Sentences with phrase «academic researcher finding»

It is hard to imagine a conventional academic researcher finding enough long - term funds to conduct such an experiment.

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What it's like: Karen Born finds a lot of flexibility in her role as a researcher and academic.

An academic researcher at MIT has found a way to predict the price of Bitcoins, according to an article put out Tuesday...

The Bespoke data builds on the findings of academic researchers, who have documented the existence of the gap, without being able to entirely explain its cause.

We do not guarantee that the trends and biases academic researchers and SportsInsights.com have found will continue to exist.

Third, acknowledging that some of the blame for the biased and one - sided media reporting on head injuries rests with some members of the scientific community who issue one - sided press releases and feed cherry - picked results about their findings to selected members of the media, the authors look to a day when the «harsh division and polarization» in the research community (an almost inevitable byproduct, unfortunately, of the intense competition for grant money in Concussion, Inc.), gives way to greater collaboration among researchers and a more «cordial discourse» between scientists via letters and responses to journal editors and back - and - forth debates at large academic conferences.

The researchers present their findings May 3 at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, in Baltimore.

In one key study, researchers at Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin found that a simple, one - sentence note of encouragement made a huge difference in academic outcomes for African - American students, who often have fraught power relationships with teachers.

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

... it is more likely that good performance leads to high self - esteem rather than the other way around... (T) he researchers found that efforts to boost self - esteem have not been shown to improve academic performance and may sometimes be counterproductive.

As well as leading on and participating in a range of research and evaluation projects, the team also contributes to the development of effective policy and practice through the interpretation, synthesis and dissemination of research findings, and acts as a knowledge broker between policy and practice stakeholders, researchers and the academic sector (in the UK and Europe) to strengthen links and collaboration.

The paper is just the second academic study on the subject, due to the difficulties researchers found in trying to isolate variables.

A team combining Microsoft researchers and Niels Bohr Institute academics is confident that it has found the key to creating a quantum computer.

Researchers are finding new ways to explore their entrepreneurial interests while continuing their academic work

These fellowships permit professors, researchers and other senior academics to find temporary refuge at universities and colleges anywhere in the world, enabling them to pursue their academic work and to continue to share their knowledge with students, colleagues, and the community at large.

The1996 Research Careers Concordat has had a real impact on the availability of career resources for academic researchers, and you will find a range of tailored materials on the HESDA Web site.

And if the experience of these three scientist - businesspeople is any guide, academic researchers can find support (including financing) in their own communities.

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.

At the same time, Rogers says, academic researchers should be ready to recognize their own limitations and partner with colleagues who can bring other crucial expertise to the enterprise, adding, «People should do what they know and find other people to do the things they don't know.»

Many academic institutions encourage researchers to commercialize their findings while maintaining their academic posts.

The current academic funding system, which allocates public money to researchers based on the submission and peer review of countless research proposals, has served science well — but some people believe that the time has come to find more efficient ways to distribute the money.

«Past research has found a link between violent crimes and performance on tests, but researchers haven't been able to say why crime affects academic performance,» explains Jennifer A. Heissel, a PhD graduate in human development and sociology at Northwestern University, who led the study.

Prichard, like many other leading academics, recommends that universities accept corporate funding only if it does not limit the ability of researchers to publish their findings.

On climate change, the researchers found that political identity was a more important signal of where respondents stood than their academic acumen or scientific sophistication.

moment when I found a wonderful article which succinctly describes the key differences between the academic and industrial work environments and links to a more comprehensive survey of researchers in both sectors.

One resource which I found myself reaching for again and again was HESDA's University Researchers and the Job Market — a comprehensive career development manual for academic rResearchers and the Job Market — a comprehensive career development manual for academic researchersresearchers.

In response, academic researchers, the federal government, energy companies and regulatory agencies have mobilized to try to reduce the frequency and strength of induced earthquakes — and a series of recent papers and other findings shows they have made rapid progress, although many questions remain.

The unfortunate result is that some of the most promising upcoming researchers are finding no place for themselves in the academic community, while the for - profit world of industry stands by with deep pockets and open arms.»

The researchers devised an academic game to test the students» competitiveness and found that the girls, on average, are significantly less competitive than the boys.

