To solve the numbers problem, Dr. Thompson and three geneticists — Nick Martin and Margaret Wright, both of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research in Australia, and Barbara Franke of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center in the Netherlands — persuaded research centers around the world to pool their resources and create one large database.
Likewise, without a heavyweight commercial partner, persuading research institutes to release more of their IP created a chicken-and-egg situation.
Patrick Callan, president of the Higher Education Policy Institute, a San Jose-based think tank, said universities still resist efficiencies, especially in adopting new technology and persuading research faculty to teach more classes.
Barber had been trying to persuade a research chemist and trumpeter, Pat Halcox, to go professional, but without success.
Managers have also been told that attempts to persuade academic research doctors to plug the gaps fell flat.
Some officials have also been persuaded by research suggesting that isolation is vastly overused and that it does little to reduce overall prison violence.
When it comes to persuading, neuroscience research has determined that people are more swayed by negativity.
Congress, while critical also of several features of Seguro Popular, was persuaded with research evidence that this policy was a sound and fiscally responsible investment to ensure social and economic development, and to set the foundations for the functional integration of the health system.
In the first case the researcher wants to do the work, and the research council is persuaded that that research has more claim on its funds than other research proposals it has before it.
While campaigns can't do much to persuade, the best research suggests that they can mobilize their voters.
