Launched on Thursday, the Vector Institute is based in the city of Toronto, which already has a reputation as one of the strongest AI hubs in the world, largely as
a result of the research efforts at the University of Toronto.
As
a result of his research efforts, Thomas has produced three peer - reviewed publications in major journals, including a ground - breaking paper on postpartum depression which appeared in the Journal of Affective Disorders.
The first is
the result of a research effort conducted by Craig Loehle and published in the journal Ecological Modelling.
The primary purpose of this article is to report
the results of a research effort designed to augment the understanding of long - term effects of maternal smoking on child temperament, behavior, and academic outcomes.
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This report is the
result of a coordinated
research effort by the central banks
of Canada, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States and the Bank for International Settlements on the determinants
of market liquidity and on how central banks and other public authorities influence these determinants.
This approach is conveniently less expensive, because productivity
research is now usually a joint
effort between governments and multi-national corporations who have a product to sell to farmers as a
result of the
research, for example genetically modified crop varieties.
Tuning In: Parents
of Young Children Tell Us What They Think, Know and Need is the
result of a large - scale
research effort.
In 2007, in an
effort to establish whether certain lifestyle factors offered any preventive measure against various types
of cancer, the American Institute for Cancer
Research released a report
of a meta - study it had conducted (over five years, compiling
results from several smaller studies).
While these
efforts focus on underrepresented groups, it is expected that the
resulting types
of interventions will improve
research and education opportunities for all students in computing.
The scourge
of Zika prompted a similarly international
research effort, which has already
resulted in potential vaccine candidates.
In an
effort to find out, Stephen P. Juraschek, M.D., Ph.D.,
research and clinical fellow in general internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine, and his colleagues used data from the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) clinical trial, a widely popular and often - cited study whose
results were first published in 1997.
Current
research is looking at why inhibiting certain molecules, such as mouse protein Stat3, promote muscle regeneration in mice and how to engineer orthopedic implants from stem cells to replace damaged cartilage and bone, but the
results of that
effort aren't expected to be necessarily aimed at the old.
Finally, the DOJ, which will probably end up subsidizing the purchase
of many
of these cameras, should buy devices only for police forces that participate in larger
research efforts and share the
results with the wider public.
• Changes may be afoot for biomedical scientists as a
result of efforts at the National Institutes
of Health (NIH) to improve the reproducibility
of preclinical
research.
The
effort is part
of a much broader debate that spans
research and clinical care over which genetic
results should be returned — an ethical, legal, and practical minefield.
As a
result, not only has industry's share
of the
research enterprise grown much more quickly than the corresponding academic - based share, but the nature
of certain academic - based
research efforts has changed.
Barring that expensive and time - consuming
effort, there are mathematical tests that scientists can perform to determine if the
results from a set
of studies might be the
result of questionable
research practices such as publication bias or P - hacking — mining data to uncover significant differences.
Their
results will help to shape the way the University contributes to the global
effort of understanding climate change and gives geography students at Sheffield access to the latest innovations in climate change
research.
, chairman
of the House Committee on Science and Technology, on March 31 saying: «We strongly support the
efforts of the federal government, such as the NIH mandate and the Federal
Research Public Access Act, to provide public access to the results of federally funded research
Research Public Access Act, to provide public access to the
results of federally funded
researchresearch.»
Last year, a
research effort led by McAlpine and Naveen Verma, an assistant professor
of electrical engineering, and Fio Omenetto
of Tufts University,
resulted in the development
of a «tattoo» made up
of a biological sensor and antenna that can be affixed to the surface
of a tooth.
Hence, once a
research track is found, the
effort is focused on the reproduction and up - scalability
of the
results rather than on an understanding
of the system.
Considering the obvious benefits
of fusion energy and the considerable
efforts spent trying to attain them, why hasn't fusion
research so far produced better
results?
St. Jude led the international
research effort,
results of which appear in the current issue
of the journal Nature Medicine.
The
result of a 3 - year collaboration between 12 prominent tropical
research institutions, State
of the Tropics grew out
of an
effort to acknowledge the region as an environmental and geopolitical entity in its own right.
The bill includes some good news for
research efforts at the National Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST), and mixed
results for the U.S. Department
of Agriculture (USDA).
Despite ongoing
research effort and improved knowledge about the disease, there is currently no effective preventive or curative treatment for AD, which could
result in a public health crisis given the continuous aging
of populations worldwide.
The
research reports on the first 20
of the more than 120 spectinomycin derivatives that have
resulted from the
effort.
In an
effort to stop that cycle, the
research team turned to the
results of an earlier study conducted by Dr. Chlan which allowed critically ill patients on mechanical ventilation to self - administer a sedative called dexmedetomidine.
