Sentences with phrase «university funds for this study»

He insists that Monsanto did not influence his decision to spend as much as $ 10,000 in university funds for this study.

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His family moved to Canada from Turkey when he was a child and, with the funds from the sale of a redesigned buzzer system for quiz show Reach for the Top, Lazaridis studied engineering at the University of Waterloo.

In a study funded by NASA, David Dinges, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and a team of researchers found that letting astronauts sleep for as little as fifteen minutes markedly improved their cognitive performance, even when the nap didn't lead to an increase in alertness or the ability to pay more attention to a boring task.

In a much - quoted study, University of Arizona searcher Mark Chaves found that African - American churches are five times as likely as white churches to say they would apply for public funding if it were available.

This video provides recommendations on how to control weedy rice, from results of collaborative research studies among IRRI, the Rice Research and Development Institute in Sri Lanka, University of Ruhuna, and the Irrigated Rice Research Consortium funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.

I successfully raised 9 million dollars for one major research university to fund underrepresented minorities to study graduate level science.

Evaluating Decision Making Procedures for Regional Funding Allocations, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and carried out by Dr Sarah Ayres of the School for Policy Studies at Bristol University.

Dr. Spio Garbrah was addressing the 17th Annual Delegates Congress of the University Students Association of Ghana on the theme, «Exploring alternative avenues for funding university education: the role of stakeholders,» held at the University for Development Studies Tamale City campUniversity Students Association of Ghana on the theme, «Exploring alternative avenues for funding university education: the role of stakeholders,» held at the University for Development Studies Tamale City campuniversity education: the role of stakeholders,» held at the University for Development Studies Tamale City campUniversity for Development Studies Tamale City campus, Dungu.

Despite that contribution, and despite more than $ 300 million in state and county funds sought for the construction, the university refused to share its study with key decision makers who were asked to support the deal.

In medicine today, physician - scientists and basic scientists supplement support for their research by applying their expertise part time to develop and test commercial products.1 In my own field, vision science, university - based researchers obtain additional funding through clinical and electrophysiologic studies, pathology, imaging, biochemistry, and animal model development performed for pharmaceutical and instrument companies.

The study was funded by the Academy of Finland, and had the collaboration of researchers from the University of Tokyo, Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, NASA - JPL and University of California.

In the current climate, the main source of funding for studies of hallucinogens are two private philanthropies: the Heffter Research Institute in Santa Fe, which was founded in 1993 by academics and mental health professionals to finance scholarly research, and MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies), which has dispensed more than $ 10 million since it was launched in 1986 by Rick Doblin, a drug reform activist in Boston with a Harvard University Ph.D. in public studies of hallucinogens are two private philanthropies: the Heffter Research Institute in Santa Fe, which was founded in 1993 by academics and mental health professionals to finance scholarly research, and MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies), which has dispensed more than $ 10 million since it was launched in 1986 by Rick Doblin, a drug reform activist in Boston with a Harvard University Ph.D. in public Studies), which has dispensed more than $ 10 million since it was launched in 1986 by Rick Doblin, a drug reform activist in Boston with a Harvard University Ph.D. in public policy.

Major funding for the EDF's 30 - month methane research series, including their portion of the University of Texas study, is provided for by the following individuals and foundations: Fiona and Stan Druckenmiller, the Heising - Simons Foundation, Bill and Susan Oberndorf, Betsy and Sam Reeves, the Robertson Foundation, TomKat Charitable Trust and the Walton Family Foundation.

The study was partially funded by Columbia University Research Initiatives for Science and Engineering (RISE) award; the Office of Naval Research; NOAA's Climate Program Office's Modeling, Analysis, Predictions and Projections; Willis Research Network; and the National Science Foundation.

Matthew Thomas, a professor at The Pennsylvania State University who is studying the impact of climate change on the transmission of infectious diseases, says that his group had applied for funding in late 2008.

Melinda Wilson, an associate professor at the University of Kentucky who is studying the role of estrogen receptors in the brain, says that her group had applied for NSF funding several times.

Floyd Wormley Jr., a microbiologist at the University of Texas, San Antonio, serves as a standing member on NIH's AIDS - associated Opportunistic Infections and Cancer study section, which reviews grant proposals on that topic, scores them, and forwards the best ones to the appropriate NIH institutes for the final funding decision.

The study, which involved collaboration with British Trust for Ornithology, Aberystwyth University and the University of Leeds and part - funded by the RSPB, showed that the humble crane fly, more commonly known as «daddy longlegs», is a crucial link in determining the impact of climate change on these peatland bird species.

Funding for the study, which was co-authored by Zezheng Liu and Baoshan Cui of Beijing Normal University, came from the National Key Basic Research Program of China.

Not of the plant physiology, biophysics, and genetics he studied at Yale and as a graduate student at the University of California, Davis, but of the departmental politics and stiff competition for limited funding he saw in academia.

Stamets furnished capsules of freeze - dried fungus for a seven - year, NIH - funded study by Bastyr University and the University of Minnesota to determine whether turkey tail mushrooms could help breast cancer patients whose immune systems had been compromised by radiation therapy.

The U.S. Department of Defense, which received a congressional windfall of $ 80 million to research regenerative medicine in 2008, is funding a team of scientists based at the University of Pittsburgh's McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine to oversee an 80 - patient study of ECM at five institutions.

Funding for the study was provided by the National Institutes of Health (P50 CA083638, R21 CA156224, 5P30 CA016520 - 36), the Marcus Foundation, the Ovarian Cancer Immunotherapy Initiative, the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at the University of Lausanne, and the Ovacure Foundation.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As part of President Barack Obama's high - profile initiative to study the brain, the Kavli Foundation and several university partners today announced $ 100 million in new funding for neuroscience research, including three new institutes at universities in Maryland, New York, and California.

