Sentences with phrase «new research tasks»
Biblical studies could receive an infusion of new research tasks; and only through mission studies are Western biblical scholars and theologians likely to learn the work done in their own fields by their African, Asian, and Latin American colleagues.»
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Fredette works in Ben & Jerry's research and development department, where he's tasked with creating new flavors of ice cream for the company.
It would be tasked with identifying the most promising research being undertaken across the whole federal government and assembling public - private partnerships that aim to create new products and services that bring jobs and wealth to the United States.
«High - performance» brands actually do make people better at performing tasks, new research finds
This new research suggests that games with a little more problem solving and a few more spatially complex tasks may help train the brain's hippocampus for things like remembering lost keys and recalling new names.
Doing this research and analysis well is no small task, because it typically means acquiring new types of information and assembling it in new ways.
Do your own research before buying such appliance because nowadays new features are added to such appliances and may be all such features are not needed according to your requirement but still you may have to pay if you are not aware of all of those, not only that nowadays many new appliances are available in the market what perform excellently for specific tasks only.
In his new book, Smart Parenting, Smarter Kids, Dr. David Walsh brings parents on board with brain research, and how the findings can help them in the challenging task of raising children.
Recent experimental research indicates that toddlers who skip naps are more likely to (1) show confusion and negative emotion in response to challenging tasks (Berger et al 2012) and (2) have trouble «downloading» new information into long - term memory (Kurdziel et al 2013).
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The first task was to become world leaders in science, to which end he announced an extra # 50 million funding in stem cell research, and a new partnership of pharmaceutical and biomedical companies that would bring in # 500 million in research and development funds.
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Blair Horner, of the New York Public Interest Research Group, had no initial problem with the appointment, though he said it could potentially taint the public's perception of the task force's final product.
In her 2014 State of the City Address, Miner announced the creation of a stadium task force to research the possibility of a new stadium.
Here's one example: While lobbying for the new law, Winter helped summarize and explain nearly 2 decades» worth of research on the local fishery, a task made easier by his years of experience doing literature reviews.
Nobody really knows how the activity in your brain reorganizes as you learn new tasks, but new research from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh reveals that the brain has various mechanisms and constraints by which it reorganizes its neural activity when learning over the course of a few hours.
The new research finds that, when learning a new task, the brain is less flexible than previously thought.
The research, published today in Nature Neuroscience, examined the changes that take place in the brain when learning a new task.
Previous research has tested how well radiation - exposed rats do with basic learning tasks and mazes, but this new Johns Hopkins study focused on tests that closely mimic the self - tests of fitness for duty currently used by astronauts on the International Space Station prior to mission - critical events such as space walks.
«With the rise of new and unproven stem cell treatments, the NFL faces a daunting task of trying to better understand and regulate the use of these therapies in order to protect the health of its players,» said Kirstin Matthews, the Baker Institute fellow in science and technology policy and an expert on ethical and policy issues related to biomedical research and development.
New research published August 17 in The Journal of Neuroscience suggests greater similarity between brain connectivity at rest and on task may be associated with better mental performance.
Agencies should better coordinate existing federal research efforts into pollinators, but some research will require new funding from Congress, the task force says; the scientific findings that emerge would feed into policy actions taken under the broader pollinator health initiative.
According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, consumers feel busier when they are close to finishing a task or reaching a goal.
The plan gives the company's research department, for example, the task of moving 20 new molecules into development during the period 2005 to 2010.
The research «highlights the difficult task that parents of early adolescents face,» says lead author Sara Goldstein, an assistant psychology professor at the University of New Orleans.
Now, new research suggests the loss of certain types of cognitive skills with age may stem from problems with basic sensory tasks, such as making quick judgments based on visual information.
The new research shows that, in autism, connectivity in these networks that can be seen on fMRI scans is fairly similar regardless of whether the brain is at rest or performing a task.
The task we set ourselves was a synthesis of all the new findings so that coral scientists, conservationists and policy makers could get a really good over-view of what research areas are most promising as global climate continues to change.
Much like trying to watch a video with the audio out of synch, older adults may have difficulty combining the stimuli they see and hear, and it could have implications for rapid decision - making tasks such as driving, according to new research.
