Sentences with phrase «give academic researchers»

The idea is to give academic researchers access to compounds that made it through safety testing but were dropped by companies for business reasons or because they didn't work on a specific disease.

«People have trouble understanding that we're embedded in an invisible microbial world» and that we are colonized by those microbes, says Olsiewski, whose program has given academic researchers more than $ 40 million in grants.

Not exact matches

Facebook will give a committee of senior academics independent access to its data, allowing researchers to study the social network's effect on democracy and elections.

Many academics partner with Facebook because the social network will not give them access to the data they seek unless the research is conducted jointly, and some researchers have raised concerns that Facebook is creating a conflict of interest for them.

Speeches were given by about 50 experts, mostly academic professors and researchers, but also from leaders of civil - society organizations, the private sector and government officials.

Third, acknowledging that some of the blame for the biased and one - sided media reporting on head injuries rests with some members of the scientific community who issue one - sided press releases and feed cherry - picked results about their findings to selected members of the media, the authors look to a day when the «harsh division and polarization» in the research community (an almost inevitable byproduct, unfortunately, of the intense competition for grant money in Concussion, Inc.), gives way to greater collaboration among researchers and a more «cordial discourse» between scientists via letters and responses to journal editors and back - and - forth debates at large academic conferences.

According to the article by Ben Stocking, multinational formula companies are giving commisions to doctors for every tin of formula sold, are repeatedly calling new mothers once they return from the hospital, and have even sent company representatives to clinics posing as academic researchers.

Researchers have long argued that «authoritative parenting,» marked by giving children freedom within specific limits, fosters self - control needed for academic and social success (SN: 8/19/89, p. 117).

Clancy thought that quantitative data would give her work in this area more clout, so she and several other researchers collaborated to conduct a more formal survey and interview study, which they called the Survey of Academic Field Studies (SAFE).

To this end, the declaration calls on the European Commission and member states to give young researchers more employment stability, notably by reducing the use of short - term contracts and clarifying the criteria for academic career progression.

Given the potential of afterschool programs to support youth in urban, low - income communities, the researchers examined the role that the afterschool classroom environment plays in terms of academic outcomes for youth with and without social and behavioral difficulties.

Meanwhile, according to a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article, some critics of industry - supported CME are arguing that academic researchers who consult for companies should also be barred from giving talks.

Given the confusion being generated by the FITF system, it will be even harder for TTOs to reign in publication - hungry academic researchers.

Only 6.5 percent of recipients sent in their surveys (a possible testimony to the busy lives of academics), giving the researchers 1,820 samples to work with.

The Early Career Researchers in Publishing Panel brought in editors from a variety of publications as well as young PIs and all gave advice on how to succeed in publishing in the current academic environment.

He sees a gap between academic researchers» drug target ideas and the information required to give confidence in drug targets within the industry.

Our goal is to offer a worldwide connection between teachers, students, researchers and lecturers, from a wide range of academic fields, interested in exploring and giving their contribution in educational issues.

Researchers and academics give us a snapshot of their findings, and the implications that their research has had.

The U.S. Department of Education and numerous other researchers have sought continually to assess the effectiveness of the federal role in education in terms of its impact on the academic achievement of the targeted populations, but much less attention has been given to the effectiveness of the funding approach.

Accordingly, they place high value on priorities such as staffing their faculty with doctorate - level researchers, giving their professors academic freedom regarding how they structure their courses, expanding their course offerings, and awarding degrees based on students» completion of seat - time - based credit hours.

Given the meager academic progress of Elementary Turnaround Schools and their high teacher turnover rate, which undermines the basic culture of the school, the researchers conclude that the resources devoted to Turnaround Schools can be better spent by supporting alternative research - based strategies.

Not only is it spending more than $ 75 million a year on advocacy, but it is also simultaneously bankrolling the development of policy by funding academic researchers and district data specialists and giving money to think tanks and media organizations that examine their handiwork.

Given that in another reflection on his career from 2015, Kirst calls himself an «accidental professor», I could also say that he's the state policymaker who has had the most positive impact on researchers and academics.

One study followed the academic progress of 2,300 students in New York City who were enrolled in a dual credit program focusing on occupational training, and the other, much larger, study focused on 33,000 students in Florida, a state that collects extensive data on students from kindergarten through college, giving researchers an unusually rich set of material for analysis.

These data are similar to what researchers observed when the now defunct Kindle DX was given to students at campuses across the country to test their value for academic reading.

Given the careful training of graduate students and their scores in terms of reliability, the expectation is that if a separate team of 3 - 5 specially trained coders led by academic researchers were asked to code a different probability sample of coverage from the same news organizations using the same coding frame, they would arrive at approximately similar results.

A 2.5 million dollar grant is being given to a group of 8 academic researchers by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

This was the conclusion reached in an oft - cited study at Columbia University, where researchers counted the number of verbal fillers used by professors during lectures given to undergraduate students in three separate academic divisions: the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities.27 The natural - sciences professors used the fewest verbal fillers, with a mean rate of 1.39 uhs per minute.28 The social - science professors had a mean rate of 3.84 uhs per minute, and the rate for humanities professors was 6.46 uhs per minute.

Facebook says it initially gave out the data to a researcher who claimed it would be used only for academic purposes.

Many academics partner with Facebook because the social network will not give them access to the data they seek unless the research is conducted jointly, and some researchers have raised concerns that Facebook is creating a conflict of interest for them.

What is surprising is that an academic researcher could so flagrantly violate the spirit and the terms of the data - sharing policies Facebook has in place by taking that data and giving it to a firm that was never authorized to have it in the first place for the purposes of political targeting.

Over the weekend, various high - level security researchers and academic cryptographers gave cryptocurrency project IOTA a failing grade — exposing a critical weakness and suggesting investors sell their coins while asking researchers to ignore or abandon the project.

In 2015, Facebook gave permission to academic researcher Aleksandr Kogan to develop a quiz of his own.