Sentences with phrase «research as a practical matter»

Instead of racing ahead on the next cutting - edge discovery, our scientists are left wondering if they'll get to start any new projects, any new research projects at all over the next few years, which means that we could lose a year, two years of scientific research as a practical matter because of misguided priorities here in this town.

Not exact matches

Whole tables and booklets have been prepared on such practical matters as the exact amount of 1080 required to kill kangaroo rats, ferruginous rough - legged hawks, Rhode Island red hens and Columbian ground squirrels, but no one seems to have done much research into an equally practical matter: What is the total amount of 1080 and other poisons that the sodden soils and polluted waterways of the West can absorb without becoming lethal agents themselves?

«As a practical financial matter it won't amount to much if they are a few days late,» said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

Such behavior in the realm of absence hardly sounds conducive to school improvement, and it underscores broader concern with trust in the research literature on school improvement and in practical matters such as states» applications for competitive federal grants under the Race to the Top program.

But research suggests that trust matters for important practical reasons as well (Tschannen - Moran, 2014).

This was especially common in the days when research was primarily done with books, as a matter of practical necessity in controlling size and expense, but it's still used by many US state courts to filter which decisions become precedent.

Other solutions, such as LexisNexis's MedMal Navigator (also incorporating analytics capabilities) and Thomson Reuters «s Practical Law or Checkpoint, combine legal, factual, and other forms of research and workflow tools in ways that are closely tried to characteristics and needs of a particular type of matter.