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Toby S James and Alistair Clark, authors of a new report by the Electoral Commission on the...

Van Butsic, a land system scientist at U.C. Berkeley, is the author of a new report by the Public Policy Institute of California that recommends some changes in state law and a shift in public attitude when it comes to how California handles its drought - induced tree mortality.

Not exact matches

This fundamental realignment of the planets in the media universe is the topic of a massive new report from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, authored by Tow director Emily Bell and University of British Columbia assistant professor Taylor Owen.

In August, the New Atlantis published a 113 - page report on the science of gender and sexual orientation, titled «Sexuality and Gender: Findings from the Biological, Psychological, and Social Sciences» and authored by two Johns Hopkins professors, pyschiatrist Paul McHugh and biostatistician Lawrence Mayer.

Richard Hausknecht, the author of the article in the New England Journal of Medicine, acknowledged that the «abortion cocktail» was indeed an experiment when he stated in his report that «the protocol [of the experiment] was approved by the investigative review board of the Mount Sinai Medical Center.»

Much the same point is made by the authors of the new BJSM editorial and in Back in the Game, where Kutcher and Gerstner argue that suicide rates among former National Football League players, can be and have been affected by messaging in the media — a phenomenon called the «suicide contagion» — and note how, in its coverage of the suicide of players such as Junior Seau and Dave Duerson, the media has consistently ignored all seven of the recommendations of the Centers of Disease Control on how to avoid spreading that contagion, including not presenting simplistic explanations for suicide, not engaging in repetitive, ongoing, or excessive reporting of suicide, and not sensationalizing suicide.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks about the release of a new report authored by Nobel - prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz published by the Roosevelt InstituNew York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks about the release of a new report authored by Nobel - prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz published by the Roosevelt Institunew report authored by Nobel - prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz published by the Roosevelt Institute.

The job of promoting the New York report and its findings, by contrast, has been left to its authors.

The authors of a new report urging changes in training the U.S. biomedical workforce say they were motivated by a desire for «less talk, more action.»

As in previous reports, the expert committee that authored this document (which was chaired by Gregory Petsko, Arthur J. Mahon Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City) makes a number of proposals (emphasis in original):

Those figures, say the authors of the report, an update on a similar report in 2003, mean that «even if all the announced plans for new nuclear power plant construction are realized, the total will be well behind that needed for reaching a thousand gigawatts of new capacity worldwide by 2050.»

A new report by authors from UCLA School of Law's Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment and UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability explores the sources and impacts of plastic marine litter and offers domestic and international policy recommendations to tackle these growing problems — a targeted, multifaceted approach aimed at protecting ocean wildlife, coastal waters, coastal economies and human health.

Social media messaging, screening and interventions offer new tools to help colleges prevent and reduce excessive drinking, according to a report authored by a Boston University School of Public Health researcher, working with a group of experts.

Researchers, led by senior author Dr. Jie Shi, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at Peking University in China, report these new findings in the current issue of Biological Psychiatry.

In the same study, for those who were sleep deprived, «self - reported hunger and appetite ratings significantly increased by 24 percent and 23 percent, respectively,» noted the authors of the review paper, which was led by Julie Shlisky, a researcher at The New York Obesity Nutrition Research Center at Saint Luke's - Roosevelt Hospital Center.

In the new study, every unit increase in vitamin D level after supplementation of the vitamin decreased the risk of progression to diabetes by 8 percent, the authors reported.

The study results are reported in a paper authored by a Baylor researcher and published online by the New England Journal of Medicine.

But the authors of the new report have taken heed of recent criticisms that the statistical measure of drought favoured by climatologists is unreliable.

These similarities are often abundant enough to justify an effort to develop an ethical framework that cuts across emerging and converging technologies, according to a new report authored by Erik Parens, Josephine Johnston, and Jacob Moses of The Hastings Center.

