Sentences with phrase «research policies involving»

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When I entered the United States Senate in 1996, I had no idea that I would eventually consider stem cell research as one of the most important policy issues in which I am involved.

It's far from definitive,» said Anne Barnhill, who studies food policy at University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia but was not involved with the new research.

Recognized for her expertise in the areas of infancy and child development, mindfulness and emotional intelligence, and parent - child interactions, she is involved in research, consulting, advocacy and child policy work.

Ryan is also actively involved in connecting his research to issues of public policy, complementing academic study with positions in policy, diplomacy, microfinance, and development.

Many of the transfers overall involve no change in pay, including the $ 150,000 annual salary of senior policy adviser Matt Coleman to serve as a research assistant with the waterways department, and Santino's secretary, Roseanne Scandiffio, who will continue to be paid $ 119,000 as secretary to the town attorney.

Our modus operandi shall involve rigorous and extensive research into development models, public policy and other areas of our national economy.

They also feel that there is poor communication between farmers and people involved in agricultural policy, and between farmers and relevant scientific research.

The report, produced with support from Peter Brett Associates, involved a review of research, policy and practice by a team of industry practitioners.

Clara Gibbons, a research analyst for the Frameworks Institute, said «It's really important for scientists to continue to be involved in policy and, dare I say it, politics.»

GenConnect is a searchable alphabetical listing of over 300 organizations worldwide that are involved in setting policy regarding the legal, ethical, and social issues that stem from human genetic research.

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, for example, recently counted more than 220 companies, government laboratories, research institutions, universities, and policy centers involved in synthetic biology in the United States, with California, Massachusetts, New York, and Texas hosting the majority of these.

A «new global science policy paradigm» must provide the enabling conditions to support such a transformation, involving all stages of science, from how research projects are conceived and organized, to how they are carried out and disseminated, from how research is funded, monitored and evaluated to how researchers are rewarded, she said.

Bioethicists have said that they expect the new commission to be more policy - oriented and pragmatic than its predecessor, which focused largely on philosophical and moral issues involved in biomedical research.

Schaal is eager in her new role with AAAS to become even more involved with science policy, particularly to make clear the value of basic research.

«We've got to get out of chicken eggs,» says Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, who was not involved in the rResearch and Policy at the University of Minnesota, who was not involved in the researchresearch.

The NIH has not funded new research involving chimps since December 2011, when the Institute of Medicine, a nonprofit that advises the government on health policy, issued a report establishing strict criteria for the use of chimps in biomedical and behavioral research.

In an e-mail to ScienceInsider, he says, «Without support for data and research in this area, it is very difficult to know which policy changes are most likely to generate net improvements in public safety that can justify the costs involved.»

Biochemist and former director of NIH's basic research institute has long been involved in science policy

«Sustaining and growing support for research and development under the kinds of constraints that we have experienced in the federal budget» is one of the top S&T - related challenges — along with others involving climate change, NASA funding, and STEM education — facing the Obama administration in its last year and a half, said Holdren who is the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and assistant to the president for science and technology.

In a statement, University College London neurophysiologist Roger Lemon, chair of the Policy Advisory Group of the pro-research advocacy organization Understanding Animal Research, says that the Newcastle group's research is «of the highest quality, and the group involved are also doing fundamental research into the relationship between functional MRI and «invasive» recordings, which is critical to our ability to understand fMRI studies in peopleresearch advocacy organization Understanding Animal Research, says that the Newcastle group's research is «of the highest quality, and the group involved are also doing fundamental research into the relationship between functional MRI and «invasive» recordings, which is critical to our ability to understand fMRI studies in peopleResearch, says that the Newcastle group's research is «of the highest quality, and the group involved are also doing fundamental research into the relationship between functional MRI and «invasive» recordings, which is critical to our ability to understand fMRI studies in peopleresearch is «of the highest quality, and the group involved are also doing fundamental research into the relationship between functional MRI and «invasive» recordings, which is critical to our ability to understand fMRI studies in peopleresearch into the relationship between functional MRI and «invasive» recordings, which is critical to our ability to understand fMRI studies in people.»

Our approach to confronting these challenges is to center the workshop on research findings emerging from the SciSIP awards; provide for independent, collegial commentary on these presentations by individuals whose work has spanned, or crossed over, implementing and writing about science policy (and who have not applied for SciSIP awards); and then to carefully roll out a distillation of findings from SciSIP awards to federal agencies and other organizations more directly involved in the formulation or implementation of science policy.

During a day of candid dialogue organized by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) and AAAS, participants shared concerns and strategies for a time of global economic and policy challenges involving science and technology.

The success of STI «will depend on the efficiency of the science - policy - society interface,» involving stakeholders from governments, civil society, indigenous peoples and local communities, industry and business, academia and research organizations.

The team became interested in curiosity because of its ongoing collaborative research project to improve public engagement with science documentaries involving the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School, the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, and Tangled Bank Studios at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

A week later, a network of stem - cell researchers, bioethicists and policy experts called the Hinxton Group, said that after meetings in Manchester, UK, they had concluded that research involving genome editing in human embryos has «tremendous value to basic research».

Callarman is involved with technology transfer policies at ASU, and as a business professor he tends to believe that faculty and universities «sell their souls» when they do contract research.

Ginsberg says that future research might also involve looking into how policy changes and hospital closures changed patterns of utilizing helicopters.

The Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans [TCPS 2 (2014)-RSB- was released in December 2014 [1].

These matters of public health policy were also of particular interest to the government agencies involved in the research.

