Sentences with phrase «giving young researchers»

In June 2011, the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) Center for Scientific Review (CSR) debuted a program aimed at leveling the playing field — somewhat — by giving young researchers experience on grant - review panels so that they could see what they look for in the grant applications they choose to fund.

Although open only to chemists (albeit interpreted in the widest possible sense) from London and the Home Counties, SET for BRITAIN organises many similar events aimed at giving young researchers of all stripes the opportunity to get the attention of policy - makers.

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.

«We hope that programmes such as this will give young researchers the skills and enthusiasm they need to create the next wave of innovative companies,» says the Tanaka Business School's Nelson Phillips.

The NIH is funding development of training courses to give young researchers a better grounding in the fundamentals of biomedical research procedures.

It seems to me that longer durations both for mobility and reintegration grants would give young researchers more time and energy to become professionally independent.

Not exact matches

At the end of World War II, researchers starved 36 young male volunteers for 24 weeks, giving them a low - fat diet limited to just 1,600 calories a day, which was 600 to 1,500 calories fewer than their body needed (depending on their level of daily activity) to maintain a healthy weight.

Researchers noted that this could be especially problematic given that Affordable Care Act could use as many young enrollees as possible.

To help our readers — especially the younger, less established lot — deal with that uncertainty, we gave longtime contributor Beryl Lieff Benderly her own column, «Taken for Granted,» in which she dissects the challenges faced by postdocs and other researchers «who deserve better.»

Founded in the Fall of 2011 by a group of concerned graduate students, the goal of Stand With Science is simple: give graduate and professional students in science and engineering, young researchers, and anyone passionate about supporting science and engineering research the knowledge, tools, and inspiration they need to become advocates for society's investment in the innovations Ð and innovators Ð of tomorrow.

Although not all relevant funding bodies are represented in the survey, and research institutions — many of which directly support young researchers — are largely absent, the report gives a feel for the wide variety of funding programs that are available.

On their Web site, Gate2Growth gives 10 reasons to become a member, appealing to the mobility and training of young researchers.

When the young animals were successfully weaned, researchers gave them a series of tests to gauge their fear response, along with their cognitive, memory and social skills.

Messages aimed at curbing vaporiser and e-cigarette use among young people may not be successful if they focus on the dangers of nicotine, given that most teens who vape do not believe they are using nicotine, say the researchers.

«Many parents and caregivers go down a slide with a young child on their lap without giving it a second thought,» states lead researcher Charles Jennissen, MD, Clinical Professor and Pediatric Emergency Medicine Staff Physician, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine.

To encourage young researchers, CAST gives an award every other year for talented young scientists, and five years ago, started an annual award for young women scientists, funded by L'Oréal (China) as an extension of the L'Oréal - UNESCO Women in Science Partnership.

One of the founders of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he flashed a slide of his lab team and gave a warning: Because investigator - initiated grants have become impossible to get, he said, these young researchers don't have «much of a future.»

Peer Bork, head of the Comparative Sequence Analysis group at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, gives an inside view of biocomputing research at one of Europe's top research institutions and also points out what qualifies young researchers to join the bioinformatics elite.

At a meeting in Western Canada between the directors of the NSERC and some 170 researchers and graduate students, a young physicist asked members of the audience to give their opinion about collaborative grants by a show of hands.

The prizes are given to researchers aged 40 years or younger every four years.

At 4 weeks after the last dose, the researchers found that HPV antibody responses in girls and boys given 2 doses were noninferior to HPV antibody responses in adolescent girls and young women given 3 doses.

According to the researchers continued surveillance of HPV vaccination is necessary to identify clinical benefits, particularly given the low rate of vaccine uptake and completion and vaccination of many young women after sexual debut.

250 - year - old statistical technique has prompted researchers to rewrite the evolutionary history of placental mammals, which include humans and all other mammals that give birth to live, fully developed young.

Given the often disabling or fatal consequences of a stroke, and the increasing use of methamphetamine among young people, particularly in countries around the Pacific rim (North America, East and Southeast Asia, and Oceania), the findings are a cause for concern, warn the researchers.

