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The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR), established in 1938, [34] is Britain's oldest independent economic research institute. The institute is a London-based [35] [36] independent UK registered charity that carries out academic research of relevance to business and policy makers, [37] both nationally and internationally.
Research institutes which are not part of a university, government, hospital or corporation. Independent research institutes may have close relationships with larger institutions such as universities, are not part of the larger institution and operate under their own authority.
The PIRGs emerged in the early 1970s on U.S. college campuses. The PIRG model was proposed in the book Action for a Change by Ralph Nader and Donald Ross, in which they encourage students on campuses across a state to pool their resources to hire full-time professional lobbyists and researchers to lobby for the passage of legislation which addresses social topics of interest to students. [5]
This is a list of notable polling organizations by country. All the major television networks, alone or in conjunction with the largest newspapers or magazines, in virtually every country with elections, operate their own versions of polling operations, in collaboration or independently through various applications.
JASON is an independent group of elite scientists that advises the United States government on matters of science and technology, mostly of a sensitive nature. [1] The group was created in the aftermath of the Sputnik launch as a way to reinvigorate the idea of having the nation's preeminent scientists help the government with defense problems, similar to the way that scientists helped in ...
In 2014, she was appointed as head of Minerva Independent Research Group "Aerosols, Air Quality & Climate" at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry. She is also a guest professor at the Peking University and University of Science and Technology of China.
In the early phase of Carthew lab research, a number of firsts were achieved. The Carthew group was the first to establish the Drosophila eye as a model system to study planar cell polarity. [9] It was the first group to use Drosophila as a disease model to screen and test small molecule drugs for potential efficacy in disease treatment. [10]
The independent research group works on gravitational-wave data analysis and predictions of wave forms for signals from merging black holes and neutron stars. The studies are based on numerical simulations of these processes. Exceptional Quantum Gravity [14] (Emeritus group, led by Hermann Nicolai) at AEI Potsdam.