Sentences with phrase «research challenges at»

Not least, they should be passionate about a research challenge at the interface between computing and the sciences.

Not exact matches

Research analysts at Citigroup have been investigating the innovations that could challenge the status quo.

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.

«Google's biggest challenge remains how to penetrate China,» said Elinor Leung, Hong Kong - based head of Asia telecom and internet research at CLSA.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

And as his one - time research assistant Robert Siegel remembered him Tuesday, when Grove died at home in Los Altos, Calif., at the age of 79, the titan of Silicon Valley also wasn't above being challenged.

Dr Brad Tucker, a Research Fellow and Outreach Manager at Mt Stromlo Observatory at the Australian National University, said: «Stephen Hawking not only was a leader in cosmology and astrophysics, but also pushed us all — to challenge ourselves and the unknown.

Challenge number one was how hard it was to find a large number of research subjects working in similar jobs, who could divide into work - at - home and work - at - the - office cohorts, and who were willing to cooperate with the researchers over a long enough period of time.

Prodding your people to be less conflict adverse can lead to real benefits, according to Thompson who cites recent research that shows, «brainstorming groups that engage in open debate, challenging each other in benevolent ways, perform better than groups that don't have any debate at all.

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.

Getting machines to become «superhuman» at certain tasks without feeding them human data has been a long - standing challenge in the AI research community, which is held back when human data is too expensive, too unreliable, or simply unavailable.

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«It is encouraging to see this major central bank seeing the need to move with the times and understand its role in dealing with one of the major challenges facing our economies today: climate change,» said James Leaton, research director at the Carbon Tracker Initiative.

This year's Summit is shaping up to be our best to date, as we have a full slate of sessions aimed at overcoming your top challenges with actionable training, grounded in rigorous research and science.

While our annual research takes a broad, quantitative look at content marketing trends, we also have our executive research that works with a small group of marketing leaders to explore how they are handling core content marketing challenges.

During her time in DC, Nicole worked at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for Legal Reform, where she helped lead research and communications initiatives to address the litigation challenges faced by businesses across all industries.

Dealing with the challenge of harnessing both at the same time, be it in a research study or in a shop floor, is daunting.

Student teams from around the world showed that they are more than ready for the challenge at the second annual O.R. & Analytics Student Team Competition held during the recent 2018 INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research in Baltimore.

Upon returning to Perth, she carried out doctoral research into «Citizen Utilities» at Curtin University, that has produced unique insights into the challenges and opportunities for the deployment of roof - top solar PV and battery storage within multi-unit developments and the application of the blockchain.

It is important to look at the track record of experience in having conducted anthropological inspired research and being able to translate into buyer personas that inform on business models, buyer strategies, meeting market or competitive challenges, and adaptive strategies.

The joint research undertaken by the two companies will examine how blockchain, the technology at the basis of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, could be used for developing innovative cybersecurity solutions, such as secure transmission of information between services and supply chains, user authentication, critical devices and elements that run with no human intervention and additional solutions for the cyber challenges in a hyper - connected world.

A recent paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research studied what happens to scientific subfields when star researchers die suddenly and at the peak of their abilities, and finds that while there is considerable evidence that young researchers are reluctant to challenge scientific superstars, a sudden and unexpected death does not significantly improve the situation, particularly when «key collaborators of the star are in a position to channel resources (such as editorial goodwill or funding) to insiders.»

It am shocked and dismayed at the negative reaction to to positive change.I challenge anyone to research the origin of this terrible libel.

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.

The research team, led by Glyn Howatson and Phillip G. Bell at Northumbria University in the U.K., conducted this double - blind, placebo - controlled study to identify the effects of Montmorency tart cherry juice on recovery from a metabolically challenging exercise: prolonged, high - intensity cycling.

At Challenge Success, we summarize data from our school surveys, along with findings from other experts in the fields of education, psychology, and medicine, so the research can be put to use immediately and effectively.

From Challenge Success, her team learned how to use strategies, grounded in university - based research, that would change the pace at school and allow kids to work in ways that felt meaningful.

She has also been a coach with two Challenge Success member schools and worked as a teaching and research assistant at Stanford.

