Sentences with phrase «university pioneered studies»

Two decades ago, scientists at Cornell University pioneered studies of treating dairy cattle with injections of natural bovine somatotropin (BST).

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James McKenna, B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., San Diego State University; Ph.D., University of Oregon) Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of Anthropology, pioneered the first behavioral and electro - physiological studies documenting differences between mothers and infants sleeping together and apart.

At the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, Department of Neurology his research team pioneered the first studies of the physiology and behavior of mothers and infant sleeping together and apart, using physiological and behavioral recording devices.

It was pioneered by Don Cleveland, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Diego, and Richard Smith director of the Center for Neurologic Study.

In the 1980s Caroline and Robert Blanchard, working together at the University of Hawaii, carried out a pioneering study on the natural history of fear.

The method, called computational Bayesian phylogenetics, forces researchers to explicitly quantify the uncertainty in the models, says linguist Claire Bowern of Yale University, a pioneer of the approach and co-author of the new study.

This carbonation process could be a way of «permanently and safely disposing of CO2, and making useful products in the process», says Klaus Lackner, director of the Center for Negative Carbon Emissions at Arizona State University, Tempe, who pioneered laboratory studies of mineral carbonation.

Osaka University — or Handai as it is known colloquially — traces its roots to two unique places of study: the Kaitokudo, an academy founded by five local merchants in 1724, and the Tekijuku school, established in 1838 by Koan Ogata, a pioneer of European medicine.

«They tend to be people who are highly motivated health - seekers and science geeks,» says Barbara Bernhardt of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, who has conducted detailed interviews with 60 volunteers in the Coriell Personalized Medicine Collaborative, a pioneering effort to study the medical value of genetic information.

A leading expert in neural movement control, Jessell, a U.K. native who completed his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, conducted pioneering studies that identified mechanisms involved in the neural development and organization of the spinal cord.

«Angus Deaton, 69, a British - American economist at Princeton University, pioneered the study of consumption among poor families and individuals and how it differs from that of more affluent people.»

«The eyes know, even when the individual might not,» says Neal Cohenof the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, a former colleague of Hannula's who pioneered the study of memory - related eye movements.

Pioneering new research, carried out by the Universities of Exeter, Zurich, Stanford and Chicago, shows that existing studies have massively under - valued the risk that ongoing carbon dioxide emissions pose of triggering damaging tipping points.

Last year, Devereaux and his colleagues at McMaster, the University of Toronto, and the University at Buffalo published pioneering systematic reviews and meta - analyses of studies comparing the mortality rates of private for - profit hospitals and those of private not - for - profit hospitals (more commonly, although somewhat inaccurately, referred to as «public hospitals» in Canada).

A recent study carried out by the researchers at Newcastle University pioneering the techniques estimated that 2473 women in the UK, and 12,423 women in the US, aged between 15 and 44 years, are at risk of passing on potentially lethal mitochondrial DNA to their children.

Mark Birch - Machin, Professor of Molecular Dermatology at Newcastle University, led the pioneering study with Dr Amy Bowman from his research group.

A pioneering study by the University of Sheffield has revealed the meteorological impact of the 2015 UK solar eclipse across three countries.

The study was made possible by a pioneering collaboration with the agricultural and food manufacturing sector developed by Richard Bruce, a co-author of the paper and Business Engagement Lead for the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures at the University of Sheffield.

Earlier approaches to creating this growth environment, pioneered by study co-author Jason Spence, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan, had used a natural matrix derived from a tumor cell line.

Another clue came from the work of Frederick Kaplan at the University of Pennsylvania, an orthopedic surgeon and FOP pioneer who has been studying the disease for years, and who helped lead the team that found the FOP gene.

It was launched by Dr Miguel Chillón and Dr Assumpció Bosch, together with the entrepreneur Menachem Abraham and Dr Carmela Abraham, professor of Biochemistry and Pharmacology at the Boston University School of Medicine, a pioneering centre in the study of Klotho in the central nervous system for more than a decade.

A pioneering 1996 study by University of Georgia psychologists had 64 young men watch gay and straight sex videos and measured arousal with changes in penis size.

Engineer Daniel Sperling, of the University of California, Davis, joins the roster of Blue Planet laureates for research on the impact of transportation on the environment and pioneering studies leading toward more efficient and environmentally friendly transportation systems.

