The specific topics that form the main foci of research change over time, driven by an ever-expanding base of knowledge and the availability of increasingly sophisticated technical methods.

" The Programme offers a broad range of research foci and specializations including, though not limited to, Environmental Security and Peace, Gender and Peace Building, International Law and Human Rights, International Law and the Settlement of Disputes, International Peace Studies, Media, Peace and Conflict Studies, Natural Resources and Peace, Peace Education, Responsible Management and Sustainable Development, and Sustainable Urban Governance and Peace.

Many of these research foci are interdisciplinary, with faculty members and students from multiple faculties working together to forge new breakthroughs.

Other research foci include machines with common sense, viral communications, " smart " prostheses, advanced sensor networks, innovative interface design, and sociable robots.

Each of these research foci is based on interdisciplinary research across the boundaries of faculties and is continually fed and inspired by strong partnerships with external research institutions.

Major research foci include information storage materials.

After Kohonen's retirement, the center has been led by Prof. Erkki Oja and later renamed to Adaptive Informatics Research Centre with widened foci of research.

It is obvious that the historian who seeks to recapture the ideas that have motivated human behavior throughout a given period will find the art and literature of that age one of his central and major concerns, by no means a mere supplement or adjunct of significant historical research.

The firm does a large amount of research and its forecasts have meaning.

If they also defeat the school bill, the GOP task force won't have much research to do.

Our research and development program, serving as it does an industry which must compete against low-cost production throughout the world, continues to have primary emphasis at Leesona.

To provide the continuous flow of information basic to administrative decisions, a number of institutions have established offices of institutional research.

From the wealth of material and the wide variety of different electronic techniques perfected in the past few years we have selected a few examples which appear to be headed for use in the immediate future and which offer completely new tools in medical research.

The American firearms and ammunition manufacturers through diligent research and technical development have replaced the muzzle loader and slow-firing single-shot arms with modern fast firing auto-loaders, extremely accurate bolt, lever, and slide action firearms.

and although we have attempted to provide these status symbols, support of the ' dual-ladder ' plan has been half-hearted despite the creation of a salary potential for a research scientist commensurate with that of men in top managerial positions.

We also have an ' engineering section head -- research engineer ' classification which has salary possibilities equivalent to that of a research engineer.

A number of strong independent agencies, established in some cases with governmental or royal support, have conducted large medical, social, educational and research operations in particular parts of the Congo and Ruanda-Urundi.

Several days after the companies had received the questionnaire, members of the research team contacted the presidents of eleven of these companies in person or by phone to discuss any ambiguities or difficulties the addressees might have experienced in completing the questionnaire.

On the one side we have the university professors and their students, trained in Teutonic methods of research, who have sought out, collected and studied the true products of the oral traditions of the ethnic, regional and occupational groups that make up this nation.

Pelham said Sunday night there was research being done on whether the `` quickie '' vote on the increase can be repealed outright or whether notice would have to first be given that reconsideration of the action would be sought.

The navy captain disclosed also that a list of questions found in Miss Gee's purse would, if completed and handed back, have given the Kremlin a complete picture `` of our current anti-submarine effort and would have shown what we are doing in research and development for the future ''.

Two related strands of research on altruism have emerged from traditional evolutionary analyses and from game theory.

: Hunters widely sharing the meat has been seen as a costly signal of ability and research has found that good hunters have higher reproductive success and more adulterous relations even if they themselves receive no more of the hunted meat than anyone else.

Because of the holistic nature of anthropological research, all branches of anthropology have widespread practical application in diverse fields.

Anthropologists, like other researchers ( especially historians and scientists engaged in field research ), have over time assisted state policies and projects, especially colonialism.

Professional astronomers are highly educated individuals who typically have a PhD in physics or astronomy and are employed by research institutions or universities .< ref >

Some amateur astronomers use home-made radio telescopes, while others use radio telescopes that were originally built for astronomy research but have since been made available for use by amateurs.

They have several notable advantages for amateur astronomers intent on research.

The boundaries of the Asparagales and of its families have undergone a series of changes in recent years ; future research may lead to further changes and ultimately greater stability.

