Sentences with phrase «military research as»

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She interviewed high achievers, from bankers to cartoonists, and conducted field research in areas as diverse as West Point Military Academy and the National Spelling Bee.

Friedman — who in his long career has advised the US government and military as well as Fortune 500 companies — held the keynote speech at the annual Strategic Investment Conference hosted by investment research firm Mauldin Economics.

However, I will not focus on those features of the university that are clearly not relevant to the college, such as its vocational and professional schools and its research institutions with their close ties with the military - industrial complex.

(i) a woman's right to an abortion; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls (and boys) against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (vi) gay marriage; (vii) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» Catholics; (viii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (ix) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (x) population control; (xi) buying alcohol on a Sunday in many places; (xii) use of condoms and other contraceptives; (xiii) embryonic stem cell research; (xiv) little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of the religious views of their parents; and (xv) gays being allowed to serve openly in the military.

On the other hand, they serve the political, military and economic powers that be and operate as consultants to them as well as accepting invitations to generalize from scientific research to political and social philosophies — blinkered mandarins, speaking as if they were wise.

My husband returned to college about four years ago after serving in the Oregon National Guard and working for the Oregon Military Dept.. He received a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science this year and works as a Research and Development Engineer.

Military Operational Medicine Peer Review Panels for the Congressionally Directed Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP), as well the Peer Review Panel for the Defense Medical Research and Development Program (DMRDP).

The committee's report recommends actions that can be taken by a range of audiences — including research funding agencies, legislatures, state and school superintendents and athletic directors, military organizations, and equipment manufacturers, as well as youth who participate in sports and their parents — to improve what is knows about concussions and to reduce their occurrence.

The IOM and the National Research Council formed an expert committee to review the science of sports - related concussions in youth from elementary school through young adulthood, as well as in military personnel and their dependents.

This could boost the role of private technology companies as states expand funding for military research in order to keep pace with their rivals.

Elements of her research have been published in the Journal of Military Ethics, Global Governance, UBC Journal of International Affairs and others, as well as chapters in edited volumes.

In the past, she has worked as a part - time research assistant for military aerospace at the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) in London (May 2012 — January 2013).

Partnership activities often include not only defence and military cooperation, but also subjects as broad as civil - military relations, civil emergency planning, or scientific and environmental research.

The NVRC would help «solidify» central New York as the «hub» of research and programming connected to veterans and military affairs.

«The NVRC will build upon and solidify the region's ongoing effort to position CNY as the nation's leader in research and programming connected to the veteran and military sectors.»

Among the initiatives up for possible state funding is Syracuse University's proposed National Veterans Resource Complex, which would help «solidify» central New York as the «hub» of research and programming connected to veterans and military affairs.

By Frank V. Vernuccio [On Friday night, US and European allies launched airstrikes against Syrian research, storage and military targets as President Trump sought to punish President Bashar al - Assad for a suspected chemical attack near Damascus last weekend that killed more than 40 people.

They should do the research and find out what he did as Military Governor of Kaduna state during the regime of General Sani Abacha and later Sec.

Experienced military personnel interested in education as well as research can apply for a position as a lecturer at NPS or as an instructor at one of the military academies.

But research by Bonanno and others on people who have been through ordeals such as spinal cord injuries, military deployment and the World Trade Center attack has revealed a surprising number of sunny results: The majority of people, he says, show no lasting signs of trauma.

The Institute plays a key role as the lead military medical research laboratory for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Joint Science and Technology Office for Chemical and Biological Defense.

Since 1961, the Antarctic Treaty, now with 52 signers, has ensured that Antarctica can be used only for peaceful purposes such as scientific research, and not for military or commercial activities such as energy extraction.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

The new BG Robotics HydroCamel II, Israel's first autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) for use in the military, security and oil and gas sectors as well as in environmental applications and marine research.

There are military and defense applications as well, and Hall's work was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

The findings from the optical - imaging research, employing functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), provided preliminary support for the tool as a low - cost, portable device for imaging sports and military concussions, researchers said.

