Sentences with phrase «first major research»

At one point, Scalise asked Yellen whether the Federal Reserve - which released its first major research paper on distributed ledgers in December - was looking at using the tech for its own purposes.

My first major research trip was to the Venice Biennale.

There, he was taken under the wing of Ed Sector's cofounder Andy Rotherham and thrown into the group's first major research projects.

Thus, Bingham positions his study as a follow - up to and update of the much - revered first major research on the biographical genre, George Custen's pioneering and influential Bio / Pics: How Hollywood Constructed Public History (1), which mainly covered the Hollywood studio years.

According to a widely disseminated statistic from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), Ph.D. biomedical researchers are, on average, 38 years old when they get a permanent faculty post and 42 when they get their first major research grant.

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 implications.

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So when her research revealed there wasn't yet much demand for loose - leaf tea among consumers, she didn't see it as a drawback but rather as an opportunity to establish first - mover advantage — especially since there were no major companies devoted to selling the stuff.

If you're considering dropping money on a luxury watch, as with any other major purchase, be sure to compare prices and do some research first.

Companies with women in senior level positions tend to do better than those without any gender diversity, Smith pointed out, citing research by First Round Capital, a major VC firm with more than 300 portfolio companies.

This month, it just released its first gene knock out kit, an application it has been developing with major research institutions like Salk Institute and St. Judes.

In 1988, a Cornell graduate student released the first major Internet virus, a self - replicating program that flooded what was then an academic - research network, disabling several thousand computers.

Earnings are growing at a faster than 10 % pace in all major regions for the first time since 2005, excluding the post-crisis bounce, our research shows.

If not, here are some of the major selling opportunities that our research team was first to report on:

Smith believes Apple is the first major company that's attempting to utilize differential privacy at scale, although he notes other large commercial entities such as AT&T have previously done research on it (as has, perhaps surprisingly, Google via its Project Rappor).

«BIDDING WAR» IN AIRLINES: In a research note to investors, Stifel's DeNardi argued that the Sprint / T - Mobile merger announcement and approval process was the first major test of the Trump administration's view on consolidation.

«This first patent grant by the European Patent Office marks a major milestone in Nchain's ambitious research and patent program, which started approximately two years ago,» Nguyen explains.

Another headline from the study, conducted by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life: For the first time since 2007, neither the Roman Catholic Church nor religion's role in U.S. politics were the No. 1 topic of faith coverage among major news media.

They said it's the first major survey research into churchgoers and domestic abuse in the UK, and hope it will lead to a major national study.

One major development that has driven much of that growth and become the center of the company's research and development efforts came in 2002, when it first produced pellet - fired smokers.

«After many years of research and investment, we are delighted to see the first of our range of human milk oligosaccharides becoming commercially available, thus addressing a major gap in the nutritional composition of infant formula,» said Professor Wim Soetaert, Inbiose's executive chairman.

Origin Energy's first major brand refresh since its spin - off from Boral in 2000 will boost emphasis on the affordability of energy in response to research showing that price is the No. 1 priority for customers, even as rivals focus more on environmental credentials.

«After many years of critical research and significant investment, we are delighted to see the first of our range of human milk oligosaccharides becoming commercially available, thus addressing a major gap in the nutritional composition of infant formula,» says Prof. Wim Soetaert, Inbiose executive chairman.

Research has shown that babies make 10 major, predictable, age - linked changes — or leaps — during their first 20 months of their lives.

My first major post on the issue was Research and special interests / the BMJ 2005 study in which I began an exploration of the fact that Johnson and Daviss were not forthcoming about their connections to the homebirth industry.

At Save the Children, she built a media program in a newly created public affairs department, and led the U.S. agency's media response to major humanitarian crises, including post-9 / 11, the Indian Ocean Tsunami and Haiti Earthquake as well as the agency's first advocacy - awareness campaign, Every Mother, Every Child and its signature research report, The State of the World's Mothers.

E.J. McMahon, research director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, said that for the first time since Cuomo took office in 2011 — when he reached a wide - ranging pact over Medicaid spending with various interest groups — such spending could be a major issue in the 2018 budget.

One of Rep. Chris Collins» first major legislative efforts took a big step forward, as the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology approved his bill establishing a grant program that aims to fund innovations being created at the nation's universities, research institutes and laboratories.

It is widely recognized as the first step toward ambitious national standards in science for all students and a major influence on current efforts to reform science education in the U.S., including the National Research Council's A Framework for K - 12 Science Education (2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards released by Achieve in 2013.

