Sentences with phrase «significant research efforts»

While significant research efforts have gone into better understanding specific phenomenological features encountered during near - death - experiences, the scientific literature on the temporal structure of near - death - experiences is still quite limited.

Given how long it takes to see the fruits of any significant research effort (Apple's latest iPhone chip was eight years in the making), the risk to research and innovation from activists who force deep cuts to drive up the share price and then sell out before the pipeline dries up is obvious.

[ANDY REVKIN comments: It is notable that the Pentagon has a significant research effort under way on energy efficiency.

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Due to increasing complexity and length of annual and quarterly financial reports, meeting these criteria requires a focused effort and, perhaps, significant changes in the way research is created by most firms.

In addition to being a leader in permeate production volumes, the U.S. dairy industry has also been a pioneer in investing significant research and development efforts revealing the sensory, functional and nutritional benefits of whey and milk permeate as cost - saving, flavor - enhancing and sodium - reducing food and beverage ingredients.

A range of informative keynote speeches, programs and projects were presented; research undertakings were demonstrated on global efforts to combat food loss and waste in which Australia plays a significant role.

«This is truly an outstanding achievement for the Buffalo Public Schools and a significant milestone for New York State's effort to create a thriving solar energy sector in our state,» said Alicia Barton, president and chief executive officer of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, or NYSERDA.

However, even after significant research and commercialization efforts, current production volumes of bio-jet fuel are very small.

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?

► How intellectual property (IP) ownership is awarded to academics can have a significant effect on their commercialization efforts, according to a paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research that Mervis reported on (subscription required), also in this week's issue.

One such effort is the nascent national Cancer Syndicate, which Brenner is sure will acquire the necessary critical mass to «become a very significant contributor to basic biological research.»

«While significant effort is being put into developing treatments to slow or block the progression of Alzheimer's dementia, little work has been done to get the medical system ready for such an advancement,» said Jodi Liu, lead author of the study and a policy researcher at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

This research makes a significant advance on previous efforts that have typically produced nanoparticles limited to only three different elements and to structures that do not mix evenly.

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.

«If modifying cholesterol levels in the brain early in life turns out to reduce amyloid deposits late in life, we could potentially make a significant difference in reducing the prevalence of Alzheimer's, a goal of an enormous amount of research and drug development effort.»

NASA faces several significant challenges that may impede efforts to maximize utilization of all ISS research facilities, including:

Timelines for data submission and access should promote timely and broad data sharing while being mindful of the significant effort by investigators to generate and prepare data for release, as well as to realize benefit from engaging research participants.

«There is no doubt that the authors have made a significant step forward» in characterizing China's emissions, and the country's effort to improve the quality of its climate data «is very welcome,» says Josep Canadell, an earth system scientist at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Canberra.

As world leaders hold climate talks in Paris, research shows that land surface temperatures may rise by an average of almost 8C by 2100, if significant efforts are not made to counteract climate change.

Nonetheless, passage of the measure marks a significant milestone in efforts to overturn the Bush policy, which limits government funding to research using 60 human ES cell lines derived before 9 August, 2001.

Previous research efforts by the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium found that paramedics who deliver defibrillator shocks within three minutes of arriving at the scene of a cardiac arrest can boost survival, and that the depth of chest compressions and the rate at which they were applied make a significant impact on survival and recovery of patients.

Our analysis of the mammals endangered by hunting shows a significant bias in the regions and species benefitting from research effort (figure 4).

In this effort, Dr. Zuniga made a major «hit» while a postdoctoral fellow at the Scripps Research Institute, when she initiated study into plasmacytoid dendritic cells, a subset of leukocytes that produce large quantities of the antiviral mediators type I interferons, and have significant developmental potential.

Viral Vectors: Viruses are naturally abundant, optimally characterized delivery vehicles for transfer of genetic information, so they have been the focus of significant clinical research efforts (see Table 2).

The Research Fellow program recognizes scientists who make significant contributions to EMSL and its user program outside of individual research Research Fellow program recognizes scientists who make significant contributions to EMSL and its user program outside of individual research research efforts.

This fellowship is reserved for leading researchers making significant contributions to the development of EMSL beyond their individual research efforts.

For that amount of effort, you might be better served by giving the low - FODMAP diet a try - a diet that has significant clinical research to back up its effectiveness for IBS.

