Sentences with phrase «international research project led»

A major international research project led by a University of Sussex academic provides new evidence that the common belief in a cultural divide between the West and the rest of the world is little more than a myth.

An international research project led by Kazuyuki Takeda of Kyoto University and Koji Usami of the University of Tokyo has developed a new method of light detection for nuclear magnetic resonance — NMR — by up - converting NMR radio - frequency signals into optical signals.

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His recent works involve a research project on behalf of the International Labour Office, which has led to the publication of the book: Wage - led Growth: An Equitable Strategy for Economic Recovery (Palgrave - Macmillan, 2013).

These field trials form part of the Golden Rice project that the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is working on together with other leading nutrition and agricultural research organizations to develop and evaluate Golden Rice as a potential new way to reduce vitamin A deficiency in the PhilResearch Institute (IRRI) is working on together with other leading nutrition and agricultural research organizations to develop and evaluate Golden Rice as a potential new way to reduce vitamin A deficiency in the Philresearch organizations to develop and evaluate Golden Rice as a potential new way to reduce vitamin A deficiency in the Philippines.

Led by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), the project seeks to create «C4 rice» — rice with a built - in fuel injector to better convert sunlight into grain, potentially resulting in up to 50 % higher production all while using less water and nutrients.

«PRISM uses remote sensing, crop modeling, cloud computing, and smart phone - based surveys for rice mapping and monitoring,» said Alice Laborte, who leads the PRISM project at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

Rice bred to perform well in the toughest conditions where the poorest farmers grow rice is a step away from reaching farmers thanks to a major project led by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

Bago City, Myanmar (10 October 2017)-- An Australian - funded five - year research project led by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Myanmar is making a lasting impact on improving local rice farmers» ability to adapt to agricultural challenges and respond to market opporresearch project led by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Myanmar is making a lasting impact on improving local rice farmers» ability to adapt to agricultural challenges and respond to market opporResearch Institute (IRRI) in Myanmar is making a lasting impact on improving local rice farmers» ability to adapt to agricultural challenges and respond to market opportunities

The completed sequencing of the seven wild rice varieties is a significant progress to drive further genome evolution and domestication,» explained Dr. Rod Wing, leader of the International Oryza Map Alignment Project (IOMAP), an AXA Chair holder at the International Rice Research Institute, Professor at the University of Arizona, and one of the lead scientists in the study.

The committee included an international group of academics with expertise in various aspects of food culture and gastronomy such as Joxe Mari Aizega, General Manager of Basque Culinary Center; Jorge Ruiz Carrascal, Professor of the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen; Marta Miguel Castro, a Research Associate at the CIAL Institute of Research in Food Science, who studies how food components could prevent disorders such as diabetes and obesity; Melina Shannon Dipietro, executive director of Rene Redzepi's MAD project; and Dr F. Xavier Medina, author, social anthropologist and leading scholar of Food and Culture at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona.

Findings from a project led by London's Institute of Education and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Department for International Development (DFID) show that using new ways of encouraging young children to stay in regular schooling cut drop - out rates by 42 per cent in just a year.

Renowned for his extensive work in molecular genetics, Brenner is best known locally for his role in bringing leading - edge biomedical sciences research to Singapore and in spearheading the Fugu genome project, which brought the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology international recognition.

An international research project, led by the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI - MUHC) in Montreal, reports that a new oral medication is showing significant progress in restoring vision to patients with Leber congenital amaurosiresearch project, led by the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI - MUHC) in Montreal, reports that a new oral medication is showing significant progress in restoring vision to patients with Leber congenital amaurosiResearch Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI - MUHC) in Montreal, reports that a new oral medication is showing significant progress in restoring vision to patients with Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA).

As the guide warns, «[w] ith research involving international collaborators, legal, social, and cultural differences may lead to disputes over whether someone has acted irresponsibly» in the course of a project.

The results of the international research project might lead to the introduction of uniform — and binding — protection provisions for these limit ranges of hearing within Europe, since there have been none to date.

