Sentences with phrase «ua researchers»

UA researchers found heavy traffic surrounding all three major holidays can increase the chances for automobile accidents.

Knowing this, the UA researchers modified the corn plants» genetic code so it produces hairpin - shaped RNA molecules within the kernel, and when the fungus takes hold, these are sent into it.

UA researchers considered survey respondents» self - reports of physical health and quality of life, as well as their scores on cognition tests measuring verbal fluency, word recall and delayed word recall.

The UA researchers» paper, «The Evil Animal: A Terror Management Theory Perspective on the Human Tendency to Kill Animals,» was published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

The UA researchers reveal that the deadly WNS fungus can likely survive in caves with or without the presence of bats and threatens the regional extinction of North American bats.

Specifically, after the analysis involving microscopic techniques and virtual models developed by the UA researcher, carious lesions caused by carbohydrates, present in plants, were found in the dental remains discovered at the La Brea Tar Pits site in Los Angeles, California, described by Alejandro Romero as «one of the most paradigmatic sites to study fossil mammals from the Pleistocene in North America.»

While significant research has explored the environmental impacts of climate change, far fewer studies have considered its psychological effect on humans, said UA researcher Sabrina Helm, an associate professor of family and consumer science in the UA's Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

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A critical R&D tool But as traffic in the Arctic increases in the years ahead, UAS will serve a more important function in helping researchers, engineers and commercial interests of all stripes fully characterize the environment there.

Led by Sudha Ram, a UA professor of management information systems and computer science, and Dr. Yolande Pengetnze, a physician scientist at the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation in Dallas, the researchers looked specifically at the chronic condition of asthma and how asthma - related tweets, analyzed alongside other data, can help predict asthma - related emergency room visits.

Ram and her collaborators — including Wenli Zhang, a UA doctoral student in management information systems, and researchers from the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation — created a model that was able to successfully predict approximately how many asthma sufferers would visit the emergency room at a large hospital in Dallas on a given day, based on an analysis of data gleaned from electronic medical records, air quality sensors and Twitter.

A study by researchers at the UA College of Medicine - Tucson dispels myths about Native Americans and drinking.

UA Museum of the North research assistant Heather MacFarlane shows off one of the dinosaur bone fragments discovered in Denali National Park in July 2016 by museum researchers working with the park's paleontology staff.

«Climate change is a persistent global stressor, but the consequences of it appear to be slowly evolving; they're fairly certain to happen — we know that, now — but the impact on individuals seems to be growing really slowly and needs to be taken very seriously,» said Helm, whose co-authors include UA Norton School researchers Melissa Barnett, Melissa Curran and Zelieann Craig, along with UA alumna Amanda Pollitt.

Stolte coordinates with university researchers, external funding agencies and partnering institutions and organizations in developing engaging stories that showcase the impact of UA science research.

A UA - led team of researchers created a model that was able to predict with 75 percent accuracy how many asthma - related emergency room visits a hospital could expect on a given day.

UA Regents» Professor Nicholas Strausfeld and an international team of researchers have discovered the earliest known complete nervous system exquisitely preserved in the fossilized remains of a never - before described creature that crawled or swam in the ocean 520 million years ago.

Neugebauer, a researcher with the UA's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, said the back - to - back awards for Tucson astronomers «illustrates the high regard for the work in solar and helio - spheric that is done in our community by many people at both at the university and the National Solar Observatory.»

The UA - led team includes researchers from Tucson - based Planetary Science Institute, geophysicists from the University of Chicago, the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson and Catholic University of Chile.

UA Center for Integrative Medicine researcher Esther Sternberg said each experiment begins with causing a volunteer subject to sweat.

Two marine mammal researchers recently became certified NOAA unmanned aerial system (UAS) pilots and carried out a three - day study of critically - endangered North Atlantic right whales.

University of Arizona (UA) researchers set out to see how financial socialization affects life outcomes and well - being in young adults.