Sentences with phrase «between leading research universities»

Rapid development and adoption of carbon capture technology will require close collaboration between leading research universities like MIT and the fossil fuel industry.

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He has also worked on housing and regeneration issues, analysing the direct and indirect impacts and drivers of city housing markets across the country, and led research evaluating how cities can foster relations between universities and high growth firms, and capitalise on opportunities in the low carbon economy.

Noel Klingler, a graduate research assistant in physics, George Washington University, and lead author of the B0355 +54 paper, added that the angles between the three vectors — the spin axis, the line - of - sight, and the velocity — are different for different pulsars, thus affecting the appearances of their nebulae.

Dr. Holloway is a Professor in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where she leads a research program that employs computer models and satellite data to understand links between regional air quality, energy, and climate.

«Past research has found a link between violent crimes and performance on tests, but researchers haven't been able to say why crime affects academic performance,» explains Jennifer A. Heissel, a PhD graduate in human development and sociology at Northwestern University, who led the study.

A number of giant super-eruptions between 8 and 12 million years ago that could be larger than the colossal eruptions known to have taken place at Yellowstone have been identified in the United States through research led by the University of Leicester.

New University of Colorado Boulder - led research has established a causal link between climate warming and the localized extinction of a common Rocky Mountain flowering plant, a result that could serve as a herald of future population declines.

A North Carolina State University - led research team has shown a connection between exposure to a widely used flame retardant chemical mixture and disruption of normal placental function in rats, leading to altered production of the neurotransmitter serotonin.

Thanks to # 183,759 funding from the Leverhulme Trust to the University, Dr Siddle will lead a three - year research project to understand how the disease moves between the animals and then use this information to design a vaccine against the tumour.

To investigate, a team led by Diane Lacaille, MD, FRCPC, MHSc, of Arthritis Research Canada and the University of British Columbia, examined information on individuals in the province of British Columbia who were diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis between 1996 and 2006, and compared it with information on matched individuals in the general population.

In a letter to the university community, UC Board of Regents chair Richard Blum credits Dynes with having «strengthened links between university research and applications of that research by industry» as well as «broadening UC's international presence by forging key new partnerships with leading universities around the globe.»

«We found that non-blind papers tended to exaggerate differences between the experimental group and the control group,» said lead researcher Dr Luke Holman, from the Research School of Biology at The Australian National University (ANU).

The study was led by Dr Amanda Sferruzzi - Perri, a Research Associate at St John's College, University of Cambridge, and is part of a five - year project in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience examining the relationship between the placenta and pregnancy complications.

The early detection and responses was only possible due to long - term collaboration between Aarhus University in Denmark, the National Agricultural Research Institute (INRA) in France, the Julius Kühn Institute in Germany, the National Institute for Agricultural Botany in the United Kingdom, the International Wheat and Maize Improvement Centre Mexico, the International Centre of Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, and the University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan, emphasizes Professor Mogens Støvring Hovmøller from the Department of Agroecology at Aarhus University, where he leads the Global Rust Reference Centre.

«Because the attractive interaction between the rare - earth element and protons causes the proton trapping, introducing another defect having positive charges — that is to say, oxygen vacancy — appears to liberate the trapped protons,» said Hitoshi Takamura who led the research at Tohoku University.

This research led by Dr Kondel - Laws, Principal Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire revealed that Click classes developed a secure type of attachment between parents and their children.

Now, in a study published in Scientific Reports, a research team led by Lounès Chikhi from Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC, Portugal) and CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier (France), and Benoit Goossens, from Cardiff University (Wales), and Sabah Wildlife Department (Malaysia), found that elephants might have arrived on Borneo at a time of the last land bridge between the Sunda Islands in Southeast Asia.

However, between 5 and 10 % of perinatally infected HIV - positive children avoid this fate, as an international research collaboration, led by Dr. Maximilian Muenchhoff at LMU's Max von Pettenkofer Institute and colleagues based at the University of Oxford (Professor Philip Goulder), report in the current issue of the journal Science Translational Medicine.

«For this research, we analyzed the differences between groups with and without weight loss,» said the study's lead author, Alexandra Gersing, M.D., from the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California, San Francisco.

Speaking about the research, Professor Mireia Jofre - Bonet from the Department of Economics at City, University of London and lead author of the study, said: «Our study confirms the close relationship between health and the economic environment as we found that the 2008 Great Recession led to a decrease in risky behaviour, such as smoking and drinking, but also an increase in the likelihood of obesity, diabetes and mental health problems.

Multi-center, international collaboration The publication is the result of a collaboration between the Medical University of Vienna (Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, working group led by Winfried Mayr), the Otto - Wagner Hospital (Neurology Center, Heinrich Binder), Vienna University of Technology (Institute for Analysis und Scientific Computing, Frank Rattay) and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX (Milan R. Dimitrijevic) and is funded by the Vienna Science, Research and Technology Fund (WWTF) and by the «Wings for Life — Spinal Cord Research Foundation.»

«It is hoped that future studies distinguishing differences in responsiveness between sexes, age groups or disease conditions could lead to better tailored exercise prescription for health benefits,» said Benjamin F. Miller, Ph.D., study author from the Translational Research on Aging and Chronic Disease Laboratory at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO..

The research team, led by Professor of Physics Dr. Seth Fraden of Brandeis University, drew inspiration from the mesmerizing sinuous motion of a swimming blue eel and puzzlingly large gap between how natural systems move and the lack of such coordinated and smooth movement in artificial systems.

The research, led internationally by Jacques Riad from Skaraborg Hospital in Skövde, Sweden, represents a special collaboration between Baylor and the Nordic researchers (Dr. Riad and Dan Lundh, from the University of Skövde).

The Wallenberg Research Link, which Bienenstock has led since 2008, fosters collaboration between Stanford and Swedish researchers by arranging for groups and individuals from Swedish universities, industry and government to visit Stanford.

«There has long been a debate in the medical community over striking the right balance between pain relief and physical function,» said John Markman, M.D., director of the Translational Pain Research Program in the University of Rochester Department of Neurosurgery and lead author of the study.

After more than 7 years chipping away at the analysis between other projects, Bailey and psychiatrist Alan Sanders of NorthShore University HealthSystem Research Institute in Evanston, who led the investigation, began to discuss their findings at meetings.

«The results of this study found no significant difference in the incidence and severity of AMS between prophylactic dosing of acetaminophen and ibuprofen,» noted the study's lead investigator Buddha Basnyat, MD, from the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Kathmandu, Nepal, and the Himalayan Rescue Association and the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, UK, and his co-investigators.

A major international research project led by a University of Sussex academic provides new evidence that the common belief in a cultural divide between the West and the rest of the world is little more than a myth.

The study, published as the cover article in BioMed Central's Avian Research, led by the Earlham Institute and the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, explores the phylogenetic relationship between two forms of Harriers (Circus cyaneus); the Eurasian Hen Harrier (C. c. cyan ecus) and the American Northern Harrier (C. c. hudsonius) to distinguish their ancestry and evolution.

The findings presented in the paper are the result of a collaboration between two research groups at the University of Milan: the first led by Prof. Ivano De Noni in the Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences (DeFENS), and the second led by Prof. Anita Ferraretto in the Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health.

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the UN in 2015 for the period up to 2030 would lead to a global population of between 8.2 to 8.7 billion by 2100, according to a new study from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the Asian Demographic Research Institute (ADRI) at Shanghai University.

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.

To decipher what was happening, a team led by marine ecologist Samantha Joye of the University of Georgia in Athens, analyzed methane concentrations and methane consumption rates that the researchers had recorded during 10 research cruises, one conducted in March 2010, before the spill, and the rest conducted between May and December 2010.

The Community Advantage Program is made possible through a partnership between the Center for Community Capital at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (a leading research and policy organization), Self - Help (a leading Community Development Financial Institution), the Ford Foundation, and Fannie Mae.

A # 14 million, five - year partnership between the BBSRC, the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council and a consortium of leading companies such as GlaxoSmithKline and Pall Life Sciences, it aims to fund innovative biotechnology - related research across several univeResearch Council and a consortium of leading companies such as GlaxoSmithKline and Pall Life Sciences, it aims to fund innovative biotechnology - related research across several univeresearch across several universities.

Dr Tom Russ, of the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, who led the research, said: «This study provides further evidence for the important links between mind and body, and of the damaging effects psychological distress can have on physical wellbeing.

New research led by the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden and the University of Glasgow, Scotland, has identified a link between a human gene and the composition of human gastrointestinal bacteria.

«This work was a foundational reference case for the recently released RCP4.5 model scenario, one of four scenarios that will be used by modeling groups around the globe to make realistic projections of future climate change,» said Dr. Steven J. Smith, scientist at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a partnership between PNNL and the University of Maryland, and lead researchResearch Institute, a partnership between PNNL and the University of Maryland, and lead researchresearch author.

The research will be a collaboration between The Global Rust Reference Centre at Aarhus University, University of Copenhagen, Technical University of Denmark, Sejet Planteforædling and leading international institutions.

An international research consortium led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the University of Chicago has answered several questions about the genetic background of obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD) and Tourette syndrome (TS), providing the first direct confirmation that both are highly heritable and also revealing major differences between the underlying genetic makeup of the disorders.

The sequencing project was started in February 1999 as a collaboration between Japanese researchers led by Takakazu Kaneko, of the Kazusa DNA Research Institute in Chiba, Japan, and C. Peter Wolk, of the Michigan State University in East Lansing.

A research collaboration between South Africa - based Sasol and the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University of Pretoria (UP) has led to the commissioning of high - tech equipment to gain better insights into the properties and performance of synthetic diesel fuels.

October 24, 2013 Genetic analysis reveals novel insights into the genetic architecture of obsessive - compulsive disorder, Tourette syndrome An international research consortium led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the University of Chicago has answered several questions about the genetic background of obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD) and Tourette syndrome (TS), providing the first direct confirmation that both are highly heritable and also revealing major differences between the underlying genetic makeup of the disorders.

Over the past twenty years, the research partnership between Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology has developed into one of the leading bioengineering and biomedical research and educational programs in the nation.

The result is the culmination of a several - year - long project funded by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency that was a close collaboration between teams led by Associate Professor Vladimir Stojanovic of UC Berkeley, Professor Rajeev Ram of MIT, and Assistant Professor Milos Popovic from Boston University and previously CU Boulder.

This fear is highlighted by the controversial (and consequently delayed) publications in Nature and Science, in which two research teams — led by Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin — Madison and Ron Fouchier of Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam — reported the creation of new variants of H5N1 influenza that are transmissible between mammals through the air, sparking fears that this information could be used to produce a bioweapon that is highly infectious to humans.

Some of today's most interesting research on the relationship between marriage and health is being led by a pair of researchers at Ohio State University College of Medicine.

In a 1956 review of the research on «School Personnel and Mental Health,» J. T. Hunt, a professor at the University of North Carolina, noted that «efforts to identify personality differences between superior and inferior school personnel, to isolate a «teacher personality,» or to predict either competence or effectiveness of student teachers by means of psychometric or projective instruments, led to limited results.»

Additionally, through Roundtable meetings and informal networking opportunities, the roundtable has opened new communication channels between sectors, for example the Australian Research Council funded Project Young People, Technology, and Wellbeing Research Facility led by the University of Western Sydney and the recently established Cooperative Research Centre for Young People, Technology and Wellbeing.