Sentences with phrase «leading universities want»
Leading universities want the cap on tuition fees to be lifted amid fears that higher education budgets may be slashed this summer.
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The study's lead author, Yorgi Mavros of Sydney University, was so impressed with the results that he has recommend twice - weekly weight training for all who want to keep their mental faculties sharp as they age.
«We wanted to create a situation where people could choose to lie or not lie, and it would happen naturally,» says the study's lead author, Lyn M. Van Swol, a professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
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The Fragile Families and Child Well - Being Study, led by researchers from Princeton and Columbia Universities, found that most unwed fathers are involved with the mothers of their children and say they want to be involved in raising their offspring.
The suspect, Daniel Bartholomew who has been on the wanted list of the command for the role he played in series of cult clashes in places like Agbara, Lusada and Igbesa was arrested opposite Crawford University by a team of policemen led by ASP Ajoba Lamidi when they were carrying out stop and search duty in the area.
«Until now, if you were to hang an advertising poster in the pedestrian zone, and wanted to know how many people actually looked at it, you would not have had a chance,» explains Andreas Bulling, who leads the independent research group «Perceptual User Interfaces» at the Excellence Cluster at Saarland University and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics.
«If you want a boy, eat a healthy diet with a high calorie intake, including breakfast,» says Fiona Mathews of the University of Exeter in the UK, and lead researcher of the study.
Lead author, Professor Callum Roberts from the University of York's Environment Department, said: «Many studies show that well - managed marine reserves can protect wildlife and support productive fisheries, but we wanted to explore this body of research through the lens of climate change to see whether these benefits could help ameliorate or slow its impacts.
«If you're going to look for life, you want a sedimentary rock,» says Munir Humayun, a meteoriticist at Florida State University in Tallahassee who led a study that last year pinpointed the rock's age.
Lead author Professor Debra Skene from the University of Surrey, said: «Our results show that if we want to develop a diagnostic test for a disease, it is imperative to take the time of day when taking blood samples into account, since this has a significant effect on metabolism.
A team led by Ron Dagan, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Soroka University Medical Center in Beer - Sheva, Israel, wanted to know if a new pneumococcal vaccine based on tetanus toxoid would change infants» immune responses to the standard regimen of vaccines, including those for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (DTP), and Haemophilus influenzae type B, which protects against meningitis.
«The basic question we wanted to explore was: does requiring a child to select a fruit or vegetable actually correspond with consumption,» says Sarah Amin, Ph.D., a researcher in Nutrition and Food Sciences at the University of Vermont and lead author on the study.
«If we want to study the evolution of Earth - like planets close to the habitable zone, we need to observe the zodiacal dust in this region around other stars,» said Steve Ertel, lead author of the paper, from ESO and the University of Grenoble in France.
The research team, led by Georgia State University and the University of Michigan, wanted to understand how a wound heals in the intestine because in IBD, which includes Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, damage to the intestinal epithelial barrier allows bacteria in the intestine to go across the barrier and stimulate the body's immune system.
So a team led by Blandine Doligez, now at the University of Bern, Switzerland, wanted to know whether birds make use of information gleaned by watching their neighbors.
«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.
«We want to avoid having people exposed to lead to the extent that it's feasible and practical, and it's clear that one of the key ways to minimize exposure is to use alternatives to lead ammunition,» said Dr. Michael Kosnett, a medical toxicologist at the University of Colorado at Denver School of Medicine.
«In light of the Affordable Healthcare Act, we wanted to validate concerns that insurance reform would lead to dramatic increases in healthcare use and costs,» said Amresh D. Hanchate, Ph.D., the study's lead author, an economist at the V.A. Boston Healthcare System and assistant professor at Boston University School of Medicine.
«I want them to be right,» says Matthew Collins, a leading paleoproteomics researcher at the University of York in the United Kingdom.
«For some reason, Salmonella really wants this nutrient, and if it can't get this one, it's in really bad shape,» said Brian Ahmer, associate professor of microbial infection and immunity at The Ohio State University and lead author of the study.
«We want to make some slight modifications and assess the systems with operations that have higher rates of SSI and see if we can have an impact on lowering the incidence of that complication,» according to lead author and second year MD - PhD student Christopher Chermside - Scabbo at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo..
«You want the cells to get activated but you don't want them to stay activated for too long,» says neurobiologist Katerina Akassoglou of the University of California, San Diego, because the fibers begin substituting for healthy liver tissue, leading to liver failure in people with chronic cirrhosis, for example.
«In our study, transgender youth decided to pursue fertility preservation at much lower rates than we would have expected from research on reproductive desires of transgender adults, which suggests that about half want biological children and over a third would have considered preserving their fertility if techniques had been available and offered to them,» said lead author Diane Chen, PhD, a pediatric psychologist with the Gender & Sex Development Program at Lurie Children's and in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
But the researchers on the new study wanted to know what the minimum threshold was — the lowest amount of physical activity that could still provide health benefits, said Dr. Srinivasan Beddhu, a kidney specialist at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City and lead author of the new study.
