Sentences with phrase «fewer of their research projects»

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According to research by Jeffrey Dew, a faculty fellow with the University of Virginia's National Marriage Project, couples who fight about finances once a week are 30 % more likely to divorce than those who disagree on the topic a few times per month.

Take a decade - by - decade look at just a few of Mathematica's projects that have made a lasting impact on the field of research and the use of data to make a difference.

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«Through the Internet, with a few keystrokes and the click of a button, a young person can call up information for a research project, make new friends or discover new hobbies,» Lee wrote in a piece that appeared in the June 24, 2009 edition of the Tonawanda News.

It will be a substantial project that will take a lot of time, but a few months of research has already dug up some pretty fun facts.

Such research projects are important, he says, to establish whether nascent signs of recovery in a few early - hit North American hibernating sites are anomalous, are signs that some bats are developing immunity to the fungus — or merely represent stragglers that the fungus has yet to find.

The ongoing trials could have major consequences even without yielding a cure: research has shown that an intervention that could delay the onset of Alzheimer's by just 2 years would result, 50 years later, in nearly 2 million fewer cases of the disease in the United States than projected otherwise.

Similarly, investments in research through the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy, to name a few, have resulted in billions of dollars in economic activity, created thousands of jobs, and help position the U.S. to maintain its global leadership in innresearch through the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy, to name a few, have resulted in billions of dollars in economic activity, created thousands of jobs, and help position the U.S. to maintain its global leadership in innResearch Projects Agency and the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy, to name a few, have resulted in billions of dollars in economic activity, created thousands of jobs, and help position the U.S. to maintain its global leadership in innResearch Projects Agency for Energy, to name a few, have resulted in billions of dollars in economic activity, created thousands of jobs, and help position the U.S. to maintain its global leadership in innovation.

One of Tolson's research projects has involved determining the home range of the Cuban hutia (Capromys pilorides), Cuba's largest native mammal and one of the few native mammals in Cuba that has not been listed as extinct.

I am finishing my 2nd year of research, and when people ask me about my project I hesitate for a few seconds as I decide how best to frame my response.

Over the past few weeks, it has chosen 77 of a projected 110 winners from some 280 community colleges, 4 - year schools, and graduate research universities that competed for this first round of institutional grants, which average $ 220,000.

For example, an article on setting research priorities claims that few biomedical researchers really consider the needs of the patients and clinicians, and some fail to systematically review what is already known before they start a new research project.

«A few studies have looked at liver enzyme levels during pregnancy and the risk of gestational diabetes, but to our knowledge this is the first to look at liver enzyme levels measured before pregnancy,» said lead author Sneha Sridhar, MPH, project coordinator with the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research.

Despite the tremendous growth in global collaborative efforts such as Human Genome Project and Human Frontier Science Program during past few decades, only about 30 % of research output from the United States is internationally collaborative (Global Scientific Collaboration in the 21st Century, 2011, The Royal Society).

President Barack Obama on Friday signed a major new transportation funding bill that extensively reworks — and cuts — a little - known program that has paid for hundreds of field research projects over the last few decades.

«As these CaSR - modulating drugs already exist, even though their use is currently restricted to a few diseases, they have been tested and approved for human use,» explains project coordinator Enikö Kallay of the Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research at the Center of Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology.

It is one of a few select programs that will be allowed to front - load money: This means that funding normally assigned to 2017, for instance, can be spent earlier to finance more research projects than initially planned in a given year.

«I fear that the $ 1.5 billion cut at NIH will delay scientific projects, will make hundreds fewer research awards therefore jeopardizing thousands of jobs.

«Massive research consortia, like the ENCODE Project, have provided the scientific community with a trove of information about genomic function over the last few years,» says Siepel.

Until recently, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) kept its plans for its $ 70 million portion of the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative largely under wraps, generating considerable speculation and a few outlandish rumors.

Scientists and officials are increasingly embracing so - called «high - risk» research in which a lot of research will fail but a few projects could lead to big gains.

As a result of this funding loss, NIH was able to make about 700 fewer research project awards that year, a one - year reduction of about eight percent.

Few of the E.U. member states, whose research ministries and other institutions were expected to contribute $ 570 million to the overall budget, have yet made any commitments, which could affect the project's ambitious scope and timeline.

«It shows we haven't been out on a limb for the last few years,» says Andrew Maynard, chief scientist at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars» Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies in Washington, D.C. Maynard has long criticized coordination of EHS research under NNI, and he was also a member of the NRC panel that wrote today's report.

A few years ago, we teamed up with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital for the Pediatric Cancer Genome Project (PCGP), which has sequenced the genomes of more than 600 pediatric cancer patients.

We have quite a few new house projects to start, I'm re doing my office early next year, a new dinning room, a new porch and windows, so we are off to start the research process, plus get some bits and bobs to spruce the rest of the house up.

