Sentences with phrase «university research study»

He is now a participant in a Washington University research study designed to understand how the brain changes after a person loses their sense of smell.

A recent Baylor University research study has shed new light on the diet and food acquisition strategies of some the earliest human ancestors in Africa.

Worked with the Wisconsin Department of Public Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other university research studies

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Richard J. Reddick is an associate professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also holds courtesy appointments in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, the Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis, and the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies.

Research conducted at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, found that study participants asked to complete a survey were significantly more likely to do so if the survey included a Post-it note with a handwritten message asking for their help, akin to a favor.

The study was presented recently at the 2014 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference at Western University's Ivey Business School in London, Ont., which set out to uncover the factors that «influence variance in entrepreneurial orientation» — risk - taking, innovativeness, pro-activeness — among family firms.

Previous studies have shown a little bit of anxiety helps you avoid danger and reach peak motivation, now new research out of Canada's University of Waterloo that was recently published in Brain Sciences is adding another item to the growing list of anxiety's benefits: improved memory.

As a junior studying geography at Colgate University, Jake extensively researched the negative effects of single - use plastic on the oceanic ecosystem for his final thesis.

But a 2014 study from Daniel Austin, a bankruptcy attorney and, at the time, a professor at the Northeastern University School of Law, offers some of the most in - depth research to date.

According to a 2013 study by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire, minority entrepreneurs accounted for just 7 percent of pitches made to angel investors (13 percent resulted in an investment).

Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin, the University of California, San Diego and Disney Research recently conducted a study and found that when a person's smartphone is nearby — on the table or even in the same room — that person's performance on a cognitive task (requiring problem - solving and reasoning) will likely suffer.

(Hanna Tuomisto, who in 2011 conducted a study at Oxford University's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, found that growing meats in - vitro would use 35 % to 60 % less energy, emit 80 % to 95 % less greenhouse gas and use around 98 % less land than conventionally produced animal meat.)

People who marry and don't divorce have about double the net worth of their peers who never wed, according to Jay Zagorsky, an economist and research scientist at Ohio State University, who studied the financial patterns of thousands of adults born from 1957 to 1964.

The research out of Beijing Normal University studied the effects of anger by asking 73 male volunteers to memorize pairs of faces and unsettling images, like injuries or crying children.

According to research conducted at the University of Toronto, study participants who read short - story fiction experienced far less need for «cognitive closure» compared with counterparts who read nonfiction essays.

That was the driving force behind both the Georgetown research and another recent study out of the University of Pennsylvania which focused on improving language skills through the use of tDCS.

«The voice - command technology isn't ready,» Joel Cooper, a University of Utah research assistant professor and a co-author of the new studies, wrote in the studies» press statement.

A 1986 study by the University of Minnesota's Management Information Systems Research Center with 3M support found presentations using visual aids 43 percent more convincing.

The percentage of people between the ages of 16 and 44 who obtain a driver's license has been steadily declining since 1983, according to a study by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute.

An early, outsourced clinical research study with real patients was encouraging, but there are many potential pitfalls yet to come, said University of North Carolina diabetes researcher Dr. John Buse, who was briefed by Google on the lens last week.

But there's plenty of other research that suggests tidiness has a downside: a University of Minnesota study suggests that people with clean desks make more conventional decisions.

«This is a nice study that adds to the body of literature trying to figure out exactly the conditions under which bilingualism improves cognitive function,» said Dr. Ellen Bialystok, a professor and bilingualism expert at York University in Toronto, who was not involved in this research.

In a 2010 study, researchers at Washington State University and the Desert Research Institute had college students play a computer game with four other players, who were really manipulations by the researchers.

Steven Blair, a professor of public health at the University of South Carolina, came to a similar conclusion in another research study in May 2010.

University of Massachusetts psychologist Robert Feldman has studied lying for more than a decade, and his research has reached some startling conclusions.

A Pew Research and Rutgers University study concluded that the spiral - of - silence effect is actually far worse on Facebook and Twitter than in face - to - face public forums.

Nordgren conducted the research with Brian Lucas, who worked on the study as a Ph.D. student at Kellogg and is now a faculty member at the University of Chicago Booth School.