We wanted to understand the evolutionary links between this exceptional living group, and their Mesozoic relatives, including well - known extinct species like T. rex, Triceratops, and Stegosaurus,» said Dr Roger Benson of Oxford University's Department of Earth Sciences, who led the study.
Dr Richard Booton, Consultant Respiratory Physician at the North West Lung Centre and senior lecturer at the University's Institute of Inflammation and Repair who led the study, said: «We wanted to see if there were any differences between patients aged less than 70 years old and those older than 70, in terms of both the safety of the technique and how useful it was for diagnosis.
«We wanted to test if the conquest of Alexander the Great and other foreign powers has left a genetic imprint on the ancient Egyptian population,» explains Verena Schuenemann, group leader at the University of Tuebingen and one of the lead authors of this study.
Researchers led by Dr. Sirimon Reutrakul, associate professor of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism in the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, wanted to determine if morning or evening preference among people with Type 2 diabetes was associated with an increased risk for higher BMI and if so, what specific factors about evening preference contributed to the increased risk.
Lead author Dr Alex Serb, from Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, said: «If we want to build artificial systems that can mimic the brain in function and power we need to use hundreds of billions, perhaps even trillions of artificial synapses, many of which must be able to implement learning rules of varying degrees of complexity.
«Overall, China may want to consider a targeted investment in agricultural research and development,» said lead author Carole Dalin, a Princeton University Ph.D. student studying environmental engineering.
«We wanted to evaluate whether ICU care is always beneficial,» said lead author Thomas Valley, MD, MSc, a pulmonary and critical care researcher at the University of Michigan Medical School.
«Most women whose ovarian cancer is recurring want every edge to extend their lives,» said lead author Robert L. Coleman, MD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
Robert Goodall, University of Leicester PhD student and lead author of the paper, added: «If you want good results — with all the ridges and bumps on a surface reproduced at the same scale as the original — you need to use the right rubber for the job.»
«In conducting the original study, we primarily wanted to evaluate whether FMT was safe in patients with recurrent HE compared with SOC alone», explained Dr Jasmohan Bajaj from Virginia Commonwealth University and McGuire VA Medical Center in Richmond, USA, and lead author of the study.
Wanting to know the answers to how and why a system functioned led me into science at school and then, when choosing a university course, I discovered the subject of immunology simply by looking through university prospectuses.
Universities need to get better at sharing patented seeds and other products of publicly - funded agricultural science if the United States wants to keep producing bountiful harvests, argues a new report from a group of leading academic researchers.
In a study led by John Phillips at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, some doctors did not want to offer the test because they dis - agreed with abortion, or did not want to offend patients who felt this way.
«We want to know if species will be able to adapt to climate change quickly enough based on how they adapted to climate change in the past,» says evolutionary ecologist John Wiens, of the University of Arizona in Tucson, and lead author of the new study.
Because the genes help produce nicotine's buzz, a team led by Robert Weiss, a geneticist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, wanted to determine if variations in their sequences influence whether people develop a stronger addiction to cigarettes.
«We wanted to study this phenomenon to better understand the kinds of problems that guideline - makers encountered in making reliable guidelines and how processes might be improved in the future,» says lead author, Mark Neuman, MD, MSCE, assistant professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Senior Fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
«We wanted to explore how student - athletes at top - tier universities cope with the dual challenges of meeting the expectations of their teams while simultaneously complying with their responsibilities as university students,» says Dr. Lynsey Romo, an assistant professor of communication at NC State and lead author of a paper on the work.
«We knew that the star had three planets from previous studies, so we wanted to see whether there were any more,» said Mikko Tuomi of the University of Hertfordshire, who also led the team.
«We really wanted to see whether there really was any truth to this idea that they're working together for a benefit,» said Steven Portugal, a biomechanist at the University of London's Royal Veterinary College and lead researcher on the new Nature paper.
In addition, a lack of data sharing leads to the inability to replicate results, universities that want to make headlines exaggerate findings, and the media's quest for ratings and readership often trumps quality reporting.
«It seems to me that people who want to pursue a healthy lifestyle are somehow being misled to believe that these drinks are somehow good for them,» says the lead author of the study, Nalini Ranjit, PhD, an assistant professor at the University of Texas School of Public Health at Houston.
«We wanted to get a handle on this because stroke is one of the major causes of maternal mortality in this country,» said the study's lead author, Dr. Eliza Miller, an assistant professor of neurology at Columbia University Medical Center.
«If you want to preserve muscle during weight loss, you need to stimulate it with a progressive resistance training program,» says Kristen Beavers, assistant professor of health and exercise science at Wake Forest University and lead author on the study.
I originally wanted to become a photographer, but university courses led me into a career as a graphic and web designer.
If you are curious about numbers: about 81 percent of people misrepresent their height, weight or age in their profiles, according to a study led by Catalina L. Toma, an assistant professor in the department of communication arts at the University of Wisconsin - Madison who wanted to learn more about how people present themselves and how they judge misrepresentation.