Sentences with phrase «says head researcher»

But «leads cause infection, and they're big, and they cause complications,» says head researcher Aydin Babakhani of Rice, who presented the product with his colleagues at a recent microwave science conference in Honolulu.

Says head researcher Alan Mackay - Sim, «Apart from neural and brain cells, they look like they can turn into blood cells, heart muscles, and skeletal muscle.»

Not exact matches

«If you don't have your house in order or your security is terrible, researchers could swarm you and it'll be harder to sift through what's legitimate,» says Manoj Kasichainula, head of security at San Francisco - based Asana, which makes team productivity software.

I refer to those obscure and exceptional phenomena reported at all times throughout human history, which the «psychical - researchers,» with Mr. Frederic Myers at their head, are doing so much to rehabilitate; 7 such phenomena, namely, as religious conversions, providential leadings in answer to prayer, instantaneous healings, premonitions, apparitions at time of death, clairvoyant visions or impressions, and the whole range of mediumistic capacities, to say nothing of still more exceptional and incomprehensible things.

It is important to note that these researchers are not saying that a causal link between repetitive head impacts and CTE won't ever be established, and it is clear from the evidence so far that there is a link between concussions and repetitive head trauma and an increased risk of long - term neurocognitive problems.

However, researchers who have collected impact sensor data for years, including Dr. Stefan Duma, who runs the biomedical engineering department at Virginia Tech and helped develop the STAR helmet rating system, were quick to say that the league was being too careful, and that, while not perfect, even with a 10 to 20 percent error rate, the sensors were valuable and give reasonable data that is useful, not only in football, but in analyzing head hits in sports like soccer and hockey.

* Update: A 2012 study in the journal Neurology by researchers at the Cleveland Clinic (2) also found no link between intentional heading and acute brain damage (e.g. concussion), but said that it was at least theoretically possible that it could represent a form of repetitive subthreshold mild brain injury over time and could be the cause of chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

Players using current football helmets aren't adequately protected against hits to the side of the head, which can lead to sometimes - lethal concussions and brain swelling, researchers said.

Combined with data showing that a substantially higher percentage of hits to the helmets of youth players are to the side of the helmet - which the researchers attributed to a differences in the styles of play between the different age groups, as well as the fact that youth players have a tendancy to fall to the side when tackled - these factors may result in a youth player being more susceptible to impacting his head on the ground while being tackled than a high school or college player, knowledge, they said, that could aid in the design of better youth - specific football helmets.

As more is learned about youth head impact exposure, the researchers say, they can begin to develop methods to evaluate youth - specific helmet designs (as is now being done in the Virginia Tech Helmet Ratings, TM now in its third year; ratings of youth football helmets are promised in 2014.

«Patients and their families should expect the physical symptoms that they experience after a head injury to get better over the next few weeks, but that emotional symptoms may come on later, even as the physical symptoms subside,» said lead researcher Dr. Matthew Eisenberg.

«Heads up tackling program decreases concussion rates, say researchers.»

There was no evidence that special devices to prevent or treat DP had an effect on head flattening, which calls into question the use of the devices, the researchers said.

«America Rising is heading into the 2016 cycle equipped with one of the best teams of researchers and analysts in the game today,» Joe Pounder, president of America Rising, said in a statement.

«It's molecularly programmed to degrade over time,» says Sherman Silber, a urological surgeon and researcher who heads the Infertility Center of St. Louis at St. Luke's Hospital.

«Unlike condors, we expect that most vaquitas will remain in the wild as capturing even a few will be very difficult,» says Dr. Lorenzo Rojas - Bracho, lead vaquita researcher and head of CIRVA.

Not only microbes protect against asthma evidently, but also farm animals: Petting cats and cows and drinking farm milk can also prevent asthma, as the team of researchers headed up by Remo Frei of the Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research from the University of Zurich in cooperation with the Center for Allergy Research and Education (CK - CARE) in Davos and the Children's Hospital of Eastern Switzerland in St. Gallen: «Early childhood contact with animals and the consumption of food of animal origin seems to regulate the inflammatory reactions of the immune system,» says immunologist Frei.

Their only hit was GAPDH, a result that no doubt left the researchers scratching their heads, Snyder says.

Some researchers have proposed that these lava floods caused global extinctions on Earth and that they affect climate change, says planetary geologist Alfred McEwen of the University of Arizona, head of the Io observation team.

Ostrander says that by identifying other dog genes for body size and for traits such as leg length and head shape, researchers may learn more about growth and its disorders — especially cancer — in humans and their best friends.

Although the researchers demonstrated their approach using one color, they say that it could be expanded to create full - color heads - up displays.

Researchers surveyed 66 head soccer and basketball coaches from 15 Oregon high schools and found that only 21 percent of the coaches were using an injury prevention program, and less than 10 percent were using the program exactly as designed, said the study's lead author, Marc Norcross, an assistant professor of exercise and sport science in OSU's College of Public Health and Human Sciences.

If a civilised discussion with your supervisor fails to resolve the problem, you should try to get objective advice from someone else, says Janet Metcalfe, head of Vitae, an organisation devoted to advancing the careers of research staff and doctoral researchers.