Nevertheless, trying to develop new therapies based on what treatments will look like in the coming decade is a nearly impossible task, points out Michael Stratton, joint head of the Cancer Genome Project and professor of cancer genetics at the University of London's Institute of Cancer Research, who has been working on developing finely targeted cancer treatments since identifying the BRAF oncogene in 2002.
When such faultlines appear, the research predicts that employees will be less willing to take on new tasks that help their company — or more generally to put in extra effort at work.
«Our finding of a link between bipolar disorder and the striatum at the molecular level complements studies that implicate the same brain region in bipolar disorder at the anatomical level, including functional imaging studies that show altered activity in the striatum of bipolar subjects during tasks that involve balancing reward and risk,» said TRSI Research Associate Rodrigo Pacifico, who was first author of the new study.
A new study in the journal Early Childhood Research Quarterly finds that kindergartners and first graders with high maintenance temperaments showed less disruptive behavior and more active engagement and on - task behavior in the classroom, thanks to a program that helps teachers, parents, and students recognize and adapt to individual differences.
Despite their often tumultuous relationship, there is no need to cut the European Research Council (ERC) loose from the European Commission and create a new, independent organization to manage it, a task force said in a report issued today.
This research aimed to fill the gap by developing and testing a new work self - efficacy scale to assess individuals» perceived ability not only in managing tasks, but also negative emotions, being empathic and being assertive.
In complementary work, Taosheng Liu, a research scientist in New York University's Department of Psychology and at its Center for Neuroscience, put eight subjects through a similar fMRI task.
However, our study clearly shows that the proportion of public and charitable funding for research into new antibiotics, understanding resistance mechanisms and ways of tackling resistance are inadequate for the size of the task.»
In a new video article published in the Journal of Visualized Experiments, Burwell's research group demonstrates in full detail how the maze can be used to perform automated visual cognitive research tasks with great efficiency.
Ahead of us now is the major task of exploring the potential of new drug targets, so that hopefully we can prevent the number of people with untreatable infections from escalating further,» says Professor Anders Miki Bojesen, who coordinates the UC - Care research activities at the Department of Veterinary Clinical and Animal Sciences.
Animal tail movements reveal their emotional states, particularly the exasperation they feel when stymied during problem - solving tasks, new research suggests.
Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the University of Texas at Austin have developed new techniques for robots or computer programs to learn how to perform tasks by interacting with a human instructor.
«When the interns first arrive they are tasked with integrating into a new community within a fast - paced research environment and developing good working relationships with their lab members.
The Knowledge Foundation is the research financier for new universities with the task of strengthening Sweden's competitiveness and ability to create value.
New research uses EEG and a specialized experimental setup to show how working memory and reinforcement learning work together as people learn to perform new tasNew research uses EEG and a specialized experimental setup to show how working memory and reinforcement learning work together as people learn to perform new tasnew tasks.
To satisfy these growing demands, a new test laboratory was built in the MTA Centre for Energy Research, Budapest, Hungary, where most required tests and fitting tasks can be carried out.
New research out of the Deakin University in Australia evaluated a sample of 400 undergrads and found that 40 percent «felt lost» without their phones, a third felt anxious if they couldn't check their phones, half spent time on their devices instead of doing the task at hand, and 34 percent lost precious shut - eye because of time spent on their devices.
«Given past research on texting while driving and mentally demanding tasks, I can see how «texting while parenting» would lead to some cognitive and emotional conflict,» said Bayer, who wasn't involved in the new study.
New research has found seven out of 10 Australian adults are unable to concentrate on one task for more than half an hour at a time — less than the length of an average school period — while over half confessed to being distracted by other thoughts and losing concentration within just 15 minutes of starting a task.
The research team found that women who were new to yoga had higher levels of nearly all the pro-inflammatory molecules tested and a much greater inflammatory response to the stressful tasks than women who were experts, suggesting that yoga may help to tune down the stress responses.
Medicine and scientific research is now tasked with blazing a new trail — one that affords us tools to personalize medicine and to account for variations in immune, endocrine, and even psychological parameters that influence risks and benefits of treatment.