The Foundation relies solely on donations in order to
fund significant research.
Not exact matches
American companies have mostly picked the cupboard clean: Hinton now works with Google, LeCun leads Facebook's AI
research lab, and Bengio is an adviser with IBM, whose work out of the University of Montreal has earned
significant funding from Google and beyond.
To get to this point, St Jude and a few other
research hospitals that are piloting similar schemes have had to develop a great deal of infrastructure, train their clinical staff in how to respond to genetic data, and secure the
significant funding these schemes require.
Academic studies have found that a
significant proportion of hedge
fund interventions involve large increases in leverage and large decreases in investment, particularly in
research and development.
To address this
significant issue more broadly, the Walmart Foundation is also donating $ 15 million USD (~ $ 19 million CAD) in
funding to support Canadian initiatives and
research to reduce food waste along the food chain, from farm to fork.
Company spokeswoman Jeannice Hall issued a brief statement that the company «
funds a broad range of
research on a number of topics that have potentially
significant public policy implications for our business.»
Since the
fund was created, more than $ 350 million has been granted to community organizations supporting veterans, poverty alleviation, medical
research and other
significant areas of need.
This can create
significant extra charges which detract from the
fund performance (some independent
research has suggested that every 10 % of annual stock turnover adds a 0.1 % to the OCF.
To the contrary, in 1994
research carried out by Nottingham University and the King's
Fund concluded that the introduction of assumed consent was unlikely to result in a
significant increase in donor organs.
I would like to express my thanks to the Crawford
Fund team and to CQ University for the opportunity to attend this renowned conference, and to learn more about international agricultural
research and the
significant food security issues that our world is currently facing.
New
research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) reveals why some children are badly affected by negative family conflicts while other children survive without significant p
research funded by the Economic and Social
Research Council (ESRC) reveals why some children are badly affected by negative family conflicts while other children survive without significant p
Research Council (ESRC) reveals why some children are badly affected by negative family conflicts while other children survive without
significant problems.
However, they are very sensible to losing EU
funding for the projects they are involved into (EU
funds enabled
significant changes from rural development to advanced IT
research).
A
research study «Changing Lives and Times» funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) at Cardiff University has explored the impact of the financial crisis on the daily lives and future plans of new fathers, finding that several men were making significant life
research study «Changing Lives and Times»
funded by the Economic and Social
Research Council (ESRC) at Cardiff University has explored the impact of the financial crisis on the daily lives and future plans of new fathers, finding that several men were making significant life
Research Council (ESRC) at Cardiff University has explored the impact of the financial crisis on the daily lives and future plans of new fathers, finding that several men were making
significant life changes.
So presumably, the less wealthy, after being told what to spend their money on by «society» for all their working years, reach pensionable age fully moulded by a paternalistic government into financially responsible citizens who will commit a
significant amount of their time to
research where they want to invest their pensions, and subsequently enjoy «regular updates on how their pension
fund was growing» — because of course, like house prices, pension
funds can only rise in value.
Do these Ph.D. s hold jobs that call on their training and make it a worthwhile investment — both for the individual graduate and for the larger
research enterprise, which uses public
funding and invests
significant effort in training them?
The
funding body looks for proposals that «will be a new
research avenue,» so he looked for a
significant, novel
research question that also required developing new tools.
Zadeh's work was among three bodies of
research honored with a 2017 Golden Goose Award, which recognizes federally
funded basic
research that has had unexpected and
significant societal impact even if the original
research sounded obscure.
As associate professor and first - author Johan Bollen writes in an e-mail to Science Careers, they wanted their new system to «enable scientists to set their own priorities,
fund scientists... not projects, avoid proposal writing and reviewing, avoid administrative burdens, encourage all scientists to participate collectively in the definition of scientific priorities, encourage innovation, reward scientists that make
significant contributions to data, software, methods, and systems, avoid
funding death spirals (no
funding - > no
research - > no
funding) but still reward high levels of productivity, create the proper incentives for scholarly communication (publishing to communicate, not to improve bibliometrics), enable
funding of daring and risky
research, and so on.»
Indeed, a
significant portion of that
funding has been set aside for start - up monies and salary for seven academic
research positions for the next 7 years.
... Several big projects may not be
funded immediately, including
significant new
research under the International Polar Year in 2007, the new
research vessel conducting science in the Arctic, the new petascale computer, and several other large - ticket projects.»
In addition, the Recovery Act included
significant funding for scientific
research and technology and to expand access to broadband, particularly in rural communities.
«As a result, the influence of external activities such as consulting or speaking fees,
research grant
funding and stock ownership has the potential to create
significant bias and uncertainty for issued recommendations.»
Such
research has enjoyed a
significant funding boost in recent years.
