Sentences with phrase «author nicholas»

In his book The Shallows, author Nicholas Carr warns of the dangers of modern day «cybernetic blurring of mind and machine,» which «may allow us to carry out certain cognitive tasks far more efficiently,» but also «poses a threat to our integrity as human beings.»

Thomson Reuters will join with ABA Techshow in support of key sponsorships at this year's conference, including the Arrival Reception, Appathon, and the keynote address featuring bestselling author Nicholas Carr.

The economic constraint on environmental action can easily be seen by looking at what is widely regarded as the most far - reaching establishment attempt to date to deal with The Economics of Climate Change in the form of a massive study issued in 2007 under that title, commissioned by the UK Treasury Office.7 Subtitled the Stern Review after the report's principal author Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank, it is widely viewed as the most important, and most progressive mainstream treatment of the economics of global warming.8 The Stern Review focuses on the target level of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) concentration in the atmosphere necessary to stabilize global average temperature at no more than 3 °C (5.4 °F) over pre-industrial levels.

«Microsoft has a corporate desire to own the living room, first identified in the mid-90s: it is not addressing consumers» needs but Microsoft's desires,» says analyst and author Nicholas Lovell.

Some 75 speakers include Bonnier's Richard Johnson; Macmillan's Sara Lloyd and Wonderbly's (used to be Lost My Name) Asi Sharabi; Canelo's Nick Bareto; the incisive Gordon Wise from Curtis Brown; HarperCollins» Nick Coveney; Kobo's indefatigable Michael Tamblyn, still remembered for the funniest FutureBook speech on record; BookBub's Annie Stone; Penguin Random House's Albert Hogan; The Curve author Nicholas Lovell; Ebury's ingenious Rebecca Smart; Canongate's cunning Jamie Byng; Book Choice's Nathan Hull; Mammoth's Preethi Mavahalli; Hodder's Lis Tribe; and Dialogue Books» Sharmaine Lovegrove.

But author Nicholas Carr predicts that even reading books will soon enter this universe of «interruption» technologies, in which we're not just reading but also simultaneously participating in a distracted online dialogue related to that same book.

Science fiction and children's books author Nicholas Rossis and fantasy and paranoral romance author Effrosyni Moschoudi gave their novels a great boost with new, fresh, awesome covers.

I'm chuffed to welcome indie author Nicholas A. Rose to Books Are Cool for a friendly interrogation.

Director Martin Scorsese and stars of the film Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta and Lorraine Bracco, as well as author Nicholas Pileggi who wrote the book the film was based on, comment on the importance and impact of the film.

The gooey premise of «Song One» would probably make «Notebook» author Nicholas Sparks proud: A young woman develops feelings for a folk musician who is the idol of her comatose brother.

Moving away from the cruel halls of high school, McAdams next appeared opposite Ryan Gosling in The Notebook, the feature adaptation of author Nicholas Sparks» top - selling novel.

This expert interview with author Nicholas Aretakis will give you tips on meeting someone new.

«We have solved a fundamental problem that scientists had accepted would be part of vaccine production — that the virus is always going to mutate if it is grown in eggs,» said senior study author Nicholas S. Heaton, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular genetics and microbiology at Duke University School of Medicine.

We also mentioned the paper «The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis: A requiem» with lead author Nicholas Pinter.

Lead author Nicholas Pilfold, now a postdoctoral fellow at San Diego Zoo Global, said «the pattern of long - distance swimming by polar bears in the Beaufort Sea shows the fingerprint of climate change.

«Study co-lead author Nicholas Kwiecien, a graduate student, created a website that presents this data in a way that makes it easier to understand.»

«Both GWI and Alzheimer's disease result in profound cognitive impairment and share similar neurochemical underpinnings,» explained the study's lead author Nicholas Hubbard.

Inside the magazine, author Nicholas Carr argued that the Internet is damaging our brains, robbing us of our memories and deep thoughts.

«We would recommend being selective when indicating patients for injection, and limiting use of injections to people unlikely to undergo knee replacement in the near future,» said lead study author Nicholas Bedard, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.

While more research is needed, senior author Nicholas Port said the findings contribute important information to research on subconcussive blows — or «microconcussions» — that are common in sports such as football, soccer, ice hockey, snowboarding and skiing.

«We discovered this new fossil in marine rocks, and many of the features of its skull and jaws point to it having been a marine inhabitant, like modern oceanic dolphins,» said the study's lead author Nicholas D. Pyenson, curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

Among those is canine compulsive disorder (CCD), the counterpart to human obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD),» says the study's first and corresponding author Nicholas Dodman, BVMS, DACVA, DACVB, professor in clinical sciences and section head and program director of animal behavior at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University.

«Although oral estrogens are effective for managing menopause symptoms, not enough is known about the cardiovascular safety of different oral hormone therapy products relative to each other,» said first author Nicholas L. Smith, PhD.

Author Nicholas Jones» big theme is the relationship between politicians and the media.

The most substantial and readable is by the author Nicholas Shakespeare Six Minutes in May How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister (Harvill Secker).

Author Nicholas Cola titled the piece «NASDAQ 5000 - Don't Call it a Comeback» (March 3, 2015).

Graduates join the ranks of notable alumni who came before them, including former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan, and author Nicholas Sparks.

«The rapid and accurate perception of male sexual orientation may be just another symptom of a fast and efficient cognitive mechanism for perceiving the characteristics of others,» wrote study authors Nicholas O. Rule and Nalini Ambady.

Clearly, religious organizations have long sponsored missionary and humanitarian efforts in the developing world in ways far more extensive than educators have done.So often these have been inspired by women, making me wonder why concern for global poverty has become a gendered activity.In their important book, Half the Sky (2009), (required reading for Ghana participants), authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn argue that the lack of global attention to the plight of women is the greatest, challenge in the world today.

