Sentences with phrase «year research project for»

In 2009 he completed a three - year research project for the Army to create an autonomous military robot software system imbued with basic ethics.

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This year brought another volte - face: in February, Ontario abruptly yanked its welcome mat for offshore wind projects, citing a need to conduct further scientific research.

However, Astro Teller, X's leader, insists that cybersecurity has been on the backburner for several years at X. Creating research projects to tackle the planet's biggest problems that can be spun into independent companies has always been the goal, not just creating out - of - this world technology for the sake of grabbing headlines.

He worked for more than 10 years in Samsung Telecom Research as Software Engineer, Team leader, Release manager, and Projects manager.

In 2012, having spent several years refining its methodology, Stillwell's team began to publish its research, including the ominous - in - retrospect «myPersonality project: Example of successful utilization of online social networks for large - scale social research.»

The forecasts for some of these projects are good in the long term and I am told that their price will increase in the following years, so do your own research and buy if you think it is worth it.

Over a year which has seen large banks halt funding for fossil fuel projects, major institutions divest from oil, gas and coal holdings, and oil companies snap up power and renewables companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial circles.

The research showed that, within six to eight years, US government spending on highway projects delivered at least one dollar, possibly two to three dollars, in increased output for every dollar spent.

In recent years, tech leaders have funded major projects in the space: Y Combinator Research piloted a program in Oakland that gave people $ 1,500 a month for a year, and Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes is funding a project in Stockton for working individuals.

«I suspect we still have a long road ahead, but that was a nice milestone,» said Y Combinator President Sam Altman, who also chairs the Y Combinator Research project that plans to give $ 1,000 a month to 1,000 people across two U.S. states for five years.

I would like to share with you the work of our senior economist Marc Lee, who heads up our Climate Justice Project, as well as the work of one of our research associates, veteran earth scientist David Hughes (who spent 32 years working for the Geological Survey of Canada, where he focused on unconventional gas, coal and oil research).

Last week in New York, the St. John's Center for Law and Religion launched the Tradition Project, a three - year research program on the place of tradition in contemporary life.

These questions are the same as those to which we have addressed ourselves in a five - year National Institute of Mental Health Research and Training Project for the training of clergymen in the field of alcoholism conducted at the Georgian Clinic (1964 - 69)(«Pilot Project for Clinical Training of Clergymen in The Field of Alcoholism» NIMH Grant # 8589, staffed by: George P. Dominick, Co-Director; John M. Crow, Coordinator of Training; Melvin B. Drurker, Clinical Psychologist for Evaluation.)

Plans for the national conference where results of the research project will be shared will be released later this year.

We shared an apartment for two years in the heart of Quito, working on separate research projects related to indigenous farming movements and farm - to - city food systems.

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

Following a five - year major research project to identify the best Carmenère clone for producing top quality wines in Chile, Mario Pablo Silva, president of Wines of Chile and MD of Casa Silva, affirms the potential of the variety.

The Brewers Association Research Projects funding was approved for 19 unique research projects totaling $ 440,000 for the 2017 calendResearch Projects funding was approved for 19 unique research projects totaling $ 440,000 for the 2017 calendProjects funding was approved for 19 unique research projects totaling $ 440,000 for the 2017 calendresearch projects totaling $ 440,000 for the 2017 calendprojects totaling $ 440,000 for the 2017 calendar year.

Under this Project, the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office has engaged consortium teams, lead by Australia's leading research institutions, and involving locally based land and water managers, to develop and implement detailed 5 - year monitoring and evaluation plans for selected areas within the Basin.

Despite vandalism in one of the five multilocation field trials in August this year, data are being readied for submission to government regulators who will review Golden Rice against international standards for biosafety, according to Antonio Alfonso, coordinator of the biotechnology program of the Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA) and leader of the Golden Rice project at the DA - Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA - PhilRice).

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Under the Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project, the Office has engaged consortium monitoring teams, led by research institutions, to develop and implement 5 - year monitoring and evaluation plans for selected areas within the Basin.

In the search for ways to prevent catastrophic injuries, nothing has buoyed the industry's scientists more than the mammoth, open - ended research project in California that has gathered revealing data from the autopsies performed on every horse that has died at the state's five thoroughbred tracks over the last four years (nearly 900 so far).

The Family Rights Group two year action - research project «Fathers Matter» which has been exploring the involvement of fathers in social care settings has now produced a number of exciting outputs, including two major reports, two conferences and a web - based discussion board for professionals, which includes examples of highly promising practice.

While his current projects involve everything from oysters and horseshoe crabs to bats and butterflies, he has studied primarily bird ecology for the last 20 years, working on research projects in Kenya, Florida, Texas, California, Arizona, Mexico, and the Pacific Northwest.

Meta - analyses of this expanded research base confirm the model's impacts on a range of risk and protective factors associated with child maltreatment.7, 8,9 In addition, all of the major home visitation models in the U.S. are currently engaged in a variety of research activities, many of which are resulting in better defined models and more rigorous attention to the key issue of participant enrolment and retention, staff training and quality assurance standards.10 For example, recent findings emerging from the initial two - year follow - up of the Early Head Start National Demonstration Project confirm the efficacy of home visitation programs with new parents.

