The market seemed to anticipate hurdles for the Monsanto deal on Wednesday.
But "if you see it as part of the process that allows you to do science," suggests Shubha Tole, who completed her Ph.D. at Caltech and postdoc at the University of Chicago and is now a professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, "you will figure out how to anticipate hurdles and be prepared for them".
How much thought did you give to anticipating hurdles or problems that might arise and to figuring out how you would handle them if they did?
Spending time anticipating the hurdles and taking proper measures to keep them from stopping you dead in your tracks is a very rewarding part of the research process.
When a new health crisis emerges – such as Ebola or Zika – we use our tried-and-true methods to take stock of the situation, adapt our evidence-based tools and to anticipate any hurdles along the way.
As a lawyer, I can develop viable policy approaches, point out current laws that can be enforced more aggressively, unaddressed areas that need to be looked at creatively, and anticipate potential hurdles to potential solutions.
The former we expect, though challenging, can be done but we anticipate greater hurdles in achieving the latter.
The latter makes it possible for educational leaders to identify and anticipate on hurdles in the implementation process and subsequently optimize efforts for successful curriculum change.
Given that our strategy is based on matching the recombinant histone carrier with the histone modification to be assayed, we anticipate few hurdles in applying cChIP-seq to other types of histone modifications, such as acetylation, to further expand the number of chromatin modifications that can be surveyed using cChIP-seq.
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It's impossible to anticipate every hurdle you will face.
