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A campaign by the Guardian has called on the Gates foundation and the Wellcome Trust, the world's largest medical research charity, to divest their large endowments of fossil fuels.

A similar wells - to - wheels study released in September by IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates out of Massachusetts found fuels derived from oilsands to be just 6 % more carbon intensive than the average of all oil sources consumed in the U.S.

This sentiment has been fueled by a decades - long public campaign by the NRA to convince the US public and politicians that, in fact, the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms, and that more guns will actually make people safer (by letting them protect themselves), despite what the research says.

Dev's decision to open a franchise with CMIT Solutions was fueled by his researched surrounding small and medium - sized businesses.

Contacted in 2011 by The Tyee, Dr. Carl E. Brown, research manager of Emergencies, Science and Technology Division at Environment Canada confirmed that «a concern with bitumen fuels is their density is quite high and chances are if those materials were spilled into the marine environment, those products might sink.»

Winners also enjoy: National recognition as one of Canada's foremost Dealmakers Heightened market interest thanks to extensive media exposure in The Globe and Mail, Lexpert and Thomson Reuters publications Media coverage stemming from Deloitte's national media relations efforts The opportunity to engage in the high - level industry networking that fuels M&A transactions - Recognition at the gala awards ceremony, which is attended by leading investors, advisors and financiers - Year - round networking and educational opportunities, including access to valuable research, insights and best practices

This sentiment has been fueled by a decades - long public campaign by the NRA to convince the US public and politicians that, in fact, the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms, and that more guns will actually make people safer (by letting them protect themselves), despite research that shows higher levels of gun ownership actually lead to more gun violence.

Over a year which has seen large banks halt funding for fossil fuel projects, major institutions divest from oil, gas and coal holdings, and oil companies snap up power and renewables companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial circles.

Nik Nanos, Chairman of Nanos Research Group, said the national decline in consumer sentiment «has been primarily fueled by dampening forward perceptions of the strength of the economy and the value of real estate.»

This reality and the conditions that pertain to it mean that you can float on the seas of authority bloat that fuels your vertical, but the efforts that it requires is simply not worth it to build any kind of sustained ranking, as too many levers must float in your favor — such as the website where your link was originally hosted maintaining it's weight before being pillaged by other SEOs capable of basic competitive research — or your competitors being bad enough to not have an SEO who has heard of competitive research — in order for it to be a worthwhile strategy.

Recent advances in artificial intelligence and mobile communications have also fuelled fears that whole classes of clerical and research jobs may also be replaced by machines.

A research and public engagement project investigating the power of the fossil fuel industry in Western Canada, led by the University of Victoria, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (BC and Saskatchewan Offices) and Parkland Institute.

As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.

Led by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), the project seeks to create «C4 rice» — rice with a built - in fuel injector to better convert sunlight into grain, potentially resulting in up to 50 % higher production all while using less water and nutrients.

The bar pulls together the three top food types identified in an Impulse Research study commissioned by Quaker that asked moms about their favorite fuel sources for the day.

Behind the scenes, local letter writer Mitchell Langbert, a Brooklyn College professor and former Republican committee member who tried starting a Catskills chapter of the Tea Party last year, has been stirring the pot... by passing on information he's been researching and by fueling his local blog on a regular basis.

«To the point where competition among the Oil Marketing Companies remains high, market price for both Brent crude and refined oil dropping in average price terms, added to the appreciation of the Cedi against the U.S. dollar, and increasing national fuel stock; the Institute for Energy Security (IES) believe that there is enough positive momentum and fundamental justification to move the prices of Petrol and Diesel lower on the local market,» IES said in a release signed by Gilbert Richmond Rockson, Principal Research Analyst.

For the third time in six months, a monthly Siena Research Institute poll showed Cuomo's job approval rating was underwater, at 48 - 51 percent, a drop fueled by the loss of upstate and Republican voters over the course of 2013, crosstabs show.

A 2016 report by energy research firm Corporate Knights estimated that by sticking with fossil, rather than clean, fuels, New York pensioners missed out on roughly $ 5.3 billion in added earnings in 2015.

Nations could help by cutting funding on climate research, and boosting funding for the solution to climate change, which we already know: use less fossil fuel.

Large donors have fueled Gov. Andrew Cuomo's campaign warchest, with 81 percent of his money coming from people who gave him $ 10,000 or more, a report by the New York Public Interest Research Group said today.

The launch of the Buffalo High - Tech Manufacturing Innovation Hub at RiverBend, fueled by the attraction of Silevo and Soraa and the promise of additional corporate partners in the future, further builds the Governor's high - tech Erie Canal and positions Western New York as a nexus for advanced research and manufacturing for clean energy technologies.»

The trend toward transformative research is fueled by nations» efforts to use science and technology to leapfrog competition in terms of innovation and economic development in a globalized environment, says Robert Frodeman, a philosophy professor at the University of North Texas, Denton, and director of the Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity.

