Sentences with phrase «variety of research efforts»

OTHER BEHAVIORS of social insects have inspired a variety of research efforts.

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Collaborative efforts among IRRI, the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice), and others to develop healthier varieties of Asia's major staple figured prominently in a series of information sessions for nutrition action officers.

The U.S. Dairy Export Council's global demand building and innovation efforts are supported by a wide variety of dairy, research, professional and governmental organizations.

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.

Now, as part of that effort, we invest with lots of research partners, always local, in developing new seeds and new crop varieties that can protect families from the consequences of drought or that have more vitamin A, and some of those projects are testing the use of different transgenic technologies.

Earlier research efforts in the same area of the Atlantic may not have detected these spherules for a variety of reasons, Schaller says, including the difficulty associated with detecting these translucent to dark - colored objects on a dark background like a black lab tray.

The 50 researchers also call on the federal government to provide better funding for crop breeding efforts at public universities, and for universities to develop new ways of steering revenues from popular crop varieties back into research.

A major partner in these efforts is HarvestPlus, part of the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH), which supports the development and promotion of the biofortified crop varieties and related rResearch Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH), which supports the development and promotion of the biofortified crop varieties and related researchresearch.

It's put climate change leaders in a variety of key positions, made climate change a priority in initiatives in departments and agencies, revitalized the US Global Change Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions trajectory.

To identify the most efficient strategies to improve the understanding of animal research a variety of aspects were covered: the importance of developing strategies for openness in communication, establishment of transparency as well as possible challenges and risks connected to such efforts.

The Focus on Cancer blog discusses a variety of cancer - related topics, including treatment advances, research efforts and clinical trials, nutrition, support groups, survivorship and patient stories.

UQDI has strong clinical interactions, world - class facilities, and a greater collaborative research environment, allowing researchers to focus their efforts on turning their scientific discoveries into better treatments for diseases including a variety of cancers, osteoporosis, arthritis, and other autoimmune diseases.

Further, a variety of research suggests that any activities involving mental effort can lead to greater food consumption without an increase in appetite.

Together, HECSE members are engaged in a variety of ongoing advocacy, research, and service efforts designed to meet two primary goals:

With Dweck's research, teachers who want students to develop a growth mindset should praise student efforts using a variety of different phrases or questions.

The Cerulli research warns, however, that CITs have a variety of unique characteristics that often can be misunderstood, leading many CIT managers to focus on efforts to increase awareness and education of the vehicle.

IPT undertakes a variety of research projects to help us better understand investor attitudes and behaviors, to guide our education efforts and to expand the current body of research and knowledge base on the subject of investor education.

Beagles in our program come to us with a variety of backgrounds: some arrive from high kill shelters in the southern U.S, while others are released to us via collaborative efforts with biomedical research facilities where dogs are retiring from their «jobs» in the medical community.

Jo Johnson, Minister for Universities and Science, said: «This new innovation centre will bring together great minds from a variety of disciplines to lead the international effort to tackle environmental change and demonstrate the value of research collaboration in solving some of the greatest challenges of our time.»

Owing to the fact that I am an exceptionally well - organized individual, I can efficiently, and without much effort, research and handle a variety of issues including order statuses, and purchase order tracking.

Strength Focused Practice Research from a variety of settings emphasizes that families do better in changing behaviors that caused children to be unsafe and maintaining those changes when the efforts of the various people involved in the family's life are focused on building on the strengths and protective capacities that already exist within the family.

His efforts resulted in the establishment of Trauma Center, that consist of a well - trained clinical team specializing in the treatment of children and adults with histories of child maltreatment, that applies treatment models that are widely taught and implemented nationwide, a research lab that studies the effects of neurofeedback and MDMA on behavior, mood, and executive functioning, and numerous trainings nationwide to a variety of mental health professional, educators, parent groups, policy makers, and law enforcement personnel.