Sentences with phrase «increasing quality of research»

One reason for their confidence is the increasing quality of research on commercial real estate markets, a trend driven in large part by the work of Ken Riggs.

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He lamented, in 2009, the significant decrease in the number of Catholic faculty and the fact that the University's increased focus on research to maintain its status among elite universities was weakening the quality of undergraduate education.

It's this kind of research that led Princeton sociologist Sara McLanahan and her colleague Gary Sandefur to write that if they we were to design a family, the «two - parent ideal... [would ensure] that children had access to the time and money of two adults... would provide a system of checks and balances that promoted quality parenting... [and the] fact that both parents have a biological connection to the child would increase the likelihood that the parents would identify with the child and be willing to sacrifice for that child, and it would reduce the likelihood that either parent would abuse the child.»

Jean - Marie will be meeting with farmers from Maraba in a series of eight multi-day workshops over the next 18 months, teaching the sustainable agriculture practices that, research has shown, increase farm productivity, increase the quality of harvested coffee, and improve downstream water quality.

The long - term supply and availability of high quality coffee is seriously threatened and there is a lack of research to identify appropriate and innovative ways of increasing cup quality and volumes of quality coffee.

While price, quality and portion size of course remain primary factors in this equation, new research from Technomic's «2017 Value & Pricing Consumer Trend Report» shows that consumers are placing increasing importance on sustainability and social responsibility at the dining venues they visit.

Because research had shown correlations between fathers» being employed and paying child support; and between fathers» being employed and spending time with their children; and between fathers» spending time with their children and paying child support, the programmes generally sought to increase father - child contact (and the quality of that contact) while improving fathers» earnings and payment of child support.

More recent research suggests that both the quantity and quality of father - child interactions during the early childhood years can lead to fewer behavioural problems, greater emotional self - regulation, increased language development and improved cognitive functioning for young children.

Research shows that sleeping with or near children increases the quality of sleep for mothers and reduces risk of SIDS for babies.

Given the limited rigorous research evidence on home visiting's effectiveness to prevent child maltreatment, one potential impact of using an approach like Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness, which attaches state funding to the quality of the evidence, may be to increase the amount and quality of the child maltreatment prevention research conducted globally.

When children get enough sleep on a regular basis, they're likely to see benefits including better behavior, increased attention span, learning, memory, emotional regulation, and overall quality of life according to the findings of this research.

The same research, based on real interviews with real people, indicated that low - quality, ugly housing increased the negative perception of those living in social accommodation.

The nineteen reforms in the 63 - page package are the result of extensive research by the Department of Social Services into all CPS functions, and fall into five categories: Increasing CPS Powers to Help Children; Improving the Quality of Reporting to the Statewide Central Register («SCR»); Punishing Abusers and Protecting Children; Modernizing the Child Welfare System; and Other Critical Reforms.

«The CUNY Board of Trustees has approved an operating budget request for FY2017 - 18 that seeks increased state and city investment in faculty hiring, new research, expanding college access and other initiatives necessary to provide our students with an affordable, high - quality education,» Arena said in an emailed statement.

To gain more control over the number of trainees and improve the quality of their training experience, they propose increasing the proportion of graduate students supported by training grants instead of professors» research grants.

The consortium has set itself the joint goal of improving the quality of biomaterial used in biomedical studies and hence increasing the reliability of research results nationwide.

«Frontotemporal degeneration is associated with substantial direct and indirect costs, diminished quality of life, and increased caregiver burden,» said James E. Galvin, M.D., M.P.H., lead author, associate dean for clinical research in FAU's Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, and a leading international expert on AD, Lewy Body Dementia (LBD), and FTD.

When it comes time for tenure, promotion, and salary increases, noncorporate funding is typically given much more weight, «it's a springboard of core funding that allows you then to do good research that's of interest to companies,» explains Prichard, «without it, you're not able to keep up with the high quality of research.»

The Science Journals support the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) guidelines to raise the quality of research published in Science and to increase transparency regarding the evidence on which conclusions are based.

Fortunately, the flow of high - quality research has increased in recent years.

The authors contend that the Parkinson's community must come together and focus its activism in support of: developing a better understand the environmental, genetic, and behavioral causes and risk factors for Parkinson's to help prevent its onset; increasing access to care — an estimated 40 percent of people with the disease in both the U.S. and Europe do not see a neurologist and the number is far greater in developing nations; advocating for increases in research funding for the disease; and lowering the cost of treatments — many patients in low - income countries do not have access to drugs that are both lifesaving and improve quality of life.

«Fortunately, the flow of high - quality research has increased in recent years,» the experts wrote in the paper.

The report, «Patents as Proxies: NIH Hubs of Innovation,» confirms an increased economic value of NIH patents as compared to private sector patents, as well as meaningful differences in the rate and quality of invention across different research and development (R&D) investments.

«It was the quality of sleep that predicted future cognitive decline in this study, not the quantity,» said lead author Terri Blackwell, MA, senior statistician at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute (CPMCRI) in San Francisco, Calif. «With the rate of cognitive impairment increasing and the high prevalence of sleep problems in the elderly, it is important to determine prospective associations with sleep and cognitive decline.»

