Sentences with phrase «from key researchers»

The proposal has received broad support from key researchers and institutions within the field, and it is desired to date the beginning of the epoch at the first successful nuclear explosion (Trinity in 1945).

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Given the enduring popularity of television medical dramas, other researchers have wondered about the accuracy of depictions of medical care and illness in these programs, and what key messages viewers might take away from watching them.

From the bank's universe of 37 million checking account customers, the think tank's researchers stripped identifiers and grabbed a sample of 2.3 million families across 23 U.S. states for whom they had «a very good window into their financial lives,» said Fiona Greig, JPMCI's Director of Consumer Research, who presented the study's key findings prior to the panel discussion.

A former marketer of health - care products chairs the group, which includes a veteran market researcher and four customers from key distribution channels.

A recent paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research studied what happens to scientific subfields when star researchers die suddenly and at the peak of their abilities, and finds that while there is considerable evidence that young researchers are reluctant to challenge scientific superstars, a sudden and unexpected death does not significantly improve the situation, particularly when «key collaborators of the star are in a position to channel resources (such as editorial goodwill or funding) to insiders.»

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has allowed a contract for the dissemination of embryonic stem cell lines approved for US government funding to lapse, shuttering a key stem cell bank, and doubling the price researchers pay for samples of some human embryonic stem cell (hESC) line... from $ 500 per vial of frozen cells to $ 1,000.

Indeed, in a paper from the University of California, San Francisco, researchers claim to have done just that — identify a group of kids with pure SPD — and found that their brains are in fact different from controls in key sensory areas.

Researchers established a few key findings when they analyzed the schools parents actually picked: distance from home, extracurriculars (especially for high schoolers), and available before - or after - school programs.

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A key message from the workshop development stage of this research project was the need to encourage more evidence based investment by closing the knowledge gap between researchers and practitioners.

According to the researchers at RENEW, however, the key to overcoming such problems is not to retract completely from the international stage but rather to «rethink» Europe — to understand how Europe can exercise its influence without alienating its international partners.

This is just one of the questions that will bring together key figures from the world of sport and researchers to explore the importance of sport in the contemporary world and how the hobby has become a global phenomenon and a multi-billion pound industry.

Manchester Policy Blogs offers expert insight, analysis and comment from researchers at The University of Manchester on key public policy issues.

This is the key question behind a recent collaboration between a team of international researchers from Denmark's Centre for GeoGenetics and Biological Institute at the University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University, the Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen Zoo and the Smithsonian Institution in the USA.

Aerial laser maps, excavations and stone - slab hieroglyphics indicate that La Corona, a largely rural settlement, became a key part of a far - ranging Classic - era Maya kingdom that incorporated sites from southern Mexico to Central America, researchers reported on April 15 at...

Aerial laser maps, excavations and stone - slab hieroglyphics indicate that La Corona, a largely rural settlement, became a key part of a far - ranging Classic - era Maya kingdom that incorporated sites from southern Mexico to Central America, researchers reported on April 15 at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

From the information they collected, the researchers built fibreglass mannequins in the key poses that the skaters adopted to attain their highest speeds.

Researchers from the University of Houston have demonstrated how brain activity is used to identify different terrains — level ground and stairs, for example — a key step in developing prosthetics that allow the user's prosthesis to automatically adjust to changing ground conditions in real time.

To protect people from infection, researchers also developed two different vaccines, each with a key Ebola protein sewn into a harmless virus.

Publishing online this week in Cell Host & Microbe, researchers at Johns Hopkins report the discovery of a key underlying immune mechanism that explains why to how our skin becomes inflamed from conditions such as atopic dermatitis, more commonly known as eczema.

Changes in key genes clearly define four previously unknown conditions within the umbrella diagnosis of schizophrenia, according to a study led by researchers from NYU Langone Medical Center published online April 28 in EBioMedicine, a Lancet journal.

In recent years, clock researchers have uncovered some of the gears and springs that keep this circadian timepiece running, largely by identifying a handful of key genes in organisms from bread mold to mice.

The key to the research design, Vogl said, was incorporating information on wind direction, which allowed the researchers to parse out the consequences of pollution from the fires from the beneficial things that are correlated with the fires.

A key hurdle for fusion researchers is understanding turbulence, the ripples and eddies that can cause the superhot plasma that fuels fusion reactions to leak heat and particles and keep fusion from taking place.

Researchers at Harvard, for example, are perfecting an organic flow battery that can store a full day's production of electricity from solar or wind farms, a development that could play a key role in integrating variable electrical generating sources into the grid.

In the past, researchers have believed this executive function was the job of single neurons acting independently from one another — the brain's version of a crowd of people in a large room all singing different songs in different rhythms and different keys.

