Sentences with phrase «studies department looking»

She holds a BA Honours Degree with Distinction from in Literature and Creative Writing from Concordia University in Montreal, where she also spent time in the university's Communications Studies department looking at the history of technology and its impact on culture.

Not exact matches

And Ross, who had gone quiet on NAFTA after it looked for a while like he would be running the show, re-emerged last week to promote a new Commerce department study that he said proves American auto workers are the victims of a flawed arrangement that favours Canada and Mexico.

The study, headed by Professor Edward Guinan of the school's astronomy and astrophysics department, initially looked at which crops would thrive in soil that is similar to that found on Mars (based on readings taken by the Phoenix Mars lander and samples recreated on earth).

For just as they were becoming secularized some new universities and some colleges were looking to establish or reinforce their «religion» departments with newly serious biblical studies.

Having looked at the Reiner and Meyer studies, we in the Johns Hopkins Psychiatry Department eventually concluded that human sexual identity is mostly built into our constitution by the genes we inherit and the embryogenesis we undergo.

Tamesha Harewood, a researcher in MSU's Department of Human Development and Family Studies, was lead author on a paper published in the journal Infant and Child Development that looked at fathers» influence on their children.

Patients and staff providing feedback to the study which led to the report complained that they «closed ranks» and that an official at a hospital's patient advice and liaison service department «barely looked at me and dismissed me with a leaflet».

«I look forward to working closely with our partners in the Labor Department to ensure the success of this study.»

Cuomo's call for a Department of Health study to look into legalizing marijuana is a bit of a turnaround for the governor, who oversaw the enactment of the state's medical marijuana program but has opposed the idea of legalizing recreational use.

The Department of Transportation pledged to look into extending Staten Island Ferry service in June, and a spokesman said a study on the cost and feasibility will be finished in the fall.

ALBANY — The state Department of Environmental Conservation last week received a draft of a feasibility study looking at what new water sources contamination - ravaged Hoosick Falls could draw from and findings will be shared soon, Commissioner Basil Seggos said Friday.

«I think we should fund [the Department of Health] to do a study, let them work with the State Police, other agencies, look at the health impact, the economic impact, the state of the law,» Cuomo said.

The health department contracted with three health experts, and the commissioner, Dr. Nirav Shah, has said he's said they are looking at three major studies, that are in the beginning phases.

Christine Grady, acting chief of the NIH Clinical Centers» department of bioethics, is currently compiling the first - ever study looking at how many inconvenience units various procedures have gotten over the years.

The study, led by Dr Allan Debelle and Dr Rhonda Snook in the University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, looked at the mating patterns of fruit flies after they evolved for 100 generations in either polyandrous populations (where several males have to compete for a single female) and monogamous populations (where each male has access to only one female).

The new study covers the entire U.S. West, from the High Plains states to the Pacific coast, and provides the first detailed look at how groundwater recharge may change as the climate changes, said senior author Thomas Meixner, UA professor and associate department head of hydrology and atmospheric sciences.

The data simply looked spectacular,» says Thijs Ettema at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, who lead the scientific team that carried out the study.

«Most people with mental illness are not violent toward others and most violence is not caused by mental illness, but you would never know that by looking at media coverage of incidents,» says study leader Emma E. «Beth» McGinty, PhD, MS, an assistant professor in the departments of Health Policy and Management and Mental Health at the Bloomberg School.

«We looked microscopically at the lung tissue of horses that died during or just after races, and quantified the inflammatory cells within their airways,» said Prof. Luis Arroyo, Department of Clinical Studies.

«Estimating from various studies that looked at increasing BMI and endometrial cancer risk, a woman with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 40 would have approximately eight times greater risk of endometrial cancer than someone with a BMI of 25,» said first author Kristy Ward, MD, the senior gynecologic oncology fellow in the Department of Reproductive Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

Instead of studying the impact daylight saving changes had on just one state, senior analyst Jeff Dowd and his colleagues at the U.S. Department of Energy investigated what effect it might have on national energy consumption, looking at 67 electric utilities across the country.

«This is a unique glimpse into what the ancestral nervous system looked like,» said study co-author Dr Javier Ortega - Hernández, of the University of Cambridge's Department of Zoology.

Liu adds that the results may not apply to less prestigious departments and other disciplines, and because the study looked at the level of the entire laboratory rather than individual members, it may be a stretch for young scientists to use the results to make career decisions.

The study looked at 56 767 patients with chest pain who visited an emergency department in Ontario between April 2004 and March 2010.

Whitney said she looks forward to collaborating with other departments at Clarkson to study the physiological systems of the participants.

«Most of the studies in this area have focused on the heart and the coronary arteries; no one has really looked at other parts of the vascular system, in particular the carotid arteries,» says Jonathan D. Newman, MD, MPH a cardiologist at NYU Langone Medical Center in the Department of Medicine, Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology and the study's lead author.