The stories of research involving human embryonic stem cells and the policy governing that work are intertwined and stretch back...

(Current federal policy prohibits research involving hESCs isolated after August 2001 from being conducted in laboratories constructed with any federal funding).

Specific activities include optimizing the conduct and oversight of gene transfer research, updating and interpreting biosafety policies under the NIH Guidelines Involving Research with Recombinant and Synthetic Nucleic Acids, providing critical input on governmental policies regarding dual use research, the NIH Stem Cell Rresearch, updating and interpreting biosafety policies under the NIH Guidelines Involving Research with Recombinant and Synthetic Nucleic Acids, providing critical input on governmental policies regarding dual use research, the NIH Stem Cell RResearch with Recombinant and Synthetic Nucleic Acids, providing critical input on governmental policies regarding dual use research, the NIH Stem Cell Rresearch, the NIH Stem Cell Registry.

The Secretariat is also responsible for the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans.

In this role, he has management responsibility for the secretariat to the NRC Council and senior executive as well as for ethics policies and administrative support involving human subjects research, animal care, conflict of interest, and disclosures of wrongdoing as well as research integrity.

His research in atmospheric chemistry, climate change and energy has involved him in shaping science and environmental policy at the highest levels nationally and internationally.

In 1996, in response to these concerns, Varmus, then director of NIH, impaneled a group of experienced clinical investigators and academic health center administrators to make recommendations that might guide the NIH toward policy changes to alleviate the concerns in the clinical research community.14 Several of the panel's recommendations have been implemented, including increased support of the General Clinical Research Center budget, expanded support of training in clinical research, and the establishment of NIH - sponsored educational debt relief programs for clinical investigators.15 - 18 The panel also recommended restructuring of NIH peer review groups so that patient - oriented grant applications would be evaluated by study sections in which at least half the grant applications involve patient - oriented rresearch community.14 Several of the panel's recommendations have been implemented, including increased support of the General Clinical Research Center budget, expanded support of training in clinical research, and the establishment of NIH - sponsored educational debt relief programs for clinical investigators.15 - 18 The panel also recommended restructuring of NIH peer review groups so that patient - oriented grant applications would be evaluated by study sections in which at least half the grant applications involve patient - oriented rResearch Center budget, expanded support of training in clinical research, and the establishment of NIH - sponsored educational debt relief programs for clinical investigators.15 - 18 The panel also recommended restructuring of NIH peer review groups so that patient - oriented grant applications would be evaluated by study sections in which at least half the grant applications involve patient - oriented rresearch, and the establishment of NIH - sponsored educational debt relief programs for clinical investigators.15 - 18 The panel also recommended restructuring of NIH peer review groups so that patient - oriented grant applications would be evaluated by study sections in which at least half the grant applications involve patient - oriented researchresearch.

However, such policies are only sustainable if scientific credit is generated for all parties involved, and the Institute will play its part in developing a global research environment which rewards data sharing.

Implementing this comprehensive notion of education will involve many voices, bridging policy, practice, and research.

On - going trends involving public school segregation have been a primary focus of the CRP's research, and the expanding policy emphasis on school choice prompted analysis of the much smaller — but politically potent — charter sector.

McDonald also runs her own company, Catalyst Education Consulting, allowing her to stay involved in all the diverse areas of education that interest her, from policy to research to curriculum design, as well as meet others who, like her, want to affect the education sector for the better.

Indeed, it seems that many of the major foundations involved in education are backing charter schools in one way or another, either by supporting individual sites or by financing research or advocacy designed to promote policies friendly to charters.

Through her involvement as a research assistant for the CRP — a position she started in 2005 when she was still a doctoral student at HGSE — Garces has served as counsel of record in three amicus curiae briefs for the Supreme Court, including the recent Fisher v. University of Texas, and previously on a case involving the constitutionality of K — 12 voluntary desegregation policies.

To be useful, debates about the strengths and weaknesses of research, especially when it involves important policy questions, need to adhere to the facts.

STRATEGIC DATA PROJECT The Strategic Data Project (SDP), a project under the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR), has a lot going on in Los Angeles, including a partnership with the city that involves two data fellows, Emily Mohr and Nicole Wagner, and one agency fellow, Hansheng Chen.

It's free to join and provides teachers with an opportunity to take part in research and be involved in the development of resources and current policy within teaching.

While much of this sort of analysis must necessarily and only involve hypothesis until deeper research is done, it's important to think out what's happening in the policy world and the field that might relate to and possibly explain these clear trends in results.

These strategies involve 1) accurately informing the general public and the policy community regarding the condition of schools, that is, their financing, their achievement, and the relationship between the two; 2) conducting empirical research aimed at understanding issues of productivity in education; 3) informing policymakers and school managers regarding means by which budget cuts can be made without eviscerating instructional effectiveness; and 4) solving challenges to wider adoption of instructional technologies.

Her role as Policy Research Assistant involves assisting with the development and execution of learning events such as forums, webinars, and discussion groups, as well as researching, summarizing, and synthesizing relevant information into policy and practice guidance for dissemination to multiple audiPolicy Research Assistant involves assisting with the development and execution of learning events such as forums, webinars, and discussion groups, as well as researching, summarizing, and synthesizing relevant information into policy and practice guidance for dissemination to multiple audipolicy and practice guidance for dissemination to multiple audiences.

Clearly, the assumptions of all involved in this area of policy research come into play, here, akin to how they did in The Bell Curve and The Bell Curve Debate.

At a more basic level, research can not address whether teacher evaluation policies involving classification result in the «right» tradeoff between false positives and false negatives.