Sentences with phrase «of academic research make»

Her dry wit, approachable tone, and careful dollops of academic research make for a book that feels familiar, but also startlingly fresh and innovative.

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Then, a few weeks ago, author and academic Sherry Turkle penned a New York Times Sunday Review piece highlighting research along the same lines, including one study that showed simply having your phone out and in view can impede the process of making deep personal connections.
That all makes it a treasure trove of health data for scientists, and it's resulted in more than 1,000 academic research projects about life choices and health.
Its research activities seek to develop actionable, prescriptive theory that can guide general managers in the decisions they must make, re-invigorating general management research by following a proven research process, refining it through collaboration with practitioners, and then distributing it to a broad audience In pursuit of these goals, the Forum both hosts conferences to bring together academic experts, leading practitioners, and Harvard Business School alumni to develop current ideas and engages in extensive publishing activities.
We are also announcing an expansion of the PTO Edison Scholars Program, which will bring distinguished academic experts to the PTO to develop — and make available to the public — more robust data and research on the issues bearing on abusive litigation.
Matt Hall, cofounder and president of Hill Investment Group, introduces his 2016 book, Odds On: The Making of an Evidence - Based Investor, by stating that: ``... the evidence - based movement has been studying market data and academic research to identify the groups of stocks and other investments that provide better odds of long - term success.
It is interesting to note that National Statistics, reported by The Daily Telegraph, not long after the debate indicated that homosexual persons make up 1.5 \ % of the United Kingdom population; a figure consistent with Academic research over twenty five years.
It is not clear, however, whether Brown's constant stress on high academic expectations simply assumes the canons of critical, orderly, disciplined inquiry that the research university model had made commonplace in the 1930s in American graduate education outside of theological schools, or whether he is rather calling for theological school teachers who are very learned but are not necessarily themselves engaged in original research.
That will provide the context for turning finally in the last two chapters to what makes the school's curriculum a course of study rather than a clutch of courses, what it can do to and for its students, to and for congregations, and to and for traditions of academic research.
It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.
As her report put it: «The research suggests that, while there may be little return to trying to make students more gritty as a way of being (i.e., in ways that would carry over to all aspects of their lives at all times and across contexts), students can be influenced to demonstrate perseverant behaviors — such as persisting at academic tasks, seeing big projects through to completion, and buckling down when schoolwork gets hard — in response to certain classroom contexts and under particular psychological conditions.»
Regardless of whether you stay home or work, the National Education Association's research has proven that parent involvement in schools makes a difference in a child's academic performance and how long she actually stays in school.
In addition, Mr Brown announced the establishment of a National Institute for Health Research, made up of ten major centres of excellence, and appointing 250 clinical academic fellowships and 100 clinical lectureships a year.
Kaloyeros, the physics professor who built SUNY Poly, making it perhaps the world's most recognized academic research and development hub for the semiconductor industry, has been a major casualty of the scandal.
After detailed research, the Committee on Climate Change — the government's independent panel of climate advisors made up of economists, academics, businesses representatives and scientists — found that the cheapest way to meet the UK's climate change targets is to have almost entirely carbon free electricity by 2030.
The Road to Academic Excellence: The Making of World - Class Research Universities.
- Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Program for NIGMS MARC Predoctoral Fellowships (F31) Deadline: December 5, 2005 MARC Predoctoral Fellowships are individual National Research Service awards made to outstanding graduates of the MARC U * STAR Program (Minority Access to Research Careers / Undergraduate Student Training in Academic Research) to help them pursue a graduate degree in the biomedical sciences.
«We [the government] have made certain priorities: firstly to reduce indirect costs of research that academic institutions face, and secondly to help the commercialization of research discoveries at the academic, industry, and provincial levels,» he tells Next Wave.
Peisner - Feinberg said the report's conclusions are consistent with FPG's comprehensive review of research on young Latino or Spanish - speaking children, which confirmed last year that widely available public programs help dual - language learners make important academic gains.
A new summary of 12 years of research on North Carolina's pre-kindergarten program for at - risk 4 - year - olds shows that «dual - language learners» make the greatest academic progress in the program.
Coss, who taught drawing classes early in his academic career and whose previous research focused on art and human evolution, used photos and film to study the strokes of charcoal drawings and engravings of animals made by human artists 28,000 to 32,000 years ago in the Chauvet - Pont - d'Arc Cave in southern France.
If a manager (say, the PI of an academic biomedical research lab) assumes that they're more qualified to judge their employees» performance than they really are, what management errors do they typically make?
The research team, made up of academics from Canada, Mexico, Spain and the USA, conducted a comprehensive analysis of data from 193 countries taken from WHO and World Meteorological Organization databases.
With governments pushing for innovations to bolster economies and universitites eager to make money off of technology transfer, academic scientists are increasingly considering how to commercialize their research discoveries — and others are studying what makes such entrepreneurship flourish.
Research leaders say that waiting a few months for stronger evidence — such as quantitative proof of a drop in UK — EU collaborations, or an exodus of non-British EU academics (who make up 15 % of UK university staff)-- could be too late.
Lee, whose academic research focuses on prison reform, recidivism, and the causes of violence, said she «kept with the Goldwater rule's original conception of refraining from making diagnoses, but speaking to dangerousness and the need for an evaluation.»
Many medical research and physicians» advocates praised Price's appointment, expressing hopes that his experience in the trenches of both private medical practice and an academic medical center will make him sensitive to the challenges that researchers and teaching hospitals face.