For example, effective from the current round of awards, the quota of postdoctoral awards has been increased, although alongside this change, INSERM has also decided «to adjust [postdoctoral applicant's] research expenses according to the quality of their research project and experience,» says Postel - Vinay.

Hip replacement surgery not only improves quality of life but is also associated with increased life expectancy, compared to people of similar age and sex, reports a study in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research ® (CORR ®), a publication of The Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons ®.

Because of the sheer number of people who suffer from tinnitus in the United States, a group that includes many combat veterans, Husain hopes her group's future research will be able to increase tinnitus patients» quality of life.

«The volume and quality of research about end - of - life care in prisons has increased, but research is still largely exploratory and descriptive,» said Susan J. Loeb, associate professor of nursing and medicine.

«The most important advantages of removing ink are, on the one hand, increasing the value of engineered plastic, achieving to match the quality of the new plastic with a virgin one, and on the other hand, the selling price of recycled plastic compared to virgin plastic», Andrés Fullana Font explains, a lecturer of the UA Department of chemical engineering and a member of the research group.

For many Scientists, a huge proportion of available time is spent on administrative and regulatory tasks that do not increase the quality or safety of research.

Previous research has found that inadequate feeding of quality colostrum to newborn calves can result in reduced growth rates, increased risk of disease and death, increased risk of being culled, and decreased milk production in the first and second lactations.

And it encouraged the agency to «support research that studies the olfactory system, genetic markers, and behavior traits of detection canines in order to increase the capabilities and quality of these canines available to the government.»

«With increasing penalization for readmissions rates, hospitals need complete information to effectively target areas for quality improvement,» said study coauthor Andrew Gonzalez, MD, JD, MPH, a research fellow in vascular surgery at the Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

The quality of research is a measure separate from number of publications, and the Royal Society report measured it primarily in numbers of citations per paper; here, although citations of Chinese papers have increased over the same period, the rise in quality hasn't been as fast as that of output.

In particular, insomnia can lead to decreased quality of life, increased rates of depression, and even increased risk of heart disease,» said senior author, Michael Grandner, PhD MTR, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology and Medicine, and Director of the Sleep and Health Research Program at the University of Arizona.

The research points to the increasing need to assess a patient's health - related quality of life and a patient's overall perception of relative well - being as a valuable tool to evaluate treatment efficacies.

According to new research in the BMJ Quality & Safety journal, previous studies showing an increased risk of mortality following admission to hospital at weekends have failed to take account of the higher severity of patients» conditions.

Its mission is to increase access to and improve the quality of addiction treatment, to educate physicians, and other health care providers and the public, to support research and prevention, to promote the appropriate role of the physician in the care of patients with addictive disorders, and to establish addiction medicine as a specialty recognized by professional organizations, governments, physicians, purchasers and consumers of health care services and the general public.

This paper confirms loads of previous research that increased senescent cell accumulation through aging has a direct effect on quality of life.

«Research has shown that even mild cognitive deficits lead to depression, anxiety, decreased participation in society, increased unemployment, and decreased quality of life,» says Dr. Chiaravalloti, director of Neuropsychology, Neuroscience & Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Research at Kessler Foundation, and project director of the Northern New Jersey TBI System (NNJTBIS).

«Monell is the right place with the right people and this is the right time to increase awareness about anosmia and focus on targeted research to help people affected with this invisible disability, which can have distressing effects on emotional well - being, safety and quality of life,» said Monell Center Director Robert F. Margolskee, MD, PhD.

IFAR's strategic plan outlines the future of research at Hebrew SeniorLife, and positions us to have an increasing influence on quality of life for seniors.

INFRAFRONTIER puts great effort into international standardisation and quality control and into technology development to improve and expand experimental protocols, reduce the use of animals in research and increase the reproducibility of results.

This issue we pay homage to the scientists behind our ever - increasing quality of life as we feature the latest in health research.

Greater attention to behavioral outcomes is critical for aging research's ultimate goal of increasing not only lifespan but healthspan, the period over which the quality of life remains high.

Research to date, however, has demonstrated that while cognitive rehabilitation helps people return to work — a central goal for many — such treatment actually produces significant improvements in overall quality of life, such as increased participation in social relationships, family relationships, and social interactions.

Research makes a direct contribution to the prevention and treatment of lung diseases and can also lead to dramatic increases in the quality of life for European citizens.

was based upon my impressions of a declining quality of modern science, large wastage of time by researchers struggling to get more and more research grants, conversion of university research into a business entity where money is everything, de-emphasis on basic research and corresponding increased emphasis on applied research, and, increasing corruption by professional scientists.

There is also now abundant research that links BPA and phthalate exposure to such human health concerns as deformities of the male and female genitals; premature puberty in females; decreased sperm quality; and increases in breast and prostate cancers, infertility, miscarriages, obesity, type 2 diabetes, allergies and neurological problems, like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Recent research has also proven that with increased intake of high quality lean protein (low in saturated fat), your kidneys adjust very quickly.