Denise Pope, Ph.D., is a Co-Founder of Challenge Success and a Senior Lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education, where she specializes in student engagement, curriculum studies, qualitative research methods, and service learning.

Beyond the work we are doing at Challenge Success, there is a solid and rapidly growing body of research exploring these questions.

When I was a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin studying kinesiology I came across a research paper (1) that challenged my thinking about the health benefits of participating in sports.

However, research indicates that they are at risk for developmental delays and challenges compared to full - term infants and therefore should be closely monitored and their prematurity considered when looking at development.

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.

These are the main results of the research carried out on a sample of 350 young girls and boys representing the Italian population aged 9 - 17 years old «Smartphones, social network and instant messaging services: challenges for children, parents and teachers» presented today in Rome at the «Global Trends in Online Safety: Creating a National Framework» conference, an event developed and co-hosted by the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) and TIM.

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.

Research conducted last year by my former graduate student, David Yeager [now a professor at the University of Texas], on 18,000 students entering ninth grade, shows us that students who took growth - mindset workshops are seeking more challenges.

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.

Dr. Jeanne Stolzer, Professor of Child and Adolescent Development at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, USA, whose research is known worldwide as an intelligent challenge to the current Western medical model that seeks to pathologize normal human behaviors, including breastfeeding, too, shares her beginnings in LLL.

«There definitely is a lag — I'm not denying that,» says Denise Pope, senior lecturer at the Stanford University School of Education and co-founder of Challenge Success, a research and student - intervention project.

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.

Consider the work done by the Challenge Success research program at Stanford's Graduate School of Education.

The Deputy Head of Macroeconomic Research Unit, Ministry of Finance, Dr. Millicent deGraft - Johnson who spoke on the governments short to medium - term development programme said it was aimed at providing opportunities for growth and job creation through the private sector, and had developed concrete reform actions to tackle key challenges to private investment such as ensuring macroeconomic stability and debt sustainability, improving the ease of doing business and enhancing access to affordable and long - term financing and de-risking instruments.

For instance, when looking at the internet as a persuasive tool, they say that «e-mail is not close to challenging direct mail and phone calls as ways to reach voters: A Pew Research Center survey last month found that 38 percent of registered voters had received phone calls about the midterm campaigns, while only 15 percent had received e-mail.»

Below is the text of my presentation at the Conservative Party Conference this afternoon setting out my latest research in marginal seats and the Tories» challenge in building an election - winning coalition of voters.

I urge the University of Ghana, and indeed all tertiary institutions in the country, to find innovative and effective ways of linking up with industry and the corporate world, to engage in quality, strategic research, targeted at finding practical solutions to real life challenges of our society, and thereby actualize research findings to the benefit of our country.

«In all the serious researches on the best known administration of justice systems, it is evident that at various points in their histories, the institutions were challenged by falling standards, corruption, and abuse of office.

Amidst the debate about immigration in the U.S., a recently - published report prepared by several research partners, including one from the University at Buffalo, challenges the claims that immigrants are a significant influence on the crime rate.

«The poor performance of industry and the business sector in general, could also be attributed to other challenges they faced, including, but not limited to, lack of access to finance, high interest rates, an unstable exchange rate, high import duties on raw materials and machinery, poor facilitation of import and export trade, particularly at our ports, inadequate and poor quality of raw materials for industrial processing, a poorly developed domestic trade infrastructure, lack of effective collaboration between research institutions and industry, limited access to serviced land for industrial production activities and poor standards of regulation and certification.»

By late April, University at Buffalo will begin a two - year research project studying the operation and challenges of running a driverless bus — with an eye toward the day it could eventually shuttle students and faculty to and from other modes of travel and be integrated into a new transportation age.

At a review of the 2017 Presidential Transition on Tuesday, a Senior Research Fellow at the IEA, Dr. Michael Ofori Mensah, blamed the challenges that marred the transition process on institutional lapseAt a review of the 2017 Presidential Transition on Tuesday, a Senior Research Fellow at the IEA, Dr. Michael Ofori Mensah, blamed the challenges that marred the transition process on institutional lapseat the IEA, Dr. Michael Ofori Mensah, blamed the challenges that marred the transition process on institutional lapses.