Sentences with phrase «promising research projects»

(The first in a series looking at promising research projects being supported by the University Research Award program.)

Today, a large fraction of a chip's power is used to keep the chip components marching lockstep by broadcasting ticks of the chip's clock, but there are promising research projects to do that with optical links.

Not exact matches

The research is showing promise, and project co-ordinator, Dr. Emile Greenhalgh says the new material is revolutionary because «it does two things simultaneously — it carries a mechanical load and also stores electrical energy.»

The Family Rights Group two year action - research project «Fathers Matter» which has been exploring the involvement of fathers in social care settings has now produced a number of exciting outputs, including two major reports, two conferences and a web - based discussion board for professionals, which includes examples of highly promising practice.

In these days of outsourcing, there are also contract research organizations that carry out research on short - term projects and then sell these to larger companies if they look promising.

American Heart Association - Beginning Scientist Programs The following programs are designed to support promising beginning scientists in their progress toward independence by encouraging and funding research projects that can serve to bridge the gap between completion of research training and readiness for competition as an independent investigator.

BMRC provides seed funding in the form of 3 - year project grants for promising early - career investigators to kick - start their research careers, as well as more extensive program grants for established investigators to continue or expand on their existing research.

The research — led by Duke University neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis, M.D., Ph.D., as part of the Walk Again Project in São Paulo, Brazil — offers promise for people with spinal cord injury, stroke and other conditions to regain strength, mobility and independence.

HepatoSys, with $ 13 million funding from the German Ministry for Research and Education (BMBF) for the first 3 years and $ 24 million promised for the following three, is a nationwide German systems biology project.

«Our research shows that targeting cannabinoid receptors in the periphery with pharmacological inhibitors that do not reach the brain holds promise as a safe therapeutic approach for the treatment of overeating and diet - induced obesity,» said Nicholas V. DiPatrizio, an assistant professor of biomedical sciences in the School of Medicine, who led the research project.

One of the project's promised payoffs is a coherent body of knowledge, said Janet Woodcock, director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

In contrast, applied research needs to contribute to a product or therapy, which means that research projects which don't show potential will be dropped to give attention to more promising ones.

I therefore believe that a good deal of promising research ends up being highly parochial because the grant money available is not sufficient to permit inclusion of foreign researchers into a research project.

In a follow - on project to be conducted in collaboration with MedUni Vienna's Institute of Pharmacology and Center for Addiction Research and Science (AddRess) and, in particular, with drug and dopamine expert Harald Sitte, amongst others, the objective is now to find out whether, and, if so, how, activation of DeltaFosB can be prevented and how this highly promising starting point can be used to treat the onset of addictive behaviour.

After his Ph.D., Schwartz accepted an offer to stay at Thales, where he still does research full - time, pursuing a commercial product out of his doctoral project and working to transform new, promising matter - wave — sensor technologies into concrete, practical applications.

NSF believes that the PI / PD, operating within the established policies of the grantee organization, should feel free to pursue interesting and important leads that may arise during the conduct of a research (or other grant - supported) project or to adopt an alternative approach which appears to be a more promising means of achieving the objectives of the project.

It would maintain the current budget of $ 280 million for DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E), which strives to translate the most promising ideas from basic research into budding technResearch Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E), which strives to translate the most promising ideas from basic research into budding technresearch into budding technologies.

Research on cloud computing poses challenges and promises advances that go beyond what is covered by the CLOUDS project.

In 2012, the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital — Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project highlighted DDX3X as a promising focus for efforts to develop targeted therapies against medulloblastoma.

ITER, 12 a long - haul research and engineering project in plasma physics, is similarly promising.

Scientists at M.I.T. Media Lab's Biomechatronics Group have, with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), developed an exoskeleton that promises to not only lessen the load of weary travelers but also to advance research that will ultimately lead to robotic limbs that improve the strength and mobility of aResearch Projects Agency (DARPA), developed an exoskeleton that promises to not only lessen the load of weary travelers but also to advance research that will ultimately lead to robotic limbs that improve the strength and mobility of aresearch that will ultimately lead to robotic limbs that improve the strength and mobility of amputees.

«The development of this microfluidic lung model, as well as other organs - on - chip, holds the promise of improving the physiological relevance of cellular models for more accurate prediction of the effects of toxicants and drugs on humans, and for reducing the use of animals in medical and pharmaceutical research,» said Sonia Grego, Ph.D., research scientist at RTI and the project's principal investigator.

Congress also appears to think more fondly of DOE's Advance Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E), whose goal is to take the promising ideas from basic research and quickly develop them into fledgling technResearch Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E), whose goal is to take the promising ideas from basic research and quickly develop them into fledgling technresearch and quickly develop them into fledgling technologies.

COMPETES authorizes ongoing support for ARPA - E, the novel energy - research program modeled after the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency which promises to give rise to «leapfrog» technologies that will reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources and stimulate a green economy while producing steady, high - quality jobs of theresearch program modeled after the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency which promises to give rise to «leapfrog» technologies that will reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources and stimulate a green economy while producing steady, high - quality jobs of theResearch Projects Agency which promises to give rise to «leapfrog» technologies that will reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources and stimulate a green economy while producing steady, high - quality jobs of the future.

The Thomas Jefferson Fund is a new program launched by the Embassy of France in the United States and the FACE Foundation with the support of the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, which aims to encourage and support cooperation among the most promising young French and American researchers, and foster forward - looking collaborative research pResearch, which aims to encourage and support cooperation among the most promising young French and American researchers, and foster forward - looking collaborative research presearch projects.

