Amid pressure from the industry and Congress, federal regulators are divided over the scope of their powers, leading to limited enforcement and narrowed research.
In some respects, this has forced us to clarify aspects of our design, but in many others, it has narrowed the scope of our research aims, and set up several ethically problematic conditions for doing the research (problematic for us).
This shortening list of financially viable research topics also affects the ecosystem of scientific research by narrowing the scope of topics science can address, increasing competition and reducing collaborative efforts.
In a firm-specific examination, though, such an approach would probably narrow the scope of research by limiting the examined cases and by completely disregarding unannounced events or firm-specific events.
The court also narrowed the scope of its issue-preclusion sanction.
Rather, they could have narrowed the scope of the discovery orders on their own.
The IRS eventually narrowed the scope of its request.
In the process, that court narrowed the scope of so-called "FDA exemption" and stunned the biotech community.The Supreme Court today rejected such a narrow view, saying that research even untied to a specific drug approval effort could be eligible for the FDA exemption.
This may include narrowing the scope of the research, estimating costs and determining the feasibility of the proposed project.
They have also urged NSF to narrow the scope of its research portfolio by reducing spending in the social sciences and geosciences.
Data availability poses the main limitation for research in these directions, but narrowing the scope of analysis to specific regions or even countries and exploiting finer spatial variation in climate could deliver informative results.
