Sentences with phrase «even at research universities»

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Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin, the University of California, San Diego and Disney Research recently conducted a study and found that when a person's smartphone is nearby — on the table or even in the same room — that person's performance on a cognitive task (requiring problem - solving and reasoning) will likely suffer.

Dave Valliere, founding director of the Entrepreneurship Research Institute at Ryerson University, even recommends that students put off founding a company after they graduate.

Rather than poach a leading researcher and their students, as many tech companies do, Element AI has taken a «visiting researcher» approach, allowing university researchers to work at the company and even publish their research as long as it does not include proprietary information from clients.

In the spring of 2013, research conducted by psychologists at Cambridge University blew the lid off how this easily accessible digital record of your behaviour can be used (ultimately without your consent) to extract sensitive personal information about you — the kind of information that you might not even share with your closest friends.

Research conducted at the University of California in San Francisco shows that the more difficulty that you have saying no, the more likely you are to experience stress, burnout and even depression.

This same survey found that 46 % of Canadians support a free trade agreement with China, up from 36 % in 2014 — and a recent study by Paul Evans, research director of University of British Columbia's Institute of Asian Research, puts that support even higher, at close research director of University of British Columbia's Institute of Asian Research, puts that support even higher, at close Research, puts that support even higher, at close to 70 %.

When a couple of Canadian economists published research (pdf) last December showing that using an alternative methodology yields much better productivity growth rates, StatsCan was quick to reject it, even though one of the authors, Erwin Diewert, a professor at the University of British Columbia's Vancouver School of Economics, is widely regarded as one of the world's finest brains in the field.

On the other hand, Erwin Chargaff, retired biochemist at Columbia University and an outspoken opponent of the research, says that «anyone affirming immediate disaster is a charlatan, but anyone denying the possibility of its occurring is an even greater one» (quoted in «Recombinant DNA: The Argument Shifts,» by Tabith M. Powledge, the Hastings Center Retort [April 1977], p. 19).

After 10 years of writing, researching, speaking at universities and having two books published all on what it truly means to be successful in your twenties, here are some truths I believe will help us all get on the right track — even if we've ungracefully fallen off of it.

American Catholic history may not be so booming a discipline as biblical studies or medical ethics, but even the most cursory survey of the American Catholic Studies Newsletter (published by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, itself an institutional expression of the growth of the field) reveals an extraordinary breadth of research, ranging from classic institutional histories and biographies of key figures to the new social history, with its emphases on patterns of community, spirituality, family life, and education.

They even fund research scientists at prestigious universities to conduct studies and write policy papers that are skewed toward saying that their products don't contribute to diabetes, heart disease, obesity etc..

Alan Smoufe, Professor of Child Psychology in the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota writes in March / April 2011 Psychotherapy Networker, «Another important implication of attachment research is that it's possible to develop a secure state of mind as an adult, even in the face of a difficult childhood.

«It's been linked to parental depression and even thoughts of infanticide,» says Dr. J. Marc Rhoads, a pediatric gastroenterologist at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital who researches colic at the University of Texas at Houston.

The University at Buffalo Foundation used an offshore fund to invest in fracking and fossil fuels, even as university officials sought to portray UB as a national leader in climate - change and sustainabilityUniversity at Buffalo Foundation used an offshore fund to invest in fracking and fossil fuels, even as university officials sought to portray UB as a national leader in climate - change and sustainabilityuniversity officials sought to portray UB as a national leader in climate - change and sustainability research.

So even though my dad is in his late 70s and usually is too absentminded to remember what he ate for lunch, his NDE is seared in his mind — something called preferential encoding, says Steven Laureys, a neurologist who is chair of the World Federation of Neurology Applied Research Group on Coma and Disorders of Consciousness and director of the Coma Science Group at the University of Liège in Belgium.

We will also apply for more observation time on the ALMA telescope to study the planet - forming discs in even higher resolution to get more detailed information about their chemical composition,» says Jes Jørgensen, associate professor in the research group Astrophysics and Planetary Science at the Niels Bohr Institute and Centre for Star and Planet Formation, University of Copenhagen.

