Sentences with phrase «potentially powerful new tool»

Now, one piece of the agency has found a potentially powerful new tool to flatten the spikes and cut the number of proposals: It can simply eliminate deadlines.

«In recent years, [NSF] has struggled with the logistics of evaluating a rising number of grant proposals that has propelled funding rates to historic lows,» but «one piece of the agency has found a potentially powerful new tool to flatten [submission] spikes and cut the number of proposals: It can simply eliminate deadlines,» Eric Hand reported last Friday.

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As several of the speakers noted, scientific studies in the past few years have proved the value of potentially powerful new prevention tools.

«Our proposal represents a potentially powerful ecosystem management tool for global sustainability, but one that carries with it new concerns, as with any emerging technology,» said Wyss Core Faculty member George Church, PhD, a coauthor on both publications.

Rapid sequencing of parasite genomes from the blood of infected people is a powerful way of detecting changes in the parasite population, and potentially an important new surveillance tool in the armamentarium for controlling malaria.»

If that happens, it could be a powerful tool, bringing potentially millions of new readers to digital comics.