Sentences with phrase «of academic research projects»

It is in bridging this gap that he believes he can provide insight and help to increase the attraction of academic research projects.

Truthy is the name of an academic research project that analyzes and models the diffusion of information on Twitter.

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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.

And while Kogan maintained he had never drawn a salary from the work he did for SCL — saying his reward was «to keep the data», and get to use it for academic research — he confirmed SCL did pay GSR # 230,000 at one point during the project; a portion of which he also said eventually went to pay lawyers he engaged «in the wake» of Facebook becoming aware that data had been passed to SCL / CA by Kogan — when it contacted him to ask him to delete the data (and presumably also to get him to sign the NDA).

In an interview on Tuesday, Mr. Kogan told The Times that the private messages were harvested from a limited number of people, likely «a couple thousand,» as part of a separate academic research project and never provided to Cambridge Analytica.

The remaining $ 8 million will support various projects including the undergraduate Commerce program; the School's award - winning magazine; the construction of an expansion of the School; and ongoing academic research activities.

Our office has spent the last eight years hosting the Climate Justice Project, a research and public engagement network that has produced a large volume of work about how to transition off fossil fuels in a just and equitable manner — an alliance that brings together a wide range of NGOs and academics.

The committee included an international group of academics with expertise in various aspects of food culture and gastronomy such as Joxe Mari Aizega, General Manager of Basque Culinary Center; Jorge Ruiz Carrascal, Professor of the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen; Marta Miguel Castro, a Research Associate at the CIAL Institute of Research in Food Science, who studies how food components could prevent disorders such as diabetes and obesity; Melina Shannon Dipietro, executive director of Rene Redzepi's MAD project; and Dr F. Xavier Medina, author, social anthropologist and leading scholar of Food and Culture at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona.

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.»

M: I think it is very important that research papers that come from the MANA Stats Project's datasets go through the process of rigorous peer review required for publication in an academic journal.

The research that Tough explores also undercuts claims by Klein, Rhee, and other signers of the Education Equity Project manifesto that we can get impoverished students where they need to be educationally through higher standards, stronger teachers, and other academic reforms alone.

The balanced middle school program at Corvallis Waldorf School fosters confident students well - prepared for the challenges of high school, through academics, the arts, outdoor education, research projects and extra-curricular activities.

Reports by Project Ready researchers have been published in academic journals such as Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Journal of Adolescent Research, Journal of Family Psychology and other peer - reviewed publications.

The project will produce a series of policy papers that translate academic research into practical and policy - relevant advice that helps democracy promoters to pursue their goals more effectively.

As well as leading on and participating in a range of research and evaluation projects, the team also contributes to the development of effective policy and practice through the interpretation, synthesis and dissemination of research findings, and acts as a knowledge broker between policy and practice stakeholders, researchers and the academic sector (in the UK and Europe) to strengthen links and collaboration.

A lack of trust in politicians was a central factor in the riots which plagued English cities earlier this month, according to an academic research project.

Given Britain's involvement in an international research consortium formed to create the most detailed and medically useful picture of human genetic variation to date, tonight's other discussion points include the scientific value of the information and the regulatory implications of providing public access to personal genome data through academic research projects, as well as through commercial organisations.

From this base, visit Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology campus to meet with local researchers and academics to learn about coral restoration, trap insects and input data into a research project and visit the «sustainable homes» development project — a blueprint for sustainable living.

She estimates that her project, a large - scale analysis of the gene profiles of individuals, will end up costing around a million dollars — research that «could have been done in an academic lab if the resources [were] available.»

The biobank of MedUni Vienna and Vienna General Hospital is a central service facility dedicated to the storage of human tissue, cell material and body fluids for more in - depth diagnosis, academic research projects and clinical tests, as well as working - up samples by way of a medical service.

The workshop combined the presentation of research findings from the MOBEX 2 project with a practical insight into European mobility and alternative careers away from academic research.

For example, I got the chance to extend my research experience at the Institute of Pathology in Munich in the framework of a German - Hungarian DAAD project (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, or German Academic Exchange Service).

The agency supports network science through individual institutes (for example, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences funds nine National Centers for Systems Biology, academic centers that emphasize network biology) and through agencywide initiatives (such as the National Technology Centers for Networks and Pathways, funded by the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research and the recently announced Human Connectome Project, which aims to map the connections among the human brain's 100 billion neurons).

The # 1.3 m Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council - funded project will see academics working with newly - developed dynamic visual sensors, which drastically reduce computing power and data storage requirements by only updating the parts of an image where movement occurs.

A number of active projects of the ETE were supported by a seed grant from the NSTB and further supplemented by a cost - sharing grant from the Academic Research Fund of the Ministry of Education.

Many undergraduates have spent summers or part of their academic year collaborating on research projects with faculty.

Now, a research project included in the Academy of Finland's research program The Future of Learning, Knowledge and Skills is set to investigate the association between physical activity and academic achievement further.

As documented in Free to Think: Report of the Scholars at Risk Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, which tracked and analyzed attacks between January 2011 and May 2015, scholars and students may be persecuted for the content of their research or teaching or for exercising fundamental rights such as the freedom to express their opinions, whether on academic or unrelated Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, which tracked and analyzed attacks between January 2011 and May 2015, scholars and students may be persecuted for the content of their research or teaching or for exercising fundamental rights such as the freedom to express their opinions, whether on academic or unrelated academic or unrelated matters.

The University of Cambridge, like most research universities, has an office dedicated to helping academics get their entrepreneurial projects off the ground.

While a postdoc at INSERM in Paris, Jonathan Dando applied for 134 jobs outside of academic research before landing a job on his doorstep, as a European project manager for INSERM Transfert, INSERM's technology - transfer company.

