It so happens that Exxon Mobil has been funding research into this problem at Stanford University for almost a decade now without a major breakthrough.
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One woman I encountered in my research, Amanda, faced this problem when she began a new job as a vice president at a Manhattan ad agency.
One problem this research faces is that in order to determine whether the nerves are regenerating, they have to actually cut out a piece of spinal and then cut that into ultra-thin slices, which are then placed under a microscope.
The problem is that most research in this field, including my own, focuses almost entirely on how people make sense of, judge, and respond to the interactions of unrelated strangers.
This research suggests transport poverty is a more pressing problem for the poorest households.
It may seem unworkable to have a system that allows competitors to use exact copies of a patented gene simply if they say they arrived at it through their own research, but the law has actually dealt with this problem for centuries.
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"More research is needed in this area where a potentially very large problem is being ignored, " said Elwood.
As the federal research budget shrinks, and more research takes place outside universities, this may be a growing problem.
Research published earlier this year showed that doctors may be missing the problem.
But in this industry, the bigger problem is not doing the research at all.
Once more: I find it hard to understand how someone who worked as head of Research and Development at Pfizer could possibly deny this basic, universally recognised problem of poor external validity in clinical trials.
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This is part of the problem, according to the Medical Research Council, which recently established the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Unit to help write policies that would benefit those in this sector.
In the comings months, the Center's research and educational efforts will begin to multiply as it focuses more attention onto this problem, which is expected to begin garnering national-level media and political attention.
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Research published this week by Mari Gallagher, an independent food researcher, suggests that the problem of food deserts may be relatively tractable.
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"As a health research scientist I am just aghast that they are trying to hide the problem in this way from the European Commission, " says Prof Kelly.
Technically speaking, a big challenge in this area of research was to deal with a classic instance of the so-called simultaneity problem: incarceration rates affect crime rates, but the converse is also true.
"We believe that scientific research and decades of practical experience have shown that translocation is the humane and ethical solution to this problem, " said Ross Minett from Uist Hedgehog Rescue, which intends to stay involved with the translocation programme.
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Research on food allergies has been slow because "for a long time, people thought this was a small problem, " Munoz-Furlong said.
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