Digital Book World and Writer's Digest magazine announced some of the results of an in - depth
author survey at this morning's Digital Book World Conference and Expo in New York.
Not exact matches
This one statistic alone should make all employers more interested in boosting bliss: Truly cheerful employees spend about 80 % of their time
at work doing what they're there to do; the least content spend only 40 % of their time on job - related activities, according to a
survey by workplace happiness consultant and
author Jessica Pryce - Jones.
The following statistic alone should make all employers more interested in boosting bliss: Truly cheerful employees spend about 80 % of their time
at work doing what they're there to do (even happy people need an Instagram break); the least content spend only 40 % of their day on job - related activities, according to a
survey by workplace happiness consultant and
author Jessica Pryce - Jones.
That's the main takeaway,» says Greg Smith, a senior researcher
at the think tank and one of the main
authors of the
survey.
Dr Bex Lewis, who is a christian and
author of, «Raising children in a digital age,» welcomed the
survey's results and told Premier that parents need to look
at their behaviour to better understand how it impacts their family.
«We found actually that among the Tea Party, rather than being libertarians,
at least on the issues of abortion and same - sex marriage, they're actually social conservatives,» the
survey's lead
author, Robert Jones, said Tuesday.
Although the
survey analysis did not explore this issue in its most politically charged terms, vis - a-vis proposals for «domestic partnerships» and homosexual marriage, the
authors are
at pains to show that family «is not defined in terms of households or bloodlines.»
If that pejorative phraseology does not give away the inclinations of the
survey authors, a closer look
at the data surely does.
He also
authors the Firm's Food and Beverage industry news alerts, highlighting business issues, distributes the only regional industry
survey, and hosts regular industry events including presenting to well over 100 companies
at Anchin's annual State of the Food and Beverage Industry event.
«That's more than twice the rate of depression we usually see in men,» explains James F. Paulson, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology
at Old Dominion University, and lead
author of a
survey which assessed 43 studies of more than 28,000 fathers worldwide.
The study
authors, psychologists Suniya Luthar, a professor
at Arizona State University, and Lucia Ciciolla, an assistant professor
at Oklahoma State University,
surveyed 2,247 well - educated mothers with children ranging in age from infants into early adulthood.
White Plains, NY — Members of the Westchester County Board of Legislators (BOL) Septic Subcommittee received a presentation from the two
authors of the Clean Watershed Needs
Survey (CWNS) today
at the Michaelian Office Building in White Plains.
Also
at 6 p.m., Sen. Liz Krueger hosts «Counterattack: The Media, The War on Women, and How to Fight» forum, with speakers including Baruch College
Survey Research Director Micky Blum, lawyer and
author Ariel Chesler, comedian and writer Katie Halper, and political analyst Tanya Melich, Baruch College Newman Conference Center, 151 E. 25th St., Manhattan.
«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
authors] stitched together geological evidence, anthropological information as well as geophysical modeling to put together this story that is tantalizing for a geologist but it's frightening for people in Hawaii,» said Robert Witter, a geologist
at the U.S. Geological
Survey in Anchorage, Alaska who was not involved in the study.
Eleven
authors contributed to the manuscript that is scheduled to be published in Nature: Dr. Steve Holen, director of research
at the Center for American Paleolithic Research; Dr. Tom Deméré, curator of paleontology and director of PaleoServices
at the San Diego Natural History Museum; Dr. Daniel Fisher, professor of paleontology and director and curator of the Museum of Paleontology
at the University of Michigan; Dr. Richard Fullagar, professorial research fellow
at the Centre for Archaeological Science
at the University of Wollongong, Australia; Dr. James Paces, research geologist
at the U.S. Geological
Survey; Kathleen Maule Holen, administrative director
at the Center for American Paleolithic Research; Dr. Jared Beeton, professor of physical geography
at Adams State University; Dr. Adam Rountrey, collection manager in the Museum of Paleontology
at the University of Michigan; George T. Jefferson, district staff paleontologist
at
Income from forests has been largely «undervalued», particularly in assessments of poverty and income such as the World Bank's Living Standard Measurement
Survey, says Arild Angelsen, an environmental economist
at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Aas and a lead
author of the study by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) based in Bogor, Indonesia.
Lead
author Ramesh Raghavan, PhD, associate professor
at the Brown School and of psychiatry
at the School of Medicine, examined Medicaid records from 36 states for 1,921 children in the National
Survey of Child and Adolescent Well - Being, whom caseworkers had identified as having been maltreated, and who had received Medicaid - funded services.
«Finding a resource so large is like finding an oil field in your garden,» says Cristina Archer, an environmental engineer
at the University of California, Chico, and lead
author of a global
survey on high - altitude winds.
The
authors of the new paper analyzed these
survey data under the leadership of M. Kate Grabowski, Ph.D., an assistant professor
at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore and an epidemiologist with the Rakai Health Sciences Program.
Although the
survey data can't definitively show this to be the case, the
authors suggest that receiving better career development information
at earlier stages of their training, preferably in graduate school, would better equip scientists «to start their careers with greater clarity» immediately upon completing the doctorate.
The
authors — Ralph W. Muller, CEO of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD, vice provost for global initiatives and chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy
at the University of Pennsylvania, Andrew Steinmetz, research assistant to Dr. Emanuel, and Steven M. Altschuler, MD, president and CEO of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia —
surveyed 74 senior executives from large hospitals and health systems across the United States.
The
authors surveyed 855 patients with breast, gastrointestinal, and thoracic cancers treated
at Smilow Cancer Hospital
at Yale - New Haven.
