Sentences with phrase «even as investigators»

Not exact matches

In an era when Mark Zuckerberg can be called on the carpet by Senate investigators because of possible wrongdoing by Facebook over the Russian hacking scandal — and at a time when researchers are actively examining whether social media is psychologically, maybe even physically addictive — revenge porn as a public policy issue is on the ascent.

«Uber's lack of security regarding its customer data was resulting in Uber employees being able to track high profile politicians, celebrities, and even personal acquaintances of Uber employees, including ex - boyfriends / girlfriends, and ex-spouses,» Uber's former forensic investigator Ward Spangenberg was quoted as saying under penalty of perjury in filings from a lawsuit is pursuing against the company.

WASHINGTON — Even as Apple became the nation's most profitable technology company, it avoided billions in taxes in the United States and around the world through a web of subsidiaries so complex it spanned continents and went beyond anything most experts had ever seen, Congressional investigators disclosed on Monday.

Even assuming he signed it, the bill would theoretically be a law re-appointing Mueller as special prosecutor / independent investigator, which Congress is already capable of doing via impeachment, select committees, etc..

Even as independent investigator Bart Schwartz's presence is held up as a measure of confidence in the Cuomo administration and the state's vast economic development apparatus, several questions remain about Schwartz's role and power.

But the acquaintance, who the New York Post identified as businessman Eric Hu, began cooperating with federal investigators and even wore a wire to build evidence against Meng.

Today, it is generally thought that becoming an investigator as well as a clinician requires training beyond what is normally included in the medical school curriculum even at research - intensive universities.

Investigators have now uncovered an even longer wall as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which is mapping 1 million galaxies across a quarter of the sky with telescopes at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico.

In Bronze Age Europe, even the historical accounts of war were lacking, and all investigators had to go on were weapons in ceremonial burials and a handful of mass graves with unmistakable evidence of violence, such as decapitated bodies or arrowheads embedded in bones.

«We've known for some time that sleep deprivation is associated with weight gain and obesity in the general population, but this study shows that getting enough sleep — even just two hours more — may be as important as a healthy diet and exercise for new mothers to return to their prepregnancy weight,» says Erica Gunderson, an investigator at Kaiser Permanente Divison of Research in Oakland, Calif., and lead author of the study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

Carnegie Mellon researchers are also studying ways to apply computer vision to searches in a way that helps investigators identify images with similar elements — such as furniture from the same hotel room that appears in multiple images — even if the images themselves are not identical, says Jeff Schneider.

All investigators can apply for the designation — even parties that have limited experience in bioinformatics, as long as they first win one of NIH's new» P20 planning grants.»

The investigators said their model would be made even more accurate as more information on Greenland is compiled in the research community.

Even when the investigators removed the scans of 16 participants who were dependent on alcohol as well as cocaine, the link between cocaine use and brain volume loss remained.

Over the past decade, SNPs have shed new light on the genetic risk factors for common illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease — and they've even helped federal investigators hone in on a suspect in the anthrax case (ScienceNOW, 12 August).

Even if data showing superiority of Singleplex were accurate, the investigators say the 39 % «overstates the potential impact» of missed cases; clinicians use the test as only one indicator when making a Zika diagnosis, and if that's factored in, the missed cases drop to a maximum of 12 % even with the most discrepant teEven if data showing superiority of Singleplex were accurate, the investigators say the 39 % «overstates the potential impact» of missed cases; clinicians use the test as only one indicator when making a Zika diagnosis, and if that's factored in, the missed cases drop to a maximum of 12 % even with the most discrepant teeven with the most discrepant tests.

And the claim typically persists for decades once widely - cited, despite the best efforts of serious investigators to critique weak methodologies and flawed interpretation, or even robust demonstrations of a null effect in healthy animals (as the two independent demonstrations that resveratrol does not extend lifespan in nonobese, wild - type mice over a wide range of doses).»

The results were even more auspicious when the investigators stratified vaccinated subjects by antibody responder status: subjects who successfully mounted an immunological response to the vaccine enjoyed statistically significant benefits as measured with the IGA, the two motor function subscales of the MDS - UPDRS, and the Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire (PDQ - 39) of quality of life (though not on the PD Non-Motor Symptoms Questionnaire (NMS - Quest / PD - NMS)-RRB-, while no benefit was observed in nonresponders on any scale (Table 1).

As a consequence, many investigators, who quite naturally seek career advancement, strive to publish in these journals even at the expense of repeated cycles of review, wasteful additional experimental work and ultimately lost time.

Some of our alumni even come back — such as our former postdoc Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, who is now a senior investigator at Gladstone and former graduate student Michael L. Penn, Jr., MD, PhD, who returned to Gladstone as vice president for Diversity, Outreach, and Mentoring.

«The results seem pretty dramatic,» says Mark P. Mattson, PhD, a senior investigator at the National Institute on Aging in Bethesda, Md. «Even though the number of subjects in the study was not really high, they had really high, statistically significant improvements in their performance on the memory test,» added Mattson, who studies caloric restriction and the brain in his role as chief of the Cellular and Molecular Neurosciences Section at the Laboratory of Neurosciences but was not involved in Dr. Floel's investigation.

