Sentences with phrase «from large research universities»

Using a student - centered approach with 15 individual performance indicators, WSJ / THE compared more than 1,000 colleges, from large research universities to smaller liberal arts programs.

Arriving from 35 different states and 10 foreign countries, they represented an array of higher education institutions, from large research universities to small liberal arts colleges.

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Research from Dalhousie University suggests that given just 15 years, a modern industrialized fishery can reduce the biomass of large predatory fish communities by 80 %.

In this respect, the approach proposed by the Jenkins Panel of separating from the National Research Council a number of its existing technology institutes into a constellation of large - scale, sectoral, collaborative R&D centres involving business, the university sector and the provinces is an important proposal.

He's got a PhD in Economics from the University of Minnesota, he's a CFA charterholder, and he's worked at the Federal Reserve bank in Atlanta, and he currently works in the research department of a large investment manager here in San Francisco.

They included an attorney from a large London law firm, a political lobbyist, a corporate consultant, a Muslim college chaplain, a university professor, a female rabbi and a research scientist.

Research from the University of Maryland and Harvard University suggests that young infants benefit from hearing words repeated by their parents, and that parents who repeat words more to 7 - month - olds find their children have larger vocabularies when they are toddlers.

I have my university education, but by and large my education has come from independent research rather than classrooms.

A team of researchers, led by Professor Sotaro Kita from the University of Warwick and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, found that empathic people made larger and more gestures that encouraged interaction with the listener.

Subsequent research undertaken at the University of Glasgow has indicated that such health inequalities may be due, at least in part, to epigenetic effects resulting from socio - economic circumstances - http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-health-inequalities-imprinted-dna.html The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK's largest organisation for funding research on economic and socialresearch undertaken at the University of Glasgow has indicated that such health inequalities may be due, at least in part, to epigenetic effects resulting from socio - economic circumstances - http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-health-inequalities-imprinted-dna.html The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK's largest organisation for funding research on economic and socialResearch Council (ESRC) is the UK's largest organisation for funding research on economic and socialresearch on economic and social issues.

This past winter, for example, I received such an email from a former student at a large research university in the United States.

From 1987 until he launched his 1998 congressional campaign, Holt was assistant director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), a Department of Energy national lab, which is the largest research facility of Princeton University and one of the largest alternative energy research facilities in the country.

The author group included individuals from a large spread of nationalities and scientific and institutional backgrounds, but consensus was easy to reach, says declaration co-author Charoula Tzanakou, a research fellow at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom who investigates gender balance in academia.

But the aspect of the work I enjoy most, and one that I think differentiates research in a small biotech company from research in larger institutions and a great many university departments, is that competition is replaced by cooperation.

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.

A recent study from the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital done in conjunction with researchers from Colorado School of Public Health at the University at Colorado and Temple University used data from a large, national sports injury surveillance system to determine the effect of state - level TBI laws on trends of new and recurrent concussions among US high school athletes.

By studying core samples taken from the river delta, the research team, led by Zhen Li of East China Normal University in Shanghai and colleagues, detected patterns and sizes of charcoal to indicate fire distance (small particles can travel farther than 100 meters, whereas larger ones stay put) as well as pollen to deduce the presence of either crops or nonagricultural flora.

Dr Piers Dawes, from The University of Manchester's Audiology and Deafness research group, said: «This is the first study to describe the prevalence of difficulties understanding speech in background noise in a large sample of the population, anywhere in the world.

The authors — Ralph W. Muller, CEO of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD, vice provost for global initiatives and chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, Andrew Steinmetz, research assistant to Dr. Emanuel, and Steven M. Altschuler, MD, president and CEO of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia — surveyed 74 senior executives from large hospitals and health systems across the United States.

The research group lead by Prof. Dieter Ebert from the Department of Environmental Science at the University of Basel has now discovered the missing link that explains how this large group of extreme parasites, the microsporidia, has evolved.

«There is potential for it to become more industrial as people realize they can make money from pangolin scales, and we are starting to see this already with seizures of large volumes of scales,» said Dan Challender, who is doing his PhD research at the University of Kent in England on the pangolin trade and co-chairs a pangolin specialist group.

The team from Imperial College London, Southampton and Liverpool universities, in collaboration with The University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre (SRC), were collecting ocean - bottom seismometers aboard the NERC research ship R.R.S. James Cook as part of a larger experiment when they were alerted to the volcano eResearch Centre (SRC), were collecting ocean - bottom seismometers aboard the NERC research ship R.R.S. James Cook as part of a larger experiment when they were alerted to the volcano eresearch ship R.R.S. James Cook as part of a larger experiment when they were alerted to the volcano erupting.

A recent research report about one of the largest lithium brine and salt deposits in the world in Chile's Atacama Desert by geoscientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst is the first to show that water and solutes flowing into the basin originate from a much larger than expected portion of the Andean Plateau.

The researchers from a consortium of U.S. universities, with collaborators from industry and the public sector, are performing the tests on the UC San Diego shake table, the largest outdoor shake table in the world.The facility is part of NHERI@UCSD, an experimental facility at UC San Diego funded by the National Science Foundation as part of its Natural Hazard Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) program.

