Sentences with phrase «approached by a colleague»

Last week I was approached by a colleague who was concerned that he was paying too much for his life insurance policy.

Not exact matches

As Elliott ramped up its pressure on Arconic, friends and colleagues of Kleinfeld, along with board members of Arconic, reported more suspicious run - ins: Others who live near the CEO were followed to a local restaurant by strangers who then approached the couple; they claimed to be considering investing with Kleinfeld, but first had a few questions.

As an example of how this process works and fits into a bigger picture, Chamath Palihapitiya's approach has been depicted below by one of his colleagues:

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

As is often the case when we approach a people or place with the hopes of being / bringing the needed change, I have been the one most changed by my friends and colleagues who reside in the Middle East.

I received some sympathetic letters from colleagues who were also troubled by the medical profession's failure to approach dying in a decisive and positive manner.

Democratic Senate hopeful Chuck Swanick told our colleagues at YNN Buffalo that Erie County Conservative Party Chairman Ralph Lorigo approached him about running for the seat held by Republican Sen. Mark Grisanti about 10 days prior to receiving the executive committee's formal backing.

Having gained a first class degree from Oxford and begun his career working as a civil servant at 10 Downing Street under Baroness Thatcher, the former MP was nicknamed «Two Brains» by his colleagues due to his background and his serious approach to policy formulation.

One of the lawmakers who sat at the plenary, while speaking with journalists, said the reason for the boycott was good but condemned the approach adopted by his colleagues.

Green — possibly aided by his special adviser, the former Sun PR man and leader writer Dylan Sharpe - suggested he was unimpressed with his former colleague's approach to the new job and proposed a radical new strapline for his newspaper:

Thousands of experienced colleagues have worked side - by - side with Bob to develop and deliver M&T's successful community - focused approach, including a Management Committee comprised of members with an average tenure of 24 years at M&T.»

As a result Liberal Democrat peers have described amendments whipped by their colleagues in the lower house as an «elephant trap» and a «blunderbuss approach», the Tories point out.

Mr Smith told ITV News: «I am standing because I've been approached by many, many of my colleagues in Westminster and by hundreds of members across the country who think that I've got something distinctive to say».

But unlike those and other detection schemes, Mirkin and colleagues say, the new approach should make it possible to detect many different target compounds simply by altering the sensing molecule.

He and Swedish colleague Bo Thidé hit upon the approach while studying waves warped by the immense gravity of black holes.

But she also claims there are a few potential problems with Coughlin and colleagues» study — particularly its statistical (rather than case by case) approach to analyzing Kepler data.

A new study by Martina Ondrovics and colleagues at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna describes a rational approach to identifying proteins that might be involved in the larval development of a particular worm that infects pigs.

To make their discovery, Rust and his colleagues had to separate metabolism from light exposure, and they did this by using a synthetic biology approach to make photosynthetic bacteria capable of living on sugar rather than sunlight.

With this approach, Lu and his colleagues were able to manufacture the designed transmembrane proteins inside bacteria and mammalian cells by using as many as 215 amino acids.

The results obtained by Serrouya and colleagues are similar to other studies that used more controversial approaches.

What sets the study apart from most previous evaluations is its randomized, controlled design — a relatively new approach honed by lead author Abhijit Banerjee, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and his colleagues.

Another approach to regrowing the hair cells is to use embryonic stem cells, with research in this area led by Stefan Heller and colleagues at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston, US.

World Health Organization researcher Ana Maria Henao - Restrepo and colleagues tested a «ring vaccination» approach, by immediately vaccinating family members and other contacts of people infected with Ebola.

Uribe - Convers and colleagues tested this approach by amplifying chloroplast genomes for 30 species across flowering plants.

Shirzaei and colleagues took a different approach, using a constellation of satellites — the Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) satellites — to detect alterations in Earth's crust driven by underlying pressure fluctuations.

Flannery and colleagues from Indonesia's Bogor Museum have so far seen only dead specimens of the bondegezou, including one killed by hounds as they approached with a hunting party from the Dani tribe.

One approach for accomplishing this was developed by a UT Dallas colleague.

