Sentences with phrase «author of a study about»

«Colonization of the islands could have been possible thanks to natural rafts such as floating mangroves that typhoons occasionally break off the coast,» said Thomas Ingicco, the lead author of a study about the archeological site published in the journal Nature.

Progesterone, Inflammation and Breast Cancer The authors of a study about progesterone receptors make controversial claims about progesterone, inflammation and breast cancer.

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The study's authors say that getting people to think favourably of your accomplishments might be better achieved «by modest self - representation, or even self - denigration, than by outright bragging about one's positive qualities.»

«All of us grow up with a set of expectations about what we're supposed to do,» the study's lead author, Harvard Business School professor Kathleen L. McGinn, tells Business Insider.

At larger companies, the study's authors explain, engagement is largely a matter of an employee's relationship with his or her direct supervisor, and how the employee feels about the company's leadership.

The authors of that study have downplayed its findings, saying that while «we stand by our finding that some non-citizens have voted in recent elections,» the study's findings about noncitizen voting had been exaggerated and misrepresented.

The authors of the study — professors Jorge Walter (George Washington University School of Business), Daniel Z. Levin (Rutgers Business School), and J. Keith Murnighan (Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management)-- studied what happened when more than 150 executives interacted with old ties about an important work project.

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.»

The study authors suggest that the prime takeaway is that cutting yourself some slack about, well, slacking off is good for you (at least if you're tightly wound), or, as BPS puts it, «the people who could most benefit from the restorative effects of lounge - based downtime... are the least likely to do so.»

According to Christopher Ruhm, the author of the first European study, paid leave of about 40 weeks saved the most lives.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

International business speaker and author Michael Kerr shares the results of a study on working dogs that reveals valuable lessons about humor and play in the workplace.

Welsh is the lead author of three Si2 studies about corporate political activity governance and spending.

The robust growth of these 12,700 majority women - owned companies (out of about 200,000 total, including the country's largest private companies and publicly traded brands) surprised the study's author, researcher Julie Weeks.

We have some questions about this study that we can not yet discuss because the authors are in the process of submitting the final report for publication.

«When we interviewed the insurers for our report, it was in late 2017, so we were not able to fully capture how insurers currently would feel about these market stabilization proposals that are in the news this week,» said Sabrina Corlette, research professor at the Center on Health Insurance Reforms at Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute and one of the authors of the study.

One of the authors, Berkeley researcher Emiliana Simon - Thomas, said that Kogan had invited her to join the study but that she did not remember many details about it.

In this chapter, the author refines the thesis that a theological school is a community of persons trying to understand God more truly by focusing its study within the horizon of questions about Christian congregations.

In this chapter the author proposes courses of study unified by designing every course to address the overarching interest of a theological school and pluralistically adequate by designing every course to focus on questions about congregations.

Shaun, author of A Book of Sparks: A Study in Christian MindFullness (Instant Apostle), feels his role is to help people make informed choices about practising mindfulness.

Averaging about one page each, the case studies were collected by the author outside his clinical practice and with the cooperation of the Daughters of Bilitis, an organization of female homosexual persons.

By the way, I'm the author of the book 300 Times 0 who studied for 16 years to be an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi so I would hope I know a thing or two about Judaism.

The authors of the study suggest, however, that more still needs to be done, as currently only about 60 % of the population has access to the free drugs...

Just as studying an artist's painting or an architect's building tells us much about the human author, so too does the study of the natural sciences lead us to understand the Aauthor, so too does the study of the natural sciences lead us to understand the AuthorAuthor.

@Mass Debater «I have read many works that study the history of the Jewish people and their culture as found apart from biblical sources, I have yet to find one that did not include supposition about the veracity of it's own work, with none claiming absolute truth as to who the authors of the bible or who the historical figure of Moses could have been.»

This is an abstract of an observational study that can establish only association but does not prove causality; this is confirmed by the authors themselves in the press release when they state ``... so we can not say that low kilojoule beverage cause these problems... there may be other factors about people who drink more diet drinks that could explain the connection.»

«It's not something magical about organic,» said Charles M. Benbrook, an organic industry consultant and one of the authors of the studies.

Study author Clare Hughes said the claims deliberately misled consumers about the nutritional value of the product.

[1 - 9] As a 2013 research paper [7] and a number of other recent studies [12 - 15] show, education alone (or at least that which focuses on educating athletes about the signs and symptoms of concussion and not changing attitudes about reporting behavior) does not appear capable of solving the problem, because the reasons for under - reporting are largely cultural, [2,3,9,10, 12 - 15] leading the paper's author to conclude that «other approaches might be needed to identify injured athletes.»

Because the overnighting infants tried to get their mother's attention and gazed at her more often — which on the actual test is a positive sign of readiness to learn language — the study's authors concluded that the overnighting infants were more watchful and wary about their mother's whereabouts, indicating more anxiety and insecurity.

I hadn't known about this center's work, and it is highly illuminating and also offers hope for those of us who'd like to see men feel accepted and embraced in that role My only concern is that of the 31 fathers in this study most were at home with babies / young children (meaning they probably hadn't been married too long) and the mean number of years spent caregiving was slightly greater than 5; I wish the authors indicated how many had been doing it for 17 years.