Aviation research had mostly been co-opted for military purposes as the airplane — still a relatively new invention — was continuously adapted to fill new roles in the desperate struggle.

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), worldwide military expenditures have been growing annually for the past 15 years, and between 15 and 20 major armed conflicts — yes, wars — are in progress as you read this.

Rotary - wing aircraft, such as Apache and Chinook helicopters, play vital combat and logistical roles across the U.S. military services, but new research in the Wildlife Society Bulletin reveals how vulnerable these aircraft are to wildlife strikes.

And the cuts come as universities get a growing share of research budgets from the military.

But Japan still perceives North Korea and Russia as a military threat, and is continuing to spend more on military research.

Nambu arrived at the University of Tokyo as a research assistant and lived for three years in a laboratory, sleeping on a straw mattress spread over his desk (and always dressed in military uniform for lack of other clothes).

Being located on the same base as AFRL would hurt AFOSR's culture and thus its basic research, they argue, at a time when the military has already had to cut research and development funding.

AFOSR would occupy the same military base as the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), which runs the Air Force's research programs aResearch Laboratory (AFRL), which runs the Air Force's research programs aresearch programs and labs.

Notable military research groups such as Mitre and the Pentagon's IED Defeat Organization have met with Johnson and Spagat to talk about their work.

Physiological tremor can be a big problem in certain situations, such as combat, and Pathak's work (funded by the U.S. Army Research Laboratories) focused on developing actuators in military equipment and weapons to offset users» tremors.

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SMA research and therapeutics development may be applicable to other neurodegenerative diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease) and Alzheimer's disease, and may have military relevance.

Beginning in the 1890s, Emil von Behring, a Prussian military physician, and Shibasaburo Kitasato, a Japanese physician and bacteriologist, collaborated on research in which they injected animals with weakened bacterial pathogens such as typhoid, tetanus and diphtheria.

«The US Military has partnered with the African scientific and general community for more than 40 years,» according to MHRP director Col. Nelson Michael, M.D., Ph.D. «We have worked on the ground for decades with host nations to build sustainable infrastructure to support infectious diseases research in areas such as HIV, malaria, dengue virus and Ebola.

Jolie Harrison works at NOAA managing programs to implement the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Endangered Species Act that: 1) allow for incidental marine mammal take resulting from activities such as military training or seismic surveys, and 2) allow for research, enhancement, and photography of marine mammals and ESA - listed fish and sea turtles.

PNNL is collaborating with the Windber Research Institute and the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (now known as the Walter Reed National Military Center) for this project.

For more than 120 years, WRAIR has been the primary leader in biomedical research on diseases that impact the military such as malaria and dengue fever.

Sanjay Gurunathan from Sanofi Pasteur, manufacturer of one of the vaccines used in RV144, said a new partnership of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, HIV Vaccine Trials Network, US Military HIV Research Program (MHRP), and Sanofi Pasteur — known as the Pox Protein Public Private Partnership, or P5 — will aim to increase vaccine efficacy from the 31.2 percent of the RV144 trial to 50 percent.

The research concentrates on the interplay of ecology and geography, as well as the expansion of military advancements and forecasts that choice for ultra-social institutions that allow for mutual effort in large groups of genetically unrelated individuals and large - scale sophisticated states, is better where warfare is more extreme.

As a reaction to this research many coaches and the U.S. military excluded deep squatting from the regular training.

Other research has shown that the connection between homelessness and sexual harassment extends to people outside of the military as well — especially to women.

Richard serves as a research consultant studying the efficacy of the Integrative Restoration — iRest Yoga Nidra Meditation protocol he's developed for health, healing, well - being, and awakening with populations including military, students, and the homeless, with issues including sleep, PTSD, TBI, pain, chemical dependency, and well - being.

Research on men in different occupations has shown how those occupations where their a real contest going on, or hard physical work, such as the military, trial lawyers, and construction workers experience higher testosterone levels than men in more sedate occupations.

Sally Hawkins gives a career - best performance with her sly, sensual, vulnerable portrayal of Elisa, a mute woman employed as a cleaner in a military research facility in Baltimore.