Through their multi-omics approach plus measurements of enzyme activities, DeAngelis, Simmons and their colleagues were able to characterize the mechanisms by which E. lignolyticus SCF1 is able to degrade lignin during anaerobic growth conditions.

Begin by making observations and asking colleagues how they've approached teaching challenges.

Safronova reported this month at a conference in Baltimore, Maryland, that by combining two different mathematical approaches, she and her colleagues have now managed to calculate how much the energy gap between the two levels changes.

They then used a modeling approach developed by Scripps ecologist George Sugihara and colleagues to detect cause - and - effect relationships in ecological systems.

That may improve the ability to use accommodating IOLs as a surgical approach to correcting age - related declines in near vision, or presbyopia, suggests the new research by Kathryn Richdale, OD, PhD, of State University of New York College of Optometry and colleagues.

Social neuroscientist Claus Lamm and colleagues at the University of Vienna took a different approach to test whether pain and empathy are driven by the same pathways.

In August 2016, Ruike and her colleagues were approached by representatives from a medical supply company in China, who asked the group to develop an improved version of a popular pain - relieving bandage that the company currently manufactures.

Now, a computer modeling approach, developed by University of Maryland seismologist Vedran Lekic and colleagues at the University of California Berkeley, has produced new seismic wave imagery which reveals that the rising plumes are, in fact, influenced by a pattern of finger - like structures carrying heat deep beneath Earth's oceanic plates.

Rather than replace the gene, the approach used by Ryszard Kole and colleagues at the University of North Carolina repairs the dysfunctional messenger RNA produced by the defective genes.

Zak Page, Craig Hawker and colleagues at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Dow Chemical Company sought to overcome this barrier by adopting a bottom - up approach for patterning emissive polymers.

Finally, by combining the high numerical - aperture approach with patterned photoactivatable non-linear SIM, Betzig and his colleagues could follow two proteins at a time with higher resolution than the high numerical aperture approach offered on its own.

Crowther and his colleagues merged these approaches by first gathering data for every continent except Antarctica from various existing ground - based counts covering about 430,000 hectares.

Now, a new approach developed by Dr. Ekaterina Galanzha of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock and her colleagues allows for labeling and tracking of individual circulating cancer cells throughout the body, thereby helping researchers elucidate the pathways of single cells from start to finish.

By taking a scientific approach to cultural understanding, De Keulenaer and her colleagues help politicians and policymakers keep the big picture — and the attitudes of their constituents — in view.

Anthony Arendt of the University of Alaska and his colleagues improved upon that approach by applying a new and more thorough technique.

By combining the two approaches, Patanè and his colleagues conclude that magma has been continuously injected from a depth of 6 to 15 kilometers below sea level into a series of shallower reservoirs.

The nanoparticles developed by Dr. Rana and colleagues offer a potential new strategy for delivering this powerful therapeutic approach.

A companion paper published in BMC Evolutionary Biology by colleagues at the EPA lab in Narragansett, RI, that used a «candidate gene scan» approach — examining SNPs from 42 genes associated with the AHR pathway — also identified AHR2 as a gene that appears to be under selection and is likely to be involved in the resistance.

This process, known as (de) saturation, is central to the approach used by van der Bilt and colleagues to reconstruct Arctic temperature change.

«Hopefully researchers will start looking in the black holes, the larger gaps,» he says — perhaps by using the statistical approach that he and his colleagues outlined August 30 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Cooper and his colleagues scoured past studies and collated data on the distance at which lizards start to flee when approached by a researcher.

«Our findings support PfSEA - 1 as a potential vaccine candidate, and we are confident that by partnering with our colleagues at the National Institutes of Health and other researchers focused on vaccines to prevent the parasites from entering red blood cells, we can approach the parasite from all angles, which could help us develop a truly effective vaccine to prevent this infectious disease that kills millions of children every year.»

In addition, «we are planning future collaborative studies between the University of Chicago and UCLA that will use state - of - the - art imaging approaches to answer the many questions raised by the current study,» said Paul Macey, PhD, who, along with colleague Rajesh Kumar, PhD, led the image analyses at UCLA.