Evidence Basis for the Ten Steps of Mother - Friendly Care in the Journal of Perinatal Education, 2007, Issue 16, a Special Supplement The result of a 2 - year research project by a team of maternity care experts, this important work reviews 15 years worth of scientific studies which and found that the evidence supports complying with each aspect of the ten steps of Mother - Friendly Care.

For my science project next year, I would like to research what force or impact it takes to cause a concussion in youth athletes.

Dr. Brownlee served for eight years as Planning, Evaluation and Applied Research Coordinator for the Project for Strengthening Health Delivery Systems in Africa (a 20 - country project), for ten years as Senior Technical Advisor for Program Development, Evaluation and Research at Wellstart International, and taught at UCSD for sixteenProject for Strengthening Health Delivery Systems in Africa (a 20 - country project), for ten years as Senior Technical Advisor for Program Development, Evaluation and Research at Wellstart International, and taught at UCSD for sixteenproject), for ten years as Senior Technical Advisor for Program Development, Evaluation and Research at Wellstart International, and taught at UCSD for sixteen years.

In a new Demos report released today, I therefore describe a clear and realistic vision for a better WCA, based on a four - year research project that includes international comparisons, many focus groups with experts and the public, and a new survey.

Audrey Mogan, a legal project worker at the Aire Centre, an organisation which provides legal advice on European human rights, has been researching and collecting evidence on Nexus for over a year.

Findings from a project led by London's Institute of Education and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Department for International Development (DFID) show that using new ways of encouraging young children to stay in regular schooling cut drop - out rates by 42 per cent in just a year.

The conference is part of a five - year project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) entitled «Conflict in Cities and the Contested State: Everyday Life and the Possibilities for Transformation of Conflict in Belfast, Jerusalem and Other Divided Cities» (CinC).

He has previously received Arts and Humanities Research Council funding for a project on «The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons in the Interwar Years.»

Mr. Cuomo also proposed budgeting an extra $ 1 billion in education funding this year, a $ 2 billion investment in clean - water infrastructure and various other expensive projects, including hundreds of millions of dollars in economic - development for Buffalo ($ 500 million), a life sciences research and development cluster ($ 550 million) and new airports in Syracuse and Plattsburgh.

Two years ago, Cuomo announced the «Buffalo Billion» - a pot of money that would pay for clean energy research and other projects to be named later.

Also in the budget: $ 65 million over several years for three projects to expand research at Brookhaven National Laboratory, including one to help it land a lucrative federal nuclear physics facility.

The state announced a total of $ 5.7 million to be distributed in two - and three - year grants for nine spinal cord research projects statewide, with the bulk going to downstate institutions.

Research - projects coordinator Edward Hill, who has worked in City Hall for nearly 11 years, had his pay reduced by $ 8,302 — or 6 percent — to $ 130,000 in FY 2016, payroll records show.

«The data that we have collected over the past three years shows that participatory budgeting is a gateway to civic engagement for New Yorkers that are often left out of politics and government such as youth, immigrants, and low - income people,» said Alexa Kasdan, Director of Research and Policy at the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center.

ALBANY - The Cuomo administration's proposed state budget would earmark $ 65 million over several years for three projects to expand research at Brookhaven National Laboratory, including one to help it land a lucrative federal nuclear physics facility.

De Blasio started palling around with Louis C.K. last year, when the jokester, No. 7 on the latest Forbes list of highest - paid comedians, took part in the annual Inner Circle roast and dinner with reporters and followed Hizzoner around while researching a «possible new idea» for a project that hasn't yet come to fruition.

The term papers I wrote for humanities classes were usually straightforward research projects, and certainly did not require a commitment on my end for the next four years of my life.

The nation's defense agencies spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year funding cognitive neuroscience research, Moreno noted, citing research projects to better understand and model «human behavior in social and cultural contexts» and explore systems for «direct neural interfacing to receive and react to operationally relevant environmental, physiological and neural information.»

For mid-career professionals, the fellowship has special potential: «It can structure a sabbatical year, allowing scholars to develop new research projects and apply mature scholarship to real world policy problems.»

Over the course of the three - year curriculum project, the research team will design materials for students along with a professional development program and materials for teachers and a set of assessments for evaluating students» understanding of the energy concepts and science practices that are targeted in the new unit.

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For example, a consortium of research groups called the London Project to Cure Blindness aims to test RPE transplants from embryonic stem cells in patients with macular degeneration this year.

The International Linear Collider (ILC) took another small step forward yesterday when Japan's High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) released a plan for getting the country ready to host the $ 10 billion project by tripling its relevant science and engineering workforce over the next 4 years.

(Under Beaudet's reforms, CIHR's former array of grant programs was obliterated in favor of a regime that awarded Foundation scheme grants worth between $ 38,800 to $ 1.16 million annually for up to 7 years to established researchers to conduct open - ended research, or Project scheme grants worth between $ 38,800 to $ 581,000 annually for up to 5 years for more focused research projects.)