Sentences with phrase «author of a study on»

Dr. Katherine Tamminen, assistant professor at the University of Toronto and associate editor of the International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, was the lead author of a study on helping adolescent athletes cope with stress.

Dr. Katherine Tamminen was the lead author of a study on helping adolescent athletes cope with stress.

Locals no longer feel powerless and so are less likely to take out their frustrations on an unlucky big cat, says Chloe Inskip at the University of Kent, UK, an author of the study on tiger killings in Bangladesh.

«We use biological nanoparticles — a plant virus — to deliver a pesticide,» said Paul Chariou, a PhD student in biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve and author of a study on the process published in the journal ACS Nano.

«The brown dwarfs we were turning up before this discovery were more like the temperature of your oven,» said astronomer Davy Kirkpatrick, a WISE science team member at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, and lead author of a study on the 100 new brown dwarfs.

«Finding brown dwarfs near our sun is like discovering there's a hidden house on your block that you didn't know about,» said astronomer Michael Cushing, a WISE team member at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and lead author of the study on the Y dwarfs.

The findings are dire, but they should inspire action rather than hopelessness, said Adrian Raftery, a professor of statistics and sociology at the University of Washington and author of the study on temperature forecasts.

«That's about as tall as a medium - sized man,» said paleontologist Gerald Mayr from the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt, Germany, and the lead author of the study on Kumimanu biceae.

Neil Berg, associate director of UCLA's Center for Climate Science, was lead author of the study on snowpack during drought.

«Ultimately, the reward and motivation system plays a trick on us,» said INSEAD post-doctoral fellow Liane Schmidt, the lead author of a study on wine and the placebo effect published this week in the journal Scientific Reports.

Orbuch is the author of a study on closure, which found that singles who were able to say «I don't feel much of anything for an ex» were way more likely to find a new love and a long - term relationship than the singles who were still grappling with feelings of love or hate.

I am one of the authors of the study on EA in plastics that you cited... as well as an avid amateur chef.

Indeed this is true, although the correlations they observed, as aligned with what is increasingly becoming a saturated finding in the literature (see similar findings about the Marzano observational framework here; see similar findings from other studies here, here, and here; see also other studies as cited by authors of this study on p. 13 - 14 here), is that the magnitude and practical significance of these correlations are «very weak» (e.g., r =.18) to «moderate» (e.g., r =.45,.46, and.48).

«While charter teachers are churning in and out of where they work, charter students and parents seem more loyal to their school choice,» said Luke Dauter, a Berkeley doctoral student in sociology and lead author of the study on student mobility, in a statement.

Last week, Robert Levine, author of Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back, and Brett Danaher, the author of a study on the effect of France's HADOPI graduated response law, participated in several events in Toronto.

Not exact matches

In his studies of truly great performers, K. Anders Ericsson, the psychologist and author of several landmark studies on elite performance... found that they practiced and rested a lot more than their good but not elite peers.

«What we found is that people who spent money to buy time reported being almost one full point higher on our 10 - point [happiness] ladder, compared to people who did not use money to buy time,» wrote Elizabeth Dunn, an author of the study and a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia.

As a result, «we are building on these findings to refine existing treatments to boost feelings of being safe and supported in order to improve coping with traumatic memories,» said Dr. Anke Karl, one of the authors, wrote of the study.

All three groups showed some improvement on cognitive measures when assessed after the ten weeks, says Dr. Caryn Lerman, the study's lead author and a psychiatry professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

In other words, exercising after a long period of not eating could set us up for a longer, more intense fat burn, noted Eric Doucet, the lead author on the study and a professor of kinesiology at the University of Ottowa.

The authors of the study proffered that advertising on Facebook is effective for the simple reason that it reaches more of a page's followers.

Jon Levs, author of All in: How Our Work - First Culture Fails Dads, Families, and Businesses — And How We Can Fix It Together, studied the effect of paid leave in California and New Jersey, which have paid family leave programs, and found that the majority of businesses reported that their state's paid leave programs had either no effect or a positive effect on their business.