The SuperKEKB particle accelerator at the KEK research center in Japan has recently reached a major milestone: electrons and positrons have been circulated for the first time around the rings.

First, he says, «It democratizes cognitive neuroscience, because MRI is so widely accessible that many groups can now carry on investigations without the support of a major research center.»

Dr. LaRusso published the first case series on PSC in the 1980s, and Mayo Clinic has become a major referral center for patients with PSC and a world leader in basic research on the disease.

She described the research findings — based on a small study of 40 children being treated for concussion and a control group — as a major first step.

This first major stop along the 100 - mile Overseas Highway to Key West is home to the world's only underwater hotel, the only continuously operating underwater lab and classroom, and the only undersea research base.

The history of major scientific breakthroughs is littered with accounts of seminal Solvay Conferences, Faraday Discussions, Gordon Research Conferences, and so on, where key ideas were articulated for the first time.

Add administrative work, etc., and I'm lucky if I average 4 hours a week on research,» says Ford, «If I get out two first - author papers in the next 5 years, I'll consider that a major accomplishment.»

The researchers, part of the Diabetic Retinopathy Clinical Research Network, say this is the first major advance in therapy in 40 years.

According to the researchers, the findings represent a major breakthrough in sleep research because, for the first time, it will now be possible to objectively capture the real - life sleep habits and sleep quality of large numbers of people.

HEU has formed a well - structured curriculum that is characterized by the main subjects of ship industry, ocean equipment and exploration, and nuclear application as well as distinctive, related disciplines with matching support and reasonable structural layout: 12 first - degree doctoral stations, 27 first - degree master stations, 56 under graduate majors, 13 post-doctoral mobile stations (research station), 1 national key discipline of the first - degree subjects, 1 national key discipline of the second - degree subjects, 11 defense featured subjects, 7 special defense majors, 4 characteristic profession stations of the Ministry of Education, 1Heilongjiang provincial key discipline group, 11 first - degree subjects.

The school is well - known not only for the first experimental submarine, the first hydrofoil craft, the first shipboard computer, the first swath bathymeter set and dozens of other major gap - filling scientific research breakthroughs, but also for being the best in the world with several achievements such as duplex submersible vehicles, hovercrafts and gradient velocimeters.

Their research, published in Science in 2000, was the first to measure the shrinking of a major ice sheet.

«Today, the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers are grounded in a very precarious position, and major retreat may already be happening, caused primarily by warm waters melting from below the ice shelves that jut out from each glacier into the sea,» said Matthew Wise of Cambridge's Scott Polar Research Institute, and the study's first author.

«There have been several studies relating cortisol levels in teenagers and adults to socioeconomic status, but this is the first to look at this relationship among pregnant women and their babies,» said study author Zaneta Thayer, PhD, assistant professor of anthropology at CU Denver, a major center of timely, topical and relevant research.

Seawaters off New York's coast have risen 16 inches since 1778, the year of New York City's first major recorded storm, his research shows.

The Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) today announced the scheme's first nine grantees; all of them plan to replicate a study that had a major impact in their field but also raised questions — or eyebrows — for some reason.

«This is the first gene drive system in a major worldwide crop pest,» said Akbari, who recently moved his lab to UC San Diego from UC Riverside, where the research began.

The study, «Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Manage Pain and Opioid Use after Major Surgery: Preliminary Outcomes from the Toronto General Hospital Transitional Pain Service,» is published in the Canadian Journal of Pain, by first author Muhammad Azam, Ph.D. candidate at York University and senior authors Dr. Joel Katz, Affiliate Scientist, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute (TGHRI) and Dr. Hance Clarke, Director of the Transitional Pain Service at TGH, UHN and Clinical Researcher, TGHRI.

In his first major science address since taking office, President Obama promised today to increase U.S. public and private spending to historic highs for science research and development.

In the wake of Hillary Clinton's historic nomination as the first woman presidential candidate of a major political party in the U.S., women continue to face obstacles in politics and the workplace, according to a national poll conducted by The Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

The calls for applications, which will come with dedicated funds from the planned budget increase, are the first of their kind for CFS from the United States's major medical research funder since 2005.

DiAntonio's major collaborators in this project include Jeffrey D. Milbrandt, MD, PhD, the James S. McDonnell Professor and head of the Department of Genetics, and first author Elisabetta Babetto, PhD, postdoctoral research scholar.