Sentences with phrase «more research funding as»

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This can set you up also for more long term reputation rehabilitation by forcing a focus on Turing as a research and development company — not a pharma hedge fund hybrid.»

That's more than twice as many hedge funds as operated five years ago, according to Chicago - based Hedge Fund Research.

That means that if Blackrock's fund managers responded as the research suggests, then they would cut back the number of trades by enough so that the non-tax trading costs for their $ 10,000 account would fall by roughly $ 2,300 over the course of a decade or $ 15,000 in the case of its more actively managed European fund.

While it's always interesting to know about the top runners, renewable energy companies in various growth stages will become more important as government funding for research and development related to energy efficient, emissions reduction and carbon capture decreases.

Launched with $ 5 million in federal research funds, it has since raised more money from such private sources as Mithril Capital Management and Y Combinator.

Making clean tech an innovation priority (p. 79, 81, 82, 95 — 100 and 100 — 111): This year's edition was billed as an innovation budget, so it's no surprise that Ottawa allocated funding for skills, research and more.

MFS, the Boston - based mutual fund company, explained in a research piece this week, «To sum up, it looks as though the UK's decision to leave the EU could be the beginning of a large, protracted process in which dissatisfaction with the effects of three decades of globalization is being expressed in ever more impactful ways.»

This finding has important implications not just for the home bias literature, but also more broadly for the growing research and policy interest on Internet - based crowd funding, especially as a new channel for entrepreneurial financing.

In addition to researching capital challenges, opportunities and prospective improvements, KCSourceLink is more directly serving as a connector between investors and startups that need funding.

Over time, MFS has been a leading innovator in the asset management industry, including creating one of the first in - house research departments in the mutual fund industry in 1932, launching the first high - yield municipal bond fund and the first global balanced fund, and more recently creating «outcome - oriented» products, such as its line of target - risk, target - date, and other asset allocation strategies.

Vice president for research and studies at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Marc F. Plattner represents an organization whose definition of democracy is much more stringent in its demands with criteria of democratic inclusivity (as shown in a short essay by its funding officer, Louisa Greve, cited below).

I am not calling for cuts to government programs as of now — they are necessary for so many people's basic survival — but Mr. Beck does have a pertinent point: voting to tax someone else (typically wealthier than us) to provide assistance does not necessarily demonstrate a society that «cares» — much more caring is a society that willingly donates those funds to charities they have taken the time to research, and more caring still if the members of that society take the time to volunteer to administer that aid.

According to the complaint, Silver accepted more than $ 3 million in a scheme that brought asbestos referrals to the firm through a doctor who then received $ 500,000 in state funds for research, as well as additional benefits.

The grand jury indictment said he used that position to mask bribes and kickbacks, including more than $ 3 million earned for referring asbestos sufferers to the firm from a doctor whose medical research secretly received $ 500,000 in state funds at Silver's direction, as well as other benefits.

Supporters of organic farming acknowledge that production methods are currently more expensive, but point to the subsidies paid to conventional agriculture and funding provided for research in contrast to organic farming as making the comparison unfair.

State lawmakers allocated more than $ 600,000 for prevention and research efforts, such as funding Cornell University's program that distributes rabies vaccines to wild animals with low - flying planes and low - cost rabies clinics for pets.

However they have also shown the same thing about non-religious beliefs such as Humanism, the teaching of which stands in more urgent need of well - funded academic research by virtue of their more recent arrival on the curriculum.»

WHEREAS, research shows that women are substantially less likely to self - select or be recruited for elective office, this gender gap in political ambition persists across generations and over time and that qualified female candidates who are equally or more qualified than men are often seen as less qualified or less viable than male candidates; and WHEREAS, research confirms that the presence of more women in a governing body leads to greater transparency and a focus on progressive policies such as closing the funding and achievement gaps in education, closing gaps or loopholes in contraception coverage and affordable health care, closing the wage gap, and removing obstacles that contribute to poverty of women & children; and

While Taub, a key witness for the government, admitted that he «hoped to develop a relationship with [Silver] that would help fund mesothelioma research and would help my patients as well,» on the stand yesterday, the New York Times reported — Thursday's testimony, under cross-examination from the defense, brought out a more nuanced view of their relationship.

In «From funding agencies to scientific agency: Collective allocation of science funding as an alternative to peer review,» the researchers proposed a funding model that they claim would be simpler, cheaper, and fairer than the traditional funding system, and more amenable to high - risk research and chance discovery.

The European Science Foundation has been in existence as an association of the national research funding agencies for more than a quarter of a century concentrating on coordination mechanisms and support.

BMRC provides seed funding in the form of 3 - year project grants for promising early - career investigators to kick - start their research careers, as well as more extensive program grants for established investigators to continue or expand on their existing research.

David Kessler, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, is calling for a big government - funded research project to help fill in the gaps in genetic pathways in people, which are turning out to be far more complex than expected for illnesses such as heart disease and which may be beyond the ability of private companies and smaller labs to figure out and pay for.

On January 11, President Bush's science advisor John H. Marburger III, who oversees the federal scientific enterprise as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), issued a memo instructing the heads of all government research organizations to establish «appropriate policies to acknowledge more than one principal investigator (PI) when there is more than one collaborating investigator working on a Federally - funded research project,» according to a White House news release.

Participants also noted that staff scientists are much more common at research institutes in other countries, such as Germany's Max Planck Institutes, where grants to institutions rather than to individual investigators are a common funding mechanism.