While that will undoubtedly help students and scientists save tons of time sifting through articles on PubMed, Meta can also help organizations decide where to direct their research budgets by identifying trends in certain areas of study or finding authors who have shown promising work in the past.

«There are a lot of naturally occurring dog diseases — especially psychiatric diseases — that are very similar to human diseases,» Hyun Ji Noh, a geneticist at the Broad Institute and the lead author on the study, told Business Insider.

Dr. Sean Khozin, one of the authors on the study and a senior medical officer at the FDA, told Business Insider that Flatiron is just one of many companies the agency is working with to check out how alternative sources of data can be used to better inform the agency.

One of the keynote speakers is Robert Thurman, the foremost American scholar, author and activist on Tibetan Buddhist studies in the U.S., and a close personal friend of the Dalai Lama's.

«Mehl and his team found that the happiest person in the study had twice as many substantive conversations, and only one - third the amount of small talk, as the unhappiest person,» reports author Jenn Granneman on Psychology Today.

Studies on allowances offer mixed takeaways, said Beth Kobliner, author of «Make Your Kid a Money Genius (Even If You're Not).»

Becker, the author of the Pew study, replied to Trump on Twitter: «We found millions of out of date registration records due to people moving or dying, but found no evidence that voter fraud resulted.»

«On the evidence of this study it appears men may be advised to purchase clothing that is well - tailored, as it can positively enhance the image they communicate to others,» the authors wrote.

But to further quantify women's impact on a local level, the study's authors also broke down what female residents of each state contribute to GDP per day.

As explained on the TED Ideas blog by economist and author Tim Harford, the study compared volunteers» productivity on a routine task in a variety of spaces.

The study's authors discovered that participants were matching faces to jobs based on a certain set of facial characteristics.

Popular Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, came to the same conclusion in her studies on motivation.

But, the study's authors found that the impact of laughter on teams» performances only occurred when the humour was interactive and engaging; in instances where the humour was isolated — think somebody telling a joke and the room lapsing into awkward silence — there was no effect on performance.

In one study, «the number of books «liked» on Facebook profiles was negatively correlated with [psychopathy]-- a finding the authors suggested might indicate that an interest in books contradicts psychopathic tendencies such as thrill seeking, impulsivity, and affect deficiencies,» reports Psychology Today.

«Tinder supposedly makes it easier to have sex on tap, but it's pretty well established that people with a steady partner tend to have sex more often,» says Jean Twenge, one of the study's researchers and the author of Generation Me.

And in the future, say the authors of a new study, the country's economic fortunes will continue to depend on its willingness to welcome entrepreneurial talent from around the world.

Joanna Cound, one of the authors of the BlackRock study, says that the time period for the calculation was 20 years, not 10 as the Times had reported — so the ding, on average, would be $ 115 per year in the global equity fund.

«This is an important issue to study because mental health problems and social isolation are at epidemic levels among young adults,» lead author Brian Primack, M.D., Ph.D., director of Pitt's Center for Research on media, technology and health said in a statement.

When studying the habits of the rich and poor, author Thomas Corley found that «Seventy - seven percent of the poor in my study gambled every week on the lottery.

«There is only one way to really reduce congestion and cut down on traffic,» warns Tim Lomax, the author of the annual TTI study on U.S. congestion.

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.

The 4 % safe withdrawal rate (based on the so - called Trinity University study from 1998), is only one of several rough guidelines and has been widely criticized by other academics, as well as revisited by its original authors.

«While some device vendors are hoping that strong consumer awareness will drive corporate wellness adoption for their products, they also need to understand and focus on the most influential parts of the healthcare value chain,» says Jonathan Collins, author of the new study.

In September 2016, the authors of the randomized - controlled trial of Living Goods program posted a discussion paper on the study (archived version).

Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies at the University of Virginia and author of the upcoming book on Facebook Antisocial Media, says Facebook's policies betrayed users.

«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.

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