Sentences with phrase «as senior author of the study»

As senior author of the study, Theodore Slotkin, Ph.D., and a professor of pharmacology and cancer biology at Duke pointed out, their work highlights the unpredictable and synergistic effects that exposure to multiple chemicals can have on the brain.

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Negative attitudes toward the idea of women as senior pastors are well documented in Edward C. Lehman, Jr.'s, sociological study Women Clergy: Breaking Through Gender Barriers (Transaction, 1985) The author analyzed detailed responses from 1,720 Presbyterian lay - people and 1,143 Presbyterian clergy concerning a wide range of attitudes toward women in ministry.

«We were surprised by the large number of concerns mothers had, and we were very concerned by how particular concerns were strongly related to giving up with breastfeeding» - such as worries about babies not getting enough nutrition, said Laurie A. Nommsen - Rivers, the study's senior author, from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

When Time magazine senior editor Jeffrey Kluger contacted the authors of some of the studies cited by William Sears for an article he wrote in May 2012, the scientists said it was unfair that Sears had used their work as evidence against sleep training.

As they studied brain activity in the knockout mice, the researchers also found prominent changes in a receptor in the brain known as mGluR5 and other proteins that support the function of neurons and synapses, said co-lead author Xiaoming Wang, M.D., Ph.D., senior research associate in Duke's department of pediatricAs they studied brain activity in the knockout mice, the researchers also found prominent changes in a receptor in the brain known as mGluR5 and other proteins that support the function of neurons and synapses, said co-lead author Xiaoming Wang, M.D., Ph.D., senior research associate in Duke's department of pediatricas mGluR5 and other proteins that support the function of neurons and synapses, said co-lead author Xiaoming Wang, M.D., Ph.D., senior research associate in Duke's department of pediatrics.

«In addition to INSIGHTS» focus on individual children's strengths and needs, our study illustrates the importance of understanding and supporting classrooms as a whole at the transition to formal schools,» said McClowry, professor of applied psychology at NYU Steinhardt and the study's senior author.

«For a long time, we've thought of brain imaging studies as mainly a way to corroborate or confirm aspects of brain function and pathology that we had already identified from studying a patient's behavior,» said Aysenil Belger, PhD, professor of psychiatry and psychology at UNC and the study's senior author.

The new study covers the entire U.S. West, from the High Plains states to the Pacific coast, and provides the first detailed look at how groundwater recharge may change as the climate changes, said senior author Thomas Meixner, UA professor and associate department head of hydrology and atmospheric sciences.

Worldwide, air pollution claims as many as 8 million lives,» says Prof. Ariya, senior author of the group's new study, published in Environmental Pollution.

«In this study, we used the small roundworm C. elegans as a model to show that autophagy in the intestine is critical for lifespan extension,» said Malene Hansen, Ph.D., associate professor in SBP's Development, Aging, and Regeneration Program and senior author of the study.

«Our study identified miR - 182 as a glioblastoma tumor suppressor that reduces the expression of several oncogenes that promote cancer development,» said senior author of the study Alexander Stegh, an assistant professor in the Ken and Ruth Davee department of neurology and of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

«In a number of these diseases, such as lupus and Sjogren's syndrome, a class of interferon known as type 1 interferon is made in abundance and plays a key role, contributing to the immune dysfunction,» said Mary K. Crow, MD, physician - in - chief at Hospital for Special Surgery and senior study author.

«As a cancer immunotherapist, what gets me really excited is when you take an established tumor and you make it disappear,» said Crystal Mackall, MD, professor of pediatrics and of medicine and the study's other senior author.

«This opens a new door in identifying biological markers for dementia since we might consider using the brain's processing of speech sounds as a new way to detect the disease earlier,» says Dr. Claude Alain, the study's senior author and senior scientist at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute (RRI) and professor at the University of Toronto's psychology department.

«In both clinical and non-clinical subjects, we see some of the same brain processes at work during conditioned hallucinations as those engaged when voice - hearers report hallucinations in the scanner,» said Corlett, senior author of the study.

