Sentences with phrase «information studies professor»

A School of Information Studies professor received a research fund from 2U, an education company that has formed partnerships with multiple Syracuse University schools and colleges.

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Calling it the «privacy paradox,» University of Michigan School of Information professor Cliff Lamp says in studying social computing he has found that people make a lot of noise when it comes to privacy, but push concerns aside in favor of convenience.

«Most websites are built by technology folks and then you slap a design on top of it,» said Jeffrey Rubin, associate professor at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University and CEO of SIDEARM Sports, a major provider of college athletic websites.

New Jersey — a wealthy, educated state with ready access to world - class health care in Philadelphia and New York City — has «better access to higher - quality information that lets us be more complete» in screening, Walter Zahorodny, a New Jersey Medical School professor and director of the New Jersey Autism Study, said in a conference call about the findings.

Business Insider previously spoke to Elena Belogolovsky, an assistant professor of human resource studies at Cornell University, who said that you don't have to disclose salary information for every employee, but you need to give people concrete information about how they can earn more.

The question of whether Cambridge used the data from the 270,000 people to mine information about their friends could constitute a breach of its agreement, said Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia.

It's too soon to draw any conclusions from the preliminary information that has emerged, said Brian Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina who has studied autonomous vehicle liability.

Professor Charles Benbrook, one of the authors of the study and a leading scientist based at Washington State University, explains, «Our results are highly relevant and significant and will help both scientists and consumers sort through the often conflicting information currently available on the nutrient density of organic and conventional plant - based foods.»

Despite finding that underreporting continues to be what she wrote in two 2013 studies to be an «alarming» [17] and «overwhelming» problem, [16] Johna Register - Mihalik, Ph.D, LAT, ATC, Senior Research Associate at WakeMed and Adjunct Assistant Professor at UNC - Chapel Hill, told MomsTEAM that the the reason the use of impact sensors was not among the recommendations she and her co-authors in those studies made to address the problem of chronic underreporting was that she viewed «the use of impact sensors in concussion detection, as the science, although a growing field of information, is just not quite there in how these may best be used from a clinical standpoint and across all sport settings.»

Katherine Dettwyler, an associate professor of anthropology and nutrition at Texas A&M University, conducted a study in the late 1990s on 1,280 children whose parents self - reported information about their breastfeeding practices.

«The stimulus that Election Day provides by giving people information, imposing social pressure to encourage them to vote, giving them social rewards from seeing neighbors and friends at a polling place — all the things that happen on a traditional Election Day — tend to be diluted,» said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, who worked on the AJPS study.

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.

One of the reasons biases are so rampant is rooted in the human need for «cognitive consistency,» which means processing information in a way that confirms preset beliefs, explains Ann - Sophie Chaxel, a professor at Virginia Tech and author of the study.

«This study really deepens our quantitative understanding of human behavior,» said Dashun Wang, assistant professor of information sciences and technology, Penn State.

In a study led by University of Louisville biostatistician Doug Lorenz, Ph.D., associate professor, School of Public Health and Information Sciences, the reliability and accuracy of a nine — member expert panel was measured in determining the likelihood of abuse in more than 2,000 cases.

«DAAD will provide better information about study and research opportunities in this region, promote the creation of university partnerships, and provide opportunities for Germans to take language courses in Central or Eastern Europe,» said DAAD president, Professor Theodor Berchem.

The study, published in Nature, was conducted by Professor Luciano Floridi, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information and Director of the Digital Ethics Lab, and Carl Öhman, a postdoctoral researcher at OII, advises that online remains should be viewed in the same way as the physical human body, and treated with care and respect rather than manipulated for commercial gain.

Dubbed «voter identity theft» by study authors Latanya Sweeney, Professor of Government and Technology in Residence, research analyst Ji Su Yoo and graduate student Jinyan Zang, the vulnerability could be exploited by attackers to attempt to disenfranchise many voters where voter registration information can be changed online.

«Our study suggests most patient information materials are not fit for their intended purpose, and that organisations are producing materials that may be too difficult for their intended audience to understand,» said Angela Webster, lead researcher and an Associate Professor Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Sydney.

