In the wake of SARS, the government in 2004 set up a new center focused on disease control, including better surveillance and diagnostic systems.
The findings add to growing evidence that calorie restriction can benefit health and longevity, but this shouldn't prompt already skinny seniors to start dieting, said Carol Greenwood, a senior scientist and assistant director of the Kunin-Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit at Baycrest, a Toronto academic medical center focused on aging.
Organizations such as the Open Networking Foundation and the Open Networking Research Center are focused on developing industry standards.
And much of the discussion here at the center was focused on if we, and when we have to deal with these mitigation efforts.
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The study, by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, focused on the effects of stress on prostate cancer, and found that stress can both reduce the effectiveness of prostate cancer drugs and accelerate the development of the cancer.
It is clear that many of the best retailers and shopping center owners are focused on giving consumers more than just an outlet to purchase goods.
The Center efforts are focused within the Pediatric Engineering Research Laboratory (PERL) which includes the WREX (Wilmington Robotic Exoskeleton) that allows children with weakness to move their arms in three-dimensional space in front of them, and the Cricket, a brace compliance sensor.
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According to the Centre for High North Logistics, an Arctic-focused information center based in Kirkenes, Norway, 46 vessels used the NSR in 2012, carrying about 1.26 million tons of cargo.
The new, fresh set-up is focused around a center hang-out spot and individual branded boutiques.
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This election-focused social command center dashboard provides a public opinion poll happening right in front of you during the entire election.
GlaxoSmithKline offers an on-site fitness center, walking trails, fitness-focused lunch-and-learns and recreation programs for children.
The driver-focused cockpit offers an asymmetrical center stack, with critical driving functions separated from passenger comfort functions.
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Keep your eyes focused on the cross in the center of the screen.
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"The FTC is focused on a 2009 help-center page published more than two years before our consent decree, " a Google spokesman said in a statement.
By including the FAST AF system, which is the crystallization of years of Olympus AF technology, and the easy controls of the touch screen, subjects throughout the screen can easily be focused on, whether in the center, background, or edges, allowing users to snap the shutter at just the right moment.
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It is deplorable that so few of our elected officials, with the notable exceptions of Rep. Kevin Brady, prime sponsor of the Sound Dollar Act, and Rep. Marsha Blackburn, who successfully championed a national monetary commission as part of the 2012 GOP platform, have focused on moving monetary policy to center stage.
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As part of these responsibilities, the Export Promotion Cabinet, in coordination with the Advocacy Center at the Department of Commerce, is focused on ensuring that the Federal Government's commercial advocacy effectively promotes exports by U.S. businesses, particularly by those firms competing for international contracts against foreign firms that may benefit from strong home government support.
This year, Points of Light will launch two programs that have AmeriCorps at the center, a 75 member corps that is focused on equipping returning veterans for the workforce as well as engaging these same veterans as leaders of volunteer activity in their communities and a 72 member VISTA program focused on education in under resourced schools by developing programs that improve student attendance.
While traditional security was focused on keeping people out of the data center, new security processes needed to be implemented to ensure that only the appropriate people were getting in.
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Democrats like this shift in demographics because, according to The Voter Participation Center (VPC), a Democratic-leaning nonprofit focused on increasing the voting participation of unmarried women, 61 percent of unmarried women who voted in 2010 cast ballots for Democrats.
These are comparisons that Adam Drewnowski, the director of the Center for Public Health Nutrition at the University of Washington, has focused on in recent years.
While Nailab has so far focused on Nairobi-based startups, the technology incubation center will use the new funds from the Kenyan government to widen its reach and invest in Kenyan startups in major towns and cities from across the country such as Mombasa, Kisumu, Nakuru, and Eldoret, providing them with tools to succeed.
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Most of the questioning focused on the activities of the Middle East Program at the Wilson Center.
Ten years after I founded New Teacher Center (NTC), it was still part of the UCSC, an institution focused on serving the local student body and, at most, the state of California.
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"Unfortunately Joel S. has been accused of being a part of a proselytizing campaign, but the staff of ITDC, which consists of Muslims, Christians and other religions working together, has continually focused on human development, skill transfer and community development, " the center said.
Tracy Hautanen, former manager of the center, now works for Ms. Twain's charity, Shania Kids Can, focused on helping youngsters in the Timmins area excel at school.
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But Sony instead focused on a new game from Evolution Studios, DriveClub, to put front and center for its big PS4 reveal in New York City.
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Chevrolet, as noted, is focused on small, fuel-efficient cars and crossovers, with Cruze and Aveo taking center stage alongside the hot-selling Equinox crossover.
It provides a new Facebook-focused home screen that puts instant messages, news feed updates, and photos front and center on the smartphone home screen.
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Despite all that, "Family Ties" focused mostly on themes surrounding its title, says Robert Thompson of Syracuse University's Center for the Study of Popular Television.
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