The feds have indeed funded bear DNA research — b - e-a-r DNA research — to the tune of almost five million dollars over the last five years, which is way more than the three million dollars that John McCain keep springing up as an example of wasteful government spending.

As part of the «National centre of Competence in Research — NCCR LIVES» funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) examined data from more than 24,000 people aged 50 to 96 living in 14 European countries.

«But Horizon 2020 makes it easier to obtain grants and will lead to more technological development,» as it funds research that aligns scientists and engineers with clinicians working at hospitals and in industry.

«Industry - financed clinical trials on the rise, as number of NIH - funded trials falls: Researchers concerned about trends in research funding as commercial ventures run six times more trials than academic investigators.»

Interestingly, workers ranked having the funding and resources for research projects as a more distant # 4.

Research administration is developing into a more sophisticated field — research management — with a focus on assisting faculty in managing the fiscal side of their research endeavours, preparing high - quality applications, and translating research results into social, cultural, and economic impact, as well as new funding opportResearch administration is developing into a more sophisticated field — research management — with a focus on assisting faculty in managing the fiscal side of their research endeavours, preparing high - quality applications, and translating research results into social, cultural, and economic impact, as well as new funding opportresearch management — with a focus on assisting faculty in managing the fiscal side of their research endeavours, preparing high - quality applications, and translating research results into social, cultural, and economic impact, as well as new funding opportresearch endeavours, preparing high - quality applications, and translating research results into social, cultural, and economic impact, as well as new funding opportresearch results into social, cultural, and economic impact, as well as new funding opportunities.

Furthermore, whereas French research groups traditionally have received national public funding mostly through their own research agency or university and through specific calls from French ministries, several national agencies have been set up to fund more research projects on a nationwide competitive basis, such as the Agence National de la Recherche (ANR) or the Institut National du Cancer.

NSF funds more quantitative and algorithmic research in the decision sciences as part of its Operations Research (OR) research in the decision sciences as part of its Operations Research (OR) Research (OR) program.

Promoting the power and consequence of science «is more important than ever right now,» particularly as critics question the role of evidence - based science in policymaking and as Congress considers significant proposed cuts to federal funding for scientific research that drives innovation, said Tobin Smith, vice president of policy at the Association of American Universities, during the March 27 S&T Policy Forum session «Advocating for Science: More Than a One - Day Activity.&ramore important than ever right now,» particularly as critics question the role of evidence - based science in policymaking and as Congress considers significant proposed cuts to federal funding for scientific research that drives innovation, said Tobin Smith, vice president of policy at the Association of American Universities, during the March 27 S&T Policy Forum session «Advocating for Science: More Than a One - Day Activity.&raMore Than a One - Day Activity.»

As director, I head a group of eight central research administration professionals and work with eight more decentralized, faculty - based research officers who facilitate obtaining external funds for research.

The president is expected to pour more funding into research and development, a move that could lead to increased technological advances in fields such as cybersecurity

Funding efficiency Nevertheless, another $ 100 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (better known as the stimulus) was made available on March 2, to be awarded via ARPA — E to the best proposals for new grid - scale storage devices, better power converters and more efficient air conditioners, such as the ones being developed by the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) that rely on sound waves rather than mechanical pistons to drive compressors.

I also have had extremely supportive department chairs over the years who, for example, provided additional start - up funds as my lab expanded and did not allow me to put my salary support in the budgets of my first grants (which left more money in those grants to pay for research).

That emphasis on «commercial research» has some scientists concerned that funding for basic science will suffer as Ireland's research portfolio becomes even more focused and applied.

Top 5 Tech Initiatives for Obama's Second Term The president is expected to pour more funding into research and development, a move that could lead to increased technological advances in fields such as cybersecurity

Such measures as citation impact, levels of funding, and awards, when applied on a per capita basis, he argues, would provide a more accurate picture of the current research landscape.

The meta - analysis, published online Jan. 20, 2013, in Annals of Internal Medicine, pools results from 15 investigations, slightly more than half of which were done after a 1996 federal law prohibited the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from funding research that could be seen as promoting gun control.

Top - ranked programs attract more funding as well as high - quality faculty and students, while «low rankings can shrink or even kill off a program,» notes Vanderbilt University historian Hugh Graham, author of a well - regarded 1997 book on the history of U.S. research universities.

Proposals are likely to include additional funding for high - quality research, new laboratories, more young scientists and ideas that would be of use to industry - such as studies into clean energy technologies.

Other recommended actions include more research, especially collaborative work, and more funding for that research; practicing integrity and high ethics; and controlling costs in such a way as to reduce the prices of drugs.

Still, more than 85 % of respondents listed funding for their research project as their most important source of income; the remaining 14 % are dependent on other sources (Figure 1).

So if we reach our target, but you are interested in supporting our research, PLEASE do not hesitate - the more funding we receive, the better job we can do to examine as many candidate species as possible.

Fleming describes her paper as a call to action for research on more diverse wildlife but acknowledges that funding to study or save unappealing creatures might always be lacking.

Complementing the new education are additional funds to facilitate more innovative, interdisciplinary research projects, particularly in new and rapidly evolving areas such as genomics, proteomics, nanotechnology, tissue engineering, bioinformatics, and biomedical engineering.

Dulay points out the upsides of her job: She is part of a premier research team, has few funding worries because Zare's grant covers her salary, and gets to spend more time with her young daughter than she would as a faculty member.