Kate Tilton presents What You Want to Know
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Oliver Levine, an
Assistant Professor in Finance, and the Patrick A. Thiele Fellow in Finance, at the Wisconsin School of Business, and Brent Glover, an
Assistant Professor of Finance at Carnegie Mellon University, are two of the
authors behind this paper, and I recently had a chance to speak to them
about their research.
Kate Bowler is an
assistant professor in the school of divinity at Duke University, the
author of Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, and host of Everything Happens, a podcast featuring honest conversations
about life's toughest challenges.
Author and
assistant professor Natalia Mehlman Petrzela speaks candidly
about her realization on posting a «selfie» of Nancy, her...
Lead
author Valerie Flaherman, M.D., an
assistant professor of pediatrics and epidemiology and biostatistics at UCSF, noted that early limited formula consumption can augment the benefits of breastfeeding and reduce the stress that a new mother may feel
about breastfeeding her first child full time, Science Recorder reported.
«When the FDA puts a warning out
about a drug, doctors and the public take notice,» said corresponding
author Dr. James Antoon,
assistant professor of clinical pediatrics in the UIC College of Medicine.
Lead -
author Assistant professor Anna - Sofie Stensgaard from Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, explains, «Today, we know less
about where disease - causing organisms occur, than the global distribution of most mammals, birds and even ants.
«Social research has a history of using both small - scale experiments and computer models to explore questions
about human behavior — but there are very few examples of how to use these two techniques in concert,» says William Rand, a computer scientist and
assistant professor of business management in NC State's Poole College of Management who is co-lead
author of a paper describing the work.
«Before this test,
about one in five potential thyroid cancer cases couldn't be diagnosed without an operation to remove a portion of the thyroid,» said lead
author Linwah Yip, M.D.,
assistant professor of surgery in Pitt's School of Medicine and UPMC surgical oncologist.
«We didn't believe the measurements at first, and spent
about a year just convincing ourselves that they were accurate,» said lead
author Laurence Yeung, an
assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences at Rice University.
«For years we've been scouring the literature,» said lead
author Steven Alvarado,
assistant professor of sociology, «and we haven't found anything
about how or if MESA is effective on the things it wants to be effective for: increasing the STEM engagement outcomes of minority and other underrepresented students.»
The
authors report that in 2013, URM basic science faculty made up
about 6 percent of
assistant or associate professor positions and 4 percent of full professor positions.
«This is important because there's a robust body of research showing that the ability to talk
about sexual health with a partner, such as a willingness to talk
about condoms, is one of the strongest predictors of whether a couple will engage in safer sex,» says Laura Widman, lead
author of a paper describing the work and an
assistant professor of psychology at NC State.
«These chemicals are just
about everywhere, from the blood in polar bears to eagles to humans on every continent,» said Joseph Allen,
assistant professor of exposure assessment science at Harvard Chan School and the study's lead
author.
«We're hoping that clinicians will use these criteria and that there will be more awareness among clinicians and the community
about Christianson Syndrome,» said Brown University biology and psychiatry
Assistant Professor Dr. Eric Morrow, senior
author of the study in press in the Annals of Neurology.
«There has been a lot of debate
about how expensive the Medicaid expansion would be and until now, it hadn't been clear which Americans had the potential to benefit from the added healthcare coverage in states that participate,» says lead
author Tammy Chang, M.D., MPH, MS, an
assistant professor in the department of family medicine at the U-M Medical School and an alumnus of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program.
Brian Langerhans, an
assistant professor of biological sciences at NC State and a senior
author on a paper describing the study, says the research could help scientists learn
about the connectedness of what seem to be disconnected animal traits.
«Many of the plans talk a lot
about social - equity goals, but these goals are not translated into clearly specified objectives — and it's not at all clear how the goals are incorporated into decision - making,» says Kevin Manaugh, lead
author of the paper and an
assistant professor in McGill's Department of Geography and School of Environment.
