Sentences with phrase «encouraged researchers at»

The man and other elders encouraged researchers at the conference to communicate this important information directly to communities affected by uranium mining.

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AI in the future could encourage human actors to make catastrophic decisions, researchers at the nonprofit Rand Corporation said.

The number of people who follow gluten - free diets is far larger than the number diagnosed with celiac disease, report researchers at Rutgers University, noting the public perception of the diet's health benefits may also be helping encourage its adoption.

Sleep Training Study Findings Not Final Word API and other researchers encourage parents to reject the pervasive notion that parental sleep can only happen, or best happens, when we purposely and repeatedly ignore and dismiss the distress calls of our babies and children at night.

Getting the Starting Grant «was an important step in my career,» says Ferreira, who today contributes to strategic decisions at his institution and encourages other researchers working there to apply for ERC grants.

In this study, the researchers applied this approach to examine whether simple visual and written cues could be used to encourage drivers to switch off their engines while waiting at railway crossings.

Researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have discovered that tiny below - ground organisms play a role in this phenomenon — and could be used to encourage tree migration in order to preserve heat - sensitive species.

Such pressure, in turn, encourages researchers to engage in «a host of biased practices [including] reinventing history to «predict» results that were, in fact, unexpected, or selectively reporting analyses that allow more publishable narratives,» continued Chambers, who is the editor in charge of handling Registered Reports at Royal Society Open Science, an online - only journal which covers all fields of science, engineering, and math.

But they say Hare's use of legal threats has at best subverted the peer review process that is the crux of modern scientific progress, and could at worst encourage junior researchers in the field of forensic psychology to pursue other lines of research.

On the industry side, Lilly, headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, has a program that encourages scientists at the pharmaceutical company to collaborate with university researchers.

For that reason, some senior researchers encourage protégés to avoid committee work at all costs.

Between 2019 and 2016, the Administration's enacted and proposed budgets would add $ 42.6 billion to the 2008 budgets for these basic research agencies, with a special emphasis on encouraging high - risk, high - return research and supporting researchers at the beginning of their careers.

At a time when fewer families in Western countries are having meals together, it would be especially opportune now for psycho - social workers to encourage the practice at home — indeed, even make it a priority, the researchers believAt a time when fewer families in Western countries are having meals together, it would be especially opportune now for psycho - social workers to encourage the practice at home — indeed, even make it a priority, the researchers believat home — indeed, even make it a priority, the researchers believe.

«It's important to know what the strain is,» says Sophien Kamoun, a biologist at the Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich, UK, who has created a website, Open Wheat Blast (go.nature.com/bkczwf), to encourage researchers to share data.

«These four awards given to the researchers at the University of Wisconsin - Madison demonstrate NSF commitments to enabling fundamental wireless research, advancing innovative communication infrastructure, and encouraging collaborations among experts in academia and industry,» says NSF Program Director Thyaga Nandagopal.

It's also unclear at this point, he says, exactly how annexin A2 encourages pancreatic cancer cells to release Sema3D, but the researchers suspect annexin A2 may act like a bodyguard to Sema3D, sheltering and guiding the protein as it makes its way toward an exit at the cell surface.

Smith encourages young researchers to move into applied research — but only after «you've found fundamental techniques that you're good at,» he says.

A new study led by UC Berkeley researchers found that a policy called reference pricing is effective at encouraging patients to spend significantly less on prescription drugs by choosing cheaper drugs over name brand options.

Observability proved to be the key factor in the results, the researchers said, because it puts people's reputation at stake, encouraging those who might not otherwise sign up to do so.

The researchers hope their new paper encourages others to pursue TPV improvements — including fabrication of TPV cells on reusable substrates — that could lead to development of real - world systems at costs competitive with fossil fuels.

Especially as school districts look at implementing Next Generation Science Standards, and researchers are encouraged to do more outreach for broader impact, a better understanding of the mental models of STEM ed and the value of designing an online classroom can be useful.

To explain the encouraging cases, the researchers propose that in some species, frog skin secretions may be getting better at repelling the fungus.

«It's an encouraging number,» says conservation biologist Ana Davidson, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, who was not involved in the study.

«Grocers can benefit from encouraging healthy shopping practices because they can sell more perishable items like fruits and vegetables rather than tossing them in the dumpster after a few days,» says lead researcher Brian Wansink, PhD, director of the Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University and author of the new book, Slim by Design: Mindless Eating Solutions for Everyday Life, «The benefit to shoppers is obvious; healthier groceries result in healthier eating!»

Beth Shapiro, a paleogenomics researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who also studies the passenger pigeon's genetic past, says the new data are encouraging and fit with her own group's unpublished findings.

That level of interest is encouraging to him and other researchers because ecosystems are so complex that once certain species, functions or ecosystem processes are lost, there's no getting them back — at least not using current techniques or knowledge.

