The Trust was funded by a gift of $ 10 million ( a then unprecedented sum: at the time, total government assistance to all four Scottish universities was about £ 50, 000 a year ) and its aim was to improve and extend the opportunities for scientific research in the Scottish universities and to enable the deserving and qualified youth of Scotland to attend a university.

Although Powell ’ s ostensible research aim was to study crocodiles, he also planned to study Mokèlé-mbèmbé.

* Pleiades Promoter Project-a research project with an aim to generate 160 fully characterized, human DNA promoters of less than 4 kb ( MiniPromoters ) to drive gene expression in defined brain regions of therapeutic interests.

A great deal of adult stem cell research to date has had the aim of characterizing the capacity of the cells to divide or self-renew indefinitely and their differentiation potential.

The SPR states its principal aim as " understanding events and abilities commonly described as psychic or paranormal by promoting and supporting important research in this area.

After the foundation of the Republic of Turkey and the script reform, the Turkish Language Association ( TDK ) was established in 1932 under the patronage of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, with the aim of conducting research on Turkish.

Current research on loop quantum gravity may eventually play a fundamental role in a ToE, but that is not its primary aim.

The UNU is dedicated to implementing research and educational programs in the area of sustainable development with the aim of assisting developing countries.

UNU-ISP takes an innovative approach to sustainability, bridging these cross-cutting themes through research, educational and collaborative initiatives with the aim of solving current problems and anticipating future challenges.

Vivekananda endorsed the project with enthusiasm, and Tata, with the aim of advancing the scientific capabilities of the country, constituted a Provisional Committee to prepare a plan for setting up of an Institute of research and higher education.

Unlike the RSPB, which was primarily conservation oriented, the British Trust for Ornithology ( BTO ) was started in 1933 with the aim of advancing ornithological research.

Although the initial aim of humanoid research was to build better orthosis and prosthesis for human beings, knowledge has been transferred between both disciplines.

In order to foster this technological cluster university institutions and research organizations united to create the GIANT ( Grenoble Innovation for Advanced New Technologies ) Innovation Campus with the aim at becoming one of the world's top campuses in research, higher education, and high tech.

All scholarly research in linguistics is descriptive ; like all other sciences, its aim is to observe the linguistic world as it is, without the bias of preconceived ideas about how it ought to be.

Also, he contends that the aim of theory and research is to delegate power to marginalized people and allow them to have a say in this world.

Its aim is to prevent health problems from happening or re-occurring by implementing educational programs, developing policies, administering services, and conducting research.

In the early 1970s, the est Foundation became the Werner Erhard Foundation with the aim of " providing financial and organizational support to individuals and groups engaged in charitable and educational pursuits – research, communication, education, and scholarly endeavors in the fields of individual and social transformation and human well-being ".

" They aim to refine the self-improvement field by way of an intentional increase in scientifically sound research and well-engineered models.

Although not yet in commercial production, many groups around the globe are engaged in research on solid polymer electrolytes involving PEG, with the aim of improving their properties, and in permitting their use in batteries, electro-chromic display systems, and other products in the future.

In order to make the data collection and interpretation transparent researches creating ethnographies often attempt to be " reflexive " Reflexivity refers to the researchers aim " to explore the ways in which researcher's involvement with a particular study influences, acts upon and informs such research ".

The library compliments the 35 specialized libraries based at different faculties, all with the aim of advancing the research goals of the University.

A project in business and science is typically defined as a collaborative enterprise, frequently involving research or design, that is carefully planned to achieve a particular aim.

The Surrey Space Centre is a fully integrated mix of world class academic research teams whose aim is to underpin the technical development of the small space industry ; and the commercial activities of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd ( SSTL ) with a global reputation for the design, build and launch of low cost, multi-purpose satellites.

Her continuing aim has been to preserve and strengthen the U. S. national capacity for innovation by increasing support for basic research in science and engineering.

His aim was hurried ; ;

Against Seebohm formidable foes have taken the field, notably F. W. Maitland, whose Domesday Book And Beyond was written expressly for this purpose, and Sir Paul Vinogradoff whose The Growth Of The Manor had a similar aim.

The aim was to state the results of all available determinations of atomic positions in crystals.

If not, he was willing to accede to William's wishes in any way that did not block his ultimate aim.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

Three years he was occupied in campaigns against the Slavic Wends, who as pagans were considered fair game, and whose subjugation to Christianity was the aim of the Wendish Crusade of 1147 in which Albert took part ; diplomatic measures were more successful, and by an arrangement made with the last of the Wendish princes of Brandenburg, Pribislav of the Hevelli, Albert secured this district when the prince died in 1150.

According to Alcidamas, the highest aim of the orator was the power of speaking extempore on every conceivable subject.

Their party was defeated ( 2 May 1182 ), but Andronikos Komnenos, a first cousin of Emperor Manuel, took advantage of these disorders to aim at the crown, entered Constantinople, where he was received with almost divine honours, and overthrew the government.

The aim was to secede Cuba from Spain, and annex it as a US state as Florida had been in 1824 through the Adams-Onis Treaty.

Its aim was to enable people to write all the African languages for practical and scientific purposes without diacritics.

According to Thucydides, the official aim of the League was to " avenge the wrongs they suffered by ravaging the territory of the king.

The aim of the restoration was to reverse the decay of centuries of attrition, pollution, destruction by acts of war, and misguided past restorations.

His aim, in suiting the text to the views of his day, was partly to make it more intelligible to the public, and partly to make it more complete.

The aim of the council was to end the schism ; to this end they deposed Gregory XII and Benedict XIII and elected the new pope Alexander V in 1409.

The aim of the expedition was to measure the length of a degree along a meridian, close to the pole, and compare the result with a similar expedition to Peru, today in Ecuador, near the equator.

The aim was to find an appropriate way of introducing Schiller's ode.

The paradox of the early Bauhaus was that, although its manifesto proclaimed that the ultimate aim of all creative activity was building, the school did not offer classes in architecture until 1927.