Sentences with phrase «author on the study explained»

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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.

Professor Charles Benbrook, one of the authors of the study and a leading scientist based at Washington State University, explains, «Our results are highly relevant and significant and will help both scientists and consumers sort through the often conflicting information currently available on the nutrient density of organic and conventional plant - based foods.»

Most studies have revealed protective effects of breastfeeding on common infections in the first 8 to12 months of life.8, 27,29,30 One study, which distinguished between infectious diseases until and from the age of 6 months, revealed results similar to those from our study.24 Although the authors used exclusive breastfeeding for 3 months as the reference group, exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months reduced the risk of gastrointestinal tract infections between the ages of 3 and 6 months but not between the ages of 6 and 12 months.24 We can not explain why breastfeeding duration was only associated with lower risks of lower respiratory tract infection from 7 to 12 months.

As the authors explain in their introduction, for a long time it was relatively straight forward to compile a study on elections as they took place within a two - party and then a three - party system, from which, usually, a single party winner emerged.

«The rise of «superbugs» leaves the clinical community with a rapidly dwindling number of options to treat infectious disease and to prevent the spread of resistant bacteria in, for example, hospital settings,» explains Professor Vincent O'Flaherty of the National University of Ireland Galway, co-corresponding author on the study, recently published in Frontiers in Microbiology.

«No one had really thought that this was possible in solid materials,» explains Johnpierre Paglione, a UMD physics professor and senior author on the study.

«We were looking at two questions: how could we identify the oil on shore, now four years after the spill, and how the oil from the spill was weathering over time,» explained Christoph Aeppli, Senior Research Scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine, and lead author of the study reported in Environmental Science & Technology.

«The shortest boundary [between the components] is in the radial direction,» Dr. Angela White, first author on the study, explains.

«In recent years, there has been an enormous increase in the number of studies examining mind wandering,» explains researcher Paul Seli, a post-doctoral fellow in the department of psychology at Harvard University and lead author on the study.

«The results of this study shed light on the great complexity of factors that contribute to the physiological differences between people and allow us to better understand how genetic diseases develop,» explains Maria Gutierrez - Arcelus, first author of this article and member of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research Frontiers in Genetics.

«To find other materials with similar properties, we focused on the feasibility of exfoliation,» explains Nicolas Mounet, a researcher in the THEOS lab and lead author of the study.

Laurent Lebreton, lead author of the study, explains: «Although it is not possible to draw any firm conclusions on the persistency of plastic pollution in the GPGP yet, this plastic accumulation rate inside the GPGP, which was greater than in the surrounding waters, indicates that the inflow of plastic into the patch continues to exceed the outflow.»

Hugo Vankelecom, the lead author on this study, explained that «our new model provides several exciting perspectives.

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.

As the authors of the new research explain: «There are three main levels of analysis in the study of proteins: the first is the sequence of amino acids, the second is the three - dimensional structure that these filaments take on a very short time after they are synthesized, while the third regards their function.

«Our work demonstrates one of the most advanced designs to date of a self - contained flapping - winged aerial robot with bat morphology that is able to perform autonomous flight,» explained Alireza Ramezani, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois who is the first author of the cover article, «A Biomimetic Robotic Platform to Study Flight Specializations of Bats,» appearing in AAAS Science Robotics on February 1.

Dr. Frances Weaver, lead author on the study, explained the benefit of DBS: «Overall, DBS surgery has been viewed quite positively by both patients and providers.

OSU public health epidemiologist Michelle Odden, senior author on the study and the lead author on the earlier gait - speed research, explained how high blood pressure might actually help in some cases.

There are currently no specific treatments, and it is therefore essential to «understand the underlying mechanisms,» explains Borja Ibáñez M.D., Ph.D., CNIC researcher, Cardiologist at the University Hospital Fundación Jiménez Díaz, and joint lead author on the study together with Thomas Langer of the Max Planck Institute.

«Criticism and rejection by foster carers increases emotional and behavioural problems of their foster children due to increased strain on the foster carer and the impact on the self - esteem of the child,» explains María D. Salas, lead author of the study and scientist at the institute in Malaga.

We hope this leads to the ability to design, study and test new therapies for every patient on their own cells in the lab, leading to new treatments and breakthroughs in personalized medicine for individuals with a variety of lung diseases, including cystic fibrosis,» explained lead author Katherine McCauley, a PhD student at BUSM.

«The amount of messenger RNA that taste cells choose to make may be the missing link in explaining why some people with «moderate - taster» genes still are extremely sensitive to bitterness in foods and drinks,» said Monell taste geneticist Danielle Reed, PhD, who is an author on the study.

Lead author Paul - Yannick Bitome - Essono, from the National Center for Scientific and Technological Research, France, explains: «We thought the tsetse fly might be a good candidate in our study, as both sexes feed on blood, they are large and easily trapped, present in large numbers in Central Africa, and are opportunistic feeders with no strong preference for a particular host animal, so would feed on a large range of wildlife.»

«Our study found that the relation between fluid intake and kidney stones may be dependent on the type of beverage consumed,» explained Gary Curhan, MD, ScD, a physician in the Channing Division of Network Medicine at BWH and senior author of this study.

«The results of earlier toxicological and experimental studies have shown that these short exposures to very high concentrations of pollutants can have a disproportionately high impact on health» explains Mar Álvarez - Pedrerol, ISGlobal researcher and first author of the study.

