Sentences with phrase «term research initiative»

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In researching for his upcoming book on fulfilling work, Schulich's Burke found that Johnson & Johnson saw at least a $ 4 return on every dollar it spent on employee wellness initiatives in terms of lower health - care costs, less absenteeism and higher productivity.

In terms of clean tech collaboration, the U.S. and China have three important collaborative initiatives called CERCs - Clean Energy Research Centers - run by the various Department of Energy labs and the appropriate Chinese partners.

We have supported several projects to further research long - term sustainable initiatives, and have been a leader in the NFI for many years.»

We use our Global Technology & Innovation Centres to advance scientific research, long term initiatives and innovation in collaboration with key institutes and universities.

Hangzhou City, People's Republic of China (21 September 2017)- Agriculture research heads of 14 Asian countries supported the ASEAN +3 Rice Breeding and Genetics Initiative - a long - term regional investment and collaboration initiative in rice breeding aimed to address regional food security and national rice sector strategies.

Through decades of research, including long - term studies spanning over 30 + years, we know that SEL is the most proactive and preventative mental health initiative available.

The initiative, now in its second year, is an attempt to improve safety standards while contributing to long - term concussion research.

The event was a culmination of a joint initiative of the Senate President and DFID's ENABLE 2 and GEMS 3 programmes and had been preceded by a comprehensive research into laws inhibiting businesses in Nigeria leading to specific legislative proposals to improve the business environment in terms of competition and consumer protection, transportation and infrastructure, improving MSMEs access to finance, reform of land use and construction laws and administration, doing business reforms amongst others.

New findings reported at two recent conferences demonstrate the range of research being conducted by AAAS's Project 2061, a long - term science education reform initiative.

With the SWOG anniversary, and the spotlight on cancer research cast by the federal Cancer Moonshot initiative, Unger and his colleagues wanted to study SWOG's long - term impact.

Top 5 Tech Initiatives for Obama's Second Term The president is expected to pour more funding into research and development, a move that could lead to increased technological advances in fields such as cybersecurity

The latter conditions will depend on a combination of initiatives, including adequate research, collaborations and possibly even long - term retailer — farmer relationships.

New research on opioid prescribing in Washington State reports that a health plan initiative to change shared expectations of physicians regarding clinically appropriate drug levels for long - term management of chronic pain achieved significantly greater reductions in opioid dosing.

Few would argue that video games can do it all in terms of education, says Scot Osterweil, a research director in Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Comparative Media Studies program and creative director of the school's Education Arcade initiative to explore how games can be used to promote learning.

«Given the continued high prevalence of multivitamin use in the US, it remains critical for us to understand its role on nutritional status and other long - term health outcomes through clinical trials such as PHS II and other new research initiatives.»

«A strong foundation of knowledge about energy is essential,» said Cari F. Herrmann Abell, senior research associate for Project 2061, the long - term AAAS initiative to improve the science literacy of all Americans.

These new signature NIH initiatives are designed to promote diversity in the NIH - funded biomedical, behavioral, clinical, and social sciences (collectively termed «biomedical») research workforce.

«Our decision to procure these knockout mouse lines and data and make them available to the research community will yield tremendous benefits, both in the short and long terms,» said NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. «This trans - NIH initiative will place important mouse models into the hands of researchers, speeding advances in the understanding of human disease and the development of new therapies.

The goals of EPSCoR are to engage across different fields of study to address environmental and energy challenges and to educate on the benefits of the research; develop new ways of thinking and action through targeting education programs, focusing on long - term sustainability; build competitive research teams, and integrate new initiatives into our institutions.

NIVAs broad scope of scientific competence, research expertise and long - term environmental data series are important to Norwegian business and industry, public administration on municipal, regional and national levels; and our initiatives help promote Norway's interests in international fora.

FET Flagships represent a new model for research and innovation in Europe: they are large scale, long term, science - driven and roadmap - based initiatives that are supposed to have the potential to bring transformational impact on science and technology, as well on economy and society at large.

We welcome the opportunity to develop long - term and successful alliances with other groups through tailored partnerships, high - value research initiatives and global leadership projects.

«So, it was a bit of a case of initiative overload... we needed to make it very clear to staff that we were taking a long - term approach, it was research - based, you'd be supported with all of this, it's not going to mean dramatic change very quickly but there is an expectation that there will be change.»

