Sentences with phrase «young university researchers»

As children develop, parental hypervigilance leads to less school engagement, report Brigham Young University researchers Laura Padilla - Walker and Larry Nelson in a study of 438 students, «Black Hawk Down?

In a 2012 study, Brigham Young University researchers found that 45 minutes of moderate - to - vigorous exercise in the morning reduces your motivation for food.

Now a Brigham Young University researcher is trying to nail down how to get kids to eat from them.

Not exact matches

He also serves as Director of a national fellowship program based at Rutgers University that awards research fellowships to young and emerging researchers on employee stock ownership and profit sharing with over 120 fellows at colleges and universities and states throughout the U.S. and sponsors bi-annual research conferences on these issues.

Mar. 12, 2013 — A century old mystery as to why, for some animals, it's the father rather than the mother that takes care of their young has been cracked by researchers at the University of Sheffield.

The Harvard University study, titled «Dietary Fiber Intake in Young Adults and Breast Cancer Risk», researchers compared the fiber intake of thousands of women in a longitudinal study that began in 1991.

A second study, conducted by researchers at the University of Minnesota's Institute of Child Development, found that in children younger than age 3, levels of the stress hormone cortisol rose in the afternoon during full days in day care, but fell as the hours passed when they were cared for at home.

At Bristol University, researcher David Quinton and his colleagues discovered that where the young mother and father were both aged 17 or under, only 2 % of young dads were involved with the child nine months after the birth.

A researcher in Israel conducted the first study of hand - clapping songs, revealing a direct link between those activities and the development of important skills in children and young adults, including university students.

A study from researchers at the University of Chicago found that young children that play with puzzles have better spatial skills (understanding the relationships between physical shapes and forms) than those who don't.

Researchers at the University of Chicago found that children young as preschool age already show significant differences in math knowledge.

Norman Weinberger, a cognitive sciences and psychology professor at the University of California at Irvine, says in one study, babies as young as four months old seemed to know when researchers played the «Happy Birthday» song incorrectly.

According to a large - scale study by researchers out of the Family Studies Center at Brigham Young University, having such thoughts are relatively «normal.»

That situation prompted researchers at New York University's Langone Concussion Center to begin wondering recently whether there might be other, easier diagnostic tools to check young players for concussions.

Researchers from Brigham Young University analyzed 325 families over a four - year period, when fathers responded to questionnaires regarding their parenting style, and children ages 11 to 14 responded to questions about school performance and attaining goals.

Researchers from Brigham Young University found that having sisters boosts your mental health and self - esteem, and that people with sisters find themselves striving to protect them from «feeling lonely, unloved, guilty, self - conscious and fearful.»

Researchers from the University of York and University of Nottingham have said that parents who start smoking again are increasing their children's likelihood of taking up the habit and exposing their young children to health risks associated with passive smoking.

Researchers at the University of Southern California have developed a prostate cancer vaccine that prevented cancer in 90 percent of young mice genetically predestined to develop the disease.

Dr. Bridget Young, Doctor or Perinatal Nutrition and Lactation Counselor and researcher in the department of Pediatric Nutrition at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, assists families who had intended to breastfeed exclusively, but have decided to stop or to supplement with infant formula.

According to a study conducted by Stanford University researchers and published in Psychological Science in 2013, toddlers who are exposed to more words at a young age have a larger vocabulary and better language proficiency later on.

«Our results encourage young women of fertile age to take care of their oral health and attend periodontal evaluations regularly,» says periodontist and researcher Susanna Paju, University of Helsinki.

Keynote speaker Emmitt Jolly, a schistosomiasis researcher, noted that he was the son of a preacher and janitor, and worked in Alabama cotton fields for 2 years as a young man, but was still able to become a professor at Case Western Reserve University here.

Researchers from several institutions, including, UCLA, Boston University, Stanford University and the Institute for Aging Research at Hebrew SeniorLife, analyzed blood samples from nearly 10,000 people to find that genetic markers in the gene responsible for keeping telomeres (tips of chromosomes) youthfully longer, did not translate into a younger biologic age as measured by changes in proteins coating the DNA.

«This report certainly involved a lot of work and it reflects insights which somehow are expected: young researchers sacrifice their personal life for their career, with a lot of overtime, insecurity, pressure and difficulties to find a fixed position,» writes Thomas Schäfer, a group leader at the University of the Basque Country's Institute for Polymer Materials in Donostia - San Sebastián, Spain, in an email to Science Careers.

