Sentences with phrase «past research focused»

Past research focused on weak epidemiological evidence to determine the link between saturated fats, cholesterol, and CVD.

While a raft of past research focused on factors that enable the academic failure of young black men, the special issue spotlights key academic and social factors — both positive and negative — that affect black students, through the eyes and in the words of the students themselves.

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Much of Australia's past research and innovation has focussed on increasing agricultural yields and improving the efficiency of land harvesting and to a lesser extent supply chains.

Simon stated that 95 % of all research investments over the past 30 years have focussed on increasing productivity with only 5 % going to reducing food loss.

In the past, coffee research was primarily focused on crop yields and disease resistance with little consideration for quality.

Over the past few years, FLPC has conducted research on these issues, focusing on tax incentives and liability protections for food donations.

Past research has uncovered that huge underdogs have historically underperformed against ranked teams, so I opted to eliminate these bottom feeders by setting the «Team Win %» filter between 51 % and 100 % — this way our analysis focuses on teams with a winning record.

Our past research indicates that bettors have a slight advantage when betting against the public, but that edge is magnified when focusing on underdogs of more than 10 points.

To provide some insight on female concussions, we launched a research study in October 2013, which focused on female athletes from all sports, and their past and present experiences with concussions.

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

When asked to describe her former colleague, SNA past president Shirley Watkins had the following to say: «Kathleen brought this focus on research to the table in the 1980s, and having that kind of foresight and vision at that time was incredible — she was so far advanced to make that happen.»

The RiverBend project will be run by the State University of New York's Research Foundation, which is headquartered in Albany, and has the help from top officials at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, the State University of New York's newest college, which has become a major source of jobs in Albany with its focus the past two decades on nanoscience rResearch Foundation, which is headquartered in Albany, and has the help from top officials at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, the State University of New York's newest college, which has become a major source of jobs in Albany with its focus the past two decades on nanoscience researchresearch.

Unsurprisingly given its past focus on climate, Biological and Environmental Research (BER) would receive the largest relative reduction of any SC program area, with its environmental research branch rebranded away from climate and newly named «Earth and Environmental Systems SciencesResearch (BER) would receive the largest relative reduction of any SC program area, with its environmental research branch rebranded away from climate and newly named «Earth and Environmental Systems Sciencesresearch branch rebranded away from climate and newly named «Earth and Environmental Systems Sciences.»

«Over the past ten years, the central goal of my research has been focused on finding and introducing overlooked factors at the nanobio interfaces to minimize this bench - to - clinic gap, which might pave a way to accelerate successful clinical translation of nanoparticles.

Its focus will now be more on upstream research related to new frontiers, as compared to the past structure, which was geared more toward industrial commercial needs.

The biologists behind the new research findings synthesized decades of studies on fossil beetles, focusing on beetles associated with the dung of large animals in the past or with woodlands and trees.

Similar research in the past has focused on grain crops, like rice and corn.

Wong's research over the past decade has focused on identifying biomarkers in saliva.

Past marketing and psychological research has focused on smiles leading consumers to perceive people as being friendly and viewed in a more positive light.

Over the past 11 years, Pfeifer's research has focused on manipulating E. coli so that the organism produces all of the materials necessary for creating erythromycin.

In the past few weeks, the debate about genetic research in Germany has focused on the issue of the use of embryonic stem cells for research.

This article is especially relevant today not only because it is a critical review of past research on moral education viewed through the lens and the work of the authors, but because it is also a critique of the current status of higher education and an argument for the need to focus more intentionally on equity and fairness.

«Research at the Center for Sustainable Systems over the past dozen years has focused on helping consumers navigate this complexity and identify opportunities for cost savings and lower environmental impact,» said Keoleian, who is also a professor at the School for Environment and Sustainability.

Past research has focused on prevention of the disease by reducing the levels of proteins that cause brain plaques and tangles and kill nerve cells.

Most prior research has focused on the capacity for animals to adapt to increasing temperatures, given that animals have adapted to changes in temperature in the past.

This research suggests that the taken - for - granted view that attractive candidates are favored when applying for jobs might be limited to high - level jobs that were the predominant focus of past research, according to Pillutla.

