Sentences with phrase «first author of the research»

The first author of this research Dr David Frew, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Physics said: «measuring distances to Galactic «planetary nebulae» has been an intractable problem for many decades, because of the extremely diverse nature of both the nebulae themselves and their central stars.

She is first author of the research, while Anthony Leonard, PhD, UC assistant professor of family medicine, is also a co-author.

«We saw decreases after only a single treatment,» Pham, the first author of the research paper, said.

Others who worked with them are Masanori Okamoto (first author of the research paper), Andrew Defries and Sang - Youl Park at UCR; and Akira Endo and Eiji Nambara at the University of Toronto, Canada.

«The alteration of body weight is one of the potential complications of deep brain stimulation as a treatment of Parkinson's disease,» explains Marilena Aiello, SISSA researcher and first author of the research.

«So far, no one has looked across a variety of strains of bacteria, as we have done with Staphylococcus aureus, to find these extrachromosomal phages that have potential to play an important role in disease,» says Bryan Utter a postdoc in the lab and the first author of the research published June 25 in PLoS ONE.

He was joined in the study by Zhi - Min Zhang (first author of the research paper), Pengcheng Wang, Yang Yu, Linfeng Gao, Shuo Liu, Debin Ji, and Yinsheng Wang at UCR; and Rui Lu, Dong - Liang Chen, Scott B Rothbart, and co-leader Gang Greg Wang at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

«Though these galaxies are very faint, their increased numbers means that they account for the majority of star formation during this epoch,» said team member Anahita Alavi, a Ph.D. graduate student in Siana's lab, and the first author of the research paper.

The first author of a Research Grant Application must be a Member or Affiliate of the SOCIETY OF GROUP PSYCHOLOGY AND GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY

Not exact matches

Robert Sutton, a professor of management at Stanford University and author of «The No Asshole Rule,» has seen this first hand in his research for the upcoming book «The Asshole Survival Guide.»

By Dave DeWitt [Author's Note: The year 2012 marks the Centennial Anniversary of the Scoville Organoleptic Test, so I decided to apply all my food history online research skills that I've honed over the past five years to create what is the first definitive — however brief — biographical essay on Scoville.

I remember when I was researching the first flop, I came across Gesine's (the recipe author's) web site, where she happened to be giving a polite but stern lecture to others with the same question, about the importance of using her recommended ingredients.

I first want to say that most authors don't mind leaving un-updated information and books out there for purchase, but as for me, after doing lots of research of the new and exciting science of nutrition, I couldn't sleep at night knowing that people were reading information that I put out there that wasn't up to my current standards.

[Author's Note: The year 2012 marks the Centennial Anniversary of the Scoville Organoleptic Test, so I decided to apply all my food history online research skills that I've honed over the past five years to create what is the first definitive — however brief — biographical essay on Scoville.

Lead author Sara Chrisman of the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center in Seattle, Washington, viewed the finding that concussion education requirements for coaches under the state's first - in - the - nation «Lystedt Law» were being closely followed by public high schools in Washington State as «very encouraging but not surprising,» noting that schools had an incentive to follow the law because it provides legal immunity from litigation for schools that follow it correctly.

«Research that has looked at this question suggests that most babies will do fine if mom drinks a few cups of coffee per day,» says Alice Callahan, a college instructor and the author of «The Science of Mom: A Research - Based Guide to Your Baby's First Year.»

«Our study shows that young knees are more prone to re-injury than the adult population when compared to other research in this area - and is the first study to examine the incidence and risk factors for further ACL injury in a solely juvenile population over the long term,» said lead author Justin Roe of North Sydney Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Centre.

First of all, the authors did not disclose that Ken Johnson was the Director of Research for MANA; Betty Anne Daviss, his wife, is a homebirth midwife.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

This is also the first study to measure physiological stress response in real time, says Fred Rogosch, research director at the University of Rochester's Mt. Hope Family Center and a fellow author on the paper.

The researchers, including first author Matheus Victor, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate, set out to generate neurons that would mimic those of adult patients in order to model the onset and progression of Huntington's disease.

«When we first began this study, there had not been a lot of experimental research done,» said Prof Gail Tripp, one of the authors of the paper and director of the Human Developmental Neurobiology Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST).

As associate professor and first - author Johan Bollen writes in an e-mail to Science Careers, they wanted their new system to «enable scientists to set their own priorities, fund scientists... not projects, avoid proposal writing and reviewing, avoid administrative burdens, encourage all scientists to participate collectively in the definition of scientific priorities, encourage innovation, reward scientists that make significant contributions to data, software, methods, and systems, avoid funding death spirals (no funding - > no research - > no funding) but still reward high levels of productivity, create the proper incentives for scholarly communication (publishing to communicate, not to improve bibliometrics), enable funding of daring and risky research, and so on.»

As a postdoc at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine in Iowa City, Rogers used the pig model to better understand the genetic underpinnings of cystic fibrosis — research that earned him a first - author publication in Science in the 26 September 2008 issue (p. 1837).

«We have been able to produce a precise omics - level molecular atlas of the aortic valve and the molecular network of calcific aortic valve disease,» said first author Florian Schlotter, MD, a research fellow in the Center for Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular Sciences at BWH.

Pellecchia was joined in the research by Ahmed F. Salem (first author), Parima Udompholkul, Luca Gambini, and Carlo Baggio at UCR; Si Wang at the Sanford - Burnham - Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, Calif.; Sandrine Billet, Jie - Fu Chen, Edwin M. Posadas, and Neil A. Bhowmick at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center; and Hsian - Rong Tseng at the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at UCLA.

