A national effort

A national effort.

The 1990s were a difficult time for biomedical research in Canada. The USA vastly expanded its funding for biomedical research, particularly by doubling the budget of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), and many countries, including Japan, China and several EU nations, heavily invested in genomics research. However, repeated budgetary setbacks during the economic recession of the 1990s ...

Vocal effort in singers of a national lyric orchestra

Training repeated effort ability in national team male volleyball players.

PURPOSE This case study evaluated the effect of repeated lateral movement and jumping training on repeated effort ability in a group of national team male volleyball players. METHODS Twelve volleyball players were assessed on their volleyball-specific repeated movement and jumping abilities using a volleyball-specific repeated effort test (RET) before and after 12 weeks of training. The athle...

Innovation Theory and the National Robotics Initiative Effort of the National Science Foundation

Government research programs often support the advancement of technologies with strategic commercial potential in order to enable building industrial activity in new areas of technology. For example, considerable current government research funding for co-robots, or robots that interact with and help individuals, is motivated by the projected needs of aging populations in industrialized nations...

A National Effort to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes: Participant-Level Evaluation of CDC's National Diabetes Prevention Program.

OBJECTIVE To assess participant-level results from the first 4 years of implementation of the National Diabetes Prevention Program (National DPP), a national effort to prevent type 2 diabetes in those at risk through structured lifestyle change programs. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Descriptive analysis was performed on data from 14,747 adults enrolled in year-long type 2 diabetes prevention p...