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Not exact matches
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.
«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.»
«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.
«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 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.
«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.
«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.
«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 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.
«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.
«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.
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.
Anna
is a college drop - out now elevated to editor at the publishing company that happens to
be owned by her new husband, but entirely on her merits, but the job itself
is one of those cutesy Hallmark Christmas movie - type careers where all she has to do
is congratulate her hunky
author on his success and ask him gently
about the next book and tell an
assistant to increase the font size on a cover.
Included
is an excellent new audio commentary by the always informative film historian /
author Troy Howarth; an additional audio commentary by director Peter Duffell and
author Jonathan Rigsby; a new 10 - minute interview with second
assistant director Mike Higgins; A-Rated Horror Film, a 17 - minute vintage featurette
about the film featuring interviews with director Peter Duffell and actors Geoffrey Bayldon, Ingrid Pitt, and Chloe Franks; the English and Spanish theatrical trailers for the film, both in HD; 4 radio spots; an animated image gallery with 68 stills containing on - set photos, promotional materials, and advertisements; and a collection of Amicus radio spots and still galleries for Asylum, At the Earth's Core, From Beyond the Grave, Madhouse, Scream and Scream Again, Tales from the Crypt, The Beast Must Die, The Land That Time Forgot, The Mind of Mr. Soames, The People That Time Forgot, and Vault of Horror.
Assistant director Terry Sanders, film critic F. X. Feeney, archivist Robert Gitt and
author Preston Neal Jones
are gathered to provide commentary and the disc offers the original 40 - minute documentary «The Making of Night of the Hunter,» a video interview with Laughton biographer Simon Callow, an archival interview with cinematographer Stanley Cortez, a 15 - minute episode of the BBC show Moving Pictures
about the film and a clip from The Ed Sullivan Show with Shelly Winters and Peter Graves performing a scene that
was cut from the film among the wealth of supplements.
About the
Author Bruno V. Manno
is senior advisor for K - 12 education reform at the Walton Family Foundation and former U.S.
assistant secretary of education for policy.
About the
Authors: Robin Lake
is director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education at the University of Washington Bothell, where Roohi Sharma
is research coordinator and Alice Opalka
is special
assistant to the director.
About the
Authors Sa Bui
is a doctoral candidate in economics at the University of Houston, where Steven Craig
is a professor of economics and Scott Imberman
is an
assistant professor of economics.
About the
Authors Maria D. Fitzpatrick
is visiting scholar at the National Bureau of Economic Research and
assistant professor of policy analysis and management at Cornell University, where Michael F. Lovenheim
is associate professor of policy analysis and management.
About the
Author: Sarah A. Cordes
is assistant professor of policy, organizational, and leadership studies at Temple University.
About the
Authors: Pieter De Vlieger
is a graduate research
assistant at the University of Michigan.
That prepping has taken her all over the world: working as a research
assistant for an
author in Venice, Italy; getting a master's degree in philosophy at the University of Cambridge in England; helping on an archeological dig of Ancient Tiberias in Israel, where she unearthed a stack of ninth - century vases; working in Iraq as a public diplomacy officer and conducting research for generals; raising money for schools in Afghanistan for Congresswoman Jean Schmidt (
R - OH); traveling to China to learn
about how children of migrant workers access education; learning Arabic.
About the
author Dominic Tester
is assistant headteacher at Costello Technology College, a specialist technology school for 11 - 16 year olds in Basingstoke.
About the
Author: R. Claire Friend, MD,
is the
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, UC Irvine Medical Center, and the editor of the UC Irvine Quarterly Journal of Psychiatry.
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