«In essence, this black hole has not had much to feed on for a while, and suddenly along comes an unlucky star full of matter,» says Dheeraj Pasham, the paper's first author and a postdoc in MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.

«Our research is the first to study Zika infection in a mouse model that transmits the virus in a way similar to humans,» explains Alysson R. Muotri, Ph.D., professor and director of the Stem Cell Program at UC San Diego and co-senior author of the study.

«The idea that someone would cyberbully themselves first gained public attention with the tragic suicide of 14 - year - old Hannah Smith in 2013 after she anonymously sent herself hurtful messages on a social media platform just weeks before she took her own life,» said Sameer Hinduja, Ph.D., study author, a professor in FAU's School of Criminology and Criminal Justice in the College for Design and Social Inquiry, and co-director of the Cyberbullying Research Center.

Details of the process can be found in a paper published recently in the open - access journal Science Advances, the first author of which is research student Luca Banszerus.

«Our study shows that failed substance use policies can reverse life expectancy trends for large population groups or even countries,» says Dr. Jürgen Rehm, Director of Social and Epidemiological Research at CAMH and first author of the study.

The authors also note that driver behaviour is a hugely important and unquantified factor, they urge more qualitative research in this area and note «in order to reduce perceived risk and encourage more cycling... reducing or calming existing motorised traffic must be explored first... lane width is the most significant variable to achieve a sufficient vehicle passing distance... the provision of narrow (< 2 m) cycle lanes... may be insufficient... Reconsideration of the entire road design and further exploration of driver behavioural factors is required.»

SwRI's Dr. Frederic Allegrini, Dr. Randy Gladstone, and Valek are co-authors of «Jupiter's magnetosphere and aurorae observed by the Juno spacecraft during its first polar orbits»; lead author is Dr. John Connerney of the Space Research Corporation.

In addition, neither condition emerges in the first years of life, but rather both appear years or even decades later, says senior author Dr. Arturas Petronis, head of the Krembil Family Epigenetics Laboratory in the Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).

«Our preliminary collars that we deployed in the first field season came up with interesting results, but only provided a couple of weeks of data; they needed to be more robust to keep up with the baboons,» added Dr Andrew King, head of Swansea University's SHOAL (Sociality, Heterogeneity, Organisation And Leadership) research group in the College of Science, who is the senior author of the study.

Dr Claudia Wellbrock, study author and Cancer Research UK scientist at The University of Manchester and a member of the Manchester Cancer Research Centre, said: «We used to think that cancer cells spread by first specialising in invading other parts of the body and then change in order to grow rapidly.

While nomograms are common in prostate cancer research, the one developed by the Fred Hutch and UW researchers is the first to determine the likelihood of over-diagnosis on an individual level, said Ruth Etzioni, Ph.D., the paper's senior author.

«This is one of the most representative records of precipitation changes in the eastern Pacific, and it goes a good way toward explaining seasonal tropical rain band and El Niño dynamics,» said first author Daniel Nelson, who did the research for his UW doctorate in oceanography.

«We've known that children of patients with bipolar disorder have a higher risk of developing the illness but the biological mechanisms are largely unknown,» said Gabriel R. Fries, Ph.D., first author and a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth.

The research team — including graduate student and first author Jeffrey Fisher, postdoctoral fellow Songkil Kim and senior research engineer Peter Kottke — used low volatility solvents such as ethylene glycol, dissolving a salt of silver in the liquid.

«The planet has various processes that can keep carbon dioxide levels in check,» said first author Daniel Stolper, a postdoctoral research associate in Princeton's Department of Geosciences.

«The results of this study shed light on the great complexity of factors that contribute to the physiological differences between people and allow us to better understand how genetic diseases develop,» explains Maria Gutierrez - Arcelus, first author of this article and member of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research Frontiers in Genetics.

In this way, the mechanism by which exosomes enter cells resembles the spread of viral infections,» says Helena Christianson, doctoral student in Belting's research team and first author of the study.

«Many studies deserve praise for being the first of their kind, but if we actually began relying on the claims made by big data surveillance in public health, we would come to some peculiar conclusions,» said John W. Ayers, San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health research professor and senior author of the study.

In the current study, Dr. Que and his colleague Ming Jiang, PhD, an associate research scientist in CUMC's Department of Medicine and first author of the paper, genetically altered mice to promote the development of Barrett's esophagus.

«This study permits us to tease apart — for the first time ever — the roles of infants» early experience and maturational status in establishing this critical language - cognition link,» said senior author Sandra Waxman, the Louis W. Menk Chair in Psychology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern and faculty fellow in the University's Institute for Policy Research.

Chuyang Cheng, a fourth - year graduate student in Stoddart's laboratory and first author of the paper, has spent his Ph.D. studies researching molecules that mimic nature's biochemical machinery.

«If we can preserve these important cells, we may be able to decrease the negative impacts of traumatic brain injury,» said first author David Cantu, Ph.D., a postdoctoral scholar at Tufts University School of Medicine, and member of the NIH - funded Institutional Research Career and Academic Development Awards (IRACDA) Program, Training in Education and Critical Research Skills (TEACRS), at the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts.

Buer Sen, MD, first author of the Stem Cells paper and research associate in Rubin's lab, used cytochalasin D to break up the actin cytoskeleton.

It wasn't until her final - year project, working on the parental imprinting of the insulin - like growth factor II gene in rats, that she finally started doing real research, but this early contribution earned her first publication, as second author in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.