Sentences with phrase «women researchers at»

3/29/2007 UCSD Researchers Identify Connection between Sleep Disruption and Increased Cardiovascular Risk In Healthy Men and Women Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have discovered that sleep disruption in seemingly healthy subjects is associated with increased clotting of the blood, which has previously been shown to predict cardio... More...

«We probably won't be as radical as [previous activists], since we want to work within the system rather than be confrontational,» says Cynthia Friend, the sole woman chemist on Harvard's faculty and co-founder of a new panel seeking to increase the number of women researchers at that university.

The L'Oréal USA Fellowships for Women in Science program is a national awards program that annually recognizes and rewards five U.S. - based women researchers at the beginning of their scientific careers.

Not exact matches

Some women shy away from jobs in fields that require long workweeks, knowing they won't have the time: a 10 percent cut in free time for women reduces their share in high - hour occupations by about 14 percent relative to men, according to the researcher's model.In total, that difference in time spent on at - home labor results in an 11 percentage point gender wage gap, their analysis estimates.

Researchers found that companies using GitHub approved code written by women at a higher rate than code written by men, but only if the gender was not disclosed.

Interestingly, in interviews with the researchers, VCs said they didn't distinguish at all between applications from women and men.

A 2015 report from researchers at Kent State University and the University of Texas at Tyler found that the «prevalence of male norms in the male - dominated environment may result in a more hostile workplace for women who are perceived by men as violators of the gender norms.»

In 2013, researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center had participants watch videos of women in everyday situations, like working in an office and taking care of a child.

But, according to a new study from researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the University of Texas, people who identify as women are less likely to experience regret after casual sex if they are the ones to initiate it.

Researchers from Stanford University's Clayman Institute for Gender Research Recruitment sat in on tech company recruiting sessions at a top - tier West Coast university; their findings hint at what's keeping women out of tech jobs: «As students entered, women were often setting up refreshments or raffles and doling out the swag in the back; the presenters were often men, and they rarely introduced the recruiters.

Researchers at Pew argue that the recent decrease in birthrate has as much to do with the Great Recession in 2008 as it does with the increase of women who are not willing to sacrifice their careers for family.

In a study published this year that tracked Best Buy's ROWE program, researchers at the University of Minnesota found that, while it had helped reduce employee turnover, women who took part still spent 10 hours more on child care per week than their male flextime colleagues.

Among 7,410 portfolio managers of U.S. open - end mutual funds, only 9 percent were women, the study released this month by researchers from Morningstar Inc of Chicago, and widely discussed at the research firm's investor conference this week, found.

In looking at Kickstarter from it's inception, researchers found that a majority, 55 percent, of Kickstarter investors turn out to be men versus 45 percent women, and it seems the investing proclivity of male investors extend to this medium as well.

One of the studies that I talk about in the book is where social science researchers look at black women who had experienced trauma, and they found these women were more likely to internalize the characteristics of the Strong Black Woman as a way of coping with trauma.

Researchers at the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University looked at the top 700 highest - grossing movies of 2014 — which make up almost all of the year's major theatrical releases — to see how many featured women in prominent production rWomen in Television and Film at San Diego State University looked at the top 700 highest - grossing movies of 2014 — which make up almost all of the year's major theatrical releases — to see how many featured women in prominent production rwomen in prominent production roles.

At the Department of Food and Nutrition at Hanyang University in Seoul, Korean researchers randomly assigned forty overweight adult women to two groupAt the Department of Food and Nutrition at Hanyang University in Seoul, Korean researchers randomly assigned forty overweight adult women to two groupat Hanyang University in Seoul, Korean researchers randomly assigned forty overweight adult women to two groups.

In a study of 20 women ages 40 - 70 with inflammatory osteoarthritis, the researchers found that drinking tart cherry juice twice daily for three weeks led to significant reductions in important inflammation markers - especially for women who had the highest inflammation levels at the start of the study.

In 2014, a team of Stanford researchers surveyed more than 2,500 breweries and found that 21 percent had at least one woman in a top role, including CEO, head brewer, and brewmaster.

This tale was tested by researchers at Johns Hopkins University in the US in 2006 where 64 pregnant women were followed to see if those who suffered from heartburn had babe's born with lots of hair and guess what?

Motivated by the fact that 85 % of women wear the wrong size bra, researchers at Breast Research Australia (or, BRA, because sometimes God gives us presents) decided to make a bra that can, essentially, re-size itself.

Based on their findings, however, the researchers believe that women who carry either BRCA 1 or BRCA 2 should be aware that they may be at higher risk of infertility and early menopause, and consider having children sooner.