Teachers should limit homework assignments over vacations and holidays and assign a few family - based projects over the course of the year like researching your family tree.

In general, the schools structured their schedules in ways that facilitate in - depth learning and prepare students for the typical college schedule: staggered start times, eight - hour days, class periods of varying lengths, fewer class meeting days per week, and dedicated time for collaborative and independent research projects.

And, as a number of research reports suggest, project - based learning correlates positively with improved test scores, reduced absenteeism, and fewer disciplinary problems.

A few years ago, I did a small, informal research project examining the mission and vision statements adopted by the nation's hundred largest school districts to see whether they still view the preparation of students for participation in democratic life as an essential focus of their work.

At The Workshop School, a project - based high school just a few miles west of Philadelphia's Center City, more than 50 percent of each student's day is dedicated to the research and implementation of a project, from designing a solar cellphone charger for personal use to auto repair for neighborhood clients (the school houses automotive and woodworking facilities).

This is clear in a project called the Schools of Opportunity, launched a few years ago by educators who sought to highlight public high schools that actively seek to close opportunity gaps through research - proven practices and not standardized test scores (which are more a measure of socioeconomic status than anything else).

«In spite of a few research projects of a narrowly identified group of students, the simple fact is when you create a marketplace of choices and informed parents... the children do better,» he told the audience.

Carefully let people know on occasion something that's special about your project — e.g. if you spend an abnormal amount of time writing or doing research, or if you've had a few edits from a professional editor.

These promising findings are a result of just a few of the HABRI - funded scientific research projects made possible with support from a committed group of companies and organizations.

Some are to some degree antagonistic toward each other, but a few years ago when epilepsy was recognized as a serious breed health concern an international grass - roots effort lead to a large collection of research samples and cooperation among key clubs, foundations and organizations to provide funding for a research project that involves an international collaboration.

This National Cat Day, take a look at a few of our current research projects (and give your cat an extra hug for health).

The School is home to 36 Centers of Excellence, Institutes, and Program Projects that represent sponsored and organized multidisciplinary research activities led by our faculty, and highlight the broad impact our faculty are having in One Health, Oncology, Biodefense, Equine Health, Wildlife Health, Companion Animal Health, Aquatic Health, Children's Health, to highlight a few.

Again, meta - analysis of canine behavioural research projects is difficult as so few studies use the same questionnaire for phenotyping.

A few years ago, conceptual artist Cynthia Mulcahy, who lives nearby, received public funding for Performance as Gesture: Songs for a City Park, a research - based public art project that enabled her to uncover the forgotten history of the Japanese Garden in Kiss Springs Park.

The project took a lot of research with Kama studying both the animals but also the girls, which led to a few embarrassing and awkward situations.

Over the next few weeks I will be posting on the two current exhibitions at the Henry Moore Institute, The Age to Innocence: Replicating the Ideal Portrait in the New Sculpture Movement and Indifferent Matter: From Object to Sculpture, a piece related to a new research project on the Italian artist Alberto Burri, and the Nasher Sculpture Center's recently opened Return to Earth: Ceramic Sculpture of Fontana, Melotti, Miró, Noguchi, and Picasso, 1943 - 1963; the latter being the reason for my trip to Dallas.

Instead of racing ahead on the next cutting - edge discovery, our scientists are left wondering if they'll get to start any new projects, any new research projects at all over the next few years, which means that we could lose a year, two years of scientific research as a practical matter because of misguided priorities here in this town.

«Most workers» project 0.5 - 1.5 m rise in next 50 - 100 years if warming continues, according to Schneider (1989b), p. 777; he cites i.a. Meier et al. (1985); this range was taken as plausible for 2100 in National Research Council (1987); but only a few cm rise by 2025 according to the most cited of these papers, Wigley and Raper (1987).

I don?t see any great harm with a few specific projects being funded, but when we see not only the very rapid growth of direct corporate funding, but also the corporate takeover of the government bodies that hand out public research funds, then I think we have a very worrying situation indeed.

Born in 1941, he became a climatologist at the University of Iowa, developed the groundbreaking «Zero Model» for projecting climate change, and later became the head of climate research at NASA, only to leave under pressure when, while still a federal employee, he filed a lawsuit against the federal government charging inaction on warming (along the way he got arrested a few times for protesting, too).

He eventually was asked to help with research and now he runs a few of his own projects.

Photo: CC / GFDL Rapid Progress and Money to be Made Pike Research has released a study today that projects the growth of the transportation lithium - ion battery market over the next few years.

Under the title 10 Years After, he recapped the history of the PKP, which started out as a «project» he expected to last a few months in 1997 and morphed into the much larger body of works and research that it is today.

These days, if I have a substantive legal research project to accomplish, I like to get to work early so that I have a few hours of quiet to focus and think about the question, as well as ensure that I've chased down all the leads.