This positive impact is negatively moderated by the university's size and reputation, in the sense that in larger or more reputed universities, the marginal impact of research on knowledge transfer declines significantly.
Although such furnaces make it possible to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, their use for this purpose remains marginal and more research is needed to upgrade the properties of the charcoal so it can be used in conventional blast furnaces.
Importantly, standpoint theory argued for new starting points for scientific research: marginal lives - those of women, people of color, gays, lesbians, transgender persons, and others lacking social and economic privilege.
Usually, we're O.K. Our tacit calculation is that the marginal utility of more research is smaller than the benefit of immediate ownership.
In addition, the Saharan desert has been a marginal focus for ethnoarchaeological research on pastoralism, especially in relation to other areas, and this study makes a major contribution to reducing this deficit.
Support for clinical research was marginal.
We estimated costs for different forms of patient recruitment based on marginal time costs for research assistants and practice staff and consumable costs.
The aspheric cylinder collimation lenses with aspheric surfaces (such as elliptic, hyperbolic and parabolic marginal profiles) have been researched for the semiconductor laser beam with the characteristic of dot emitting source.
Drug companies conduct research with only marginal prospects of success.
But Dr. Merker said by e-mail that his research had only "marginal bearing" on fetal pain and "did not deal with pain specifically".
