Sentences with phrase «author assistants who»

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But lead author Dr. Valerie Flaherman, an assistant professor of pediatrics and epidemiology and biostatistics at UCSF, focused on this group since other data suggests that infants who lose this much are more likely to lose more weight; when babies drop 10 % of their birth weight, pediatricians become concerned that the infants may be at risk of other health problems.

«We found that babies who are fed only breast milk have microbial communities that seem more ready for the introduction of solid foods,» the study's lead author Dr. Andrea Azcarate - Peril, assistant professor in the department of cell biology and physiology, said in a press release.

Subjects who stopped smoking seem to partially recover their cortical thickness for each year without smoking,» says the study's lead author Dr. Sherif Karama, assistant professor of psychiatry at McGill University, psychiatrist at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute and an affiliate of the Montreal Neurological Institute.

«The women who had a diagnosis of a sleep disorder recorded in their medical record most likely had more severe presentations,» said Aric Prather, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at UCSF and senior author of the study.

Peng Shi, a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong, is the paper's other lead author.

The study includes first author Piran Kidambi, a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University; MIT graduate students Dhanushkodi Mariappan and Nicholas Dee; Sui Zhang of the National University of Singapore; Andrey Vyatskikh, a former student at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology who is now at Caltech; and Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT.

Using data from National Database for Autism Research (NDAR), lead author Kristina Denisova, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at CUMC and Fellow at the Sackler Institute, studied 71 high and low risk infants who underwent two functional Magnetic Resonance imaging brain scans either at 1 - 2 months or at 9 - 10 months: one during a resting period of sleep and a second while native language was presented to the infants.

«We found that healthy food stores within one mile of their home was the only significant factor that reduced or slowed the progression of calcium buildup in coronary arteries,» said Ella August, Ph.D., co-lead author who initiated the study and clinical assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

«Social research has a history of using both small - scale experiments and computer models to explore questions about human behavior — but there are very few examples of how to use these two techniques in concert,» says William Rand, a computer scientist and assistant professor of business management in NC State's Poole College of Management who is co-lead author of a paper describing the work.

«It is not really clear how slow - slip events interact with earthquakes, whether they can trigger earthquakes or it's the other way around — that earthquakes trigger slow - slip events,» said Jacqueline Reber, the study's lead author who performed this research as postdoctoral fellow at UTIG, and who is now an assistant professor at Iowa State University.

Based on their results, Gigi Ebenezer, M.B.B.S., M.D., assistant professor of neurology and the first author on the study, reported that protein clumps were detected in 70 percent of cases and 20 percent of patients who carried disease - causing genes but hadn't yet developed symptoms.

«Social networking is important, but what we've shown in political science is that the people who are using the Internet, be it Facebook, Twitter or whatever else for political activities, are really the same people who are politically active offline anyway,» said Patrick Miller, a KU assistant professor of political science and the study's lead author.

In most cases, wealthy outside donors are supporting reform - minded school board candidates who are competing with candidates backed by teacher unions, said Sarah Reckhow, MSU assistant professor of political science and lead author on the study.

Future studies are planned by Chang and other School of Medicine researchers — including senior author Kenneth R. Carson, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of oncology, and Graham Colditz, MD, DrPH, a cancer expert who also is associate director of prevention and control at Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes - Jewish Hospital.

«It's a «best of both worlds» approach,» says Wong, senior author on the paper, who is a principal investigator in the Boston Children's Hospital Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and an associate faculty member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University.

In addition to Barrows, the authors are Michelle Murphy - Mariscal, lead biologist for the Western Riverside Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan, and Rebecca Hernandez, an assistant professor at UC Davis who was previous a post-doctoral fellow at UC Berkeley.

«The thing that bothered me is that the author who submitted the manuscript to the journal was an assistant professor at a fairly high - powered academic university,» she says.

Until this trial came out we didn't know if it was going to be clinically better or not and now we know it is better,» said lead author Keipp Talbot, M.D., assistant professor of Medicine, who served as coordinating investigator for the more than 100 study sites.

Maryam Shanechi, a former MIT grad student who is now an assistant professor at Cornell University, is the lead author of the paper describing the computerized system in the journal PLOS Computational Biology.

Other determinants, including local labor market conditions, parental education and family structure appear to have a greater impact on child poverty levels, according to Myungkook Joo, assistant professor in Rutgers School of Social Work, who authored the study.

«Our story narrows it to two hypotheses, but emphasizes the significance of all of them,» said LSU Department of Geology and Geophysics Assistant Professor Suniti Karunatillake, who is a fellow lead author.

«For several years, the emphasis in the tobacco industry has been on this sort of direct marketing, especially to young people who are highly price sensitive and who may find coupons, samples, and promotions appealing,» said lead author Samir Soneji, Ph.D., an assistant professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.

To make this discovery, Amso, lead author Denise Werchan, fellow CLPS professor Michael Frank and then postdoctoral researcher Anne Collins, who is now assistant professor at the University of California at Berkeley, devised a task initially developed by Collins and Frank to test PFC function in adults.

«Quantitative, rigorous measurements are key to making important decisions about social welfare allocation and the distribution of humanitarian aid,» said lead author Joshua Blumenstock, assistant professor in the UW Information School, who is also an adjunct professor in computer science and engineering.

Lien, who was senior author on the paper, is also an assistant professor at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California.

«We drew our inspiration for the soft actuated material from the elegant design of the heart,» said Wyss Core Faculty member Conor Walsh, Ph.D., the senior author, who is also an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at SEAS and founder of the Harvard Biodesign Lab.

