Sentences with phrase «author of a study describing»

«Finding inexpensive ways to remove lignin is one of the largest barriers to producing cost - effective biofuels,» says Ezinne Achinivu, a Ph.D. student in chemical and biomolecular engineering at NC State and lead author of a study describing the new technique.

«In addition to the direct loss of forest, there was a widespread shift of the remaining global forest to a more fragmented condition,» explains Kurt Riitters, a research ecologist and team leader with the U.S. Forest Service Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center and the lead author of a study describing the phenomenon, published in the January 2016 issue of Landscape Ecology.

Dr. Patel is senior author of a study describing research that led to the drug's development, published online in Nature Communications.

Not exact matches

The authors of the study — two professors from Stanford, one from the University of Minnesota, and an economist at the Social Security Administration — describe it more dryly.

The authors of the chess study later described the 15 - minute time limits as a flaw in experimental design.

However, 4th degree tear rates in this particular study were very high, even among normal weight babies (1.5 %), and the authors did not describe how many women had episiotomies, which is a leading cause of severe tears.

An author of a new medical study said the high cost of paying injured N.H.L. players should push the league to stiffen what he described as inadequate measures to prevent brain trauma, including rules that still allow fighting.

«MUSE has the unique ability to extract information about some of the earliest galaxies in the Universe — even in a part of the sky that is already very well studied,» explains Jarle Brinchmann, lead author of one of the papers describing results from this survey, from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands and the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences at CAUP in Porto, Portugal.

«The rural Native American children, who so often are described as less talkative than their peers, were actually more likely to talk and act out activities with the diorama than children from the other two communities,» said Karen Washinawatok, lead author of the study and former chair of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin.

«This is a proof - of - concept study demonstrating that frontal sinus X-rays offer a viable, noninvasive technique for estimating the age range of juvenile remains,» says Ann Ross, a professor of biological sciences at NC State and senior author of a paper describing the work.

To investigate this, the authors conducted a study involving participants of Action in Diabetes and Vascular Disease: Preterax and Diamicron Modified Re-lease Controlled Evaluation (ADVANCE) trial (published in The Lancet in 2007 and the New England Journal of Medicine in 2008), with its cohort described by the authors as being generally representative of people with diabetes in developed countries such as Australia, New Zealand, China and nations of Europe, and also including China, a developing country.

In this study, the authors describe a computer model that can be used to calculate the probability that the presence of two Zika cases in a given area will lead to an epidemic, based on real - time simulations of all the counties in the state of Texas.

In this study, the authors have solved the equation describing the effect of solid friction on granular materials for an arbitrary number of dimensions.

The authors of the present study describe a new large giraffid species, named Decennatherium rex sp. nov., from the Spanish province of Madrid.

Pulanesaura, says paleontologist Blair McPhee, lead author of the August study describing the dinosaur, suggests sauropods evolved to exploit untapped food sources.

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.

Leon Sütfeld, first author of the study, says that until now it has been assumed that moral decisions are strongly context dependent and therefore can not be modeled or described algorithmically, «But we found quite the opposite.

«This is the first study to look at this issue at this level of detail, and the findings are extremely promising,» says Ann Ross, a professor of anthropology at North Carolina State University and senior author of a paper describing the work.

Brian Langerhans, an assistant professor of biological sciences at NC State and a senior author on a paper describing the study, says the research could help scientists learn about the connectedness of what seem to be disconnected animal traits.

In the current study, the authors describe how they designed THSB's student and teacher materials to increase teachers» knowledge of science ideas and practices and of strategies for teaching them.

Jackson, a volcanologist by training who led an earlier study at the ALS on Roman seawater concrete, is the lead author of a paper describing this study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) titled «Mechanical Resilience and Cementitious Processes in Imperial Roman Architectural Mortar.»

The model, described in a study published this week in Biomicrofluidics, from AIP Publishing, will enable researchers to study potential disease causes and test new drugs to treat IBD, said study author Amy Dawson, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of John Greenman at the University of Hull, U.K..

In the study, the authors describe a new chemical reaction that converts simple starting materials into architecturally complex molecules (a collection of atoms bonded to one another) called «decalins» in a single step.

Limitations of the study include its reliance on survey participants to accurately recall and report what they ate and drank, as well as the potential for diet fads or food trends in popular culture to influence how people described their diets, the authors note.

«We already assumed the sex determination to be an evolutionary young mechanism, because X and Y chromosome of N. furzeri still look very similar,» Kathrin Reichwald — Postdoc at the FLI and first author of the study — describes.

«Our work describes the structure and function of an important enzyme called Rumi, which adds a glucose molecule to several signaling proteins to modify their activities,» said the study's lead author, Huilin Li, a biologist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University.

She is one of two corresponding authors — the other is Cyrus Ghajar a bioengineer and member of Bissell's research group — of a paper describing this study in the journal Nature Cell Biology.