The Damon Runyon fellowship encourages the nation's most promising young scientists to pursue careers in cancer research by providing them with independent funding to work on innovative projects that have the potential to impact cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

In addition to funding multi-year collaborative research, Glaucoma Research Foundation provides seed money for creative research projects that hold promise and explore neresearch, Glaucoma Research Foundation provides seed money for creative research projects that hold promise and explore neResearch Foundation provides seed money for creative research projects that hold promise and explore neresearch projects that hold promise and explore new ideas.

He coordinates specific combinatorial research efforts, including follow - on studies of promising lead materials in order to facilitate transition of discoveries to directed research projects and to scaleup integrated components.

Thus, successful accomplishment of the project will allow the fellow to launch a promising research career in stem cell and molecular genetics relevant to inherited and acquired human skeletal diseases.

This program, launched by the Embassy of France in the United States and the FACE Foundation, aims to encourage and support cooperation among the most promising young French and American researchers, and foster forward - looking collaborative research projects.

The research project that PNNL will help with will look at soybeans, a promising biofuels source.

Glaucoma Research Foundation (GRF) provides seed money for creative pilot research projects that hold Research Foundation (GRF) provides seed money for creative pilot research projects that hold research projects that hold promise.

«Creating a high - output reaction in a MagLIF plasma at Z should demonstrate the promise of the broader field of research we call magneto - inertial fusion — a potentially inexpensive form of fusion,» said project lead and Sandia manager Dan Sinars.

BETHESDA, Md., Nov. 7, 2003 - The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) today announced the selection of five centers to carry out a new generation of large - scale sequencing projects designed to maximize the promise of the Human Genome Project and dramatically expand our understanding of human health and disease.

The fellowships encourage the nation's most promising young scientists to pursue careers in cancer research by providing them with independent funding ($ 231,000 each) to work on innovative projects that have the potential to impact cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

Yes, the Student Research Foundation looks to conduct its own research with a range of partners — noting current partnership with the National Society for Black Engineers, National Girls Collaborative Project, Partnership for 21st Century Learning, the Connectory, America's Promise Alliance, and Hope Street Group — it is also setting out to serve as a national clearinghouse for the impressive range of both quantitative and qualitative data on student careers and future amResearch Foundation looks to conduct its own research with a range of partners — noting current partnership with the National Society for Black Engineers, National Girls Collaborative Project, Partnership for 21st Century Learning, the Connectory, America's Promise Alliance, and Hope Street Group — it is also setting out to serve as a national clearinghouse for the impressive range of both quantitative and qualitative data on student careers and future amresearch with a range of partners — noting current partnership with the National Society for Black Engineers, National Girls Collaborative Project, Partnership for 21st Century Learning, the Connectory, America's Promise Alliance, and Hope Street Group — it is also setting out to serve as a national clearinghouse for the impressive range of both quantitative and qualitative data on student careers and future ambitions.

An assessment of text connectives for early primary school students, as well as a five - week intervention that demonstrated promising results, are part of the products of this project.Funding source: The Vocabulary Instruction and Assessment for Spanish Speakers (VIAS) project was a 5 - year program of research funded through grants from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES).

In a series aimed at closing the gap between research and practice, Usable Knowledge has partnered with Digital Promise on a project that collects questions from educators across the country and poses them to experts at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Funded by: Spencer Foundation Amount: $ 350,000 Dates: 1/1/16 — 12/31/19 Summary: This project expands the present research study by adding an ethnographic investigation of learning processes at the most promising no excuses and progressive schools with the goal of amplifying the value and effects of scholarship and practice of civic education in urban secondary schools across the United States.

Supported by the Abundance Foundation, Agency by Design (AbD) is a multiyear research initiative at Project Zero investigating the promises, practices, and pedagogies of maker - centered learning experiences.

Project Pigeon worked beautifully in a number of tests for the Navy, but it was abandoned partly in favor of more promising research efforts, such as the Manhattan Project, and because the idea of pigeons guiding a bomb was a difficult sell to the academic review panels and the military brass.

The promise of CSR models — such as Accelerated School Project, Core Knowledge, Direct Instruction, High Schools That Work, School Development Program, Success for All — and the comprehensive reform that they support is that they are research - based and provide the training and other supports needed to encourage a coordinated approach to improvement that addresses curriculum and instruction, professional development, leadership, parental and community involvement, and other components needed for student success.

The China Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education has received a donation pledge of $ 100,000 to fund a research project focused on reducing academic stress in the Chinese school system, and the first installment of this promise is already «in hand,» according to those involved in the project.

Agency by Design is an exploration of the promises, practices, and pedagogies of maker - centered learning, based at Project Zero, a research center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Agency by Design Oakland is the Bay Area - based component of the Agency by Design research project — an exploration of the promises, practices, and pedagogies of maker - centered learning based at Project Zero, a research center at the Harvard Graduate School of Eduproject — an exploration of the promises, practices, and pedagogies of maker - centered learning based at Project Zero, a research center at the Harvard Graduate School of EduProject Zero, a research center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Since 2012, the Agency by Design research project has focused on the promises, practices, and pedagogies of maker - centered learning.

Edward P. Clapp is a senior research manager and a member of the core research team working on the Agency by Design (AbD) initiative — an investigation of the promises, practices, and pedagogies of maker - centered learning — at Project Zero, an educational research center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE).

You will hear from the Agency by Design research team at Project Zero about the promises, practices and pedagogies of maker - centered learning.

I had promised myself that I was going to tackle this project (any book with this many pages and this many footnotes that is only the first volume and is not research for a book of mine is defined as a project).

These promising findings are a result of just a few of the HABRI - funded scientific research projects made possible with support from a committed group of companies and organizations.