Sentences with phrase «of large research universities»

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After more than a decade of research on the use of machine learning to detect disease - causing mutations in DNA, Brendan Frey, biomedical engineering professor at the University of Toronto, this week launched his company, Deep Genomics, to bring the technology his team developed to the public at large.

Over the past decade, Toronto has become the undisputed capital of Canadian innovation, with more than 600 startups, the country's largest cluster of universities and colleges pumping out research, and the deepest venture capital pockets in the land.

Research from Dalhousie University suggests that given just 15 years, a modern industrialized fishery can reduce the biomass of large predatory fish communities by 80 %.

Phil Knight, chairman of Nike, and his wife were the second - largest givers in the US in 2013 with their pledge of $ 500 million to the Oregon Health & Science University Foundation for cancer research.

The labs of large, multinational companies and academic research efforts at major universities or governments are great at churning out innovations that become the basis for startups.

In this respect, the approach proposed by the Jenkins Panel of separating from the National Research Council a number of its existing technology institutes into a constellation of large - scale, sectoral, collaborative R&D centres involving business, the university sector and the provinces is an important proposal.

«Overstock would be the largest existing company to launch an ICO to date,» said Garrick Hileman, a research fellow at the University of Cambridge who studies cryptocurrency.

As an entity that promotes the high tech growth of the region, the Florida High Tech Corridor Council is an economic development initiative of three of the country's largest research institutions — the University of Central Florida, the University of South Florida and the University of Florida.

Unfortunately for the Japanese labour markets, as with many other countries, many young intellectuals seek further study elsewhere in countries like the UK that have renowned Universities and research facilities, taking a large portion of the skilled labour force the Japanese markets need, into other areas of work such as research and academia, a less hands on field that benefits the computer science industry on the whole but does not help specific firms achieve their targets directly.

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He's got a PhD in Economics from the University of Minnesota, he's a CFA charterholder, and he's worked at the Federal Reserve bank in Atlanta, and he currently works in the research department of a large investment manager here in San Francisco.

The University of Michigan — one of the largest public research institutions in the country — has the No. 3 - ranked graduate entrepreneurship program in the country at its Stephen M. Ross School of Business.

The Zuckerberg's gift was nearly double the amount of the year's second largest of $ 500 million to the Oregon Health & Science University Foundation for cancer research, made by Nike founder Phil Knight and his wife Penelope...

The German universities expressed less opposition to the growth of Nazism in the 1930's than did the churches and labor unions; their failure at this point has been attributed in large part to their neutral pursuit of truth without concern for the life of the nation.14 By contrast, an example of intellectual responsibility occurred a few years ago when the University of Chicago was building a new cancer research hospital.

No, because UCLA, along with any number of other large research - oriented universities, embodies in its practices and its language a Weberian conception of the academic vocation.

Ulster University in Northern Ireland has been awarded funding of almost $ 400,000 as part of a larger $ 2.6 million research grant to develop new mixing process technologies for milk powder hydration, which aims to significantly enhance the economic competitiveness of the Irish dairy industry.

Ideal Candidates (AAU, bordering state or bordering via further expansion, large public universities with the exception of Duke, research focused):

He points to research by a Stanford University researcher, Allan K. Mishra, who has studied PRP for years, whose in his most recent published research includes a large multicenter study [8] involving a host of well - respected orthopedic surgeons around the country who followed 230 patients in a double - blind randomized control study [the gold standard for medical research].

Research from the University of Maryland and Harvard University suggests that young infants benefit from hearing words repeated by their parents, and that parents who repeat words more to 7 - month - olds find their children have larger vocabularies when they are toddlers.

Established in 2009, the Stanford University / San Francisco Unified School District Partnership brings the most advanced education research to bear on major challenges identified by the school leaders in one of California's largest and most diverse districts.

«There's a large body of research that shows that home birth is safe in other high - resource countries... but there's been some ongoing question about whether those data can actually transfer to the United States,» Melissa Cheyney, an associate professor of Medical Anthropology at Oregon State University, told The Huffington Post.

A team of researchers, led by Professor Sotaro Kita from the University of Warwick and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, found that empathic people made larger and more gestures that encouraged interaction with the listener.

UCU general secretary Sally Hunt said such courses will be «starved of funds» and warned that higher education was about to enter an era «in which many arts - based and teaching - focused institutions, which rely on public funding far more than the larger research - intensive universities, will face an uncertain future».

The research on PFOA is stronger than on most chemicals and the documented connections between the chemical and cancers has grown exponentially in recent years, building a uniquely large of body of research, compared to most chemicals, said Phil Brown, director of the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute at Northeastern Uniresearch on PFOA is stronger than on most chemicals and the documented connections between the chemical and cancers has grown exponentially in recent years, building a uniquely large of body of research, compared to most chemicals, said Phil Brown, director of the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute at Northeastern Uniresearch, compared to most chemicals, said Phil Brown, director of the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute at Northeastern UniResearch Institute at Northeastern University.

Subsequent research undertaken at the University of Glasgow has indicated that such health inequalities may be due, at least in part, to epigenetic effects resulting from socio - economic circumstances - http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-health-inequalities-imprinted-dna.html The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK's largest organisation for funding research on economic and socialresearch undertaken at the University of Glasgow has indicated that such health inequalities may be due, at least in part, to epigenetic effects resulting from socio - economic circumstances - http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-health-inequalities-imprinted-dna.html The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK's largest organisation for funding research on economic and socialResearch Council (ESRC) is the UK's largest organisation for funding research on economic and socialresearch on economic and social issues.

The University is one of the largest higher education institutions in the UK and a member of the Russell Group of research - intensive universities.