However, during winter field
surveys over the last decade, lake ice has typically only grown to 1.5 meters (5 feet) thick, and has been as thin as 1.2 meters (4 feet),» said Christopher Arp, research assistant professor
at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Water and Environmental Research Center and lead
author of the new study accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.
Study
author Nyssa Silbiger, then a UCI postdoctoral researcher, and UCI graduate student Laura Elsberry (standing)
survey tide - pool communities
at Corona del Mar State Beach.
«In most solifuge families, species identification is based primarily on features of the jaws, yet no comprehensive
survey of these character systems has ever been done,» said Tharina Bird, a senior curator
at the National Museum of Namibia and lead
author of the paper.
«The Northern Rockies have shown the greatest response to warming in terms of snowpack decline,» said lead
author Greg Pederson, a research scientist
at the U.S. Geological
Survey's Northern Rocky Mountain Research Center.
«I think that is a nonsensical response» that reflects «the religious right's point of view,» says Jon Miller, a science literacy researcher
at Michigan State University in East Lansing who
authored the
survey 3 decades ago and conducted it for NSF until 2001.
It could be that what you are doing during these meals matters more,» said lead
author Rachel Tumin,
survey and population health analyst manager
at the Ohio Colleges of Medicine Government Resource Center.
«We
surveyed 109 emergency medicine providers
at four different hospital EDs,» said study
author Sean Michael, MD, MBA, assistant professor of emergency medicine
at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
The study's lead
author, Barry Baldigo, a research biologist
at the US Geological
Survey's New York Water Science Center, said eDNA has become an increasingly important tool for quickly and accurately assessing biodiversity in aquatic habitats.
Lead
author Louise Slater, a Ph.D. student
at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, gathered recently digitized U.S. Geological
Survey (USGS) data.
Lisa DeCamp, M.D., M.S.P.H., assistant professor of pediatrics
at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the study's senior
author, noted that although parental
surveys of this kind have weaknesses in terms of parent responses reflecting the breadth of traumas children may be exposed to, the findings, published in the Oct. issue of the journal Pediatrics, offer new insight into potentially higher childhood resiliency among immigrant families supported by strong community networks and a strong sense of cultural identity.
The
authors surveyed 5928 graduate students in the biological and life sciences, chemistry, physics, engineering, and computer science
at 39 U.S. universities in 2010 and 2013.
With most permanent researchers in the
survey having a tenured position and most researchers on temporary contracts being postdocs, many factors, such as experience and age, could explain these differences in productivity, Siobhan Phillips, a senior science officer
at ESF who was the
survey methodology adviser and lead
author, says in an email to Science Careers.
His research involves Seth Burgess, the article's lead
author and a geologist
at the U.S. Geological
Survey, and Samuel Bowring, the Robert R. Shock Professor of Geology
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr Phil Trathan, Head of Conservation Biology
at the British Antarctic
Survey and the lead
author of the study, said:
Dr Kristian Metcalfe, lead
author from the Centre for Ecology and Conservation (CEC)
at the University of Exeter who undertook the coastal
survey with colleagues, said: «Conservation efforts for sea turtles can be hampered by their migratory life cycles, which carry them across jurisdictional boundaries and international waters.
The results of the
survey of 1,020 participants are detailed in the article «Perceptions of Water Use» by
author Shahzeen Attari, an assistant professor
at Indiana University Bloomington's School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
«Urbanization can lead to loss or extirpation of species entirely from a region, through habitat loss and pressure from non-native species,» says Dennis Skultety, a GIS / GPS specialist with the Illinois Natural History
Survey at U of I, and the lead
author on the study.
The
survey's three main
authors, Manuel Lopes - Lima and Ronaldo Sousa from the Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIMAR) and Professor Jürgen Geist / Chair of Aquatic Systems Biology
at TUM, describe how crucial mussels are for aquatic ecosystems: they form around 90 percent of the biomass in the bed of a water body.
«We're
at the stage of saying, «OK, these (levels) compared to a benchmark indicate more evaluation need to be done,»» said Wesley Stone, a Geological
Survey hydrologist and the study's lead
author.
At least, those are the results of a massive
survey of scientific
authors published online yesterday in Science.
Senior
author Professor Jane Wardle, director of the Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Centre
at UCL, says: «A recent UK
survey found that 60 % of overweight and obese adults in the UK are trying to lose weight.
Susan C. Miller, professor (research) of health services, policy and practice in the Brown University School of Public Health and lead
author of the study in the Journal of Palliative Medicine, worked with colleagues to
survey nursing directors
at more than 1,900 nursing homes around the country between July 2009 and June 2010 to assess their knowledge of palliative care and their facility's implementation of key palliative care practices.
Dustin Holloway, a bioinformaticist
at Harvard Medical School in Boston and the
author of a recent article calling for DIYbio regulation, says he doesn't disagree with the
survey's findings.
Felisa Wolfe - Simon, a NASA astrobiology research fellow
at the U.S. Geological
Survey in Menlo Park, Calif., and the study's lead
author, refused to address criticisms.
Links to the
survey were also provided on science and service blogs operated by two of the study's
authors [24], [25], [26](KC and JR) and
at the conclusion of print and online news reports of the ongoing study [27].
Our results show that regular stellar motions, typical of the star - forming galaxies in the present - day Universe, were already in place about 6 billion years ago,» explains Davor Krajnović, researcher
at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) and one of the
authors of the now published papers describing results from this
survey.
«Our
survey data point to a basic dilemma facing patients and physicians in our plural democracy,» said study
author Farr Curlin, MD, assistant professor of medicine and a member of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
at the University of Chicago.