Sentences with phrase «author of a new study about»

«For decades, conventional wisdom held that large Jupiter - mass planets take a minimum of 10 million years to form,» said Christopher Johns - Krull, the lead author of a new study about the planet, CI Tau b, that will be published in the Astrophysical Journal.

«You wouldn't voluntarily do it over and over again,» said Kenneth Catania, a professor of biological sciences at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and author of a new study about the electric eels» shocking behavior.

While rare, the fungus has been lethal in about 25 % of the people in the U.S. who have developed infections, according to Edmond Byrnes III, a doctoral student in molecular genetics and microbiology at Duke University and one of the lead authors of a new study about the fungus.

Not exact matches

Richard Florida, the urban studies theorist and author of «The Rise of the Creative Class» recently cited three particular Boulder ingredients that could help explain its start - up density: «talented people and a high quality of life that keeps them around, technological expertise, and an open - mindedness about new ways of doing things, which often comes from a strong counterculture.»

There was an ancient paradigm about the «fitness cost of antibiotic resistance,» but the emergence of the new technologies of high - throughput sequencing has changed the field, allowing researchers to study bacterial pathogenesis at the genome scale,» said Dr. David Skurnik, senior author of a new Bioessays article.

«Organisms can deal with these stressful transitions from warm to cold by either acclimating - think about dogs putting on their winter coats - or by populations genetically evolving to deal with new stresses, a phenomenon known as rapid climate adaptation,» said Alison Gerken, a post-doctoral associate with UF's Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and the lead author of a new study, published this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The authors of a new study say that there has been limited information available about the influence of fertilizer sources of nitrogen that can be injected and fertigated on fruit yield and quality in organic blackberry.

«Our new hypothesis has lots of exciting implications about when and where dinosaurs may have originated, as well as when feathers may have evolved,» says University of Cambridge paleontologist Matthew Baron, lead author of the study.

He's a professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and he studies the use of empirical research to inform legal policy; and he's the author of an article in the August issue of Scientific American titled, «How New York Beat Crime», about the reasons for the huge drops in crime over the last couple of decades in America's largest city.

Scientists have known about the beneficial effects of bone marrow transplants since the late 1960s, but «there really hasn't been much data available to explain what is going on,» says immunologist James George of the University of Alabama, Birmingham, an author of the new study.

«The novelty of this study is that it provides potential neuroimaging - based tools that can be used with new patients to inform about the degree of certain neural pathology underlying their pain symptoms,» said Marina López - Solà, a post-doctoral researcher in CU Boulder's Cognitive and Affective Control Laboratory and lead author of the new study.

In the January issue of Environmental Science & Technology the researchers described their efforts mapping nearly 5,900 natural gas leaks of varying severity across 1,500 road miles of Washington, D.C. To learn more about the state of the gas pipelines running through several major U.S. cities — in particular those serving New York City — Scientific American interviewed Robert Jackson, professor of environmental sciences at Stanford and Duke universities and the study's lead author.

«When we anticipate that something is going to happen, and then it actually happens, we immediately start to find ways of twisting our perceptions to make ourselves feel better about it, more so than we were doing when we merely anticipated this new thing,» says study author Kristin Laurin of The University of British Columbia.

«We often hear about how new species are being discovered from remote corners of the Earth, but what is remarkable is that these spiders are in our own backyard,» says Dr. Chris Hamilton, lead author of the study.

Although abnormal ALK is found in only about 5 percent of NSCLC cases, that translates into more than 5,000 new patients annually who could potentially benefit from crizotinib therapy, the study authors state.

This means, for instance, that «if you've learned that oranges are good, the smell of a tangerine will also get you thinking about food,» says Robert Campbell, a postdoctoral researcher in the Turner lab and lead author on the new study.

Many people know about the threatened polar bear and extinct passenger pigeon, but few have heard of endangered and extinct languages such as Eyak in Alaska, whose last speaker died in 2008, or Ubykh in Turkey, whose last fluent speaker died in 1992, says Tatsuya Amano, a zoologist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and lead author of the new study.

That range of adaptability we hope will lead to new insights about ice deformation, in particular by combining analysis of different responses and seeing how they compete at different timescales,» said Christine McCarthy, the study's lead author.

«Most of the time, when people talk about delaying gratification, they talk about basic processes of evaluation and self - control,» said Laura Michaelson, a CU - Boulder doctoral student in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and co-lead author of the new study appearing in the online journal Frontiers in Psychology.

«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.

«The core is mostly iron and some nickel, but also contains about 10 % of light alloys such as silicon, oxygen, sulfur, carbon, hydrogen, and other compounds,» Hirose, lead author of the new study to be published in the journal Nature.

According to the authors of the study, in future researches it will be necessary to know about the action mechanism of the new products - highly selective and with low cell toxicity on in vitro tests - and broaden preclinical studies with laboratory animal models.

«The most exciting thing about our study is not that we've identified a new gene involved in pulmonary hypertension, but that we've found a drug that can «rescue» some mutations,» said co-senior author Wendy K. Chung, MD, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics and medicine at CUMC.

Now a new study authored by Neves and three BYU exercise science professors reveals great news about the Achilles heel: the Achilles tendon is capable of adapting to uphill and downhill running better than previously believed.

«Our results using advanced, modern laboratory techniques called next - generation sequencing, allowed us to acquire a library of new knowledge about patients with ALS,» says the study's senior author, Leonard Petrucelli, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Neuroscience on Mayo Clinic's Florida campus.