Using research about genetically modified foods and trans fats, study participants were randomly assigned to evaluate one of 15 different partnership scenarios that included varying combinations of scientists from a university, a government agency, a non-governmental organization and a large food company.

Over the spring and the early summer of 2010, a large team of scientists, led by Dr Christian Wurzbacher and Dr Norman Warthmann, affiliated with the Leibniz - Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries and the Berlin Center for Genomics in Biodiversity Research, Germany (currently at University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and the Australian National University, Australia, respectively), collected a total of 216 samples from 54 locations, encompassing eight different habitats within Lake Stechlin in North - East Germany.

Lou Hawthorne is an English graduate from Princeton University who worked in video production and software design before launching the Missyplicity Project, the world's first large - scale dog and cat cloning research project.

In the world's largest study to investigate how common lifestyle factors influence the size and shape of sperm (referred to as sperm morphology), a research team from the Universities of Sheffield and Manchester also found that sperm size and shape was worse in samples ejaculated in the summer months but was better in men who had abstained from sexual activity for more than six days.

One of the largest and most important groups of dung beetles in the world evolved from a single common ancestor and relationships among the various lineages are now known, according to new research by an entomologist from Western Kentucky University.

A large international research team, led by Israel Hershkovitz from Tel Aviv University and including Rolf Quam from Binghamton University, State University of New York, has discovered the earliest modern human fossil ever found outside of Africa.

The research led by Professor Helena Teede and Dr Anju Joham, from the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University analysed a large - scale epidemiological study, called the Australian Longitudinal Study of Women's Health, which revealed the findings.

Christian Voigt from the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) and scientists from the University of Tel Aviv and the Doñana Biological Station in Sevilla tested in their study if tropical trees benefit from hosting bats in large cavities at the base of trunks.

For example, New York, with the 10th largest student population enrolled at its four research - intensive public universities, has enjoyed a 72 % increase in per - student funding from the state.

«Dolphins evolved from relatively small - brained animals like cows and hippos into this large - brained, highly specialized aquatic organism,» says Caro - Beth Stewart, an evolutionary biologist at the State University of New York, Albany, who was not involved in the research.

Researchers from IBM's Zurich Research Lab and Switzerland's ETH Zurich science and technology university today announced the development of a dramatic new printing process that can manipulate nanosize particles to create larger images.

Working at a small institution was vastly different from working at a large state university, she soon found, and not just because she was teaching the equivalent of five courses per year (including lab sections) instead of two while still having significant research expectations.

This led to the collection of bone marrow samples from larger cohorts of patients with the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, as well as those from Western University and Hamilton Health Sciences, for the next steps of investigation.

«In the future, it will be important to conduct research with larger samples in order to determine whether oxytocin specifically affects sensitivity to infant signals because that is one of the key aspects of parenting,» says Professor Kaija Puura from the University of Tampere and Tampere University Hospital.

«The 64 [current and past] CTSA hubs include the nation's most experienced and creative senior investigators, and very large investments and commitments from their host institutions,» explains Harry Selker, leader of the CTSAs at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, and chair of the Clinical Research Forum, an advocacy group in Washington, D.C., that represents the CTSAs.

In the first large - scale and comprehensive study on the impacts of transporting honey bees to pollinate various crops, research from North Carolina State University shows that travel can adversely affect bee health and lifespan.

«There's been quite a bit of research that shows how larger carnivores have negative effects on fishers, but this is some of first research to look at their interactions with carnivores of about their same size,» said Green, whose group also included researchers from North Carolina State University, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

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Assistant Professor Yuzo Miyazaki of Hokkaido University, who led the research, said «In recent years, some studies have pointed out that the amount of organics emitted from the forest floor is similar to, or even larger than, that emitted from tree leaves in cool - temperate or other higher - latitude forested areas.

This year, the DFG will receive a hefty portion of the windfall from the government's sale of frequency bands to launch an initiative that could make a big difference to a few universities: a fund to establish or expand large research centers and help pay for their buildings, equipment, and salaries.

The research team, led by Professor of Physics Dr. Seth Fraden of Brandeis University, drew inspiration from the mesmerizing sinuous motion of a swimming blue eel and puzzlingly large gap between how natural systems move and the lack of such coordinated and smooth movement in artificial systems.

New research by academics from the University of Leicester and the British Museum working with colleagues from the British Geological Survey and Cambridge University, outlines the science behind the largest concentration of indigenous pre-Columbian rock art in the Caribbean.

Now research from the University of Washington looking at some of the planet's oldest rocks finds evidence that 3.2 billion years ago, life was already pulling nitrogen out of the air and converting it into a form that could support larger communities.

Researchers from North Carolina State University, Duke University and the University of Copenhagen have created the world's largest DNA origami, which are nanoscale constructions with applications ranging from biomedical research to nanoelectronics.

New research from North Carolina State University has found that combining digital and analog components in nonlinear, chaos - based integrated circuits can improve their computational power by enabling processing of a larger number of inputs.

It was developed by a large research team led by Lancaster University and involving partners from the University of Central Lancashire, Manchester University, the NHS and industry.