«Materials companies are competing intensely to bring higher modulus and strength solutions to market by offering new major chemicals, polymers, composites, and stitched fabrics materials to increase the strength - to - weight value proposition,» the authors of the report write, noting that the value proposition resulting from these incremental - gains «result in significantly more energy captured.»

As the science and its applications develop, a comprehensive approach to addressing ethical and social issues of emerging technologies as a whole is called for if scarce intellectual resources are to be used optimally, according to a new report authored by Erik Parens, Josephine Johnston, and Jacob Moses of The Hastings Center.

March 25, 2015 New analysis finds successes, gaps in community - based diabetes prevention programs Lifestyle interventions designed to reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes can work well in group - based, community settings, conclude authors from the University of Chicago Medicine in a new report issued by the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) on March 25, 20New analysis finds successes, gaps in community - based diabetes prevention programs Lifestyle interventions designed to reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes can work well in group - based, community settings, conclude authors from the University of Chicago Medicine in a new report issued by the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) on March 25, 20new report issued by the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) on March 25, 20New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) on March 25, 2015.

Deadline reports Friday night that Terminator, Rambo, and Basic Instinct exec producer Mario Kassar is assembling an English - language adaptation of Audition, the infamous 1997 novel by Japanese author Ryu Murakami about a lonely widower who gets more than he bargains for when he puts out a fake casting call to find a new girlfriend.

Perhaps the authors of the «NMC Horizon Report: 2011 K - 12 Edition» — part of a series of research - based analyses of trends in ed tech by the New Media Consortium — said it best: «The digital divide, once seen as a factor of wealth, is now seen as a factor of education: Those who have the opportunity to learn technology skills are in a better position to obtain and make use of technology than those who do not.»

EPI's new report, authored by Sylvia Allegretto and Lawrence Mishel, is a repeat of its 2008 report, and as such, it ignores the important work on teacher compensation that has been done since.

Increasing starting salaries in teaching has been advocated by, among others, the National Education Association, the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein, and the authors of a heavily publicized 2007 report by McKinsey & Company on the characteristics of the world's most effective school systems.

In «The Logic of Interdisciplinary Studies,» a research report by Sandra Mathison and Melissa Freeman presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in 1997, the authors wrote, «Interdisciplinary, integrated, and integrative studies represent an opportunity to have more meaningful relations with students; teach cognitive skills associated with «real life» (e.g., cooperation, problem solving, ability to see connections); motivate students; increase student achievement; promote positive attitudes toward subject matter; create more curricular flexibility; diminish scheduling problems; and integrate new and rapidly changing information with increased time efficiency.»

This article is adapted from two reports authored by Freeland and published by the institute in 2014: «From policy to practice: How competency - based education is evolving in New Hampshire» and «Blending toward competency: Early patterns of blended learning and competency - based education in New Hampshire.»

The option of shifting retiree health benefit costs to the federal government by requiring retirees to enroll in Medicare Advantage plans would save the state more money than eliminating the state - funded retiree health benefit altogether for new hires, according to the report that was authored by legislative staff at the Program Evaluation Division.

WASHINGTON, DC — In advance of this morning's major announcement from Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler on the federal E-rate program, a new report released today by the Alliance for Excellent Education and the Leading Education by Advancing Digital (LEAD) Commission, and authored by Dr. John B. Horrigan, a leading authority on broadband adoption and use, shows that African American, Latino, low - income, and rural students are more likely to be in schools with slow internet access (10 Mbps or less) than their peers and less likely to be in schools with high - speed broadband internet (100 Mbps or more) needed for digital learning.

Authored by Vikki Boliver, Claire Crawford, Mandy Powell and Will Craige, this report provides new evidence on the use of contextualised admissions amongst a group of highly selective universities in the UK today, and offers some insights into the difference that greater use of contextual data might make to the numbers of disadvantaged students at these universities.

Plus, ASI was apparently on the block for a while with no buyer, so I find Penguin's CEO John Makinson's claim odd, as reported by Publisher's Lunch, that he expects there will be a «new and growing category of professional authors who are going to gravitate towards the ASI solution rather than the free model.»