According to Mather and other leading astronomers now working on a report to be released this summer by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), that quest and others require an even bigger space telescope that would observe, as Hubble does, at optical, ultraviolet and near - infrared wavelengths.

But at another university, Davis says, a faculty member on administrative leave might retain access to research facilities, or even be allowed to interact with students under appropriate supervision.

Even though Rienhoff is the founder of two biotechnology companies and holds a medical degree from Johns Hopkins University, he has conducted his hunt not as an expert in human genomics but as a do - it - yourself biologist, teaching himself the tricks of the trade as he moves along and doing his research at home.

So even if you are doing your Ph.D. research externally at some other independent research institute, you will need a «Doktorvater,» i.e., a full professor at a university, to accept your thesis and lead the final exam.

Almost everyone has imagined vengeful scenarios, even murderous ones, after particularly frustrating experiences, according to research by psychologist David Buss of the University of Texas at Austin.

New research carried out by the Chair of Animal Nutrition at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has found that even minimal zinc deficiency impairs digestion, albeit without any typical symptoms such as skin problems or fatigue.

Even if the sex ratio at birth were to normalize tomorrow, Catherine Tucker and Jennifer Van Hook, demographers with Pennsylvania State University's Population Research Institute, recently calculated that fully 10 percent of working - age men in China would still lack a female counterpart in 2050 — and that's assuming that men start marrying women their own age, a change from their current practice of seeking mates a few years younger.

But even today, scientists «are fired after 5 years at the CNRS» — the French national research agency — «so the research organizations or universities won't be obliged to give them an open - ended contract, which very much complicates their lives and the lives of the laboratories,» says Guillaume Bossis, a CNRS biologist at the Institute of Molecular Genetics of Montpellier.

You don't even need to stick to one university: the UK's top earthquake research centres at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Bristol are more than willing to share.

«These findings suggest that even neurons we previously thought were «useless» because they didn't individually encode information have a purpose when working in concert with other neurons,» said researcher Julio Martinez - Trujillo, based at the Robarts Research Institute and the Brain and Mind Institute at Western University.

The ostensible goal of that arduous and anxiety - fraught procedure — and of the even more involved process of hiring and promoting faculty members at research universities — is to identify the next generation of productive scientists.

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.

«This is a very optimistic and maybe even impossible objective,» says Douglas Richman, the director of the Center for AIDS Research at the University of California, San Diego.

Dr Marco Andreoli, a Research Fellow at the School of Geosciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, and a member of the Hypatia research team says, «When Hypatia was first found to be extraterrestrial, it was a sensation, but these latest results are opening up even bigger questions about its originsResearch Fellow at the School of Geosciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, and a member of the Hypatia research team says, «When Hypatia was first found to be extraterrestrial, it was a sensation, but these latest results are opening up even bigger questions about its originsresearch team says, «When Hypatia was first found to be extraterrestrial, it was a sensation, but these latest results are opening up even bigger questions about its origins.»

► Last Friday, after «Elsewhere in Science» went to press, ScienceInsider posted a piece by our own Elisabeth Pain — Science Careers» contributing editor for Europe — about France's Sciences en Marche, which is «a 3 - week relay race across the country by bike, foot, and even by kayak, aimed at pressuring the government to create more permanent jobs in science and better support universities and research centers.»

Leech, director of the Biomolecular Electronics Research Laboratory, at the National University of Ireland, Galway, added: «Even if, as claimed, this budget increases research funding, this does not bring us back to 2008 levelsResearch Laboratory, at the National University of Ireland, Galway, added: «Even if, as claimed, this budget increases research funding, this does not bring us back to 2008 levelsresearch funding, this does not bring us back to 2008 levels.»

But new research from Duke University suggests something quite different may be at play: Girls may be hardier than boys, even in the womb, and may be better able to survive pregnancies stressed by a troubled marriage.

