Sentences with phrase «research uses large»

The research uses a large, high - quality database provided by the European Forest Fire Information System to analyze the burned areas in summer in Mediterranean Europe which coincide with drought episodes and are related to previous wet conditions.

Some social science research uses large - scale research projects.

Big data is not simply research that uses a large set of observations.

VIM carries out virology and immunology research using large animals such as pigs (influenza) and ruminants (RSV).

«This award provides the opportunity to bridge my previous work in health disparities, obtain the conceptual and methodological expertise needed to conduct research using large databases, and apply my knowledge to a new study population in rehabilitation.»

Recent research using a large national sample found that eighty six percent of people who were unhappily married in the late 1980s, and stayed with the marriage, indicated when interviewed five years later that they were happier.

He cites recent research using a large national sample that found that 86 percent of the people who were unhappily married in the 1980s, «and stayed with the marriage.»

Not exact matches

There are a variety of types of market research tools — both offline and online — that are used by many large businesses and can be available to small and mid-sized businesses.

After more than a decade of research on the use of machine learning to detect disease - causing mutations in DNA, Brendan Frey, biomedical engineering professor at the University of Toronto, this week launched his company, Deep Genomics, to bring the technology his team developed to the public at large.

Charities, by and large, do not pay executives over $ 1 million, according to research from Charity Navigator, though there are exceptions and it would be difficult for a charity to explain having to use donations for a 20 percent excise tax on executive compensation.

Meta's search platform uses machine intelligence to analyze the number and quality of citations in medical journals and research papers, and then sorts them into the largest knowledge graph of its kind.

Smartphones are used namely as a research tool to help in purchasing things later online or when they actually go to the store, and tablets are sort of in that middle ground, because they provide the mobile experience but on a larger screen, which is appealing to many consumers.»

Affectiva, a spinoff of MIT's Media Lab, claims to have built the world's largest database of facial expressions and their corresponding emotions, and is using its discoveries to help media companies, market research firms and brands get more detailed consumer insights.

Still, according to Loretta Mester, director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the use of credit scores in lending decisions is rising — and is likely to continue to rise — with industry consolidation, as large banks that need automated processes to handle their heavy loan volumes continue to acquire small banks.

Fitza's research builds on (and subverts) a large body of academic work connecting CEO performance to company performance — using return on assets as the metric of the latter.

Using proprietary data collected by Restaurant Business and its sister research firm Technomic from 2016, we looked at nearly 100 of the largest US chains and rated them on three criteria we considered the most telling for all - around fast - food excellence: financial performance, customer satisfaction, and overall value.

And rather than lag behind large competitors» price increases, use your research to lead when necessary.

They pay for the research NREC does and are left with a proof of concept, which they can use to produce a product on a larger scale.

If anything, it seems to imply the opposite — listing off a series of large - scale efforts by Russia's Internet Research Agency (the name its hackers used) to shape the outcome of the election:

Stephanie used Quora to research the ways that staffing professionals at large nonprofit organizations find and interact with freelance writers.

Chair Yellen, relying heavily on research by David Reifschneider using the FRBUS model, comes to the relatively serene conclusion that by using forward guidance and QE policies — or LSAP (Large Scale Asset Purchases) in Fed parlance, the Fed will likely able to respond adequately to the next recession with its existing tool kit.

However, the largest national research survey, using recent data on hundreds of companies that employ 6 million workers, gives encouraging news on this score, showing that managers in companies with more employee share ownership, appear to implement a greater number of these supportive involvement policies.30

The research team uses detailed administrative data from one large U.S. state (Ohio) and several provinces of Canada to compare community college entrants and analyze the returns to community college in the two countries.

Six of Seven Largest Public Pension Funds Using Glass Lewis Proxy Services SAN FRANCISCO, CA (Oct. 31, 2005)-- Glass, Lewis & Co., the leading independent investment research and global proxy advisory firm, announced today -LSB-...]

That reinvestment may be used to fund acquisitions, build new factories, increase inventory levels, establish larger cash reserves, reduce long - term debt, hire more employees, start a new division, research and develop new products, buy common stock in other businesses, purchase equipment to increase productivity, or a host of other potential uses.