We observed that this has a real impact on the sensory learning of the child,» explains Fleur Lejeune, a psychology instructor at the UNIGE School of Psychology and Education Sciences, and the first author of the study.

«In my lab we've seen a direct interaction between fat cells and leukemia cells that may help explain this increased risk of disease relapse,» said Steven Mittelman, MD, PhD, director of the Diabetes and Obesity program at CHLA and senior author on the study.

«Taking that into account our results suggest that Vikings first encountered gaited horses on the British Isles and transported them to Iceland,» explains Saskia Wutke, PhD student at the IZW and first lead author of the study.

«We were able to control for pregnancy complications, and found that most women with pregnancy complications known to lead to death actually deliver on weekdays, suggesting that the actual problem with weekend deliveries is even greater,» Steven L. Clark, M.D., senior author of the study explained.

Lead author of the study, Sabrina Wenzel of DLR explains: «the carbon dioxide concentrations measured for many decades on Hawaii and in Alaska show characteristic cycles, with lower values in the summer when strong photosynthesis causes plants to absorb CO2, and higher - values in the winter when photosynthesis stops.

«This is the first mutation found that can explain the gender disparity in incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma,» says Bum - Joon Kim of Seoul National University, Korea, an author on the study.

«We wanted to test if the conquest of Alexander the Great and other foreign powers has left a genetic imprint on the ancient Egyptian population,» explains Verena Schuenemann, group leader at the University of Tuebingen and one of the lead authors of this study.

«Babies can be diagnosed with HLHS in - utero or after they are born,» explained Dr. Daniel J. Penny, chief of cardiology at Texas Children's, professor and head of the section of cardiology in the department of pediatrics at BCM and contributing author on the study.

As photosynthesis favours the lighter isotope, carbon 12, over the heavier carbon 13, this «light» ratio finding suggests that organic material from biological sources may have been more abundant in diamond - forming zones early in the Earth's history than we find today,» explained Suzette Timmerman, lead author on the study.

«Our approach is based on probability theory and allows to reinterpret and combine two seemingly contradictory classic theories,» explains Stefan Glasauer, one of the authors of the study.

«Identifying MF as a master hormone in the worm brain came as quite a surprise,» explains Sven Schenk, first author on the study.

Even after four years of evolution, the alga could not compensate completely for the negative impact on its growth,» explains Dr. Lothar Schlüter, author of the study and a former doctoral student at GEOMAR.

«Everything for him was flat, like on a painting,» explains Anna - Katharina Schaadt, a doctoral research student who is supervised by Kerkhoff and is the study's lead author.

«Prior research studies comparing brain structure in individuals who are deaf and hearing attempted to control for language experience by only focusing on those who grew up using sign language,» explains Olumide Olulade, PhD, the study's lead author and post-doctoral fellow at GUMC.

«We have focused our efforts on the oxidation of α - pinene, because it accounts for about half of global monoterpene emissions,» explains Dr. Mikael Ehn from the University of Helsinki, who is the first author of this study and did the pioneering work for the discovering of ELVOCs.

Based on a plant - based class of molecules known as indoline alkaloids, the compound inhibits an enzyme called polymerase, which enables a virus to make thousands of copies of itself and cause disease, explains Claire Marie Filone, the study's lead author.

«Today, nanosecond lasers — lasers that pulse light at one - billionth of a second — are used to record information on DVDs and Blu - ray disks, by driving the material from one state to another,» explains Giovanni Vanacore, a postdoctoral scholar and an author on the study.

To create the 3D avatars, «we used X-ray microtomography, or micro-CT, which is comparable to when you go to the doctor and get a CT scan but at much higher resolution, to scan very small insects,» explains Dr. Francisco Hita Garcia, first author on the study and a member of the Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit at OIST.

I wished to see the overall picture and identify the hot research topics in the field,» explains Andy Wai Kan Yeung of the University of Hong Kong, lead author on the study, which was recently published in Frontiers in Neuroscience.

«This study supports the use of a yoga and coherent breathing intervention in major depressive disorder in people who are not on antidepressants and in those who have been on a stable dose of antidepressants and have not achieved a resolution of their symptoms,» explained corresponding author Chris Streeter, MD, associate professor of psychiatry and neurology at Boston University School of Medicine and a psychiatrist at Boston Medical Center.

«We managed to provoke an illusion: the illusion that the subject's legs were being lightly tapped, when in fact the subject was actually being tapped on the back, above the spinal cord lesion,» explains Blanke, lead author of the study and holder of the Foundation Bertarelli Chair in Cognitive Neuroprosthetics.

«This is the first study to prospectively investigate the development of PTSD in male and female service members who were matched on multiple important characteristics that could explain some of the differences in PTSD, including military sexual trauma,» says one of the authors, Dr. Shira Maguen.

Joshua Grubbs, Case Western Reserve University doctoral student and the lead author on the article, «Psychological Entitlement and Ambivalent Sexism: Understanding the Role of Entitlement in Predicting Two Forms of Sexism,» explained the study's results this spring in the journal the Sex Roles.

«It's a planet by any of the typical definitions based on mass,» OSU astronomy professor Scott Gaudi, co-lead author of the study, explained «but its atmosphere is almost certainly unlike any other planet we've ever seen just because of the temperature of its day side.»

The specialists are those which are most flexible in adapting their foraging choices across seasons», explains Irene Bender, Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre and German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), lead author of a new study on this topic.