Sentences with phrase «foci of research in»

While we're pleased with these improvements, one of our main foci of research in the Canine Science Collaboratory at Arizona State University is to further increase adoptions and reduce euthanasia rates for pet dogs.

«The IDO enzyme has been a focus of research in recent years, and there are several drugs that are being investigated to target it,» Hanks said.

Despite an intense focus of research in this area, no specific therapies are currently available to treat or reverse fibrosis in human chronic kidney disease.

These enzymes, a focus of research in the lab in the development of novel anti-infectives, are now being harnessed to gently extract the chromosomal DNA, while leaving behind any other genetic elements for analysis.

A particular focus of her research in the recent years has been towards nucleotide metabolism and cancer.

Thus, the focus of research in the Giovannoni lab is molecular and genetic analysis of fruit ripening and related signal transduction systems, using tomato as the model system.

The highlighted points of emphasis in the report have been the dominant focus of research in the field of science communication and science studies for the past 15 years and the basis for recent innovative projects such as the World Wide Views on Global Warming initiative.

Socialization has been an important focus of research in child development for well over 60 years.

Dispute resolution has also been a focus of research in the native title system.

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The research was focused on preventing cognitive decline and the development of dementia in older adults, specifically.

Franklin, then just shy of her 32nd birthday and working as a research chemist at King's College in London, had to rush off to a meeting at the Royal Society and so didn't wait around for the full image to come into focus.

But, as part of Beijing's «Made in China 2025» industry plan, President Xi Jinping identified the pharmaceutical sector as one to push, with the focus on innovation and homegrown research and development.

Wesfarmers has donated $ 5 million to the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research to help recruit a leader for what will be the first centre in Western Australia to focus on women's cancers.

Recently, Equilar, a research firm that focuses on board recruitment, put together a Gender Diversity Index and predicts that the board of directors on the Russell 3000 list — the 3000 largest companies based in the United States — will achieve parity, with a membership made up of 50 percent women and 50 percent men, by the fourth quarter of 2055.

While accelerator programs have long offered this perk to startups, usually in exchange for equity, entrepreneurs are finding other types of free space available, says Steve King, partner at Emergent Research, a consulting firm focused on small business in Lafayette, Calif..

Dr. Victoria Keener, a research fellow at the East - West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, whose research focuses on the impact of climate change in Pacific Island communities, expressed similar sentiments.

In doing research for my upcoming book, Revealing The Invisible, one aspect of social media came up consistently, the obsessive focus of social media companies to develop a highly personalized understanding of users and their behaviors.

While a hungry child is less likely to be able to focus, most of the research looks at kids who are part of school breakfast programs, which means the majority of those kids come from underprivileged backgrounds and may not be getting enough to eat in general.

In his research, Goldratt focused most of his early work on manufacturing operations and, specifically within that realm, on finding what one process or piece of equipment might be inhibiting throughput.

A leading global university centred in Asia, the National University of Singapore (NUS) is Singapore's flagship university, which offers a global approach to education and research, with a focus on Asian perspectives and expertise.

He points to activist investors as a particular thorn in the side of management, forcing it to focus on quarter - to - quarter earnings and giving up board seats instead of investing in research and development.

«Based on evidence gathered from focus groups and interviews conducted in U.S. coal communities, we argue that coal communities that have experienced mine closures have already begun an economic and social transition, one that is based on reshaping their culture and sense of identity,» wrote professors of Indiana University in a paper published in the March issue of Energy Research and Social Science.

The same outside adviser, who was unidentified in Tuesday's release, advised that a package of assistance programs to patients would: «force reporters to focus on the byzantine nature of drug pricing and health care and ensure the patient message gets out... specifically tie profits from Daraprim to the research and development of a new and more effective treatment for Daraprim patients.

«Ultimately, there does not seem to be a systematic problem associated with failure (or fraud) on Kickstarter, and the vast majority of projects do seem to deliver,» says Professor Ethan Mollick, who has a focus on innovation and entrepreneurship, in Kickstarter's statement announcing the results of the research.

Instead, Handa began researching and came to the conclusion that he should focus initially on the Boston area and a swath of New England that takes in Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Hampshire.

Tarun has worked in health for 30 years, focusing on public health research, policy and practice in the prevention of common chronic diseases and addressing Aboriginal health gaps.