«In 2010, we had two visitors, probably from separate parts of the world, who each brought one genotype of measles with them,» said lead author Jennifer Gardy, assistant professor with the UBC School of Population and Health and a senior scientist with the B.C. Centre for Disease Control.

The fish offer a fresh opportunity to find out how animals can thrive with traits that would sicken humans, said co-senior author Nicolas Rohner, a former postdoctoral fellow in the Tabin lab who is now an assistant investigator at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Missouri, and an assistant professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center.

«These findings highlight that, in addition to promoting moderate - intensity physical activity to older adults, we should not neglect the importance of engaging in lower - intensity, movement - based behaviors when the opportunity arises,» said lead author Paul Loprinzi, who earned his Ph.D. at Oregon State and now is an assistant professor of exercise science and health promotion at the University of Mississippi.

«It's not surprising that men who post a lot of selfies and spend more time editing them are more narcissistic, but this is the first time it has actually been confirmed in a study,» said Jesse Fox, lead author of the study and assistant professor of communication at The Ohio State University.

The idea of being able to pin down whether we are in a sixth mass extinction, based on extinction rates measured today, was absolutely astounding to me,» said Hull, who is lead author of the study and an assistant professor of geology and geophysics.

Philosophers long ago suggested that awe binds people together, explains lead author Paul Piff, an assistant professor of psychology and social behavior at the University of California, Irvine, who began his investigation of awe in Dacher Keltner's lab at the University of California, Berkeley.

«The Pope sought to leverage his credibility to increase concern about climate change,» said lead author Asheley R. Landrum, an APPC postdoctoral fellow who is joining Texas Tech University as an assistant professor.

«The way people try to bridge gaps can introduce security issues,» said UW senior author Franziska Roesner, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering who focuses on computer security and privacy.

This is a big deal because it can affect so many processes that occur from the coast to the open ocean including marine organisms» lifecycles and underwater landslides,» said lead author San Diego State University Assistant Professor Jillian Maloney, who conducted this research as a post-doctoral researcher at LSU.

The paper's other authors are Nicholas Balascio (lead author), an assistant professor at the College of William & Mary who worked on the study as a postdoctoral researcher at Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory; and Raymond Bradley, a professor at the University of Massachusetts.

«While practice is necessary for elite athletes to reach a high level of competition, after a certain point, the amount of practice essentially stops differentiating who makes it far and who makes it to the very top,» said Brooke Macnamara, assistant professor of psychological sciences at Case Western Reserve University and lead author of the study.

«This research is important because extended use of these devices will reduce cost to both the individual and insurer and improve convenience for women, who can delay removal and re-insertion,» said first author Colleen McNicholas, DO, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology.

«This work is exciting in that it highlights a brain - based mechanism that supports a human's use of reactive control — the rapid and flexible deployment of attention to reduce susceptibility to distraction,» said Julie Bugg, assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences at Washington University who was not an author on the study.

«We're learning that kids who drink alone tend to do so because they're feeling lonely, are in a bad mood, or had an argument with a friend,» said lead author Kasey Creswell, assistant professor of psychology in CMU's Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

«At this stage, it is unclear how many people with ALS have the UBQLN4 gene variant, and this will be important to determine,» says Ma, the senior author on the study who is Ann Marie and Francis Klocke, MD Research Scholar at the Manne Research Institute and Assistant Professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

«We see a dose - response relationship between frequency of night shift work and type 2 diabetes, where the more often people do shift work, the greater their likelihood of having the disease, regardless of genetic predisposition,» said co-first author Céline Vetter, PhD who conducted this work while at the Channing Division of Network Medicine at BWH, along with co-first author Hassan S. Dashti, PhD, RD. Vetter is now an assistant professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Maus - a former Penn faculty member who is now the Director of Cellular Immunotherapy at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and an assistant professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School - is the senior author on the study.

«Despite having good treatments available, current reports suggest that fewer than half of individuals who need therapy are actually getting appropriate HIV medicine to control their virus, leading to more transmission of disease,» says lead study author Maunank Shah, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

«Darwin's finches are one of the best examples we have of speciation,» says the new study's first author, Jennifer Koop, who did the research as a University of Utah doctoral student and now is an assistant professor of biology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

«The new regimens will be game changers in the treatment of chronic hepatitis C,» said senior author Vincent Lo Re III, MD, MSCE, assistant professor of Medicine and Epidemiology in the division of Infectious Diseases and department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at Penn. «Given the high prevalence of this infection, particularly in baby boomers who didn't know they were infected, having new, highly - effective treatment options to eradicate the virus will be a tremendous benefit to patients that will ultimately help us to reduce liver - related complications and re-infection rates.»

«The origins of communication signals have long fascinated evolutionary biologists, and multiple potential mechanisms for these origins have been proposed,» says co-lead author Hannah ter Hofstede, an assistant professor at Dartmouth who investigates how sensory systems evolve to encode the environmental cues that are crucial for an animal's survival and reproduction.

«Obese patients who survive their sepsis hospitalization use more health care resources and require more Medicare spending — but this apparent increase in resource use is a result of living longer, not increased use per day alive,» says senior author Theodore Iwashyna, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of internal medicine at the U-M Health System.

«It's become evident that women who request federally funded sterilization are subject to a set of policy barriers that impede their reproductive autonomy,» explained Sonya Borrero, M.D., M.S., assistant professor of medicine, Pitt School of Medicine, and lead author of the study.

«Until now, we haven't had a compelling narrative about how leaf and stem traits have evolved to tolerate cold temperatures,» said lead author Amy Zanne, assistant professor of biology in George Washington University's Columbian College of Arts and Sciences who earned her doctorate at UF.