«Addressing the capacity constraints may turn out to be as challenging as developing an effective treatment for Alzheimer's,» said Dr. Soeren Mattke, the study's senior author and managing director of RAND Health Advisory Services.

«However, studies have shown that HDL doesn't work as well in people at high risk for heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular diseases, and that the functional ability of HDL matters as much as its quantity,» said senior study author Montserrat Fitó, M.D., Ph.D., and coordinator of the Cardiovascular Risk and Nutrition Research Group at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute in Barcelona and at the Ciber of Physipathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBEROBN), Spain.

«This is a very promising finding, as the drug holds potential to affect the course of the disease itself, and not merely the symptoms,» said the study's senior author, Professor Tom Foltynie (UCL Institute of Neurology).

«These findings provide one more piece of evidence that decisions made in the heat of the moment are not as far - sighted as those made in advance,» said George Loewenstein, PhD, the Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Economics and Psychology at Carnegie Mellon, and senior author on the study.

«What we're observing from the combined dietary intervention is a reduction in systolic blood pressure as high as, if not greater than, that achieved with prescription drugs,» says senior study author Lawrence Appel, M.D., M.P.H., professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

«Although preliminary, our data suggest that patients with MS have reduced levels of good bacteria responsible for overall benefits obtained from consuming healthy foods, such as soybean and flaxseeds,» says Mangalam, who is senior author on the study.

«Aside from the direct association with cardiovascular risk factors, skipping breakfast might serve as a marker for a general unhealthy diet or lifestyle which in turn is associated with the development and progression of atherosclerosis,» said Jose L. Peñalvo, PhD, assistant professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University and the senior author of the study.

«This study tells us more about which children are most vulnerable to symptoms of PTSD and emphasizes the importance of limiting media exposure for all children and adolescents following life - threatening events such as acts of terrorism,» said senior author Dr. Margaret Sheridan.

«Kids were just as likely to notice the toy premiums in the kid's ads as they were the food, when their own standards require a de-emphasis on premiums compared to foods,» said James D. Sargent, MD, researcher at Dartmouth - Hitchcock's Norris Cotton Cancer Center and senior author of the study.

«The discovery introduces — for the first time — stem cell - based «biological resynchronization» as a novel means to treat cardiac dyssynchrony,» says Andre Terzic, M.D., Ph.D., senior author of the study.

«Blacks» reports of discrimination actually increase as wealth increases,» said Amani Nuru - Jeter, PhD, associate professor of epidemiology and community health sciences at UC Berkeley and senior author of the study.

«This study extends the narrative that many of the effects of disease - related genetic variation are specific to a certain context, such as a given immune cell type,» said Barbara Stranger, PhD, University of Chicago, senior study author.

Lead author of the study, Mr M. Mirac Serim, a senior PhD student working under the supervision of Prof Altan Baykal, said, «This pulsar is particularly interesting, since as well as orbiting its partner star as part of a binary pair, it is also still surrounded by the remnants of the supernova explosion which created it.»

Dr Tariq Aslam, Senior Lecturer in Ophthalmology at The University of Manchester, Consultant Ophthalmologist, at Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CMFT), and lead author of the study, said: «There have been amazing scientific achievements in diagnosing and treating serious eye diseases, such as wAMD, which have revolutionised our ability to reverse life - changing vision loss.

Professor Paul Heath, senior author of the paper, said: «Our study highlighted the difficulties in diagnosing this condition as well as variations in treatment across the UK.

«These findings are important as active surveillance is a growing trend in this country,» said study senior author Dr. Leonard Marks, a professor of urology and director of the UCLA Active Surveillance Program.

The study's senior author, Amy S. Gladfelter of University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, began this work as part of the HHMI / HCIA Summer Institute at the MBL, a group of 70 scientists who explored this emerging paradigm of cellular organization over five summers of intense, synergistic research.

We believe the conversation should be about AI as a complement to human beings,» said Nicholas Christakis, co-director of the Yale Institute for Network Science (YINS) and senior author of the study.

«In situations when smokers are drinking alcohol, it tends to trigger cravings for a cigarette,» explained Melissa J. Krauss, senior statistical data analyst at Washington University School of Medicine as well as corresponding author for the study.

