A key feature of the program consisted in proximity to (and collaboration with) prominent large-scale life sciences research programs.
In other words, rather than being an 'empty signifier', ELSA actually came to signify something, namely a particular research practice, with researchers using the opportunities ELSA programs offered (for instance in terms of relative proximity to large-scale life sciences research consortia) to strengthen the visibility and impact of their work.
The fields of bioinformatics and genomics are emblematic of the "new biology": they weave together aspects of computer science, information technology, and large-scale life sciences research in innovative and integrative ways.
Even by the high European standard of soccer fanaticism, it's rare to find such large-scale, life-and-death investment surrounding a match by two second-tier competitors from the same city.
A leading NHS hospital warned a month ago that a mutated strain of flu not covered by this winter's vaccine was causing large-scale life-threatening illness, but claims its findings were not taken seriously by the government's public health agency.
What would bring Americans their strongest sense of unity, a powerful sense of purpose and energy — and ultimately, jobs and large-scale, life-bettering educational opportunities — was the cataclysm of World War II, according to the historian Glen Elder Jr., author of the classic "Children of the Great Depression".
Using large-scale life-span data on 6322 cohort members, a within-family design, and controlling for demographic confounds such as the number of siblings, we find that last-borns from non-entrepreneurial families are more likely to be self-employed than first or middle-borns.
Estimating what is likely to happen in the future is difficult, certainly for something as new as large-scale life-long treatment in low-income countries, for which there is no precedent.
Finally, the proposed approach has been applied for structural reliability analysis of a large scale real life problem.
Results and experiences from large scale real life deployments ranging from the information that the system can deliver about an event over the statistics of app usage to quantitative and qualitative results of user interviews (with both event visitors and civil protection personnel). .
