Sentences with phrase «new goals for researchers»
To create a more equitable system, the party has big ideas for reorganising science and setting new goals for researchers.
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In a new study published in the journal Psychological Medicine, researchers looked at whether cognitive flexibility for learning tasks and goal - directed control was impaired early in the development of OCD.
Work has begun on a new building for the center, which has a goal of 100 researchers, 100 Ph.D. students, and 300 Master's students by the end of 2013.
Prior to 2007 scientists weren't sure what emissions reduction goal to shoot for, but new evidence led researchers to reach consensus on 350 ppm if we wished to have a planet, in the words of NASA climatologist James Hansen, «similar to the one on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted.»
The JDF Center for Islet Cell Transplantation will fund 32 researchers to focus on four main goals: Reversing the overactive immune response that kills islet cells; finding new sources for islet cell transplants, such as pigs or genetically engineered cells; persuading the body to accept the transplanted cells without immunosuppressive drugs that often trigger worse side effects than the disease; and overcoming the technical difficulties of transplantation.
When creating a new unit, a company's top management usually also sketches out the unit's performance routines — for example, they set goals, develop incentives and designate certain responsibilities, according to the researchers.
According to Ovidio Rodríguez Peña, a researcher at the UPM, «the demonstration of this goal and the explanation of the processes that allow it to happen represent a paradigm shift that may open new avenues for the development of nanomaterials with improved properties and applications.»
The new road map is «ignoring the fact that 2 % was the government's goal for 2010... and that the average in the 27 EU member states today is just over 2 %,» Amaya Moro - Martín, an astrophysicist who is a spokesperson of the researchers» organization Investigación Digna, writes in an e-mail to ScienceInsider.
This center fosters collaborations among researchers at MD Anderson Smithville, in Houston and with other instutions in central Texas to reach the goal of understanding how environmental exposures influence cancer outcomes in the human population by identifying new targets and strategies for cancer prevention and treatment.
'' Managing systemic diseases like HLB is a difficult challenge that has faced plant pathologists for many years,» said Johnson «It is a privilege to work with an excellent team of researchers from many different disciplines with the goal of developing new tools that are both effective and safe.»
The goal of IRDiRC is to team up researchers and funding organizations across the world that are strongly involved in rare diseases research in order to achieve two main and ambitious objectives: deliver 200 new therapies for rare diseases and means to diagnose most rare diseases by the year 2020.
«These researchers often create novel applications or new ideas from their CSNE work, and having an opportunity to explore these applications through the Amazon support is great for them and ultimately promotes tech transfer, which is one of our goals.»
Coinciding with CIRM's goals, three of the floors planned for renovation will accommodate the collaborative work of top stem cell researcher and UCSB professor James Thompson, who was the first to isolate human embryonic cells in 1998; the new Mellichamp and Ruth Garland Chairs of bioengineering and molecular mechanisms, respectively; and the «Deep Sequencing Core,» which will house, among other things, a device that will help develop new genetic approaches to important cell biology inquiries.
These researchers have argued that using Web 2.0 technologies in science classrooms supports the «intersection of the goals of reform - based science goals and the meaning - making practices enabled by newer technologies» and allows for easy viewing and creation of content that allows others to interact with the content created» (Luehmann & Frink, 2012, p. 835).
Last summer, a group of researchers were able to break the world record for laboratory efficiency by reaching 44.7 % with a new cell, with 50 % as the ultimate goal.