The senior author of the study, Deanna Kepka, PhD, MPH, a Huntsman Cancer Institute investigator and assistant professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Utah, added that, «We are interested in looking at cultural values that may make certain demographic groups in the United States, such as Latinos, more supportive of adolescent vaccination than other demographic groups.

«We don't have as much time as we previously thought,» said Chris Langdon, UM Rosenstiel School professor of marine biology and ecology, and a senior author of the study.

«Now that we know the mice can be vulnerable to Zika infection, we can use the animals to test vaccines and therapeutics — and some of those studies are already underway — as well as to understand the pathogenesis of the virus,» said senior author Michael Diamond, MD, PhD, a professor of medicine at Washington University.

In the study, published in the current online edition of Cancer Letters, senior author Karine Cohen - Solal, PhD, and colleagues show for the first time that the RUNX2 transcription factor could also serve as a possible treatment target for melanoma.

«This switching becomes more frequent as children grow older and as their vocabulary size increases,» says Diane Poulin - Dubois, a professor in Concordia's Department of Psychology and the study's senior author.

According to the senior author Ken Smith, Ph.D., a population health researcher at Huntsman Cancer Institute and a distinguished professor of family studies and population science at the University of Utah, «This study shows that early - life socioeconomic status, based on factors such as parental occupation at birth, may be associated with cancer risk in adulthood.

«Although teen dating violence is typically viewed as a problem related specifically to adolescent development, our findings indicate that the risk for aggressive behavior and involvement in dating violence are related to stressors experienced much earlier in life,» says Jennifer A. Livingston, PhD, senior research scientist at RIA and lead author of the study.

«Activation of these cell receptors appear to prevent brain cells from cleaning out the trash — the toxic buildup of proteins, such as alpha - synuclein, tau and amyloid, common in neurodegenerative diseases,» says the study's senior author, neurologist Charbel Moussa, MBBS, PhD, director of Georgetown's Laboratory for Dementia and Parkinsonism, and scientific and clinical research director of the GUMC Translational Neurotherapeutics Program.

«This study suggests that the path to excellence in readmission is a result of an approach that focuses on the patient as a whole rather than on what caused them to be admitted,» said senior author and director of the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation Harlan Krumholz, M.D., the Harold H. Hines, Jr..

«As the date of first record is not available for most alien species, these numbers are clearly underestimating the full extent of alien species introductions,» says Dr. Franz Essl from the University of Vienna, Austria, senior author of the study.

Sara Brownell, an assistant professor with the school and senior author of the study, said there is a national movement to create biology tests that are more cognitively challenging, as these types of tests can improve students» conceptual understanding of biology; however, doing so may harm the very students they are trying to help.

Eyal Oren, UA assistant professor of epidemiology and one of the senior authors of the study, says that most physicians followed the guidelines for testing patients they suspected of having H. pylori infection when the patients came to them with likely risk factors, such as a previously diagnosed peptic ulcer or dyspepsia.

IMB Senior Principal Investigator Dr Bruno Reversade, one of the study's authors, who also led the discovery of Elabela two years ago, stated, «I am very pleased that we have further uncovered a critical role of Elabela in the establishment of the circulatory system, following its discovery as a hormone essential for heart development in 2013.

«Given the potential for future lethal pandemics, effective drugs are needed for the treatment of severe influenza, such as that caused by H5N1 viruses,» says senior study author Yumiko Imai of Akita University.

«As luck would have it, that was the first gene I tried, and that was the last gene I tried,» said Ubil, who conducted the research as a graduate student in the laboratory of former UNC faculty member and senior study author Arjun Deb, MDAs luck would have it, that was the first gene I tried, and that was the last gene I tried,» said Ubil, who conducted the research as a graduate student in the laboratory of former UNC faculty member and senior study author Arjun Deb, MDas a graduate student in the laboratory of former UNC faculty member and senior study author Arjun Deb, MD..

Earlier surveys incorrectly labelled ancient savannas as newly deforested regions, said A. Carla Staver, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and senior author of the study.