«We were surprised by the large number of concerns mothers had, and we were very concerned by how particular concerns were strongly related to giving up with breastfeeding» - such as worries about babies not getting enough nutrition, said Laurie A. Nommsen - Rivers, the study's senior author, from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

The only surprising thing about the study is that the authors are cheerfully ignorant about the meaning of what they found.

Unless and until the authors are forthcoming about the circumstances of the deaths, we need to reserve judgment about what the study really shows.

The reasons are as yet unknown but the authors of the study point out that «It is possible that babies fed to a routine become relatively more passive participants in the world: feeding (arguably the most important event in their lives) is something which is done to them, rather than something which their own desires and actions play a part in bringing about.

BARRINGTON Karen Rogers, professor of gifted studies at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., and author of «Reforming Gifted Education: Matching the Program to the Child,» will talk about four things parents must ask of schools for their gifted children at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Hough Street School, 310 S. Hough St.. The program is sponsored by the Barrington Council for the Gifted and Talented, and there is a $ 5 fee for non-members at...

Caroline Homer, one of the authors of the study, and Hannah Dahlen, a spokesperson for the Australian College of Midwives, take to the lay press to boast about the results of the study (Study of low risk women reveals good news on the home birth frstudy, and Hannah Dahlen, a spokesperson for the Australian College of Midwives, take to the lay press to boast about the results of the study (Study of low risk women reveals good news on the home birth frstudy (Study of low risk women reveals good news on the home birth frStudy of low risk women reveals good news on the home birth front):

I asked the author about this and she swept it aside with something along the lines of: since there was no trend towards improvement, everybody has just decided not to study the issue any more and let all big babies get as big as they want to get because ultrasound is worthless.

«About 50 percent of the brain's pathways are tied in some to way to vision and visual processing,» said Dr. Steven Galetta, chairman of neurology at N.Y.U. Langone Medical Center and senior author of the study, which was published in The Journal of Neuro - Ophthalmology.

«Contrary to the prevailing scientific opinion about the biological effects of nitrite and nitrate, our data support the view that humans may require these dietary components from birth — from nature's most perfect food,» said Norman G. Hord, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.D., the study's lead author and an associate professor of food science and human nutrition at Michigan State University (MSU).

Personally, I find it rather ironic that you're lecturing the blog author on the rigor of language, when, faced with the need to support the claims made by a documentary that has faced absolutely no real standards of intellectual rigor or merit (the kind of evidence you apparently find convincing), you have so far managed to produce a study with a sample size too small to conclude anything, a review paper that basically summarized well known connections between vaginal and amniotic flora and poor outcomes in labor and birth before attempting to rescue what would have been just another OB review article with a few attention grabbing sentences about long term health implications, and a review article published in a trash journal.

The authors concluded that the findings of this study provided the first national evaluation of a significant proportion of women choosing publicly funded home birth in Australia; however, the sample size did not have sufficient power to draw a conclusion about safety.

The authors of the study recognise the risks associated with an elective caesarean, and decisions about subsequent mode of delivery in women who had a severe perineal tear in an earlier pregnancy must be weighed against the clinical and psychological impacts of severe perineal tearing.

The study's lead author, Mr Jason Bentley from the Menzies Centre for Health Policy commented: «There is an urgent need for strategies to inform more judicious clinical decision making about the timing of planned birth.»

The author, Rooja Sooben from the Centre for Learning Disability Studies at the University of Hertfordshire, says despite compelling evidence about the health benefits of breastfeeding, little is known about the experiences of mothers of infants with Down's syndrome.

«For parents whose major concern about Ritalin and Adderall is about the future risk for substance abuse, this study may be helpful to them,» says Steve S. Lee, senior author of the study, a psychology professor at UCLA.

According to Bill McKibben, author of Maybe One: An Environmental and Personal Argument for Single - Child Families, studies show that only children tend to do better in school, especially in science, math, and literature; have more friends; and be more flexible about gender roles than kids in larger families.

Although some SIDS experts and policy - makers endorse pacifier use recommendations that are similar to those of the AAP, 272,273 concerns about possible deleterious effects of pacifier use have prevented others from making a recommendation for pacifier use as a risk reduction strategy.274 Although several observational studies275, — , 277 have found a correlation between pacifiers and reduced breastfeeding duration, the results of well - designed randomized clinical trials indicated that pacifiers do not seem to cause shortened breastfeeding duration for term and preterm infants.278, 279 The authors of 1 study reported a small deleterious effect of early pacifier introduction (2 — 5 days after birth) on exclusive breastfeeding at 1 month of age and on overall breastfeeding duration (defined as any breastfeeding), but early pacifier use did not adversely affect exclusive breastfeeding duration.

Risk of bias graph: review authors» judgements about each risk of bias item presented as percentages across all included studies

«One could spend days sorting through the claims and counterclaims,» Goldberg writes about the only recent study of American home births, which Tuteur has been beating up on for years and to which the authors, for better or worse, have been responding.