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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.

The study, authored by University of Wisconsin - Madison teaching assistant James Bonus, found that playing Pokémon Go can be linked to positive outcomes such as friendship formation and walking — which in many cases «predicted enhanced well - being,» the study said.

The potential for manipulation will increase dramatically in the near future with the rise of the digital assistant, or butler (as referred to by the authors).

«Our finding that news reporting on obesity as a public health crisis brought on by bad personal choices can worsen anti-fat prejudice and increase people's willingness to charge obese men and women more for insurance» said David Frederick, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology at Chapman University and lead author on the study.

The results suggest a portion of congenital birth defects could be prevented by lowering the mother's fever with the judicious use of acetaminophen during the first trimester, said senior author Eric Benner, M.D., Ph.D., a neonatologist and assistant professor of pediatrics at Duke.

«We believe we are developing a tool that can help with personalized decision - making to help refine patient selection and thus reduce the failure rate by saving candidates with low potential benefit from futile procedures and complications,» says senior author Hiroshi Ashikaga, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

«By taking the brain signals generated when Bill attempts to move, and using them to control the stimulation of his arm and hand, he was able to perform personal functions that were important to him,» said Bolu Ajiboye, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and lead study author.

«Our results indicate that this simple intervention could be an effective and scalable approach to use the design of electronic health records to increase the rate of flu vaccinations, which are estimated to prevent millions of flu cases and tens of thousands of related hospitalizations every year,» said study lead author Mitesh S. Patel, MD, MBA, MS, an assistant professor of Medicine and Health Care Management in Penn's Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School, a staff physician at the Crescenz VA Medical Center, and director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit, whose work is supported by the Penn Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics.

In most cases, wealthy outside donors are supporting reform - minded school board candidates who are competing with candidates backed by teacher unions, said Sarah Reckhow, MSU assistant professor of political science and lead author on the study.

The Role of Interpersonal Attachment Styles in Social Projection,» is authored by Meredith David, Ph.D., assistant professor of marketing, and published in Psychology & Marketing.

«We have identified the molecular mechanisms by which the Tat protein made by HIV interacts with the host cell to activate or repress several hundred human genes,» said Dr. Iván D'Orso, Assistant Professor of Microbiology at UT Southwestern and senior author of the study.

Future studies are planned by Chang and other School of Medicine researchers — including senior author Kenneth R. Carson, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of oncology, and Graham Colditz, MD, DrPH, a cancer expert who also is associate director of prevention and control at Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes - Jewish Hospital.

Previous studies by Holtzman, co-first author Yo - El Ju, MD, an assistant professor of neurology, and others have shown that poor sleep increases the risk of cognitive problems.

The study was performed mainly at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, and was led by postdoctoral researcher Junfeng He and graduate student Thomas Mion, researchers in the lab of BC Assistant Professor of Physics Rui - Hua He, a lead author of the paper.

«Carboranes: the strongest Brønsted acids in alcohol dehydration» was authored by Giannis Mpourmpakis, assistant professor of chemical and petroleum engineering.

said Ehrenreich, assistant professor of molecular biology at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and corresponding author of a paper on the study that was published by PLOS Genetics on May 1.

«The ALMA data reveal that AzTEC - 3 is a very compact, highly disturbed galaxy that is bursting with new stars at close to its theoretically predicted maximum limit and is surrounded by a population of more normal, but also actively star - forming galaxies,» said Dominik Riechers, an astronomer and assistant professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and lead author on a paper published today (Nov. 10) in the Astrophysical Journal.

«We found that harmine, likely by interacting with DYRK1A, increases levels of other known drivers of cell division,» said Peng Wang, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Bone Disease at the Icahn School of Medicine and first author of the paper.

It was built on top of existing software called Pindel, which was published in 2009 by the study's first author, Kai Ye, PhD, assistant professor of genetics.

Droplets from bursting bubbles are the principle means by which aerosols are produced above the open ocean, said first author Luc Deike, a Princeton University assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI).

To make this discovery, Amso, lead author Denise Werchan, fellow CLPS professor Michael Frank and then postdoctoral researcher Anne Collins, who is now assistant professor at the University of California at Berkeley, devised a task initially developed by Collins and Frank to test PFC function in adults.

This bioinformatics portion of the study was performed by co-first author Hee - Woong Lim, PhD, an IDOM postdoctoral fellow, and research assistant professor Kyoungjae Won, PhD.

«By combining my laboratory's expertise in ovarian cancer biology and Dr. Xu's expertise in bioinformatics, we were able to uncover a potentially novel drug approach to treat ovarian cancer,» said co-senior author Analisa DiFeo, PhD, the Norma C. and Albert I. Geller Designated Professor of Ovarian Cancer Research and assistant professor in the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

«The convenience and ease of being able to use frozen sperm taken by biopsy in ICSI offers many advantages over fresh sperm,» said Kenan Omurtag, MD, the study's first author and assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology.

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 paper was authored by Jonathan Samet, previously chair of the EPA Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee; Thomas Burke, former EPA science adviser and former head of the EPA's Office of Research and Development under the Obama administration; and Bernard Goldstein, EPA assistant administrator for research and development during the Reagan administration.

