The evolution of ecosystems, however, became a lasting research focus.

)Most of the research and published articles concerning autonomous building focus on residential homes.

Understanding these social and cultural processes could itself be an important focus of new research.

In addition, some United Nations training or research entities have a thematic focus on gender issues.

In India, the research initiatives of Centre for Performance Research and Cultural Studies in South Asia (cpracsis) focus on redefining methodologies of cultural studies and research on the basis of the nuances of performance studies.

Saudi Arabia also relies on the results of a focus group research study and a health care provider survey.

Four research streams are being conducted a Nova Scotia population based survey, focus groups, secondary data analysis and caregiver portraits.

The individual focus areas in chapter IV contain specific emphases on research and learning related to their respective key results.

Sodium selenate is an exciting lead in AD and other forms of dementia and is the focus of more intense research.

While in that position, he was able to focus more on his hydraulics research, especially on flow and friction losses in pipes.

In 2005, research efforts would focus on conducting regional consultations, coordinated by UNICEF, with nine scheduled for the first half of 2005.

Unlike advocacy journalism, opinion journalism has a reduced focus on detailed facts or research, and its perspective is often of a more personalized variety.

(b) Undertaking analytical studies and policy oriented research on issues related to the region's socio economic progress, with a special focus on macroeconomic issues

While resveratrol is the most widely publicized, there are other components in wine that have been the focus of medical research into potential health benefits.

Government should focus on long term, risky research (where the risk is to projects, not to people), and the private sector should focus on delivering services that are already well understood and ready to be handled in a routine way.

A meaningful solution to global warming needs to focus on clean energy research and development, instead of fixating on empty promises of reductions in carbon emissions.

Most spacecraft have some variety of rocket engine, and thus most research efforts focus on some variety of rocket propulsion, such as chemical, nuclear or electric.

At the corporate level, focus will be ensured through the global Evaluation Committee, and organizational evaluation and research trends will be monitored and their needs coordinated.

The real fix to this problem will come when governments focus on research and development aimed at boosting the proportion of green energy sources in overall consumption.

The post bubble aversion to spending, and the related focus on balance sheet repair, reflects what Nomura Research Institute economist Richard Koo has called a powerful debt rejection syndrome.

Policymakers will need to focus on increasing the technical and cognitive skills of university graduates, and on building a few world class research universities with strong links to industry.

Since Chávez came to power, Venezuela has also increasingly been the focus of political and anthropological research, so I found it strange that this wasn t matched in cultural studies.

The development of a renewed plan of action on women's health, with targeted objectives, will focus research, policy and program work from a gender, diversity and life course perspective.

Specific support will focus on community management of local water resources, including rainwater harvesting (for use by households and schools, and groundwater recharge), micro watershed management and operational research.

New research by three Italian economists, Francesco Bosello, Carlo Carraro, and Enrica De Cian does this, and, ultimately, provides a powerful economic case for a much greater focus on adaptation.

Activities focus on research of the demographic aspects of population ageing and related policy issues, including studies aimed at understanding the social and economic causes and consequences of population ageing.

Discussions at the fourteenth session of the Commission should focus on energy efficiency, research and development, transfer of advanced technology, and the promotion of new and renewable sources of energy.

Social decision making While most research on decision making tends to focus on individuals making choices outside of a social context, it is also important to consider decisions that involve social interactions.

Evidence and research generated in conjunction with other focus areas (especially area 5), by academic institutions and others, will provide support for advocacy with national level decision makers, opinion leaders and media.

The Director and staff of INSTRAW explained that they did not view GAINS as being very conducive to networking or research, and that their focus had been on establishing a new website.

This applied research focus ensures that ITC technical cooperation is of a high standard and that the lead time for and costs of input delivery at the field level are effectively reduced.

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The term is widely used in health research, legal research, and in market research.

On focus area 4, child protection, a speaker expressed appreciation for the use of the protective environment framework, the reference to elimination of female genital cutting and the work of the Innocenti Research Centre.

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Qualitative research methods such as case study or field research are often used in exploratory research.

The Advisory Committee was informed that the Institute had selected four strategic areas on which to focus its efforts and resources, namely, applied research, sharing and dissemination of information, capacity building and its own institutional development.

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Applying strategic focus.

Such secondary research uses the primary research of others typically in the form of research publications and reports.

Research Most Parties addressed domestic and international research activities and identified priority areas for national climate change research.

(j) Targeted policy research and interdisciplinary research for decision making

As in previous years, the implementation of the medium term programme framework for 2004 2007 reflected a balanced allocation of expertise and resources across all eight service modules an increased focus on research could also be noted.

In recognition of the challenges of global rice production, FAO and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) joined forces in 1999 to focus international attention on the rice industry and its role in achieving global food security.