Sentences with phrase «first study centre»

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Lead by The Centre for Innovation Studies (THECIS) and authored by University of Calgary professors Cooper Langford and Chad Saunders, this is the first time the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) methodology has been used to assess a post-secondary institution — finding a high level of innovation across campus.

Led by The Centre for Innovation Studies (THECIS) and authored by University of Calgary professors Cooper Langford and Chad Saunders, this is the first time the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) methodology has been used to assess a post-secondary institution — finding a high level of innovation across campus.

The resumption of pilgrimage (often on foot) was matched by a revival in the historical and artistic studies relating to the pilgrimage, and the first modern society for this was the Société des Amis de St Jacques and Centre des Études Compostellanes, founded in Paris in 1950.

It was studying first an honours in theology and then a masters in biblical interpretation that freed me to think and critically engage in a supportive environment centred on community and holy living.

Various studies into this ancient concept have shown that when people look at a picture their eye does not look at the centre first, but usually their eye is naturally drawn to one of the intersection points.

«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.

Inclusion criteria: all mothers of infants born during the study period (6 months) who come to the health centre on the first visit of the childcare programme.

«For me as an English person in France, it was first time I understood these ideals weren't abstractions,» professor Andrew Hussey, director of the Centre for Post-Colonial Studies (CPS) in Paris, says.

Douglas Carswell et al published a report for the Centre for Policy Studies in 2007 arguing for them on the first of these grounds.

Part of the reason for their findings is because the centres «may have mainly extended the role of first contact services rather than offering an alternative to general practitioners for some conditions», the BMJ study argues.

To mark, and celebrate, its first decade of path - breaking work the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR) is convening a major international conference on building legitimate authority in global and regional governance in cooperation with GARNET, the EU - funded Network of Excellence on Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation: The Role of the EU.

Eyisi, the immediate past director of NOUN's special study centre located at the National Assembly, is the first female DVC in the history of the university.

First of all, as we will emphasise in a forthcoming conference for the launch of the Centre for Fascist, Anti-fascist and Post-fascist studies at Teesside University — scores of very troubling reports have been received during the Tell MAMA project's 18 - month lifetime.

Professor Keith Godfrey, from the Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit and the National Institute for Health Research Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, and a member of the study team, said: «The new findings provide the first direct evidence linking faltering of a baby's growth in the womb with epigenetic modifications that themselves may increase the risk of childhood obesity.

People with chronic opioid use disorders are more likely to relapse and do so sooner if they are treated in a compulsory drug detention centre rather than a voluntary drug treatment centre using methadone maintenance therapy, according to the first study comparing the outcome of both approaches published in The Lancet Global Health.

This study is the first to show the stark difference in the rate of relapse amongst people detained in these centres compared to those who received methadone — an evidence - based treatment.

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.

The research, by the University of Sydney's Marine Studies Institute and the Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry at Southern Cross University, is the first long term study of such a large and important Southern Hemisphere system referred to as a drowned river valley, which in Sydney spans estuaries from Middle Harbour to Lane Cove and Parramatta.

«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.

To get some idea of what climate change will likely mean for the reefs, the World Heritage Centre asked coral experts at NOAA and elsewhere to produce what they claim is a first of its kind study «that scientifically quantifies the scale of the issue, makes a prediction of where the future lies, and indicates effects up to the level of individual sites,» says Fanny Douvere, marine program coordinator at the center.

says Peter Franek first author of the study, and researcher at CAGE Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate.

A new study carried out by the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) and the Institute of Global Health of Barcelona (ISGlobal), a centre supported by «la Caixa» Foundation, associates for the first time mild obsessive - compulsive symptoms, which are present in a much higher percentage of cases than those that require specialized medical and psychological attention, to characteristics and specific alterations of the cerebral anatomy.

This created massive craters that are still actively seeping methane» says Karin Andreassen, first author of the study and professor at CAGE Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate.

The study involved 23 fertility centres in the Netherlands and was the first robust study to test the efficacy of lifestyle modification in obese subfertile women trying to get pregnant.

«The main issue is that there is only a handful of islands in the Southern Ocean and not all of them are suitable to sustain large breeding colonies» says Robin Cristofari, first author of the study, from the Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC / CNRS / University of Strasbourg) and the Centre Scientifique de Monaco (CSM).

The study, published today in PNAS and led by scientists at Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK - F), the University of Vienna and UCL, analysed a global database of 45,984 records detailing the first invasions of 16,019 established alien species from 1500 until 2005 to investigate the dynamics of how alien species spread worldwide.

Nynke van der Laan of University Medical Centre Utrecht will replicate a study published in Science in 2009 that provided the first explanation for the neural basis of successful self - control in humans.

