A critical challenge in developing engineered materials for low-energy-cost carbon capture and storage applications is to fundamentally understand adsorption, particularly when the materials exhibit hysteretic sorption behavior.
A critical challenge now is developing better human interfaces for the technology.
The predicted increase in the global population to over 9 billion by 2050 poses a critical challenge: how to develop effective stress-resistant/tolerant crops that are more competitive and can grow in marginal soils to ensure food production.
In a report published on Friday, the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (Icai) acknowledges the department's awareness that everyday corruption is a critical challenge for development, but says it has neither developed "an approach equal to the challenge, nor … focused its efforts sufficiently on the poor".
A critical challenge in the health sector in developing countries is to ensure the quality and effectiveness of surveillance and public health response in an environment of decentralization.
A critical challenge in tissue regeneration is to develop constructs that effectively integrate with the host tissue.
To catalyze the action needed to control global CVD, the Institute of Medicine recently produced a report, Promoting Cardiovascular Health in the Developing World: A Critical Challenge to Achieve Global Health.
Developing models for enhancing leadership and management capacity in a developing country such as Uganda remains a critical challenge.
Developing multiscale models both with respect to the underlying science (connecting genes and proteins to cellular phenotypes, to tissue, organ, and population-level responses) and the drug development process (linking discovery through clinical development) is a critical challenge.
Opportunity disparity is a critical challenge facing girls and women today, especially those living in developing countries whose basic needs are still not being met.
Although significant progress has been made building gene set collections and developing statistical enrichment methods, annotation quality remains a critical challenge.
