Sentences with phrase «academic researchers on»

LRAP allows Lilly scientists to work with academic researchers on high - risk projects.

He's also an academic researcher on fat loss and performance.

(The lead academic researcher on that study, Jeff Hancock, needed police protection.)

Not exact matches

Luskin's writing was influenced by one of the most cited academic studies on whistleblowers, a 1985 academic report by researchers at the Ohio State University, who conluded that «that whistleblowing is appropriately viewed as «prosocial» behavior, that is behavior that involves both egoistic and altruistic motives.»

Companies like VideoStitch and Mettle as well as academic researchers have all been working on ways to smooth bumpy 360 videos, but the technology is not yet widespread.

He also posted testimony apologizing for Facebook's role in false news, data privacy leaks and foreign interference in elections, as his company announced that it would form an independent commission of academic researchers to study social media's impact on elections.

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.

Facebook will give a committee of senior academics independent access to its data, allowing researchers to study the social network's effect on democracy and elections.

As managers and academic researchers have tried to remedy the inadequacies of current performance measurement systems, some have focused on making financial measures more relevant.

Facebook on Friday confirmed that it had suspended Cambridge Analytica from operating on its platforms as it investigated whether the firm failed to delete information that Cambridge Analytica had received through an academic researcher.

They'll also review all publications by academic researchers to ensure that public statements have not limited the new business» ability to obtain patents on the inventions and works.

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.

NHERI executes, evaluates, and disseminates studies and information (e.g., statistics, facts, data) on homeschooling (i.e., home schooling, home - based education, home education, home school, home - schooling, unschooling, deschooling, a form of alternative education), publishes reports and the peer - reviewed scholarly journal Home School Researcher, and serves in consulting, academic achievement tests, and expert witness (in courts and legislatures).

The researchers merely noted whether babies had been fed on schedule or on demand, and then followed their cognitive and academic progress.

The «unexpected deaths» were based on data from an industry - funded, academic - researcher - run clinical trial described in two papers published in 1999 and 2000.

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

As James Heckman and several other researchers have noted, certain, non-cognitive skills or character traits, such as «grit, self - control, zest, social intelligence, gratitude, optimism and curiosity,» have an even greater impact on student achievement than academic skills.

While academics continue to study the subject, a meta - analysis of research on the subject, published in 2006 by researcher Harris Cooper and colleagues, is often cited.

Academics and students on the University's Sport and Exercise and Nutrition courses, including Dr Huda Al - Kateb, Dr Matt Cole and PhD researcher Ayaz Safi, have written up a guide featuring tips on nutrition, hydration and exercise to help people fasting for Ramadan to keep to a regular routine as much as possible.

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.

Chris Abbott, a researcher and academic who was punched in the face when Police Officers suddenly surged forward, Hannah McClure, a Masters» student who mentors foster children, who was pushed over by an officer who then stood on her stomach, and Josh Moos, a Plane Stupid campaigner, who was knocked to the ground as a baton - wielding officer vaulted over him.

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

In August 2015, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced $ 17.2 million in state awards to 26 academic medical institutions, including CUMC, for the training of new clinical researchers working on cutting - edge biomedical research.

These events follow on a letter providing detailed recommendations on protecting junior researchers that the union for postdocs — the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, UAW Local 5810 — sent in January to the office of the president of the University of California and the chair of the University of California Academic Senate.

AAAS and several academic researchers are joining forces to collect information to guide scientists on how best to engage with policymakers.

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.

Beatrix Ann Hamburg, a renowned psychiatrist and academic researcher whose pioneering work advanced understanding of mental health for children and adolescents and shaped public policies related to improving the health of minorities, died on April 15.

The purpose of this guide is to provide up - to - date information on academic Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (SEPP) programs to assist prospective students, researchers, administrators, and funding agencies in obtaining a picture of the field and identifying programs whose offerings meet their individual needs and interests.

To accomplish this work, RCP draws on a network of experts that includes researchers from all areas of science and technology; leaders from academic and government institutions; persons experienced in product development and technology transfer; and entrepreneurs and business managers from all fields.

To this end, the declaration calls on the European Commission and member states to give young researchers more employment stability, notably by reducing the use of short - term contracts and clarifying the criteria for academic career progression.

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.

All interested researchers — an academic who wants to come and use this equipment, a company scientist, or someone who wants to be trained on it or wants to collaborate with any of the Bio21 scientists — are welcome.»

«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.

There has only been one legal case in which academic privilege and researcher - participant confidentiality were on the table: In 2014, CAUT funded a legal challenge on behalf of two University of Ottawa criminology professors resisting police efforts to obtain records related to a study about male escorts.

A while back, we reported on the difficulties and career damage that can befall academic researchers who undertake controversial studies.

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.

State Forests, backed by its own scientists and academic forestry researchers, is even embarking on a major new study, itself controversial, to show that selective logging will sustain biodiversity, not harm it.

More than 60 people — academic researchers, industry partners and interested members of the community — joined the staff at the International Open Facility Advancing Biotechnology (BIOFAB), at a meeting on July 19 and 20 to discuss the facility's progress so far and its aims over the next few years.

Brains in Chains Marta Paterlini reported on the latest project of the Italian PhD - students association, ADI, which aims to highlight the plight of young academic researchers.

The research was undertaken by the University College London Energy & Development group, a group of researchers and academics at UCL who work on issues related to energy in low and middle - income countries.

«Industry - financed clinical trials on the rise, as number of NIH - funded trials falls: Researchers concerned about trends in research funding as commercial ventures run six times more trials than academic investigators.»

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.

Plans involve taking on a minimum of 26 Ph.D. students and a similar number of postdocs to work at a newly built site in Cambridge, which will allow them «to bring together young researchers from different academic disciplines in one facility.»

The study suggests that women who didn't spend a lot of time on academics but are «intelligent enough» have an advantage over women who excel in school,» said researcher Natasha Quadlin, an assistant professor of sociology at Ohio State.

And, as the academic «precariat» grows, said Hackmann, referring to postdoctoral researchers who work on successive contracts without the opportunity to become salaried professors, «so do regimes of competition rather than collaboration, and the pressure to play by business as usual rules persists.»

Each year, an independent, multidisciplinary committee of academic policy researchers evaluate the approximately 100 applicants based on the quality of analysis of the research, policy relevance, communication, and the applicant's accomplishments and research potential.

At the same time, researchers will be testing the School Reform's positive effects on other academic skills, such as reading.

The latest products may bring joy to people around the globe, but academic researchers this week are highlighting the heightened health risks experienced by people in regions far downwind of the factories that produce these goods and on the other side of the world from where they're consumed.

► «The best way to ease the regulatory burden on U.S. academic researchers is to create another layer of bureaucracy.