Sentences with phrase «despite years of research»

Apple was reportedly unable to come up with a feature set compelling enough to warrant entry into the highly competitive television market, despite years of research.

As some people may be aware, today is World Cancer Day; a day for us to unite against what is still a devastating and life changing disease despite years of research, scientific and technological advancement.

Building codes don't require safe rooms, despite years of research (and vivid examples after disasters) demonstrating how a few thousand dollars can save lives.

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.

Not exact matches

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«Despite the sell - off, tech is still one of the only two sectors with positive returns this year, after leading the market last year with a 38 percent return,» said Neena Mishra, director of ETF research at Zacks Investment Rresearch at Zacks Investment ResearchResearch.

Despite the recession, more than 90 % of interactive marketers plan this year to maintain or increase spending on reaching consumers through Facebook, Twitter and the like, according to a global survey by Forrester Research.

Nine billion servings of burgers were ordered at U.S. restaurants and foodservice outlets last year, an increase of 3 % from 2013, despite weakness in traffic at other restaurants, according to research firm NPD Group.

Parents deposit their two - and three - year - olds for hours at a variety of day - care centers despite voluminous research indicating that there are no «good» child - care arrangements for children of this age other than parental care.

Despite a mounting body of research showing that high rates of divorce and out - of - wedlock births pose serious threats to the well - being of children, mainline Protestantism has had remarkably little to say in recent years about the nature, health and prospects of the family.

A newly released study by Pew Research Center found that 91 percent of the current U.S. Congress identify as Christian — a number that has not changed much in more than 50 years, despite its constituency's Christian identity declining.

Despite the fact that abortion and abortion - related topics are near the top of our nationwide discussions, the research shows that the number of actual abortions is at its lowest since 1974 — dropping below 1 million in 2014, the year surveyed.

Its only a mystery to those who either from genuine ignorance or cynical pandering want to equate actually looking at the world and doing research based on evidence with what a book written thousands of years ago by pastoral tribes that claims to be divinely inspired despite being contradictory and getting numerous things wrong.

New research showing that 98 % of homes have packaged food that exceeds the recommended amount of sodium, despite drastic reductions in the last 15 years, should be a wake - up call for manufacturers to cut back on the mineral even more and for consumers...

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).

The Australian Organic Market Report 2012 shows price remains the main barrier to Australians buying more organic produce; despite this IBISWorld research says organics is one of Australia's top five growth industries in 2014 and the industry will double over the next five years.

Despite 25 years of research and development, no Golden Rice - varieties are available today that are suitable for commercial cultivation.

If you are curious about the name of this dense and delicious treat, I did a little research and found out that recipes for the baked custard known as Indian Pudding go back several hundred years, but despite the name, it is not a traditional Native American dessert.

But as research indicates, childfree couples divorce more often than couples who have at least one child, despite numerous studies that indicate marital happiness plummets in the first year or two after the birth of a child and sometimes never quite recoups.

I learned a great deal while researching the topic, despite my years of experience.

Wish I would have thought of doing the research or had come across this blog, had you written it in 2013 when a family court judge saw no value to my being a stay at home mom full time for 9 years and awarded ne no spousal support and a pitiful amount for child support despite my having zero income and no career to go back to once my ex left, suddenly.This is a fantastic template to argue in court for stay at home moms seeking support everywhere that sacrificed their education, career and opportunities and stayed home with the kids.May pop some people's perspective back where it should be!

Despite decades of research, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is the leading cause of death among children between the ages of one month to one year.

In the last few years there has been a spate of academic research revealing that abortion for non-medical reasons is generally not provided in Scotland after 18 - 20 weeks, despite the stipulation of a 24 week upper time limit in the 1967 Abortion Act.

The Bronx pol managed to receive his per diems — payments for each day spent in Albany — despite missing 173 votes last year, about 15 % of the total votes held during the year, according to the New York Public Interest Research Group.

But, despite this, recent research from the Hansard Society has shown that only 12 % of under 25 year olds are intending to vote, meaning that a shocking 88 % of the country's youth will have no say in the future of the country.

«Despite today's preliminary job report, when looking over the past year, New York State's economy has added more than 84,000 private sector jobs and experienced historically low statewide unemployment rates,» said Bohdan M. Wynnyk, Director of the New York State Department of Labor's Division of Research and Statistics.

