Sentences with phrase «research capacity by»

In 1999, because we have built our research capacity by standing on the shoulders of our predecessors, we have more and better tools available to tease out these puzzling relationships.
The purpose of the Switzer Research Fellow Program is to build research capacity by providing support to highly qualified individuals, including those with disabilities, to perform research on rehabilitation, independent living, and other experiences and outcomes of individuals with disabilities.
Rudick, who is co-principal investigator of Cleveland Clinic's CTSA program, says the CTSA movement will increase clinical and translational research capacity by drawing in researchers who have not been previously involved in clinical research and by exposing students to clinical research at an earlier stage in their careers.

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According to research conducted by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck, how people view their personality affects their capacity for happiness and success.
New research by the Conference Board of Canada identifies several manufacturing industries that can expect growing U.S. demand and that are competitive in U.S. markets, but that do not yet have sufficient people and physical capacity to ramp up production.
While Holoubek focused on building her colleagues» capacity to function without her, and Downey thrived playing it by ear, Danah Boyd of Microsoft Research took a slightly different tack, actively looping collaborators into the planning process.
Inaugural global energy storage report by GTM Research finds that Australia's behind - the - meter storage market tripled in 2017, while the U.S. remains the world's leading market with an installed energy capacity of 431 MWh.
He told me he's done the research on different gun control proposals, and opposes nearly all of them, telling me that ideas lifted up by his Parkland classmates (like lowering magazine capacity or reinstating the federal assault weapons ban) are «likely unconstitutional and likely statistically devoid of benefit.»
By contrast, investments in research and development, capacity expansion, or marketing campaigns can be made in stages over time.
The MaRS Innovation mission is to put Canada on the global innovation stage, by better connecting research with industry and strengthening Canada's competitive capacity in knowledge based businesses — in short, to launch a new generation of robust, high - growth Canadian companies that will become global market leaders.
GFI builds the capacity of the animal advocacy movement by recruiting scientists and entrepreneurs to work in cellular agriculture and plant - based technology and by doing scientific research.
This comes at a time when supply is constrained by limited spare capacity, and speculative demand has been boosted by research reports suggesting that the price of oil could move significantly higher.
Its mission, following the example set by Pike, is to build the capacity of the Bible translation movement to use scholarly research as a tool in meeting the challenges it faces.
And it's being propelled by ferocious foreign competition, a sluggish and capacity - glutted U.S. economy, and swelling research - and - development costs.
The model of excellent theological schooling symbolized by the inclusion of a faculty of theology in the University of Berlin tied «practical» education for a socially necessary profession (the clergy) to the «theoretical» education of a research university on the grounds that future clergy would be best equipped for their ministerial functions if they acquired capacities for rigorous critical research.
These include the development of new strategies and activities to promote climate change adaptation by building on our scientific research, strengthening internal capacity, and preparing producer - oriented tools for implementation.
To enhance the capacity of national agricultural research systems (NARS) to conserve, utilize and improve rice germplasm, to broaden the genetic diversity and the genetic base of rice varieties used by farmers.
Burundi has turned its rice research capacity up a notch to improve food security in Eastern and Southern Africa by establishing a regional rice research and development hub with the International Rice Research Instituteresearch capacity up a notch to improve food security in Eastern and Southern Africa by establishing a regional rice research and development hub with the International Rice Research Instituteresearch and development hub with the International Rice Research InstituteResearch Institute (IRRI).
«These stand - out companies are all led by entrepreneurs, and have demonstrated their capacity and intent to grow,» said Dr. Tom O'Neal, executive director of the Florida Economic Gardening Institute and associate vice president for the University of Central Florida's Office of Research and Commercialization.
A substantial body of research now indicates that high levels of involvement by fathers in two parent families are associated with a range of desirable outcomes in children and young people, including: better peer relationships; fewer behaviour problems; lower criminality and substance abuse; higher educational / occupational mobility, relative to that of parents; capacity for empathy; non-traditional attitudes to earning and childcare; more satisfying adult sexual partnerships; and higher self - esteem and life - satisfaction (for reviews see Flouri 2005; Pleck and Masciadrelli 2004).