A research fellow at the Faraday Institute of Science and Religion at the University of Cambridge's St. Edmund's College, Dutton has spent most of his career studying the science of social influence.

In February, Robert Fodosejevs and Ying Tsui, electrical engineering professors at the University of Alberta, received $ 430,650 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council to study ways to speed up fusion ignition in collaboration with the National Ignition Facility in California.

Research from a study at the University of Ottawa shows that sales reps only make an average number of 8 - 10 calls per hour.

Bardai and Nahmiache don't put a price tag on employee fitness, but a recent study out of the University of Michigan Health Management Research Center does: It showed that even 10 to 20 minutes of daily exercise could produce significant health benefits and lower the cost of employee healthcare.

That's in part due to the dwindling number of companies providing defined benefits; lack of pensions have caused many to hang in longer, said Amanda Sonnega, an associate research scientist with the University of Michigan Health and Retirement Study.

Poirier, who is another Thiel protege — the two met when Poirier was studying computer sciences at Columbia University — started out at Lehman Brothers on the fixed income analytics and research side.

The Millennial generation is now the largest in the U.S. and has the power to determine the 2016 election, according to a study by The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University.

Helpfully, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign professor Brian Ogolsky has waded through more than 1,000 studies from 50 years of research on the subject, so you don't have to.

«The study says it will be very hard to make a biofuel that has a better greenhouse gas impact than gasoline using corn residue,» which puts it in the same boat as corn - based ethanol, said David Tilman, a professor at the University of Minnesota who has done research on biofuels» emissions from the farm to the tailpipe.

He is President of the Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trend, a Wall Street financial analyst and Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

Susan Shaheen, co-director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, has begun a study with the Natural Resources Defense Council to determine the environmental impact of Uber and Lyft's car - pooling systems.

He is President of the Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trends, a Wall Street financial analyst and Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, as well as at Peking University.

Dr. Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long Term Economic Trend, a Wall Street financial analyst, and distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

In addition, she has been a research fellow and an associate at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, a nonresident James A. Kelly fellow in Korean Studies at the Pacific Forum CSIS, and a visiting scholar at the George Washington University's Institute for Security and Conflict Studies under the Albert Gallatin Fellowship in International Affairs.

Moderator: William V. Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History and Director, Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University Speaker 1: L. Randall Wray, Research Director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and Professor of Economics, University of Missouri - Kansas City Speaker 2: Michael Hudson, President, Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trends and Distinguished Research Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City Tuesday, September 11, 2012 About the Seminar Series: Modern Money and Public Purpose is an eight - part, interdisciplinary seminar series held at Columbia Law School over the 2012 - 2013 academic...

Piracy and malware are problems too: a study by Tsinghua University, Microsoft Research and China's Ministry of Science and Technology found that only a quarter of apps on local app stores are safe.

This same survey found that 46 % of Canadians support a free trade agreement with China, up from 36 % in 2014 — and a recent study by Paul Evans, research director of University of British Columbia's Institute of Asian Research, puts that support even higher, at close research director of University of British Columbia's Institute of Asian Research, puts that support even higher, at close Research, puts that support even higher, at close to 70 %.

«Overstock would be the largest existing company to launch an ICO to date,» said Garrick Hileman, a research fellow at the University of Cambridge who studies cryptocurrency.

1 «Green Retrofitting Costs and Benefits: A New Research Agenda», National University of Singapore and Institute of Real Estate Studies, 2011; accessed on 1/26/2016).

He is President of the Institute for the Study of Long - term Economic Trends, a Wall Street financial analyst and Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

For BTN's 2016 Corporate Travel Index, the 32nd annual, BCD Travel's Advito provided the average hotel and car rental costs paid by BCD corporate clients, BTN collected hotel taxes and surcharges from hotels, and eight New York University School of Professional Studies Advanced Research Seminar students, led by academic chair and clinical assistant professor Lynn Minnaert, called restaurants in October and November to gather meal prices.

Christopher Sands is a senior research professor and director of the Center for Canadian Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a nonresident senior associate of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), both in Washington, D.C.

AMY GOODMAN: Michael Hudson, economist, president of the Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trends, distinguished research professor of economics at University of Missouri, Kansas City, author of Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire.