Sentences with phrase «by the research assistants»

Each group was then given 30 minutes to plan a university recruitment video that, at the end of the allotted time, was filmed by a research assistant.

Chuckles were evoked, for instance, by a research assistant accidentally sitting down on a sandwich and by another playfully pretending to feed M & M's to a toy alligator.

Infant feeding status was assessed by a research assistant unaware of the mother's group assignment at 2, 4, 8, and 12 weeks postpartum.

Outcome data collected by the research assistants who also acted as lactation educators and were not blinded.

Outcome data were collected by a research assistant (by telephone).

The close call report received by BTS from a participating employee is first entered into the stand - alone database by a research assistant.

All sessions were videotaped and 3 from each 10 - week series were chosen at random and coded for content (eg, topics covered), delivery (eg, showing video vignettes, asking open - ended questions, and conducting role plays), and degree of parent participation by a research assistant trained for reliability.

Maternal self - report and HOME Inventory data were collected by a research assistant who was blind to treatment assignment for baseline and postbaseline assessments, unless inadvertently revealed by the participants.

Additionally, the intervention group was given an exercise program devised by an experienced exercise physiologist, with ongoing support through phone coaching by the research assistant.

The first version of the MDI included 96 items, plus eight demographic questions, and was administered (i.e., read out loud in class) in March 2008 by research assistants to five grade 4 and 5 classrooms in five schools (N = 108).

Prospective participants were either screened by research assistants in the practice, referred by a pediatrician, or self - referred after seeing a study - related brochure in the pediatric offices.

Three levels of consent were sought and obtained: Aboriginal collective consent at the national level through NACCHO; 24 local community collective consent from each individual ACCHS and the Torres Shire Council (representing the Torres Strait community, as there is not a local ACCHS); and informed consent procured from individual survey participants by research assistants (5.5)(Box 2).

We thank the steering committee for their ongoing support and advice throughout the project, and acknowledge the work completed by research assistants who worked on this project.

An education session titled «The Big Picture» is performed by the research assistants of the program, once each 12 week cycle.

The 3 - item Self - Compassion Scale Short Form (SCS - SF; Raes et al. 2011) completed by children and the Test Observation Form (TOF; Verhulst and Van der Ende 2013) completed by research assistants were omitted from further analyses because of low reliability (SCS - SF: α =.33; TOF: α =.57).

The questionnaires were administered by research assistants from Lund University, who were either licensed psychologists or advanced level students of psychology.

These flyers were distributed by research assistants at Babyplanet, an annual fair about child care, as well as to every parent visiting the General Register Office and the maternity service of the University Hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland.

The data collection took place before the start of the treatment and included a home visit by a research assistant where families completed questionnaires.

The Parent Daily Report (PDR) is a reliable 34 - item checklist of problem behaviors (Patterson et al. 1982) and is administered by a research assistant other than the therapist.

The timing of each part is set at 2 min (with 10 s of transition) and controlled by a research assistant, who gives the parents the signal for the transition from one part to the next by using a light.

Not exact matches

Case in point, independent research conducted by the Capgemini Digital Transformation Institute confirms that 51 percent of consumers already utilize voice assistants, with 81 percent of those users primarily accessing the voice assistant through a smartphone, citing convenience, multitasking enablement and speed as value - adds from the voice assistant experience.

Japanese government data that was translated for Business Insider by Dr. Nori Katagiri, an assistant professor of political science at Saint Louis University and the inaugural visiting research fellow for the JASDF Air Staff College, shows that China has dramatically increased its naval and aviation activity since 2012 — prior to which there was virtually no activity.

For BTN's 2016 Corporate Travel Index, the 32nd annual, BCD Travel's Advito provided the average hotel and car rental costs paid by BCD corporate clients, BTN collected hotel taxes and surcharges from hotels, and eight New York University School of Professional Studies Advanced Research Seminar students, led by academic chair and clinical assistant professor Lynn Minnaert, called restaurants in October and November to gather meal prices.

A new study from Juniper Research estimates that 66 % of «hearables,» ear - based wearable devices providing aural content, will have voice assistants by the end of 2017.

Research by Capgemini predicts that an actual preference for voice - based interactions over traditional websites or apps will grow rapidly in the next 3 years from 24 % now to 40 % by 2020; they also suggest that the appetite for voice assistants instead of physical outlets like banks and shops will grow from 20 % now to 31 % in 3 years.

An Australian geologist who got his credentials dating rocks billions of years old, still selling his services as a qualified geologist, but also employed as as a «Creationist Assistant Professor of Geology» by the Institute for Creation Research in the USA, where he supports a young earth.

Here's a geologist who received his credentials for dating rocks billions of years old, still selling his services as a geologist while being employed as a «Creationist Assistant Professor of Geology» by the Institute for Creation Research.

However, he has also been employed as a «Creationist Assistant Professor of Geology» by the Institute for Creation Research.

Over time, the expression bled into «helpmeet,» an independent term applied exclusively to the role of wives to their husbands, and to this day, the myth that Genesis 2 relegates wives to the status of subordinate assistants persists, as is painfully evidenced by (complementarian) Debi Pearl's book, Created to Be His Help Meet, which has sold more than 200,000 copies since its publication in 2004... (and which I threw across the living room a total of seven times while reading it for research.)