Michel Odent, in his review of research on the «primal period «(the time between conception and the first birthday), concludes that interference or dysfunction at this time affects the development of our capacity to love, which is particularly vulnerable around the time of birth, being connected hormonally to the oxytocin system.3 Research by Jacobsen4 5 and Raine6 among others, suggests that contemporary tragedies such as suicide, drug addiction and violent criminality may be linked to problems in the perinatal period such as exposure to drugs, birth complications and separation or rejection from theresearch on the «primal period «(the time between conception and the first birthday), concludes that interference or dysfunction at this time affects the development of our capacity to love, which is particularly vulnerable around the time of birth, being connected hormonally to the oxytocin system.3 Research by Jacobsen4 5 and Raine6 among others, suggests that contemporary tragedies such as suicide, drug addiction and violent criminality may be linked to problems in the perinatal period such as exposure to drugs, birth complications and separation or rejection from theResearch by Jacobsen4 5 and Raine6 among others, suggests that contemporary tragedies such as suicide, drug addiction and violent criminality may be linked to problems in the perinatal period such as exposure to drugs, birth complications and separation or rejection from the mother.
The Commission could further this goal by three means: conducting and publishing research into what initiatives are successful at increasing political participation; advising public bodies and institutions regarding how to better democratise their functioning; and critically, by providing resources and capacity - building to facilitate local, civil society - led initiatives that aim to increase broad - based levels of participation or deliberation in political decision - making.
Reporting by a various agencies on Thursday, indicates Biden is looking at a mixture of «universal» background checks, additional research on the causes of gun violence and a similar ban on high capacity magazines as proposed for New York.
Supporting the work of the Third Sector Research Centre will be two capacity building clusters (CBCs), led by the University of Middlesex and the University of Lincoln, with the CBC in Middlesex focusing specifically on social enterprises.
Supporting the Centre will be three capacity building clusters designed to meet the current and future research needs of the Third Sector by creating a new generation of high quality researchers committed to the co-production of knowledge and its application to the Sector.
The British High Commission looks forward to a constructive relationship with yourself, your officers and the new Parliament in general and on specific issues, such as the work currently being sponsored by the Westminster Foundation for Democracy to bolster Parliament's research capacities.
«The inadequate investments in research proposed by the Administration would erode the research and innovative capacity of our nation,» says Nils Hasselmo, president of the 62 - member Association of American Universities.
This is taken a step further by the Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) which enables small high - tech firms to develop new research capacities and support the development of their bResearch Initiative (SBRI) which enables small high - tech firms to develop new research capacities and support the development of their bresearch capacities and support the development of their business.
Tulkoff was part of an interdisciplinary research team at Virginia Tech that discovered parallel wire arrays could increase the water collection capacity of fog nets by threefold.
Fog harvesting could help alleviate that shortage, and now an interdisciplinary research team at Virginia Tech has improved the traditional design of fog nets to increase their collection capacity by threefold.
The research carried out by the Departments of Geological and Mining Engineering and Agricultural Production of UPM shows that the biochar produced from manure of cattle, pigs and chicken is an organic fertilizer with a high content of nutrients, stabilized organic material and high values of cation exchange capacity.
«Fog harp» increases collection capacity for clean water: A research team has improved the traditional design of fog nets to increase their collection capacity by threefold.»
The Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) was created to help states underfunded by the National Science Foundation develop the research capacity necessary to compete on a globaResearch (EPSCoR) was created to help states underfunded by the National Science Foundation develop the research capacity necessary to compete on a globaresearch capacity necessary to compete on a global scale.
Simultaneously, the research team in CRAG led by Ana Caño Delgado discovered more details on the root growth and its post-damaged cell repair capacity, which have been published in the Journal of Cell Science.