That's where using a tool like Link Prospector can help, it will research and analyze a large amount of data before listing potential link partners.

One P4 (the most hazardous) research facility was set up in a large trailer outside the NIH in Washington, D.C., and another is being prepared at Fort Detrick, Maryland, at a site formerly used for germ - warfare research — a little coincidence which does not serve to set at ease the minds of the critics.

Most of the large evangelical broadcast organizations do use statistical research, but that use is limited largely to market research for the purpose of syndication and program planning.

Certainly the religious broadcaster has access to the much larger body of general communication research on associated topics such as audience patterns and viewing behavior, attitude and value change, and communication uses and effects.

Scientific research increasingly demonstrates that large - scale intensive meat production uses disproportionate amounts of land, water, and feed, adds markedly to climate change and is a factor in water pollution and food contamination.

A large part of it, about 117 acres, is being developed for office / research and retail uses.

However, the needles used for the tattoo will pose a very small risk of transmitting hepatitis C. Recent research shows that a larger, multi-colored tattoo poses a higher risk than small black tattoos.»

(As I point out in the book, a recent study by the National Center for Education Research found that none of the many large - scale character - education programs in use in American schools produces any significant positive outcomes.)

Years of research have shown that babies who use sign language develop verbal language skills sooner than their peers and develop a comparably larger vocabulary.

Second, once the sample size is large enough to allow for analysis, researchers on the MANA Division of Research calculate outcomes that midwives can use to compare to their own practice statistics.

The Committee had found that the competitiveness of the UK's large scale scientific resources was being compromised by the lack of a long term plan, and that the UK was missing out on vital research opportunities because large scale scientific equipment was not being used to maximum effect.

A new peer - reviewed study discredits findings of controversial research claiming that higher concentrations of dissolved methane in domestic water wells can be associated with proximity to nearby gas - producing wells in northeastern Pennsylvania — and it does so using a much larger sampling size and pre-drill baselines.

Following the 2010 he founded the democratic Super PAC American Bridge, one of the largest modern campaign war rooms ever assembled, which uses research, tracking, and rapid response to defeat republicans.

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and the state Public Service Commission (PSC) have awarded $ 30 million to help fund large - scale solar power projects that will assist facilities in New York City and the lower Hudson Valley generate electricity for their own use.

Beyond its use as a tool against large financial institutions, Schneiderman has used the act as a basis for a probe into ExxonMobil, arguing that its alleged failure to disclose to its shareholders and the public research that showed the potential impact of climate change constituted a Martin Act violation.

Do these Ph.D. s hold jobs that call on their training and make it a worthwhile investment — both for the individual graduate and for the larger research enterprise, which uses public funding and invests significant effort in training them?

AAAS, the world's largest general science society, has urged the United Nations to support embryonic cloning for research or «therapeutic» purposes, but ban all efforts to use cloning for human reproduction.

Protein misfolding and aggregation had been identified as a major factor in mad cow disease, and research using yeasts as model organisms played a large role in those findings.

They emphasize the research needs to be replicated using a larger sample and follow up should determine how representative the six proteins are of those that might be unique in association with bipolar I.

The research team used large bottom - dwelling forams as «paleothermometers» to gain a more precise temperature reading.

Plunkett and her colleagues used data from the Atacama Large Millimeter / sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile to conduct the research.

«Our study shows that failed substance use policies can reverse life expectancy trends for large population groups or even countries,» says Dr. Jürgen Rehm, Director of Social and Epidemiological Research at CAMH and first author of the study.

Large quantities of these reverted cells could be used to treat anything from spinal cord injury to liver damage without the risk of tissue rejection, said Robert Weinberg, a biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and co-author of a study appearing in Cell.

Zwicker and his colleagues can «train» their algorithm by exposing it to a large database of high - quality, uncorrupted images widely used for research with artificial neural networks.

While large - scale climate research models offer a systems view of what the transport sector, for example, could contribute to climate protection in comparison to the energy sector, the study presented in Science, however, examines transport - related issues within the sector by using more recent and more specific data on how people commute and travel.