The contributors use studies
of invasive species to address basic
research questions in the life sciences, with the hope that the
resulting insights will also aid
efforts to solve applied problems posed by non-native biota.
The
results are published in the open access journal ZooKeys in a collaborative
effort by scientists from Catholic University
of Ecuador, the Peruvian Institute
of Research of the Amazon, Ecuadorian Museum
of Natural Sciences, and Colorado State University, USA.
In addition to luck, these include the amount
of money society is willing to invest in antiaging
research and the amount
of time and
effort that individuals are willing to spend on treatments that
result from the
research.
Therefore, the need to find alternative solutions is pressing, and the
results of this new
research are a promising break - through in the
effort to defeat these resistant superbugs.
New
research from Carnegie's Ivana Cvijanovic (now at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) and Ken Caldeira, as well as Douglas MacMartin
of Caltech, shows that while an incredibly large
effort could, in principle, restore vast amounts
of sea ice by this method, it would not
result in substantial cooling.
The study represents the
result of an interdisciplinary
effort, involving several clinical departments and scientists from different
research centers.
The
results of our
efforts were published recently in a paper entitled Incorporating RNA - seq data into the Zebrafish Ensembl Gene Build in Genome
Research.
The program supports advances in
research on STEM learning and education by fostering
efforts to explore all aspects
of education
research from foundational knowledge to improvements in STEM learning and learning contexts, both formal and informal, from childhood through adulthood, for all groups, and from the earliest developmental stages
of life through participation in the workforce,
resulting in increased public understanding
of science and engineering.
«While much additional
research must be done to determine the feasibility
of this nanoparticle approach as a vision restoration therapy, our
results encourage further
effort aimed at achieving this critical clinical objective,» said study co-author David Pepperberg, PhD, Searls - Schenk Professor
of ophthalmology and visual sciences at UIC.
The study is the
result of a large collaborative
effort with investigators from 44 universities and
research institutions in the United States, led by Gerard D. Schellenberg, PhD, at Penn, with primary analysis sites at Miami, led by Margaret A. Pericak - Vance, PhD, and Boston, led by Lindsay A. Farrer, PhD.
INFRAFRONTIER puts great
effort into international standardisation and quality control and into technology development to improve and expand experimental protocols, reduce the use
of animals in
research and increase the reproducibility
of results.
A new University
of Kansas
research effort featured in the current edition
of Integrative Biology has
resulted in a low - cost, reliable blood test that uses a small plastic chip about the size
of a credit card that can deliver the same diagnostic information as a bone biopsy — but using a simple blood draw instead.
A
research associate with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, or Doctors without Borders in the United States), Princeton undergraduate and graduate alumna Kimberly Bonner ’08 MPA ’12 witnessed the
results of relief
efforts at the Ebola Treatment Center in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
The
research presentations cover a wide range
of disciplines, treatment approaches and cancer types, including a unique form
of immunotherapy for ovarian cancer, promising
results on a new treatment approach for Hodgkin lymphoma in children and young adults and an
effort to build a predictive tool to determine which patients are most likely to respond well to checkpoint inhibitors.
And something most people don't realize is, just how critical ingesting the
research - proven Protein to Carbohydrate ratio is to optimizing the
results of your workout
efforts.
He proposes that vitamin D's toxic effect is primarily the
result of higher levels leading to a deficiency
of vitamin K and postulates that patients can be given higher doses
of vitamin D, potentially offering greater therapeutic value, by administering vitamins A, D and K simultaneously.41 It is hoped that future studies will evaluate their interactions, in order to better treat patients, and support public health
efforts, as recently proposed by the Weston A. Price Foundation to the National Institutes
of Health43 as the agency considers the Strategic Nutrition
Research Agenda.
In a 1956 review
of the
research on «School Personnel and Mental Health,» J. T. Hunt, a professor at the University
of North Carolina, noted that «
efforts to identify personality differences between superior and inferior school personnel, to isolate a «teacher personality,» or to predict either competence or effectiveness
of student teachers by means
of psychometric or projective instruments, led to limited
results.»
As long as
research data is obtained through hypotheses posed in testable terms and nested in a body
of established theory; as long as the data collection and analytical methods permit direct investigation
of the question; and as long as the study
results are open to replication and professional scrutiny, we will have a professional body
of research on which to base reform
efforts.
«As long as study
results are open to replication and professional scrutiny, we will have a professional body
of research on which to base reform
efforts.»
College student Ankur Singh spent the spring semester
of his freshman year
researching the flaws in the American education system from a student perspective; the
result of these
efforts is Listen, a film about public education in the United States by students, for students.
Lagemann's
efforts have
resulted in a school
of education that is now more influential in the areas
of policymaking and
research, not only in Boston and Cambridge, but across the nation.