research

Related to research: Research methods, Research methodology, Research design

blue-sky research

Research that is done without a particular end or application in mind. We don't have time for blue-sky research right now—we need to focus on finishing and releasing this app.
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research into (someone or something)

To gather and study a large or dense amount of information about someone or something. We've been researching into our ancestors. One of them was on the first boat to ever come to America! Scientists are researching into ways to treat cancer through gene therapy.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

research into someone or something

to study about someone or something thoroughly. I decided that I would research into Queen Elizabeth. We researched into the period in which she lived.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

blue-sky research

research that is not directed towards any immediate or definite commercial goal.
1997 New Scientist Bell Labs and IBM are well known for blue-sky research. They have people who are paid just to sit around and think—not about products.
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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • blue-sky research
  • experiment in
  • experiment in (something)
  • above the curve
  • curve
  • began
  • begin by (doing something)
  • begin by doing
  • get the OK
  • give somebody/get the OK/okay
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The Center for School Counseling Outcome Research (CSCOR) was founded in January 2003 to give practicing school counselors ready access to the relevant research in order for them to make effective program decisions.
"Most of the market research we use is customized," Sanchez explains.
The first challenge involves programmatic scope--the need to focus the research portfolio on those diseases and exposures that will optimize the future utility of the research for the greatest impact on human health.
Other ambiguities regarding the application of the new energy research consortium credit include the extent to which for-profit entities may qualify as an energy research consortium on grounds that they conduct energy research "in the public interest," and whether the consortium must itself directly conduct research activities or may (instead) subcontract the actual performance of research activities to others (compare Sec.
Another center that's soon to become a benchmark for its state-of-the-art design and translational research is the University of South Alabama Cancer Research Institute.
Exactly what research projects will be taken on is still up in the air, but Ross says it is safe to assume some will centre around diabetes, First Nations health care and medical education research; all will examine health issues specific to Northern Ontario.
As one colleague noted: "Consumer research is a contact sport"--it requires direct engagement with the consumers themselves.
This is odd, especially considering that this finding indicates Japan will rival Korea as leader in stem cell research and plays into the hype surrounding the benefits of stem cell research.
IBM, one of the top corporate innovators in the country, taps similar sponsorship, but also uses its Ivory Tower connections to capture the best and brightest ideas and students, says Robin Williams, associate director at the San Jose-based IBM Almaden Research Center, one of eight IBM research facilities worldwide.
In a long article I find no clarification of just how this threat against "public spaces" in the research called for in NCLB operates, and nothing that sustains the charge of "censorship."
Various online discussion forums were also created to provide opportunities for students to discuss and ask questions related to the course and the research paper.
Dunston has been instrumental in recruiting some of the nation's top geneticists to the university and has been a force in ensuring that Howard and other historically black institutions play an instrumental role in DNA research. And she is ensuring that those HBCUs that offer doctorates n health-related sciences get the needed funds to recruit scientists train students, and participate in research on a playing field equal to that of their mainstream counterparts.
As the research affiliate of Financial Executives International (FEI), FERF publications provide timely analysis of the accounting, auditing and corporate governance issues facing corporate America today.
Multidisciplinary team efforts can accelerate research progress in areas particularly suited to this approach by cross-fertilization of ideas, hasten the transition of basic research findings to practical applications, and can help to train students in science and/or engineering in areas of importance to the Defense Department.
For this volume of Library Trends, each author was invited to describe a particular research method and include examples of its use in LIS studies.