Through decades of research, including long - term studies spanning over 30 + years, we know that SEL is the most proactive and preventative mental health initiative available.

What we need now is to supplement the longer - term strategies with targeted initiatives that research shows can more quickly expand the pipeline of teachers with individuals who will remain in teaching.

«This critical initiative will be a real leap forward in terms of acknowledging the complex and sophisticated craft of teaching,» said Stephen Fink, executive director of CEL, a nationally recognized, research - based, non-profit arm of the University of Washington's top - ranked College of Education.

McClenney also directs the Center's Initiative on Student Success, a long - term student focus group research initiative supported by the MetLife Foundation and Houston Endowment Inc..

One of our survey respondents ties special allowance increases to his child's initiative in researching particular investments, or in learning financial literacy terms like down payments on a house, mortgages, inflation, stocks and bonds.

Operating under the umbrella of an educational institution, it is also committed to longer - term initiatives such as research forums, residencies, reading groups, and publications.

Afterwork is part of Para Site's ongoing Hong Kong's Migrant Domestic Workers Project, a long - term initiative aimed at engaging the domestic worker community through collaboratively organised public programmes and commissioned artist research.

Operating under the umbrella of an educational institution, the Wattis is also committed to longer - term initiatives such as research forums, residencies, reading groups, and publications.

The goal of the paper I have just written is to «restart» the discussion of climate change, which, as I see it, is on the verge of disappearing from view, putting into cold storage both 1) the policy initiatives like carbon prices and regulations that could have short - term impact on wedge technologies like conventional renewables, efficiency, and CCS, and 2) commitments to the advancement of a climate - change - driven research frontier.

Initiatives like NEON and the Long Term Ecological Research Network aim to help us to track and understand the effects of human activities on ecosystems that provide valuable services to society.

In the near term, federal policy could: i) level the playing field between air captured CO2 and fossil - fuel derived CO2 by providing subsidies or credits for superior carbon lifecycle emissions that account for recovering carbon from the atmosphere; ii) provide additional research funding into air capture R&D initiatives, along with other areas of carbon removal, which have historically been unable to secure grants; and iii) ensure air capture is deployed in a manner that leads to sustainable net - negative emissions pathways in the future, within the framework of near - term national emissions reductions, and securing 2 °C - avoiding emissions trajectories.

While emission reductions under Inslee's plan would be relatively small in global terms, it would outline a path for broader action, said Noah Kaufman, who leads the carbon tax research initiative at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy.

In addition to the issues previously raised, there has been some «resentment» among the meteorological community about the success (particularly in terms of funding) of the U.S. climate research programs, which they view as coming at the expense of meteorological / weather research (with initiatives such as STORM, the U.S. Weather Research Program, THORPEX receiving orders of magnitude less fresearch programs, which they view as coming at the expense of meteorological / weather research (with initiatives such as STORM, the U.S. Weather Research Program, THORPEX receiving orders of magnitude less fresearch (with initiatives such as STORM, the U.S. Weather Research Program, THORPEX receiving orders of magnitude less fResearch Program, THORPEX receiving orders of magnitude less funding).

To tinker away at orientation, reference, and legal research instruction initiatives that have been percolating and to have them in place for the fall term.

If you base any initiative on meeting long - term client needs and if you have accurate, unbiased research to support your ideas, your chances of success are good.

Operations Manager — Ervine Corporation, Littleton, CO — October 2014 — Present • Oversee the daily tasks and operational directives of four different departments • Analyze and utilize research, statistics, benchmarks, and forecasts to create long - term plans that comply with organizational objectives • Develop budgets for departmental programs that utilize resources optimally and minimize waste • Train and educate other leaders on initiatives and goals, and monitor progress each quarter to report to executive management.

The Australian Government supports long - term investment in healing initiatives including services, research and evaluation.

Heinz pointed out that long - term mental health initiatives that address natural disasters are uncommon and in many ways the local effort will be result in pioneering research.

Reports of long - term and well - established initiatives, such as research into the so - called «leaky pipe» of eye care service pathways for Indigenous Australians, highlighted the ongoing need for research to inform rural health policies and programs.