The authors of the study developed equations that describe the wave motions in the extra-tropical atmosphere and show under what conditions those waves can grind to a halt and get amplified.

Based on the findings described in Scientific Reports, the study authors are cautiously optimistic about the therapeutic potential of mifepristone for patients with vestibular schwannomas, either from NF2 or those arising sporadically.

«Earlier studies have shown that urban warming increases pest abundance in street trees,» says Emily Meineke, lead author of a paper describing the work.

Yaghi and Terasaki are the corresponding authors of a paper describing this study that has been published in Nature.

As lead author on a 2015 paper, Fox described the mathematical correlation between body mass index, blood pressure and ventricular mass during the initial phase of the study.

Lead authors of the study, Ivan P. Gorlov, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Community and Family Medicine and Christopher Amos, Ph.D., Professor of Community and Family Medicine and Director of the Center for Genomic Medicine described a new method to analyze microarray data.

In the new study, the authors began with a set of 75 webs of interacting species that other researchers had previously described from a wide range of terrestrial and marine environments.

«We're a long way from applying this to humans, but it's a good start,» says Johns Hopkins neurosurgery resident Tomas Garzon - Muvdi, M.D., M.Sc., one of the authors of the study led by Rafael J. Tamargo, M.D., and described in the October issue of the journal Neurosurgery.

Christine Mißbach, first author of the study, analyzed the active genes in the insect antennae where the olfactory receptors are located and describes her discovery this way: «Astonishingly, the firebrat, which is more closely related to flying insects, employs several co-receptors, while the odorant receptors themselves are absent.»

By mistake, it had previously been considered that the species described by Boissier was that of Málaga,» explains Gabriel Gabrielto, one of the authors of the study published in Phytotaxa and a researcher at the University of Granada.

The authors of the study reanalyzed the large but incomplete Ontocetus oxymycterus fossil sperm whale specimen from the middle Miocene Monterey Formation of California, originally described in 1925 by Remington Kellogg.

«These origami can be customized for use in everything from studying cell behavior to creating templates for the nanofabrication of electronic components,» says Dr. Thom LaBean, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at NC State and senior author of a paper describing the work.

«This study allows us to see what the Milky Way may have looked like in the past,» said Casey Papovich of Texas A&M University in College Station, lead author on the paper that describes the study's results.

Katherine High, MD, a senior author of the study and Spark Therapeutics's president and chief scientific officer, described the updated interim trial data at today's press conference.

«Unfortunately, we have a lot of experience in studying the skeletal remains of children in criminal investigations to determine how they were treated and how they died,» says Ann Ross, a professor of anthropology at NC State and lead author of a paper describing the work.

Pines is the corresponding author of a paper in Nature Communications describing this study.

In a paper published in the journal Nanotechnology [«Static micro-array isolation, dynamic time series classification, capture and enumeration of spiked breast cancer cells in blood: the nanotube - CTC chip»], Panchapakesan's team, which includes graduate students Farhad Khosravi, the paper's lead author, and researchers at the University of Louisville and Thomas Jefferson University, describe a study in which antibodies specific for two markers of metastatic breast cancer, EpCam and Her2, were attached to the carbon nanotubes in the chip.

«The Merelani district has been famous since the late 1960s for the blue gem variety of zoisite known as tanzanite, but this is really a mineral collector's paradise and an exciting place to look for new minerals,» says John Jaszczak, a physics professor at Michigan Tech and the lead author on a new study published in Minerals that describes the new mineral.

Because these networks are based on neuroscientists» current understanding of how the brain performs object recognition, the success of the latest networks suggest that neuroscientists have a fairly accurate grasp of how object recognition works, says James DiCarlo, a professor of neuroscience and head of MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the senior author of a paper describing the study in the Dec. 11 issue of the journal PLoS Computational Biology.

«Understanding how this extinction happened and what role humans may have played could help us understand how extinctions are progressing today and what we can do to prevent them,» says Siobhán Cooke, M.Phil., Ph.D., assistant professor of functional anatomy and evolution at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and lead author of the study, described online in the Journal of Mammalogy on August 1.

The authors conducted a study of injured patients at an emergency department in a hospital in France to examine whether persistent symptoms three months after a head injury were specific to concussion or may be better described as part of PTSD.

Most importantly, the collaboration leveraged the expertise of the two groups: Sabeti's team had methods and technologies that enabled them to sequence a large number of samples in great depth, while CDC was able to provide what Daniel Park, a Broad researcher and the paper's co-first author, described as «some of the cleanest, easiest samples to sequence» his team had ever studied.

Study author Jolyon Troscianko of the University of Exeter in England described the tropical birds as «notoriously difficult to observe» because of the terrain of their habitat and their sensitivity to disturbance, he said in a press release.