Sentences with phrase «from academic groups»

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told leaders of his centre - right EU political group on Saturday that he would comply with demands from Brussels to change measures branded an attack on academic freedom, the party said.

Gregory Simon, the chief executive of large - scale crowdfunding site Poliwogg, told the Washington Post: «There's another kind of fraud, and that's when Congress and the president pass and sign a law, and thousands of companies organize according to the principles in that law... but academics and people in consumer groups who disagree with the law make it their mission to prevent the law from going into effect.»

That's according to a report released this week by a team of academics and researchers from Oxford University, Cambridge University, Stanford University, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, artificial intelligence research group OpenAI, and others institutes.

Technology consultancy Cambridge IP states that developers and manufacturers have filed 13,000 graphene - related patents in the past five years alone, and in late 2013 the European Commission launched a billion - euro, 10 - year graphene research initiative that brings together academic institutions and industrial groups from 17 nations.

No doubt, it is a dismaying picture that confronts us: British company SCL Group, operating under the brand name Cambridge Analytica with the supervision of Steve Bannon, obtained data collected from Facebook by Cambridge University academic Alexandr Kogan, and used systems built by data scientist and whistleblower - to - be Chris Wylie to train its microtargeting algorithms to nudge scores of already - angry voters towards electing Donald Trump and leaving the European Union — a set of experiments largely bankrolled by US hedge - fund billionaire Robert Mercer, 90 % owner of Cambridge Analytica.

The event will feature 250 + speakers and 4,000 + attendees from the leading industry startups, investors, financial institutions, enterprise tech leaders, and academic and policy groups who are building the foundations of the blockchain and digital currency economy.

The Facts: Advocates from student groups, including the Canadian Federation of Students, the leadership of B.C.'s academic research universitiesand reportershave notedthat B.C. needs to improve its student aid programs.

It was informed by a group of 24 Canadian experts, from the private, non-profit and academic sectors (the Canadian «National Advisory Board») and builds on the 2010 report of the Canadian Task Force on Social Finance.

Consensus 2018 will feature 250 + speakers and 4,000 + attendees from the leading industry startups, investors, financial institutions, enterprise tech leaders, and academic and policy groups who are building the foundations of the blockchain and digital currency economy.

The variety ranges from cases in which faculty elect some members of the board of trustees from among their number, to cases in which faculty as a group is formally charged with certain responsibilities (say, nominating new faculty, or establishing policies governing the academic program of the school), to cases in which faculty effectively have neither responsibility, authority, nor power in the school's polity.

The university holds no secular academic accreditations, though the school has a number of accreditations from groups which accredit Christian schools.

This essentially materialist approach — heroic valor, violent conquest, the clash of civilizations — gained increased academic standing from the neocolonial interpretation in René Grousset's three - volume Histoire des croisades et du royaume franc de Jérusalem (1934 — 1936) and the planned U.S. multivolume collaborative History of the Crusades devised in the 1940s by the group of Crusade historians that had gathered around Dana C. Munro (1866 — 1933) and later John La Monte (1902 — 1949).

Separate schools established along ostensibly functional lines (for example, «technical» and «academic») may turn out really to be social class schools which by totally segregating one group from the other accentuate social class cleavages.

The real danger comes from a much larger group of persons who believe that Notre Dame can strive for ever - higher standards of academic excellence — and use the same criteria of excellence by which the best secular universities in the land are judged to be excellent — without forfeiting the Catholic character of the University.

In April of 1995, a group of students at Steinmetz High School in Chicago were suspected of cheating in the statewide Academic Decathalon by receiving the answers beforehand from their coach.

It is an abstraction, the frame of reference of which, I have noticed in reading some of the literature, changes depending on who uses it, what intellectual tendencies he or she represents, what academic discipline he or she comes from, and specially what political persuasion, inclination or group he or she belongs to.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Some teens may benefit from being around a private school group of peers who are almost universally serious about academics.

The project is supported and steered by a Project Advisory Group including expert practitioners, representatives from participating authorities and academic advisors.

To achieve this, we are now working with groups from across the teaching, training and academic spheres, to identify what additional provisions may be required for teachers at all stages of career development; from initial teacher training, to continuous professional development and emerging senior leaders.

WABA is now a global alliance with more than 300 organizational endorsers and works across the spectrum to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding — from United Nations institutions to mother support groups, with physicians, midwives, and healthcare professionals, to health ministries, from academics to activists.

Our unique environment uses adventure therapy, traditional individual and group therapy, life skills classes and academic guidance to help troubled boys from every state.

From a letter to the Telegraph on the Alcohol Taxation Debate, signed by a group of leading doctors and academics, including Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, chairman, UK Alcohol Health Alliance and Special Advisor on Alcohol, Royal College of Physicians; and Dr Hamish Meldrum, chairman, British Medical Association Council — December 2011

The Lib Dems would also seek to establish a constitutional convention, but theirs would take input from political parties, academic and civil society groups, as well as the British public, and aim to draw up a full constitution for a federal UK.

The task force included senior staff from the state and New York City health departments, academics, and advocates from social services, LGBT, and AIDS groups across the state.

