Sentences with phrase «pioneering use of models»

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The savvy Canadian is the co-founder and chairman of Toronto based Franco - Nevada (FNV 94.06 1.61 %) and pioneered the royalty business model in the gold mining sector based on the model used in the oil - and - gas industry.

The pioneer of P2P lending in the U.S., Prosper uses a credit score - based model for evaluating its P2P loans.

Leading progressive academic economist Steve Keen gained international recognition after he successfully predicted the 2007 global crisis using an alternative macro-economic model built on the pioneering work of Hyman Minsky and Wynne Godley.

The California IVF Fertility Center is pioneering what some refer to as the «Costco model» of babymaking, creating batches of embryos using donor eggs and sperm that can be shared among several different families.

To better determine the role of specific chemoattractants in type III hypersensitivity, lead author Yoshishige Miyabe, MD, PhD, a research fellow in Luster's lab, used multiphoton intravital microscopy — an imaging technology pioneered for studies of immune cell movements in living animals by CIID investigator and co-author Thorsten Mempel, MD, PhD — to follow in real time the development of IC - induced arthritis in a mouse model of rheumatoid arthritis.

In order for a business to serve the ecological need of the forests, McKinnon added, it must use really small wood, which is not in Pioneer's business model.

Here, we pioneer the use of Drosophila embryos as models to study bacterial infection in real time.

Our group is helping Rafael Yuste's lab to pioneer the use of Hydra vulgaris, a small, freshwater polyp that attaches itself to underwater surfaces in lakes, rivers and ponds and uses its tentacles to capture prey, as a model organism for studying neural function.

The symposium didn't shy away from cutting edge science, introducing some of the preliminary genome editing and reproductive techniques being pioneered in biomedicine and agriculture using the domestic chicken model (Marie - Cecile van de Lavoir and Caitlyn Cooper).

Made major contributions to the field of immunology through his studies on immune tolerance in animal models, with particular focus on transplantation tolerance and autoimmunity, in addition to pioneering the use of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies against T cells, resulting in the development of Campath - 1H, the first humanised monoclonal antibody to be used therapeutically.

The Ellerby lab is known for its pioneering studies on Huntington's disease (HD), and Karen is now using human stem cell models of HD to understand why important molecular signaling pathways, such as the TGF - β pathway, are dysregulated in HD.

When Kevin Sweeney left the private sector to join the Foisie Business School in 2012, it didn't take long for him to notice an opportunity to apply WPI's project - based learning model to the socio - economic issues in the region where he used to work: the Pioneer Valley, a mix of urban, rural, and suburban communities in western Massachusetts.

One favored capacity building approach is to support cross-district partnerships to fast - forward the spread of best practices, using a model pioneered in the state by a group of mostly big districts.

Gonski 2.0 — the Review to Achieve Educational Excellence in Australian Schools — was familiar reading to over 200 pioneering Australian schools, who have been using a Learning and Teaching Model already aligned to a large number of the recommendations within the report.

McLaren pioneered the use of carbon composite construction in the 1981 Formula 1 MP4 / 1 model and set a trend that all Formula 1 teams have followed.

Partly to compensate for rust problems on the 1957 models and partly to ensure that their Unibody cars would remain safe, as rust was a larger problem when body panels were required for strength, Chrysler pioneered the use of electrostatic charges to improve anti-rust agent adhesion in their 1960 models.

The Denver metro coalition was a leader in the use of a cooperative model, and Boulder pioneered the critically important open - adoption concept.

To the Davis picture's left hangs Miriam Schapiro's Another Red Room (1967), a hard - edge work considered noteworthy partly for her pioneering use of computer modeling to experiment with 3 - D perspective, in contrast to the resolute flatness of the Davis and O'Keeffe paintings.

Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).

It is in line with some academic models used for pioneering new classes of simulation.

I found it interesting that the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to three scientists who pioneered the use of computers to model drugs.

Today we'll explore the work of two Goldman Prize winners who have pioneered innovative models for protecting water and other natural resources using a combination of traditional techniques and modern conservation methods.

The company is seeking to pioneer new financing models in rapidly urbanizing areas in Latin America and other developing countries that create sustainable housing at the lowest cost of acquisition and total ownership, through resilient and energy - efficient design and materials use

Since its launch in 2009, Therium has consistently been at the forefront of developments in litigation funding, pioneering the use of insurance within its structures to manage risk and being the first funder in the UK to launch a portfolio funding model.

The constituent elements of Aragon's pioneering transparency model also include quarterly financial reports, public meetings, and the use of open source to allow participants» inclusion in decisions relating to project fund management.

Looking ahead to 2018, Fabian Vogelsteller is interested in taking the model he pioneered with ethereum's ERC - 20 token standard, effectively a drop - dead simple way of creating your own cryptocurrency, and recreating its effects for one of blockchain tech's most - often touted use cases: digital identity.

Based on the legendary work of Swiss psychologist Carl Jung and his pioneering typological models, the Career Personality Test will help you discover what personality type you are and use that information to build a profile of what might satisfy you in a career.

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Play Therapy International has, through the work carried out by Play Therapy UK (PTUK), pioneered the development and use of a competency framework, as the foundation of a Profession Structure Model, to improve the understanding of exactly what a practitioner of therapeutic play does.

Early in his career, Jim successfully built and sold a company that pioneered a new class of affordable Computer Aided Design / Engineering software for small and mid-sized architectural and engineering firms using a timeshare model that was similar to what we know today as SaaS.