NAAR raised money to provide research grants focusing on autism, and has committed an excess of $ 20 million to over 200 autism research projects, fellowships and collaborative programs-more than any other non-governmental organization.

NAAR also published the NAARRATIVE, a newsletter on autism biomedical research.

As of 2012, its honorary president is Doreen Lawrence, and its joint secretaries are Weyman Bennett of the Socialist Workers Party and the Anti-Nazi League, and Sabby Dhalu, formerly of the National Assembly Against Racism ( NAAR ).

The National Alliance for Autism Research ( NAAR ), based in Princeton, New Jersey, was a non-profit advocacy organization, founded by parents of children with autism concerned about the limited funding available for research.

Other major programs included the ' High Risk Baby Sibling Autism Research Project ' and the ' NAAR Genome Project '.

In early 2006, NAAR merged with Autism Speaks.

NAAR was founded in 1994 as an attempt to stimulate biomedical research and science-based approaches to understanding, treating, and curing autism spectrum disorders.

Poincaré focused intently on the importance of these eastern Mediterranean colonies, particularly Syria, and thereby drew closer to Germany.

Horton, however, is so intently focused on his mission he does not notice her, and a dejected Gertrude retreats to take more pills (" Notice Me, Horton ").

When one is subject to obsession, it means that they are focusing so intently on a certain thing ( Xunzi claims that Mozi focused too much on utility, while Zhuangzi focused too heavily on Nature, for example ) their minds will not be able to absorb any new information outside of the realm of their obsession.

While Betamax was believed to be the superior format in the minds of the public and press ( due to excellent marketing by Sony ), consumers really wanted an affordable VCR ( a VHS often cost hundreds of dollars less than a Betamax ); Sony believed that having better quality recordings was the key to success, and that consumers would be willing to pay a higher retail price for this, whereas it soon became clear that consumer desire was focused more intently on recording time, lower retail price, compatibility with other machines for sharing ( as VHS was becoming the format in the majority of homes ), brand loyalty to companies who licensed VHS ( RCA, Magnavox, Zenith, Quasar, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, even JVC itself, et al.

He said that she focused intently on the heart and apparently made it beat faster, then slower, and using extreme intent of thought, stopped it.

Target fixation is a process by which the brain is focused so intently on an observed object that awareness of other obstacles or hazards can diminish.

In her grim pursuit of tranquillity, Pamela focused her thoughts on her husband.

Thus in both types attention is focused on the community itself, and its phenomenological life.

It speeds muscle growth and power development even for the advanced bodybuilder because each hip and leg is exercised separately, thus enabling a massive, concentrated effort to be focused on each.

He sat down on an old box and focused on the problem.

A goal was fixed, as given in Table 2, and attention focused on its fulfillment.

He trudged on, his aching eyes focused straight ahead.

Only then, when his glance focused on the divan and saw that it was empty, did he remember his earlier problem.

With eyes focused on the third congressional district, the historic Delta district, and Congressman Frank E. Smith as the one most likely to go, the redistricting battle will put to a test the longstanding power which lawmakers from the Delta have held in the Legislature.

Lincoln's managers had been adroitly focused on this delegation as well as the others, while following Lincoln's strong dictate to " Make no contracts that bind me ".

There were thousands of Republican speakers who focused first on the party platform, and second on Lincoln's life story, emphasizing his childhood poverty.

As early as the 1850s, a time when most political rhetoric focused on the sanctity of the Constitution, Lincoln redirected emphasis to the Declaration of Independence as the foundation of American political values — what he called the " sheet anchor " of republicanism.

Plato believed that deduction would simply follow from premises, hence he focused on maintaining solid premises so that the conclusion would logically follow.

* Scholarly surveys of focused topics from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: articles on Aristotle, Aristotle in the Renaissance, Biology, Causality, Commentators on Aristotle, Ethics, Logic, Mathematics, Metaphysics, Natural philosophy, Non-contradiction, Political theory, Psychology, Rhetoric

Love and compassion are components of all forms of Buddhism, and are focused on all beings equally: love is the wish that all beings be happy, and compassion is the wish that all beings be free from suffering.