Research from the University of Redlands in California found that middle - born kids are more relationship - focused, which bodes well for their careers.

In the tight three - way race of this year's federal election, the focus has shifted from the reliability of any single research firm to the wisdom of the collective pollster mind, with news outlets arguing over who can aggregate the polls in the most reliable fashioIn the tight three - way race of this year's federal election, the focus has shifted from the reliability of any single research firm to the wisdom of the collective pollster mind, with news outlets arguing over who can aggregate the polls in the most reliable fashioin the most reliable fashion.

In January 2017, SiteOne announced the closing of a research and development agreement with Amgen, a collaboration focused on combining SiteOne's experienced drug discovery team and portfolio of novel Naᵥ1.7 inhibitors with Amgen's neuroscience capabilities.

A report from Forrester Research shows that 27 percent of firms planned to launch internally - focused enterprise video in 2013, up from 21 percent in 2010.

A decrease in Chinese production of dysprosium highlighted by research commissioned by Northern Minerals, has placed an increasing focus on the company's Browns Range rare earths project.

In a perfect world, you would probably do both, using qualitative research to create a survey, the results of which might in turn be interpreted using another focus grouIn a perfect world, you would probably do both, using qualitative research to create a survey, the results of which might in turn be interpreted using another focus grouin turn be interpreted using another focus group.

His research interests include the areas of corporate governance and corruption as a constraint on business activity, international legal reform and business ethics in the developing world with a focus on the Middle East, and covenants not to compete as an obstacle to employee mobility and knowledge transfer.

«Fitbit has a very strong position in the market for fitness trackers, and they are one of the strongest in the wellness market as well,» says Gartner Research director Angela McIntyre, who focuses on wearables.

«There's some form of integration between those two channels, whether it's in terms of language, promotions or pricing,» says Paco Underhill, CEO of Envirosell, a retail - focused research and consulting firm.

Research by the University of Southern California, which explores what happens when our brains are at rest, reveals that when our minds wander they engage in a form of neural processing «that is relatively suppressed when attention is focused on the outside world.»

Thaddeus R. Miller, an Arizona State University scientist who helps lead a national research network focused on «Urban Resilience to Extreme Events,» said in an email that boosting the capacity of cities to stay safe and prosperous in a turbulent climate requires a culture shift as much as hardening physical systems:

Taking proactive steps — such as investing in research — instead of focusing solely on cutting costs and battening down the hatches will pay off in the long run.

The MBA Global program focuses on academic theory and research - based learning, while the MBA in the Management of Technology and Innovation (MBA MTI) covers management skills while examining complex, technology - related business problems.

While the losses are significant, the results still are positive for Uber with revenue rising and losses falling in three of four quarters in 2017, said Rohit Kulkarni, managing director of SharesPost, a research group focused on privately held companies.

«For some time, the Internet has been aggregating people in communities,» says Chris Musto, director of financial services and an analyst at Gomez Advisors Inc., a research firm in Lincoln, Mass., that focuses on Internet commerce.

Previous deep learning approaches have focused on rectangular regions located around the center of the image, and often rely on expensive post-processing,» the NVIDIA researchers stated in their research paper.

«It's also part of a civic duty,» said Joo Yu - min, an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy whose research focuses on mega-events in Asian cities.

«The great majority of U.S. - educated professionals from places like India and China remained in this country to work at research labs, universities, and private companies,» reads a new report from the entrepreneurship - focused Kauffman Foundation, The Grass Is Indeed Greener in India and China.

Previous research that focused on adolescents» use of the drug in the wake of medical marijuana laws didn't find an increase in that age group, she said.

As a result, according to a survey conducted last year by Focus Research Systems Inc. of West Hartford, Conn., less than 7 % of American small businesses (those with fewer than 500 employees or less than $ 25 million in sales) used on - site computers.

Launched in 2004, the Sandra Rotman Centre for Health Sector Strategy is a strategic area of focused research for the Rotman School.

Commerzbank's head of commodity research Eugen Weinberg said oil market fundamentals «do not justify the current price, but unfortunately the market is focusing more on the politics and ignoring some of the warning signs, especially the hike in U.S. oil production.»

Focused on what is normally termed the «pre-commercial» phase, before a new product is broadly available on the market, the «Commercialization Research and Preparedness Assistance (CRPA) Program would provide support to companies for innovation in commercialization and market preparedness measures to achieve higher levels of business success.

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