Parts of their existing research were published earlier this year in a study, «Determination of antioxidant capacity and phenolic content of chocolate by attenuated total reflectance - Fourier transformed - infrared spectroscopy,» in the journal Food Chemistry.
In the course of their research into the use of magnetic domain walls (local regions of magnetic «charge» usually driven by magnetic fields) to increase our capacity for information storage and logical processing, physicists at the University of Nottingham have discovered a phenomenon which has allowed them to «manipulate» the structure of a magnetic domain wall.
«The lower capacity of floodplain forests to recover suggests that these areas can be trapped by recurrent fires in an open vegetation state more easily than the uplands,» says Milena Holmgren of Wageningen University & Research and a coauthor of the study.
A group of social scientists from the USA, Australia, UK, and Chile, led by Prof. Cinner, have pooled their experience, and lessons from hundreds of research and development projects, to highlight five keys ways to build up the adaptive capacity of people living in the coastal tropics.
The mechanisms controlling this high regenerative capacity are the focus of a large field of research driven by the hope to some day apply the findings to human medicine.
«By bombarding the material with protons at low energy, we simultaneously increased the material's current - carrying capacity and critical temperature — the first time that this has been possible in an iron - based superconductor,» said physicist Qiang Li, head of the Advanced Energy Materials Group at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, who directed the research.
Published this week in the journal PNAS, a research team led by psychology professor John McDonald and doctoral student John Gaspar used EEG technology to determine that while «high - capacity» individuals (those who perform well on memory tasks) are able to suppress distractors, «low - capacity» individuals are unable to suppress them in time to prevent them from grabbing their attention.
The study, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, examined if ongoing power transmission capacity investment in China — driven largely by concerns over air pollution — could also reduce local adverse health impacts from air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions.
[A] mounts paid or allowed to, or on behalf of, an individual to enable him to pursue studies or research are considered to be amounts received as a scholarship or fellowship grant for the purpose of section 117 if the primary purpose of the studies or research is to further the education and training of the recipient in his individual capacity and the amount provided by the grantor for such purpose does not represent compensation or payment for the services described in subparagraph (1) of this paragraph.
Research conducted by Jin - Soo Kim and Professor Jong - Seong Kug from the Division of Environmental Science and Engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), in collaboration with Professor Su - Jong Jeong from the School of Environmental Science and Engineering at South University of Science and Technology of China, has shown that the warmer Arctic has triggered cooler winters and springs in North America, which has in turn weakened vegetation growth and lowered carbon uptake capacity in its ecosystems.
And by the way he talked about concentrating resources, it seems he also would be comfortable with the idea of improving Melbourne's status by downgrading the research capacity of other universities.
But the research suggests that even if researchers maximized the capacity to grow biofuels on all marginal lands, «the amount of cellulosic ethanol it could produce is only enough to provide 1.5 percent of U.S. transportation fuel by 2020.»
Not only are neuropathic pain symptoms quite common in knee osteoarthritis (OA), but scientists can predict who will respond to treatment with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) by assessing the nervous system's own capacity to regulate pain, new research suggests.
By contrast, the new International Biomedical programme, which was launched in May this year, aims primarily to assist developing countries by increasing their research capacity while simultaneously broadening the research base in Australia and New ZealanBy contrast, the new International Biomedical programme, which was launched in May this year, aims primarily to assist developing countries by increasing their research capacity while simultaneously broadening the research base in Australia and New Zealanby increasing their research capacity while simultaneously broadening the research base in Australia and New Zealand.
A research team, affiliated with UNIST has solved this issue by synthesizing novel materials with high gas - uptake capacity.
«Our society attributes the weight gain and lack of exercise at mid-life (approximately 30 - 60 years) primarily to poor lifestyle choices and lack of will power, but this study shows that there is a genetic program driven by an overactive enzyme that promotes weight gain and loss of exercise capacity at mid-life,» said lead study author Jay H. Chung, Ph.D., M.D., head of the Laboratory of Obesity and Aging Research at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of NIH.
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