«One of the reasons behind the gap between the research and practitioner communities is the impression among teachers and school administrators that investing in social and emotional skills will involve significant additional efforts and resources.

In an effort to better understand what is happening in these spaces, I have spent a significant amount of time researching the socio - historical context that has shaped our contemporary policing policies and prison system.

The research found a «significant disparity» between the enormous amount of effort teachers invest in marking and a lack of evidence on ways to improve the marking process.

Now, a new study from researchers at Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research suggests that effort led to positive growth in student achievement in English, with no significant changes in math.

Because research clearly shows that teacher expertise is the most significant school - based influence on student learning, one would think that investments in enhancing teacher expertise would be a major focus of school improvement efforts.

Research on Significant Threshold: This is the multi-year research effort noted above to update the scientific evidence of the relationship between aircraft noise exposure and its effects on communities around aResearch on Significant Threshold: This is the multi-year research effort noted above to update the scientific evidence of the relationship between aircraft noise exposure and its effects on communities around aresearch effort noted above to update the scientific evidence of the relationship between aircraft noise exposure and its effects on communities around airports.

Additionally, significant effort is focused on optimizing internal combustion engine technologies that are synergistic with hybrid research and development.

Our board of directors recognized that there was a potential for creating significant value for shareholders by continuing operations, but on balance our board of directors concluded that the risks of a negative outcome, either due to failure of our research and development efforts to yield a successful outcome, or the failure to obtain necessary financing even with positive clinical trial data, and the resulting lower liquidation value in the future, outweighed the potential value to shareholders from continuing operations.

«This is a significant accomplishment that reflects Avigen's strategic efforts to identify novel mechanisms to treat neurologic disorders and to protect the know - how and intellectual property of our scientific discoveries,» stated Kirk Johnson, Ph.D., Vice President of Research and Development at Avigen.

While there are quite a number of individuals active and interested in this area and, more generally, the social sciences aspects of global change, developing funding for significant research in this area and an associated effort to build a community of researchers has proven problematic.

According to Google's news release, the company «is hiring engineers and energy experts to lead its research and development work, which will begin with a significant effort on solar thermal technology, and will also investigate enhanced geothermal systems and other areas.

Significant effort is going into researching and developing ways of capturing and storing CO2 emitted from fossil fuels when they are burned.

Witness the Arctic provides information on current Arctic research efforts and findings, significant research initiatives, national policy affecting Arctic research, international activities, and profiles of institutions with major Arctic research efforts.

According to the Penn State Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research, during the first half of 2013 in the Marcellus shale play, 90 percent of the more than 14 million barrels of produced fluids from fracturing was reused.12 That represents a significant savings in the amount of new water needed for hydraulic fracturing elsewhere, and illustrates the industry's focus on environmental issues and efforts to reduce the impacts of energy development on resources and communities.

The newsletter serves an audience of Arctic scientists, educators, agency personnel, and policy makers and provides information on current Arctic research efforts and findings, significant research initiatives, science education, national policy affecting Arctic research, and related international activities.

Its effects may not be fully realized for some time (or may be interrupted), but the signs point to a significant shift: the incorporation of forest and soil restoration into the climate and development strategies of most countries, the enshrinement of the land sector's key role in the international climate agreement, the first fruits of coordinated research efforts aimed at integrating climate goals into land management, and the availability of large - scale financial investments to fuel the climate - related benefits of better land management.

I have heard more than once that the scientific and engineering challenges of developing some technologies are significant enough to merit increased research efforts now.

In combination, these two research efforts add to the massive amount of scientific evidence that climate change is always occurring; and, most definitely does not require human consumer / industrial greenhouse gases to produce significant impacts on planetary environments and those associated civilizations.

No doubt about it; we are teaching a generation of students who have done no significant research (of any kind) in print.57 Because other online research seems so easy, they generally underestimate the effort involved in conducting thorough legal research.

The projects potentially include: legislative drafting at both the state and federal level; legal research, amicus briefs and testimony on relevant legislation and significant cases; collaboration with tech industry leaders on anti-harassment policies; community outreach, victim support, and training programs for law enforcement and educational institutions; and fundraising efforts.

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Finally, research is needed on best practices for increasing awareness of clinically significant emotional disturbances in young children to better engage parents, pediatricians and educators in early identification, prevention and intervention efforts.