In that way one could continue doing basic and long - term research through academic collaborations, while benefiting from the buzz of doing (and leading) project - based research in an industrial setting.

For the majority of scientists who won't get tenure - track positions — and may not want them — Research Universities states that the great need is to «better position new PhDs for the careers they will have by providing more information about career options and by providing opportunities to acquire, in addition to the knowledge of one's field, skills that are useful for academic positions (teaching, grant writing, publishing, presentations) and positions in government, business and non-profits (oral and written communication, project management, regulatory compliance, business ethics and innovation.)»

For the first edition of the challenge, their research project was selected as one in three from a total of 130 scientific proposals submitted by academic teams, R&D departments, and start - ups from 25 countries.

Commercial work now accounts for 93 percent of the archaeological research done in the United Kingdom, and academics must take note of the data generated by contract units, says Kenneth Aitchison, head of projects and professional development at the Institute for Archaeologists, the body representing commercial archaeologists in Britain.

This all keeps me quite busy already, but in addition to that I am involved in a European Union project Accentus is managing, a best - practice programme on Business Innovation and Growth from Exploitation of Academic Research (BIGEAR).

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.

Rationale The rationale for describing this proposal as an initial step derives from a corpus of published research on the incorporation of research findings into policymaking (e.g the 1978 National Research Council report, Knowledge and Policy: The Uncertain Connection) as well as the project directors» own professional experiences in a number of academic and professional settings about the intellectual and networking challenges of fostering substantive dialogue across analytical perspectives, including the subfield perspectives on scienceresearch on the incorporation of research findings into policymaking (e.g the 1978 National Research Council report, Knowledge and Policy: The Uncertain Connection) as well as the project directors» own professional experiences in a number of academic and professional settings about the intellectual and networking challenges of fostering substantive dialogue across analytical perspectives, including the subfield perspectives on scienceresearch findings into policymaking (e.g the 1978 National Research Council report, Knowledge and Policy: The Uncertain Connection) as well as the project directors» own professional experiences in a number of academic and professional settings about the intellectual and networking challenges of fostering substantive dialogue across analytical perspectives, including the subfield perspectives on scienceResearch Council report, Knowledge and Policy: The Uncertain Connection) as well as the project directors» own professional experiences in a number of academic and professional settings about the intellectual and networking challenges of fostering substantive dialogue across analytical perspectives, including the subfield perspectives on science policy.

A major international research project led by a University of Sussex academic provides new evidence that the common belief in a cultural divide between the West and the rest of the world is little more than a myth.

The nature of academic research labs, with people always working on new projects, is that there is a limited amount that outsiders can contribute.

I am the Associate Director of the BCM Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (IDDRC), Director of the BCM IDDRC and Texas Children's Hospital (TCH) Neurobehavioral Core Facilities, and am the Academic Lead for the behavioral phenotyping component of BCM's Knock Out Mouse Project, an NIH Common Fund Research Program contributing to the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium's overall goal to create and characterize a null allele of every protein - coding gene of the mouse.

This work was supported in part by the Center for Research in FOP and Related Disorders, the International FOP Association, the Ian Cali Endowment, the Weldon Family Endowment, the Penn Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders, the Isaac and Rose Nassau Professorship of Orthopaedic Molecular Medicine, and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB760 to P. Seemann and S. Mundlos); by Health and Labour Science Research Grants for Research on Measures for Intractable Disease Research and the Academic Frontier Project of Saitma Medical University Research Center for Genomic Medicine, both from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Sciences, and Technology of Japan (to T. Katagiri); and by grants from the Rita Allen Foundation and the NIH (R01 - GM056326 to M.C. Mullins; R01 - AR40196 to F.S. Kaplan and E.M. Shore).

Such offices shall engage in cooperative research, development, and demonstration projects with the academic community, State Climate Offices, Regional Climate Offices, and other users and stakeholders on climate products, technologies, models, and other tools to improve understanding and forecasting of regional and local climate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory Committee.

The Provost's Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors Awards offer financial and academic support to Northeastern students seeking to conduct original projects of their...

Each applied research project, involving academics, SMEs and industrials partners, is undertaken by a team of high - level scientists and engineers integrating state - of - the - art technological equipment and expertise, dedicated to conceive and to develop new innovative and high value technology solutions.

By partnering with Science Buddies to create Project Ideas based on your research, you can help inspire thousands of students, annually, while meeting your own academic outreach and research grant funding needs.

The decisive difference of this collaboration between academia and industry from most research initiatives is its more integrative nature: BASF researchers from Germany are working closely with Harvard academic research teams, easing scientific exchange on the projects, as well as fostering broader interaction between the two institutions.

NOAA works closely with the academic and science communities on climate - related research projects to increase the understanding of El Niño and improve forecasting techniques.

DENVER — A pre-competitive consortia of pharmaceutical, diagnostic companies and academic associations, including the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), announced phase I results of the «BLUEPRINT PD - L1 IHC ASSAY COMPARISON PROJECT» at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) on April 19.

I am very much delighted and happy to know that the Department of Crop Botany of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University is implementing a sub-project entitled «Establishment of Digital Herbarium and Herbal Museum for Improving Academic and Research Capability in Crop Botany» with the financial assistance from Academic Innovation Fund (AIF) of Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project (HEQEP) under the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh (UGCB) supported by the World Bank.

The project will be delivered through a partnership between the WWA Initiative and CDKN, bringing together climate science, development, policy, planning and communications expertise across a range of academic, research, government, non-government and civil society organisations from developed and developing countries.