Sentences with phrase «productivity at research universities»

But Gates warned against complacency, and noted a 2012 report by PCAST that identified opportunities for the United States to keep its edge in innovation, including boosting of R&D expenditures moderately to 3.0 % of GDP, making the R&D tax credit permanent, streamlining federal regulations that decrease productivity at research universities, and adopting «best practices» to improve undergraduate education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

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When a couple of Canadian economists published research (pdf) last December showing that using an alternative methodology yields much better productivity growth rates, StatsCan was quick to reject it, even though one of the authors, Erwin Diewert, a professor at the University of British Columbia's Vancouver School of Economics, is widely regarded as one of the world's finest brains in the field.

Recent research at SAC and the University of Edinburgh on cattle breeding has shown that selection on the basis of disease resistance as well as productivity is more profitable for organic farmers.

He remains active in research at Columbia University, and his extraordinary productivity and creativity are exemplified by his weighty 2012 book, The Age of Insight: The Quest To Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain from Vienna 1900 to the Present.

Weisshaar tracked the careers and productivity of scholars who were assistant professors of computer science, sociology, and English at research universities between 2000 and 2004.

Lest anyone doubt the reach of America's after - school woes — more than 14 million K - 12 students, including 40,000 kindergartners and almost 4 million middle school students, take care of themselves after school — it appears even the economy is suffering: A new study by Catalyst and the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, shows that the workplace productivity of U.S. parents suffers when they are worried about what their kids are doing after school.

In 2007, CBCSE was officially constituted as a research center based at Teachers College, Columbia University, to conduct research on the productivity of educational programs.

Scientists at the Agro Climate Research Centre at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University have projected that productivity of irrigated rice is likely to drop by four per cent in the coastal areas, while maize and sorghum yields could fall up to 50 per cent in certain areas.

Through her organizational effectiveness research at the University of Pennsylvania, Pam Teagarden, founder of Authentum, estimates that companies loose more than $ 300 billion a year in productivity due to misguided attempts to improve employee engagement.