Sentences with phrase «recent research associates»

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According to recent research from Square, 37 percent of consumers are frustrated with slow checkout lines and 91 percent of debit card users are frustrated by the slow speeds associated with using a chip card.

There are several reasons for the recent volatility, says E. B. Tucker, an analyst at Baltimore's Stansberry & Associates Investment Research, but the main culprit is the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing program.

(Recent research on public employee plans in Massachusetts found that tighter networks were associated with large savings.)

It's a statement supported by a recent survey conducted by EKOS Research Associates Inc..

«While improving in many respects in the most recent years, the longer - term trends in debt are troubling as far as retirement preparedness is concerned,» says Craig Copeland, Senior Research Associate at EBRI.

What we get are the economic factors,» Jon Spader, senior research associate with Harvard's Joint Center for Housing, said at a recent panel discussion at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Since the S&P 500 Index and growth stock indexes have been dominating in recent years, the academic evidence suggested by the research of Martin Cremers and his associates is useful.

Recent research has established beyond a shadow of doubt that Jewish religious practice included a large element of sacramental worship, associated with table meals of religious fellowship.

Recent clinical research links CVH47 with improved vascular function, associated with preventing diabetes, heart disease, obesity and hypertension, according to the company.

Yet again it looks like the spice is right as recent research suggests an incredibly wide scope in health benefits associated with the consumption of hot chile peppers.

Recent research suggests that the brains of good early readers use all four of the brain regions associated with each of these functions.

A recent review of the literature examined the evidence for and against nipple confusion and concluded: «The relationship between exposure to artificial nipples and pacifiers and the development of the aversive feeding behaviors associated with nipple confusion is neither refuted nor supported in the research literature.»

Quoting the journal Pediatrics: «Although recent research has shown the negative consequences associated with background television, this study provides the first nationally representative estimates of that exposure.

Moreover, robust evidence on the cost effectiveness of birth in alternative settings is a priority, as was highlighted by the recent National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) clinical guidance on intrapartum care.11 The Birthplace in England research programme was designed to fill gaps in research evidence about the processes and outcomes associated with different settings for birth in the NHS in England.

Meta - analyses of this expanded research base confirm the model's impacts on a range of risk and protective factors associated with child maltreatment.7, 8,9 In addition, all of the major home visitation models in the U.S. are currently engaged in a variety of research activities, many of which are resulting in better defined models and more rigorous attention to the key issue of participant enrolment and retention, staff training and quality assurance standards.10 For example, recent findings emerging from the initial two - year follow - up of the Early Head Start National Demonstration Project confirm the efficacy of home visitation programs with new parents.

Recent research has found that epidural medications during labor and delivery are associated with 0.5 % greater weight loss by the newborn, and increased rates of supplements in hospitals, along with fewer babies being fully breastfed on discharge from hospitals.

Over 100 different oligosaccharides have been identified in the human colon, and recent research has shown that variations in the oligosaccharides within the mucus are associated with variations in the composition of the gut microbiota.

«Recent studies found that scale insect populations increase on oak and maple trees in warmer urban areas, which raises the possibility that these pests may also increase with global warming,» says Dr. Elsa Youngsteadt, a research associate at NC State and lead author of a paper on the work.

Dr David Carslake, the study's lead author and Senior Research Associate from the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU) at the University of Bristol, said: «An alarming increase in obesity levels across the world which have risen from 105 million in 1975 to 641 million in 2014, according to a recent Lancet study, create concern about the implications for public health.

The proximate causes of species decline relative to resilience remain largely obscure; however, recent examples of climate - associated species decline can help guide current management in parallel with ongoing research.

These issues of astronaut health «must be dealt with now before fundamental decisions are reached concerning the appropriate time for humans to move away from Earth on voyages of exploration,» Ronald White, former associate director of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute in Houston, wrote in a recent paper.

The new research focused on just nine genes, those most strongly associated with autism in recent sequencing studies, and investigated their effects using precise maps of gene expression during human brain development.

Still, the research complements other recent studies that showed BCT was associated with a survival benefit compared to mastectomy.

«I was extremely happy to use the convection modeling techniques I developed during my recent PhD work at Washington University, and to apply them to this amazing place on Pluto,» said Teresa Wong, a postdoctoral research associate at Washington University and a co-author on the study.

Michaud noted that the findings were particularly interesting in light of research, including a recent study in Science, which determined that colorectal cancer tissues contain bacteria that are present in the mouth, including bacteria that have been associated with periodontal disease.

Recent research has yielded new information about immune responses associated with — and potentially responsible for — protection from HIV infection, providing leads for new strategies to develop an HIV vaccine.

Previous research has shown that hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) after CABG and other cardiac surgery is associated with increased morbidity and mortality; however, more recent studies have shown that liberal maintenance of blood glucose levels (< 180 mg / dL) after CABG surgery can be safer and more advantageous in both diabetic and non-diabetic patients.

One recent example at my university helped me understand this distinction between a postdoc and a research associate.

While deaths from infectious diseases have been steadily declining as a result of research and medical intervention, preterm birth has remained a much more difficult problem, say the authors of a recent study that collated child mortality rates and their associated causes between 2000 and 2013.

Although prions are typically associated with negative effects, recent research from Whitehead Member Susan Lindquist's lab has shown that prions can introduce evolutionarily beneficial traits that help an organism survive environmental stresses.