The research team, including members of Prof. Keinan's lab, Prof. Eitan Friedman of TAU's Sackler School of Medicine, and Prof. Gil Azmon and colleagues at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the University of Haifa, based their study on data from the Jewish HapMap project, an international effort led by Prof. Harry Ostrer of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, to determine the genetic history of worldwide Jewish diasporas.

The European VSV - EBOVAC project is a multidisciplinary research collaboration which brings together 13 leading international vaccine research institutes from six EU countries and the USA.

The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, was funded by a special research project of the FWF (Austrian Science Fund)(SFB - 35, led by Harald Sitte) and presented as a highlight at the international conference on «Organization for Human Brain Mapping.»

But, in reality, it never ended.The continuing celebration of all things brain extends, once more, with the unveiling of a mammoth Web site devoted to neuroscience.Brainfacts.org — funded with $ 1.53 million project over six years by the Gatsby and Kavli Foundations — amasses basic information from leading organizations, ranging from the National Institutes of Health to the International Brain Research Organization in France, chronicling both how the brain works as well as major brain diseases.

I am the Associate Director of the BCM Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (IDDRC), Director of the BCM IDDRC and Texas Children's Hospital (TCH) Neurobehavioral Core Facilities, and am the Academic Lead for the behavioral phenotyping component of BCM's Knock Out Mouse Project, an NIH Common Fund Research Program contributing to the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium's overall goal to create and characterize a null allele of every protein - coding gene of the mouse.

Both projects involved partners in Europe, the Pacific Islands region and North America, and gave a prominent international role to the university's research group Bergen Pacific Studies, that Hviding leads.

To carry out projects in genome analysis that will lead to significant improvements in people's health and quality of life, in collaboration with the Catalan, Spanish, European and International research and clinical community.

With the Agreement now ratified and in force, the next challenge is actually meeting its ambition, says the study's lead author Dr Glen Peters, senior researcher at the Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo (CICERO) and project manager of the Global Carbon Pproject manager of the Global Carbon ProjectProject.

She has made an important contribution to several international research consortia in human genomics, including the Genotype Tissue Expression (GTEx) Project, the 1000 Genomes Project and led the RNA - sequencing work of the Geuvadis Consortium.

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NEWMEDS - Novel Methods leading to New Medications in Depression and Schizophrenia - is an international consortium of scientists that has launched one of the largest ever research academic - industry collaboration projects to find new methods for the development of drugs for schizophrenia and depression.

In October, lead author Brian Walsh of the Ecosystems Services and Management Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Vienna, Austria, visited the Synthetic Biology Project at the Wilson Center and spoke with John Milewski about his research on Wilson Center Now.

The 2015 mid-term evaluation report of LABEX IAST resulted in a very positive assessment by the international jury: «This is a high - risk, high - potential project that can lead to transformative research in the long term, Intersection between economics, biology, psychology, and other fields, perfectly suited for funding by a public research agency.

These kinds of programs empower faculty to conduct cutting - edge research on language learning, bilugualism, international curricular issues, and immigrant education, which includes a recently awarded $ 1.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education for Project LEAD (Leadership in English Acquisition, Academic Achievement and Development).

ST. ANDREW»S K - 12 STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN a research project that is part of the CTTL's partnership with Research Schools International that is led by researchers from Harvard's Graduate School of Edresearch project that is part of the CTTL's partnership with Research Schools International that is led by researchers from Harvard's Graduate School of EdResearch Schools International that is led by researchers from Harvard's Graduate School of Education.

Some are to some degree antagonistic toward each other, but a few years ago when epilepsy was recognized as a serious breed health concern an international grass - roots effort lead to a large collection of research samples and cooperation among key clubs, foundations and organizations to provide funding for a research project that involves an international collaboration.

Apex is one of the leading companies focusing on the use of game technology and participates in national and international selected research based projects where we are pushing the limits of the use of gaming technology.

