Sentences with phrase «research for a speech»

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Spending an excessive amount of time researching and pouring over materials for a basic meeting, conference, or speech is usually a waste of time.

The beachhead groups were part of a larger constellation of advisers, including Oklahoma oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm (once considered for energy secretary), billionaire investor Carl Icahn (last seen shadily pushing for policy that would benefit his oil refineries), GOP energy lobbyist Mike McKenna (in charge of the DOE transition team), longtime climate skeptic (and hopeless dope) Myron Ebell, North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer (the oil devotee who supposedly wrote Trump's big energy speech last May), and Thomas J. Pyle, the director of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a pro-fossil fuel «think tank» which, as we shall see, has provided several Trump staffers.

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.

She is also the senior speech — language pathologist on staff at an intensive partial — hospitalization program for autism located at a major public research university located in Los Angeles, California, where Sarah has provided therapy to hundreds of children with autism spectrum disorders and conducted research into various treatment modalities.

It has implications for critical periods in development, for bilingual education and reading readiness, for developmental disabilities involving language, and for research on computer understanding of speech.

The research team used data from the Gateshead Millennium Study in north - east England, which provided information on when 602 children first reached out for food and other developments such as walking unaided and meaningful speech.

She continues to conduct and collaborate in research within the speech pathology field through East Stroudsburg University, where she also serves as a guest lecturer for graduate and undergraduate classes.

I have used it for researching new therapies such as: occupational, physical, and speech therapy, hippotherapy, as well as the most recent research being performed by doctors / hospitals.

Research shows that drinking from a straw helps develop babies» mouth muscles, which prepares them for speech.

As my new research project at COMPAS, «Migration in the Media and Public Opinion in Britain,» moves from discovery phase toward realisation, I find myself equipped to conduct some preliminary analysis that goes beyond reading the text of Miliband's speech for its meaning, and begins to probe the very words that constitute the building - blocks of the speech.

As a think tank that believes in independent research, we condemn speech theft vis a vis intellectual theft for the investiture of the 5th President.

The referendum will now be held by October 2011, the prime minister announced today in a speech to the Institute for Public Policy Research, outlining what he called a «new politics».

He has now given a text of his speech to Edinburgh University's Academy of Government, for future research.

Liberal Democrat energy secretary Ed Davey claimed «ignorant» climate change sceptic Conservatives are contributing to «extreme weather events» in a speech to the Institute for Public Policy Research earlier.

Asked after the speech, at the Institute for Public Policy Research thinktank in London, how she envisaged balancing her hope for what she called an «enabling» immigration system with some voters» concerns on new arrivals, Abbott said it was vital to accentuate the positives.

He discusses how these research findings can inform standards for the regulation of free speech to protect youth development and human rights.

«Our novel framework for AAD bridges the gap between the most recent advancements in speech processing technologies and speech prosthesis research and moves us closer to the development of realistic hearing aid devices that can automatically and dynamically track a user's direction of attention and amplify an attended speaker.»

The Paris march is taking its time, stopping at various research and higher education landmarks for speeches along the way.

The year's most prominent science issue, federal support of embryonic stem cell research, is so controversial that the sons of Ronald Reagan gave dueling speeches at the opposing party conventions; Michael Reagan backs President George W. Bush's policies, including the ban on funding for research on new stem cell lines, while Ron supports Senator John Kerry's promise to lift restrictions.

In speeches and statements during his senate career, Kerry has often stressed the importance of government - supported research for stimulating economic development and job creation.

MIT biology professor Nancy Hopkins, who has researched and written about women in science for many years, said she walked out on the speech.

The types of human research that we can do — such as brain scans — aren't detailed enough for identifying words, using grammar, and the act of speech.

Their discovery answers a fundamental question that has been lingering for years in research on speech entrainment: Is it specialized for auditory speech?

«This opens a new door in identifying biological markers for dementia since we might consider using the brain's processing of speech sounds as a new way to detect the disease earlier,» says Dr. Claude Alain, the study's senior author and senior scientist at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute (RRI) and professor at the University of Toronto's psychology department.

Research into how the brain processes time, sound and movement has implications for understanding how humans listen to music and speech, as well as for treating diseases like Parkinson's.

«There hasn't been a good animal model for any kind of speech disorder,» says study author Wan - chun Liu, a senior research associate in Fernando Nottebohn's Laboratory of Animal Behavior.

