Sentences with phrase «supporting a study called»

Icarus Interstellar is supporting a study called Tin - Tin, which would also use an ion drive or similar tech to send a 20 - pound probe to Alpha Centauri.

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The London - based Centre for Policy Studies took a look at so - called «SuperEntrepreneurs» and the government and policy infrastructures that best support them.

According to an online experiment of 2,338 Americans supported by the National Science Foundation, «introducing name calling into commentary tacked onto an otherwise balanced newspaper blog post, the study showed, could elicit either lower or higher perceptions of risk, depending on one's predisposition to the science of nanotechnology.»

VT: We supported a study by an organization called Business for the Arts.

That yield support leads to another phenomenon that has been studied by respected Wharton professor Dr. Jeremy Siegel, which he calls the «Return Accelerator» or bear market protector.

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In the light of such support from Biblical study and the analysis of the dynamics of capitalism, the call of the Living God to revolutionary commitment can not be silenced.

As a recent study conducted by Pew Research Center makes clear — and this is supported by other studies including a significant study released last fall, «A Survey of American Political Culture,» by Dr. James Davidson Hunter, who wrote the book Culture Wars — White Evangelical Protestants are not, as the Washington Post famously called them in 1993, «less affluent, less educated, and more easily led than the average American.»

Additional efforts to further the mission of Simply Organic are funded by an annual grant program called the Simply Organic Giving Fund that supports training and community projects for organic farmers where our spices are grown, as well as a variety of organizations and events that study, support and promote organic agriculture.

This self study training offers participants the flexibility to work at their own pace over a 12 month period, with the support of seasoned CBE mentors just a phone call or message away.

A large component of the project comprised of a breastfeeding peer support program which consisted of prenatal visits, hospital visits, home visits and phone calls with anticipatory breastfeeding guidance for up to an infants» first year of life to ascertain that woman in the study will breastfeed for longer durations to establish a link between DHA and neurological development.

The former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Professional Studies, Accra, (UPSA), Prof Joshua Alabi has called for community - based participation in the award of government scholarships, so as to help target and support the education of brilliant but needy students in deprived farming communities.

The fracking ban demand convinced the many environmentalists to support a ban rather than their positions at that time of promoting fracked gas as the «bridge fuel» to renewable energy or calling for a moratorium while fracking was studied.

Hawkins says he supports public job creation and is calling for 100 percent clean energy in New York by 2030, referencing a study done by Cornell and Stanford Universities.

The package also contains resolutions calling for a study of toxins in cosmetics, support for a New York State bill that bans employers from asking potential applicants for their salary history and another state bill that provides domestic violence survivors with better access to breaking leases.

The study's finding supports what has been called the warm Arctic — cold continents hypothesis.

A new analysis of existing studies strongly supports the idea that there are increased levels of chemicals, called cytokines, in the body and brain that promote inflammation in individuals who are contemplating or have attempted suicide, even when compared to patients being treated for the same psychiatric disorders who are not suicidal.

Several studies have supported a role for cancer stem cells in the aggressive brain tumors called glioblastoma, but those studies involved inducing human tumors to grow in mice, and as such their relevance to cancer in humans has been questioned.

Supported by a U.S. Department of Defense grant, the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association, Barker and his team have created what they call platelet - like particles, or PLPs, according to a study published in Nature Materials.

The plan for science and technology proposed by the Obama campaign, for example, calls for «comprehensive immigration reform that improves our visa programs to attract some of the world's most talented people to America» and supports an increase in the number of foreign scientists and technical people permitted to study, work, and stay in the United States.

The so - called hiatus was disproved by a team of NOAA climate scientists in a 2015 study that found the data set supporting a pause was inaccurate because it relied on different methods of temperature collection.

The study was conducted in Miami neighborhoods that had supported an earlier anti-LGBT ballot initiative, and it used a process called «deep canvassing» as a way to interact with people to change attitudes.

A proposed ban of pesticides called neonicotinoids is gathering scientific support as some experts are calling for more field studies.

The study supports calls for improved monitoring of wetlands and human changes to those ecosystems — a timely topic as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change prepares to examine land use impacts on greenhouse gas emissions, says Prof. Merritt Turetsky, Department of Integrative Biology.

David Schneider, a psychologist at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and a specialist in stereotyping, calls the study «an excellent piece of work that not only speaks to a possibly important environmental cause, but also supports a major potential theoretical explanation for some forms of prejudice.»

President Bill Clinton's science adviser Neal Lane immediately hailed the study as «a rigorous analytic review» that gives a green light to the program and called for bipartisan support for the effort.

Now, with publication of a study by investigators at the Cedars - Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute, ALS researchers know the effects of the attack are worsened, at least in part, by the aging and failure of support cells called astrocytes, which normally provide nutrients, housekeeping, structure and other forms of assistance for neurons.