«Traditionally, heavy drinking has been shown to be more prevalent in men, though more recent studies point to a narrowing in the gender gap,» said Megan Bertholomey, Ph.D., a postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Mary Torregrossa, Ph.D., at the University of Pittsburgh who conducted the research.

Biology faculty members like Cullis are «far and away the most likely to involve undergraduates in their research,» said Lorelle L. Espinosa, a senior analyst with Abt Associates who spoke at a recent conference on improving biology undergraduate education.

A recent analysis of the existing research on factors associated with an individual's risk for engaging in terrorist activity highlights how little we know about these factors and the need for additional research in this area.

Recent research suggests that the ability to delay immediate gratification is associated with less frequent...

Joel Eissenberg, Ph.D., associate dean for research and professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, shares highlights from recent decades in the field of genetics.

Peiyuan Wang, graduate student, kinesiology; Amanda Chennavasin, recent undergraduate, biomedical engineering; Jacqueline R. Tucker, sophomore, biomedical engineering; Marissa Reynolds, project coordinator; Cynthia L. Huang - Pollock, associate professor, psychology; and Koraly Pérez - Edgar, associate professor, psychology, all at Penn State; and Shaadee Samimy, graduate student, psychology, now at The Ohio State University, also contributed to this research.

The Front Part of a Cell - It's a sunny afternoon on a recent day in La Jolla, and Associate Professor Richard Klemke and Research Associate Yingchun Wang of Scripps Research are explaining the science that recently won Wang a $ 135,000 grant from the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

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Recent research shows that there is high microbial activity on glacial surfaces (Anesio et al., 2009), some associated with pigmented algae, which absorb significantly more light than local inorganic dust particles on the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS)(Lutz et al., 2014).

References: Lebrato, M., de Jesus Mendes, P., Steinberg, D. K., Cartes, J. E., Jones, B. M., Birsa, L. M., Benavides, R. und Oschlies, A. (2013) Jelly biomass sinking speed reveals a fast carbon export mechanism Limnology and Oceanography, 58 (3), http://dx.doi.org/10.4319/lo.2013.58.3.1113 Lebrato, M., Pahlow, M., Oschlies, A., Pitt, K. A., Jones, D. O. B., Molinero, J. C. und Condon, R. H. (2011) Depth attenuation of organic matter export associated with jelly falls Limnology and Oceanography, 56, http://dx.doi.org/10.4319/lo.2011.56.5.1917 Lebrato, M., Pitt, K. A., Sweetman, A. K., Jones, D. O. B., Cartes, J. E., Oschlies, A., Condon, R. H., Molinero, J. C., Adler, L., Gaillard, C., Lloris, D. und Billett, D. S. M. (2012) Jelly - falls historic and recent observations: a review to drive future research directions Hydrobiologia, 690 (1), http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-012-1046-8

It's a sunny afternoon on a recent day in La Jolla, and Associate Professor Richard Klemke and Research Associate Yingchun Wang of The Scripps Research Institute are explaining the science that recently won Wang a $ 135,000 grant from the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

Recent evidence from population, patient and animal research suggests that aging - associated changes in the pelvic vasculature, resulting in atherosclerosis and vascular dysfunction, may be important contributing factors to LUTS.

The most recent poll, conducted in 2013 by Hart Research Associates, found three out of four respondents had heard little or nothing at all about synthetic biology.

As Dr Christina Schaedel, a research associate in effects of warming on permafrost at Northern Arizona University, wrote in a recent guest post for Carbon Brief:

A recent study by a research team from Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine reveals that the TV Parental Guidelines rating system developed by the entertainment industry more than 20 years ago has been ineffective in helping parents identify shows that contain content that might not be appropriate for children, including tobacco and alcohol use — behaviors strongly associated with increased cancer risk.

Recent research has shown that both GERD and acid suppression are associated with abnormalities in the microbes that inhabit your upper GI tract.

It is difficult to determine exactly what proportion of those losses are due to maternal malnutrition, but recent research indicates that 60 percent of deaths of children under age 5 are associated with malnutrition — and children's malnutrition is strongly correlated with mothers» poor nutritional status.17 Problems related to anemia, for example, including cognitive impairment in children and low productivity in adults, cost US$ 5 billion a year in South Asia alone.18 Illness associated with nutrient deficiencies have significantly reduced the productivity of women in less developed countries.19 A recent report from Asia shows that malnutrition reduces human productivity by 10 percent to 15 percent and gross domestic product by 5 percent to 10 percent.20 By improving the nutrition of adolescent girls and women, nations can reduce health care costs, increase intellectual capacity, and improve adult productivity.21

Higher coffee consumption is also associated with a significantly lower incidence of Parkinson's disease, 13 and caffeine may help control movement in those with Parkinson's disease, according to more recent research.14 Liver cancer and liver disease are also inversely associated with coffee consumption.

You have probably heard reports about the more recent research that shows vegetable oils, and their associated trans - fatty acids, are the oils to avoid.

Found in legumes, fruits, vegetables, herbs and wine, recent published human clinical research has demonstrated the ability of FruiteX - BTM to modulate key markers of inflammation and improve elevated serum levels of CRP, a diagnostic marker associated with inflammatory conditions.