«Flow - sorting increased the amount of the Y chromosome in our dataset to
about thirty percent,» said Paul Medvedev,
assistant professor of computer science and engineering and of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State, the other corresponding
author of the paper.
«Quantitative, rigorous measurements are key to making important decisions
about social welfare allocation and the distribution of humanitarian aid,» said lead
author Joshua Blumenstock,
assistant professor in the UW Information School, who is also an adjunct professor in computer science and engineering.
«For the first time, we can predict the outcomes of modifying multiple genes involved in lignin biosynthesis, rather than working with a single gene at a time through trial and error, which is a tedious and time - consuming process,» says Jack Wang,
assistant professor in NC State's College of Natural Resources and lead
author of a paper
about the research in Nature Communications.
«We compared many different coastal ecosystems and have made a clear case for including coastal wetlands in discussions
about greenhouse gas mitigation,» said Ariana Sutton - Grier, an
assistant research scientist at UMD's Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center and a co-lead
author of the research paper.
«We need to increase awareness in the medical community
about the increasing trend of spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage in pregnancy because management of these patients continues to be a clinical conundrum,» said study lead
author Kaustubh Limaye, M.D., clinical
assistant professor in the Division of Cerebrovascular Diseases at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.
«Our goal here was to get a picture of what is happening when patients go to a SNF after hospital discharge, and we found that some of the assumptions
about the impact of nursing home quality on outcomes may have been overstated,» says the study's lead
author, Mark Neuman, MD, MSc, an
assistant professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Senior Fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
«Our study does not imply that economic development is not important in a general sense but cautions policymakers
about relying solely on the trickle - down effects of economic growth on child nutrition,» said Sebastian Vollmer,
assistant professor of development economics at the University of Göttingen, adjunct
assistant professor of global health at HSPH, and lead
author of the study.
«The Pope sought to leverage his credibility to increase concern
about climate change,» said lead
author Asheley R. Landrum, an APPC postdoctoral fellow who is joining Texas Tech University as an
assistant professor.
«Our findings demonstrate that people naturally assign different weights to the pluses and minuses of interventions to improve cardiovascular health,» said Erica Spatz, M.D., M.H.S., the study lead
author and an
assistant professor of cardiovascular medicine in the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT. «I believe we need to tap into this framework when we are talking with patients
about options to manage their blood pressure.
«Our findings suggest that patients with Crohn's disease should think carefully
about consuming Splenda or similar products containing sucralose and maltodextrin,» said the study's lead
author, Alex Rodriguez - Palacios, DVM, MSc, DVSc, PhD,
assistant professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine.
«This is how we can start thinking
about precision medicine in action,» said the study's senior
author, Alice S. Chen - Plotkin, MD, an
assistant professor of neurology at Penn. «We found that a relatively common genetic variation can both serve as a biomarker for and influence the disease course of Parkinson's patients.
«Despite their rising popularity, little is known
about how these monitors differ from one another, what options they provide in their applications and how these options may impact their effectiveness,» said Elizabeth Lyons, senior
author and
assistant professor at UTMB's Institute for Translational Sciences.
«We estimated that a solar panel's carbon footprint is
about twice as high when made in China and used in Europe, compared to those locally made and used in Europe,» said Fengqi You,
assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at Northwestern and corresponding
author on the paper.
«Until now, we haven't had a compelling narrative
about how leaf and stem traits have evolved to tolerate cold temperatures,» said lead
author Amy Zanne,
assistant professor of biology in George Washington University's Columbian College of Arts and Sciences who earned her doctorate at UF.
«While there is information available
about counties in the United States that exceed EPA air pollution standards, there has not been a similar source of information
about how that air pollution actually affects the health of people living in those areas,» said lead study
author Kevin Cromar, PhD, director of the Air Quality Program at the Marron Institute of Urban Management and
assistant professor of population health and environmental medicine at the NYU School of Medicine.