«The information we have gained about the dynamic changes in ECM composition and its interactions with various secreted growth factor proteins enables us to develop new hypotheses for the activation of stem cells in the lung,» explains Dr. Herbert Schiller, first author of the study.

When I was in North Carolina last month for the meet - and - greet - and - learn - exhausto - freneti - thon of ScienceOnline 2012, I procured for myself a sampling kit for a citizen science project being conducted by the lab of Rob Dunn, Sci Am Guest Blogger and author of the wonderful book The Wild Life of our Bodies.He's doing a new study called «The Wild Life of Our Homes», and for the low, low price of nothing *, I got a sampling kit with two neato dual - pronged sterile Q - tips, instructions, a questionnaire about the characteristics of my pad, and a mailing address to send it back to.

To learn more about the groups that manufactured these later styles, the authors of the new study analyzed the surface features of 100 projectile points from collections at several museums, including the Smithsonian collection, which is curated by anthropologist Dennis Stanford.

«Combined with other areas of our investigation into HIV latency, this research provides important new knowledge about the process and opens many new pathways for future study,» said Dr. Verdin, senior author of the study.

«It is surprising, but Earth's atmosphere is about 50 trillion metric tons in mass, and so over long enough timescales — hundreds, thousands, even millions of years — all of that mass, and its drag across the surface of the planet, can have an effect,» said study author Caleb Scharf, director of astrobiology at Columbia University in New York.

«Chemistry tends to dominate the way we think about medicine, but it has become clear that physical and mechanical factors play very critical roles in regulating biology,» said David Mooney, the Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering at SEAS and Wyss Institute Core Faculty member, senior author on the new study.

«We used a new algorithm to predict brain aging after horrible life events — like divorce or death — and negative life events accelerate brain aging by about one - third of a year for each event,» said study lead author Sean Hatton, a project scientist at the University of California, San Diego.

«The incredible excitement about this is that we have an entirely new way to try to go after obesity,» says Aaron Cypess, MD, of the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, lead author of one of the new studies.

«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.

«If you have too much sodium and too little potassium, it's worse than either one on its own,» said Dr. Thomas Farley, New York City's health commissioner, who has led efforts to get the public to eat less salt... «Potassium may neutralize the heart - damaging effects of salt,» said Dr. Elena Kuklina, one of the study's authors at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention... The research found people who eat a lot of salt and very little potassium were more than twice as likely to die from a heart attack as those who ate about equal amounts of both nutrients.

Think more about how your recipients will actually use them, say the authors of a new study, and less about their reaction when opening the packages.Yes, the idea of finding a present that will offer a «big reveal» can be appealing, and can add some excitement to an otherwise predictable gift exchange.

Taking place about seventy years before the events of the Harry Potter saga, «Fantastic Beasts» takes place in New York City and follows the author of the eponymous Hogwarts textbook as he studies and documents the magical creatures of the world.

Taking place about seventy years before the events of the Harry Potter saga, «Fantastic Beasts» follows Scamander, the author of the eponymous Hogwarts textbook, as he arrives in New York during his quest to study and document the magical creatures of the world.

On Friday, April 28, 2017, Linda DeLibero — Director, Film and Media Studies, Johns Hopkins University — and Christopher Llewellyn Reed (that's me)-- Chair and Professor, Department of Film & Moving Image, Stevenson University — joined Dan Rodricks on his Baltimore Sun podcast, «Roughly Speaking,» along with Pulitzer Prize - winning journalist Glenn Frankel (author of The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend), to discuss both the 1952 classic Western movie High Noon and Frankel's new book about its production, entitled High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic.

One of the authors of the study, Dr. Anthony G. Picciano, a professor in the Hunter College school of education and the College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York, talked with Education World about the studys findings and implications.

The authors of the new study, Anna J. Egalite and Brian Kisida wrote for Education Next last year about three different theories of why students might perform better when they have a teacher of the same race and how their study (which was then a working paper) helps illuminate the issue.

Our authors talk about how to do that, too — from teaching study skills for independent learning to making students more aware of their own behavior to enlisting them to help their teachers turn schools around, embrace technology, and learn new professional skills.

According to the study's authors, this effect is equivalent in magnitude to cutting about 43 percent of the gap in graduation rates between white students and students of color in New York City.

While in the conclusions section of this article authors stretch this finding out a bit, writing that «Overall, this study finds that there is promise in teacher evaluation reform in Chicago,» (p. 114) as primarily based on their findings about «the new observation process» (p. 114) being used in CPS, recall from the Review of Article # 4 prior (i.e., # 4 of 9 on observational systems» potentials here), these observational systems are not «new and improved.»

She is the author of more than 30 books and innumerable articles on modern and contemporary art and culture, including About Rothko (2003), The New York School: A Cultural Reckoning (1992), A Joseph Cornell Album (1989), Yes, But: A Critical Study of Philip Guston (1976), On Art: Documents of 20th Century Art (with Pablo Picasso, 1973), and Rauschenberg: XXXIV Drawings for Dante's Inferno (with Robert Rauschenberg, 1968).

About the author: Raphael Rubinstein is a New York - based poet, art critic, and professor of critical studies at the University of Houston.

Those concerned about global warming (including at least one study author) are stressing that a longer evolutionary timeline implies the bears» adaptation to climate change in the past was a slow process (meaning the speed of change now poses new threats).

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The findings sharpen the way glaciologists think about melting of ice sheets and how ice reflects light, according to Marek Stibal, a cryosphere ecologist at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic and one of the lead authors of the new study.

But the authors of the new study warn that we'll need to be careful about the sort of black carbon we choose to cut.