Sentences with phrase «field researchers at»

Although a few tourists and locals had reported seeing her before, the first confirmed sighting was by H. K. Janaka, a field researcher at Sri Lanka's Centre for Conservation and Research, which has been studying the country's roughly 4,000 elephants for 12 years.

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Some women shy away from jobs in fields that require long workweeks, knowing they won't have the time: a 10 percent cut in free time for women reduces their share in high - hour occupations by about 14 percent relative to men, according to the researcher's model.In total, that difference in time spent on at - home labor results in an 11 percentage point gender wage gap, their analysis estimates.

The company has been allowing its researchers to publish papers, speak at conferences, and generally get the word out more about how well it's doing in the field.

«During product development, we brought together researchers in both the health and culinary fields to ensure a thorough understanding of a patient's needs during various phases of treatment,» said Chet S. Rao, Ph.D., strategy and business manager for the specialty foods group at Hormel Foods.

In 2015, two leading researchers in the field of noncognitive skills, David Yeager of the University of Texas at Austin and Angela Duckworth of the University of Pennsylvania, published a paper investigating a wide variety of assessment tools for noncognitive skills.

Health - care workers, engineers, technicians and women in related fields are at higher risk because they are exposed to a variety of chemicals that could cause birth defects, according to researchers at a recent conference in Seattle sponsored by the American Medical Women «s Association.

Dr.Sharron Bransburg - Zabary, an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and researcher in the field of the immune system at Tel Aviv University, read and responded to the study.

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.

Researchers in this field can read the same papers, look at the same data, and come to different conclusions.

Dr Field's studies are affirmed by researchers from Warwick Medical School in the UK who looked at nine studies of massage covering a total of 598 infants aged less than six months.

There was an ancient paradigm about the «fitness cost of antibiotic resistance,» but the emergence of the new technologies of high - throughput sequencing has changed the field, allowing researchers to study bacterial pathogenesis at the genome scale,» said Dr. David Skurnik, senior author of a new Bioessays article.

The signals generated by the magnitude - 9.1 quake that struck Japan were barely one - billionth g, the amount of Earth's gravitational field at sea level, but they traveled at the speed of light and were detected at seismometers hundreds of kilometers away, the researchers report today in Science.

The researchers searched through nearly 1,200 published papers for data on mud rock in river deposits, and collected new field data at 125 ancient river outcrops.

For the study, published in the journal Nature Communications, the researchers used a technique recently borrowed from the computer science field by neuroscientists — multivariate pattern analysis — to examine brain scans that were taken while people looked at a picture of someone who had rejected them.

Researchers at the University of York mapped population data for 62 wild bee species sprinkled across the United Kingdom along with neonicotinoid treatment in local oilseed rape (Brassica napus) fields over 18 years.

Keynote speaker Emmitt Jolly, a schistosomiasis researcher, noted that he was the son of a preacher and janitor, and worked in Alabama cotton fields for 2 years as a young man, but was still able to become a professor at Case Western Reserve University here.

Regardless of whether they're looking at free DNA, intact cells, or extracellular vesicles, researchers and physicians are optimistic about the field's prospects.

Researchers in these and other energy fields should register at DoE's e-Center or Grants.gov, the government - wide funding portal, to keep up - to - date on new opportunities.

Successful researchers can not develop their ideas and knowledge in isolation — they keep up to date with developments in their field, discuss their project with others in their group and, if looking at new areas, will seek advice from experts.

In a paper published in the May 5 online issue of The Oncologist, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center detail their experience evaluating 34 patients between December 2012 and June 2013 using a molecular tumor board — a new type of advisory group comprised of multidisciplinary experts, including those in the fields of tumor genetics, basic science and bioinformatics.

Even so, field studies point to crucial nuances, says Julie Dugdale, an artificial intelligence researcher at the University of Grenoble in France who studies human behavior under stress.

Sadeghi and Bisker presented the work at SIGGRAPH and fielded many questions from researchers in the game and movie industries.

«The researchers have taken a technique that most in the field thought would be impossible for complex organs such as the kidney, and have painstakingly developed a method to make it work,» says Jamie Davies at the University of Edinburgh, UK, who was part of a team that last year made some headway in their attempts to grow kidneys from scratch in the lab.

As the study of cannibalism gained scientific validity in the 1980s, more and more researchers began looking at the phenomenon, bringing with them expertise in a variety of fields.

