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Brain Research On Child Development: Abnormalities of the thymus gland were being studied in relation to the body's ability to resist various infections and changes. Malfunction of this gland was found to be associated with the so-called autoimmune diseases affecting the thyroid gland, and research on the relation of the thymus to lupus erythematosus and a number of blood disorders was under way.
Events in brain research on child development research included the use of new electronic instruments and novel applications of the encephalograph for the detection of brain research on child development tumors.
During World War II, Quarles was in charge of the Bell Telephone Laboratories' radar research development program and was named a vice president of the laboratories in 1947. In August 1946 he had been appointed to the Joint Research and Development Board (later called the Research and Development Board), becoming chairman of the electronics committee in 1949.
Types of Research.—Basic research is a continuing search for new knowledge, a systematic search to meet the challenge of the unknown, but without direction save that which the investigator himself gives it. He is strictly on his own, guided primarily by his interest in learning more about the workings of nature. His work may be contrasted with that of scientists and engineers conducting applied research (laboratory studies concerning the practical application of new k edge), or development, which takes applie search out of the laboratory and translates i production. The term "research and develop (R & D) is used to encompass all three — research, applied research, and development. |
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