Katherine will build relationships with state and local policymakers and other stakeholders to identify policy issues of importance to Idaho and look into research opportunities for the Center and university at large.

New research by University of Colorado Boulder professor Stephen Mojzsis outlines a likely cause for these mysterious features of Mars: a colossal impact with a large asteroid early in the planet's history.

The signing ceremony followed an inaugural meeting, called the «Mexican Congress on Science - Informed Policy: Enhancing the Science - Policy Interface,» that featured representatives of AAAS; Mexico's Presidential Science Advisory Council; the Office of Science, Technology and Innovation of the Presidency of Mexico; the Scientific and Technological Advisory Forum of Mexico, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Latin America's largest research institution.

The Texas Medical Center is the largest collection of medical research facilities in the world, including the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, the Texas A&M Health Sciences Center, and Baylor College of Medicine.

«This research shows that apex predators like dingoes and wolves need large, continuous territories in order to effectively control the balance of their ecosystems,» said lead author Thomas Newsome of Deakin University and the University of Sydney in Australia.

From 1987 until he launched his 1998 congressional campaign, Holt was assistant director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), a Department of Energy national lab, which is the largest research facility of Princeton University and one of the largest alternative energy research facilities in the country.

The author group included individuals from a large spread of nationalities and scientific and institutional backgrounds, but consensus was easy to reach, says declaration co-author Charoula Tzanakou, a research fellow at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom who investigates gender balance in academia.

The Laboratory is managed by Princeton University for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, which is the largest single supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time.

A number of giant super-eruptions between 8 and 12 million years ago that could be larger than the colossal eruptions known to have taken place at Yellowstone have been identified in the United States through research led by the University of Leicester.

But the aspect of the work I enjoy most, and one that I think differentiates research in a small biotech company from research in larger institutions and a great many university departments, is that competition is replaced by cooperation.

With 125 institutes, more than 50 of which are joint ventures with universities and research bodies, CSIC is the largest research institution in Spain.

The research, by the University of Sydney's Marine Studies Institute and the Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry at Southern Cross University, is the first long term study of such a large and important Southern Hemisphere system referred to as a drowned river valley, which in Sydney spans estuaries from Middle Harbour to Lane Cove and Parramatta.

«Wolves rely on large prey to survive,» said Benson, assistant professor of vertebrate ecology who conducted the research as a doctoral student at Trent University.

Goodman's papers have questioned the validity of the university committees that oversee animal research, encouraged U.S. allies to explore alternatives to animals in military medical training, and wounded the reputation of the world's largest accreditor of lab animal welfare.

«This paper details an approach that we feel capitalizes on the best aspects of both research techniques to advance our understanding of the behavior of large groups and advance the field,» says Ned Smith, an associate professor of management and organizations at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, who is co-lead author of the paper.

Researchers at the Pharmacy Department of the CEU Cardenal Herrera University have published the design of a new bioadhesive ocular insert which is placed inside the eyelid and releases a larger amount of medicine through the cornea in a controlled way in the international journal Drug Delivery and Translational Research.

A team led by Margaret Pericak - Vance of Duke University, Jonathan Haines of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and Allen Roses — a former Duke researcher now in charge of genetics research at the Glaxo Wellcome Company in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina — scanned the DNA of members of 16 large families with a high rate of Alzheimer's, looking at 280 genetic markers that might help identify candidatresearch at the Glaxo Wellcome Company in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina — scanned the DNA of members of 16 large families with a high rate of Alzheimer's, looking at 280 genetic markers that might help identify candidatResearch Triangle Park, North Carolina — scanned the DNA of members of 16 large families with a high rate of Alzheimer's, looking at 280 genetic markers that might help identify candidate genes.

A recent study from the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital done in conjunction with researchers from Colorado School of Public Health at the University at Colorado and Temple University used data from a large, national sports injury surveillance system to determine the effect of state - level TBI laws on trends of new and recurrent concussions among US high school athletes.

By studying core samples taken from the river delta, the research team, led by Zhen Li of East China Normal University in Shanghai and colleagues, detected patterns and sizes of charcoal to indicate fire distance (small particles can travel farther than 100 meters, whereas larger ones stay put) as well as pollen to deduce the presence of either crops or nonagricultural flora.

The Brain Science Institute (BSI) at RIKEN, Japan's largest research organization, and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), an interdisciplinary graduate university located at the southernmost tip of Japan, have been collaborating with the HBP since 2013 and applying their expertise in supercomputer - based models and siUniversity (OIST), an interdisciplinary graduate university located at the southernmost tip of Japan, have been collaborating with the HBP since 2013 and applying their expertise in supercomputer - based models and siuniversity located at the southernmost tip of Japan, have been collaborating with the HBP since 2013 and applying their expertise in supercomputer - based models and simulations.

He's a professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and he studies the use of empirical research to inform legal policy; and he's the author of an article in the August issue of Scientific American titled, «How New York Beat Crime», about the reasons for the huge drops in crime over the last couple of decades in America's largest city.

New research, led by University of Southampton biological scientist Dr Hannah Siddle, is aiming to develop an effective vaccine against an infectious cancer that is eradicating the Tasmanian devil, the world's largest remaining marsupial carnivore.

She is a professor of social psychology and neuroscience at Northeastern University in Boston, and like many scientists with large, active research labs, she watches with dismay as some Ph.D. s and postdocs struggle to find a secure job, as she did 2 decades ago.

Dr Piers Dawes, from The University of Manchester's Audiology and Deafness research group, said: «This is the first study to describe the prevalence of difficulties understanding speech in background noise in a large sample of the population, anywhere in the world.