And although research can seem abstract compared with the practical work of teaching, Schoenfeld says the theoretical foundations that academics lay eventually make it into classrooms and curricula.
We are connecting researchers in the field of vascular research in a digital academic networking platform (www.vascularphysiology.com) so that we can share data and findings easily and make scientific publications truly open access — readily accessible to all regardless of the ability to pay.
In the Science perspective, the researchers discuss the gains they have made in understanding latency over the past five years and the challenges that remain as the team of academic and industry investigators — from UNC, Duke University, Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, the University of California at San Diego, Emory University, MacroGenics, and other institutions — embark on the next steps in HIV cure research.
The sudden closure of RIMB makes me doubt that academic scientists of stature who wish to conduct investigator - initiated research will, in the future, be recruitable as salaried employees to a company - sponsored institute.
With the exception of Finland, statistical data on liberal adult education is poorly available and the activities often lack a clear organisation, making the role of liberal adult education in educational policy and academic research less prominent than that of vocational non-formal education.
But new University of Washington research finds numerous benefits — to students, researchers and academic institutions looking to diversify their faculty — in making that return trip easier.
While some of you may be convinced that academic research funding is nothing more than a charitable lottery, Quick and New make it clear throughout the four parts that grant - givers are businesses — not charities.
The inquisitive souls who have made it into the academic science world will find no shortage of practical ends for even esoteric types of research — the curative applications are celebrated in this month's issue.
Alongside an interdisciplinary research team, made up of academics from across the UK, BU's Professor Adele Ladkin has investigated the consequences of mobile working and what it means for family life.
The research looks simultaneously at the importance of a number of college characteristics including cost, reputation, academic facilities and recreational facilities, and bases findings not just on students» stated preferences but compares them with the actual choices they make.
«You need to make connections and gain a certain level of independence during your postdoc if you are going to have a career in academic research,» she says.
At the end of the research a seven - member committee of academics, usually including the three supervising academics, confirms that the project is original and makes a significant contribution to the science.
The main event is an annual meeting, bringing together companies and academics with an interest in skin research but the Skin Forum also makes sure that it keeps abreast of current thinking and that research is aimed at something applicable and useful: «We commissioned a survey that was sent out to both pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries to see what areas of skin research were thought to be most relevant and should be covered in grant applications,» says Professor Hadgraft.
But the unscientific nature of the online survey makes it hard to know exactly what the results say about the state of U.S. academic research.
The conflict between the public's belief in teaching and the academic belief in research makes the central problem of the university unique; there's no other great social institution afflicted by such a radical division between public expectations and professional goals.
Principal investigators in particular should be qualified to PhD or equivalent level and possess a strong record in research, whereas the body of a team can be made up of researchers of all academic levels — from postdocs to undergraduate fieldworkers.
«This new ranking underscores the worldwide impact of TSRI scientists, who share a common goal of improving public health through scientific discovery, and, importantly, improving the way we make those discoveries,» said Jamie Williamson, TSRI's Executive Vice President for Research and Academic Affairs.
The award recognizes postdocs and faculty - level early career scientists, whether or not members of the Society, in academic, government, and corporate research institutions, who have made excellent contributions in the area of bioenergy research.
In Uppsala, the life sciences make up a large part of academic research and industry.
7) Making the link between academic integrity and research integrity for postgraduate students Presenter: Saadia Mahmud, University of South Australia, Australia Co-author: Tracey Bretag, University of South Australia and International Journal for Educational Integrity, Australia
At Addgene we hope that all parties involved in making academic research a successful and enjoyable path for people from all walks of life will continue having conversations like those at the FOR symposium and will enact their solutions as soon as they become actionable.
The CIC was founded in 2002 as an international association of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and academic institutions with a common interest in immunotherapy research and development with the ultimate goal of making cancer immunotherapies part of the standard - of - care in oncology.
In 1996, in response to these concerns, Varmus, then director of NIH, impaneled a group of experienced clinical investigators and academic health center administrators to make recommendations that might guide the NIH toward policy changes to alleviate the concerns in the clinical research community.14 Several of the panel's recommendations have been implemented, including increased support of the General Clinical Research Center budget, expanded support of training in clinical research, and the establishment of NIH - sponsored educational debt relief programs for clinical investigators.15 - 18 The panel also recommended restructuring of NIH peer review groups so that patient - oriented grant applications would be evaluated by study sections in which at least half the grant applications involve patient - oriented rresearch community.14 Several of the panel's recommendations have been implemented, including increased support of the General Clinical Research Center budget, expanded support of training in clinical research, and the establishment of NIH - sponsored educational debt relief programs for clinical investigators.15 - 18 The panel also recommended restructuring of NIH peer review groups so that patient - oriented grant applications would be evaluated by study sections in which at least half the grant applications involve patient - oriented rResearch Center budget, expanded support of training in clinical research, and the establishment of NIH - sponsored educational debt relief programs for clinical investigators.15 - 18 The panel also recommended restructuring of NIH peer review groups so that patient - oriented grant applications would be evaluated by study sections in which at least half the grant applications involve patient - oriented rresearch, and the establishment of NIH - sponsored educational debt relief programs for clinical investigators.15 - 18 The panel also recommended restructuring of NIH peer review groups so that patient - oriented grant applications would be evaluated by study sections in which at least half the grant applications involve patient - oriented researchresearch.
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