Sentences with phrase «researchers say funds»

That's why researchers say funds with low fees are more likely to survive and tend to have better returns than their high - fee competitors over the long term.

Researchers say funding agencies have been rendered gun - shy by the continuing battle between George and his main critic, the technology watchdog organization ETC Group, which long predates the salmon project.

Not exact matches

Global funding for hardware and software to streamline building projects, or to sell and rent construction equipment, rose to $ 254 million in 2015 from $ 51 million in 2010, according to researcher CB Insights — and analysts say it's still an emerging industry.

Researchers funded by the American Heart Association and the University of Colorado School of Medicine say they've uncovered an association between increased coffee consumption and better heart health.

Interested researchers should consider the awards as seed funding for long projects, and Microsoft said research teams should not expect the company to continue funding the projects as they mature.

Later in the session another odd moment came when he was being asked about his relationship with Saint Petersburg University in Russia — where he confirmed he had given talks and workshops, after traveling to the country with friends and proactively getting in touch with the university «to say hi» — and specifically about some Russian government - funded research being conducted by researchers there into cyberbullying.

The bad news is that Interpol researchers found adverts selling parts of some of the most critically endangered species on earth on one of the most difficult to regulate Internet platforms,» Tania McCrea - Steele, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) Global Wildlife Cybercrime Project Lead said in an Interpol press release.

In a semi-annual report to the Congress (PDF), the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) said that it had received reports of a researcher using NSF - funded supercomputers at two universities for bitcoin mining.

About an equal amount, $ 33.8 billion, went into passive funds that invest in U.S. equities, Chicago - based researcher Alina Lamy of Morningstar said Friday in an interview.

«While more than 40 percent of the funds of female investors were invested in projects by female entrepreneurs, only 22.5 percent of the male investor funds went to female led projects,» the Berkeley researchers said.

Prosecutors said Silver directed money from another such pot, the HCRA fund, to support the work of a medical researcher who referred patients with a rare lung disease to the law firm where Silver was of counsel.

Professor John Pethica, Vice-President of the Royal Society, said: «We're pleased to partner with EPSRC so that these young researchers, identified by the Royal Society as excellent and potential leaders in their fields, will have access to further funding to advance their research and develop their careers.»

However, board member Luis Reyes, a researcher at Hunter College in Manhattan, said the graduation goal would prove «delusional» unless the state provides more equitable funding for schools in poor neighborhoods.

But very often, in traditional funding systems, [the really large grants] were given out to senior researchers,» she says.

Biomedical researchers are beset by low morale and high uncertainty, along with funding swings that economists say make for an inefficient research enterprise.

«We need targeted funding specifically for computer science education,» says education researcher Anne Leftwich of Indiana University.

Her NASA - funded research satisfies her itch for discovery, but her most important scientific contribution, she says, is helping researchers from other fields — geoscience, engineering, physics, and limnology (among others)-- obtain the data they need.

Last month, NSF Director France Córdova admitted that the agency sometimes learns about sexual harassment charges involving NSF - funded researchers through the media, saying «that's a pretty poor way to find out.»

Regardless of the geographic setting, the goals and challenges of translational research are the same, says Liu: Getting funding and infrastructure support from the government, training young investigators, creating a multidisciplinary community of researchers who can effectively communicate with each other, and finding ways to systematically implement translational research results into clinical practice.

«Funders don't control the composition of the committee, and they don't meet with the committee,» says Harvard public - health researcher Marie McCormick, who chaired the IOM vaccine - safety committee in question.

He described wandering up to a poster discussing salmonella by FDA researchers, «and I say, «I presume the food agency funded that,» and they say, «Oh, we would never have the money to fund that — it was the Department of Homeland Security that felt sorry for us and gave us the money.»»

If governments fail to provide adequate funding, he said, researchers may have to resort to using crowdsourcing — collecting money through an online fundraiser, with donations from individuals who support the research.

«Researchers» unrest had been long brewing, largely because of chronically deficient funding and staffing; this was the last straw,» says Moyen.

Part of the problem, he says, is that the incidence of many human chronic diseases rises with age, yet many researchers prefer using young mice because of the pressures of being published and getting funding.

