Spoken commands unintelligible to human ears can force Cortana, Google Now or Siri to hijack smartphones,
academic researchers say.
Now
academic researchers say they have found a similar pattern of discrimination involving popular ride hailing apps.
Not exact matches
Facebook has
said that people who took the quiz were told that their data would be used only for
academic purposes, claiming that it and its users were misled by Cambridge Analytica and the
researcher it hired, Aleksandr Kogan, a 28 - year - old Russian - American
academic.
What Facebook
says: Facebook
says an
academic researcher obtained the user data legitimately (via an app that offered innocuous - seeming «personality tests») but misused it when he passed it to the data firm.
Facebook
said that the
researcher, Aleksandr Kogan, claimed his work was
academic.
SUNY is working to ensure the charges «do not distract from the educational mission, ground - breaking research, and
academic operation of SUNY Polytechnic Institute or negatively impact the thousands of students, faculty,
researchers, and staff that the campus serves,» McCall and Zimpher previously
said in a statement.
At the time, the company had access to Facebook data that had been obtained by a
researcher for
academic purposes and improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica, Facebook executives
said last week.
The Times
said the firm paid to acquire the data through someone claiming to be an
academic researcher.
«It is imperative that any charges brought against SUNY Poly President Alain E. Kaloyeros today do not distract from the educational mission, ground - breaking research, and
academic operation of SUNY Polytechnic Institute or negatively impact the thousands of students, faculty,
researchers, and staff that the campus serves,» McCall and Zimpher
said.
«It is imperative that any charges brought against SUNY Poly President Alain E. Kaloyeros today do not distract from the educational mission, ground - breaking research, and
academic operation of SUNY Polytechnic Institute or negatively impact the thousands of students, faculty,
researchers, and staff that the campus serves,» Cartwright and SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher
said in a statement released Thursday afternoon.
«It is imperative that any charges brought against (Kaloyeros) today do not distract from the educational mission, ground - breaking research, and
academic operation of SUNY Polytechnic Institute or negatively impact the thousands of students, faculty,
researchers and staff that the campus serves,» Zimpher and McCall
said.
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.»
«If you are an early - career
researcher and too much into patenting rather than publishing, your progress toward an
academic career can be compromised,» Anderson
says.
«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.
«We've embedded clinical
researchers and facilities in
academic hospitals, with close links to the research environment around them, including access to technology for «omics and imaging,»
says Williams.
We would certainly hope that these centres create facilities and interest for a stronger physical presence from
researchers from Germany in those countries,»
says Sebastian Fohrbeck, director of the German
Academic Exchange Service in New York.
She had no intention of following a traditional «publish or perish»
academic route where «most
researchers don't ever come out of the lab and interact with the community,» she
says.
But if the assessments of Cao and Miller are correct — if UC postdocs will indeed rank among the nation's top postdoc earners, if the new workplace protections really are without precedent in so elite an
academic system, and if the pact in fact heralds serious economic improvement — these facts
say more about the generally dismal circumstances of young
academic researchers than they do about the prosperity and security in store for those employed at UC.
That's why it's important for
academic researchers to become advocates for science and explain to the public why their work matters, Brennan
said.
Thought experiment: Let's
say you're a Ph.D.
researcher in an
academic medical center and your career is going gangbusters.
«Colorectal cancer is the second most common cause of cancer deaths [after lung cancer] in the United States and is an enormous health problem around the world,»
said the study's lead author, Robert J. Mayer, MD, faculty vice president for
academic affairs, medical oncologist and colorectal cancer
researcher at Dana - Farber.
Such changes would benefit all postdoctoral scientists, male and female — but, the report
says, «A move towards longer - term employment of
academic researchers should encourage maternity provisions in line with other employment sectors.»
«These partnerships go well beyond just providing competitive grants to
academic researchers and include numerous cooperative institutes, joint programs with academia and nongovernmental organizations, involvement with students at all levels, and participation in international organizations,» he
says.