Research has already shown that immune response provided by nasal mucous membranes is compromised in cigarette smokers, which causes them to be more susceptible to the outcomes of a viral infection, said Ilona Jaspers, deputy director of the Center for Environmental Medicine Asthma and Lung Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but her new research revealed even more immune suppression effects in e-cigarette users than in smokers of traditional cigResearch has already shown that immune response provided by nasal mucous membranes is compromised in cigarette smokers, which causes them to be more susceptible to the outcomes of a viral infection, said Ilona Jaspers, deputy director of the Center for Environmental Medicine Asthma and Lung Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but her new research revealed even more immune suppression effects in e-cigarette users than in smokers of traditional cigresearch revealed even more immune suppression effects in e-cigarette users than in smokers of traditional cigarettes.

«I don't want to give people false hope — these people weren't getting up and walking around — but it shows there is potential for the brain to recover functionality, even several years after damage,» says Steven Laureys at the University of Liège in Belgium, who led the research.

Advances in imaging technology are helping scientists find new details like this even in objects as familiar as a chicken eggshell, says Lara Estroff, a materials scientist at Cornell University who wasn't part of the research.

«Our findings may tempt some to call for a rollback of Massachusetts or even national health reform,» said Nancy Kressin, PhD, head of the Health / care Disparities Research Program in the Department of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine, member of the section of General Internal Medicine at Boston Medical Center, and senior author of the study.

As a result, when prairie voles are separated from their partners even for a short time, they experience withdrawal - like symptoms, says Larry Young, a behavioral neuroscientist at Emory University's Yerkes National Primate Research Center and co-author of the study.

Fruin's team at the Keck School of Medicine and the University of Southern California suspected that residents near LAX, the sixth busiest airport in the world, were getting exposed to excessive doses of pollution from airplanes even farther from the runways than previous research had considered.

Prof. Raymond Kaempfer, the Dr. Philip M. Marcus Professor of Molecular Biology and Cancer Research at the Institute for Medical Research Israel - Canada (IMRIC), in the Hebrew University's Faculty of Medicine, explains: «Rather than targeting the bacterial pathogens, which can then mutate to develop antibiotic resistance, host - oriented therapeutics have the advantage of remaining effective even against infections with antibiotic - resistant strains.

Even among people of normal weight, individual differences in brain functioning can directly affect eating behaviors, according to a 2009 study by Michael Lowe, a research psychologist at Drexel University.

This world, constructed by engineers, rarely appears in the curriculum until college, and even then, as little as 8 percent of incoming freshmen choose to pursue an engineering major, says Leigh Abts, a research associate at the University of Maryland's School of Engineering and College of Education.

And even fewer — 15 percent by some estimates — will get a post at the kind of research university where the nation's significant scientific work takes place.

When those days do come, however, they come with even greater ferocity, according to James Elsner, a geography professor at Florida State University and lead author on the research, published earlier this month in the journal Climate Dynamics.

«The fact that the bonobos failed to imitate demonstrates that even enhanced social orientation may not be enough to trigger human - like cultural learning behaviors,» notes Claudio Tennie, research group leader at the University of Tubingen, who coauthored the study when he was at the University of Birmingham.

Even today you will meet people in managing positions all over the world who acquired their education or did research at a German university.

The research — led by principal investigators Bradley S. Peterson, MD, director of the Institute for the Developing Mind at The Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles and Catherine Monk, PhD, of Columbia University Medical Center — indicates the potential significance for the child of even modest changes in maternal dietaryresearch — led by principal investigators Bradley S. Peterson, MD, director of the Institute for the Developing Mind at The Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles and Catherine Monk, PhD, of Columbia University Medical Center — indicates the potential significance for the child of even modest changes in maternal dietaryResearch Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles and Catherine Monk, PhD, of Columbia University Medical Center — indicates the potential significance for the child of even modest changes in maternal dietary health.

This provides the lifeblood of the University and it is possible that the financial downturn will even work to our advantage, if other scientific research institutions find themselves unable to recruit at this difficult time.

Olle Inganäs, professor at Linköping University, is head of a research group that has now developed an even simpler method to manufacture solar cell modules.

Recent research discoveries in the development of brain disorders could pave the way to new therapies for treating seizures, and even some children with autism, says a leading oncologist and researcher at the University of Alberta.