That stagnancy suggests that where early career researchers start on the funding ladder «may have an important effect on their career,» Pickett says.

Cong Cao, a science - policy researcher specializing in China at the University of Nottingham, UK, says that neither the extra funding nor the editors» declaration will have much of an impact.

Mark Ferguson, director general of the funding agency Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), says the projects were first reviewed for scientific excellence by a panel of leading international researchers.

The funding agencies that define the metrics of researchers» success have the power to motivate change in this treatment, she said.

Van Wedeen, another HCP PI at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, says the proliferation of neuroscience resources, such as those put out by the HCP and Allen Brain Atlas, can pay unexpected dividends for young researchers who lack the funds to collect such data themselves.

In particular, he says, the initiative will support a new breed of neuroscientist, one trained not as a classical brain researcher but as a physicist or mathematician, computer scientist or engineer — researchers who may never have received NIH funding before.

«We want to see our funded researchers consider whether gender is a variable relevant to their research and, if it is, how they should respond,» said IRC Chair Orla Feely, as she launched a gender equality plan in December 2013.

«Basically, they're selling a warm, fuzzy feeling,» says Dennis King, a University of Maryland researcher and the author of an EPA - funded study of carbon sequestration.

He said that as part of a revision of the COI rules, NIH is looking into «how can we improve NIH's ability to make sanctions or penalties continue to apply to individual researchers even if they move to another NIH - funded institution.»

Although cancer researchers welcome the two moonshot reports, Congress now needs to come up with new funding to carry out Biden's vision, says Jon Retzlaff, managing director of science policy and government affairs for the American Association for Cancer Research in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Gifts such as Stanley's are an important signal to drug companies, young researchers, and federal funders that it is time to reinvest in psychiatric research, he said.»

But after two decades, millions of dollars of public and private funding, and the best efforts of cancer researchers, himself included, Duesberg says that no combination of genes has ever produced cancer in tissue cultures.

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.

He and other affected researchers say they've heard nothing definitive from the state about when their funding might be restored.

The expertise needed to investigate research misconduct cases is very different than investigating sexual harassment cases, says Price, who spent 17 years at the Office of Research Integrity, which handles misconduct by federally funded biomedical researchers.

However, she said that HHS is aware that researchers funded by recovery funds could be in trouble in 2011 if NIH doesn't receive a larger increase.

Representatives Joe Barton (R — TX) and Greg Walden (R — OR) have asked Acting NIH Director Raynard Kington for comment on this thesis and for a response to an earlier query to NIH, saying that it's important to see that new funds in the economic stimulus bill are «not compromised by the potential conflicts of interest of researchers.»

Fate «is counting on this patent to raise funding, so they will be relentless» in pushing their claims, says stem cell researcher Jeanne Loring of the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego.

This year's funding was «pretty good,» he says, so researchers «would probably get by» with a modest increase.

But, he said that the new initiative reflects legislators» growing appreciation of the importance of R&D to the state's economic growth, and understanding that supporting UNC researchers will help position them to attract other federal or industry funding.

If this comes to pass, «we will have one giant and a lot of dwarfs,» says Alain Trautmann, the public face of Sauvons la Recherche, a protest movement that brought thousands of researchers onto the streets last year to protest cutbacks in research funding.

The researchers don't yet know how exactly these genes influence social behavior in either bees or people, but manipulating the genes in honey bees may shed light on what they do in humans, says Alan Packer, a geneticist at the Simons Foundation in New York City, which funds autism research, including this bee work.

The benefits that patents bring (a temporary market monopoly) provide incentive and funding for researchers to «discover» genes in the first place, Myriad says.

Researcher Eduardo Simoes says if more public health agencies adopted this tool to identify top health risks associated with chronic diseases among their specific populations, limited funding for prevention efforts could be proportionately allocated.

Given the importance of this discovery, the researchers are confident they will obtain the funding needed to continue their work — says principle researcher Ahmad Agil — «and be able to achieve their final objective: to confirm these findings in humans, by administering melatonin to help combat obesity and diabetes.»

Here are eight unanswered questions that leading medical researchers say will command most of the attention and funding in the next decade.