Dr. Herta Spencer, of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Hines, Illinois, explains that the animal and human studies that correlated calcium loss with high protein diets used isolated, fractionated amino acids from milk or eggs.19 Her studies show that when protein is given as meat, subjects do not show any increase in calcium excreted, or any significant change in serum calcium, even over a long period.20 Other investigators found that a high - protein intake increased calcium absorption when dietary calcium was adequate or high, but not when calcium intake was a low 500 mg per day.21

As the evening progresses it seems the investigators are not prepared for the horror still within the house.

There's also a nice, steely turn by Robert John Burke as an investigator and a good score by Marco Beltrami (even if it initially quotes too obviously from «Vertigo»).

The unseen events bookending Easy Rawlins» (Denzel Washington) transition from disaffected war veteran to private investigator - namely his former criminal escapades with a trigger - happy associate in Texas (Don Cheadle) versus his further adventures as a fully - fledged gumshoe - unfortunately sound a lot more interesting than the story we are being told, making this feel like a sequel to, or a two - hour trailer for, an even better film.

Even vets Jeff Goldblum (The Life Aquatic) and Luke Wilson (Legally Blonde 2) show charisma that they haven't always been allowed in films in some time in their respective roles as the horny next door neighbor and tenacious police investigator.

Long before the Noir period started, sound on film ushered in several great series of detective movie series where the lead was usually a bright crime solver, but the gumshoe, gritty detective was not far behind and Noir kicked in just in time for that kind of investigator as the classical detectives (Charlie Cahn, Mr. Moto, Sherlock Holmes, The Thin Man) were on a roll that even defied studio expectations.

It seems every generation must have its own version of The Thomas Crown Affair: The original was released in 1968, with Steve McQueen as a wealthy playboy who committed robberies just because he could get away with it, and Faye Dunaway as the insurance investigator who uncovers his scheme even while falling for him.

Leigh Whannell co-created the first two films as writer, and even had an acting role as one of the paranormal investigators, Specs but why James Wan is not directing the third film is unclear.

But Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson, who gave solid performances in the original, make an even greater connection here as the real - life wife - and - husband team of paranormal investigators Lorraine and Ed Warren, whisked off to England in 1977 to confirm the legitimacy of the haunting of a house occupied by a single mom (Frances O'Connor) and her four children.

Before even having the chance to check in at the Baker Detective Agency where his dad had worked as a private investigator, Tim becomes distracted when he witnesses some mischievous Aipom stealing a young girl's necklace and tries to unsuccessfully intervene — a situation that results in Tim accidentally finding himself holding Pikachu by his ears.

There are a couple of other major changes — neither crippling — but the thrust remains the same: Constantly shifting between two time periods (2001 and today), it follows an intrepid investigator (Chiwetel Ejiofor) as he spends years trying to locate the man who raped and killed a young woman, assisted in his efforts by his colleagues (Nicole Kidman and Julia Roberts) but meeting heavy resistance and even interference from top - level government officials.

Powerpoint presentation lesson plan with pupils in role as investigators, analysing the text without even realising it!

This includes restoring rules allowing Office for Civil Rights investigators to look at years of past complaints against districts to determine patterns of discrimination, hiring more investigators to look into patterns of disparate impact, and even requiring states such as Maryland to implement stronger rules against overuse of harsh discipline.

«We're increasingly recognizing the importance of physical activity for children even as the academic demands placed on them are cutting into the traditional programs of recess and physical education,» said Gerd Bobe, an assistant professor in the OSU College of Agricultural Sciences, an expert in public health nutrition and behavior, and principal investigator with the Linus Pauling Institute.

I worked in management, finance / mortgage collection and even worked as a licensed private investigator for years but nothing could prepare me for my current work.

Actually at the time I was a bit unhappy with the OIG's finding that Penn State hadn't done enough; I didn't think it was deserved, as no reasonable investigator familiar with the science would even want to interview these so - called «critics».

North would likely tell the PSU that independent investigators (Wahl & Ammann) had reached the same conclusions as Mann using the same data — even if M&M did not.

For those species where climate change has been invoked as a causal factor in extinction (such as for the case of Central American amphibians), there is low agreement among investigators concerning the importance of climate variation in driving extinction and even less agreement that extinctions were caused by climate change (Pounds et al., 2006; Kiesecker, 2011).

Even if the experiment had been done accurately, it's unclear whether the investigators would have considered the one percent change in transmission «significant,» since they already regarded their measured half percent change as «insignificant.»

An expert can be any person who has significant experience in the trucking field, such as a trucking company's safety director, the former owner of a trucking company, a former investigator for the department of transportation in your state, an accident reconstruction specialist or even a truck driving trainer / instructor.

That defence — a defence which recognizes that people in particular positions, such as investigators for regulatory bodies, must be immune from lawsuits for their saying things that may lessen someone's reputation, even where the plaintiff alleges «malice» — was accepted by the Ontario Court of Appeal in D'Mello v. Law Society of Upper Canada, 2014 ONCA 912:

«The conclusion that we would make is that these [soft] skills should be emphasized even more in our education system and in our system of socializing children,» says Kenneth Dodge, a professor of public policy and of psychology and neuroscience at Duke who was a principal investigator in this study as well as in the original Fast Track project.