Sentences with phrase «particular focus of their research»

A particular focus of her research in the recent years has been towards nucleotide metabolism and cancer.

A particular focus of research has been parental use of corporal punishment.

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He points to activist investors as a particular thorn in the side of management, forcing it to focus on quarter - to - quarter earnings and giving up board seats instead of investing in research and development.

The focus of Leyland's research is the interface between marketing and technology, with particular emphasis on technology's role in shaping and creating customers.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

The brand of Christianity highlighted in this story is of particular concern to secularists becuase Focus on the Family / The Family Research Council are powerful political lobbies with the stated intention of establishing the US as a Christian theocracy.

Taken together with an earlier study finding injuries to cheerleaders in the basing / spotting position most common, the researchers said that «bases are at particular risk of injury from contact with another athlete during stunts,» and that» [f] uture research should focus on identifying ways to better protect bases during stunts.»

There is a particular focus on traditional foods as eaten all over the world by people for thousands of years, as studied by Dr. Weston A. Price in the 1930s during his research in traveling all over the world to determine the cause of degenerative illness in his patients.

In particular, much of our Division's past research has focused on vaccine studies and investigations into the cause of Kawasaki disease.

Dr. Furr has extensive clinical expertise and research interests in cognitive and behavioral treatments of childhood anxiety and disruptive behavior disorders, with a particular focus on preschool mental health.

His basic laboratory and clinical research focus has been in the area of neonatal jaundice, with particular reference to its relationship to breastfeeding.

Serena's research focuses on the ethics of war, with a particular emphasis on the just war tradition, humanitarian intervention, and the responsibility to protect.

He is a planner, geographer and urbanist, and his research focuses on the contemporary restructuring and retrofitting of urban regions, with a particular emphasis on the changing dynamics of race, class and segregation across space and place.

Ben's research focuses on the measurement of political preferences from survey, voting, network and text with a particular focus on using text data.

Her general research interests lie at the intersection of international and domestic politics and political economy with a particular focus on International Monetary Fund (IMF) programmes, labour markets, macro-economic reform, and ideological and electoral preferences.

Professor Jill Manthorpe Director, Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King's College London A study of those who work with homeless people with complex needs, with a particular focus on the advantages and disadvantages of how people in different jobs work together

Her research focuses on the intersections between gender, generation and religion in experiences of and responses to conflict - induced displacement and statelessness, with a particular regional focus on the Middle East and North Africa.

Her research focuses on devolution, governance rescaling, territorial politics, regionalism and democracy — with a particular emphasis on the «English Question» and the case of Northern England.

He has a wide range of research interests in economics most recently focused on industrial organisation, in particular knowledge transfer between firms and universities, and on taxation policy.

Future research should focus on how relationships between religious or spiritual involvement and health change over time, and whether support services designed to enhance particular aspects of religion and spirituality in interested patients might help improve their well - being.

Typically research is very narrow and focused on only a subset of issues related to a particular problem.

The key to their success, say experts, is keeping a focus on particular research niches while maintaining a stake in some of the most important international astronomy projects.

The project focused on the rights to health and to food, and the background research on the environmental factors affecting the realization of particular human rights became a resource for the human rights and environmental communities undertaking the development of standards, benchmarks, and indicators.

Snyder's research goals were similar to Poldrack's MyConnectome in pointing the way toward a precision kind of medicine, focusing on patients» particular biochemistries, as opposed to today's one - size - fits-most approach.

For their research Prof Massare and Lomax focused on one particular part of the Ichthyosaurus skeleton, the hindfin (or back paddle).

Their research, published in PLOS ONE, focused on one particular gene — TRIM29 — selected from a pool of 100 genes with regulatory patterns specific to normal breast tissue, to prove the link between breast - specific genes and the pathology of cancer.

The project will create a network of Intel Science and Technology Centers (ISTC), each focusing on a particular area of research.

To get a clearer picture of what effect posture has, researchers would have to test each child's math skills without having them pay particular attention to posture and then test them again after asking them to focus on sitting up, says Marjorie Woollacott, a neuroscientist studying motor control at the University of Oregon, who was not involved in the research.

«Our latest research findings support a newly emerging model of how the brain focuses attention on a particular task, using neurons in the thalamic reticular nucleus as a switchboard to control the amount of information the brain receives, limiting and filtering out sensory information that we don't want to pay attention to,» says senior study investigator and neuroscientist Michael Halassa, MD, PhD.

Most of the work on gut microbes has focused on bacteria, but Dr. Iliev's research has a particular emphasis on gut fungi.

In a 2003 research review, Nancy Roizen of the Cleveland Clinic and David Patterson of the University of Denver focused on a particular gene that is crucial to energy production and oxygen utilization inside cells.

