Sentences with phrase «while focusing her research»

She became a professor at Cornell University in 2003 and teaches a class on international agriculture and rural development, while focusing her research on understanding how plants defend themselves against pathogen attack.

Not exact matches

While accelerator programs have long offered this perk to startups, usually in exchange for equity, entrepreneurs are finding other types of free space available, says Steve King, partner at Emergent Research, a consulting firm focused on small business in Lafayette, Calif..

By comparison, marketing research tools like focus groups can be expensive and may not target the right people, while market questionnaires or surveys generally do not give potential customers a chance to try the product.

While conducting research for their book, The Mind of the Leader, Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter interviewed more than 1,000 leaders and found that practicing mindfulness, meaning a focus on the present, achieved by meditation and other techniques, helped those leaders engage with their employees, create better connections and improve company performance.

While a hungry child is less likely to be able to focus, most of the research looks at kids who are part of school breakfast programs, which means the majority of those kids come from underprivileged backgrounds and may not be getting enough to eat in general.

While Holoubek focused on building her colleagues» capacity to function without her, and Downey thrived playing it by ear, Danah Boyd of Microsoft Research took a slightly different tack, actively looping collaborators into the planning process.

While government science and tech funding is focused on basic research, corporate R&D mostly aims to bring new, slightly - improved products (like the upgraded iPhone or marginally - better cholesterol drug) to market.

Instead, agencies are shifting their focus on creating original content based on facts and research that drives traffic back to their client's websites while attracting genuine interest from journalists.

The MBA Global program focuses on academic theory and research - based learning, while the MBA in the Management of Technology and Innovation (MBA MTI) covers management skills while examining complex, technology - related business problems.

While the losses are significant, the results still are positive for Uber with revenue rising and losses falling in three of four quarters in 2017, said Rohit Kulkarni, managing director of SharesPost, a research group focused on privately held companies.

Research shows that most people achieve solution focused thoughts about 40 percent of the time, while individuals with relentless solution focus replace 100 percent of negative thinking with thoughts focused on solutions.

We believe that SSHRC specifically should undertake a more direct role in enabling research leading to innovation in commercialization processes while NSERC and CHIR should focus even more on applied innovation in Science, Engineering and Medicine.

While writing broadly about economic issues, Rosalie's research interest focuses on the implications of technology and innovation with the goal of identifying policy gaps, misaligned incentive mechanisms, and assessing potential causes and solutions.

An effective research process allows you to focus your inquiry on level 3 issues, while your competitors are stuck asking level 1 and 2 questions.

And while most minimum wage research focuses on teenagers, this study looks at the influence raising the minimum wage has many other populations.

Now I can divert my attention elsewhere lol I have my eyes peeled for the next and I'm finding it utterly difficult to focus at work while I research stocks / companies!

While Canadian biotechnology expatriates are the focus of this initiative, FACIT continues to attract worldwide leaders in oncology research to the province, a shared mandate well established by its strategic partner, the Ontario Institute for Cancer Researchresearch to the province, a shared mandate well established by its strategic partner, the Ontario Institute for Cancer ResearchResearch (OICR).

While the public sentiment remains focused on high valuations, our research shows that once again news is focusing on hype not data.

Benartzi's research focuses on how retirement plans can increase effectiveness and Markowitz, dubbed, «The Father of Modern Portfolio Theory» has written about the importance of crafting an asset allocation that can help achieve gains while protecting investors from market volatility.

While consumer research has not been their focus thus far, we expect that they will invest further in such research next year.

And what is important, you don't have to be an SEO or spend hours on keyword research — HitTail works in the background, constantly giving you new keyword ideas, while you can focus on other stuff.

If your goal in life is to be 100 % invested in stocks that return 10 % or better while you own them - I think focusing on just researching stocks with market power and then trying to buy them when they get to a reasonable price is a good strategy.

While much of his research focused on the field of cosmolog y, he was not limited to one branch of physics.

While brand owners often conduct focus group research about consumers» reactions to their packages, TricorBraun takes a more proactive approach to understand consumer preferences for new, innovative packaging elements and technologies.

Emerging research from the fields of neuroscience and nutrition shows that by changing what you eat, you can stabilize your mood, improve your focus, and boost your brain health, all while trimming your tummy.

Thanks to advance online research with a focus on gluten - free awareness, we had compiled a selection of restaurants to try while we were there.

With the addition of the market research tools and capabilities provided through the Beacon United partnership, Co-Sales will be placed on a level playing field with its national competitors, while maintaining a regional customer - centric focus.

