Sentences with phrase «more research partnerships»
ALIMA is committed to developing more research partnerships in its humanitarian projects, because this is how we will raise the quality of medical practice for all.»
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Since arriving at the chain in September 2014, Shelagh Stoneham, Shoppers» senior vice-president of marketing, said her team has been engaged in market research and strategic planning that has led to a bigger marketing spend, an increased television presence, more online video and new partnerships with Women of Influence and the entertainment show ET Canada.
When you talk about an actual research project, often it starts as something more technologically oriented, but as you build deeper partnerships, you find that some of the problems they're really struggling with are human problems.
The report offers recommendations, including making pollution a priority both nationally and internationally, mobilizing funding dedicated to pollution control, establishing monitoring systems, building multi-sector partnerships to tackle the issue, integrating pollution mitigation into non-communicable disease combatting strategies and conducting more research into pollution and pollution control.
Leaders from the Produce Working Group worked in partnership with the HMC Research Partner, Datassential, to develop and field a consumer research study evaluating opportunities for increasing sales of more healthful menu offerings Research Partner, Datassential, to develop and field a consumer research study evaluating opportunities for increasing sales of more healthful menu offerings research study evaluating opportunities for increasing sales of more healthful menu offerings at QSRs.
The Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP) or the CGIAR Research Program on Rice, provides a single strategic plan and unique new partnership platform for impact - oriented rice research for development; it is designed to more effectively solve development chaResearch Program on Rice, provides a single strategic plan and unique new partnership platform for impact - oriented rice research for development; it is designed to more effectively solve development charesearch for development; it is designed to more effectively solve development challenges.
The 40 - year partnership between ADB and IRRI involves more than USD 26 million in grants for research, capacity building, as well as infrastructure development.
A substantial body of research now indicates that high levels of involvement by fathers in two parent families are associated with a range of desirable outcomes in children and young people, including: better peer relationships; fewer behaviour problems; lower criminality and substance abuse; higher educational / occupational mobility, relative to that of parents; capacity for empathy; non-traditional attitudes to earning and childcare; more satisfying adult sexual partnerships; and higher self - esteem and life - satisfaction (for reviews see Flouri 2005; Pleck and Masciadrelli 2004).
The partnership has finished dozens of research projects and has more than 30 now under way, as well as providing ongoing professional development programs for principals, top - level administrators, teachers and student teachers.
«Our partnership with the March of Dimes is also important to us to help fund important research programs to enable more families to have strong, happy babies.»
Michele Simon's report on the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics is thoroughly researched and expertly points out the different ways in which the nation's leading nutrition organization harms its reputation, efficacy, and members by forming partnerships with food companies that care more about selling products than they do about improving the health of Americans.
Empire State Development President, CEO & Commissioner Howard Zemsky said, «The industrial hemp initiative highlights one of the many ways New York State benefits from being home to world - class educational institutions as new academia - industry partnerships utilize the innovations from research and development, generating economic opportunities and more jobs for New Yorkers.»
After nearly three years of research, community engagement, partnership building and planning by over 5,000 citizens and more than 700 local organizations, One Region Forward will be releasing its Regional Plan for Sustainable Development entitled «A New Way to Plan for Buffalo Niagara»
Both the larger plan and this abbreviated summary incorporate three years of research, community engagement, partnership building and planning and offer a basic framework for moving the region toward a more sustainable, resilient, prosperous and opportunity - rich future.
He said he doesn't understand why Cuomo and the Public Bridge Authority need more studies when some of his research had been conducted in partnership with scientists from credible institutions, including Harvard and Columbia universities.
«More than unearthing deficiencies in the 2017 analysis, our evaluation signals a need for improved protocols in developing valuation measures, as well as government - research - community partnerships to support timely and credible environmental policy analyses,» said Boyle.
Well - known US celebrity efforts include the Michael J. Fox Foundation, which has funded more than $ 115 million in research directly or through partnerships focusing on Parkinson's disease, and the Dana and Christopher Reeve Foundation, which has granted more than $ 40 million toward spinal cord repair since its initiation.
«Private - public partnerships are going to be a hallmark of how more research is done in the future and this is a great model to see that in action,» says Kevin Rose, a postdoctoral associate at the University of Wisconsin (UW), Madison, who is active in the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network.
In addition, there are plans for more collaborative partnerships with world - class research organizations and institutions.
Perhaps they could undertake more partnerships with non-profit research organisations to make sure the benefits of the DNA databanks are a public good, not just a commercial one?
That the Parliament recognises that contract research staff in Scotland's universities and research institutes are one of the most significant assets in Scotland's knowledge economy; notes that more than 90 % of such staff are employed on insecure fixed term contracts, resulting in a systematic failure to properly exploit our science and social science base to the benefit of the Scottish economy and society; further notes that this highly educated human resource, comprising graduate, postgraduate and postdoctoral level workers, is subject to constant wastage, to the detriment of Scotland's universities and economic potential; and believes that the Scottish Executive should act with clarity, urgency and determination to secure a complete overhaul of the management of the contract research workforce with a view to eliminating the current insecurity and wastage and establishing a radical new approach in partnership with higher education employers and representatives of the research staff.
UNH's research portfolio includes partnerships with NASA, NOAA, NSF and NIH, receiving more than $ 100 million in competitive external funding every year to further explore and define the frontiers of land, sea and space.
The research partnership attempted to more fully understand the destructive forces of the typhoon by looking at the influence on chemical cycling among the interacting biological and geological systems.
With the rate of growth in federal research spending essentially stagnant, universities hoping to profit from some of the bright ideas of their faculty must pay more attention than ever to developing partnerships with industry, a top University of Virginia official said recently at AAAS.