One of Reiser's particular focuses in kidney research is a chronic, serious condition called focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), which scars the kidneys and eventually destroys them.

In particular the three councils are in the process of choosing two winning bids, from a shortlist of five, for the formation of Interdisciplinary Research Centres (IRCs) in nanotechnology, one of which will have a biotech focus.

In research published this week in the Journal of Neuroscience, University at Buffalo scientists and colleagues focused on a particular protein, called a transcription factor, that regulates gene activity necessary for the development of one type of retinal neuron, the horizontal cells.

Further research focused on one particular part of the process called splicing factor 1 (SFA - 1), and found that increasing the levels of this component extended the lifespan of the worms.

«In its Science and Engineering Research Program, the W. M. Keck Foundation has long focused on supporting cutting - edge research and the development of new technologies that may lead to breakthrough achievements in a particular field,» said Robert Day, Chairman of the W. M. Keck FouResearch Program, the W. M. Keck Foundation has long focused on supporting cutting - edge research and the development of new technologies that may lead to breakthrough achievements in a particular field,» said Robert Day, Chairman of the W. M. Keck Fouresearch and the development of new technologies that may lead to breakthrough achievements in a particular field,» said Robert Day, Chairman of the W. M. Keck Foundation.

The principal focus of The Journal is basic research on psychopathology from diverse scientific perspectives, with a particular emphasis on the correlates and causes of mental illness and psychological adjustment.

Research in the Emerling Lab is focused on phosphoinositide signaling, in particular the role of the phosphatidylinositol -5-phosphate 4 - kinases (PI5P4Ks) in cancer metabolism.

Previously Dr. Martini worked at Shire plc in Lexington, Mass., as Senior Director of Discovery Biology and Translational Research, Mass., focusing on fibrotic diseases of muscle, kidney, skin, lung, bone marrow and metabolic liver diseases, with particular emphasis on different therapeutic modalities for pathway modulation.

Her research work focuses on the neurocognitive basis of autism spectrum conditions, with a particular interest in why people with autism find the social world so puzzling, yet often excel at detail - focussed tasks.

The focus of our research is the molecules which are displayed on the surface of cells, and in particular, the extracellular binding events that they mediate.

Other theories and lines of research have begun to prosper due to the lack of tangible human results for anti-amyloid immunotherapies, in particular that neurofibrillary tangles of misfolded tau protein are just as much a target for clearance as is amyloid - β, and that perhaps it is time to focus on the decline of known clearance mechanisms rather than the amyloid itself.

In particular, our research focuses on developmental origins of health and disease with an emphasis on environmental exposures and epigenetic mechanisms (DNA methylation and noncoding RNA).

MATISSE will contribute to several fundamental research areas in astronomy, focusing in particular on the inner regions of discs around young stars where planets are forming, the study of stars at different stages of their lives, and the surroundings of supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies.

The two entities have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for joint research and educational activities, focusing in particular on Public Health Genomics.

Her research broadly covers the discovery of new exoplanets and the characterization of Sun - like stars throughout the galaxy, with a particular focus on the...

This page lists examples of joint research projects carried out under EU's Research Framework Programmes FP7 (2007 - 2013) and Horizon 2020 (2014 - 2020) with particular attention to the EU - Japan aspect of the cooperation, focusing on the merit of the Japanese partners, how they got involved in the project and what kind of funding arrangements were used as Japanese organisations are not eligible for automatic funding from the European Comresearch projects carried out under EU's Research Framework Programmes FP7 (2007 - 2013) and Horizon 2020 (2014 - 2020) with particular attention to the EU - Japan aspect of the cooperation, focusing on the merit of the Japanese partners, how they got involved in the project and what kind of funding arrangements were used as Japanese organisations are not eligible for automatic funding from the European ComResearch Framework Programmes FP7 (2007 - 2013) and Horizon 2020 (2014 - 2020) with particular attention to the EU - Japan aspect of the cooperation, focusing on the merit of the Japanese partners, how they got involved in the project and what kind of funding arrangements were used as Japanese organisations are not eligible for automatic funding from the European Commission.