According to previous research by Galetti's group, feral pigs and cross-bred pig - boars are a public health hazard because they have become a major source of food for vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) and have thereby fueled an increase in this rabies vector.

More than half of Europe's forests have disappeared over the past 6,000 years thanks to increasing demand for agricultural land and the use of wood as a source of fuel, new research led by the University of Plymouth suggests.

Department of Energy research has helped drive down the cost of automotive fuel cells by 80 percent.

OCEAN MOTION The 2011 tsunami that devastated Japan (forecast shown) was fueled by both the horizontal and vertical motion of the seafloor, new research suggests.

Although the cost of research and development makes hybrids more expensive than conventional counterparts, rail experts agree that the savings achieved by improved fuel efficiency can provide quick return on investment.

To try to confirm the location and condition of the melted fuel, the International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning, set up by TEPCO and other entities, has been probing the reactors» innards with muons.

Research led by Sandia National Laboratories and the University of California, Merced aim at bringing down the cost of hydrogen fuel cells by using a dirt - cheap compound to create an uneven surface that resembles a plant's leaves.

This work is aligned with Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST), a new project established by the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

The genome of the fuel - producing green microalga Botryococcus braunii has been sequenced by a team of researchers led by a group at Texas A&M AgriLife Research.

USC professor Sri Narayan's research focuses on the fundamental and applied aspects of electrochemical energy conversion and storage to reduce the carbon footprint of energy use and by providing energy alternatives to fossil fuel, Wednesday, June 10, 2014 in Los Angeles.

Hydrogen is another attractive by - product of wastewater, and some of Logan's research at Penn State involves looking into how to capture hydrogen to run fuel cells.

In the 1980s this research was directed toward a fast reactor (dubbed the advanced liquidmetal reactor, or ALMR), with metallic fuel cooled by a liquid metal, that was to be integrated with a high - temperature pyrometallurgical processing unit for recycling and replenishing the fuel.

A paper by Yan's research group, published in the Jan. 8 issue of the multidisciplinary journal Nature Communications, helps pin down the basic mechanisms of the fuel - cell reaction on platinum, which will help researchers create alternative electrocatalysts.

The Obama administration seems to agree, granting $ 786 million in 2009 for biofuels research and setting up the Biofuels Interagency Working Group to study how best to meet the renewable fuel standard mandated by Congress that will require increasing the amount of renewable fuels, such as ethanol, to 36 billion gallons by 2022.

New stem cell research published by scientists from the University of Michigan Medical School, and fueled by the Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Fund, may help scientists find answers to these quresearch published by scientists from the University of Michigan Medical School, and fueled by the Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Fund, may help scientists find answers to these quResearch Fund, may help scientists find answers to these questions.

With the growing use of mastectomy, fueled by celebrity disclosures and growing patient interest, further research is necessary to monitor whether the short - term employment consequences seen in this study will translate into longer term impacts on these women's employment and well - being, say the study authors.

Such initiatives include research focused on more efficient production of gaseous hydrogen fuel by using solar energy to break water down into its components of hydrogen and oxygen.

Undertaken by University of Adelaide in collaboration with CSIRO, the research could make viable a process that has enormous potential to replace fossil fuels and continue to use existing carbon - based fuel technologies without increasing atmospheric CO2.

American drivers are consuming less and less fuel, following a trend of reduced car ownership and distance traveled, according to a new report by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI).

The study tracked alternative fuel vehicle media attention from the New York Times, research and development funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, and prototype development by the world's 15 largest auto manufacturers between 1980 and 2013.

The U.S. should aggressively explore the offer made by Iran's president Mahmoud Ah madinejad last fall to end all enrichment beyond low - enriched uranium in exchange for the purchase of fuel for its Tehran Research Reactor.

A report to Congress in 2006 by a National Research Council panel investigating terrorist threats to spent fuel storage concluded that «under some conditions,» if a pool were partially or completely drained, that «could lead to a propagating zirconium cladding fire and the release of large quantities of radioactive materials to the environment.»

The molecular mechanisms involved in the development of cancer have been uncovered by extensive research over the past 30 years, culminating in The Cancer Genome Atlas, a National Institutes of Health project that identified and characterized many genetic mutations that fuel cancer.

Canada's NRC Innovation Centre is nurturing a domestic fuel cell industry by supporting early stage research, development, and deployment of fuel cell technologies.

Engineers at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in California have developed and flown an aircraft that needs no fuel: It is powered entirely by laser light beamed from the ground.

Other recently published research from this group of scientists demonstrated thinning forest stands to a lower density reduces fuel buildup significantly, and enhances its economic value by increasing growth of residual trees.

NIF is designed to achieve nuclear fusion by crushing capsules of hydrogen fuel with immensely energetic lasers, both for energy research and to help nuclear weapons designers simulate explosions.