No doubt, it is a dismaying picture that confronts us: British company SCL Group, operating under the brand name Cambridge Analytica with the supervision of Steve Bannon, obtained data collected from Facebook by Cambridge University academic Alexandr Kogan, and used systems built by data scientist and whistleblower - to - be Chris Wylie to train its microtargeting algorithms to nudge scores of already - angry voters towards electing Donald Trump and leaving the European Union — a set of experiments largely bankrolled by US hedge - fund billionaire Robert Mercer, 90 % owner of Cambridge Analytica.

They are conducted in partnership with the appropriate learned societies that cover the discipline being reviewed, as the remit and recommendations from the review involve the whole academic community The process was overseen by a Steering Group composed of prominent UK academics, users of Human Geography research and funders.

The report — «If you could do one thing...» Nine local actions to reduce health inequalities — brings together evidence from a wide range of social sciences, and has been led by a steering group of academic and policy experts.

The report draws on government and trade statistics, academic evidence and economic theory to challenge arguments that the health and social benefits of reducing alcohol consumption are likely to come at a cost to the economy, finding: · Any reduction in employment and income resulting from lower spending on alcohol would be offset by spending on other goods · Econometric analysis of US states suggests that a 10 % decrease in alcohol consumption is associated with a 0.4 % increase in per capita income growth · Lower alcohol consumption could also reduce the economic costs of impaired workplace productivity, alcohol - related sickness, unemployment and premature death, which are estimated to cost the UK # 8 - 11 billion a year The analysis comes at a timely moment, with health groups urging the Chancellor to raise alcohol duty in next month's Budget.

Here in the Ctiy of Buffalo this year a report from the Council on Great City Schools on Improving the Academic Achievement of English Language Learners in the Buffalo Public Schools System cited that only 21 % of these students graduate from high school and the academic achievement programs ignored them as a group as though they don't exist with as many as 100 never recieving their mandated language instAcademic Achievement of English Language Learners in the Buffalo Public Schools System cited that only 21 % of these students graduate from high school and the academic achievement programs ignored them as a group as though they don't exist with as many as 100 never recieving their mandated language instacademic achievement programs ignored them as a group as though they don't exist with as many as 100 never recieving their mandated language instruction.

The decision, which has drawn protests from different groups and civil societies, has generated controversies within the academic circle.

Over the course of an academic semester, fellows interact with students, develop and lead weekly study groups and are «afforded many opportunities to participate in the intellectual life of the Harvard community,» according to the announcement from Harvard.

In 2012, the group spearheaded a collaboration with industry and academic scientists to better quantify methane emissions and identify leaky infrastructure, from the wellhead all the way to the urban distribution system.

And second, the program establishes and promotes an academic support network for women students by increasing communication opportunities for women from under - represented groups.

A group meeting at the Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering in Baltimore, Maryland, may differ from the gatherings of your average academic research groups.

Although Adams came from an academic background, she understood quickly how to work with The 106 Group's clients.

The tactic helped Balch draw a clear line between any intellectual property (IP) that might emerge from his academic research group, which would belong to Georgia Tech, and that possibly emanating from his financial work and owned by Lucena.

Because most faculty members were cloned from their graduate advisers and academic research is all they know, as a group they can offer little help to someone with «alternative» interests.

The Group's members include academic scientists, ethicists, and theologians, religious leaders of different faiths, and representatives from consumer and patient advocacy groups, government, and the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.

A team of scientists and doctors from the SingHealth Duke - NUS Academic Medical Centre (AMC) has uncovered a new group of regulatory T (Treg) cells and DNA features associated with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), the most common form of arthritis among children under the age of 16.

The task group heard from prominent academics and policymakers about the characteristics of successful innovators and entrepreneurs, the current state of U.S. education, and the paths and barriers to success.

Specifically, the authors — who include members of the International Spine Study Group (ISSG) from multiple academic centers — found that fusing the lower portion of the lumbar spine results in a decreased risk of PJK.

But in a paper published today in the journal Depression and Anxiety, academics, from Manchester and Newcastle Universities, show that women who attended a yoga class a week for eight weeks had decreased anxiety scores compared to the control group who received normal antenatal treatment.

Three common misconceptions often get in the way, however, of creating work or academic settings in which individuals from underrepresented groups feel comfortable enough to engage productively and to remain committed to the enterprise.

Bilingual children from low - income homes are at greater risk of falling behind their peers in developing the appropriate language skills for their age group, leading to poorer academic achievement over time.

Venturfest's core goal is to give scientific inventors — typically group leaders or postdocs from academic labs and early stage start - up companies — an opportunity to pitch science - enterprise ideas to an audience including investors and other professionals of the business world.

Newcastle University and the NorthEast England Stem Cell Institute are aware that the research paper «Derivation of Human Sperm from Embryonic Stem Cells» by a group led by Professor Karim Nayernia has been withdrawn from the academic journal Stem Cells and Development.

Chet Susslin / National Journal The Supreme Court's decision upholding racial preferences in public - university admissions drew broad support on Thursday from AAAS and other scientific and academic groups that...

Authors analyzed clinical data for patients from two large academic medical centers from 2005 through 2013, resulting in 845,417 hospital discharges in the study group for 458,053 unique individuals.

The JICA project, titled «Economic and Social Development Support in Developing Countries through Partnerships with the Private Sector» had participants from multiple private organizations in the OSV Consortium (an industry - academic collaborative group that promotes use of OSV technology).