With the UK described as a «shop window on the world of wine», Harpers Editor Andrew Catchpole brings together leading figures at the forefront of NPD, exploring the latest consumer focused developments, the economic imperative of embracing research and change, while asking why wine appears to be lagging behind rival categories of spirits and beers, plus the advances embraced in other global markets

Dixie did not divorce, but it took having a supportive husband and a lot of self - awareness on her part; it's easy to put all your focus on your child — who legitimately needs so much more — instead of your relationship, which was a familiar theme I came across in «parents of special needs kids» chat rooms while researching for the HuffPo article.

Web Link (Po Bronson's Sunday NYT Magazine piece «Why can some kids handle pressure while others fall apart» citing university neuroscience professor's research) Strategies that support student focus like anti-test and project stacking measures help all.

While Bowlby's research focused on the potential harmful effects of separation, other research indicates that the more people a child feels safe and comfortable with, the less separation anxiety they will experience.

It is grounded in research while focusing on negative communication patterns and love as an attachment bond.

While the study focused on children from two - parent homes, study authors plan on following up their research by examining what day - to - day actions affect children most.

While research in this area continues, the beef industry has been focused on preventing it from entering the food supply.

Through collaborative research, education and distinctive athlete services and programs, our differentiating, evidenced - informed focus will help each youth athlete achieve individual athletic and sport success, while establishing a foundation for life - long fitness and health.

While focusing on the latest scientific and evidence based research of concussion education, prevention and management, «Concussion Wise ™» is designed to meet the educational needs of athletic trainers, coaches, parents, athletes and other health care providers throughout the nation.

But while wanting happiness for our children makes sense, decades of research presents a paradox: Focusing on happiness is not a great way to actually be happy.

After spending over 6 months reading about, researching the systems, While I had been quite fond of the Peg Perego which offers an amazing line of products, however, I found myself beginning to focus on safety, reputation, product / consumer ratings and quickly discovered Britax was getting some of the absolute results for safety, which to me was most important, and I then saw their products were high quality, had a high quality look and was very competitively priced next to other products that did nt quite measure up.

While most concussion research focuses on college and professional players or young children, a team of neuroscientists at the University of Georgia is tackling an often overlooked cohort of athletes.

We are focusing on our core mission of education and research, while continuing to advance critical economic development projects that foster the creation of good New York State jobs through public - private partnerships, which also provide unparalleled opportunities for our research faculty and students.»

While Silver was bringing in the patients — a total of about 25 to 50 — he authorized two state grants, each worth $ 250,000 to fund Taub's Columbia University research, focused on mesothelioma cases related to 9/11.

This singular focus on research arises from a longstanding funding model that uses students and postdocs as inexpensive labor on professors» grant projects while neglecting their own professional development, which leads to another question McNutt posed: Should federal and state governments consider new models for financing research?

While at first glance these positions may seem to be focused only on operations, they still satisfy the drive many core facility managers have to be involved in research.

While these efforts focus on underrepresented groups, it is expected that the resulting types of interventions will improve research and education opportunities for all students in computing.

Academics want to pursue curiosity - driven basic research, while government labs are oriented toward their particular missions, and companies focus on profitability.

While the One - Year Mission has concluded for retired astronaut Scott Kelly, NASA's Human Research Program is focusing on comparing previous six - month mission findings to One - Year Mission preliminary findings.

Ruth Müller, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Research Policy Institute at Lund University in Sweden, who focused her Ph.D. on studying how the academic landscape influences the working practices of postdocs in the life sciences, notes that while the study acknowledges the diversity of the European system, it uses just one European country — Germany — in its quantitativeresearch fellow at the Research Policy Institute at Lund University in Sweden, who focused her Ph.D. on studying how the academic landscape influences the working practices of postdocs in the life sciences, notes that while the study acknowledges the diversity of the European system, it uses just one European country — Germany — in its quantitativeResearch Policy Institute at Lund University in Sweden, who focused her Ph.D. on studying how the academic landscape influences the working practices of postdocs in the life sciences, notes that while the study acknowledges the diversity of the European system, it uses just one European country — Germany — in its quantitative survey.

Previous social science research has focused on the views of academic scientists and those working at elite universities while studies of religous views of science have focused primarily on the issue of evolution, said Ecklund.

«Most of the scientific research and legislation efforts have focused on graywater's health risks, while less attention has been given to its environmental outcomes, including its effect on soil properties,» says Prof. Amit Gross, head of the Department of Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology in the Zuckerberg Institute.

Twenty - seven participants with tremor - dominant Parkinson's disease were enrolled in the study; the research team randomly assigned 20 to be treated with focused ultrasound waves on their brains, while the others received a fake procedure, to account for any potential placebo effect.