Assistant Research Professor from the University of New Hampshire Department of Biological Science Jackson Estaurine Laboratory explores this question with his son in this video produced by Rick Hydren, as part of the «Danger in the Reeds» video series.

If it wasn't enough that, as his research assistant, I was having to daily talk him through attaching files to emails, finding an internet page, the joys of Twitter and the benefits of blogging, I am now doing three times more work than the entire parliamentary IT unit by answering his basic and annoying questions about gadgets.

The political sixth form at Westminster, former research assistants and apparatchiks to a man, is widely despised by the voters.

Ecologist and environmental policy analyst Raphael «Rafe» Sagarin (2002 - 03 Congressional Fellow sponsored by the Geological Society of America) was associate research scientist and adjunct assistant professor for the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at University of Arizona.

In a University of California, San Diego School of Medicine study published July 13 in the online journal Nature Neuroscience, a research team led by Takaki Komiyama, PhD, assistant professor of neurosciences and neurobiology, reports that in mouse models, the brain significantly changed its visual cortex operation modes by implementing top - down processes during learning.

Edwards was nominated for the AAAS Scientific Freedom & Responsibility Award by Caren Cooper, a professor of forestry and environmental resources at North Carolina State University and assistant head of the Biodiversity Research Lab at North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.

Graduate student Aaron Stevens, research assistant Wes Edrington, undergraduate researcher Yunhua Zhao and graduate student Aroshan Jayansinge also contributed to the research, which was funded by National Institute of Health grants R21AR068933 and 5T32CA119925 and National Science Foundation grant REU 1560035.

Now classified as an assistant scientist and paid by Keely's grants, Ponik continues to conduct her own research identifying cell - signaling changes in cancer metastasis.

Research associates who do well can next be promoted to the rank of research assistant professor, «an honorary title that is given... by the department,» says John Lipscomb, a professor of biochemistry and former BMBB department head who a year ago became the department's first postdoctoral dResearch associates who do well can next be promoted to the rank of research assistant professor, «an honorary title that is given... by the department,» says John Lipscomb, a professor of biochemistry and former BMBB department head who a year ago became the department's first postdoctoral dresearch assistant professor, «an honorary title that is given... by the department,» says John Lipscomb, a professor of biochemistry and former BMBB department head who a year ago became the department's first postdoctoral director.

New research by UC quaternary paleoecologist Brooke Crowley, assistant professor of geology and anthropology, shows that although many lemurs typically stay put for most of their lives, their mobility may have decreased in recent years, possibly due to the deforestation of Madagascar by its human inhabitants.

A research team led by Nicole Cameron, assistant professor of psychology at Binghamton University, was the first to investigate the effects of alcohol consumption during pregnancy on alcohol - related behavior (consumption and sensitivity to the effect of alcohol) on generations that were not directly exposed to alcohol in the uterus during the pregnancy.

Survivors of melanoma were more likely to limit exposure to the sun than people who had never had the disease, but some still reported seeking out suntans and getting sunburns, reports a new article in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research by Rachel Isaksson Vogel, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health at the University of Minnesota.

The research team was led by Jennifer S. Gass, MD, FACS, chief of surgery at Women & Infants Hospital, a Care New England hospital, director of the breast fellowship at the Breast Health Center at Women & Infants, and clinical assistant professor at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

In addition to «reducing major illnesses,» Specter continued, the new research money will «stimulate the economy by producing good, high - paying jobs» — a description that may surprise the postdocs and research assistants who will end up holding many of those jobs.

Prashant Bharadwaj, an assistant professor of economics at the University of California - San Diego who studies development and labor economics, said the research helps fill an important gap by looking at persistent, moderate pollution like that from agricultural fires.

«So it is not just one researcher in a lab by himself or herself; it is lab technicians, postdoctoral fellows, research assistants, and on and on.»

The research team led by Ji - Young Choi, an assistant professor of Human Development and Family Studies, found dual - language learners (DLLs) had significant growth, eventually outperforming students who only spoke English, once DLLs gained basic English proficiency.

Vogl and co-author Marcos Rangel, assistant professor at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy, detailed their findings in a working paper titled «Agricultural Fires and Infant Health» released online in December by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Attanasio, an assistant professor of health policy and management at UMass Amherst's School of Public Health and Health Sciences, explains that a growing body of research at the individual level has shown that compared to women cared for by physicians, women considered at low - risk for complications in childbirth who receive care from midwives have good outcomes that include lower use of interventions such as cesarean delivery.

Vanja Klepac - Ceraj, a microbial ecologist by training and an assistant research investigator at the Forsyth Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has helped organize symposia with ecologists and biomedical researchers giving joint talks on the ecology of disease.

The study appeared in the April 14 print edition of Chemical Communications in the article «Visualizing Nanoparticle Mobility in Liquid at Atomic Resolution,» by Madeline Dukes, an applications scientist at Protochips Inc. in Raleigh, N.C.; Benjamin Jacobs, an applications scientist at Protochips; David Morgan, assistant manager of the Cryo - Transmission Electron Microscopy Facility at Indiana University Bloomington; Harshad Hegde, a computer scientist at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute; and Kelly, who is also an assistant professor of biological sciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech.