Sentences with phrase «find funding for their study»

Investigators can find funding for studies of decision - making processes and techniques from both public and private sources.

Los Angeles, CA (NOV 15, 2016)-- More people die from lung cancer every year than any other cancers, and researchers are hard - pressed to find funding for studies that could improve treatments.

We'll help you choose the right course, find funding for your studies, and get started as a postgrad.

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In a study funded by NASA, David Dinges, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and a team of researchers found that letting astronauts sleep for as little as fifteen minutes markedly improved their cognitive performance, even when the nap didn't lead to an increase in alertness or the ability to pay more attention to a boring task.

An Aon Hewitt study found that median investment returns for 401 (k) participants using Target - Date Funds (TDFs), managed accounts and personal investment advice were 3.32 % greater than returns earned by participants that picked an investment portfolio themselves.

CHICAGO (Reuters)- Women are under - represented among mutual fund managers, a new study found, in a gender imbalance that poses challenges for an industry looking to run more money from female clients.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Over the longest time period analyzed, the study finds sustainable equity funds met or exceeded median returns for five out of six different equity classes examined, for example, large - cap growth.

Research findings from the Center for Talent Innovation, a New York - based think tank headed by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, found that having something inherently in common with the funder, decision maker or investor makes an enormous difference, since 56 percent of decision makers in the study did not value ideas they didn't personally see a need for, even when evidence suggests that it's a good, marketable idea.

In a much - quoted study, University of Arizona searcher Mark Chaves found that African - American churches are five times as likely as white churches to say they would apply for public funding if it were available.

• The Rural Technology Fund, founded by a tech executive who had limited access to computers when he was growing up in rural Kentucky, helps out - of - the - way schools get equipment and books to help ignite a «spark» for studying electronics, programming or engineering; and gives scholarships to students from rural communities who hope to pursue careers in technology.

The study, which was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), found lower rates of confirmed abuse cases, child out — of — home placements, and hospitalizations and emergency room visits for child injuries in counties where parenting support was implemented.

A review of 7,000 studies by the World Cancer Research Fund found a third of cancers are attributable to diet and found at least six cancers for which obesity was a major risk factor.

A Commonwealth Fund study finds — contrary to widespread belief — that the growth of premiums for employer - sponsored health plans has slowed nationwide since passage of the Affordable Care Act.

The rally comes as a study released by the teacher union affiliated Alliance for Quality Education finds that under Governor Cuomo, funding inequality between rich and poor schools has grown wider.

The study found that private nurseries would lose # 660 a year for each child taking up the extended entitlement, if government funding remained at current levels.

The rally comes as a study released by the teacher union - affiliated Alliance for Quality Education finds that under Cuomo, funding inequality between rich and poor schools has grown wider.

In the current climate, the main source of funding for studies of hallucinogens are two private philanthropies: the Heffter Research Institute in Santa Fe, which was founded in 1993 by academics and mental health professionals to finance scholarly research, and MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies), which has dispensed more than $ 10 million since it was launched in 1986 by Rick Doblin, a drug reform activist in Boston with a Harvard University Ph.D. in public studies of hallucinogens are two private philanthropies: the Heffter Research Institute in Santa Fe, which was founded in 1993 by academics and mental health professionals to finance scholarly research, and MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies), which has dispensed more than $ 10 million since it was launched in 1986 by Rick Doblin, a drug reform activist in Boston with a Harvard University Ph.D. in public Studies), which has dispensed more than $ 10 million since it was launched in 1986 by Rick Doblin, a drug reform activist in Boston with a Harvard University Ph.D. in public policy.

The study's findings raise many questions about which activities in the basin were leading to the high emissions rates, said Steven Hamburg, chief scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund.

Finding funding was probably even more difficult for me as a female who wanted to study chemical engineering.

This study was performed in partnership with the POLARIS program, a strategic national program funded by A * STAR to translate local research findings towards «fit - for purpose» applications that improve the diagnosis and treatment of diseases in Singapore.

For example, a study just out in The Lancet, funded by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and focused on Medicare patients, found that the high - dose vaccine was 22 percent more effective at preventing flu - related hospital admissions.

The study, published in The Lancet and funded by The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF), found that people with Parkinson's who injected themselves each week with exenatide for one year performed better in movement (motor) tests than those who injected a placebo.

The study was in fact funded by the European project ChipCAT, which aims at finding novel materials for the next generation of fuel cells.

Researchers, funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), also found that the benefits of the breathing exercises were similar, whether they were taught in person by a physiotherapist in three face - to - face sessions, or delivered digitally for use in their own home (in this study via DVD).

A study conducted by researchers from the University of Liverpool, The Reader and the Royal Liverpool University Hospitals Trust, and funded by the British Academy, has found that shared reading (SR) can be a useful therapy for chronic pain sufferers.

Finding funding for in - depth epidemiological studies of kidney cancer can be difficult, however, because the disease is not as common as other cancers, and not as deadly as gliomas, or liver or pancreatic cancer.

«Funding research focused on helping patients survive longer is critical, and studies such as this advance our goal of not only improving treatments for brain cancer, but eventually finding a cure.»

The findings of the study conducted by a working group at UC Santa Barbara's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) and funded by the National Science Foundation were published today in the Proceedings B, a journal of the Royal Society of Biological Sciences.

The study, published in Nature Medicine, was partially funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, and more than 25 nonprofit foundations devoted to finding cures for childhood brain cancer.

Because Nail - Patella is so rare, McIntosh said, when they first applied for funding NIH was concerned they might not find enough families to do the studies they proposed, but modern information technology has helped a lot.

The study, which examined compliance with WHO hand hygiene guidelines in the U.S., also found that only about half of the hospitals, ambulatory care, and long - term care facilities had set aside funds in their budgets for hand hygiene training.

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.

While governments generally favor higher birth rates to maintain the workforce and tax base needed to fund pensions, health care and other benefits for the elderly, it is typically families that bear the brunt of the cost of having children, the study found.

CAMR was founded around when President George W. Bush issued an executive order on 9 August 2001 limiting federal funding for hESC studies to existing cell lines.

Lending Circles, a program managed by the nonprofit Mission Asset Fund, dramatically improved credit scores for low - income residents of San Francisco, the studies found.

These new findings laid the groundwork for a much larger, ongoing study funded by the Wellcome Trust and involving several UK Universities and Pharmaceutical companies that will seek to replicate the findings and refine the test.

«The findings challenge the conventional wisdom about how and where in the brain the processing of visual orientation information first occurs,» commented Michael A. Steinmetz, acting director of the Division of Extramural Research at the National Eye Institute, which provided funding for the study.

Fouchier, who noted at the meeting that European science agencies recently found no need for a European Union moratorium on GOF studies, told Science that he is willing to wait a few more months to resume his U.S. - funded studies.

A 2002 federally funded study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, for one, found that regular practice improved reasoning and memory in older adults.

It corroborates the findings of another NIAID - funded study demonstrating that TMP - SMX treatment resulted in better clinical outcomes than placebo for MRSA skin abscesses, and also upholds other findings that both clindamycin and TMP - SMX are equally beneficial in treating MRSA skin infections.

That is why the European Respiratory Society is one of four founding societies, along with the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, the European Society of Cardiology and the European Cancer Organisation, of the Alliance for Biomedical Research in Europe, which aims to change the current fragmented and uncoordinated approach for biomedical research funding, by giving a single, powerful voice to the biomedical research community across Europe.

Two studies funded by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine found no benefit from echinacea in a juice formulation or in an unrefined combination of root and herb.

For example, Kellogg funded a study which found that having cereal for breakfast is associated with being thin, and The Quaker Oats Center of Excellence financed a trial which found that skipping breakfast is associated with increased levels of cholesterFor example, Kellogg funded a study which found that having cereal for breakfast is associated with being thin, and The Quaker Oats Center of Excellence financed a trial which found that skipping breakfast is associated with increased levels of cholesterfor breakfast is associated with being thin, and The Quaker Oats Center of Excellence financed a trial which found that skipping breakfast is associated with increased levels of cholesterol.

They see evidence against their view, so they will a) go for the ad hominem maybe noting the poor credentials or the funding source b) find weaknesses in the studies but, there are weaknesses in all studies c) find another study that supports their own and say hey presto....

I found over the years, that the source of the funding (I always check and ask) for surveys, studies, polls etc. is often times just as important (or even more important) as the results.

A recent study funded by the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) surveyed a representative sample of people in the US population and found that only 39 % of those with Lyme disease were treated in accordance with blanket short term recommendations in the IDSA guidelines.

Normally, I'm not impressed with studies funded by marketing boards, which pay for studies like this that found that eating almonds improved cycling distance and athletic performance... compared to cookies.

Talking about eggs, an interesting study funded by the American Egg Board found that choosing two eggs for breakfast over a bagel resulted in more weight loss and higher energy levels, even though both breakfasts consisted of the same number of calories.

If a study was funded by people with vested interested in the outcome — a supplement company, for instance — be wary of the findings.