The study, which looks at all visits to California emergency departments from 2005 - 2011, shows that the emergency department «visit rate» decreased by 0.7 percent during the study's timeframe, while the rate of ED visits for non-injury diagnoses rose 13.4 percent.

«Our study is unique because we were actually out in the forest peeling bark off of the burned trees, looking for evidence of the beetle,» said Robert Andrus, a graduate researcher in the Department of Geography at CU - Boulder and lead author of the new study.

This investigation is led by a scientist from the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, Dr. Timothy Hammond, who is looking to study yeast cells in microgravity.

Avraham Levy, a professor in the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences and another coauthor, adds a caveat to the study: «These experiments looked at everyone eating the same amounts of carbohydrates from both bread types, which means that they ate more whole wheat bread because it contains less available carbohydrates.

«To our knowledge, there are no other studies looking at the effects of daylight savings time and fertility outcomes,» said Constance Liu, MD, PhD, a physician in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Massachusetts General Hospital and corresponding author, who conducted the research during her residency at BMC.

In a new study carried out in collaboration with the Neonatal Medicine Department at Brest University Hospital, the research team looked at the impact of clothing on the behavior of preterm newborns.

«Many studies have looked at average snowfall over a season in climate models, but there's less known about these very heavy snowfalls,» says study author Paul O'Gorman, an associate professor in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.

When we looked at outcomes stratified by treatment, Caucasians and African Americans had similar risks of lymphedema if they had a SLN,» says Benjamin Smith, M.D., associate professor in MD Anderson's Department of Radiation Oncology and the study's senior author.

With the support of Joseph Fins, chief of the department of medical ethics at Weill Cornell, who articulated the ethical arguments for why these patients must be studied and treated, they used PET to look at four more people in vegetative states.

«In this study, we looked to Mother Nature for answers and we were rewarded,» said corresponding author Jian Zuo, Ph.D., a member of the St. Jude Department of Developmental Neurobiology.

«We show that a continental collision that occurred 300 million years ago looks a lot like the collision we see in the Himalayas today,» said Karen Fischer, a professor in Brown's Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences and a co-author of the study.

«One of the latest objects we have found looks exactly like a crayon; the tip is faceted and has gone from a rounded end to a really sharpened end, suggesting it has been used,» said study researcher Andy Needham, from the University of York's Department of Archaeology.

The case studies in the report look at synthetic organisms, synthetic chemicals, biopesticides, biomining products, and genetically modified plants, which are regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency, Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The Behavioral Genetics of Addiction Laboratory (PI information: http://psychology.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/palmer-rohan.html) located in the Department of Psychology at Emory University, is looking for self - motivated and enthusiastic Postdoctoral Fellows to work on statistical genetics and epidemiological studies of substance use, psychopathology, and their relation to cognitive functioning.

The Gottfried Laboratory in the Departments of Neurology and Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania is looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher to study the olfactory system using intracranial electrophysiological methods in patients with medically resistant epilepsy.

The study, published recently in the Journal of Proteome Research by scientists at the United States Department of Agriculture and Columbia University, took a closer look at the remaining 25 percent of wheat proteins to determine whether they also caused problems for celiac disease patients suffering from gluten intolerance.

Ed Next also published a timely study this fall looking at the effects of the vouchers on segregation «The Louisiana Scholarship Program: Contrary to Justice Department claims, students transfers improve racial integration»

As the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) has noted, studies «that look back at factors that may have contributed to [a] school's success» are «particularly weak in determining causal validity for several reasons, including the fact that there is no way to be confident that the features common to successful turnaround schools are not also common to schools that fail.»

The study, conducted by the Department for Education (DfE), looked at 10,000 secondary school pupils and found that 30,000 fewer children are bullied now compared to 2005.

To take a fresh look at the gap and its sources, we examined a new data set, the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Kindergarten Cohort, compiled by the U.S. Department of Education.

In a DOE national study of school finance during the 2008 - 09 school year, the department looked at differences in spending between schools in the same districts and found that about 40 percent of Title I schools were underfunded relative to non-Title I schools.

The Department for Education has now backed away from using the tests for measuring progress this year - after publishing a study that it had commissioned looking at the comparability of the three testing systems.

The study looks at class sizes, student - to - teacher, student - to - administrator and teacher - to - administrator ratios in suburban, rural and city school districts, teacher pay and the demographics of teachers between 2009 and 2014, using data from the Department of Public Instruction and school district data from the U.S. Department of Education.

A new study out from the U.S. Department of Education looks at how eight unnamed school districts expanded the evaluation process to all teachers using a variety of alternative systems.