These were selected carefully and included not only detailed clinical information but adequate pathology of value for research and educational purposes.

German research in 2003 showed significant benefits in reducing breast cancer risk when large amounts of raw vegetable matter are included in the diet.

The activities of anti-CND organisations are said to have included research, publication, mobilising public opinion, counter-demonstrations, working within the Churches, smears against CND leaders and spying.

The early 19th-century editions of Encyclopædia Britannica included wikt: seminal # English | seminal research such as Thomas Young ( scientist ) | Thomas Young's article on Egypt, which included the translation of the Egyptian hieroglyphs | hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone ( pictured ).

( Earley's original algorithm included a look-ahead in the state ; later research showed this to have little practical effect on the parsing efficiency, and it has subsequently been dropped from most implementations.

Although those programs included years of research and work, ELIZA remains a milestone simply because it was the first time a programmer had attempted such a human-machine interaction with the goal of creating the illusion ( however brief ) of human-human interaction.

They noted, however, that their data included a wide range of products, and the degree of competition in each market varied significantly, and offer that further research on this issue should be conducted to determine whether these findings remain the same when purchasing the same product for both small and high volumes.

To effectively conduct genealogical research, it is important to understand how the records were created, what information is included in them, and how and where to access them.

James Leavitt assisted in their research, but the Nobel Prize is not awarded posthumously so he was not included in the award.

Due to his literary style and the thoroughness of his research — which seemingly included studying Roman imperial archives and heavily relying on Thucydides — and his apparent rigor — for he tended not to support any character or subject, taking an impartial point of view — he was by far the most read and admired historian during the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the early Modern Era.

In addition, professional-level education is always included within Higher Education, and usually in graduate schools, since many postgraduate academic disciplines are both vocationally, professionally, and theoretically / research oriented, such as in the law, medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, and veterinary medicine.

In 1768 Hutton returned to Edinburgh, letting his farms to tenants but continuing to take an interest in farm improvements and research which included experiments carried out at Slighhouses.

The work of the committee included: inquiry into the conditions of intellectual life, assistance to countries where intellectual life was endangered, creation of national committees for intellectual cooperation, cooperation with international intellectual organizations, protection of intellectual property, inter-university cooperation, coordination of bibliographical work and international interchange of publications, and international cooperation in archaeological research.

As programming chief, Robert W. Pittman recruited and managed a team for the launch that included Tom Freston ( who succeeded Pittman as CEO of MTV networks ), Fred Seibert, John Sykes, Carolyn Baker ( original head of talent and acquisition ), Marshall Cohen ( original head of research ), Gail Sparrow ( of talent and acquisition ), Sue Steinberg ( executive producer ), Julian Goldberg, Steve Lawrence, Geoff Bolton studio producers and MTV News writers / AP Liz Nealon, Nancy LaPook and Robin Zorn, Steve Casey ( creator of the name " MTV " and its first program director ), Marcy Brahman, Ronald E. " Buzz " Brindle, and Robert Morton.

Post-war government-sponsored research at MIT included SAGE and guidance systems for ballistic missiles and Project Apollo.

The term " object-oriented database system " first appeared around 1985. Notable research projects included Encore-Ob / Server ( Brown University ), EXODUS ( University of Wisconsin – Madison ), IRIS ( Hewlett-Packard ), ODE ( Bell Labs ), ORION ( Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation or MCC ), Vodak ( GMD-IPSI ), and Zeitgeist ( Texas Instruments ).

The installation at Chalk River, Ontario included an early PDP-4 with a display system and a new PDP-5 as interface to the research reactor instrumentation and control.

This included a general course of study based on meditative exercises ( intended to guide a meditant from « the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe .») and research departments focusing on areas such as education, medicine, agriculture, art, natural science, social science, and literature.

His research included modeling of the atmosphere, climate change, and " the relationship of biological systems to global climate change.

Darwin included evidence that he had gathered on the Beagle expedition in the 1830s and his subsequent findings from research, correspondence, and experimentation.

Penn is consistently included among the top five research universities in the US, and among the top research universities in the world, both in terms of quality and quantity of research.

Increased research activity during the first half of the 1900s was part of an international development that also included Norway.