AAAS and several academic researchers are joining forces to collect information to guide scientists on how best to engage with policymakers, filling a much - needed fact - finding gap, experts gathered at a National Academy of Sciences event agreed.

In reality, «substantially more scientists and engineers graduate from U.S. universities than can find attractive career openings in the U.S. work force [and] the postdoc population, which has grown very rapidly in U.S. universities and is recruited increasingly from abroad, looks more like a pool of low - cost research lab workers with limited career prospects than a high - quality training program for soon - to - be academic researchers,» he continued.

We are connecting researchers in the field of vascular research in a digital academic networking platform (www.vascularphysiology.com) so that we can share data and findings easily and make scientific publications truly open access — readily accessible to all regardless of the ability to pay.

It will provide researchers with a level of detail not typically found in academic research papers, including 3D models, bills of materials, raw experimental data, multimedia step - by - step tutorials, and case studies of various soft robot designs.

By reviewing over 90 academic studies on consumer response to process labels, the researchers found that while these labels satisfy consumer demand for quality assurances and can create value for both consumers and producers, misinterpretation is common and can stigmatize food produced by conventional processes even when there is no scientific evidence those foods cause harm.

A study by Swansea University researchers has found that student academic integrity is not a core concept taught to academics in Higher Education.

Some senior academic scientists have told Teitelbaum they are «very worried» about the fact that the supply of scientists that this country's universities train is thus totally unrelated to the demand for researchers in the market for career positions, but they find it «difficult to be open about it because it's very threatening to the structure by which research is done,» Teitelbaum says.

But new University of Washington research finds numerous benefits — to students, researchers and academic institutions looking to diversify their faculty — in making that return trip easier.

A group of people at Osaka University (Eiji Umemoto [Associate Professor, Laboratory of Immune Regulation, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine] and Masayuki Miyasaka [Specially Appointed Professor, Institute for Academic Initiatives]-RRB- and University of Turku, Finland (Akira Takeda, Postdoctoral researcher at MediCity Research Laboratory) has found for the first time that a lipid called lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) plays a vital role in regulating lymphocyte motility within lymph nodes.

The results of the new study are notable because positive effects of an intervention, especially one that aims to improve self - regulation and academic achievement, can be difficult for researchers to find, said McClelland, the Katherine E. Smith Healthy Children and Families Professor in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences.

Researchers evaluated children's self - regulation and academic achievement before and after the intervention and found that children who had received the intervention scored significantly higher on two direct measures of self - regulation.

The researchers found that low - SES students demonstrated greater academic confidence and expectations and identified more strongly as high - achievers when they perceived their institution as warm, versus chilly, towards socioeconomic diversity.

Led by researchers at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, the study builds upon recent findings that the same program generally improves the behavior and academic skills of children and helps shy students be more engaged in their classwork.

However, surprisingly, the researchers found introvert students were better listeners than extrovert students, contradicting some claims that academic excellence relies solely on the extrovert tendency.

The finding has turned the spotlight on an academic culture in India that tends to prize quantity of publications over quality when evaluating researchers.

A 2014 paper by Princeton economist Janet Currie and other researchers found such treatment was actually associated with a decrease in academic performance, a deterioration in relationship with parents and an increased likelihood of depression.

«These finds got us thinking about the descriptions in the Sagas that describe Steinkjer as a trading place,» the researchers wrote of their findings in Vitark, an academic journal published by the University Museum from Dec. 2012.

The Wistar Institute's independent nonprofit 501 (c)(3) status creates a platform for our researchers to do original thinking and breakthrough research while also providing a community of collaboration — similar to a research «think tank» — not often found in larger medical and academic institutions.

(Phys.org)-- A team of researchers from several academic institutions in the U.S. has found that contrary to popular belief, conifers have experienced at least two complete genome duplication events over the course of their evolutionary history.

«Each of the Centre's 12 PhD candidates and three post-doctoral researchers is working with an industry partner and an academic expert in the field so that we can bring these findings from «bench to bedside» quickly.

He also called on academic and government researchers to find ways to involve patients earlier in planning clinical trials, and to find ways to hand out grants much more quickly and with less red tape.