The default classification for Ph.D. s employed in the
academic sector is «teaching professionals,» a category Metcalfe
says includes postdocs and permanent (
academic)
researchers in addition to teaching and administrative positions at universities and secondary schools.
The literature review will pull information from the policy community in addition to
academic researchers, Nash
said.
«Generally speaking, a Título de Doctor is required for both the profession of university professor and the profession of
researcher,»
says Nieves Trelles of the Spanish Ministry for Education and Science National
Academic Recognition Information Centre NARIC España.
He
says that many
academic researchers use homegrown ELNs, adapting general - purpose word - processing software for note - taking, or using collaborative tools such as Evernote or Microsoft OneNote.
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.»
«My advice is that if you really enjoy research in an
academic environment and are good at it, then persevere, there will always be quality research opportunities available for well - trained
researchers,»
says Seifert.
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.
«It's important for our
researchers that there is no gap» between the current program and the next,
says Teresa Riera Madurell, a former
academic from Spain and one of the lead negotiators for the European Parliament.
«A young
researcher is lucky to get an
academic position,»
says Bob Nelson, public affairs officer for Columbia University, «two is definitely unheard of.»
Academic researchers will pay a modest fee for the cells, Radda
says, but the bank hopes to support itself in part through higher fees from commercial
researchers.
This doesn't reflect what many postdoctoral
researchers say they want, i.e. to remain working in the lab as a permanent
researcher, not necessarily with teaching or
academic management responsibilities.
The Sports Technology Institute is the largest of its kind in the United Kingdom, Harland
says, with eight
academic staff members, about 30
researchers, and five administrative staff members.
«People have trouble understanding that we're embedded in an invisible microbial world» and that we are colonized by those microbes,
says Olsiewski, whose program has given
academic researchers more than $ 40 million in grants.
The dearth of permanent
academic positions forces many young
researchers out of their field, she
says.
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.
Limitations For all of the enthusiasm around games and learning, very few studies have examined whether video games improve classroom performance and
academic achievement,
says Emma Blakey, PhD
researcher in developmental psychology at the University of Sheffield in England.
Madhu Lal - Nag, a
researcher at the National Institutes of Health who coordinates RNAi research,
said she's starting to see a surge of interest in the field among
academics who want to unravel more of the basic science, especially as it becomes clear that other hot fields of research, such as CRISPR gene - editing, face their own series of hurdles.
Dr Varsha Jain, Visiting
Researcher at the Centre of Human and Aerospace Physiological Sciences (CHAPS) at King's College London and NIHR
Academic Clinical Fellow in Obstetrics and Gynaecology,
said:
This metric, whose inventor
says he meant it in fun, compared a
researcher's number of Twitter followers with the number of citations to his or her
academic papers.
Rather than being created as pranks, it seems that many of the fake papers were coming from China where they were «bought by
academics and students» to pad their publication records,
says the lead
researcher behind the investigation, Cyril Labbé, a computer scientist at Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France.
«There has been a dramatic contraction of the prison education system, particularly those programs focused on
academic instruction versus vocational training,»
said Lois Davis, the study's lead author and a senior policy
researcher at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.
«It is an opportune time for
academic economists, complexity scientists, social scientists, ecologists, epidemiologists, and
researchers at financial institutions to join forces and develop tools from complexity theory, as a complement to existing economic modeling approaches»,
says Andy Haldane, Chief Economist of the Bank of England.
«We are excited to forge this new partnership with Calico, which represents a unique way for
academic researchers focused on aging and the biotech industry to work together,»
said Brian K. Kennedy, PhD, Buck Institute President and CEO.
Now in experiments in mice reported this week in Cell Metabolism,
researchers at Joslin Diabetes Centers have highlighted the ways in which the host's genes interact with the microbial genes to create such conditions,
says senior author C. Ronald Kahn, M.D., Chief
Academic Officer at Joslin Diabetes Center and Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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,
researchers said.
The presenter
said that we needed more breeders and
researchers to continue conducting experimental research projects to prove to the conventional
academic community that «organic can compete.»