Co-author Professor John Strang, Head of the National Addiction Centre at King's College London, said: «This study is the first to assess the international evidence - base on take - home naloxone, and we found that the antidote successfully reversed overdose in the large majority of cases where the drug was administered.

This limits the invasion of the roots by nematodes, reduces the nematodes» fecundity and compromises the formation of root galls,» explains Dr. Ainhoa Martinez - Medina, first author of the study and scientist at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and the Friedrich - Schiller - University Jena (FSU).

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd has been the first to publish a scientific study on the successful generation of hybrid lager yeasts.

Commenting on the trial, Dr Alice Shaw, director of thoracic oncology at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Centre in Boston, US, said: «This is the first randomised study to examine how a second generation ALK inhibitor compares to standard second line chemotherapy in ALK positive patients who failed the standard first line therapy, which currently is crizotinib.»

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.

As the first to build contrail cirrus into a climate model, Burkhardt's study is «an important leap forward», says Olivier Boucher of the Met Office Hadley Centre in Exeter, UK.

«This cooling reduced precipitation over Africa, and in combination with a range of other complex climate feedback mechanisms tipped the humid system towards aridification,» explains the first author of the study, James Collins from Helmholtz Centre Potsdam — GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences and Alfred Wegener Institute — Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven.

«It is really remarkable that even if the undamaged and the damaged guanine are bound in the active centre and assume identical positions, only the oxidized form of guanine is excised from DNA by the human repair enzyme hOGG1,» says Sadeghian, first author of the study.

The first study, called the Partners PrEP, involved more than 9000 men and women and took place at nine separate centres in Kenya and Uganda.

Vahrmeijer and Jacobus Burggraaf, MD, PhD, from the Centre for Human Drug Research in the Netherlands, studied OTL38 for the first time in humans.

In the first study, Andrea Smith (Health Behaviour Research Centre, University College London, and Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge) and colleagues examined the results of 23 cohort studies on the relationship between physical activity (PA) and incidence of T2D.

«Taken together, these two studies suggest that the new scalable vaccine formulation is likely to prove as effective as the original formulation — which would make it the first protective TB vaccine in humans since BCG, which was introduced almost a century ago,» said Professor Ajit Lalvani, Director of the Tuberculosis Research Centre, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London and a member of the DAR - 901 development team.

An Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology study by Kypros Nicolaides, MD, of the Harris Birthright Research Centre for Fetal Medicine at King's College London in England, and his colleagues is the first to prospectively demonstrate the feasibility of routine screening for trisomies 21, 18, and 13 by cfDNA testing.

«These world - first results will have significant impact on the development of climate models around the world,» said one of the study's authors, Prof Andy Pitman, Director of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Climate Systems Science at UNSW.

However, our study has shown that this other type of degradation is having a severe impact on the forest, with enormous quantities of previously stored carbon being lost into the atmosphere,» said Erika Berenguer, researcher from the Lancaster Environment Centre at Lancaster University, in the United Kingdom, first author on the study.

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For example, Dr Masayo Takahashi's macular degeneration study at the RIKEN Centre for Developmental Biology (Japan) is research, whereas our study is the first clinical trial of its kind.

The first draft of the whole genome sequence of the coral Acropora millepora, the result of collaboration between the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (CoE) and the...

Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Centre and the Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Centre in New York, along with colleagues in Australia, enrolled 55 patients for the first stage of their study.

In a world - first, scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (ARC CoE) have shown that tropical corals have the ability to fight back against acidifying oc...

While the «high» risk group is easily identified by behaviour such as alcohol and drug use, parents and teachers are probably not aware of that adolescents in the «invisible» risk group are at risk», says Vladimir Carli, at the National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill - Health (NASP) at Karolinska Institutet, first author of the study.

Technical coordinator of a national convention in France involving industry and universities on the same subject Since 1992: Organizer of a cycle of international conferences on «Heavy scintillators for scientific and industrial applications» First one in Chamonix, France in 1992 (200 participants), 9th one in Winston Salem (NC, USA) in 2007 (300 participants) 1994 - 2007: As Technical coordinator of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter at the LHC Large Hadron Collider, responsible for the technical development and the mass production of 76» 000 Lead Tungstate crystals (100 tons) 1994 - 2000: Organizer of the development and mass production organization of Lutetium Aluminum perovskite crystals, in particular for PET scanner applications Since 2000: Strong involvement in the development of dedicated breast imaging camera combining several modalities for a multiparametric evaluation of breast tumors (anatomic, structural and functional) Since 2002: Feasibility study and setting - up of an international medical imaging research centre, presently being built in Marseille (Cerimed)

The centre piece of the research however would be first a study to see if there was significant bowel inflammation in these children which could be treated.