«What we found is that if there is useful information contained in the advertisement and there is a recognized brand logo, then the credibility of the company is not damaged,» said study co-author Sun Joo «Grace» Ahn, assistant professor of advertising in UGA's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

«Other researchers were skeptical about whether it is possible to make an accurate match between public records and individuals taking part in a life - long study, but New Zealand's national databases are very reliable and Dunedin Study members have given us great information for matching over the years,» said Terrie Moffitt, the Nannerl O. Keohane University Professor in Duke's departments of psychology & neuroscience and psychiatry & behavioral sciestudy, but New Zealand's national databases are very reliable and Dunedin Study members have given us great information for matching over the years,» said Terrie Moffitt, the Nannerl O. Keohane University Professor in Duke's departments of psychology & neuroscience and psychiatry & behavioral scieStudy members have given us great information for matching over the years,» said Terrie Moffitt, the Nannerl O. Keohane University Professor in Duke's departments of psychology & neuroscience and psychiatry & behavioral sciences.

Professor Jim Haywood, from the Mathematics department at the University of Exeter and co-author of the study added: «This research shows how a global temperature target such as 1.5 or 2C needs to be combined with information on a more regional scale to properly assess the full range of climate impacts.»

«The assumption that it's always benign to give that information, and potentially helpful — I don't think that's true,» said Mark Rothstein, a law professor who studies bioethics and genetics at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law and School of Medicine in Kentucky.

Susanne Schmid, PhD, associate professor at Western's Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, and principal investigator on the study explains that acoustic habituation is a common form of sensory filtering, which refers to the brain's ability to block out extraneous sounds, feelings or visual information so that we are able to focus on what's most important in our surroundings.

Scientific American spoke with one of the study authors, Eric Finkelstein, an associate professor at Duke University's Global Health Institute and in the school's Health Services Research Program in Singapore, about why the extra helping of information did not influence ordering behavior.

The study, published in the September issue of Annals of Surgery online, shows that providing pricing information upfront can influence patient choice of surgical procedures and potentially lead to cost savings in health care, a sector of the economy that accounts for more than 17 percent of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product, says Eric R. Scaife, M.D., senior author, associate professor of surgery and chief of pediatric surgery at the University of Utah (U of U) School of Medicine.

«We're starting to get to the point where it might be possible to use the information about these variants to predict someone's likelihood of achieving EL,» says Matt Kaeberlein, professor of pathology at the University of Washington in Seattle, also not involved in the study.

Philip Fernbach and Donald Lichtestein, professors of marketing at the Leeds School, co-authored the study, which also examined what information consumers rely on when judging the quality of products on Amazon.com.

Prakash Deedwania, MD, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and author of the accompanying editorial comment said that this study provides clinically important information by demonstrating the evidence of subclinical atherosclerosis in people who skip breakfast.

The study, published in the journal Psychological Science, was led by Johannes Eichstaedt, a graduate student in the School of Arts & Science's Department of Psychology, and included H. Andrew Schwartz, a visiting assistant professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science's Department of Computer and Information Science; Margaret Kern, an assistant professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia; Gregory Park, a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Arts and Science's Department of Psychology; and director Martin Seligman, both of the Positive Psychology Center, as well as Lyle Ungar, a professor of computer and informatiInformation Science; Margaret Kern, an assistant professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia; Gregory Park, a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Arts and Science's Department of Psychology; and director Martin Seligman, both of the Positive Psychology Center, as well as Lyle Ungar, a professor of computer and informationinformation science.

The working group headed by Professor Joerg Hasford of the Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometrics and Epidemiology at LMU Munich is responsible for the methodology, data coordination and statistical evaluation of the Pre-POINT and Pre-POINTearly studies.

Professor Gan Chee Lip, Director of the Temasek Laboratories @ NTU, said this study shows how devices with seemingly strong security can be attacked using a side - channel, as sensor data could be diverted by malicious applications to spy on user behaviour and help to access PIN and password information, and more.

Professor Andrew King, a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow at the University of Oxford who led the study, explains: «Our results show that, with experience, the brain is able to shift the strategy it uses to localise sounds depending on the information that is available at the time.

