Sentences with phrase «funding quality research»

We're excited to be an active partner in funding quality research that addresses feline health issues.

Do I think vested interests will always fund quality research, the answer is no.

Not exact matches

The deal will put 58 million Australian dollars into fighting the starfish, with the rest going to improving water quality, funding research into reef restoration, and monitoring damage to the reef.

Our investment philosophy is simple: Invest in high quality, compelling exchange traded funds (ETFs) that have been fully researched by our team to provide an efficient, inexpensive means to access all the advantages of global opportunities while effectively managing the risks.

In the same research note, Bryan Keane and Ashish Sabadra, equity analysts who cover CGI for Deutsche Bank and have a «sell» rating on the stock, wrote that «we continue to question the quality of the company's earnings,» and 683 Capital, a hedge fund in New York, has similar questions, according to a person briefed on the matter.

To determine the quality of holdings, one must analyze each holding in a mutual fund just as our research does.

Investors deserve forward - looking fund research that is comparable in quality to stock research.

That means researching every fund holding to assess the overall quality of the fund's portfolio management.

Customers have access to a plethora of quality research and innovative trade tools, not to mention low trading costs alongside several hundred commission - free ETFs and thousands of commission - free mutual funds.

Diligent research that can be conducted on many financial web sites and quality advice from an experienced financial advisor will help an investor find the best closed end funds for their needs.

The findings were announced by Professor Carlo Leifert of the Tesco Centre for Organic Agriculture based at Newcastle University, UK, who with his team are working on the EU funded project called the Quality Low Input Food (QLIF) project, the biggest ever to research the pros and cons of organic farming and food.

It conducts programs that enhance the competitiveness of Wisconsin's dairy industry including establishing new markets, funding dairy - related research, educating consumers about the quality and nutritional importance of Wisconsin milk and dairy products.

Levy funds are used for research and development, which the ACCC accepts may benefit consumers through the production of higher quality oysters.

The Mario Batali Foundation provides funding for pediatric disease research to help improve the quality of children's lives.

This funding will support research to help mitigate and stop devastating crop diseases, and improve food safety and water quality.

Given the limited rigorous research evidence on home visiting's effectiveness to prevent child maltreatment, one potential impact of using an approach like Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness, which attaches state funding to the quality of the evidence, may be to increase the amount and quality of the child maltreatment prevention research conducted globally.

By studying the most recent research on early childhood education, the Orfalea Fund was able to invest where it mattered most: in the relationships among directors, teachers, and parents, in the quality of environments, and in the establishment and documentation of best practices.

The Global Food Security programme is the UK's main public funders of food - related research and training are working together through the Global Food Security programme to meet the challenge of providing the world's growing population with a sustainable, secure supply of safe, nutritious, and affordable high - quality food using less land, with lower inputs, and in the context of global climate change, other environmental changes and declining resources.

The ESRC confirms the quality of its funded research by evaluating research projects through a process of peers review.

The study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), supports other findings that interventions aimed at improving individuals» wellbeing and quality of life can be far more effective if they are carried out among groups of people in ways that generate a strong sense of group identity.

As public sector prisons move towards the thin staffing level model of profit - making institutions, with their high turnover of personnel who are less connected to their occupation, a study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) warns of a potentially detrimental impact on prison quality.

The study, which is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), also found that staying out late without telling your parents is unrelated to factors such as family income, the number of children in the family or being in a step - family, but is related to the quality of the emotional relationship the child has with their parents and whether they live in a city or in the country.

More at www.esrc.ac.uk The ESRC confirms the quality of its funded research by evaluating research projects through a process of peers review.

And to ensure the research we fund is of high quality, all research applications undergo peer review.

This policy would result in at least # 80 million additional funding for universities, including funding for improving accessibility and high - quality research.

«Wellesley is a wonderful and special place in terms of the quality of research,» Goldman says, and Wellesley's neuroscience department has a track record of high - level funding.

Scientists can identify funding and research priorities, ensure quality scientific education, remove obstructions to scientific freedom, and work to educate policy makers, Posner explained.

Perry described himself as a fiscal conservative but a strong proponent of taxpayer - funded research in areas including energy efficiency and renewable energy that leads to the development of technology that strengthens the economy and improves quality of life.

One is that» [w] ithout initial funding to conduct high - quality research, it will be very tough to «prime the pump» and write winning proposals» for early - career scientists, he continues.

When it comes time for tenure, promotion, and salary increases, noncorporate funding is typically given much more weight, «it's a springboard of core funding that allows you then to do good research that's of interest to companies,» explains Prichard, «without it, you're not able to keep up with the high quality of research.»