The Office of Science
funds six
research programs, and under the proposed budget all but one would take a
significant cut.
He shifted
research gears in response, hoping that a new angle would be more likely to be
funded, but it didn't help that he had already burned through a
significant amount of time and resources.
The authors note that while large, international, multi-lateral
funds exist for global health delivery, there is no
significant pooled
funding mechanism for
research and development to complement existing but limited R&D
funding for a wide range of diseases.
Promoting the power and consequence of science «is more important than ever right now,» particularly as critics question the role of evidence - based science in policymaking and as Congress considers
significant proposed cuts to federal
funding for scientific
research that drives innovation, said Tobin Smith, vice president of policy at the Association of American Universities, during the March 27 S&T Policy Forum session «Advocating for Science: More Than a One - Day Activity.»
Furthermore, make sure that there is
significant difference in the topics of the newly proposed versus the previously
funded research so that it doesn't raise any red flags to reviewers about you trying to get more
funds for the same project.
Smith has also suggested additional scrutiny for science grants from the National Science Foundation, which provides
significant funding for climate
research.
«Dr. Burke's
research has yielded a
significant advance that helps make complex small molecule synthesis more efficient, flexible and accessible,» said Miles Fabian of the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of General Medical Sciences, which partially
funded the
research.
«The federal government has to
fund basic
research on new technologies that have
significant effects on the country's competitiveness.»
The first tier contains items that many young scientists would expect from their supervisors: mentoring; communication; setting a direction and vision for the
research group; providing opportunities to network with other scientists; providing
funding for postdocs»
research or giving them
significant help in obtaining their own grants; training; creating a work culture and environment that encourages individuals to treat everybody with respect and encourages collaboration; creating an ambience that keeps group members satisfied and attracts talented scientists to the group; and offering postdocs opportunities to explore options for their careers once their fellowships have ended.
In all, the proposed budget calls for $ 6.2 billion more than 2016 enacted levels, representing a second year of
significant increases for
research funding.
The deal increased 2016 spending by $ 50 billion and gave some
significant boosts to
research funding, but required keeping 2017 discretionary spending flat.
Since 2000, novel, regionally driven and
funded initiatives have led to the establishment of new
research institutes, which have fostered
significant change.
However, last year Congress did provide
significant support for R&D, and we hope that both branches of government will work in partnership to provide sustainable
funding for
research in the next year as well.»
The paper also identifies gross disproportional
research funding for cardiac resuscitation as a
significant problem, blaming public underestimation of the dangers of cardiac arrest and the lack of financial incentive for improving survival rates.
Being listed in an Office of
Research Integrity misconduct filing also correlated with a
significant, sustained drop in
funding.
«Moving from transition metal elements to synthesized molecules is a
significant advancement because it links battery costs to manufacturing rather than commodity metals pricing» said Imre Gyuk, energy storage program manager for the Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE), which
funded this
research.
Moreover, private industry's support for basic
research hardly reaches
significant figures, and only a very few outstanding institutions benefit from this kind of
funding.
Looking forward, the RAND team recommends that the federal government increase
funding for gun
research to levels comparable to federal
research investments in other
significant causes of death and injury, such as automobile accidents.
Nonetheless, passage of the measure marks a
significant milestone in efforts to overturn the Bush policy, which limits government
funding to
research using 60 human ES cell lines derived before 9 August, 2001.
«At $ 2.18 billion, the burden of preeclampsia represents a
significant one third of that total short - term cost, and that's an important call - to - action for more
research funding and awareness of this major health problem.»
Funding organizations in Germany (Max Planck Society), the U.K. (Science and Technology Facilities Council, STFC) and Australia (Australian
Research Council) also have made
significant commitments to the project.
More than 16,000 students pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees in eight professional schools and divisions, driven by
significant funded research, creativity and scholarship.
Many scientists who have received this early
funding for their work in the past have used it to advance their
research to stages where they have become eligible for
significant additional
funding from national, state and private organizations.
All the while Bath has turned the system into a
significant research tool on the Brown campus and beyond.In 2012, with
funding from the Brown Institute for Brain Science through the Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Scientific Innovation
Fund, Serre and Bath opened their lab up as a «core» called the Rodent Neurodevelopmental Behavioral Testing Facility.
To achieve these goals the Commission will encourage and promote
significant, original
research projects in New Jersey emphasizing nerve regeneration as a means to a cure for brain injury through the
funding of approved
research projects at qualifying
research institutions in the state.
The controversial move involved several hundred layoffs and a
significant reallocation of
funds to other
research areas.
He gave $ 25 million to
fund research and develop a new prostate and urological cancer center at Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, and he has made
significant gifts for cancer
research in San Diego and Philadelphia.