Sentences with phrase «about being an author assistant»

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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.
«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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