Sentences with phrase «researching growth factors»

She spent the next twenty years researching growth factors and development before moving to science administration.

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That year, the Economic and Social Research Institute said growth would continue through to 2010, barring policy mistakes or outside factors.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

Tom Wynn, director of affluent research at Spectrem, provided several factors for the increased confidence: the steady improvement in job growth, the steady increase in the major stock market indices since the spring, and a decrease in political ambiguity with the election season over, which has an effect on at least some people's outlook.

Maury Obstfeld, economic counsellor and research department director at the IMF, told CNBC Monday that there was a broad cyclical upswing but many of the factors driving growth were temporary in nature.

Our future capital requirements may vary materially from those currently planned and will depend on many factors, including our rate of revenue growth, the timing and extent of spending on research and development efforts and other business initiatives, the expansion of sales and marketing activities, the timing of new product introductions, market acceptance of our products and overall economic conditions.

The looming supply growth is mostly due to two factors: the scheduled end of OPEC / non-OPEC production cuts in March and US shale production, including NGLs, «growing like crazy,» said New York - based Mike Wittner, managing director and global head of oil research at Societe Generale.

The research on economic growth factors will continue for years to come as developing countries begin to enter the global market.

Per the BBVA Research Department, the potential long run GDP growth trend should revert to around 2 % -2.2 % based on expectations for labor (major factor being U.S. demographics, i.e. aging of the population), capital growth, and productivity.

Factors of Influence in 2018, Key Indicators and Opportunity within BIOHAVEN PHARM, WEC Energy Group, Axon Enterprise, Tutor Perini, Waste Management, and Twenty - First Century Fox — New Research Emphasizes Economic Growth

Eventually I got hold of Christian Schwarz's book «Natural Church Development» which was developed based on his research with thousands of churches across the world looked at the «quality» of churches because his findings seemed to surprisingly indicate that the quality of a church was the number one factor in the nemerical growth of a church.

«In different areas, you'll see different factors, but a lot of the growth is through birth,» said Bert Hickman, senior research associate at the Center for the Study of Global Christianity (CSGC) at Gordon - Conwell Theological Seminary.

The global flexible packaging market is projected to expand at a CAGR slightly over 5 % during the forecast period (2016 - 2024) due to various factors, as revealed in Transparency Market Research's (TMR) lastest report, Flexible Packaging Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast 2016 - 2024.

Availing the research developed by Persistence Market Research on the global frozen foods market, industrialists and market strategists can deduce the key factors driving the market's growth and use the risk assessment information for directing the growth of their frozen foods busresearch developed by Persistence Market Research on the global frozen foods market, industrialists and market strategists can deduce the key factors driving the market's growth and use the risk assessment information for directing the growth of their frozen foods busResearch on the global frozen foods market, industrialists and market strategists can deduce the key factors driving the market's growth and use the risk assessment information for directing the growth of their frozen foods businesses.

Findings of the research, published April 22 in the journal Mucosal Immunology, reveal that a substance found in animal and human breast milk called epidermal growth factor, or EGF, blocks the activation of a protein responsible for unlocking the damaging immune cascade that culminates in NEC, a disease marked by the swift and irreversible death of intestinal tissue that remains one of the most - challenging - to - treat conditions.

Research shows that the growth of our babies brains (DNA synthesis) happen rapidly during the first few years of life, along with nerve growth factors which is a hormone that facilitates development And how are both of these promoted?

While La Leche was telling women they could breast - feed if they wanted to, medical research was finding more reasons they should want to: Formula may contain the proper nutrients, but there is something in a mother's milk - protective antibodies, hormones and growth factors in addition to proteins, fats, sugars, vitamins and minerals necessary for nourishment - that is «custom - made» for her child.

Anita Nkrumah, a Research Associate at IMANI, told Xinhua after her presentation on «Maximizing Gains from Ghana's Trade Partnerships» that one of the key factors spurring this growth is affordability as majority of Ghanaians fell into the lower income bracket.

Another factor the research associate mentioned was the interest the Chinese government has shown in Sub-Saharan Africa, including Ghana in terms of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), adding that the increased collaboration between the two countries could be one of the key factors for the growth in trade volumes.

To get more cells, researchers from Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Mass., grew clusters of human embryonic cells in a precise cocktail of growth factors and other cell - regulating chemicals that took several years to work out, says Robert Lanza, the firm's vice president of research and scientific development.

A new study by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — James) has identified a mechanism by which cancer cells develop resistance to a class of drugs called fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) inhibitors.

But recent research has linked their long term use to various unwanted effects, including pneumonia, heart attack, and bone fracture, they point out, adding that PPIs are known to stimulate the production of gastrin, a powerful growth factor.

It wasn't until her final - year project, working on the parental imprinting of the insulin - like growth factor II gene in rats, that she finally started doing real research, but this early contribution earned her first publication, as second author in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

Demonstrating Cpf1's noticeable specificity, another research team from the same IBS Center succeeded in bringing Cpf1 RNP - mediated mutations into mouse embryos: The researchers targeted Foxn1 (a transcription factor that regulates the immune system, including the growth of skin hairs), as well as Tyrosinase (an enzyme that catalyzes the production of melanin, a natural pigment that determines the color of skin).

