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Not exact matches
While still at MIT, Vogt also
programmed a Ford F - 150 to drive itself across the Nevada desert, for the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Grand
Challenge in 2005, though his team didn't make it past the qualifying round.
About The Goal Standard
Challenge: The editors at Entrepreneur have reached out to numerous experts and dug through pages of
research to design this comprehensive five - week
program.
Our Migration Matters series led by Dr. Eva Busza, APF Canada's Vice-President
Research and
Programs, along with researchers Valentine Ostaszewski and Amar Nijhawan, will provide a brief demographic profile of each country, describe immigration policies, analyze
challenges, and highlight successes.
With regard to the
challenge of improving Canada's long - term productivity growth, the government's response was to reduce the tax benefit of the Scientific
Research and Experimental Tax credit and to reallocate the savings of only about $ 1 billion over five years to a number of small government
programs, for which no details were provided.
Previous investors were led by Grand
Challenges Canada, funded by the Government of Canada, which provided $ 1 million through a Transition to Scale investment and helped catalyze matching investments from a wide range of sources including Maple Leaf Angels, MaRS Innovation, the University of Toronto's Connaught Seed Fund, the Government of Canada through the National
Research Council of Canada Industrial
Research Assistance
Program (NRC - IRAP) and the Scientific
Research and Experimental Development Tax Incentive
Program (SR&ED), and the Government of Ontario through investment by Ontario Centres of Excellence and support by MaRS Discovery District and ventureLAB / Genesis.
Instead, we have two competing
research programs, each with its own fundamental intuitions and
program of inquiry to pursue, as in Imre Lakatos's philosophy of science.15 Only «over the long haul» can we judge which will be more progressive more able to handle the classical
challenges raised by the entire history of metaphysics, by dialogue with existing religions (Christian and otherwise), and by the experience of contemporary religious believers.
The co-ordinator of the federal cancer
program refers to it as «the most
challenging but the most frustrating area of
research today.»
Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding
programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong);
challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic
research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.
«Even during these tough economic times, which may create some traffic
challenges in our customers» place of business, we've worked closely with our
research and product development teams to bring products to the marketplace and assist our customers in enhancing the diversity, innovation and profitability of their beverage
programs,» Isaacs says.
From the perspective of the International Rice
Research Institute this will present a major new
challenge to how we organize our breeding
programs, the nature of the products we produce, and perhaps most importantly, how we relate to our partners.
The Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP) or the CGIAR
Research Program on Rice, provides a single strategic plan and unique new partnership platform for impact - oriented rice research for development; it is designed to more effectively solve development cha
Research Program on Rice, provides a single strategic plan and unique new partnership platform for impact - oriented rice
research for development; it is designed to more effectively solve development cha
research for development; it is designed to more effectively solve development
challenges.
The Queensland
program focusses particularly on industry
research challenges faced in beef production, horticulture, tropical crops, fisheries and biosecurity, reflecting the importance of these industry sectors, and the consequent
research experience, in Queensland.
IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural
Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR
Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security
Research Program (CCAFS); Generation
Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences
Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).
Demand for our
program is growing, and
Challenge Success is working hard to ensure that we continue to provide
research - based assessment and interventions that reduce student stress and increase academic engagement for more schools and families across the country.
The balanced middle school
program at Corvallis Waldorf School fosters confident students well - prepared for the
challenges of high school, through academics, the arts, outdoor education,
research projects and extra-curricular activities.
The review of existing
research on the AP
program was undertaken by Denise Pope with Madeline Levine, both co-founders of
Challenge Success, a
research - based organization at Stanford University that develops holistic curriculum, conferences and other
programs for parents, schools and students.
EL Education is a
research - based
program that helps schools work with emotionally or behaviorally
challenged students in therapeutic ways, then provides curriculum allowing students more autonomy and
challenge.
A 2013 white paper by Denise Pope and Madeline Levine, both co-founders of
Challenge Success, a
research - based organization at Stanford University that develops holistic curriculum, conferences and other
programs for parents, schools and students, suggests that isn't always the case.
Challenge Success at the Stanford Graduate School of Education reviewed over 20
research studies on the Advanced Placement
Program as well as examined its own
research on the subject with schools and students.
Pew conducts original
research and analyses to help policymakers understand local policy
challenges, from providing healthy school lunches for children to designing retirement
programs for public employees.
Consider the work done by the
Challenge Success
research program at Stanford's Graduate School of Education.
«the use of an effective food safety tool being reduced» and «other companies
researching new food safety technologies or
programs [to] curtail their efforts after observing the
challenges Beef Products has faced in the wake of the negative publicity.
Created the NYSUNY 2020
Challenge Grant
Program making the State University of New York an engine of economic development with world - class centers of
research and innovation.
Jepson directs the Texas A&M Water Security Initiative, a university - wide
program that facilitates
research, education, service learning and collaboration on the broad spectrum of water security
challenges.
In the teaching of
research ethics, she initiated the Teaching Responsible Conduct of Research (TRCR) certificate program offered through the University of Illinois and done research on the efficacy of and developed materials in wide use, including experiential learning materials ranging from two - minute challenges for incorporation into substantive courses to role playing ex
research ethics, she initiated the Teaching Responsible Conduct of
Research (TRCR) certificate program offered through the University of Illinois and done research on the efficacy of and developed materials in wide use, including experiential learning materials ranging from two - minute challenges for incorporation into substantive courses to role playing ex
Research (TRCR) certificate
program offered through the University of Illinois and done
research on the efficacy of and developed materials in wide use, including experiential learning materials ranging from two - minute challenges for incorporation into substantive courses to role playing ex
research on the efficacy of and developed materials in wide use, including experiential learning materials ranging from two - minute
challenges for incorporation into substantive courses to role playing exercises.