Finkelstein says he considered several «worthy but dull options» for a keynote speech at the Computer Science 2008 Student Research Conference he was organizing at the University of Cambridge when someone suggested Cham.

Like humans, songbirds such as zebra finches (above) can learn vocalizations, and this similarity suggests they could serve as models for research on Huntington's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders that affect speech and vocalization.

«It is important for us to orientate scientific research at Russian universities towards the development of technologies which are in demand in the real economy and to boost cooperation between business and higher education,» Putin said in an 8 April speech at Novosibirsk State Technical University.

The findings may one day inspire speech therapy approaches that teach people to notice changes in mouth position rather than listening for changes in sounds, says Shari Baum, a neurolinguist at McGill University who was not involved in the research.

Thousands have recently signed a petition calling for a simplification of European Union research funding rules and today Máire Geoghegan - Quinn, the European Research, Innovation and Science Commissioner, responded to those complaints with a speech promising to make it easier to apply for and manage researchresearch funding rules and today Máire Geoghegan - Quinn, the European Research, Innovation and Science Commissioner, responded to those complaints with a speech promising to make it easier to apply for and manage researchResearch, Innovation and Science Commissioner, responded to those complaints with a speech promising to make it easier to apply for and manage researchresearch grants.

Hunter said the study is part of a larger research project funded by the National Institutes of Health, aiming to investigate underlying risk factors for voice problems and gender differences in speech.

Poux cited an Associated Press article detailing a 27 April speech to the National Academy of Sciences by U.S. President Barack Obama in which he called for 3 % of the national gross domestic product to be directed towards research and development.

The scientific community needs to more effectively speak out about the necessity of evidence - based policies, scientific integrity protections and public access to research to defend the role of science, said John Holdren, former White House science adviser, in a speech on the eve of the April 22nd March for Science.

Reviewing multiple challenges now facing science, Holdren used his speech to a standing - room - only crowd at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Washington headquarters to focus on the obligations of scientists and engineers to explain their research and its implications and share their knowledge with policymakers and the public.

Another fan of plain speech for scientists is the Smithsonian Institution, which now requires its students, postdocs, and research associates to devote at least 20 % of their time to explaining their findings in person to the public.

«It was an excellent speech, and I was very pleased to hear him reaffirm NASA's support for astronomy research in space,» said astronomer C. Megan Urry of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

The limited vocabulary and simplified grammar allow the research to focus on the challenge of separating overlapping speech without requiring the infrastructure needed for recognizing more complicated utterances.

The Centre for Speech Technology Research at the University of Edinburgh has adapted its Osprey speech recogniser (Technology, 17 March 1990) for use with police radios.

And will mean scientists can do research for more of the year, can reach areas they've never been able to penetrate before, and will be able to bring back huge amounts of data on the ocean and marine biology,» Osborne said during a speech in Cambridge, according to a ScienceInsider post by Daniel Clery.

LeRoy said it's incumbent for faculty leaders and prominent university presidents to craft principles of academic freedom that deal with 21st - century issues such as extramural speech in social media, academic freedom for research that has political implications, and professional speech that is tied to corporate and foundation funding.

Her words came 2 days before the European Commission presents a green paper on future European Union funding for research and innovation and much of Geoghegan - Quinn's speech hinted at potentially radical changes ahead for the scientific community.

This is bolstered by past research showing that speech fluency improves dramatically for adults who stutter when speaking in time with a metronome.

For each millimeter increase in vestibular aqueduct size greater than 1.5 millimeters, the research team found an increase of 17.5 dB in speech reception threshold and a decrease of 21 percent in word recognition scores.

Because nouns «elicit clearer and more definite perceptions of reality than other parts of speech», they satisfy the desire for «structure and certainty» that is common among social conservatives, the research authors found.

Congratulations to Zhao «Ellen» Peng from the University of Nebraska — Lincoln, for being awarded a 2014 Newman Student Award Medal, for her doctoral research on how room acoustics impacts speech comprehension by English - as - Second - Language listeners.

During his speech, Sen. Booker discussed his family's experience with PD, the need for robust Parkinson» research funding and the importance of speaking up for what is right.

CERN Director General, Luciano Maiani, and European Commissioner for Research, Philippe Busquin, will open the event with speeches underlining the importance of joining efforts for science education and outreach in Europe.

«University of Washington research in 7 - and 11 - month - old infants shows that speech sounds stimulate areas of the brain that coordinate and plan motor movements for speech.»

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