No one is better equipped to tackle these issues than Yellin, a formidable researcher, who draws from previously untapped sources to provides new details about many aspects of Jacobs's life.
He misspelled the names of some of the places he visited, and, writing 15 years after his travels, he was not generous to his first wife, Dina, a formidable researcher in her own right who traveled with him, or eager to acknowledge the role she had played in his work.
For another thing, O'Brian, not just a formidable researcher but also unrivalled in his breathing of life and fire into archival findings, was amazingly at ease with the sway of artistic license: "It is clear that the writer will soon have originality thrust upon him, for he is running short of history," he says in an author's note.
"It is also clear that they are a formidable competitor for researchers on the market".
In the past 50 years, he has developed a reputation as one of African-American music's most formidable producers, field researchers and historians, along the way earning a Grammy Award (for producing Clifton Chenier's 1983 zydeco album, "I'm Here"), a Deems Taylor Award for Excellence in Music Writing (for his 1981 book "The Roots of the Blues"), and induction into the Blues Hall of Fame.
Early-career scientists who wish to win research funding from federal agencies face a number of obstacles, not least of all the formidable competition: senior researchers who have spent years improving their grantsmanship skills.
In spite of the progress made over the years, important methodological barriers remain in the statistical analysis of crash data and this, along with the availability of many new data sources, present safety researchers with formidable future challenges, but also exciting future opportunities.
The relationship between researchers and researched is also 'far more problematic if those involved in the research are at a completely different level of economic and political power' [ 17] (p. 10), and researchers face formidable challenges in some low- and middle-income countries in obtaining reliable, valid and representative data.
The enormous diversity of proteoforms produces tremendous complexity within cellular proteomes, facilitates intricate networks of molecular interactions, and constitutes a formidable analytical challenge for biomedical researchers.
Although high throughput technology has been democratized, formidable impediments remain that prohibit researchers whose work is not in human, model human, or agriculturally important species from realizing its benefits.