In the past, he said, much research on Alzheimer's and similar disease focused on fibrils, large bundles of misfolded proteins that form in the brain.

The incidence of sepsis has doubled in the past 15 years leading to an increased focus on research and Medicare spending.

Past research has largely looked at people with existing cardiovascular disease (prevalent disease), rather than focusing on those newly diagnosed (incident disease).

The new paper stems from a National Science Foundation - funded, interuniversity research project which focuses on understanding how water sustainability in the United States has changed over the past 30 years as a result of climate change and population growth.

Warinner and colleague, Cecil M. Lewis, Jr., co-direct OU's Laboratories of Molecular Anthropology and Microbiome Research and the research focused on reconstructing the ancestral human oral and gut microbiome, addressing questions concerning how the relationship between humans and microbes has changed through time and how our microbiomes influence health and disease in diverse populations, both today and in tResearch and the research focused on reconstructing the ancestral human oral and gut microbiome, addressing questions concerning how the relationship between humans and microbes has changed through time and how our microbiomes influence health and disease in diverse populations, both today and in tresearch focused on reconstructing the ancestral human oral and gut microbiome, addressing questions concerning how the relationship between humans and microbes has changed through time and how our microbiomes influence health and disease in diverse populations, both today and in the past.

Past research has focused on how these cartographic cells encode two - dimensional space.

Tom Rosenstiel of the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism pointed at the media, focusing on its overall contraction in the past two decades.

«In the past, most research on iron alloys in the core has focused only on the iron and a single alloy,» says Hirose.

Indeed, instead of focusing on individual nutrients, nutrition research has increasingly focused on the health effects of whole foods and diets over the past few years.

Here, we revise and update the planetary boundary framework, with a focus on the underpinning biophysical science, based on targeted input from expert research communities and on more general scientific advances over the past 5 years.

For most of the past 2 decades, the developmental biologist at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute has focused his research on finding a cure.

According to Dr. Michelson, «Research of the past few years is increasingly changing the focus from pure monocular treatment to combination therapy with the fixing eye kept open and, finally, binocular therapy based on perceptual training.

At least half of his research efforts during the past 10 years have focused on regions of the brain activated during moments of deep creativity.

For the past 20 years, Zlotnick's lab has conducted research to stop viral infections by studying the physics of viruses, focusing on how capsids are formed.

The study differed from past research because it focused solely on the roles of parents, rather than the child or her mentors.

Research foci should shift from why women live past reproductive age to why older women experience a reproductive decline.

Brookhaven scientist Joanna Fowler describes Positron Emission Technology (PET) research at BNL which for the past 30 years has focused in the integration of basic research in radiotracer chemistry with the tools of neuroscience to develop new scientific tools for applications in human health.

The climatic impact of the Toba supereruption, estimated to have erupted between 10 and 360 times more H2SO4 than Pinatubo (9), has consequently been the focus of much research over the past three decades (1, 3 ⇓ — 5, 10 ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ — 16).

Connecting the Laboratoryâ $ ™ s expertise and research of its past to the expertise and research of its future, Aronson focuses on the Laboratoryâ $ ™ s work in nuclear and particle physics, condensed matter physics, life sciences, environmental sciences, and the chain of activities from discovery to deployment.

While past research has tended to focus only on specific sports or genders, this study examined whether the prevalence of symptoms varied between gender and across nine different sports: baseball / softball, basketball, cheerleading, crew, field hockey, lacrosse, track and field, soccer and tennis.

My present and past research have been heavily focused on understanding how planets form and planetary systems assemble.

Consequently, in the past 20 years his research has evolved from an early focus on prioritizing the effects that humans have on coral reefs and the role that marine protected areas play in conserving biological diversity and ecological processes, to developing theoretical and simulation models of coral reefs that will help predict and suggest alternatives to reduce detrimental effects, to developing practical means to restore degraded reefs through manipulation of the food web and management.

Professor Kopp's research focuses on understanding uncertainty in past and future climate change, with major emphases on sea - level change and on the interactions between physical climate change and the economy.

For the past 15 years or so, much of heart repair research has focused on developing stem cell treatments and not making much progress.