BIG TANK A young white shark temporarily residing at the Monterey Bay aquarium gave researchers a chance to test a virtual gas gauge designed to see how the fish draw down energy stores during their epic migrations.

For the study, researchers analyzed responses from a paper - and - pencil survey given to a sample of 545 diverse young adults, ages 21 or 22.

«At the time, the US study showed that rapamycin extends lifespan irrespective of whether the treatment is given to young or aged animals,» says the Bonn - based researcher.

Yale's Warren agrees that EMBL «needs to identify some young and dynamic researchers and give them the chance to do great research.»

Sharing some of his experiences as project leader, he also gives advice to young researchers interested in working in or for developing countries.

Networking expert Dick van Vlooten, founder and owner of di Cuore, an institute that does research on the art of doing «business from the heart,» has been training businesspeople, students, and entrepreneurs in the art of networking for 4 years, as well as publishing sociological articles and giving lectures to project managers, sales representatives, and young researchers.

To give young talent a career path, Spain could provide incentives for the retirement of senior researchers and introduce the tenure - track positions that were promised in the 2011 science law and again in the 2013 to 2020 science strategy.

It's in the subordinate mongoose's best interest to synchronize labor to give her young their best chance at survival, researchers now report.

After the final stressors were administered, the researchers gave the young mice a round of behavioral tests and then waited until the mice reached adulthood, at about 10 weeks old, to see if their different upbringings had affected their cognitive abilities or brain morphology.

When the researchers asked adults to rate the children's productions for how much they looked like English words, they found that the adults gave higher ratings, on average, to the productions of older prephonological spellers than to the productions of younger prephonological spellers.

The National Institutes of Health is dropping a policy that gave researchers only one chance to revise a rejected grant application before having to start over with a new idea — a rule that was especially hard on young investigators.

Given that many soldiers on the front lines are in their late teens or early 20s, the researchers wondered whether groups with younger soldiers might benefit from the inclusion of a slightly older soldier in his mid - to late - 20s.

Researchers gave questionnaires to 189 healthy young men and analyzed their semen.

This gives her the opportunity to show that she not only supports young researchers with words but also with deeds!

Therefore I have not yet given up hope that she — in spite of the recent cutbacks introduced by the new government — will make a case for those who carry out the largest part of the research but are listened to the least: the young researchers, today's talent!

The researchers believe that the mothers are giving the young males the opportunity to observe males in social situations, even while still clinging to their mothers.

Hackney «was hesitant» to take on so young a researcher, he writes in an e-mail, but he gave her a project on the micromechanics of lithium battery design when he recognized that her mathematical skills far exceeded those of many graduate students.

Females with juvenile sons were also more likely to seek each other out, the researchers found, presumably to give the young males a start on developing the social skills they'll need to thrive as adults.

A bad break that apparently gave a young boy Tourette syndrome may turn out to be a lucky break for researchers studying the neuropsychiatric disorder.

But this means that thousands of young people are not protected and can spread the disease to others, so a team of researchers set out to assess the safety of giving LAIV to those with egg allergy.

Robert Tribble, deputy director for Science and Technology, gave the afternoon keynote address at the 2014 Young Researchers Symposium.

Alistair Rogers, leader of the Terrestrial Ecosystem Science & Technology Group, gave the morning keynote address at the 2014 Young Researchers Symposium.

In this symposium, the participants shared the current status of various radio telescope projects such as ALMA, the Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) under discussion in the U.S., and SKA which will be constructed in Australia and Africa, as well as the presentations given by young and senior researchers on the progress and challenges of their researches and ideas of new projects.

The researchers compared one group of mice that gave birth four times with a second group of mice that gave birth only once, some of these at the same age that the first group had its fourth litter and some at a younger age.

Granier was able to follow his curiosity, thanks to a generous «excellence» grant from the European Research Council (ERC), given to young researchers purely on the quality of their work.

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.