6 pm Discussion: Art Basel's Crowdfunding Initiative: FocusProjects Chana Budgazad Sheldon, Executive Director at Locust Projects, Miami; Mary Ceruti, Executive Director and Chief Curator at SculptureCenter, New York; Aaron Cezar, Director of Delfina Foundation, London; Stephanie Pereira, International Partnerships, Lead at Kickstarter, New York; Glenn Phillips, Acting Head of the Department of Architecture and Contemporary Art at Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; Mari Spirito, Founding Director, Protocinema, Istanbul / New York.

She is a Professor at Valand School of Fine Arts, University of Gothenburg, Sweden where she is currently leading an international research project on Trust and the Unfolding Dialogue funded by the Swedish Research research project on Trust and the Unfolding Dialogue funded by the Swedish Research Research Council.

Italian architect Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, partner at OMA working on preservation, scenography and curation, is both leading OMA Urban Studies, as well as the team of creative mediators, which includes the Swiss contemporary art curator Mirjam Varadinis, who works in Kunsthaus Zurich and was co-curator of TRACK, a large scale city - wide international exhibition in the tradition of «Chambres d'amis» in Ghent, Belgium; Spanish architect, artist and scholar based in New York and Madrid, Andrés Jaque, the founder of the Office of Political Innovation, working on the intersection of research, politics and design; and Dutch filmmaker and journalist Bregtje van der Haak, who has been directing international documentaries and transmedia projects on long - term social change with a special focus on urbanisation and technological culture.

Dec. 29, 9:28 a.m. Updated below I've been in touch with Natalia Shakhova and Igor Semiletov, the intrepid Russian researchers, based at the International Arctic Research Center in Fairbanks, Alaska, who for more than a decade have been leading an important international project analyzing methane plumes rising from the seabed in the shallow Arctic waters spreading north from eastern SibInternational Arctic Research Center in Fairbanks, Alaska, who for more than a decade have been leading an important international project analyzing methane plumes rising from the seabed in the shallow Arctic waters spreading north from eastern Sibinternational project analyzing methane plumes rising from the seabed in the shallow Arctic waters spreading north from eastern Siberian shores.

project manager & lead author — Sven Teske EREC Oliver Schäfer, Arthouros Zervos, Greenpeace International — Sven Teske, Jan Béranek, Stephanie Tunmore research & co-authors DLR, Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, Department of Systems Analysis and Technology Assessment, Stuttgart, Germany: Dr. Wolfram Krewitt, Dr. Sonja Simon, Dr. Thomas Pregger.

His professional experience includes leading research teams in multi-institutional and international field measurement programs and managing numerous projects for the U.S. Department of Energy, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense.

Dr Dieter Gerten, research expert on water scarcity, and lead author of one of the three studies contained in the PIK paper, said mean global warming of 2ºC − the target set by the international community − is projected to expose an additional 8 % of humankind to new or increased water scarcity.

The Harvard Project's research focuses on policy architecture, key design elements, and institutional dimensions of international and domestic climate change policy — and draws upon leading scholars and policy practitioners from around the world (including Argentina, Australia, China, Europe, India, Japan, and the United States).

Alejandro Ponce, chief research officer of the World Justice Project, Rachel Kleinfeld, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Beatriz Magaloni of Stanford University lead the expert group to discuss each of these arenas and create a policy - relevant research agenda.

ACHIEVEMENTS IN KG ASSISTANCE • Developed and implemented a series of project - based programs for kindergarten students to help prepare them for international testing purposes • Researched and developed 18 lesson plans aimed at providing preliminary education to kindergarten students in the absence of the lead teacher • Prepared a large 15 x 15 (feet) education display for the science week, which earned commendation from the school management • Integrated 15 students with special needs into regular classes, by employing dedicated focus on their needs and preparing them for the real world

Joining ACER means working with one of the world's leading educational research organisations and working collaboratively across Australian and international projects.