Sentences with phrase «area studies university»

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Soon after developing the fledgling site, Karim enrolled at Stanford University where, despite having already displayed a certain acumen in this area, he chose to study computer science.

The discovery of high - quality surf breaks by the surfing community boosts economic growth in nearby areas, according to a study of 5000 surf breaks round the world by the University of Sydney.

Students should also have flexibility to study in the areas they're most interested in, she said, and to opt for the degrees with lower tuition, especially given that the average student will graduate university with $ 28,000 in debt.

According to a University of Iowa study on brain activity led by physiological psychologist Debra L. Johnson, introvert brains show more activity in areas dealing with learning and planning, while extrovert brains are more active in regions that control sensory processes, like watching and listening.

Explaining their findings in Harvard Business Review, the study's authors, Harvard's Robert Huckman and Bradley Staats of the University of North Carolina, pointed to the time it takes new team members to learn how to communicate with one another and determine who is the best authority in different areas.

This caricature of a system that doles out unique scores to 1.4 billion people could not work technically nor politically, says Rogier Creemers, a scholar of Chinese law at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies in the Netherlands.

In Canada, ecosystem services research dates back to at least 2004, with the publication of Simon Fraser University Professor Nancy Olewiler's study, The Value of Natural Capital in Settled Areas of Canada.

Unfortunately for the Japanese labour markets, as with many other countries, many young intellectuals seek further study elsewhere in countries like the UK that have renowned Universities and research facilities, taking a large portion of the skilled labour force the Japanese markets need, into other areas of work such as research and academia, a less hands on field that benefits the computer science industry on the whole but does not help specific firms achieve their targets directly.

A 2014 study by Towson University's Regional Economic Studies Institute found hydraulic fracturing in that area of the state could generate more than 3,000 jobs and at least $ 5 million in tax revenue each year during peak drilling.

The rapid adoption of cryptocurrency and the ease of opening a business are some factors, and in Moscow, Russia, cryptocurrency is quickly becoming a mainstream area of study at universities due to high demand.

James Goss, whose area of interest is religion and literature, is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at California State University at Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, California 91324.

Near Kuala Lumpur the government has built a new International Islamic University, a truly impressive complex with students from all over the Islamic world (many subsidized), sparing no expense to build state - of - the - art programs in areas like electrical engineering and mathematics, as well as in Islamic studies.

For decades it seemed ready to come into its own as a major area of study in the universities and colleges.

Christiansen, who is currently studying at university, hopes that her achievements will benefit her new club and admits that her familiarity with the area and with some members of the squad will ease the transition into her new team.

A study, commissioned by the depository and conducted by the University of Illinois at Chicago, determined which areas have the highest levels of poverty and the least access to emergency food.

According to this study, breast milk not only affects babies physical growth, «but also areas of their brain that shape their motivations, their emotions, and therefore their behavioral activity,» reported Dr. Katie Hinde, a Harvard University professor involved with the study.

She hopes that one day this unique area of practice will evolve into a new field of study for colleges, universities and other educational institutions.

Such calls emphasise the importance of approaching the study of particular areas from the people directly implicated in such studies, rather than an academic sitting comfortably in a Western university, at a distance from the «area» in question.

He previously served as Pakistan Chair at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, UK (2010 - 2015) as well as Senior Research Associate at Centre for International Studies, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford (2010 - 2015); Associate Professor, School of Politics and International Relations, Quaid - i - Azam University (2005-2010/2015 -2016); Vice Chair / Assistant Professor of International Relations at Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus (1998 - 2005); and Senior Research Fellow at Area Study Centre, Quaid - i - Azam University (1996 - 1998).

Reza Hasmath is a Lecturer in Chinese Politics in the School of interdisciplinary Area Studies, and an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta.

With regards to the emergency question on the London Met debacle, immigration minister Damien Green said that there were three specific areas that had to be addressed: 1) why students had been studying without permission 2) a closer inspection of the university's student selection 3) the student attendance monitoring by the university.

«Given this, it remained to be seen whether the Coalition's plans to empower local areas would be realised», said Dr Ayres, who is based at the University of Bristol's School for Policy Studies.

It was introduced because the government is concerned that there are too few pupils — especially those from disadvantaged areas — who choose to study the core academic subjects desired by the top universities.

He has previously served as Assistant Professor of International Relations at Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus; and Senior Research Fellow at Area Study Centre, Quaid - e-Azam University.

According to the website of the Eastern Daily Press, the red rosette will be donned by one Chris Ostrowski, who is described as an «activist from London» whose connections with the area extend to having studied at the University of East Anglia and been seventh on the list of seven for Labour in the recent Euroepan election in the East of England.

Most recently, in a report published in January by researchers from McGill University, an analysis of New York City, Newark and New Jersey between September 2014 and August 2017 found that the median tenant within the study's area was paying $ 380 more in rent due to a decrease in housing stock caused by Airbnb's operations.