«If there's an earthquake, we could readily adapt our UAVs to serve as flying cellular towers to restore communications and help look for survivors,» says Lora Weiss, a Georgia Tech researcher who heads up a robotics and unmanned systems lab.

«The maps show the distribution of the material flux and thus illustrate the surface reactivity,» said Fischer, a former MARUM postdoctoral researcher who's now head of a research group at the independent German research laboratory Helmholtz - Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf.

Dirk Pilat, head of the OECD's Science and Technology Policy division, says in a press release, «The rapid rise of China in both money spent and researchers employed is stunning.»

The Novartis Institute for Functional Genomics, to be based in La Jolla, California, should be up and running in 2 years and will be home to some 100 researchers, says neurobiologist Paul Herrling, head of research for Novartis.

The more times a file has been downloaded via a P2P network the more widely distributed the contents of that file are, making it much more difficult to track, says Robert Patton, an applied software engineering researcher at Oak Ridge who is developing the software with Thomas Potok, head of the lab's Applied Software Engineering Research Group.

These new findings, appearing online October 21 in PLoS ONE, reveal that politics can influence testosterone in men «just as if they directly engaged head - to - head in a contest for dominance,» says researcher Kevin LaBar of the Duke University Center for Cognitive Neuroscience.

«They didn't believe my results,» says Stephen Badylak, a trim, extroverted researcher who is deputy director of the McGowan Institute and head of the 80 - patient muscle study.

They may have lost their hair because hairless skin is easier to keep clean, the researchers say, citing evidence that more parasitic infections occur in still - hairy regions such as the head and pubic area.

Archaeologist Kuldeep Bhan, who heads the collaboration, says it was hard to get the required permissions — several ministries had to give approval before foreign researchers could stay in India long enough to finish the work — but the «outcome is sweet.»

It took months, for instance, for researchers to obtain key blueprints, video footage, and samples from scrap steel beams, said W. Gene Corley, head of a government - sponsored study team organized by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

«Since each neutrino flavor interacts differently with the material in the Earth, the experiment will also tell us which of the three neutrino types is the lightest and which is the heaviest,» said researcher Mark Convery, who heads SLAC's LBNF / DUNE group.

«The researchers found that buds containing high levels of cinnamic acid and its derivatives were less damaged,» says David Cowan, who heads the team responsible for developing cinnamamide at MAFF's Central Science Laboratory in Slough.

To answer that question, he says, researchers will need to perform a head - to - head clinical trial comparing the top available epilepsy medications in children.

With this approach if validated for other vaccines, we only need to wait for a week,» says researcher Ali Harandi, who heads the participation of Sahlgrenska Academy and University of Gothenburg in the project.

«The anterior sclerite has been lost in modern arthropods, as it most likely fused with other parts of the head during the evolutionary history of the group,» said Dr Javier Ortega - Hernández, a postdoctoral researcher from Cambridge's Department of Earth Sciences, who authored the study.

Shoulder and head injuries may have made it difficult for the Copper Age hunter - gatherer to get around but that's not what killed him, researchers say.

Researchers with the National Institutes of Health say that Junior Seau, a star defender in the U.S. National Football League (NFL), had a degenerative brain disease linked to athletes who suffer chronic head trauma associated with violent sports, according to The New York Times.

Some of the researchers at ISPRA say they are currently working without a contract and remain concerned about the future of ISPRA, which is now headed by a former official with the Italian police, not a scientist.

Only after considerable «head - scratching and flying,» Sawyer says, did the researchers find the deer.

«If you think about the worst invasive species, ants frequently show up on those lists, and big - headed ants are among the most problematic,» said University of Illinois entomology professor and animal biology department head Andrew Suarez, who led the new study with postdoctoral researcher Bill Wills.

Big - headed ants spread out, assembling multiple nests that cooperate on defense, reproduction, territorial expansion and food procurement, the researchers said.

And the lifelike printed replicas are providing a cost - efficient tool to improve practical experience for more trainees such as Zhao, U-M researchers say in an article published in Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery.

«The goal is to assess the overall health of the babies (birth weight, pre-term births, head circumference and the prevalence of certain congenital birth defects) in relation to their proximity to natural - gas well sites and the number of active wells in their environment,» the researcher said.

Lessem says the idea is modelled loosely on the Planetary Society headed by writer and researcher Carl Sagan, which supports planetary science research, including a hunt for asteroids in the vicinity of the Earth.

Unfortunately, he says, the fMRIs failed to reveal the inhibitory circuitry involved; to try to get to the bottom of that, he plans to repeat the study using electroencephalography (EEG), which involves placing many electrodes on a skintight rubber cap placed over a subject's head that allows researchers to observe communication between different parts of the brain.

Practicing with a heavier bat significantly slows down the velocity of the bat head — depriving the batter of slugging power, exercise researchers at California State University, Fullerton, say.

UPenn gene therapy researcher Jean Bennett, who heads that study (which is separate from Jacobson's) and reported the most dramatic improvements in patients» vision, says those gains seem stable for as long as 7.5 years.