«This is by far the most comprehensive study to look at the genetic changes that make a woolly mammoth a woolly mammoth,» said study author Vincent Lynch, PhD, assistant professor of human genetics at the University of Chicago.

As noted in the study by Crimmins and lead author Morgan E. Levine, assistant professor at the Yale Center for Research on Aging: «A deceleration of the human aging process, whether accomplished through environment or biomedical intervention, would push the timing of aging - related disease and disability incidence closer to the end of life.»

«Activity levels at the end of adolescence were alarmingly low, and by age 19, they were comparable to 60 - year - olds,» says the study's senior author, Vadim Zipunnikov, assistant professor in the Bloomberg School's Department of Biostatistics.

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.

«We wanted to understand the mechanism by which the brain circuit operates,» explained senior author Assistant Professor Shawn Je, from the Neuroscience and Behavioural Disorders Programme at Duke - NUS.

«Such bacteria, swallowed by a patient, might be able to record the changes they experience through the whole digestive tract, yielding an unprecedented view of previously inaccessible phenomena,» says Harris Wang, assistant professor in the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology and Systems Biology at CUMC and senior author on the new work, described in today's issue of Science.

The study, which is published online in Critical Care Medicine, was led by senior author Allan J. Walkey, MD, MSc, assistant professor of medicine, BUSM, and attending physician, pulmonary, critical care and allergy medicine, BMC.

«This is the first study that looks at all seven impact effects generated by hazardous asteroids and estimates which are, in terms of human loss, most severe,» said Clemens Rumpf, a senior research assistant at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, and lead author of the new study published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

«We know that cells are shaped by their surroundings,» said Ian Y. Wong, assistant professor of engineering and one of the study's authors.

«We've been targeting traditional risk factors in public health campaigns for many years,» said Susan Cheng, M.D., M.P.H., study lead author and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Mass. «We wanted to take a look at how well we've been doing over time at keeping these risk factors from causing heart and vascular disease — both by preventing the risks from occurring and by minimizing their effects when they do occur.»

«Minority teachers may be perceived more favorably by minority students because they can serve as role models and are particularly sensitive to the cultural needs of their students,» said study author Hua - Yu Sebastian Cherng, assistant professor of international education at NYU Steinhardt.

The study, funded by the NFL, was conducted by The Cooper Institute and led by lead author Yang Bai, assistant professor in rehabilitation and movement sciences at the University of Vermont.

«Right away, you can tell whether an older individual has difficulties walking by conducting a simple gait test,» said Ervin Sejdic, lead author of the paper and an assistant professor of engineering in the Swanson School.

The work described in the new paper — published December 8, 2017, in Science — was led by three young UCSF researchers: Tomasz Nowakowski, PhD, an assistant professor of anatomy; Alex Pollen, PhD, an assistant professor of neurology; and Aparna Bhaduri, PhD, when all three were post-doctoral researchers in the UCSF lab of Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD, the new paper's senior author.

«We were very surprised by what we saw,» said Jennifer Dijkstra, research assistant professor in the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at UNH and the lead author of the study.

«Coarse textures are reflected in the spatial pattern of responses by one set of receptors, but that's only a small part of the story,» said the study's senior author, Sliman Bensmaia, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago.

Payne and her co-senior author Michael C. Milone, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, adapted the technique from the promising anti-cancer strategy by which T cells are engineered to destroy malignant cells in certain leukemias and lymphomas.

«In our research, we were able to create an entirely recombinant protein - based light - sensitive hydrogels by covalently assembling the CarHC photoreceptor proteins using genetically encoded SpyTag - SpyCatcher chemistry,» said Fei Sun, author of the paper and assistant professor at HKUST's department of chemical and biomolecular engineering.

Reporting in the Journal of Clinical Investigation Insights, a team led by senior author Andrea Facciabene, PhD, a research assistant professor of Radiation Oncology and Obstetrics / Gynecology, found that the effectiveness of adoptive T cell therapy (ACT) in mice with cancer is significantly affected by differences in the natural makeup of gut bacteria and treatment with antibiotics.

«By manipulating the structure of the aluminum oxide, which is dielectric, we've improved both its optical and mechanical properties,» says Chih - Hao Chang, corresponding author of a paper on the work and an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at NC State.

Our study finds that communities hardest hit by opioid use and their complications, like overdose death, have the highest rates of the NAS,» said study lead author Stephen Patrick, M.D., MPH, MS, assistant professor of Pediatrics and Health Policy in the Division of Neonatology with the Monroe Carell Jr..

This would stop a cell with a mutation cold in its tracks right after it is born,» said Alejandro Chavez, Ph.D., a first and co-corresponding author on the study, who as a Postdoctoral Fellow at HMS was co-mentored by Church and Collins and is now Assistant Professor at Columbia University.

«One promising strategy to reduce the number of people affected by pancreatic cancer is to identify and treat premalignant pancreatic lesions,» said first author Jennifer Permuth - Wey, Ph.D., M.S., assistant member in the Departments of Cancer Epidemiology and Gastrointestinal Oncology at Moffitt.