Sentences with phrase «first scientific effort»

This groundbreaking research, sponsored by Zoetis with matching funds from the Pfizer Foundation, is the first scientific effort to document the positive effects of Animal - Assisted Therapy (AAT) in helping pediatric cancer patients and their families.

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In many cases, therefore, the first efforts ever at a scientific understanding of the language, by native or foreigner, came from Christian missionaries.

First, the rise of Darwinian evolutionary theory for almost the first time brought about efforts of some Christians to interfere with the scientific teaching to which by the late nineteenth century higher education was commiFirst, the rise of Darwinian evolutionary theory for almost the first time brought about efforts of some Christians to interfere with the scientific teaching to which by the late nineteenth century higher education was commifirst time brought about efforts of some Christians to interfere with the scientific teaching to which by the late nineteenth century higher education was committed.

The meeting was the first stop for the AAAS group on its three - day visit to Havana, where it would meet with a broad assortment of scientists and physicians across the city in an effort to further scientific collaboration between researchers in Cuba and the United States.

Following is the first of her updates on the effort as part of Scientific American.com's In - depth Report on «The Future of the Poles.»

When we at Science first recognized the crying need among young people for better mentoring about scientific careers — and about alternative careers to research — we never dreamed that our efforts to fill the need would be viewed as equally valuable in Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, China, and now Germany.

Their efforts seemed to pay off under the European Union's 1998 - 2002 research and technology budget, known as the Fifth Framework Programme (FP5), which identified aging as a scientific priority for the first time.

The Advanced Scientific Computing Research program, which supports DOE's supercomputing efforts, would see its budget slip by 0.6 %, to $ 538 million — the first cut in a decade.

At first, some JST activists devoted considerable time to the effort, causing «a little friction» with faculty members who were concerned that they get their scientific work done, Tolman says.

William Ruckelshaus, the first EPA administrator, criticizes today's GOP attacks on the agency as well as industry efforts to thwart scientific evaluations of toxic chemicals

The findings, published in Nature Genetics, are a promising first step for a new national scientific effort to hunt for the genetic roots of asthma.

SKA was first conceived in 90s at the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) which established the Large Telescope Working Group to begin a worldwide effort to develop the scientific goals and technical specifications for a next generation radio observatory.

Through this major funding effort, researchers, for the first time, will have the resources they need to work towards establishing the causes and pre-dispositions for bloat,» said Dr. Shila Nordone, Chief Scientific Officer of CHF.

Michael MacCracken of the Climate Institute, in an analysis posted here for the first time, identifies dozens of scientific errors and misleading statements in a 2007 paper by Arthur B. Robinson, Noah E. Robinson, and Willie Soon entitled «Environmental Effects of Increased Carbon Dioxide» — a contrarian effort that exemplifies the sort of work that provides fodder for the global warming disinformation campaign.

The letters request documents related to the groups» coordinated efforts to deprive companies, nonprofit organizations, scientists and scholars of their First Amendment rights and their ability to fund and conduct scientific research free from intimidation and threats of prosecution.

Improves Our Understanding of Global Climate Change: NASA's Earth science program conducts first - of - a-kind demonstration flights of sensors in air and space in an effort to foster scientific understanding of the Earth system and to improve the ability to forecast climate change and natural disasters.

On 28 September 2016, the U.S. Administration will host the first - ever Arctic Science Ministerial meeting in Washington, D.C., convening science ministers, chief science advisors, indigenous representatives, and other high - level officials from foreign governments around the world in an effort to advance international scientific collaboration in the Arctic.

«Although it seems extraordinary that it has taken us until 2017 to publish the first global, authoritative list of tree species, it is worth remembering that GlobalTreeSearch represents a huge scientific effort encompassing the discovery, collection and describing of tens of thousands of plant species,» says Paul Smith, secretary general of BGCI.

First, the scientific consensus on global warming has hardened, making blanket opposition to it harder to maintain... a hapless effort to scrap the endangerment finding, which would invite a backlash from the next Democratic administration.

Its first pages of information are expected to be shown today in Washington, where the massive effort is being announced by some of the world's leading scientific institutions and universities.

This unique scientific crowdsourcing effort represents a collaboration between CCP developers, Massively Multiplayer Online Science (MMOS), Reykjavik University, and the University of Geneva and its honorary professor Michel Mayor, winner of the prestigious 2017 Wolf Prize for Physics and discoverer of the first exoplanet..