This self - assessment test, created in 1998 by psychiatrist Kimberly Young of Saint Bonaventure University in New York State, is an unofficial standard among Internet addiction researchers, and it consists of eight yes - or - no questions designed to separate online addicts from those who can manage their Internet use.

In August 2000, following the HEFCE Review of Research British universities were warned that they would lose HEFCE funding should they fail to advance the careers of young researchers sufficiently.

This opportunity to experience life and studying in another country was offered to me by a brilliant Hungarian young researcher whom I got to know as an undergraduate student, doing my diploma work at the same department where he was doing research (department of anthropology, University of Szeged, Hungary).

In October researchers at Columbia University reported that young mice predisposed to acquiring Alzheimer's accumulate protein clusters in synaptic mitochondria and that these clusters directly impair synapse function.

Young women enrolled in high schools and colleges told Washington State University researchers that people routinely make sexual comments, both in - person and online, about them and their bodies.

Ann Childs, a lecturer in science education at the University of Oxford, says that the main reason most researchers want to retrain as teachers is that they «want to impart their enthusiasm for science on young people.»

A little more than a decade ago, postdocs were rare in France, in part because the traditional mode of recruitment at universities and public research organizations allowed researchers to get permanent positions at a much younger age than in most other countries.

Sound sleep in young and middle - aged people helps memory and learning, but as they hit their seventh, eighth and ninth decades — and generally don't sleep as much or as well — sleep is not linked so much to memory, a Baylor University researcher says.

Researchers from the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute and the University of Adelaide have found a way to provide mothers and young children in Cambodia with better nutrition through an unlikely source — fish sauce.

Researchers at the University of Exeter and UCL (University College London) have identified a gene which can be used to predict how susceptible a young person is to the mind - altering effects of smoking cannabis.

Researchers were finally able to tease out the results that applied to «the young women — and I love saying this — young women 50 to 59 who are most apt to present with symptoms of menopause,» says Cynthia Stuenkel, an internist and endocrinologist at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in La Jolla.

A study by researchers at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and colleagues at Paris Descartes University assessed the association between the amount of time spent playing video games and children's mental health and cognitive and social skills, and found that playing video games may have positive effects on young children.

«The biggest source of morbidity and mortality in young people in industrialized countries isn't medical disease but problems with behavior and emotion,» says Ronald Dahl, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Public Health.

Hiring freezes at universities mean that more positions will go unfilled — an effect that young researchers are noticing, Newton says.

«Many parents and caregivers go down a slide with a young child on their lap without giving it a second thought,» states lead researcher Charles Jennissen, MD, Clinical Professor and Pediatric Emergency Medicine Staff Physician, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine.

A Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher has compiled evidence from more than 100 publications to show how obesity increases risk of 13 different cancers in young adults.

But a big question hangs over their deliberations: Can the needs of relatively powerless young researchers hold their own against the large economic and political interests at stake for far more potent elements of the university system?

The first day of June 1988 was sunny, hot and mostly calm — perfect weather for the three young researchers from Canada's University of Windsor hunting for critters crawling across the bottom of Lake St. Clair.

Forensic anthropology researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a technique that can provide an approximate age for juveniles and young people based on an X-ray of the frontal sinus region of the skull.

Adarsh Sandhu, a professor of physics and electronics at the Toyohashi University of Technology, notices that younger scientists typically do not want to go overseas to pursue their research and therefore may miss opportunities to work with the best researchers in the world.

Luckily, Turner took a sabbatical at the University of Colorado, and down the hall was another young scientist, a Polish researcher by the name of Ryszard Kierzek, who was using organic chemistry to produce four oligonucleotides at a time, and as many as two sets of four in a day.

Stanford University has a training program to help young researchers explain their research in compelling ways to nonspecialist audiences.

Under this program, fellowships are awarded to young Japanese postdoctoral researchers for conducting research at foreign universities or research institutions for a period of 2 years.

«As parents of young children, we wanted to know how effective the stories actually are in promoting honesty,» adds study co-author and researcher Victoria Talwar of McGill University.

Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston are the first to recommend that young women treated with radiation for cervical cancer should begin colorectal cancer screening earlier than traditionally recommended.

The lead researcher for the study, Professor Gita Mishra, Professor of Life Course Epidemiology and Director of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health at the University of Queensland, Australia, said: «If the findings from our study were incorporated into clinical guidelines for advising childless women from around the age of 35 years who had their first period aged 11 or younger, clinicians could gain valuable time to prepare these women for the possibility of premature or early menopause.