Sentences with phrase «research areas such»

The faculty research tends to focus on such public health issues as TB, obesity, and cardiovascular disease, though that focus is expanding into new research areas such as genetics and how the field impacts communicable disease.

For more than 37 years, he has been extensively involved in research areas such as pet - population dynamics, free - roaming cats, cruelty and violence toward animals, dangerous dogs, and animal hoarding.

Ehrhardt says he believes that the decline in NIH - funded studies can be traced to two things: Flat NIH funding (the 2014 budget was 14 percent less than in 2006, after adjusting for inflation) and greater competition for these limited dollars from other, relatively new research areas such as genomic research or personalized medicine studies.

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Social Finance: Unlocking the Potential for Developmental Lending, a new research report conducted my firm Impakt, reveals that the Indian Business Corporation, a company owned by the three treaty areas of Alberta, has pioneered an approach called «developmental lending» that is providing aboriginal entrepreneurs such as Ms. Saliwonczyk with capital to create new businesses, or maintain or expand existing ones.

Analysts point to three main therapeutic areas — cancer, central nervous system disorders (such as Alzheimer's, depression and pain), and cardiovascular disease — as core strengths of Canada's biopharmaceutical research industry.

Besides branding, a community can contribute to many areas of your business such as customer support, acquisition and product innovation, according to CMX Hub's research.

«Our listings research suggests that homes with parking in that area do not carry such expensive markups just because they include parking.

Instead, spending was targetted at areas considered «critical for productivity,» such as housing, research and development (R&D) and economic infrastructure.

Companies such as MarketTools and other market research firms can develop random sample populations and help compile lists for specialized market segments, such as women between the ages of 25 and 40 who live in the San Francisco Bay area, or people who have children or pets.

According to the foundation's Facebook page, the two founded the organization in 2009, which aims to invest in activities to improve areas such as health, education, scientific research, and energy.

It's a little early for such a strategy since some of the effects aren't clearly known, but from the research I've seen it looks right now that there are going to be areas of his country that are going to run out of water, and disturbingly those are the same areas we have increased population growth.

The research revealed that not only do people rate wooded mountain areas as more calm and peaceful and open ones — such as the beach or a flat city — as more sociable and stimulating, but it also found that in actual fact more introverts really do live in mountainous areas and extroverts in flat, open ones.

MaRS clients are making breakthroughs in areas such as healthcare and clean technology that will help improve people's everyday lives and generate high - paying, high - value jobs,» says Reza Moridi, Minister of Research, Innovation and Science for the Province of Ontario.

In other words, these foreign affiliates are almost like another Canadian economy out there, supporting jobs in Canada in areas such as research and development, engineering, design and marketing, not to mention lawyers, accountants, and executives who manage the operation from home.

This area covers the impact of regulatory and other policies, such as taxes and subsidies and competition policy, on specific economic sectors (except those covered by the Institute's natural resources or financial services research), on consumers, and on the overall state of competition in Canada.

The agreement will also provide improved access in areas such as financial, professional, architectural and engineering, research and development, environmental, construction, and transportation services.

Our cash flows from operating activities are significantly affected by our cash investments to support the growth of our business in areas such as research and development and selling, general and administrative.

Matt Therian of Renaissance Capital, an IPO research firm based in Greenwich, Conn., noted that Zipcar has a relatively «capital intensive» business model, but its strong brand image and its head start in the car - sharing market — where it competes in some markets with for - profit rivals and such nonprofit entrants as Chicago's iGo and the San Francisco area's City Car Share, in addition, of course, to traditional rental incumbents like Hertz HTZ, -9.08 % and Avis Budget Group CAR, -11.56 % — give it an inside track with investors.

Unfortunately for the Japanese labour markets, as with many other countries, many young intellectuals seek further study elsewhere in countries like the UK that have renowned Universities and research facilities, taking a large portion of the skilled labour force the Japanese markets need, into other areas of work such as research and academia, a less hands on field that benefits the computer science industry on the whole but does not help specific firms achieve their targets directly.

In trying to provide investors with information that «is not in the current stock price» and therefore giving them an «edge», many Wall Street, and independent investment research providers have begun focusing on such areas as «forensic» accounting, «channel checking», public policy analysis, «lie detection» on conference calls, data mining and «expert» networking.

A cognitive dissonance occurs over sampling sizes in quantitative areas such as market research.

This research area covers the evaluation of the costs and benefits of capital projects of Canadian governments, such as roads, ports or public utilities, of financing modes for such projects, such as public - private partnerships, and the contribution of public infrastructure to economic growth.

On the other hand, areas of research such as biology and psychology are subjected to a mechanistic interpretation which tends to deprive them of their specificity as sciences.

