Sentences with phrase «increasing focus of our work»

Professor Sir Mike Owen, who leads the MRC Centre at Cardiff University, said: «These findings are another important step on the long road to new treatments for schizophrenia and will be crucial for identifying potential new drugs, which will become an increasing focus of our work in the coming years.»

Not exact matches

The CEOs tend to be unassuming folk who ignore management trends to concentrate on the nuts and bolts of running a business — focusing on earnings per share instead of worrying about top - line growth, for example, and working to preserve cash flow instead of increasing earnings to build shareholder value.

Yes, there are good reasons why some startups should put working day - to - day on growing their business aside and spend the time instead looking for outside investment, including: gaining the financial and other operational resources they need to move forward; to increase their financial stability, focus (plus peace of mind) in the short - term if they've been growing on revenue, founders» savings and credit cards; and to quickly accelerate their growth in order to capture a massive market.

Commuting has an effect on performance as it increases anger and resentment at work, absenteeism, and has a negative impact on punctuality and the ability to focus and perform at the same level as other colleagues who live nearer to the place of work.»

In fact, I've found that slacking off makes me more productive because I slack strategically — meaning that I take breaks at designated times, for regular intervals, in ways that sharpen my focus when I sit back down to work,» she argues, asserting that «strategic slacking has enabled me to dramatically increase both the quality of my work and the amount I get done in a given day.»

But it comes as more of a shock to some bosses that study after study shows remote work can actually increase productivity as team members find the right conditions for focus and creativity.

More than half of poll respondents told Pew that the increased focus on harassment will make it harder for men to interact with women at work (at 55 %, men were slightly more likely to say so than women.)

AutoNation's used - car focus and one - price strategy is working, CEO Mike Jackson said Tuesday, following the Fort Lauderdale - based company's announcement of a first - quarter revenue increase of 2 percent and same - store gross profits up 9 percent.

Credit specialist George Shaw offers his suggestions for improving the relationship between lenders and borrowers, including an increased focus on customer concentration, higher - quality working capital, and for older business owners, the creation of a succession plan.

Lead analytics expert technical consultant teams in delivering project implementations and configurations Strategist for Client Implementations of Adobe Marketing Cloud Products (AEM, Analytics, Target, Social, Campaign, etc.) Participate and lead internal brainstorming and creative thinking sessions that solve client / prospect digital marketing roadblocks, customer roadmap & journey strategies, technical integrations, and discover upsell opportunities Leverage digital marketing consulting skills to assess client's requirements in aligning proper resources and provide on - time delivery of the scope of work Key strategic member of sales and business development teams by providing expert solutions to prospects leading to purchasing content management systems such as Adobe AEM (CMS & Communities), Target, Campaign, Analytics and other digital marketing technologies and services Collaborate with all business units including: consulting, technical, sales, and marketing Developed acquisition & demand generation strategies via event, email and content marketing programs Establish excellent sales and client retention strategies and demand generation by providing guidance through evaluation of current technologies and sourcing of complementary products and services to recommend Created sales strategy to increase sales pipeline and focus on opportunities in both inbound and outbound marketing Co-Sell, Cross-Sell, Upsell & Strategize with Partners.

Nick Gibb, the school standards minister was quoted by The Times as saying: «Thanks to the hard work of teachers and this government's continued focus on raising standards and increased emphasis on phonics, six years are reading better than ever before.»

Smurfit Kappa's new microsite, openthefuture.info, focuses on increasing customer insight and innovation and features a series of films portraying customers across the world working with Smurfit Kappa to develop new solutions for commercial success.

This working group is focused on creating and innovating culinary strategies and solutions that increase plant - based food and beverage consumption in foodservice operations by collaborating with partner companies to operationalize a variety of sustainable, affordable, scalable, and executable offerings our customers crave.

It is designed for trained, working birth doulas and focuses on helping newer doulas grow their birth doula skills, increase their efficiency, avoid burnout, expand their business, and learn to balance their work as a birth doula with the rest of their life.

Geri's work focuses on nutrition policies, such as increasing the healthfulness of nutrition programs, necessary to reach the goals of eradicating domestic hunger and improving the nutrition and health of low - income individuals and families.

Strategic Plan Focus for July — Goals 2, 3, and 4 World BF Month is the perfect opportunity to promote a culture supportive and accepting of breastfeeding (goal 2) through parties and health fairs, etc., build, link, and ensure access to state and local resources (goal 3) by providing information to moms about resources online and in your community, and to engage stakeholders in alignment of goals and actions to increase breastfeeding support (goal 4) by pulling in other groups that work with moms and babies to help with World Breastfeeding Day / Week / Month (WBM) activities!

An occupational therapist will work with your child to focus on increasing your child's ability to tolerate a variety of sensory experiences to create the just right fit for your child.

In her work she focuses on the strategic implications of the increasing use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs or «drones «-RRB- by Western armed forces.

These focus on increasing opportunities for MPs to hear external evidence, providing greater support to parliamentarians carrying out this work, and trying to get more value from the tax expertise in the House of Lords.

«The senate will continue where it stopped in terms of the speed of work, the focus, and there will be increased intensity in terms of output,» Abdullahi said.

The Wright Committee also wrote of the need to incentivise and increase the commitment of select committee members, and highlighted the view that it is «crucial to create a parliamentary career path focussed on select committee work».

JumpStart's work within Northeast Ohio has focused in two areas: 1) providing resources (in the form of intensive technical support and investment capital) directly to high potential entrepreneurs leading early stage companies, and 2) supporting the creation and growth of a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem, which increases entrepreneurs» access to equity capital, government grants, and other resources, and is delivered by a variety of collaborators across the region.

