Sentences with phrase «research consortium studying»

An independent research consortium studying the Chicago decision to end social promotion, which was aimed at helping students not working at grade level, reports a mixed bag of news.

Dr. Bira is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry within UT Health San Antonio's Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine, where she works with the STRONG STAR research consortium studying treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder.

Not exact matches

We tried to gather all of these strands together, and what emerged was a comprehensive development with five thrusts: the new building; the new Center for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies; endowed research posts; the parallel development of the consortium of theological seminaries in Cambridge; and curriculum development.

The consortium has set itself the joint goal of improving the quality of biomaterial used in biomedical studies and hence increasing the reliability of research results nationwide.

Last week, a research consortium posted the draft sequence of the naked mole rat's genome online; further study may unlock the genetic clues to this unique animal's survival abilities.

Today in Cell and associated journals, 24 research studies from the landmark BLUEPRINT project and IHEC consortia reveal how variation in blood cells» characteristics and numbers can affect a person's risk of developing complex diseases such as heart disease, and autoimmune diseases including rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, celiac disease and type 1 diabetes.

To deal with this poverty of riches, Ioannidis proposes that researchers cooperate more to confirm one another's findings Toward that end, he and other genetics researchers two years ago established a network of research consortia now consisting of 26 groups, he says, each with a dozen to hundreds of members, for investigators studying various cancers, HIV, Parkinson's disease and other disorders.

A research consortium bringing together teams from Inserm, the Nancy and Poitiers University Hospitals, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, Atlanta, USA), and coordinated by the Inserm and University of Grenoble Environmental Epidemiology team (Unit 823), has just published an epidemiological study indicating that exposure to certain phenols during pregnancy, especially parabens and triclosan, may disrupt growth of boys during fetal growth and the first years of life.

Researchers expect the data presented in this study to fuel the formation of large national and international research consortiums to conduct comprehensive, systematic analysis of inherited (germline) genome data in large cohorts of uveal melanoma patients.

The findings of the study, funded by the Natural Environmental Research Council (iGlass consortium), are published in this month's issue of the journal Nature Communications.

An international consortium of research institutions, including the Fraunhofer research organization and the Technical University of Munich in Germany, hopes to raise $ 10 million in philanthropic funding to launch a ten - year pilot project later this year that will study long - term, sustainable conservation and restoration approaches at Pompeii.

This study, «Practice patterns of photon and proton pediatric image guided radiation treatment: Results from an International Pediatric Research Consortium,» evaluates the use of IGRT in treatment planning for pediatric cancers in an international consortium comprised of seven institutions using either photon or proton therapy with dedicated pediatric expertise.

The study was part of an international consortium called ENIGMA (Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics Through Meta Analysis), which spans 76 centers and includes 28 different research groups across the world, and is led by the USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

The Kent research is part of a study by a consortium of leading scientists into avian or bird genomes, which tell a story of species evolution.

One such trial is scheduled at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring, Maryland; other studies, by a consortium that includes WHO and Becker, are on the drawing boards in Hamburg, Germany, in Geneva, and at sites in Kenya and Gabon.

This work is carried out through collaborations with both U.S. - based and international epidemiology studies and research consortia.

DENVER — A pre-competitive consortia of pharmaceutical, diagnostic companies and academic associations, including the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), announced phase I results of the «BLUEPRINT PD - L1 IHC ASSAY COMPARISON PROJECT» at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) on April 19.

The Organization for Tropical Studies is a consortium of 63 universities and research institutions from the U.S., Latin America, and Australia that conducts graduate and undergraduate education, facilitates research, participates in tropical forest conservation, maintains three biological stations in Costa Rica, and conducts environmental education programs.

Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine was launched on March 17, 2006, when the chief executives of its original four collaborating organizations — the Burnham Biomedical Research Institute, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, The Scripps Research Institute, and UC San Diego — signed a formal agreement to establish an independent, non-profit consortium dedicated to stem cell rResearch Institute, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, The Scripps Research Institute, and UC San Diego — signed a formal agreement to establish an independent, non-profit consortium dedicated to stem cell rResearch Institute, and UC San Diego — signed a formal agreement to establish an independent, non-profit consortium dedicated to stem cell researchresearch.