The results are «very encouraging,» says Mariano Esteban, a poxvirus researcher at the Universidad Autónoma in Madrid, Spain, adding that they could prelude a safer generation of smallpox vaccines for humans to replace the old standbys from the smallpox eradication era.

He hopes this study will encourage researchers to take a closer look at the connection between addiction and how the body keeps time.

Researchers at BU are working in collaboration with Bournemouth and Poole's Sustainable Food City partnership to tackle some of these issues through a new project designed to look at how we can encourage sustainable food and eating practices, particularly through the growth and consumption of local foods.

Doctors could potentially use the pneumonia prediction score to encourage older adults to get the pneumococcal vaccine that protects against pneumonia, as well as to counsel at - risk individuals about positive behavioral changes such as quitting smoking, said the researchers.

«We hope our discovery encourages more researchers to seek out pyroclastic passage zones,» says Lucy Porritt, a Marie Curie Research Fellow at UBC and University of Bristol.

Matthew Anderson, a physician - scientist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, says that the study will encourage other researchers to explore metabolic pathways as causes of autism.

AIDS researcher Jay Levy at the University of California at San Francisco finds the results encouraging, but notes that the vaccines seemed to have no effect on the amount of virus in the bloodstream of people who contracted HIV during the study.

The study is «very, very encouraging,» says Clement Ip, a cancer researcher at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, but he and others say more studies are needed to determine how selenium acts on tumors and how it affects a broader spectrum of patients.

The France And Chicago Collaborating in The Sciences (FACCTS) program is designed to enhance science at the University of Chicago by encouraging closer relations between researchers in Physics Sciences Department (PSD) and Biology Sciences Department (BSD) and high - level research teams and institutions of higher education in France.

While the talk is open to the public, all tour guests are encouraged to arrive early to enjoy an interesting and educational chat about the latest scientific discoveries at the Institute with a Salk researcher.

Encourage and support student and early career researcher endeavours in the area, at all levels of training.

Individuals at all levels (students to senior researchers) interested in engaging in international collaborative activities and, potentially, assuming active leadership roles in SCAR groups, are particularly encouraged to participate.

But at the same time, burning wood also causes significant cooling, which is encouraging,» says Anders Arvesen, a researcher in the Industrial Ecology Programme at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Each booth at the event has interactive activities as well as information, and the pre-college students are encouraged to ask questions of the scientists and researchers at each booth who have years of experience in neural engineering.

Researchers found that both approaches encouraged babies to fall asleep faster at bedtime.

«This is the first time that we have looked at the impact of large amounts of cacao in doses as small as a regular - sized chocolate bar in humans over short or long periods of time, and are encouraged by the findings,» says Lee S. Berk, DrPH, a researcher involved in the presentation.

The researchers also compared sugary ready - to - eat cereal to oatmeal and found oatmeal's nutritional advantage (more nourishing whole food meal) made it a better choice at improving brain power and encouraging better test scores.1 Additional stats show higher test grades and better school attendance in breakfast eaters than in non-breakfast eaters too.2 Bottom line: to excel in whatever we do, whether it be school, work, play or relationships, we need breakfast to be at the top of our mental game.

«We may have more success in encouraging teenagers to dedicate a shorter time to improving their health by performing high - intensity exercise,» said the study's co-author Dr. Bert Bond, a researcher fellow at the U-Exeter, in a press release.

«I think these findings will encourage researchers to take a second look at drug therapies that have been shown to be effective in schizophrenia but have not been intensively studied for use in autism,» he says.

All of this transpires in less than a week, with the film reflecting how quickly even the researchers became willing participants, at times encouraging what was happening, and failing to bring a halt to what they were seeing.

Williamsburg, Va. — Communication problems encountered at home by young children who are encouraged in school to abandon their native language may hinder their academic success, according to a California researcher.

Classrooms that emphasize group learning may be less effective at encouraging girls to study mathematics and science than traditional classrooms, according to a researcher who contributed to a new book on effective practices in science education.

Research behind VAL - ED (the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education tool to assess principal performance, developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University) suggests that there are six key steps - or «processes» - that the effective principal takes when carrying out his or her most important leadership responsibilities: planning, implementing, supporting, advocating, communicating and monitoring.40 The school leader pressing for high academic standards would, for example, map out rigorous targets for improvements in learning (planning), get the faculty on board to do what's necessary to meet those targets (implementing), encourage students and teachers in meeting the goals (supporting), challenge low expectations and low district funding for students with special needs (advocating), make sure families are aware of the learning goals (communicating), and keep on top of test results (monitoring).41

Liz — you are correct that the research has been weak on Ssr, though since the 2000 National Reading Panel researchers have looked more closely at impacts of encouraging kids to read... what they have found basically is that it is possible to get small effects, but that it is difficult to do so (so it often just doesn't payoff or takes a big investment to payoff).