[Response of the author: And usually they tell us Germans we're too serious... But seriously: as a scientist, and perhaps from my European perspective, I have trouble taking certain discussions and arguments seriously, and Crichton's argument that the planet isn't really warming, and that climatologists have basically made this up in a global conspiracy to
get more research funding, is clearly one of those.
Not exact matches
Like Sonkin, other
fund managers are increasingly turning to small - cap companies with no sell - side coverage, hoping an industry - wide pullback in analyst
research will allow them to buy into
more «unknown» companies before they
get on other investors» radar.
The UCLA / RAND Center for Adolescent Health Promotion, a CDC -
funded prevention
research program, has been test - driving a way to
get children drinking
more water at mealtime to help combat America's obesity epidemic.
We also campaign to
get more funds into diabetes
research.
Critics of the current system argue that if Europeans
get this right, Europe could become a
more attractive
research environment than the United States, which is suffering from a weak economy and deep cuts in federally
funded research.
«Proven entities — experienced researchers — were much
more likely to
get research funding than somebody who was fresh out of school.
There is no single way to
get full
funding, but
more often than not there is a way to
get funding to attend one or two activities per year if you have a piece of
research that is relevant to that meeting or a compelling scientific reason to attend.
His position at Janelia Farm comes with
research funds and no teaching commitments, so
research «is probably
more like two - thirds of my time, which makes a big difference in how much I
get done», he says.
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).
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.
Dulay points out the upsides of her job: She is part of a premier
research team, has few
funding worries because Zare's grant covers her salary, and
gets to spend
more time with her young daughter than she would as a faculty member.
NRC's most interesting proposals focus, in effect, on redistribution: changing the rules so that younger scientists
get more funding for independent
research and advanced training.
The Florida representative urges
more caution in deciding what
research gets funded and published.
Often in Brazil, «if [the researcher]
gets more funding, he ends up spending
more time of his own time managing the
funds as opposed to working in science and
research,» Brito says.
«Instead [of a commitment to stable domestic science
funding], we
get a fancy website which is
more an empty shell than anything else,» says Olivier Berné, an astrophysicist and CNRS researcher at the
Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology in Toulouse, France.
When Peg AtKisson, a neuroscience Ph.D. who has been in
research development for 15 years, thinks about the number of grants she has helped
get funded, she says, «I probably had
more impact on science doing
research development than I ever would have had if I had stayed in bench
research.»
What we are trying to do is
get a
research network going across Canada and trying to use that network as leverage for
more research funding.»
Last year UNSW
got India corporates
funding research to the tune of $ 1.8 million, which was actually
more than any other country,» said Professor Hoffman.
Previous versions of state performance - based
funding (PBF) policies were frequently criticized for encouraging colleges to simply become
more selective in order to
get more state
funding (see a good summary of the
research here).
While you can do all your business with Scottrade online, including trading stocks, ETFs, buying and selling mutual
funds, transferring money back and forth, and
researching, you can also
get help from Scottrade in person when necessary because, unlike many other discount brokers who operate entirely online, Scottrade has
more than 500 local branch offices across the country, making
getting help with either trading or general question about account much easier and convenient.
The aforelinked Value
Research article also says that the market - cap - weighted index forces index
funds to invest
more in a sector that has a temporary rally, resulting in lower returns than an actively managed
fund which can choose not to
get carried away by the momentum.
I've heard stories about how faculty at university level are pressured into doing
more research to
get outside
funding for the dept or else they don't
get a tenure or may let go.
To
get more financial reports that discuss the increased and unjustified management fees, brokerage sales fees, and trading taxes associated with investment
funds read these investing
research studies:
If these folks were so concerned about
getting the science right and if they had the wits to consider the costs of
research versus the costs they've attributed to climate repair, they'd be screaming for
more funding for climate
research.
New NASA -
funded research shows that when the atmosphere
gets hazy, like it did after the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines in June 1991, plants photosynthesize
more efficiently, thereby absorbing
more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
The
more you exaggerate past or future climate change or its impacts, the
more important your
research looks and the
more likely it is to
get funded («Look, my
research showing that millions could die by 2050 has been reported in the Guardian!
To
get a
research grant you have to convince the
funders that your work is vital, and
more important than the other guy's.
If carbon capture technologies are seen as
more broadly applicable and
more important for the fight against climate change, it is
more likely that these technologies will
get greater
research funding.
But as I think about it
more, I realize that when organic really pays is when this money — the very money we raised the other night — goes to
fund new
research that then
gets into the hands of the people who really need it, such as a mom who learns that feeding their children organic foods can reduce their dietary pesticide exposure by 97 percent, and then makes the immediate switch to organic baby food.
By directing
more funds toward produce
research, there is tremendous potential to
get Americans eating healthier food by making it
more accessible.
We could spend a tenth as much as we do, but if we spent it wisely, with some
funding set aside specifically for
research in minority areas, we could
get much
more benefit from it.
You'll need to figure out how much you can afford to save each month,
research the best plans available and create a plan to sock those
funds away ASAP because college is only going to
get more expensive.
In order to learn
more and
get started, a great deal of
funds and time must be allocated to
research and development.