Sentences with phrase «few leading universities»
But his comments reflect a wider exasperation that few leading universities have so far used the Government's higher education reforms to grow.»
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As Harvard university president, he made headlines for remarking that women might have an aptitudinal problem with math, one of a few controversies that led to his early resignation.
Although Uber's self - driving program is only a few years old, Kalanick's typically no - holds - barred approach quickly led to the establishment in 2015 of an autonomous car team consisting largely of robotics experts raided from Pittsburgh's prestigious Carnegie Mellon University.
In short, states where courts have ruled on same - sex marriage are «black hole» states where few or no specific religious protections are given, according to Robin Fretwell Wilson, a University of Illinois law professor who leads a group of legal scholars that advise lawmakers on religious exemptions.
In light of a few things that happened of late — the Supreme Court's ruling on marriage for same - sex couples, the addition of the word cisgender into the Oxford English Dictionary, the rise of the transgender movement, with Germany leading the way for parents to register their baby as something other than just boy or girl, the increase in stay - at home dads and egalitarian marriages, universities recognizing a third gender, the desire by some to be called they versus he or she, the declaration that 2015 is the year of the gender - neutral baby, it's clear we are moving toward a society that is busting up traditional views of gender and what men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers look and act like.
A few weeks after my trip to Queens, I visited the Stress Neurobiology and Prevention lab at the University of Oregon in Eugene, where a team of researchers led by Phil Fisher, a psychologist, has developed a series of interventions with parents that in many ways parallel the ABC program, though with one major difference: They use digital video as a teaching tool to help steer parents away from behaviors that cause fear and stress in children and toward patterns that promote attachment and self - regulation.
That was one of the topics discussed at a workshop in Vancouver, B.C., on love put on by Carrie Jenkins, a philosophy professor at the University of British Columbia, that featured many wonderful speakers besides Jenkins, whose thought - provoking book, What Love Is And What It Could Be, comes out in a few weeks, including Marina Adshade, UBC professor of economics, author of of Dollars and Sex: How Economics Influences Sex and entertaining TEDx speaker; and Mandy Len Catron, who teaches writing at UBC and whose Modern Love essay on how to make anyone fall in love with you was one of the most - read Modern Loves, and that lead her to write a book on love essays that comes out in 2017.
The natural elements in breast milk that are believed to account for fewer cases of diarrhea and respiratory infections in breast - fed babies appear to be erased when stored breast milk is microwaved, said Dr. Richard Quan, who led the study during a fellowship at Stanford and now is a pediatric gastroenterologist at the Dallas campus of the University of Texas.
Dr. James McKenna is a leading researcher in the field of bed - sharing and has quite a few studies quoted on the Mother - Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory at University of Notre Dame website: http://www.nd.edu/~jmckenn1/lab/media.html The more important point here is that no professional should tell you what to do.
Using 12 years of archival data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory, a team led by Columbia University astrophysicist Chuck Hailey has found a dozen potential black holes within a few light - years of the Milky Way's center, well within the gravitational reach of our galaxy's supermassive black hole.
• According to a survey of members of the Association of American Universities and the Association of Public and Land - grant Universities, Jeffrey Mervis wrote on Monday, federal government sequestration has led to fewer student positions (31 % of respondents), a reduction in temporary or part - time staff positions (30 % of respnodents), and a decline in postdoctoral fellows (24 % of respondents).
«Randomized trials have confirmed the value of radiation dose escalation for prostate tumors, and the potential benefits of larger radiation doses in fewer fractions, are expected to increase the therapeutic efficacy for men with prostate cancer,» said Anders Widmark, MD, a professor of radiation sciences at Umeå University in Umeå, Sweden and lead author of the study.
Five months after the implementation of new opioid prescription guidelines at a University of Michigan hospital, roughly 7,000 fewer pills went home with patients — a drop that might reduce the risk of accessible pills leading to substance abuse.
Lead author Jason Holloway, a Rice alumnus who is now a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University, suggested an array of inexpensive sensors and plastic lenses that cost a few dollars each may someday replace traditional telephoto lenses that cost more than $ 100,000.
«If and only if it had a starshade, WFIRST could give us images of a few true - blue Earths late next decade rather than waiting for another 20 years,» says Jeremy Kasdin, a Princeton University professor and lead scientist for WFIRST's coronagraph.
The paucity of women in Research I institutions, and within most university science departments, leads the few who infiltrate the system to be viewed by some as tokens.
With a Ph.D. in mathematics and as a former professor of statistics at the university where he now holds a full professorship in computer science, he is one of very few technology experts to have contributed a long, invited scholarly article to a law journal published by a leading law school.
«Crash diets, also called meal replacement programmes, have become increasingly fashionable in the past few years,» said lead author Dr Jennifer Rayner, clinical research fellow, Oxford Centre for Magnetic Resonance, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
«If given to all approximately 1.5 million nursing home residents, a one percent drop in hospitalizations would translate to thousands fewer being hospitalized,» said Stefan Gravenstein, MD, MPH, lead author of the study, Director of the Center for Geriatrics and Palliative Care at University Hospitals Case Medical Center, and on faculty at both the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and adjunct at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University.
Lead researcher Professor Peter Rothwell, a stroke expert from the University of Oxford, explained: «The risk of a major stroke is very high immediately after a TIA or a minor stroke (about 1000 times higher than the background rate), but only for a few days.
The research group led by Prof. Urs Jenal, at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, has recently discovered how bacteria sense that they are on a surface and what exactly happens in these crucial first few seconds.
Lead author Mike Stock, from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford, said: «We have shown for the first time that processes that occur very late in magma chamber development can trigger explosive eruptions, perhaps in only a few days to months.
