Sentences with phrase «problems in research funding»

In reality, however, rampant problems in research funding — some attributable to the system and others cultural — are slowing down China's potential pace of innovation.

Not exact matches

Martins explained that this tactic centers around 81 - year - old Dr. Robert Taub, who told the jury he referred patients suffering from asbestos - related health problems to Silver's law firm in exchange for favors, including state - funded research grants.

Better ways of preventing foot problems in dialysis patients with diabetes could reduce the 100 or so associated amputations that take place every week in the UK, according to Diabetes UK - funded research being presented this week at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Lisbon.

The report highlights many important problems that countries like the United Kingdom have been focusing on to provide better support to early - career researchers, such as «the multi-facetted role of the early career researcher and the need for professional development in areas beyond research such as people management and winning funding,» writes Ellen Pearce, director of Vitae, a U.K. organization that promotes the professional development of early - career researchers, in an email to Science Careers.

The UK's Higher Education Funding Councils are working to improve the standards in research degree programmes so that standards for training, supervision arrangements, feedback mechanisms, and induction are brought in to help overcome the most serious problems faced by research students.

«In fact, this lack of funding is one of the major problems that hamper the productivity of the Spanish research groups.»

Select Problems Wisely: Zigmond says that successful scientists realize it is critical, when planning research, to choose research areas by the level of interest in the field and by what kind of work can be funded.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, Virginia, has decided to double down on its implementation of a congressionally mandated policy aimed at reducing research misconduct among NSF - funded scientists, despite a new report that notes problems with the agency's approach.

The intervention represents a view in the government — shared by the Opposition — that the research funding process has not responded to increasing community concern about the problem of breast cancer.

Hunter said the study is part of a larger research project funded by the National Institutes of Health, aiming to investigate underlying risk factors for voice problems and gender differences in speech.

The structural problem should work itself out in the next few years, and research funding is being replaced in part by philanthropy and industrial sources.

Funded by a Google Faculty Research Award, specialists in computer vision and machine learning based at the University of Lincoln, UK, are aiming to embed a smart vision system in mobile devices to help people with sight problems navigate unfamiliar indoor environments.

Indeed, according to Roddam Narasimha, the DST Year - of - Science Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Jakkur, Bangalore, the big problem with research in India's university system is not so much funding as «the difficulty universities have in attracting gifted scientists from within the country or abroadResearch in Jakkur, Bangalore, the big problem with research in India's university system is not so much funding as «the difficulty universities have in attracting gifted scientists from within the country or abroadresearch in India's university system is not so much funding as «the difficulty universities have in attracting gifted scientists from within the country or abroad.»

Science policymakers, funders, and researchers spent 2 days this week in Barcelona, Spain, mulling over the problem of how to shift much needed big - ticket research facilities from drawing - board to construction site.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability LBF in Darmstadt, Germany has now solved this problem together with the Institute for Textile Technology (ITA) of the RWTH Aachen in the exploratory study «Bastfix,» which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

However, this would create difficult problems with regard to shortages of space and research supervisors, not to mention problems in providing funding for the additional numbers of graduate students.

This is an especially big problem in the life sciences, and it will take time to fix, says K. Vijayraghavan, the secretary of India's Department of Biotechnology (DBT) in New Delhi, which funded some of the research that ended up in predatory journals.

Their Boise, Idaho - based research institute, funded via technology spin - offs coming out of their work, aimed at solving foundational problems in cognitive science and artificial intelligence.

Physiological tremor can be a big problem in certain situations, such as combat, and Pathak's work (funded by the U.S. Army Research Laboratories) focused on developing actuators in military equipment and weapons to offset users» tremors.

Research funded in this program should address issues such as «intelligent perception, communication, and reasoning capabilities that are not constrained to address only a single problem in isolation or in one particular context.»

Dead - end projects, technical problems, difficult students, a lack of funding, reviewers who delay publications, competitors who scoop you, and personal hardships can eat away at enthusiasm over time, says Erwin Wagner, one of the vice-directors of the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) in Madrid.

While the RAC panel applauded an increase in the number of treatment studies funded by the Department of Defense's Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program, it expressed grave concerns about a lack of research on other health problems and mortality among Gulf War vResearch Program, it expressed grave concerns about a lack of research on other health problems and mortality among Gulf War vresearch on other health problems and mortality among Gulf War veterans.

The intense competition for funding presents a growing challenge for scientific researchers — those who receive financial support are in a better position to bolster their early research efforts and are more likely to identify solutions to the most complex scientific questions and to some of society's most pressing problems.

The Census Bureau has estimated that the number of people over 65 will increase by 2050 to 88.5 million; thus, Alzheimer's disease presents an enormous future public health problem which was recently recognized by Congress with the allocation of 300 million in additional NIH research funding.

The previous posting is a little harsh and, I think, misses the point, which is: \ n \ n «In light of the ethical problems, Strieffer called for the Bush Administration's restrictions on stem cell research funding to be overturned.»

In September 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) published an urgent appeal to increase funding for research into new antibiotics: not enough new drugs are in the «pipeline» to combat the growing problem of multi-resistant strainIn September 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) published an urgent appeal to increase funding for research into new antibiotics: not enough new drugs are in the «pipeline» to combat the growing problem of multi-resistant strainin the «pipeline» to combat the growing problem of multi-resistant strains.

The Wales Cancer Trials Network (WCTN)- jointly funded by Cancer Research UK and the Welsh Assembly Government - was set up in 1998 to overcome these problems and help increase recruitment into high quality, publicly funded cancer clinical trials.