An article this week in Science looks at the
challenge of organizing and maintaining
research programs at 2 - year institutions, and the faculty who take it on — partly to prepare their students for futures in the scientific workforce and partly to suit their own desire to keep doing
research.
«However, this poses several
challenges,» says Chao Wang, co-lead author of a paper on the microneedle
research and a postdoctoral researcher in the joint biomedical engineering
program at NC State and UNC - Chapel Hill.
Remember that you direct your
research program — and the best mentors are there to
challenge you by asking great questions.
Although Framework makes up only 5 % of European science funding — national agencies pay the lion's share — the massive
program sums up the
challenge of weaving the
research communities of the member states into a cohesive whole.
David Johnson, a postdoctoral
research associate with Rice's Religion and Public Life
Program and the lead author of «Conservative Protestantism and Anti-Evolution Curricular
Challenges Across States,» studied the relationship between religious characteristics of states and anti-evolution bills passing through state education committees across the country.
My wife, meanwhile, fought her way through the usual
challenges faced by young scientists working at small colleges: learning how to teach courses she never took; starting up a
research program while managing an oppressive teaching load; dealing with tenure pressures and associated political shenanigans.
«The center has affiliations with 18 hospitals, and whenever we set ourself a new
research challenge, we identify the very best people in the community and draw them into a new collaborative
program,» says Adrian Ivinson, the center's director.
Another
challenge, adds David Tew, a
program manager at DOE's Advanced
Research Projects Agency - Energy in Washington, D.C., is that the all - ceramic electrodes and electrolyte are extremely brittle, which could make them less durable for use in real - world conditions.
Ornithologist Eduardo Inigo - Elias, senior
research associate with the conservation science
program at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, talks about the
challenges of studying migratory birds and how improved relations between the U.S. and Cuba will help his field
The project allocation was part of the 59 million processor hours awarded to Smith's team on Titan in 2014 through DOE's Office of Advanced Scientific Computing
Research (ASCR) Leadership Computing
Challenge, or ALCC,
program.
The future
challenges of this line of
research, started through an undergraduate degree final project by Carlos Aguado in the Grupo de Computación Evolutiva y Redes Neuronales (EVANNAI - Evolutionary Computation and Neural Networks Group) at UC3M, include carrying out clinical trials using this technology, in addition to developing
programs that help rehabilitate the other four movement of the shoulder: flexing, extension, internal rotation and external rotation.
«Mentors should impress upon student trainees the ethical
challenges involved in every phase of
research,» says Mark Frankel, director of AAAS's Scientific Freedom, Responsibility, and Law
Program, in the opening session of the conference.
We anticipate that this will be a particular
challenge for us, because we will not only want to apply to
programs at the same location but we will also both want to apply to
programs that provide strong
research opportunities during residency.
«We still have a long way to go and many
challenges to overcome before we will have therapies that are ready for clinical use, but this is a significant first step in the process,» says Emdad, member of the Cancer Molecular Genetics
research program at Massey, assistant professor in the VCU Department of Human and Molecular Genetics and member of the VIMM.
To prevent any slippage, the report says, the federal government should reform the patent system to make litigation less common, ease financial regulations that may impose special burdens on start - up companies, and fund
research programs aimed at some of the field's biggest
challenges.
«We
challenged a current dogma in the field that emphasized PLK1's role in mitosis (cell division) as a primary mechanism for cancer growth,» says Zheng Fu, Ph.D., lead investigator on the study, member of the Cancer Molecular Genetics
research program at VCU Massey Cancer Center and assistant professor in the Department of Human and Molecular Genetics at the VCU School of Medicine.
Mayer discussed the implications of this
research for policymakers, claiming that there is a place for small games that focus on well - specified learning objectives, become more
challenging as students learn, and fit within existing educational
programs to supplement, complement, and / or extend traditional instruction rather than replace it.
Having recently been awarded another allocation under the Advanced Scientific Computing
Research Leadership Computing
Challenge program, Perdue's team is building off its deep learning success by applying MENDDL to additional high - energy physics datasets to generate optimized algorithms.
«A review of the literature exploring the effects of climate change on biodiversity has revealed a gap in what may be the main
challenge to the world's fauna and flora,» said the senior author Dr. James Watson, Climate Change
Program Director and a Principle
Research Fellow at the University of Queensland.
Through the Advanced Scientific Computing
Research Leadership Computing
Challenge program, Thornton's team was awarded 85 million compute hours to improve the Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy (ACME) effort, a project sponsored by Earth System Modeling
program within DOE's Office of Biological and Environmental
Research.
In addition, RCT is also gaining a clearer understanding of the
programs,
challenges, and issues of postdocs within the biomedical
research community.
One of the
challenges for policy - makers will be to strike the right balance between funding for basic
research and for more output - oriented
programs, he says.
«China and Japan are among the world's leading nations in stem cell
research, but because of
challenges distinct from western nations, they are dramatically underrepresented in terms of patents and licensing,» says Debra Mathews, PhD, MA, assistant director of Science
Programs at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and a founding member of the Hinxton Group.
March 24, East Hanover, NJ / New Brunswick, NJ — Kessler Foundation, a global leader in rehabilitation
research, and Children's Specialized Hospital, the nation's leading provider of inpatient and outpatient care for children facing special health
challenges, have renewed their collaboration by signing a three - year agreement, with a funding level of $ 2.1 million, to continue their
research program for children with disabilities.