A critical discovery in this research was finding that the novel progenitor has a receptor protein on its cell surface called KDR, or vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2, which until now, was thought to be restricted to endothelial cells that form vessels, the progenitors for endothelial cells and the progenitors blood cells.

About ten years ago, research results showed that things are not quite as simple as that: «Under most conditions, H2O2 is not an undesired side product but rather an essential chemical messenger that plays an important role in regulating the way in which body cells respond to signals from outside such as hormones and growth factors,» says Dr. Tobias Dick of the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrumresearch results showed that things are not quite as simple as that: «Under most conditions, H2O2 is not an undesired side product but rather an essential chemical messenger that plays an important role in regulating the way in which body cells respond to signals from outside such as hormones and growth factors,» says Dr. Tobias Dick of the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches KrebsforschungszentrumResearch Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ).

The research, published in Science Translational Medicine, linked decreased epidermal growth factor levels in urine to worsening kidney disease.

Hayashi then drew on other research showing that one key regulatory molecule (activin A) and a growth factor (basic fibroblast growth factor) could convert cultured early embryonic stem cells into cells akin to epiblasts.

The significance of Fan and Tonks» research on FER is their discovery of how FER activates MET from below, i.e., in the absence of a growth factor docking at the receptor surface.

«Research shows a cause of gastrointestinal symptoms in Type 1 diabetes: Excess of growth factor binding protein damages colon - maintaining stem cells.»

Previous research had shown that AHR activation decreases transforming growth factor beta (TGFβ), a cytokine that induces myofibroblast formation.

Dr. Doyle then trained as a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University under the mentorship of Dr. Marion Buckwalter, researching the role of transforming growth factor (TGF)- beta signaling after stroke and developing a model of poststroke dementia.

«This is a really interesting finding which links the mitochondrial degeneration in Parkinson's disease with nerve growth factors,» reports Rüdiger Klein, the head of the research study.

Joining forces with dermatologists and oncologists from the University Hospital in Zurich and backed by the University Research Priority Program «Translational Cancer Research,» Sommer's team was able to demonstrate that, in melanoma cells, the epigenetic factor EZH2 controls genes that govern tumor growth as well as genes that are important for the formation of metastases.

The paper is «solid, exciting research,» says ecologist Chris Field of Carnegie Institution for Science in Palo Alto, California, who notes that various models have looked at ways different factors might affect future plant growth.

In the course of their research, they found that the protein transforming growth factor B1 (TGF - B1), contained in megakaryocytes, signaled quiescence of hematopoietic stem cells.

A team working at the Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden Hospital in London, in collaboration with scientists at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, has found that tamoxifen also works by encouraging the cells surrounding a tumour to produce a «growth factor».

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 the top on the list was a Fibroblast growth factor receptor gene that (Fgfr2) that Carstens had used to identify ESRP1 in earlier research.

The study, performed in an animal model, was the first to identify growth differentiation factor 10, or GDF10, a molecule that previously had no known role in the adult brain, said Dr. S. Thomas Carmichael, the study's senior author and a professor and vice chair for research and programs in the UCLA department of neurology.

Several research groups are pursuing gene therapy approaches to regenerate skin, such as using genes to control expression of growth factors involved in skin healing.

In this study, the research group has found that a peptide called EPIDERMAL PATTERNING FACTOR - LIKE 2 (EPFL2) and its receptor protein, ERECTA family receptor kinases, control the amount of auxin during leaf tooth growth.

In addition to publishing the discovery of the «speed gene» — actually a gene that controls the expression of the muscle growth factor, myostatin, in a January 2010 Public Library of Science paper — she has published research on several more genes and is seeking patents for some, including myostatin (MSTN).

To promote angiogenesis in body parts where blood flow is poor due to diabetes, research has been conducted to develop materials that absorb growth factors and gradually release them.

Environmental factors similar to those affecting the present day Great Barrier Reef have been linked to a major slowdown in its growth eight thousand years ago, research led by the University of Sydney shows.

In consideration of these issues, the research group developed porous films using pig - skin - derived gelatin chemically modified with hexanoyl group that is believed to provide superb tissue adhesiveness and excellent bonding to growth factors.

Together with a partner from the industry, the research team successfully tested a vaccine from a new AAV mimotope library for a tumour antigen of breast cancer, the growth factor HER2.

The research involves a protein called fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21), which the scientists previously found helps protect mice against diet - related toxicities to the liver.

A marker in bile known as vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) plays an important role in the growth of cancerous tumors according to new research presented at the 78th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology.

Starting with procedures other research teams had previously worked out to convert iPSCs into keratinocytes, Xu's team demonstrated that by carefully controlling the timing of the growth factors the cells received, they could force the iPSCs to generate large numbers of epithelial stem cells.