This is similar to the notion of chivalry, but unlike that European concept, in i ' thar attention is focused on everything in existence.

Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto in particular focused on the ' purpose of creation ' and how the will of God was to bring creation into perfection and adhesion with this upper force.

Ashlag focused on society and its relation to divinity.

Biological Anthropology and Physical Anthropology are synonymous terms to describe anthropological research focused on the study of humans and non-human primates in their biological, evolutionary, and demographic dimensions.

Over time, he developed an approach known as structural functionalism, which focused on how institutions in societies worked to balance out or create an equilibrium in the social system to keep it functioning harmoniously.

Some anthropologists, such as Lloyd Fallers and Clifford Geertz, focused on processes of modernization by which newly independent states could develop.

Others, such as Julian Steward and Leslie White, focused on how societies evolve and fit their ecological niche — an approach popularized by Marvin Harris.

Systematic reviews of the field have found that the number of ATC are growing rapidly, but have focused on memory and planning, that there is emerging evidence for efficacy, that a lot of scope exists to develop new ATC.

Since then, it has focused on improving relationships with Western countries, cultivating links with other Portuguese-speaking countries, and asserting its own national interests in Central Africa through military and diplomatic intervention.

From 1900 on, thanks to the positive reception given to his ideas, Steiner focused increasingly on his work with the Theosophical Society becoming the secretary of its section in Germany in 1902.

At its most recent meeting, November 27 – December 1, 2006, the Conference of the Parties of the Basel Agreement focused on issues of electronic waste and the dismantling of ships.

This required new kinds of marketing and support materials from software vendors, but Borland remained focused on the technical side of its products.

On November 14, 2006, Borland announced its decision to separate the Developer Tools Group into a wholly owned subsidiary focused on maximizing developer productivity.

The Second Balkan war was a catastrophic blow to Russian policies in the Balkans, where Russia had focused its interests for access to the " warm seas " for centuries.

The Premiership Cup then made its historic first trip to Brisbane, a traditionally rugby league focused city.

Her later work was more introspective in its lyrics as opposed to aggressive ; Hole's Celebrity Skin and Love's solo album, America's Sweetheart, focused more on celebrity life, Hollywood, and drug addiction, while also carrying on past themes of vanity and body image, and Nobody's Daughter was lyrically reflective of Love's past relationships and her struggle to sobriety, with the majority of its lyrics having been written while Love was in rehab in 2006.

Between 1850 and 1900, Cambridge took on much of its present character — streetcar suburban development along the turnpikes, with working-class and industrial neighborhoods focused on East Cambridge, comfortable middle-class housing being built on old estates in Cambridgeport and Mid-Cambridge, and upper-class enclaves near Harvard University and on the minor hills of the city.

Two of the most popular are Penny Arcade, focused primarily on video gaming, and User Friendly, which bases its humor on the Internet and other computer-user issues.

Transport phenomena gave an analytical approach to chemical engineering while PSE focused on its synthetic elements, such as control system and process design.

Most tourists visit the Dominican Republic on account of its beaches, but there is an expanding eco-tourism and outdoor activity sector, focused on the country's mountains and wildlife.

The internal level, which is hidden inside the DBMS and depends on its implementation ( see Implementation section below ), requires a different level of detail and uses its own data structure types, typically different in nature from the structures of the external and conceptual levels which are exposed to DBMS users ( e. g., the data models above ): While the external and conceptual levels are focused on and serve DBMS users, the concern of the internal level is effective implementation details.

Its conferences and workshops focused on writing, editing, and publishing, with many of its members interested in all three.

Third, English Dominican mysticism focused on an embodied spirituality with a structured love of fellow men at its center.

Deep Space 1 then entered its second extended mission phase, focused on retesting the spacecraft's hardware technologies.

The government has focused on improving the collection of its current revenues with a focus on indirect taxes.

Though the nickname does not suggest anything particularly respectable about the king himself, its invective is not actually focused on the king but on those around him, who were expected to provide the young king with god ræd.

Research in the order is largely focused on the Fabaceae, due in part to its great biological diversity, and to its importance as food plants.