Specific, in - depth nuts - and - bolts guides include The Unofficial Scrivener Workbook by M.J. Carlson, Excel for Writers by M. L. Humphrey (walks through how to create spreadsheets that track time spent writing, page production, year - to - year metrics, and keep track of your works), Excel for Self - Publishers by M. L. Humphrey (amazingly useful for indie authors, how to track ads and effectiveness, revenue by sales channel, keywords, amazon reports, and more), and The Author's Guide to Vellum by Chuck Heintzelman (an incredible new app for producing print and eBooks; I'm a total convert myself).

According to a new article by BBC's health reports, authors may face a deadly health risk associated with their livelihoods: too much time working in front of a computer screen or seated at a desk.

Yesterday we posted a chart from Hugh Howey's new report on author earnings, showing indie and self - published authors pulling ahead of people published by the «big five» in terms of total unit sales.

A new report claims that self - published authors have surged to 31 % of ebook sales on Amazon.com, and are now earning more ebook royalties than writers published by the «Big five» traditional publishers.

A new story by bestselling Japanese author Haruki Murakami is available free online; Hector Tobar reports that the Texas Book Festival has received bad press over a lack of diversity in this year's roster; the current issue of Poetry includes four letters by Robert Creeley; and other news.

This blog follows the report «Brave New World», (http://www.ewidgetsonline.com/vcil/bravenewworld.html), published by the Booksellers Association of the UK and Ireland and authored by Martyn Daniels.

Washington Post — Amazon makes an offer to Hachette authors — this article takes an interesting look at the stats, which indicate that Hachette would have much more to lose by giving up revenue from their author's ebooks than Amazon — «According to Hachette's Web site, the publisher makes approximately 33 percent of its sales from e-books; the New York Times reported that around 60 percent of that business comes through Amazon.

Reg has sold more copies of his book this year than more than 90 percent of U.S. titles sell in a given year (Nielsen reported in 2008 that 91 percent of titles sold fewer than 1,000 copies) Nielsen's figures include books published by services like Author Solutions, which typically sell fewer than 200 copies (by the admission of your own CEO, in this 2009 New York Times article).

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Actually, applying for a new credit card can ding your score by up to 5 points, says Beverly Harzog, a consumer credit expert and author of «The Debt Escape Plan,» because it results in a «hard inquiry» on your credit report.

According to Andrew Hunter, author of a report issued by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the total amount of vehicle loan debt is actually «fairly meaningless.»

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(Washington, D.C., January 29, 2013) A new peer - reviewed study published today and authored by scientists from two of the world's leading science and wildlife organizations — the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)-- has found that bird and mammal mortality caused by outdoor cats is much higher than has been widely reported, with annual bird mortality now estimated to be 1.3 to 4.0 billion and mammal mortality likely 6.3 to 22.3 billion individuals.

Award - winning author and photographer, Tracy Libby, stops by to visit with Marcie and Lovey about her gorgeous new book, Reporting for Duty: True Stories of Wounded Veterans and Their Service Dogs.

Just over half that amount has already been emitted since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and at current rates of energy consumption, the trillionth ton will be released around 2040, according to calculations by Myles R. Allen, a scientist at the University of Oxford and one of the authors of the new report.

After reading the regulatory sections of the report authored by Professor Wiseman, I reached the opposite conclusion — that there is a need for new regulatory frameworks at the federal level, or at least the elimination of the major exemptions that the fracking industry currently enjoys.

The new volumes in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fifth Assessment Report are comprehensive and authoritative — authored and reviewed by a large number of scientists.

«The potential value of legal industrial hemp in rural economic development should be targeted for investment by the Department of Agriculture,» says Dr. Jon Gettman, a researcher in Public Policy and author of a new comprehensive report highlighting that marijuana valued at $ 35.8 billion is America's number - one cash crop.