The Divisions of Cancer Prevention (DCP) and Cancer Biology (DCB) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a $ 6 million grant to investigators at the University of Michigan to continue support for a Research Center in the Barrett's Esophagus Translational Research Network (BETRNet)-- this consortium studies the connection between Barrett's esophagus and risk for developing esophageal cancer.

The Sette lab's research on DENV encompasses large - scale epitope identification (supported by an HHS contract) and diverse studies towards understanding the role of T cells and HLA variants in the development of (or protection from) DENV disease (supported in part by a consortium grant led by Eva Harris at UC Berkeley).

Taking advantage of research progress and advanced gene sequencing technology, Brown University will join a consortium of European researchers for a three - year, $ 2.9 - million study of how fertilization has evolved in flowering plants.

We also thank the EU - RLS consortium and the Cooperative Research in the Region of Augsburg (KORA) study for providing the RLS summary statistics.

My research is framed within the Wellcome Trust consortium on the archaeal origins of eukaryotic cell organization (http://evocyt.com/), which includes a diverse group of researchers studying the evolution of eukaryotic machinery from different points of view — e.g. how do specific cellular systems work in different lineages, and how did that affect the origin of the eukaryotic cell plan?

«We see a lot of these programs springing up,» says James Stone, director of the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education Studies, a consortium of seven universities studying career education.

Not mentioned by Raymond and Hanushek is the fact that the research was originally funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and was published in a peer - reviewed scholarly journal six months before the consortium of teacher unions released this version of the study.

He served as the first Research Director for the Minority Students Achievement Network (a national consortium of school districts working to address the racial disparities in students» outcomes), working with district leaders to study patterns of racial inequality in their schools and enact practices to reduce such inequalities.

Together, the consortium reviewed decades of research on teacher effectiveness and implemented data - based studies of diverse schools.

The Process Together, consortium members studied the latest research, examined existing programs, and spoke with current teacher leaders.

The Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy is a national research consortium home - based at the University of Washington.

A study conducted by the The Digital Entertainment Group, a consortium of movie studios and electronics manufacturers, has predicted that by the end of the year 10.5 million US households will have the ability to play Blu - ray, sharply lower than Adams Media Research's June estimate of 14.4 million.

-- There is established in the Department of the Interior a grant program under which the Secretary of the Interior (referred to in this section as the «Secretary») shall provide grants to individual States, State Geologic Surveys, or Regional Consortiums to build, maintain, and operate centers to store geologic samples (including core samples, surface samples, micropaleontology samples, well cuttings, and geochemical samples) collected as a result of oil and gas exploration, mineral exploration, and geotechnical studies and research.

«For decision makers to accurately weigh the pros and cons of geo - engineering against those of human - caused climate change, they need more information,» said Ben Kravitz, of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and one of a consortium which has published a succession of five studies in the Journal of Geophysical Research — Atmospheres.

Press Trust of India: A study on the impacts of climate change in Asia and Africa will be conducted by four new multi-partner research consortia and it will include case studies in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal.

Professional Duties & Responsibilities Highly trained geophysics student with an extensive background in petroleum geology Educated in economics with an emphasis in business operations and management Contributed to a North American geology mapping project with a consortium of colleges Responsible for set up, use, removal and maintenance of «Texan» seismometers Analyzed raw, unprocessed seismographs for cultural noise and teleseisms Utilized Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology technology Directed SPEC data log correlation to acquisition travel logs and maps Managed information database ensuring accurate, organized, and accessible information Participated in coal and oil reservoir rock geological study throughout Utah Attended year - long lecture series focused on topics related to the energy industry Studied Shell Energy's trading floor operations Observed nanotechnology development at Rice University

Longitudinal Studies of Child Abuse and Neglect (LONGSCAN) Provides information on the LONGSCAN consortium of research studies on the etiology and impact of child maltreStudies of Child Abuse and Neglect (LONGSCAN) Provides information on the LONGSCAN consortium of research studies on the etiology and impact of child maltrestudies on the etiology and impact of child maltreatment.

This research uses data from the Fragile Families Study, a study funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD36916) and a consortium of private foundatStudy, a study funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD36916) and a consortium of private foundatstudy funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD36916) and a consortium of private foundations.