Sentences with phrase «human scale efforts»

Some more human scale efforts to feeding Africa would

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There will also be a parallel call for benefits, professional development, and compensation that smooths out the rough patches in this on - demand labor life, but such efforts will lag behind the exploitation of said labor because big business has more resources and big tech moves too fast for human - scale responses of accountability and responsibility.

«We need a planning process that is equal to the scale and complexity of the challenge, rather than continuing to depend on piecemeal efforts that put wildlife species and human communities at higher risk in the face of global pressures like climate change and a race for resources.»

Meanwhile, purification efforts to clean up polluted rivers, lakes, streams, and wells can not meet the world's growing water needs, and water shortages are already causing human and ecological suffering on a haunting scale.

As large - scale genome sequencing projects, such as the Human Genome Project, near completion, the research community's focus is shifting toward efforts to determine functional information about these sequenced genes.

For several years now Wells has been trying to organize an effort to do on a global scale what he already did in Central Asia — similar to the ill - starred Human Genome Diversity Project.

To achieve this goal, her lab has developed technology platforms for large - scale immunostaining and systematic validation of antibody specificity, and has initiated citizen - science efforts to refine the Human Protein Atlas database.

Large - scale genome sequencing efforts, like the Human Microbiome Project, have focused on the community of microorganisms that live in the humanHuman Microbiome Project, have focused on the community of microorganisms that live in the humanhuman gut.

The human nose is more complicated than receptors for two smell molecules, so to make a true smelling device, the researchers will need to scale up their efforts.

The US National Institutes of Health has begun to fund a major effort, the Human Connectome Project, to generate a comprehensive map of large - scale brain connections in humans.

The Human Connectome Project, which is an international effort to map the connectomes of 1,000 people on a macro scale — mostly just the white matter, or active myelinated (insulated) nerve cell bundles — using magnetic resonance imaging, this week announced its finding that brain wiring patterns correlate with behavioral and demographic traits.

Dr. Vijayanand also oversees a large - scale effort to map epigenomic modifications in more than a dozen different types of human immune cells from normal individuals to understand how epigenetic variations cause susceptibility to disease.

In 2003, two large - scale consortia undertook ambitious efforts to understand the variation and function in the human genome.

The human brain connectome has not yet been fully mapped at the cellular or the macro (high - level structural and functional) scale, though efforts to do the latter are much further along than the former — which has only just even become possible (more on that later).

Efforts such as the HapMap Project and 1,000 Genomes Project have characterized human genetic variation at an unprecedented scale.

Vijay also oversees a large - scale effort to map epigenomic modifications in more than a dozen different types of human immune cells from normal individuals to understand how epigenetic variations cause susceptibility to disease.

The Interagency Education Research Initiative — funded jointly by the National Science Foundation, OERI, and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development — is sponsoring efforts that bring early research to scale with some emphasis on the use of technology.

These scale - up initiatives — including the White House's Social Innovation Fund, or SIF, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services» efforts on teen - pregnancy prevention and home visitation, and the U.S. Department of Education's Investing in Innovation Fund, or i3, — present a real opportunity for us to learn to do...