Susan Amara, USA - «Regulation of transporter function and trafficking by amphetamines, Structure - function relationships in excitatory amino acid transporters (EAATs), Modulation of dopamine transporters (DAT) by GPCRs, Genetics and functional analyses of human trace amine receptors» Tom I. Bonner, USA (Past Core Member)- Genomics, G protein coupled receptors Michel Bouvier, Canada - Molecular Pharmacology of G protein - Coupled Receptors; Molecular mechanisms controlling the selectivity and efficacy of GPCR signalling Thomas Burris, USA - Nuclear Receptor Pharmacology and Drug Discovery William A. Catterall, USA (Past Core Member)- The Molecular Basis of Electrical Excitability Steven Charlton, UK - Molecular Pharmacology and Drug Discovery Moses Chao, USA - Mechanisms of Neurotophin Receptor Signaling Mark Coles, UK - Cellular differentiation, human embryonic stem cells, stromal cells, haematopoietic stem cells, organogenesis, lymphoid microenvironments, develomental immunology Steven L. Colletti, USA Graham L Collingridge, UK Philippe Delerive, France - Metabolic Research (diabetes, obesity, non-alcoholic fatty liver, cardio - vascular diseases, nuclear hormone receptor, GPCRs, kinases) Sir Colin T. Dollery, UK (Founder and Past Core Member) Richard M. Eglen, UK Stephen M. Foord, UK David Gloriam, Denmark - GPCRs, databases, computational drug design, orphan recetpors Gillian Gray, UK Debbie Hay, New Zealand - G protein - coupled receptors, peptide receptors, CGRP, Amylin, Adrenomedullin, Migraine, Diabetes / obesity Allyn C. Howlett, USA Franz Hofmann, Germany - Voltage dependent calcium channels and the positive inotropic effect of beta adrenergic stimulation; cardiovascular function of cGMP protein kinase Yu Huang, Hong Kong - Endothelial and Metabolic Dysfunction, and Novel Biomarkers in Diabetes, Hypertension, Dyslipidemia and Estrogen Deficiency, Endothelium - derived Contracting Factors in the Regulation of Vascular Tone, Adipose Tissue Regulation of Vascular Function in Obesity, Diabetes and Hypertension, Pharmacological Characterization of New Anti-diabetic and Anti-hypertensive Drugs, Hypotensive and antioxidant Actions of Biologically Active Components of Traditional Chinese Herbs and Natural Plants including Polypehnols and Ginsenosides Adriaan P. IJzerman, The Netherlands - G protein - coupled receptors; allosteric modulation; binding kinetics Michael F Jarvis, USA - Purines and Purinergic Receptors and Voltage-gated ion channel (sodium and calcium) pharmacology Pain mechanisms Research Reproducibility Bong - Kiun Kaang, Korea - G protein - coupled receptors; Glutamate receptors; Neuropsychiatric disorders Eamonn Kelly, Prof, UK - Molecular Pharmacology of G protein - coupled receptors, in particular opioid receptors, regulation of GPCRs by kinasis and arrestins Terry Kenakin, USA - Drug receptor pharmacodynamics, receptor theory Janos Kiss, Hungary - Neurodegenerative disorders, Alzheimer's disease Stefan Knapp, Germany - Rational design of highly selective inhibitors (so call chemical probes) targeting protein kinases as well as protein interaction inhibitors of the bromodomain family Andrew Knight, UK Chris Langmead, Australia - Drug discovery, GPCRs, neuroscience and analytical pharmacology Vincent Laudet, France (Past Core Member)- Evolution of the Nuclear Receptor / Ligand couple Margaret R. MacLean, UK - Serotonin, endothelin, estrogen, microRNAs and pulmonary hyperten Neil Marrion, UK - Calcium - activated potassium channels, neuronal excitability Fiona Marshall, UK - GPCR molecular pharmacology, structure and drug discovery Alistair Mathie, UK - Ion channel structure, function and regulation, pain and the nervous system Ian McGrath, UK - Adrenoceptors; autonomic transmission; vascular pharmacology Graeme Milligan, UK - Structure, function and regulation of G protein - coupled receptors Richard Neubig, USA (Past Core Member)- G protein signaling; academic drug discovery Stefan Offermanns, Germany - G protein - coupled receptors, vascular / metabolic signaling Richard Olsen, USA - Structure and function of GABA - A receptors; mode of action of GABAergic drugs including general anesthetics and ethanol Jean - Philippe Pin, France (Past Core Member)- GPCR - mGLuR - GABAB - structure function relationship - pharmacology - biophysics Helgi Schiöth, Sweden David Searls, USA - Bioinformatics Graeme Semple, USA - GPCR Medicinal Chemistry Patrick M. Sexton, Australia - G protein - coupled receptors Roland Staal, USA - Microglia and neuroinflammation in neuropathic pain and neurological disorders Bart Staels, France - Nuclear receptor signaling in metabolic and cardiovascular diseases Katerina Tiligada, Greece - Immunopharmacology, histamine, histamine receptors, hypersensitivity, drug allergy, inflammation Georg Terstappen, Germany - Drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases with a focus on AD Mary Vore, USA - Activity and regulation of expression and function of the ATP - binding cassette (ABC) transporters

Our science is organised into five scientific Programmes, each defining a major area of research with a particular biological, disease or analytic focus.

Loss ′ s research interests include many aspects of the theory of condensed matter systems with a particular focus on spin - dependent and phase - coherent phenomena («mesoscopics») in semiconducting nanostructures and molecular magnets.