I noticed that after your postdoc appointment, you moved to industry, where you have held several roles of increasing responsibilities, and your work focuses on [same research topic as me].

More specifically, it focuses on representation of women in governance within CCPE; enhancing youth awareness of engineering careers; improving the work environment and career path choices for women engineers, including flexible work options and equitable compensation; and increasing public and professional awareness of the contribution of women engineers.

In a world of increasing competition for research funding and growing focus on applied research, MPG offers established researchers excellent working conditions.

Some of the companies that he has worked with have a singular focus on increasing profits that can get disheartening at times, he acknowledges, but «on a good day, sports can be a force to change people's lives for the better.»

The «Research Funding» working group focused on defining a sustainable funding level and aligning the academic community with industry and patient advocacy groups in support of increased and stable funding.

During these days of economic uncertainty and job - market unease, my columns have focused on the art of looking for work, on increasing the odds of an increasingly rare event: finding a job.

Larger increases are rare, and there's always a risk that if you seek too much, it can make you seem out of touch or too focused on the rewards and not enough on the work required to get there.

While the current outbreak increases the scientists» focus on vaccines and therapeutics, they emphasize the generalizability of their work.

«The self - healing sensor raises expectations that flexible devices might someday be self - administered, which increases their reliability,» explained co-developer Dr. Tan - Phat Huynh, also of the Technion, whose work focuses on the development of self - healing electronic skin.

Perry Fuchs, chair of UTA's department of Psychology in the College of Science, emphasized the importance of this work in the context of the university's increasing focus on health and the human condition within the Strategic Plan 2020: Bold Solutions Global Impact.

«The Assyrians can be «excused» to some extent for focusing on short - term economic or political goals which increased their risk of being negatively impacted by climate change, given their technological capacity and their level of scientific understanding about how the natural world worked,» adds Selim Adalı.

In relation to the phases involved in the circular economy, Biomat is focussing its research work on improving the extraction, production and treatment processes of the product once it has been discarded in order to increase the output in these processes and cut costs and environmental impacts, thus making the development of sustainable, competitive materials possible.

They include reduced lymphocyte repertoire, increasing clonality and increasing autoreactivity.5, 7,8 Recent work has focused on intrinsic cell defects, which alter T cell activation threshold, induction of cellular senescence and differentiation into short - lived effector or long - lived memory cells.

Dr. El - Naggar has increased our understanding of electron transfer focusing on bacterial nanowires, and is working to develop new nanomaterials and tools for energy conversion.

This edition focuses on PNNL's work to increase energy efficiency and improve the reliability of the U.S. electrical grid.

Dr. Sadelain's work has focused on developing novel strategies to extend survival of CAR T cells in the body and enable T cells with increased potency to overcome the resistance imposed by tumor and other cells in the tumor microenvironment.

We also have a major new educational initiative underway, First Two, which works to increase retention of STEM students in their first two years of college, with a particular focus on first generation college students.

As a matter of fact, you can even argue that using equipment can reduce the efficiency of this type of workout, because the main focus of HIIT should be boosting your heart rate and increasing the blood flow to each and every muscle in your body, and not on making one muscle group work harder.

No problem: «Research has shown that even a 15 - minute seated massage at work can change your brain wave pattern to increase alertness, improve focus, and boost performance on quantitative tasks,» says Marilyn Kier, a member of the American Massage Therapy Association and founder of Wellness At Work in Northfield, Illinwork can change your brain wave pattern to increase alertness, improve focus, and boost performance on quantitative tasks,» says Marilyn Kier, a member of the American Massage Therapy Association and founder of Wellness At Work in Northfield, IllinWork in Northfield, Illinois.

Men tend to work at building muscles on specific parts of their body, focusing, for example, on biceps, quads, and shoulders, whereas yoga builds muscles evenly over the whole body and increases flexibility.

«This study provides specific evidence on long work hours and an increase [in] the risk of CVD, thereby providing a foundation for CVD prevention efforts focused on work schedule practices, which may reduce the risk of CVD for millions of working Americans,» study author Sadie Conway, of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, said in a journal news release.

With special training in the holistic practice of elevating empathy, reducing anxiety, and creating a balance within the technologically and social - media - focused world today; Dr. Chopra's work is timely and beneficial to anyone curious about living more fully, increasing happiness and optimizing functionality and success.

To promote health among low - income single mothers, Dr. Chavkin adds, the government should focus on providing subsidized child care, increased wages, and better health insurance for working moms — none of which, she says, is provided by «the current welfare apparatus.»

If you want to create a small pre-workout stack and boost the effects further, add in 1 - 3 grams of l - tyrosine (also very inexpensive) as this amino acid works downstream from caffeine to increase energy and mental focus further.

We will first focus on the big movements that are supposed to increase the strength and power of your upper arms and we will finish with some higher rep movements used as hypertrophy work.

To begin, you are going to work on increasing your bench press strength and then go right into the high volume portion of the workout to focus on building muscle.

So with all that said we need to concentrate on intensity and to be able to increase the resistance when we are able to do 30 reps.. But the most important factor when getting the measurable results is focus which means taking extra care to isolate the specific section of abs that you are working on.

Melatonin allows for more regular sleep patterns, Vitamin B supports the nervous system and increases * energy and a combination of Ginkgo Biloba and L - Theanine work together to boost * the blood flow, improving * memory, focus and concentration.