«We have focused our efforts on the oxidation of α - pinene, because it accounts for about half of global monoterpene emissions,» explains Dr. Mikael Ehn from the University of Helsinki, who is the first author of this study and did the pioneering work for the discovering of ELVOCs.

The study's lead author, Samuel Wasser, a biologist at the University of Washington, has pioneered the use of DNA forensics to trace the origins of illegally obtained ivory.

Now, researchers from the University of Chicago have pioneered a new technique to simplify the study of protein networks and identify the importance of individual protein interactions.

A pioneering method, developed at Chalmers University of Technology, has demonstrated its potential in a large study, showing that metabolic fingerprints from blood samples could render important new knowledge on the connection between food and health.

Silverstein is famous for his pioneering study of bark beetles, which began in 1964 in collaboration with a scientist from the University of California at Berkeley.

The pioneering study, published in the EMBO Journal was supported by the Thierry Latran Foundation, Medical Research Council (MRC), MND Association, Alzheimer's Society, European Union and the University of Sheffield Moody Endowment Fund.

Brenda Milner, a neuropsychologist at the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, is a pioneer in the field of neuropsychology and in the study of memory and other cognitive functions in humankind.

«ECPR is a form of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, a technique that we have used for decades at the University of Michigan and around the world,» says study co-lead Robert Bartlett, M.D., professor emeritus of surgery at Michigan Medicine and pioneer of this life - saving therapy.

By the early 1980s, Columbia University had begun to emerge as a pioneering center for molecular approaches to the study of brain function.

Several recent studies have shown that cells can be returned to pluripotent state using «defined factors» (specific proteins that control which genes are active in a cell), a technique pioneered by Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, a professor at Kyoto University in Japan.

With her AB in Chemistry from Harvard in hand, Dr. Ting went West for her doctoral studies, at the University of California, Berkeley, and postdoc work at the University of California, San Diego, under Roger Tsien, whose pioneering work with Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) had won him the 2008 Nobel Prize.

In the new study, a team led by Harvard University's George Church — one of the pioneers of the CRISPR technique — used gene editing to remove all the copies of porcine endogenous retroviruses (or PERVs) from their pig cells» DNA.

Winning the World Prize for agricultural research is Trudy Mackay, from the Department of Biological Sciences at North Carolina State University in the US, who pioneered research in quantitative genetics, which studies the interaction between genes, traits and environmental effects.

The centerpiece of that effort for many years has been James Cook University (JCU) in Townsville, where Professor Ross Alford has spear - headed a series of pioneering studies that have set the scene for our current understanding of toads.

«Yi qi lived in the Jurassic, so it was a pioneer in the evolution of flight on the line to birds,» study author Zheng Xiaoting of Linyi University said in a statement.

Richard C. Thompson is a professor of marine biology at Plymouth University in the UK who has conducted some of the pioneering studies on microplastics in the marine environment.

He joined ORNL as a Eugene P. Wigner Fellow in 1983, after completing his Ph.D. studies at Penn State University, and has pioneered the use of hydrothermal experiments and neutron and x-ray scattering methods to address complex problems in geosciences and electrical energy storage.

She studied yoga therapy at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, with professor Marcos Rojo Rodrigues, a disciple of Swami Kuvalayananda, the great pioneer of yoga therapy and the scientific study of yoga.

An early pioneer in the wellness world, Virgin was studying exercise science as an undergraduate at the University of California, Los Angeles.

This unique 5 - stage process was pioneered by our founder after completing his degree at the University of Oxford, where he studied Biomedical Engineering during his Masters» degree.

NORMAN, Oklahoma — Three pioneers in change, including movie and television star Olivia Munn, will be honored for their contributions to society at the University of Oklahoma's Women's and Gender Studies Board of Advocates Voices for Change gala at April 13, in the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History Grand Hall.

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online coursUniversity of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online coursUniversity, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online coursuniversity that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online coursUniversity, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

The Open University is a world leader in modern distance learning, the pioneer of teaching and learning methods which enable people to achieve their career and life goals studying at times and in places to suit them.

About Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development.

Hanyang University, with strong faculties in engineering, music, and education, is a pioneer in the study and application of Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences.

A draft of a report by Maris A. Vinovskis, a professor of history at the University of Michigan, cites several exemplary studies by the institutions, including an analysis of youth - training programs, the development of the «Success for All» program for disadvantaged students, and «pioneering» work in understanding how children learn mathematics.

Fortunately, the University of Michigan's pioneering Youth Studies Series (YSS) does both.