«The study supports the emerging recognition that the understanding and managing of emotions play a significant role in the work of public service providers alongside the so - called «rational» aspects of their work,» said Zehavit Shabtay Levitats, a doctoral student at the School of Political Science at the University of Haifa who conducted the research.

Canadian universities that support research in the North have a network called the Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies (ACUNS).

Some of the methods developed in this new study are already implemented in a freely - available decision support tool called Condatis.

Initial results from a pilot study show that a new program called «Building Bridges for Asthma Care» — an initiative that helps school nurses identify children with asthma and support them and their families in getting the care they need — is helping reduce absenteeism.

The report calls on federal agencies and other research funders to support efforts to build the surveillance systems and develop case studies on the health of individual marine mammals and populations.

The mice in the study had mutations in a gene called KL2 (for c - kit ligand 2) in their Sertoli cells, cells in the testis that aid in sperm cell development by providing structural support and growth factors.

In total, this third call will provide 30 million SEK in support for sequence analysis of unique and well - characterized sample collections to study either the genetic basis of disease or environmental effects on biodiversity.

In this study, the new computer program and two other methods (called Random Forest and Support Vector Machine) were tested with blood samples from 29 liver cancer patients, 12 lung cancer patients and 5 breast cancer patients.

A research project called CenBio, which focused on innovations in bioenergy, carried out the study, which was supported by NTNU in cooperation with SINTEF Energy, the Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO) and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU).

The Beckman Institute at Caltech recently opened a resource center called CLOVER (CLARITY, Optogenetics, and Vector Engineering Research Center) to support such research efforts involving tissue clearing and imaging, optogenetic studies, and custom gene - delivery vehicle development.

This is called earthing and numerous clinical studies have found that doing so daily not only leads to weight loss, but protects your heart, supports your immune system, reduces inflammation, clears toxins, and regulates your hormones as well.

In addition, recent studies have found that salmon contains unique protein molecules called bioactive peptides that may provide support for insulin sensitivity (insulin resistance is a major cause of cardiovascular disease and plaque build - up) and control of inflammation in the gut.

Pioneering studies by Dean Ornish, M.D., called the Lifestyle Heart Trial, combined a plant - based diet with exercise, stress reduction, yoga, social support and love, and cessation of smoking to reverse advanced heart disease.

Two studies supporting this theory — one looking at mice, the other using humans — found that a family of bacteria known as firmicutes was more plentiful in the obese (20 percent more), whereas another bacteria called bacteroidetes was almost 90 percent lower in obese subjects.

Recent studies demonstrate the presence of small bioactive protein molecules (called bioactive peptides) in salmon that may provide special support for joint cartilage (as well as other types of tissue).

(NaturalHealth365) A new study has confirmed that a specific type of omega 3 fatty acid called DHA can support liver health in persons who eat a poor diet and / or are obese.

To support their algorithm, Pheramor cites a famous 1998 study — appropriately called the «sweaty T - shirt experiment» — that found that women were more attracted to the scent of men who had the greatest genetic difference from them on a specific chromosome.

Phyllis Smith turns a one - dimensional and dithering marshmallow into an interesting study in the conflict between desire and convention, Henry Michael Higgins, is the dolphin - obsessed but otherwise disengaged principal, and they are supported by the usual gaggle of kids found in flicks set in a middle school, played by actors who avoid cutesiness and given a script that sets them up perfectly for the bald truth Elizabeth dumps on them with matter - of - fact disengagement in place of the usual cheery esteem - boost called for by curriculum and compassion.

Earlier this year, the National Research Council, under the direction of the National Academy of Sciences, called for universities, researchers, and school districts to partner in designing and producing studies that will serve both to enhance and increase the knowledge base on education as well as to bolster and support school districts.

Note also that in Odden's peer review in 2004 of William Driscoll's and Howard Fleeter's Ohio study of the costs of bringing all students to proficiency in math and reading in order to comply with NCLB, he castigates the study's authors, who called for expanded summer school, because they «reference no research to support this assertion, when in fact most research shows that summer school as typically administered has little if any impact on learning.»

It is the first opinion piece in a series highlighting teaching policies and practices from top - performing countries that participated in a study led by Linda Darling - Hammond and funded and supported by the National Center on Education and the Economy, called The Empowered Educators.

It is part of a series of opinion pieces highlighting teaching policies and practices from top - performing countries that participated in a study led by Linda Darling - Hammond and funded and supported by the National Center on Education and the Economy, called The Empowered Educators.

These studies were conducted in mathematics and science and across grades K - 12, providing support for the claim that teacher leaders were called upon to support the implementation of instructional materials in a variety of settings.