The researchers identified several key circulation patterns that affected the winter temperatures from 1979 to 2013, particularly the Arctic Oscillation (a climate pattern that circulates around the Arctic Ocean and tends to confine colder air to the polar latitudes) and a second pattern they call Warm Arctic and Cold Eurasia (WACE), which they found correlates to sea ice loss as well as to particularly strong winters.

In fact, other researchers have already shown the key phenomena of quantum theory emerge from a generalization of probability theory that could, too, have been in principle devised in the 18th century, before there was any inkling that tiny particles behave this way.

According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2014, a review of key trends in science, technology, and innovation policies, and performance in more than 45 economies, South Korea and China are now the primary destinations for researchers from the United States and experienced a net «brain gain» over the period 1996 — 2011.

Recently, however, researchers in the lab of Leslie B. Vosshall, Rockefeller's Robin Chemers Neustein Professor, demonstrated that a chemical transferred from the male of the species during sex plays a key role in shaping the female's sexual proclivities.

Understanding the origin is hence key to counteracting the spread of antibiotic resistance, explains Senior Researcher Tilmann Weber from DTU Biosustain:

The researchers attached these entry keys to PNAs designed to shut down expression of a test gene — the galanin receptor gene, which binds a protein, galanin, that helps regulate everything from pain perception to food intake.

But some vision researchers still dismiss these oscillations as noise, convinced that the activity of single neurons — and not the collective waves that result from that activity — is the key to understanding the brain, Schroeder says.

Several University of North Carolina School of Medicine researchers played a key role in crafting diagnostic criteria and patient questionnaires for the Rome Foundation, an international nonprofit aimed at improving the lives of the millions of people suffering from functional GI disorders (FGIDs), while developing and legitimizing the field of FGIDs through science and research.

In a series of laboratory experiments, the researchers found that antibodies against HSV - 1 remain in the trigeminal ganglion (a group of nerve cells that receives signals from the eyes and face and is a key site of HSV infection) long after active virus infection is cleared, and that these maternal antibodies can travel to the fetal trigeminal ganglia.

Detailed global maps of key traits in higher plants have been made available for the first time, thanks to work led by researchers from the University of Minnesota's (UMN) College of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS).

Linde and other researchers knew that something was missing from the conventional theory of the Big Bang, because it couldn't explain a key puzzling fact about the universe: its remarkable uniformity.

The key, however, is the correct sequence: Paralyzed animals only make an almost complete recovery if the training is delayed until after the growth promoting drugs have been administered, as researchers from the University of Zurich, ETH Zurich and the University of Heidelberg reveal.

Moreover, some researchers say, the observation that MCPH patients can speak, and that they suffer at most from moderate retardation, indicates that the ASPM gene is not key to intelligence itself — whether or not it might have played a role in scaling up the hominid brain to modern dimensions.

Key Findings Researchers found a 1 % increase in stage I diagnoses for four of the five cancers detectable by screening: breast (from 47.8 % to 48.9 %) and cervical cancer (47.3 % vs. 48.8 %, although this difference was not statistically significant) in women, and lung (from 16.6 % to 17.7 %) and colorectal cancer (22.8 % vs. 23.7 %) in men and women.

It took months, for instance, for researchers to obtain key blueprints, video footage, and samples from scrap steel beams, said W. Gene Corley, head of a government - sponsored study team organized by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

In a study published online ahead of print in PLoS Pathogens, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine found evidence that the cytokine, Interleukin 27 (IL - 27), may be the key to fighting and treating these infections.

The team of researchers, led by Carol Lin of the City University of Hong Kong, describes successful laboratory testing of a biorefinery procedure that converts stale bakery goods from Starbucks coffee shops into a key consumer goods ingredient.

Movements with our fingers across a flat screen have come to replace pressing buttons and keys on everything from ATMs to phones, and researchers now are working on the next frontier: adding tactile feedback to help enhance the feeling that users are interacting directly with the technology.

For these researchers, the bursts of demographic expansion caused by climate change in southern Africa were probably key factors in the origin of modern humans» behaviour in Africa, and in the dispersal of Homo sapiens from his ancestral home.

As a possible step toward the goal of doubling food production by 2050 to feed our expanding human population, researchers have transferred a key photosynthesis gene from a blue - green algae into a tobacco plant, according to a Nature news story.

In laboratory studies reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the researchers found that these «neutralizing» antibodies prevented a key part of the virus, known as MERS CoV, from attaching to protein receptors that allow the virus to infect human cells.

A study conducted by researchers from the University of Zurich, Zurich University Hospital and the University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich now reveals that the successful treatment of an anxiety disorder alters key brain structures that are involved in processing and regulating emotions.

However, researchers have stepped back to look at the bigger picture through data collected from the 2001: Mars Odyssey, named in reference to the science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, «2001: A Space Odyssey,» and found a different chemical on Mars may be key.

The researchers found the loss of acetyl groups from histones is key to the development of anxiety - and depression - like behaviors in stressed mice.