Despite the fact that numerous Assembly members and state senators have been indicted, convicted and carted off to jail in recent years, Gerry's review of the research of others (he makes those distinctions) indicated New York, based on population and diversity, is no more corrupt than, say, Louisiana or Alabama.

Despite more than 75 years of research, the nature of dark matter remains one of the biggest open questions in astronomy.

Yet despite its high public visibility and near - ubiquity in blockbuster Hollywood science fiction, throughout most of its 55 - year history SETI has languished on the fringes of scientific research, garnering relatively scant funding and only small amounts of dedicated observation time on world - class telescopes.

Despite more than a hundred years of research on this class of sensory receptors, however, it has been unclear how, why and when the nervous system chooses to independently control spindles.

After 3 years I had had enough of research, but despite that I was willing to give it another chance.

Despite years of attention and funding for flu research, however, health officials are no closer to having an efficient way to flag new animal pathogens that could harm people.

However, when I was offered my first academic clinical position with a mandate to obtain «peer - reviewed external funding from agencies such as the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) within a 3 - year span,» it was soon evident that, despite my solid training, I had a lot to learn if I was to be able to be seen as a competent scientist and be able to survive the tough peer - reviewed grant process.

Despite twenty years of intensive research, no galaxy emitting sufficient radiation had been found.

Despite years of talks on seabed mining, Bronwen Currie of Namibia's National Marine Information and Research Center in Swakopmund said that no adequate studies on the cumulative, long - term effects of the practice exist.

Despite 50 years of research on high - power microwaves, the U.S. military has yet to produce a usable weapon

Despite years of trying, scientists still haven't created an HIV vaccine that can protect people against the virus, says Alan Aderem, a biologist at the Center for Infectious Disease Research in Seattle.

The conclusion of conference speakers: During the past 50 years, scientific societies appear to have made little progress in imposing standards for research integrity, despite repeated calls to embrace new ethical recommendations.

«Despite the difficult budget situation,» the chancellor announced in a statement, her campus is on a «steep upward curve — doubling our research income in less than a decade» and reaching «a new high» of over half a billion dollars a year.

Despite many years of intense research, no general mechanism has been discovered which would explain how this is achieved.

DESPITE the departure of most of its staff last year to form the Annals of Improbable Research, The Journal of Irreproducible Results continues to be published.

The supply of domestic biomedical Ph.D. s has barely increased in the past 30 years despite a huge increase in biomedical research funding.

Year - round ice - free conditions across the surface of the Arctic Ocean could explain why Earth was substantially warmer during the Pliocene Epoch than it is today, despite similar concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to new research carried out at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Despite its fabled constancy, the star has brightened by a startling 150 % in the last 2000 years, according to research presented here 31 May at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

Despite continued gloom on the global economic front, Regeneron, Novo Nordisk (up to # 4 from # 9 last year), Celgene (# 12, first time in the top 20), and many more of the companies that made this year's list are continuing to hire scientists and invest in research and development.

This is why many people still think that animal research means testing cosmetics and tobacco, despite the fact that these have been banned in the UK for more than 15 years,» said Wendy Jarrett, head of the campaign group Understanding Animal Research and chair of the concordat working group, in a stresearch means testing cosmetics and tobacco, despite the fact that these have been banned in the UK for more than 15 years,» said Wendy Jarrett, head of the campaign group Understanding Animal Research and chair of the concordat working group, in a stResearch and chair of the concordat working group, in a statement.

«Our research has shown that tiger snakes and their close relatives have toxins that are almost identical, despite this group of snakes being almost 10 million years old.

Despite almost 200 years of research into Parkinson's, its causes have not yet been fully explained.

Despite several years of research providing the medical and economic evidence that feeding a mother's own milk to very low birth weight infants improves clinical and financial outcomes, multiple barriers to mothers» providing their own breast milk for infants in the neonatal intensive care unit to persist.

And many exchanges were heated because, despite 150 years of research on the biology of evolution, scientists still disagree about how and why multicellular creatures and plants emerged from ancient oceans that teemed with robust and self - reliant single - celled entities.