In the panel conversation, the lack of good networks, better use of the emerging edtech incubators, the structure of federal research funding, the lag - time between learning and tangible results, and other things surfaced as additional facets of the problem.

MB: This was government schools, but the research was also funded by the Ministry of Education and so it was really a partnership between the University and the Ministry to look for solutions to a problem that has been longstanding in New Zealand schools... We've worked with five phases of schools, so five different groups of schools, and [in] each phase we've used the research to learn iteratively through the next phase.

If you are so inclined, you may also want to read the recent Washington Post (10.24.16) article, entitled «The big problem with the Obama administration's new teacher - education regulations», in which the chair of Connecticut College's Education Department co-wrote that the «academy provisions» which were incorporated into ESSA (after initially being developed by the two charter lobbyist organizations New Schools Venture Fund and Relay Graduate School of Education) would exempt «entrepreneurial «start - up programs» (i.e. teacher preparation «academies»)... from many of the requirements that states will enforce for other programs — such as hiring faculty who hold advanced degrees or conduct research, holding students to certain credit hours or course sequences, or securing accreditation from the field's accrediting bodies.»

What can be gleaned from available research and data is that patterns of giving have shifted in recent decades to include more efforts to fund disruptive or innovative approaches, signaling a belief among funders that problems in K - 12 education are not solely an issue of a lack of resources but also of a need to use existing resources differently.

In a new publication entitled «Applying Goal - Based Investing Principles to the Retirement Problem», EDHEC - Risk Institute and Professor John Mulvey of the Operations Research & Financial Engineering Department at Princeton University outline the shortcomings of existing retirement products, and lay the academic foundations for a new generation of risk - controlled target - date funds (TDFs).

A solution in seeing what's unsolvable One of the fascinating things that the well funded sustainability research leaves out, is that they got their funding by promising to «solve» problems, not to figure out what is so unsolvable about our present dilemma... That of course would provide the equally useful product of pointing out problems that one should avoid wasting one's time on, as well as the hint to look elsewhere.

A big part of the problem (at least in physical sciences) is mismanagement of the research funds that are invested.

Would diverting 1 % of the world's climate research funds into this problem clarify the issues in time?

I see problems with: * you have to be an active promoter of yourself to get articles read * the review process (mainly there is no ability to assess why rejected articles are rejected and the time wasting because of pedantic comments) * project - based funding and treating research like consulting (if I can tell you how much a project will cost, then by definition it is not research) * since academia seems to be drifting towards consulting, researchers start to become underpaid compared to peers in consulting * the focus on the number of publications weighted by the rank of the journal * status is based on if you publish in a high - rank journal, «selected» to be a lead author, and so on, and not whether you do good and creative research, good collaborator, good colleague to peers, etc..

I find agreement with the majority of it, although I find problems with what I interpret it implies about openness and transparency of in - process research when publically funded.

JW said «I find problems with what I interpret [the IAC report] implies about openness and transparency of in - process research when publically funded.»

The problem is that both sides tend to see a conspiracy both in the promotion of the results of science like this and in opposition to the research results which it is claimed is funded by commercial interests like the Donor fund and promulgated by the same tactics and often the same people that undermined the science on tobbaco, asbestos, DDT, CFCs, lead.....

I asked you to tell me what you had in mind when you were referring to «problems» with what the IAC report implies about openness and transparency of in - process research when publically funded.

In addition to a Trump administration filled with climate deniers, and that wants to gut the EPA and cut NASA climate research funding, the schemes by many GOP lawmakers to transfer control of public lands — which includes national parks, national forests, wilderness areas and wildlife preserves — presents a unique, yet ultimately avoidable problem.

These problems we controlled to a degree through legislation which forced companies to look for solutions via such means as paying for discharge license - essentially taxes — following which technical entrepreneurs came in with various solutions utilising research findings generally funded at government expense (studies of nutrient and contaminant cycles and impacts).

While this increase in recent years is to be applauded, it remains the case that a problem regularly described as one of the greatest problems facing the legal sector in Canada receives — on a good day — about one thirteenth of all law - related research funding.

Last month, as part of a five - year SSHRC funded research project exploring the costs of justice, the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice released the first data from its national legal problems survey, «Everyday Legal Problems and the Cost of Justice in Canadaproblems survey, «Everyday Legal Problems and the Cost of Justice in CanadaProblems and the Cost of Justice in Canada».

She was awarded substantial funding to research therapeutic jurisprudence and problem - solving courts in the USA by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.

Obviously there is no research funding or commercial potential in coffeecup jurisprudence, but even when working on other problems one shouldn't be afraid to ask seemingly stupid questions like these.

Govt cutting $ 165.8 m from Aboriginal health to put in Health Research Future Fund — as if the health problems aren't urgent now

The Stepping Stones Triple P (SSTP) Project is a five - year project funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council to evaluate the effectiveness of Triple P's Stepping Stones program in reducing behavioral and emotional problems in children with a disability across a population.

Research Sources: (1) Kyle Pruett, 2000, Fatherneed (2) Adrienne Burgess, 2006, The Costs and Benefits of Active Fatherhood (3) Amato, P.R., and Rivera, F., 1999, «Paternal Involvement and Children's Behavior Problems,» Journal of Marriage and Family, 61, 375 - 384 (4) Bruce Perry, 2001, Bonding and Attachment in Maltreated Children: Consequences of Emotional Neglect in Childhood (5) Children's Trust Fund of Massachusetts http://www.onetoughjob.com

The Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports is funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) to provide information, training, support, and guidance to the nation on addressing behavior problems in research - based and effective ways.