NEPTUNE Canada and the University of Victoria's Centre for Global Studies (CFGS) developed Digital Fishers with help from $ 1 million in funding from CANARIE, Canada's Advanced Research and Innovation Network.

Dr. Matthew Giefer, director of gastrointestinal endoscopy at Seattle Children's Hospital, and colleagues analyzed 342 children ages 0 - 18 with acute recurrent pancreatitis (ARP) and chronic pancreatitis (CP) from INSPPIRE (International Study Group of Pediatric Pancreatitis: In search for a cure), the nation's first and only multicenter, National Institutes of Health - funded pediatric pancreatitis registry, led by Dr. Aliye Uc of University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital.

Experts at St George's University of London, in a study funded by the charity Meningitis Research Foundation, identified a range of concerning issues, including a lack of recognition of the symptoms and signs by GPs and in hospital; delays in starting antibiotics; choice of antibiotics not following NICE guidelines; and delays in performing lumbar puncture, which is essential for correct diagnosis of bacterial meningitis.

With funding from the Austrian Ministry for Science and Research and the Culture Division of the City of Vienna, Norbert Siegl spent months studying the «gender - specific differences in frequency and thematic content» of the graffiti in the toilets at the University of Vienna.

They also had been lobbying the state legislature and U.S. Senator Harry Reid, a longtime friend, for government money to fund an institution at the University of Nevada in Reno dedicated to the study of CFS.

A study conducted by researchers from the University of Liverpool, The Reader and the Royal Liverpool University Hospitals Trust, and funded by the British Academy, has found that shared reading (SR) can be a useful therapy for chronic pain sufferers.

James Duderstadt, former president of the University of Michigan, who recently chaired a Brookings Institution — sponsored study group that called for drastic increases in government funding for energy research, said the budget proposal is «definitely heading in the right direction.»

The study conducted by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) / Wellcome Trust Manchester Clinical Research Facility at The Royal Manchester Children's Hospital builds on initial research from The University of Manchester, which was funded by the MPS Society.

Fiscal year 2004 saw total state higher education funding fall by 2.1 %, the first overall decline in more than a decade, according to an annual survey by Illinois State University's Center for the Study of Education Policy.

The study, published recently in the online version of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), was carried out at the UAB, with collaboration from Radboud University Medical Center (the Netherlands), University of Colorado (USA) and Maximilian University of Munich (Germany), and was funded principally by Fundació La Marató, the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, and the International Foundation for Research in Paraplegia.

In research funded by the Wellcome Trust, scientists and doctors at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Vietnam studied the factors that influence the transmission of dengue viruses from dengue patients to the mosquitoes that feed on them.

Funding for the study was provided by the University Cancer Research Fund and UNC Lineberger.

The study, published in the journal Climate Dynamics was funded by the University of Sheffield's Project Sunshine now the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures, and was conducted in collaboration with the University's School of Mathematics and Statistics (SOMAS).

Funding for this study was provided by a University of Illinois Arnold O. Beckman grant and a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.

The brain bank Duerson referred to, located at Bedford VA Medical Center in Massachusetts, is funded by the U.S. National Football League (NFL) and run by Ann McKee, co-director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at Boston University in Massachusetts.

In the study funded by Guangzhou Medical Foundation, Birmingham scientists worked with Chinese counterparts at Sun Yat - Sen University and Guangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

The oat crown rust study was supported by the USDA - ARS - The University of Minnesota Standard Cooperative Agreement (3002 -11031-00053115), The University of Minnesota Experimental Station USDA - National Institute of Food and Agriculture Hatch Funds (project MIN -22-058) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the USDA - National Institute of Food and Agriculture Postdoctoral Fellowship Award (2017 -67012-26117), a CSIRO Office of the Chief Executive Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Australian Grains Research Development Corporation (grant #US00067) and the Northern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service.

The study was conducted by a team of researchers from Emory University, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and the University of KwaZulu - Natal in South Africa and was funded by the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.

It came out of a one - year study funded by NASA that included Boeing, Pratt & Whitney, Stanford University, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The University of Wyoming and The National Center for Supercomputing Applications.

Scheduled to testify are: Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which funded the two controversial flu studies; Daniel Gerstein, deputy under secretary for science and technology at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Paul Keim, acting chair of NSABB and a microbiologist at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff; and Thomas Inglesby, director of the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pennsylvania.

Industry funding of universities for various studies has also increased.

As debate roils over EPA regulations proposed this month limiting the release of the potent greenhouse gas methane during fracking operations, a new University of Vermont study funded by the National Science Foundation shows that abandoned oil and gas wells near fracking sites can be conduits for methane escape not currently being measured.

The University of Melbourne study, funded by the NHMRC and supported by Jean Hailes for Women, is the largest of its kind to date.

Study co-author Dr Dermot Lynott, from Lancaster University, said: «We were initially surprised that no one had studied this issue before; however, the US government cut research funding for gun - related research over decade and a half ago, so research in this area has been somewhat suppressed.»

These new findings laid the groundwork for a much larger, ongoing study funded by the Wellcome Trust and involving several UK Universities and Pharmaceutical companies that will seek to replicate the findings and refine the test.

The study, «She chose us to be your parents — exploring the content and process of adoption entrance narratives told in families formed through open adoption,» was accepted for publication in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, and was funded by the University of Missouri Richard Wallace Alumni Grant.