Health - care workers, engineers, technicians and women in related fields are at higher risk because they are exposed to a variety of chemicals that could cause birth defects, according to researchers at a recent conference in Seattle sponsored by the American Medical Women «s Associawomen in related fields are at higher risk because they are exposed to a variety of chemicals that could cause birth defects, according to researchers at a recent conference in Seattle sponsored by the American Medical Women «s AssociaWomen «s Association.

As a result, researchers estimate that a subset of pregnant and lactating women have some degree of outright iodine deficiency, which can put their children at risk of developmental and cognitive problems.

«Holding a job is likely to improve your overall mental health and well - being, which is ultimately a good thing for yourself and your family,» says lead researcher Katrina Leupp, who analyzed data from 1,600 married women at age 20 and then again at age 40.

Researchers at the University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland found that sleep deprived women's skin ages prematurely, is less able to recover after sun exposure, and more likely to break out due to stress and exhaustion.

So a team of Dutch researchers decided to test whether low risk women at the onset of labour with planned home birth have a higher rate of rare but severe outcomes (known as severe acute maternal morbidity or SAMM) than those with planned hospital births.

The researchers defined active phase labor arrest as 1 cm or less of labor progress over 2 hours in women who entered labor spontaneously and were at least 4 cm dilated at the time arrest was diagnosed.

The researchers emphasise that their findings may only apply to regions where midwives are well trained to assist women at home births and where facilities for transfer of care and transportation in case of emergencies are adequate.

The researchers note that the association found in this study has potentially important implications for future RA disease burden, saying: «Women who took part in this study were born in the 1940s and 1950s, before China's one - child policy was introduced in the late 1970s, and at a time when breastfeeding was more prevalent.

In 2014, researchers at Harvard University and other institutions published the results of a study in which they followed more than 96,000 men and women for 22 years starting in adolescence.

A study of nearly 3,000 women conducted by researchers at the University of Buffalo in New York found women who experienced morning sickness during pregnancy were 30 percent less likely to have breast cancer later in life.

The researchers found that of women who received at least 4 additional hours of oxytocin, 38 % delivered vaginally, and none had neonates with 5 - minute Apgar scores of less than 6.

The researchers used MRI scans to look at the brains of women who had just given birth.

One study found that pregnancy does indeed cause striking changes in women's brains, so much so that researchers are able to tell if a woman has had a child simply by looking at her brain scans.

So, in the U.K., a team of researchers at Sheffield University are conducting a study to see whether financial incentives can help motivate women to breastfeed.

«Health providers and women themselves think that once they have a healthy baby after a loss, all would be fine and that any anxiety, fears, or depression would go away, but that is simply not the case,» says study researcher Emma Robertson Blackmore, PhD, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

The researchers, who reported their findings in a recent issue of Child: Care, Health and Development, looked at these factors during pregnancy and one month after birth in more than 3,000 women, 18 to 35 years old, who gave birth at 78 hospitals in Pennsylvania between January 2009 and April 2011.

University of Adelaide researchers have found that women on antidepressant medication are more successful at breastfeeding their babies if they keep taking the medication, compared with women who quit antidepressants because of concerns about their babies» health.

However, when the researchers focused solely on women planning to have their first baby at home, they found they were almost three times more likely to suffer complications than if they went to hospital.

Researchers at Cornell University say that normal - weight women who gain too much while pregnant appear to be much less likely to succeed as breast - feeders.

First, the researchers aren't able to follow women who intend to deliver at home but later transfer to the hospital, which removes trauma patients from home - birth statistics.

«Battling over Birth is a critical and timely resource for understanding black women's birthing experiences in the United States, a country where black women's lives — and the lives they create — are at much greater risk of death and injury than those of non-black women... By distilling the common and diverse threads from over 100 black women, the BWBJ researchers have woven a multi-faceted tapestry that reflects what black women view as important and central to optimal birth experiences.

For more consistent results, the researchers only recruited women, and the participants completed surveys to see if there were any other factors at work that could affect brain structure, such as depression or level of formal education.

The researchers also write that women find men more attractive when they see other women smiling at him.

While the researchers found women who were having boys were more likely to develop gestational diabetes, women who did develop gestational diabetes while they were pregnant with daughters were at higher risk of being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes after pregnancy.

Women with a history of infertility have a 10 percent increased risk of death compared to those without reported infertility struggles, according to results of a new study from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Pregnant women who are diagnosed with sleep disorders such as sleep apnea and insomnia appear to be at risk of delivering their babies before reaching full term, according to an analysis of California births by researchers at UC San Francisco.

As noted earlier, there are fewer high - ranking women faculty members at academic medical centers, so finding established women physician researchers to serve as mentors can be difficult.

The researchers conducted a randomized, multicenter, clinical trial that included 1,000 Chinese women with PCOS at 21 sites in China.