A year later, the United Kingdom launched the Newton Fund, which will spend # 735 million over 7 years for research partnerships supporting economic development in China, Brazil, India, and more than a dozen other countries.
Thus, more than a century after two enterprising American pharmacists set in motion their pioneering partnership, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund remains committed to the belief that fostering research by the best and brightest scientists offers the fullest promise for improving human health today and in the new millennium.
These integrated, multi-investigator centers involve partnerships among universities, national laboratories, nonprofit organizations, and for - profit firms that conduct fundamental research focusing on one or more «grand challenges» and use - inspired «basic research needs» identified in major strategic planning efforts by the scientific community.
The Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP) or the CGIAR Research Program on Rice, provides a single strategic plan and unique new partnership platform for impact - oriented rice research for development; it is designed to more effectively solve development chaResearch Program on Rice, provides a single strategic plan and unique new partnership platform for impact - oriented rice research for development; it is designed to more effectively solve development charesearch for development; it is designed to more effectively solve development challenges.
4/7/2008 From Bench to Bedside in One Year: Stem Cell Research Leads to Potential New Therapy for Rare Blood Disorder A unique partnership between industry and academia has led to human clinical trials of a new drug for a rare class of blood diseases called myeloproliferative disorders (MPD), which are all driven by the same genetic mutation and can evolve into leuk... More...
Early - career researchers (and also more senior researchers) may benefit from the MSCA's Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) program, which is similar to the former Industry - Academia Partnerships and Pathways program.
In partnership with the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, it maintains rigorous standards in clinical and research quality, consistency, and outcomes at more than 50 outpatient cancer centers.
It has invested more than $ 450 million in research to date, almost 90 percent for translational research; funded testing of more than 100 therapeutic targets for Parkinson's disease (PD); and has undertaken novel industry partnerships to support early - stage promising therapeutic approaches.
«The PUMAS program provides students with more than exposure to Gladstone's science and a variety of careers in biomedical research,» said Shannon Noonan, MS, education and community partnerships manager at Gladstone, who oversees the PUMAS program.
Led by the Ames Laboratory and combining an expanding partnership program with precise research mapping, CMI has more than doubled its research accomplishments in its second year, bringing the total number of invention disclosures to 34.
Expecting more from a partnership inspires people to work at it, some studies find, but other research suggests that since lower standards are easier to meet, people might be more satisfied by them.
Recent research suggests the rise of digital dating services could be behind stronger marriages, more connections between people from different social circles, and an increase in interracial partnerships.
Through his doctoral research at Columbia University and experience as a tech specialist at the Fieldston School in New York City, Kenny Graves has found that the partnerships among school leaders are also helping them think more strategically about how to use technology as a tool to address specific needs and goals in their districts.
In a February 2007 op - ed piece in the Dallas Morning News, Gigi Antoni, president and CEO of Big Thought, the nonprofit partnership working with the district, the Wallace Foundation, and more than sixty local arts and cultural institutions, explained the rationale behind what was then called the Dallas Arts Learning Initiative: «DALI was created on one unabashedly idealistic, yet meticulously researched, premise — that students flourish when creativity drives learning.»
[Professor] Bridget Terry Long, the Harvard Graduate School of Education academic dean and the chairwoman of the National Board for Education Sciences, IES» advisory board, noted that IES under Director John Q. Easton has required more partnerships between researchers and practitioners, and is launching a new center devoted to evaluating how well research is being translated into usable knowledge.»
Through a partnership with the University of Colorado Boulder and Northwestern University, this project studies how educational leaders — including school district supervisors and principals — use research when making decisions and what can be done to make research findings more useful and relevant for those leaders.
NCRPP aims to change that by focusing on three areas: studying current research use in districts and schools, identifying what conditions affect when research is used, and determining ways that research could be made more meaningful for educational leaders through long - term partnerships between researchers and practitioners.
As the quality and number of such proposals increased, NCER could reallocate its research funding toward more partnerships of this kind.
For example, one study on the impact of program - family partnerships for Early Head Start showed program families were more likely to support their children's development and literacy skills than families not in the program.Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., and Center for Children and Families at Teachers College, Columbia University, Building Their Futures: How Early Head Start Programs Are Enhancing the Lives of Infants and Toddlers in Low - Income Families, 2001.
Compared to teachers at schools with similarly renovated libraries — those renovated with state QZAB funds but without additional professional development funds, community partnerships, and modernized technology — teachers at Library Project schools reported more collaboration with the school librarian and were four times more likely to have their students use the library for research.
Agency Internship Through a ten - week internship at a school agency, fellows will develop more insight into the role research can and should play in management, as well as a deep knowledge of the agency's data and the senior relationships necessary for ongoing research partnerships.
Designed in partnership with more than 75 schools, Strategic Teacher PLC Guides make the important work of bringing high - impact, research - based instructional practices into every classroom easier than ever before.
Another topic of conversation among attendees was the purpose behind research - practice partnerships and how the collaboration between researchers and practitioners can yield more relevant and useful study findings.
In addition to its partnership with PUSD, WINGS serves more than 1,100 students from vulnerable communities in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina through a direct - service afterschool program model of their research - based curriculum led by college students, known as WINGSLeaders.
Focused on accelerating gains for students and building capacity for educators, Achieve3000's innovative partnership with Dr. Douglas Fisher draws from the research of his book Visible Learning for Literacy, cowritten with Dr. Nancy Frey and Dr. John Hattie, to leverage Achieve3000's proven - effective platform for even more literacy growth.
Finally, the DCPS central office team, in partnership with school leaders, began to research, create, and share innovative scheduling approaches that would create more release time cost neutrally.