This logic was affirmed in 2007 when Scott Creel, an ecologist at Montana State University, published a study suggesting that the presence of wolves stressed the elk, leading to poor female health and fewer pregnancies.
«Our main findings — that women trainees were disproportionately targeted for abuse and felt they had few avenues to report or resolve these problems — suggest that at least some field sites are not safe, nor inclusive,» said University of Illinois anthropology professor Kate Clancy, who led the new analysis.
Commenting on the research, leading primatologist Professor Frans de Waal, of the Yerkes Primate Center of Emory University, said that the study «is one of the few successful field experiments on cultural transmission to date, and a remarkably elegant one at that.»
«We explored several plausible reasons why Mexican - American immigrants, despite facing the considerable challenges of relocation, have fewer health limitations than Mexican - Americans born in the United States,» says lead author Esme Fuller - Thomson, Sandra Rotman Endowed Chair at University of Toronto's Factor - Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto.
There are very few circumstances under which they are not effective and there are no identifiable circumstances under which they backfire and lead to undesirable outcomes,» said Dolores Albarracin, PhD, professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign and an author of the study, published in the journal Psychological Bulletin.
«Based on the results of this study, I think very elderly patients, particularly those with few or no comorbidities, should strongly consider the benefits of these procedures,» said lead study author Hiroyuki Yoshihara, MD, PhD, an orthopaedic surgeon at State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center and Nassau University Medical Center.
While universities pride themselves on their career advice to undergraduates and plotting their graduates» subsequent employability, I know of very few universities that proffer advice to postgraduates or track the employability of their Ph.D. s. All too often Ph.D. graduates «sleepwalk» into postdoc appointments — not just one but a string of appointments that often leads nowhere.
In contrast, Sergey Bulat, a molecular biologist at Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute in Russia, and his French colleague Jean - Robert Petit, a glaciologist at the University of Grenoble (and lead author of the classic paper on the 420,000 - year Vostok climate record), detected only a few cells per milliliter; in some specimens they found none at all.
Led by Sandra Savaglio and Karl Glazebrook of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, the team studied a few hundred galaxies at distances of some 10 billion light - years, looking back to a time when the universe was only about 4 billion years old.
Lead author, Professor Rus Hoelzel, in Durham University's, Department of Biosciences, said: «The oceans represent vast expanses across which there are few obvious barriers to movement.
«Very few people are immune to expressing prejudice, especially prejudice towards people they disagree with,» says lead author Mark Brandt (Tilburg University, Netherlands).
Few reliable tools exist for detecting neural signals of awareness in people who appear unresponsive, says Lorina Naci, a neuroscientist at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, and lead author of the new study.
University of Wyoming researchers led a climate study that determined recent temperatures across Europe and North America appear to have few, if any, precedent in the past 11,000 years.
Many people know about the threatened polar bear and extinct passenger pigeon, but few have heard of endangered and extinct languages such as Eyak in Alaska, whose last speaker died in 2008, or Ubykh in Turkey, whose last fluent speaker died in 1992, says Tatsuya Amano, a zoologist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and lead author of the new study.
«This is a new application for an old pain medication that offers hope for reducing the development of acute pain in the first few days after surgery, as well as chronic postoperative pain and the need for opioid medications following discharge from the hospital,» said Glenn S. Murphy, M.D., lead study author and physician anesthesiologist at NorthShore University Health System in Evanston, Illinois.
Prof. Maria Luisa Brandi MD, Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases at the University of Florence, Italy, lead author and Chair of the IOF Working Group on Skeletal Rare Diseases stated, «Due to the rarity of these diseases diagnosis is a challenge, and most patients — who are often children — currently have few choices when it comes to therapy.
A team of researchers led by biophysicists at the University of Washington have come one step closer to designing tailor - made drug molecules that are more precise and carry fewer side effects than most existing therapeutic compounds.
«Despite having good treatments available, current reports suggest that fewer than half of individuals who need therapy are actually getting appropriate HIV medicine to control their virus, leading to more transmission of disease,» says lead study author Maunank Shah, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
And few people have peered farther than University of California, Santa Cruz, astronomer Greg Laughlin, science's leading soothsayer.
A few years ago, a team led by biotechnologist Neil Bruce of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom came across the makings of a gentler technique.
«We found that these wildflowers produce one - third fewer seeds in the absence of just one bumblebee species,» says Emory University ecologist Berry Brosi, who led the study.
«Calorie labeling appears to be effective in an online environment where consumers have fewer distractions, and the simpler traffic - light labeling seems as effective as standard calorie numbers,» said lead author Eric M. VanEpps, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
«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!»
«There were very few [indigenous] people living along the coast then,» says lead author and geologist Daniel Belknap of the University of Maine, and without humans to create the protective covering, newly formed beach ridges simply eroded and vanished.
«This is the first field - based study of mandatory menu labeling laws that found a large overall adjusted difference in calories between customers who dined at labeled restaurants when compared to unlabeled restaurants — about 155 fewer calories purchased,» said Amy Auchincloss, PhD, an assistant professor in the Drexel University School of Public Health and lead author of the study.
«Compared to Americans in the 1970s - 2000s, Americans in the last few years are less likely to say they can trust others, and are less likely to believe that institutions such as government, the press, religious organizations, schools, and large corporations are «doing a good job,»» explains psychological scientist and lead researcher Jean M. Twenge of San Diego State University.
«In general, life gets better as you age in the sense that older adults on average have fewer hassles — and respond to them better — than younger adults,» said Carolyn Aldwin, a gerontology professor in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences at Oregon State University and lead author on the study.
Melting sea ice in the Arctic may be leading, indirectly, to fewer caribou calf births and higher calf mortality in Greenland, according to scientists at Penn State University.