Sentences with phrase «research infrastructure such»

Money from charitable trusts, however, doesn't typically pay for research infrastructure such as laboratory upgrades and new equipment.

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The equipment transmits speed and position data from the vehicle to other participating vehicles as well as infrastructure such as traffic signals and research equipment located at intersections or along roadways.
Chris Krueger, an analyst at Cowen Washington Research Group, said a large package could be difficult since the parties have a slew of policy differences on infrastructuresuch as how to pay for it.
Instead, spending was targetted at areas considered «critical for productivity,» such as housing, research and development (R&D) and economic infrastructure.
Protecting major transfers to persons, spending on health and education and other spending such as that for Aboriginal programs, research and development, and assuming you won't revisit defense and international assistance, then to find an additional $ 8 to $ 11 billion by 2015 - 16 would require major cuts in labor market programs, spending on the homeless, infrastructure programs, and last, but certainly not least, government personnel costs.
This research area covers the evaluation of the costs and benefits of capital projects of Canadian governments, such as roads, ports or public utilities, of financing modes for such projects, such as public - private partnerships, and the contribution of public infrastructure to economic growth.
Such gaps tend to narrow for a number of reasons, including higher marginal productivity on cheaper labor and land costs in lower - tier cities, better economic integration with government - led redistribution of infrastructure and public resources from regional hubs to small neighbor cities, and broader penetration of technology, including smartphones and the internet, according to the Morgan Stanley research.
There is no such thing as a free lunch, and if China's money is going to fund infrastructure, education, and research, China will receive friendlier treatment.
«We have an interest therefore to ensure the improved implementation of the SDGs, as we take forward the agenda of promoting Africa's sustainable development,» he underlined, adding that if the African is to develop faster, constraints, such as inadequate infrastructure, price volatility, limited investment in research and development and low private sector investment needed to be addressed.
«Closing Rikers Island also provides a unique opportunity to redevelop the island,» the report observes, with the most promising future uses including an extension of La Guardia Airport to create a third runway, or a new hub of critical city infrastructure such as water and waste treatment centers, research facilities and a public greenway.
But new federal spending initiatives, such as the Canada Research Chairs and the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) infrastructure grants, are breathing new life into scientific research inResearch Chairs and the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) infrastructure grants, are breathing new life into scientific research inresearch in Canada.
Earlier this year, STRI research associate William Laurance published a paper in Science, stressing the importance of considering wildlife conservation during transportation infrastructure planning, because it is well known in the conservation community that roads «can unleash a Pandora's box of environmental ills, such as land encroachment, wildlife poaching, forest fragmentation, exotic species invasions and illegal mining.»
The findings, published in Environmental Research Letters, highlight the importance of heat - mitigation strategies and infrastructures such as green roofs — in which vegetation transfers moisture from the earth to the atmosphere by evaporation of water and transpiration from plants.
Rather, they say, street lighting, pedestrian infrastructure, public transit, parks and vacant lot greening may be promising targets for future research to discover whether such interventions may provide social and health benefits.
Maintaining research excellence by making research a more attractive career path with improvements in people support, career flexibility and granting processes, and by strategic investment in infrastructure such as biobanks and data linkage networks
All remaining ESFRI projects will receive such preparatory funding this year, says Hervé Pero, head of the Research Infrastructure Unit in the E.U.'s research direResearch Infrastructure Unit in the E.U.'s research direresearch directorate.
Co-applicant and senior research fellow, Michael Head explains: «The database will allow funders to identify existing research in areas of mutual interest, help researchers identify collaborators, expertise and infrastructure, and support high - level policymakers (such as the WHO R&D Observatory) to identify funding trends and the relative value of investments in their areas of interest.»
We need to increase the levels of spending on basic science, creating new knowledge, and make certain that the money is maximized, both in the direct costs of funding research and the indirect costs of the infrastructure, such as buildings and equipment.
By contrast, in an industrial setting the focus is more directly on research, with much less focus on infrastructure issues, such as securing lab space, administrative support, and the funding of material costs.
Bettencourt and his colleagues at Arizona State University (A.S.U.), Dresden University of Technology in Germany and New Mexico's Santa Fe Institute, modeled the growth of a city according to three categories of factors: material infrastructure (road surfaces, electrical cable, etc.), human needs (such as total energy consumption and housing) and patterns of social activity, including total bank deposits, research and development, new cases of AIDS and new patents filed.
At NREL's new Energy Systems Integration Facility, capabilities such as a hose reliability testing robot and construction of additional refueling hardware will support H2FIRST's hydrogen infrastructure research needs.
There are also other kinds of rooted infrastructure, such as research parks, research incubators, national user facilities (such as synchrotron light sources), and so forth.
«Collaborations with SME's, such as Pelago, are very important to the chemical biology facility at SciLifeLab and will strengthen our capabilities as national infrastructure for chemical biology research.
Members collaborate in developing research directions and large - scale infrastructures; they encourage and facilitate discussions between like - minded experts within our organisations and beyond; they share developments and results; they collaborate in activities such as technology transfer and outreach; and they provide a coordinated representation on key issues affecting our organisations to the EU and outside world.