In another structural change, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which received $ 324 million in direct funding this year, would be folded into NIH.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, established in the late 1980s to fund such research, has a budget of less than $ 400 millionResearch and Quality, established in the late 1980s to fund such research, has a budget of less than $ 400 millionresearch, has a budget of less than $ 400 million a year.

It would become a new National Institute for Research on Safety and Quality funded at $ 272 million from NIH's budget, with an additional $ 107 million from an existing trust fund for patient - centered outcomes rResearch on Safety and Quality funded at $ 272 million from NIH's budget, with an additional $ 107 million from an existing trust fund for patient - centered outcomes researchresearch.

The research environment is in flux, however, as booming numbers of new Ph.D. s seek training and jobs, and discussions about funding and evaluation raise questions about the quality of Chinese research.

But that is because it would absorb three Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies that fund research on health care quality, occupational health, and disabilities.

Research administration is developing into a more sophisticated field — research management — with a focus on assisting faculty in managing the fiscal side of their research endeavours, preparing high - quality applications, and translating research results into social, cultural, and economic impact, as well as new funding opportResearch administration is developing into a more sophisticated field — research management — with a focus on assisting faculty in managing the fiscal side of their research endeavours, preparing high - quality applications, and translating research results into social, cultural, and economic impact, as well as new funding opportresearch management — with a focus on assisting faculty in managing the fiscal side of their research endeavours, preparing high - quality applications, and translating research results into social, cultural, and economic impact, as well as new funding opportresearch endeavours, preparing high - quality applications, and translating research results into social, cultural, and economic impact, as well as new funding opportresearch results into social, cultural, and economic impact, as well as new funding opportunities.

For starters, many more proposals are submitted than get funded (although the Small Business Innovation Research managers I have spoken to say that the odds for high - quality proposals getting funded are very good).

The authors contend that the Parkinson's community must come together and focus its activism in support of: developing a better understand the environmental, genetic, and behavioral causes and risk factors for Parkinson's to help prevent its onset; increasing access to care — an estimated 40 percent of people with the disease in both the U.S. and Europe do not see a neurologist and the number is far greater in developing nations; advocating for increases in research funding for the disease; and lowering the cost of treatments — many patients in low - income countries do not have access to drugs that are both lifesaving and improve quality of life.

She told the audience of about 70 residents that NIEHS - funded research in the harbor area has reported links between air quality and asthma, smaller babies, cardiovascular disease, lung function and even death.

«I agree that competition is good, and that peer - review is one means of assuring that we are selecting high quality projects,» he said, adding that at least some of DHS - funded research projects — including proposals funded through the agency's Centers of Excellence at universities — were indeed selected using peer - review.

According to the report, patents generated by NIH - funded research are of particularly high quality and provide a downstream economic footprint that exceeds comparable research funded by the private sector.

The bill preserves the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), which funds studies to improve health care delivery, but trims its budget 8 %, to $ 334 million.

But P. Kay Lund, director of the NIH Division of Biomedical Research Workforce in the Office of Extramural Research, and Misty Heggeness, a labor economist in the same division, note in a joint statement to Science Careers that the detected impact of newly received NIH funding on mobility is «minimal» and less than that of children's ages and peer environment quality.

Top - ranked programs attract more funding as well as high - quality faculty and students, while «low rankings can shrink or even kill off a program,» notes Vanderbilt University historian Hugh Graham, author of a well - regarded 1997 book on the history of U.S. research universities.

They see it as an attempt to undermine a program that biomedical lobbyists have complained is supporting low - quality research at a time when excellent proposals from top scientists are being rejected for lack of funds.

Proposals are likely to include additional funding for high - quality research, new laboratories, more young scientists and ideas that would be of use to industry - such as studies into clean energy technologies.

Comparing Options for Management: Patient - Centered Outcomes for Uterine Fibroids (COMPARE - UF) is a voluntary registry of 10,000 women with uterine fibroids funded by the Patient - Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

«Last month a House of Representatives panel approved a spending bill that would give [NIH] a $ 1.1 billion raise next year, with some of the new money coming from zeroing out funding for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), which funds studies to improve health care delivery.

U.S. institutions, in particular, are very conscious of research funding statistics as a benchmark for judging the quality of research.

«CIHR embarked on the reform of its open funding programs and peer review process to improve the sustainability of our health research system, the transparency and fairness of our granting processes, and the quality and impact of the research supported by federal investments,» he wrote.