Not exact matches

That's the argument author and statistician Nassim Nicholas Taleb makes in his bestseller The Black Swan.

Apparently, this angered the owner of an Italian restaurant Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi (author of «Wiseguy,» of which the film is based) used to frequent.

As Nicholas Boothman, speaker and author of How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less, explained in one of his talks, «when you like someone you see the best in them.

In this article, authors Michael J. Fleming and Nicholas J. Klagge examine the effects of the liquidity facilities on the Federal Reserve's interest and fee income between August 2007 and December 2009 — the period of the facilities» greatest usage.

Roberta, a leading authority on leadership and the skills and strategies required to earn employee commitment and client loyalty, is the author of the top - selling book, Suddenly In Charge: Managing Up, Managing Down, Succeeding All Around (Nicholas Brealey, 2011), a Washington Post Top 5 Business Book For Leaders.

Numerous other luminaries and inspiring women and men joined us onstage, including U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Lisa Murkowski, best - selling author and principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre Misty Copeland, award - winning actress and star of Dietland Julianna Margulies, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and Dr. Fozia Alvi, a volunteer in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh.

-- Nicholas Meriwether, Grateful Dead Archivist, UC Santa Cruz, and author, All Graceful Instruments: The Contexts of the Grateful Dead Phenomenon and Dead Letters: Essays on the Grateful Dead.

-- Nicholas de Monchaux, Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, University of California, Berkeley, and author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo

CNN: My Take: The Christmas message of the real St. Nicholas Adam C. English, associate professor of religion at Campbell University and author of «The Saint Who Would Be Santa Claus: The True Life and Trials of St. Nicholas of Myra,» discusses his quest to learn the truth about St. Nicholas and how it led him to Italy's Adriatic coast.

Nicholas Rescher is author of more than eighty books in various areas of philosophy.

If you had the privilege of catching PBS» Independent Lens special, «Half the Sky,» based on the book by the same name authored by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, you will want to know that the Kindle edition of Carolyn Custis James» amazing book, Half the Church, is on sale this week for $ 1.99!

Nicholas Wapshott is a journalist, and the author of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: A Political Marriage.

Dr Catharine Abell, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Manchester Dr Arif Ahmed, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Cambridge David Archard, Professor of Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast Helen Beebee, Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy, University of Manchester Simon Blackburn, former Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, Fellow, Trinity College Cambridge, and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, UNC - Chapel Hill Margaret A. Boden, Research Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Sussex Dr Stephen Burwood, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Hull Dr Peter Cave, Lecturer in Philosophy, Open University Andrew Chitty, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Sussex Michael Clark, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Nottingham Antony Duff, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Stirling John Dupré, Professor of Philosophy of Science, University of Exeter Dr Nicholas Everitt, Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy, University of East Anglia Simon Glendinning, Professor of European Philosophy, LSE C. Grayling, philosopher and Master of the New College of the Humanities Dr Peter King, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Oxford Dr Brendan Larvor, Reader in Philosophy and Head of Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire Dr Stephen Law, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Heythrop College, University of London Ardon Lyon, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, City University London H. Mellor, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge Peter Millican, Gilbert Ryle Fellow and Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford Richard Norman, Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Kent Eric Olson, Professor of Philosophy, University of Sheffield David Papineau, Professor of Philosophy, King's College London Derek Parfit, Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford Duncan Pritchard, Professor and Chair in Epistemology, University of Edinburgh Janet Radcliffe Richards, Professor of Practical Philosophy, University of Oxford Jonathan Rée, philosopher and author Theodore Scaltsas, Professor and Chair of Ancient Philosophy, University of Edinburgh Peter Simons, Professor of Philosophy, Chair of Moral Philosophy and Head of the School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin Tom Sorell, Professor of Politics and Philosophy, University of Warwick Dr Tanja Staehler, Reader in Philosophy and Head of the Department of Philosophy, University of Sussex Thomas Uebel, Professor of Philosophy, University of Manchester Dr Nigel Warburton, philosopher and author Keith Ward, Regius Professor Emeritus of Divinity, University of Oxford John White, Emeritus Professor of the Philosophy of Education, Institute of Education, University of London Stephen Wilkinson, Professor of Bioethics, Lancaster University RE professionals (other than teachers):

It also includes authors such as Sebastian Junger and Nicholas Sparks, who wrote «The Notebook.»

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.

Other authors of the study are Nicholas Sergeant, Linxiao Zhu and Zongfu Yu of Stanford; Andrew Cloud, Hailong Ning, Justin Mallek, Berç Kalanyan, Gregory Girolami and John Abelson of Illinois; and Mark Losego and Gregory Parsons of North Carolina State University.

Such high - impact, unpredictable and rare events are what author Nassim Nicholas Taleb calls «black swans.»

Inhibitory cell - based neuro - therapy is a new approach and has shown promise to date in early animal studies, warranting further development,» says Cory Nicholas, a co-first author.

«By measuring naturally occurring ammonium and iodide in numerous samples from different geological formations in the Appalachian Basin, including flowback waters from shale gas wells in the Marcellus and Fayetteville shale formations, we show that fracking fluids are not much different from conventional oil and gas wastes,» said Jennifer S. Harkness, lead author of the study and a PhD student at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

«Identifying the correct, specific diagnosis often can be challenging for physicians who do not see a high volume of patients with spinal cord impairment,» says Nicholas Zalewski, M.D., a clinical fellow in the Department of Neurology at Mayo Clinic and first author on the study.

«We think it's definitely a reasonable solution to meet the needs of a terahertz communication network,» said Nicholas Karl, a graduate student at Brown and the paper's lead author.