Through dialogue with the European Commission, EIROforum offers advice on issues such as the long - term sustainability of research infrastructures, open science, innovation potential, mobility and more.
The recent revolution in sequencing technology and Swedish investment in infrastructures, such as SciLifeLab, provides researchers with expertise and technology and are making genome sequencing increasingly available to the research community.
The two sides agree that there exists an enormous potential for cooperation in a remarkably broad range of areas, such as: research programming, training and mobility of researchers, science education, open publishing, technology transfer, innovation, building next generation infrastructures (including e-infrastructures) and global scientific cooperation.
There are many urgent needs for short - term spending on science, such as infrastructure spending and bridge grants to allow research to continue until longer - term funding proposals are successful.
«The US Military has partnered with the African scientific and general community for more than 40 years,» according to MHRP director Col. Nelson Michael, M.D., Ph.D. «We have worked on the ground for decades with host nations to build sustainable infrastructure to support infectious diseases research in areas such as HIV, malaria, dengue virus and Ebola.
Currently, Pallas comprises one of the most important research infrastructures in Finland and in the wider circumpolar region, contributing to numerous European and global research programmes, such as GAW, ICOS, ACTRIS and EMEP.
Each network would be supported by an analytic partner, such as a university or contract research firm, which would convene the network and provide the analytic infrastructure.
Her current research examines the relationship between risk and protective factors, preventive interventions, and youth outcomes; the design and evaluation of tools to facilitate the use of protective factors in strength - based and evidence - informed practice; and the development of community - based infrastructures to promote and sustain the use of such tools in practice environments.
Because responding to climate change will require long - term investment in infrastructure, research and mitigation, we need an economic environment that is sufficiently consistent to reward such investment.
Currently, Pallas comprises one of the most important research infrastructures in Finland and in the wider circumpolar region, contributing to numerous European and global research programmes, such as GAW, ICOS, ACTRIS and EMEP.
This support can take the form of more reliable and localised weather forecasts, subsidies for inputs, well - trained extension workers, better facilities for livestock health, well - funded agricultural research, and improved rural infrastructure such as road networks.
Building on current developments in international initiatives such as the Research Data Alliance (RDA), the Belmont Forum (BF) and the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), the workshop entitled Research Data infrastructures for Environmental related Societal Challenges will be an opportunity to discuss trends of the current global landscape of e-Infrastructures for environmental data management and exploitation to enhance collaboration on a global level in support of sharing research and public sectResearch Data Alliance (RDA), the Belmont Forum (BF) and the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), the workshop entitled Research Data infrastructures for Environmental related Societal Challenges will be an opportunity to discuss trends of the current global landscape of e-Infrastructures for environmental data management and exploitation to enhance collaboration on a global level in support of sharing research and public sectResearch Data infrastructures for Environmental related Societal Challenges will be an opportunity to discuss trends of the current global landscape of e-Infrastructures for environmental data management and exploitation to enhance collaboration on a global level in support of sharing research and public sectresearch and public sector data.
Stiglitz also argued that such taxation responds to another reality: market - based approaches won't work by itself, and government investments in infrastructure, research, and preparedness will be needed to round out a comprehensive approach to fighting climate change.
Pre-purchase data is gathered from interviews and surveys with IT buyers after they have confirmed a project in the technology area of the research, such as converged infrastructure, but before they purchase the technology, he told the E-Commerce Times.
However, government agencies are facing the combined struggle of exponential data growth and tight or diminishing budgets and are viewing cloud as the way to transfer more workloads to lower - cost platforms, such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), often without acquiring significant resources,» Adelaide O'Brien, research director at IDC Government Insights, told the E-Commerce...
A recent research paper from the Blockstream research team entitled «Scalable Funding of Bitcoin Micropayment Channel Networks» revealed that with necessary solutions in place such as micropayment channels can support at least 800 million users with the current infrastructure.
The government, eager to protect the UK's standing as an innovator of world - leading global medicines, is investing heavily in the life sciences, with initiatives such as the NIHR Office for Clinical Research and Infrastructure (NOCRI) promoting the UK as a preferred destination for clinical rResearch and Infrastructure (NOCRI) promoting the UK as a preferred destination for clinical researchresearch.
Researched and tested solutions in a lab environment for projects assigned to me by my supervisor, such as implementing and integrating PKI and EFS into the pre-existing infrastructure.
Few research groups in Australia have the funding and infrastructure support, and the strong relationships needed with service providers, to undertake such work for the length of time required to fully develop, evaluate, and implement new programs in this way.
A thorough research and consultation process, including full information about what a proposal entails (including losses or detriment as well as benefits) in a form that is understood by traditional owner groups, and the right to say no, is necessary to comply with the principle of free, prior and informed consent as well as to understand whether changes will support intended outcomes.31 How changing title from communal to individual ownership through leasing will address other identified impediments to economic development such as inadequate infrastructure in remote areas, under - investment in education and healthcare, high levels of welfare dependency, high levels of un-employment and limited job opportunities and limited commercial opportunities is unclear.
Many of its properties are unique and add significant complexity to the valuation services required, such as the High Arctic Research Stations, historical sites, national parks and international infrastructures that result from trade agreements.
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