A University of Cambridge study commissioned by housing charity Shelter, set for full publication later this week, has revealed the extent to which central London boroughs will become «no - go areas» for those on local housing allowance.

The Brookings study found that Buffalo Niagara fared well in exports of services, a category that includes money spent by foreign residents to be educated at area colleges and universities and to receive medical care at institutions here.

That spot went instead to Vicki Been, formerly the head of New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy — which has also been somewhat critical of mandatory inclusionary zoning in its studies of programs in the San Francisco, Boston and Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas.

He explained that after feasibility studies, more areas owned by the university would be placed on mining lease, valid for 25 years.

In the study by Brian J.F. Wong, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of California, Irvine, and coauthors, faces of white women were ranked by attractiveness with varied lip surface areas created for the faces and upper to lower lip ratios manipulated.

Sarah Zielinski wanted to be a marine biologist when she was growing up, but after graduating from Cornell University with a B.A. in biology, and a stint at the National Science Foundation, she realized that she didn't want to spend her life studying just one area of science — she wanted to learn about it all and share that knowledge with the public.

To show how information builds up and flows among scientific disciplines, Columbia University computer scientist W. Bradford Paley, along with colleagues Kevin Boyack and Dick Klavans, categorized about 800,000 scholarly papers into 776 areas of scientific study (shown as colored circular nodes) based on how often the papers were cited together by other papers.

Co-author of the study Professor Matthew Bennett, from Bournemouth University, said: «What we are seeing is the movement of people across vast areas of land.

That means that wildlife managers need to start thinking now about new ways to reduce human - bird conflicts in urban areas, says Madhusudan Katti, an ecologist at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, who was not involved in the study.

«In order to expand our knowledge in these areas, doctors in clinics and regional hospitals must be on the alert for unusual disease phenotypes and refer such patients to specialized university hospital clinics for further evaluation,» says study author Mike Recher.

Academic Preparation for Modern Drug Discovery No one area of study can prepare an individual for all phases of the drug discovery process, according to Norman Uretsky and Larry Robertson of Ohio State University, thus students will need to become familiar with various academic disciplines.

A new University of Colorado Boulder study comparing dissolved black carbon deposition on ice and snow in ecosystems around the world (including Antarctica, the Arctic, and alpine regions of the Himalayas, Rockies, Andes, and Alps) shows that while concentrations vary widely, significant amounts can persist in both pristine and non-pristine areas of snow.

The study, «Spectrophotometric analysis at the single - cell level: elucidating dispersity within melanic immortalized cell populations,» was supported in part by the Mizzou Advantage program, an initiative that fosters interdisciplinary collaboration among faculty, staff, students and external partners to solve real - world problems in four areas of strength identified at the University of Missouri, including Food for the Future, One Health / One Medicine, Sustainable Energy and Media of the Future.

For farmers and ranchers in Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula during a six - year drought, the farther away they lived from urban areas, the more likely they were to have to make changes to cope with the dwindling supply of water, according to a Portland State University study.

«Historically, when we developed areas we used gutters and storm drains as our way of channeling that stormwater,» said Al Steinman, director of Grand Valley State University's Annis Water Resources Institute in Muskegon, who has been studying Little Black Creek's stormwater problem since 2007.

He received a full scholarship to study at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, through Carl Rowan's Project Excellence, a program founded by Rowan, a syndicated columnist who died in 2000, to aid African - American high - school seniors from the Washington, D.C., area who plan to attend college.

Co-author and supervisor Professor Bradley Eyre from Southern Cross University, who has been studying estuaries for more than 20 years, said the research should play an important role in quantifying the significant carbon footprint of estuaries in built - up areas worldwide.

Professor Julian Murton, from the University of Sussex, who led on the study, said: «As our climate warms mountain rock walls are becoming more unstable — so working out how to predict rock falls could prove crucial in areas where people go climbing and skiing.

«Our study shows the validity of two scales for assessing how cognitive impairments are associated with many substance disorders including alcohol, cannabis, cocaine and one's ability to function well in important interpersonal or occupational areas,» said Efrat Aharonovich, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, and first author.

People living in polluted urban areas are far less likely to be admitted to hospital with asthma when there are lots of trees in their neighbourhood, a study by the University of Exeter's medical school has found.

«When I started grad school, there was this idea that there were certain areas that people should study,» says Wager, now at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

In a study of small fishing communities, Xavier Basurto, an assistant professor of sustainability science at Duke University and colleagues, show that the coexistence of pro- and anti-sociality in groups may be more common than previously thought, especially for fishers living in marine protected areas.

The teeth came from a fossil - rich area called Cabin Fork in Wyoming and are part of a substantial collection at the University of Florida built in part by study co-author Jonathan Bloch, an associate curator of vertebrate paleontology there.

At Wonderwerk, Boston University archaeologist Paul Goldberg — a specialist in soil micromorphology, or the small - scale study of sediments — dug chunks of compacted dirt from the old excavation area.