects.

Collaborate with fellows and attending physicians in collecting data for research projects and establishing echo protocols that follow accreditation guidelines

Facebook reportedly asked major U.S. hospitals to release patient data for a research project.

To test this, we used data from the NIH IMPAC II (Information for Management, Planning, Analysis, and Coordination) grants data system consisting of application and investigator data for Research Project Grants (RPGs) submitted between FY 2000 and FY 2006 (5, 6).

The data loss occurred when a researcher at data mining firm Cambridge Analytica offered to pay some Facebook users to share profile data for a research project the company was conducting.

Not exact matches

With a new lens and some added direction from a research study on collective intelligence (abilities that emerge out of collaboration) by a group of psychologists from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, and Union College, Project Aristotle's researchers went back to the drawing board to comb their data for unspoken customs.

That all makes it a treasure trove of health data for scientists, and it's resulted in more than 1,000 academic research projects about life choices and health.

To understand the needs of clients, an AM must research in great depth, utilizing info from within the company and without, such as customer feedback and data, notes, and research from projects for similar clients.

And while Kogan maintained he had never drawn a salary from the work he did for SCL — saying his reward was «to keep the data», and get to use it for academic research — he confirmed SCL did pay GSR # 230,000 at one point during the project; a portion of which he also said eventually went to pay lawyers he engaged «in the wake» of Facebook becoming aware that data had been passed to SCL / CA by Kogan — when it contacted him to ask him to delete the data (and presumably also to get him to sign the NDA).

The research project, conducted by Mohammed Eltahir Osman and his colleagues at Sultan Qaboos University, analyzed testing data for 27,000 boys and girls from across the country.

• Lead architect for social media and SEO for Comcast's Fancast project • Oversaw social and search optimization improvements to upscale online auction site • Assisted in first implementation of Omniture Analytics at Comcast.com • Analyzed user experience data for client e-commerce portals • Researched & assessed opportunities for growth in online efforts • Analyzed web traffic for opportunities for improving traffic and conversions on websites

Improved postharvest practices: A recent research study undertaken by WFLO with funding by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation provides an great assortment of data on the results of 12 past projects, postharvest losses % for 26 crops, a description of the value chain for 30 crops in 4 countries (Rwanda, Benin, Ghana and India) and 21 field trials of postharvest technologies suitable for helping small farmers reduce losses and improve their incomes.

DuPont Nutrition & Health has collected data from more than 14,000 consumers in 22 countries for an insight - driven research project designed to help manufacturers develop and market products in the health and wellness area.

Despite vandalism in one of the five multilocation field trials in August this year, data are being readied for submission to government regulators who will review Golden Rice against international standards for biosafety, according to Antonio Alfonso, coordinator of the biotechnology program of the Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA) and leader of the Golden Rice project at the DA - Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA - PhilRice).

In the search for ways to prevent catastrophic injuries, nothing has buoyed the industry's scientists more than the mammoth, open - ended research project in California that has gathered revealing data from the autopsies performed on every horse that has died at the state's five thoroughbred tracks over the last four years (nearly 900 so far).

We welcome all data access applications for research projects that have IRB approval from the primary investigator's home institution and that have research questions that can be addressed with our dataset.

The project also gathered insights on the survey data from a panel of school nutrition leaders whose districts are recognized for their success in serving healthy meals and snacks.3 The research makes clear that multiple strategies, particularly those that engage children's creativity and invite their input, have helped instill healthy eating behaviors at schools across the country.

Dr. Cheyney is also a Certified Professional Midwife in active practice, the Chair of the Governor - appointed Board of Direct - entry Midwifery for the State of Oregon, and the Chair of the Division of Research for the Midwives Alliance of North America where she directs the MANA Statistics Project — the only existing data repository for planned homebirth in the United States.

«The data that we have collected over the past three years shows that participatory budgeting is a gateway to civic engagement for New Yorkers that are often left out of politics and government such as youth, immigrants, and low - income people,» said Alexa Kasdan, Director of Research and Policy at the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center.

He'd presented the app to Facebook and to its users as a project gathering for academic research, but then had turned around and given it to a company that had not been named or identified, and which sought to use the data for political, not academic, purposes.

That's why for more than a decade, she has not only shared her air quality data with city, state and federal agencies who manage air pollution, she asks for their input on research projects as they are evolving...

From this base, visit Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology campus to meet with local researchers and academics to learn about coral restoration, trap insects and input data into a research project and visit the «sustainable homes» development project — a blueprint for sustainable living.