«This is the first field - based study of mandatory menu labeling laws that found a large overall adjusted difference in calories between customers who dined at labeled restaurants when compared to unlabeled restaurants —
about 155 fewer calories purchased,» said Amy Auchincloss, PhD, an
assistant professor in the Drexel University School of Public Health and lead
author of the study.
When first
author Jianyu Li, Ph.D. (former Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wyss Institute and now an
Assistant Professor at McGill University) started thinking
about how to improve medical adhesives, he found a solution in an unlikely place: a slug.
«I assume that because mothers bear the major responsibility for childcare and family life, when they think
about family matters, they tend to think
about the less pleasant aspects of it — such as needing to pick up a child from daycare or having to schedule a doctor's appointment for a sick kid — and are more likely to be worried,» said study
author Shira Offer, an
assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Bar - Ilan University in Israel.
«As an example of the potential impact of our finding, you can think
about the phyla Cnidaria, which contains all of the world's anemones, corals, and jellyfish,» said senior
author Mercer R. Brugler, a research associate in the Museum's Division of Invertebrate Zoology and an
assistant professor at NYC College of Technology, CUNY.
«As air quality standards become more stringent, people are going to be thinking
about other technologies that can reduce pollution,» said Jonathan D. Raff,
assistant professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IU Bloomington and an
author of the study.
«Colobops would have been a diminutive but plucky little beast, part of a little - known menagerie of small animals that lived among the first dinosaurs,» said Bhart - Anjan Bhullar,
assistant professor and
assistant curator in geology and geophysics at Yale, and senior
author of a new paper
about the discovery in the journal Nature Communications.
«This study fills in a huge gap in what we know
about the diversity of coronaviruses in animal hosts,» says first
author Simon Anthony,
assistant professor of Epidemiology in CII.
«A better understanding of the brain region and cell type - specific binding targets of Hnrnph1 will tell us more
about the function of this gene and possibly identify new therapeutic strategies for minimizing risk and treating psychostimulant addiction — a disorder for which there is currently no FDA - approved drug,» explained corresponding
author Camron Bryant, PhD,
assistant professor of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics & Psychiatry at BUSM.
«This research gives us ideas
about new ways to treat liver damage or chronic liver disease,» said senior
author Dr. Hao Zhu, an
Assistant Professor at CRI with joint appointments in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
«Diabetes raises the risk
about twofold for Alzheimer's disease,» says senior
author, Gail Musen, Ph.D.,
Assistant Investigator in the Section on Clinical, Behavioral, and Outcomes Research at Joslin Diabetes Center.
«We are excited
about this finding because there are so few treatment options for pulmonary hypertension,» said study
author Mardi Gomberg - Maitland, MD, MSc,
assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago.
«We've developed a platform for computer - mediated communication between humans and dogs that opens the door to new avenues for interpreting dogs» behavioral signals and sending them clear and unambiguous cues in return,» says Dr. David Roberts, an
assistant professor of computer science at NC State and co-lead
author of «Towards Cyber-Enhanced Working Dogs for Search and Rescue,» a paper
about the work.
The topic has fascinated study
author Dr. Vinay Prasad, an
assistant professor of medicine at the Oregon Health and Science University, ever since he noticed that cancer doctors were tweeting
about drugs and clinical trials.
In a recent study performed in China, women who were genetically inclined to get breast cancer lowered their risks by
about 50 % through eating a diet rich in cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, bok choy, etc.) «These vegetables are the major source of some chemicals thought to be important for cancer protection,» says study
author Jay Fowke, PhD,
assistant professor of medicine and cancer epidemiologist at Vanderbilt - Ingram Cancer Center.
«If you were to rate faces [for attractiveness] and I were to rate the same faces, we would agree
about 50 % of the time,» says study
author Jeremy Wilmer, an
assistant professor of psychology at Wellesley College whose new research was published Thursday in the journal Current Biology.
About the
Author: Alanna Martine Kilkeary is a native New Yorker and an
assistant beauty editor at Makeup.com.