John Tarduno, a geophysicist at the University of Rochester and a leading expert on Earth's magnetic field, and his team of researchers say they believe the Earth's magnetic field is at least four billion years old.

For their investigation, the researchers utilized field work on air pollution that Hayes carried out in California in 2010 and published in 2013 when he was a researcher at the University of Colorado working with Jose - Luis Jimenez (also a co-author of the new study).

Some researchers in the scientific community have expressed alarm, however, at the rapid progress in a field that could lead to a simple method for producing artificial pathogens, drug - resistant microorganisms, or new types of bioweapons.

At first the researchers detected 16 hidden species, a number «already considered spectacular,» says coauthor Robert Lücking of the Field Museum in Chicago.

Take a look at the animals that researchers have sighted or captured while in the field to study a contagious cancer that is destroying Tasmanian devil populations

By tallying field reports and rope scars found on whales, researchers have concluded that about 50 North Atlantic right whales become tangled each year, and about 83 % of all whales have gotten caught at least once.

As Germán Orizaola, co-author of the study published in the journal Ecology and a researcher at the Swedish university states «Among the many challenges climate change poses to natural ecosystems, the effect it can have on the dietary preferences of living organisms is a field of study that has been attracting researchers» attention in recent years.»

The Olympics don't typically inspire researchers to start new fields — instead, they tend to feed into ongoing studies, says Vanessa Heggie, a historian of science and sports medicine at the University of Birmingham, UK.

One decisive initiative in the global emergence of the field was the launch, in 2005, of the international Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge.

Currently, the unmanned system can work for distances around 1 to 3 meters away, but the researchers would like to make the system effective at 100 - meter distances, which is nearly the length of a football field, Dunn said.

Researchers at the Institut des Sciences de la Terre (CNRS / Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1 / IRD / Université de Savoie / IFSTTAR) have shown that turbulence, random motion that takes place in the molten metal in Earth's core, makes a contribution to our planet's magnetic field.

In one compelling example, wildlife researcher Stacia Backensto, a graduate student at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, was stymied by bird cognition when she began studying how ravens used ambient heat from buildings to adapt to life on the dark, frigid oil fields of the Arctic coast.

Inserting magnetic droplets at different locations in the tissue, and generating forces by applying a magnetic field to the droplets, the researchers showed that the tissue behaves like a fluid while growing, with similar mechanical characteristics as thick honey.

A technical field with the explicit raison d'etre of helping people, biomedical engineering, arose in the past century as a partnership among medical researchers, clinicians, physical scientists, and engineers and has evolved into a separate discipline now taught at engineering schools across the country.

Armed with this information, the researchers plan to look at the number of repeats present in existing nematode - resistant soybean varieties in an attempt to explain why some display better resistance than others in field settings.

In order to better understand the interactions between turbulence and the magnetic field, researchers at the Institut des Sciences de la Terre, in Grenoble, used the Derviche Tourneur Sodium experiment, begun in 2005.

Cao Zexian, a researcher at CAS's Institute of Physics here, contends that Chinese high - energy physicists lack the ability to steer or lead research in the field.

In June 2011, the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) Center for Scientific Review (CSR) debuted a program aimed at leveling the playing field — somewhat — by giving young researchers experience on grant - review panels so that they could see what they look for in the grant applications they choose to fund.

Arnd Pralle, a physics researcher at the State University of New York at Buffalo, has developed a technique for employing magnetic fields to heat up nanoparticles that have been implanted in neurons.

Earlier this year researchers at KAIST (the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) in Daejeon, South Korea, demonstrated their Online Electric Vehicle (Olev), which is powered by an electromagnetic field generated by strips buried in the road.

Hydrocephalus researchers, who have long been frustrated at the field's slow progress, are enthusiastic.

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.

«Magnetic fields are interesting for a variety of reasons,» said Prof. Dr. Volker Springel, professor and researcher at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies and principal investigator on the project.

«We estimate that the peak activity for the volcanic field at the summit of Arsia Mons probably occurred approximately 150 million years ago — the late Jurassic period on Earth — and then died out around the same time as Earth's dinosaurs,» said Jacob Richardson, a postdoctoral researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

If you are taking the lead on a grant application in a highly collaborative field, I would recommend asking all the researchers involved what their planned budget is at the early stages of the proposal.

A pair of biostatisticians» questions about a prominent genetics group at Duke University have led Duke to investigate the researcher in question, and there are calls for a general review of the field.