As associate professor and first - author Johan Bollen writes in an e-mail to Science Careers, they wanted their new system to «enable scientists to set their own priorities, fund scientists... not projects, avoid proposal writing and reviewing, avoid administrative burdens, encourage all scientists to participate collectively in the definition of scientific priorities, encourage innovation, reward scientists that make significant contributions to data, software, methods, and systems, avoid funding death spirals (no funding - > no research - > no funding) but still reward high levels of productivity, create the proper incentives for scholarly communication (publishing to communicate, not to improve bibliometrics), enable funding of daring and risky research, and so on.»

I already have a series of projects lined up for 2017 to investigate how practices related to research data management and software preservation relate to systemic issues in science like openness and reproducibility.

Such volunteers have contributed, for instance, to projects at the center's research facility on the Chesapeake Bay, delivering additional data and improving data - quality procedures.

For this purpose, a project to create data - exchange standards across health care research communities is under way.

A: The scientists who established research programs that are dependent on data from ESO telescopes will undoubtedly suffer, having to rearrange their programs or look for European collaborators to be principal investigators on their own projects, in order to get the observing time they need.

This project includes a trial at Duke University that tests the idea of capturing clinical trial data in a single source and sharing the data using standard protocols, with direct implications for future research procedures and health care quality.

But Hurricane Harvey is unlike any past test of the gulf's resilience, and researchers are jump - starting studies to document the aftermath, building on baseline data from existing research projects, some of which have been underway for decades.

The top three general responsibilities for supervising postdocs identified by survey participants were discussing research project and direction (96 percent), reviewing data analysis and interpretation of results (91 percent), and assisting with writing manuscripts and seminar preparation (84 percent).

The corresponding studies were funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) with a total of EUR 600,000 for two years under the project «Integrating Microwave Link Data for Analysis of Precipitation in Complex Terrain: Theoretical Aspects and Hydrometeorological Applications» (IMAP).

The research was conducted as a blind study, which means that the hospital sent us measurement data for analysis without any additional information, says Project Manager Tero Koivisto from the Department of Future Technologies.

And Sawe has started working with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute to explore some of their Pacific Ocean data for another data sonification project down the road that could add another song to the soundtrack of climate change.

The UC San Diego study analyzed age - adjusted incidence rates of leukemia in 172 countries from GLOBOCAN, an international agency for research on cancer that is part of the World Health Organization, comparing that information with cloud cover data from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project.

According to Besley, scientists often spend a good portion of their time trying to find the resources to pay for things like equipment, data collection and staff for their research projects.

NIH also announced a plan to work with federally funded community health centers to find cohort volunteers from underserved groups; an ethics review board for the cohort study; and a pilot project to work with companies on apps for allowing people to share their data for research.

«With recent events, such as censorship of Internet traffic, suspicious «boomerang routing» where data leaves a region only to come back again, and monitoring of users» data, we became increasingly interested in this notion of empowering users to have more control over what happens with their data,» says project lead Dave Levin, an assistant research scientist in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS).

Dr Benjamin Laken had a leading role in one of TOSCA's training schools: «I demonstrated the use of Python for data analytics, and also guided a small team of students through an independent research project.

The study looked at roughly 160,000 examples of firm performance in the U.S., using data from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Patent Data Project, as well as Standard & Poor's Compustat database of financial information for compandata from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Patent Data Project, as well as Standard & Poor's Compustat database of financial information for companData Project, as well as Standard & Poor's Compustat database of financial information for companies.

As part of a three - and - a-half month research project, Fraunhofer IAO is conducting a study to investigate whether mobility data is suitable for measuring traffic flows in cities and whether it is superior to other methods of collecting data.

But for all his winter preparedness, working on a Canadian icebreaker to collect data for his NYSG - funded research project had its challenges.

Another research project fueled an ongoing debate about which statistical method is better for examining experimental data: Bayesian statistics, which incorporates early intuition, or the classical approach, which only takes a study's collected data into account.

Commercial work now accounts for 93 percent of the archaeological research done in the United Kingdom, and academics must take note of the data generated by contract units, says Kenneth Aitchison, head of projects and professional development at the Institute for Archaeologists, the body representing commercial archaeologists in Britain.

«My research experience in qualitative data collection and analysis through interviews and diaries also came in useful for this project.»

The study data has since been used for numerous research projects.

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Scientists rely on data for medical studies, so sharing our personal health stats could go a long way toward advancing big research projects.

Putting research on hold there for more than two weeks interrupted data collection and prevented support crews from reaching their destinations, forcing NSF to cancel or delay some projects until 2014.

There, she continued researching postdoc issues, collecting and analyzing data for the Postdoc Data Projdata for the Postdoc Data ProjData Project.

Riccardo Satta, scientific project officer of the European Commission Joint Research Center's Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen, described the work he did with fellow researcher Pasquale Stirparo at the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conference in Brussels held in January.