His current area of research is non-commutative geometry, a branch of mathematics which is likely to provide solutions in the mathematical treatment of «singularities» such as in the physics of the «Big Bang» beginning of the universe.

People have a duty to refuse to use such material: it may be necessary «to remove oneself, within the area of one's own research, from a gravely unjust legal situation and to affirm with clarity the value of human life» (DP 35).

However, chaplains with clinical training tend to define the bulk of their work in nontraditional areas such as pastoral visitation to patients, counseling patients, teaching in in - service programs, developing liaison with the community, conducting clergy training, performing administrative work, teaching religious classes, participating in research, working with volunteers, counseling employees, and doing religious group work.

Religious television has not been successful in attracting public funding for research either, as have other areas of mass media such as television violence and children's programming.

In fact, research in the area of youth sports and supplements, such as amino acids and creatine, is limited; the American Academy of Pediatrics advises no ergogenic (muscle - building, performance - enhancing) supplements for youth athletes due to their unknown side effects.

Do your research as certain supplements work best in some areas of the body, such as comfrey or capsicum for back pain while Turmeric Powder can help with mild arthritis.

As education research continues to bear out, the inclusion of arts increases aptitude and creative thinking in the traditional hard logic areas such as math and science.

JOLIET — Since the Joliet City Council might help pay for a new aquatic complex, a committee is taking a field trip next week to three area swimming pools to research such a project's viability.

While the policy notes that «New York's legal code is relatively accessible compared to other states,» it suggests that the state commit to including its laws on a platform such as America Decoded, adopting the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau's eRegs tool to make the laws more accessible, and instituting an «open by default» policy in the area of IT purchasing, data and research.

«Blacks and Latinos have aligned goals on issues such as economics and healthcare because African - Americans and Hispanics have similar problems in those areas,» said David Bositis, senior research associate at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Washington, D.C. - based think tank that studies public policy issues affecting African - Americans.

Merlin allows the party to combine information about a local area gathered from canvass sheets with Mosaic — a subtle classification of voter groups developed by the research firm Experian, which gives a detailed breakdown of 65 consumer «tribes» such as «cafe bar professionals» and «high spending families».

Research by the House of Lords highlights that other places around the country — such as within the Northern Powerhouse cities — are worried that the policy could «undermine some areas» initiatives around physical and economic regeneration» by restricting the provision of essential, quality commercial space.

Britain's future economic success depends on making better use of its cutting - edge scientific research in areas such as genetic experimentation and stem cell research, Chancellor Gordon Brown today.

Check out our Entrepreneur's Resource List identifying where you can find help in areas such as training, research, mentoring and networking.

Without reform, pensions contributions would have to rise steeply — and would mean spending cuts in other areas such as teaching, student support and research.

Nations such as China, Japan, and Russia have recognized the value of public - private collaborations in biomedical research and are moving aggressively to invest in these areas, Cassell says.

As the first worldwide search for such hotspots, the research strengthens the argument for new marine protected areas and pinpoints areas where such no - fishing zones would be most effective.

Science policy is an area of public policy which is concerned with the policies that affect the conduct of the science and research enterprise, including the funding of science, often in pursuance of other national policy goals such as technological innovation to promote commercial product development, weapons development, health care and environmental monitoring.

Among the largest deficits have been researchers in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine — areas largely funded by high - spending agencies such as the Medical Research Council and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

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 minimum stipend for Research Council students has increased to # 9000 in 2003 - 04 and is set to rise further, to # 12,000 by 2005 - 6, with up to # 13,000 on offer to students in subject areas such as the physical sciences where there is a shortage of PhD candidates.

According to research in the September Nature Climate Change, precipitation patterns in the area have increased, which may help larger glaciers such as this one stick around a while longer.

Interesting niche areas have emerged in neuroscience research such as neuroeconomics, neuromarketing, and neural networks.

The project will examine such areas as how these registries are organized, their potential contributions to medical research, and related ethical and policy issues.

The research group plans next to study other aspects of severe thunderstorms such as hail, which causes less intense damage but is important for business (especially insurance and reinsurance) because it affects larger areas and is responsible for substantial losses every year.

«Funding and commercial support are increasing in the area of vaccine R&D, especially because of the high investment by entities such as the NIH and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,» noted Marie - Paule Kieny, director of the WHO's Initiative for Vaccine Research.

«Previous studies have shown that black people are more likely to have a poor sense of smell than whites and yet may be less likely to develop Parkinson's disease,» said Chen, who is part of MSU's Global Impact Initiative, an effort to help accelerate research in key areas affecting the world such as health and energy.