The study, led by Zhimin Lu, M.D., Ph.D., professor of Neuro - Oncology, identified a previously unreported linkage between two enzymes known as Gcn5 and alpha - ketoglutarate dehydrogenase (alpha - KGDH), providing important new information about a histone modification process called succinylation.

The system's success «has serious implications concerning the fairness of the justice system,» says Stamos Karamouzis, dean of Regis University's School of Computer and Information Sciences in Denver, who led the 2006 — 07 study when he was a professor of computer and information sciences atInformation Sciences in Denver, who led the 2006 — 07 study when he was a professor of computer and information sciences atinformation sciences at Texas A&M.

Study co-author Peter Sandercock, Professor of Neurology, University of Edinburgh said, «I can not over-emphasise how useful these analyses are — they provide the type of clear information that patients and their families need when weighing the benefits and risks of this important treatment.»

«One of the main takeaways for researchers and practitioners is that wearable technology, unlike traditional technology, is a «fashnology» because they are both fashion accessories as well as functional technology,» says Dr. Fiona Fui - Hoon Nah, a professor of business and information technology at Missouri S&T and one of the study's co-authors.

«The founders of the Internet spent a lot of time considering how to make information flow efficiently,» says Salk Assistant Professor Saket Navlakha, coauthor of the new study that appears online in Neural Computation on February 9, 2017.

Shaffer, who also is an assistant professor of psychological sciences in the MU College of Arts and Science, believes that to further improve medical software and create the best end product, information technology (IT) experts who design the software should collaborate with experts who study how people interact with technology and medical professionals who would use the software.

«For this study, GRACE served as a unique tool that provided information on water volume changes directly from space, and corroborated the water balance estimates,» said Hyongki Lee, a co-author of the study and a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Houston.

Apart from the loss of time, money and resources, these failures are also «tragic because we have so little clinical trial information on children to begin with,» says Florence Bourgeois, an assistant professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School, who co-authored the study.

Medical director of Arthritis Research UK Professor Alan Silman said: «This is a comprehensive study that provides both patients and surgeons with valuable information about the risk and benefits of two effective types of knee replacement operations.

That's the finding of a new study published in the Journal of Marketing Research: «Healthy Choice: The Effect of Simplified Point - of - Sale Nutritional Information on Consumer Food Choice Behavior,» co-authored by Hristina Nikolova, the Coughlin Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College and J. Jeffrey Inman, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty and the Albert Wesley Frey Professor of Marketing at the University of Pittsburgh Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business.

«The findings provide new insight into how cells faithfully transmit this organizational information as embryos develop, and into what goes wrong when cellular development goes awry, thereby giving rise to abnormal cell development and diseases such as cancer,» says senior study investigator Danny Reinberg, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular pharmacology at NYU Langone and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

The findings «give us a window into understanding memory and, in particular, the issue of encoding new information into memory,» said lead study author Vladimir Sloutsky, professor of psychology at Ohio State and director of the university's Cognitive Development Lab.

He was previously a professor in information retrieval at the information studies department at the University of Sheffield.

Hersh, Andrew T. Pavia, M.D., also an infectious disease expert and professor of pediatrics at the University of Utah, Lauri A. Hicks, D.O., a medical epidemiologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and University of California, San Francisco, medical student Daniel J. Shapiro, conducted the study using a public database with information on ambulatory care visits at physician offices and hospital - based outpatient and emergency departments nationwide.

These areas emerged as more integral in a recent study by Riemenschneider and colleague Deborah Armstrong, Ph.D., associate professor in Florida State University's entrepreneurship, strategy and information systems department.

«Human sweat contains physiologically rich information, thus making it an attractive body fluid for non-invasive wearable sensors,» said study principal investigator Ali Javey, a UC Berkeley professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences.

We found that performing MRI before biopsy and using that information to alter biopsy pathways would be a strategy that would add health benefits to the patient population in a cost effective manner,» said Vikas Gulani, MD, PhD, study advisor and associate professor of radiology, urology, and biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and member of both the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and Case Center for Imaging Research.