Sentences with phrase «fund specific studies»

Its patrons include utilities, vendors and regulatory bodies from twenty countries world - wide, who jointly fund applied nuclear research through the OECD Halden Project, and individual groups and organisations who fund specific studies.

Not exact matches

Studies have shown that your asset allocation has a bigger impact on your long - term returns than any specific fund you pick.

Capital from the closing will be used by Renewable Properties to fund corporate and operating expenses, as well as, project specific expenses including project acquisitions and development related activities including securing land, interconnection applications and studies, permitting, environmental studies and reviews.

Underperformance by specific hedge fund managers was responsible for 53 percent of those redemptions, according to the study.

The study, which is part funded by Sands, is comparing what happens before and after maternity units start to follow a specific pathway of care for responding to women who say their baby's movements have reduced.

More broadly, why devote time, funding, and research to the study of specific «areas» of the world?

«It is not an option to cut CUNY funding,» echoed Shirley Jackson, USS's Vice Chair for Graduate Affairs, who said that despite living with «a severe disability,» she had been able to ahead to pursue her studies with the help of specific CUNY programs.

The National Cancer Institute is now funding a study to determine what specific characteristics led to that trial's success, comparing two sets of modified immune cells in patients.

With funding from the Austrian Ministry for Science and Research and the Culture Division of the City of Vienna, Norbert Siegl spent months studying the «gender - specific differences in frequency and thematic content» of the graffiti in the toilets at the University of Vienna.

During the presidential campaign, Senator John McCain repeatedly attacked a specific bit of federal funding to study bear DNA.

Such information would also tell department chairs what to expect from a specific course, says Dawn Rickey, program director at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, Virginia, which funded the Academies study.

Poirier hopes that with further funding and support, his studies will lead to the development of drugs targeted to specific genotypes, making them safer and more effective and reducing side effects.

When politicians want to cut funding, he notes, they focus on specific controversial studies or areas — such as climate change, stem cells or genetically modified organisms.

The study, «Transcriptome Sequencing Implicates Dorsal Striatum - Specific Gene Network, Immune Response and Energy Metabolism Pathways in Bipolar Disorder,» [http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/mp201694a.html] was supported by funding from the State of Florida.

Toward the end of the 2 - hour hearing, Representative Andy Harris (R - MD) asked about a specific National Cancer Institute (NCI)- funded study tracing Tea Party's origins to groups supported by tobacco companies (video around 1:51 here).

Each work group was then tasked with designing a research program for a specific case study using a genomic solution to address a key environmental challenge, culminating with a presentation of their work to a panel representing potential funding sources (industry, government, and philanthropy).

The CTR - IN also facilitates an «Advance to Funding» (ATF) program, which is a mock study section providing specific expertise and written feedback on how to improve NIH and other federal grant applications prior to submission.

We also performed subgroup meta - analyses by type of prevention (primary v secondary: in this study, trials involving healthy populations or patients with any specific disease except for cardiovascular disease were classified as primary prevention trials, and trials involving patients with cardiovascular disease were classified as secondary prevention trials), type of supplement by quality and dose (each supplement, vitamins only, antioxidants only, or antioxidants excluding vitamins), type of outcome (cardiovascular death, angina, fatal or non-fatal myocardial infarction, stroke, or transient ischaemic attack), type of outcome in each supplement, type of study design (randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial v open label, randomised controlled trial), methodological quality (high v low), duration of treatment (< 5 years v ≥ 5 years), funding source (pharmaceutical industry v independent organisation), provider of supplements (pharmaceutical industry v not pharmaceutical industry), type of control (placebo v no placebo), number of participants (≥ 10000 v < 10000), and supplements given singly or in combination with other vitamin or antioxidant supplements by quality.

I definitely understand your point on studies funded from specific industries which benefit from the research's «good» results.

Likewise, NPEC funds research studies that focus on specific issues in higher education (NCES, n.d.).

Few people care about the «studies» on which consultants base their reports, or even their validity, because nobody really expects schools to implement these specific programs if given extra funding.

Both a recent major national study and a Michigan - specific study show funding increases as efficacious when allocated primarily toward traditional investments (increased teacher salaries and smaller class sizes).

While the study certainly brings value, it would be better if it compared actively - managed mutual funds not against each other but against an independent market benchmark specific to each fund category.

The purpose of the study was «to probe investment objectives, as well as awareness and attitudes toward specific topics such as volatility, downside protection and fund selection criteria.»

While specific firms and advisors were not named, the study focused on retail advisors at the lower end of the wealth spectrum, and did not include private wealth managers or hedge funds.

In one study comparing sector - specific funds, he found that the 10 % of funds that concentrated on one industry — say, technology or utilities — outperformed the 10 % of funds with the lowest exposure to any one sector by about 1.6 percentage points a year.

Studies have shown that your asset allocation has a bigger impact on your long - term returns than any specific fund you pick.

Looking at investments in specific funds, several studies have shown that individual investors achieve returns that are 1 to 3 percent lower than the funds themselves.

The ADUC Board of Directors raises funds for assistance dog placements, for grants to support industry research and development efforts and specific provider program development projects, and for scholarships for individuals attending the Bergin University of Canine Studies.

Spanning exhibitions, publications, films, new media, and site - specific installations, funded projects include «Incense Sweaters & Ice,» an immersive installation by Los Angeles - based artist Martine Syms; «Bond: Race and the Modern City,» which is described as the first book - length study of the architect J. Max Bond Jr. (at right, on far left); «Sacred Stoops: Typological Studies of Black Congregational Spaces,» an investigation of the porch and its role in the African American community; and research exploring «emerging paradigms» in architectural education across sub-Saharan Africa.

Guild Hall, Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation, Pollock - Krasner House + Study Center and Southampton Cultural Center, will be conducting fund - raising events at specific times.

Conceptually, it is impossible to separate decisions about what is studied and how it is studied from funding levels, funding sources, institutional priorities, publication aims and complex decisions about what to report and how to report it, so that facts are «constructed» in the sense of being shaped by a variety of specific circumstances (20).

The DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy has supported the evaluation of environmental benefits and concerns for solar facilities through funding of specific studies.

However, Mark S Brownstein, vice president at the Environmental Defense Fund's climate & energy program, tells Carbon Brief that further study is required to better understand the specific impacts of the various factors at play:

In a press release on its web site, the Retail Council called for «an industry - wide actuarial study before DFS considers any further rate increases,» citing specific concerns it has with lack of data provided by the State Insurance Fund.

In the specific area of parental control tools, the Commission funded a study under the Safer Internet plus programme (2005 - 2008) which aimed at «Benchmarking of filtering software and services».

At the time the study began in 2006, the CTC board was seeking state - level funding to implement SFP on a large scale; because SFP had not previously been delivered in the local community, the board sought to benefit from the district - specific implementation knowledge we would gain from this pilot.

All the funding received during this specific study was external to the authors» organization.

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript, and the authors received no specific funding for this work.