To understand
how an author assistant can be of great assistance first we need to know exactly what IS an author assistant.
Not exact matches
Chris Stedman is the
assistant humanist chaplain at Harvard University, coordinator of humanist life for the Yale Humanist Community and
author of Faitheist:
How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious.
Chris Stedman is the
Assistant Humanist Chaplain at Harvard University, Coordinator of Humanist Life for the Yale Humanist Community, and
author of «Faitheist:
How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious.»
Seth A. Johnston, MPhil, DPhil (Oxf) is a Major in the United States Army, recent
assistant professor of international relations at West Point, and
author of «
How NATO Adapts: Strategy and Organization in the Atlantic Alliance since 1950.»
«Social research has a history of using both small - scale experiments and computer models to explore questions about human behavior — but there are very few examples of
how to use these two techniques in concert,» says William Rand, a computer scientist and
assistant professor of business management in NC State's Poole College of Management who is co-lead
author of a paper describing the work.
«Species survive because they've learned
how to link sensory cues like specific sounds, smells and sights to rewards like food and water,» said Sotiris Masmanidis, the study's senior
author and an
assistant professor of neurobiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
«It is not really clear
how slow - slip events interact with earthquakes, whether they can trigger earthquakes or it's the other way around — that earthquakes trigger slow - slip events,» said Jacqueline Reber, the study's lead
author who performed this research as postdoctoral fellow at UTIG, and who is now an
assistant professor at Iowa State University.
«I was pleasantly surprised with
how well this worked,» said Michelle Monje, MD, PhD,
assistant professor of neurology and a senior
author of the study.
«If you can make heat behave as a wave and have interference while controlling
how far it moves, you could basically control all the properties behind heat transport,» said Martin Maldovan, an
assistant professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and School of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the paper's
author.
«For years we've been scouring the literature,» said lead
author Steven Alvarado,
assistant professor of sociology, «and we haven't found anything about
how or if MESA is effective on the things it wants to be effective for: increasing the STEM engagement outcomes of minority and other underrepresented students.»
It has been unclear, however,
how the effects of drought co-vary with legume species, soil condition, agroclimatic region and drought timing, said Lixin Wang, an
assistant professor in the Department of Earth Sciences in the School of Science at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis and the corresponding
author of «Global synthesis of drought effects on food legume production.»
«This research shows
how technology can be used to dramatically change the way preventive services are delivered and improve preventative health care,» says senior
author Grant M. Greenberg, M.D., M.H.S.A., M.A.,
assistant professor and associate chair for information management and quality at the Department of Family Medicine at the U-M Medical School and member of the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation.
«One of the key principles of geology is that the past is the key to the present: records of past climate inform us of
how the Earth system functions,» says Michael Hren,
assistant professor of chemistry and geosciences at the University of Connecticut and the study's lead
author.
«The results help us to better understand
how these viruses evolved and found their way into humans,» said Joel O. Wertheim, PhD,
assistant research scientist at the UC San Diego AntiViral Research Center and lead
author of the study.
«There has been a lot of debate about
how expensive the Medicaid expansion would be and until now, it hadn't been clear which Americans had the potential to benefit from the added healthcare coverage in states that participate,» says lead
author Tammy Chang, M.D., MPH, MS, an
assistant professor in the department of family medicine at the U-M Medical School and an alumnus of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program.
«In complex organisms, such as fruit flies, mice, and humans, scientists have only been able to infer
how these enzymes mechanistically accomplish their tasks,» said Daniel McKay, PhD,
assistant professor of genetics and biology and first
author of the paper.
In our trial, however, the addition of radiation therapy directed at each of the cancerous areas greatly improved
how patients responded to subsequent rounds of chemotherapy,» said Puneeth Iyengar, MD, PhD, lead
author of the study and an
assistant professor of radiation oncology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
«Many of the plans talk a lot about social - equity goals, but these goals are not translated into clearly specified objectives — and it's not at all clear
how the goals are incorporated into decision - making,» says Kevin Manaugh, lead
author of the paper and an
assistant professor in McGill's Department of Geography and School of Environment.
«
How people value an item is not a simple function of that item alone,» explains Kenway Louie, a research
assistant professor at New York University's Center for Neural Science and one of the
authors of the paper.
The fish offer a fresh opportunity to find out
how animals can thrive with traits that would sicken humans, said co-senior
author Nicolas Rohner, a former postdoctoral fellow in the Tabin lab who is now an
assistant investigator at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Missouri, and an
assistant professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
«It's important that we gain a better understanding of
how these signals interact and work in normal full - term pregnancies because it can provide insights into
how and why these signals activate too early and trigger the labor and delivery process prematurely,» said lead
author and UTMB
assistant professor in the department of obstetrics and gynecology, Ramkumar Menon.
«The way quality measures are defined has important implications for
how care is delivered,» says lead study
author Sameer Saini, M.D., a research scientist at VA - CCMR and
assistant professor of internal medicine at the U-M Health System.
«The tropical Pacific ocean - atmosphere system has been called a sleeping dragon because of
how it can influence climate elsewhere,» said lead
author Aradhna Tripati, a UCLA
assistant professor in the departments of Earth, planetary and space sciences, and atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
«It's been hard to reconcile
how infrequent seizures can lead to persistent changes in memory in patients with Alzheimer's disease,» said corresponding
author Dr. Jeannie Chin,
assistant professor of neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine.
«In many ways, the atmospheric studies we're doing now on these gaseous «hot Jupiter» kinds of planets are test beds for
how we're going to do atmospheric studies of terrestrial, Earth - like planets,» said Thomas Beatty,
assistant research professor of astronomy at Penn State and the lead
author of the study.
«This is
how we can start thinking about precision medicine in action,» said the study's senior
author, Alice S. Chen - Plotkin, MD, an
assistant professor of neurology at Penn. «We found that a relatively common genetic variation can both serve as a biomarker for and influence the disease course of Parkinson's patients.
«Our goal is to understand
how specific brain circuits bias attention to food cues, as these biases are powerful drivers of food consumption,» said corresponding
author Mark L. Andermann, PhD, of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at BIDMC and
Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
«At this stage, it is unclear
how many people with ALS have the UBQLN4 gene variant, and this will be important to determine,» says Ma, the senior
author on the study who is Ann Marie and Francis Klocke, MD Research Scholar at the Manne Research Institute and
Assistant Professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
How an oncologist bases his or her treatment decision can be based on experience, comfort level prescribing and the patient's health,» said senior
author Paul Fanta, MD,
assistant clinical professor of medicine and oncologist at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center.
«Since step counts are such an important part of
how these devices and apps measure physical activity, including calculating distance or calories burned, their accuracy is key,» said senior
author Mitesh S. Patel, MD, MBA, MS,
assistant professor of Medicine and Health Care Management at Penn and an attending physician at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center.
«Despite their rising popularity, little is known about
how these monitors differ from one another, what options they provide in their applications and
how these options may impact their effectiveness,» said Elizabeth Lyons, senior
author and
assistant professor at UTMB's Institute for Translational Sciences.
«The origins of communication signals have long fascinated evolutionary biologists, and multiple potential mechanisms for these origins have been proposed,» says co-lead
author Hannah ter Hofstede, an
assistant professor at Dartmouth who investigates
how sensory systems evolve to encode the environmental cues that are crucial for an animal's survival and reproduction.
Previous studies have not examined
how working or volunteering affects functional limitations, said Ben Lennox Kail, lead
author and
assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Georgia State.
«We hope this review of medical treatments will serve as a guide for doctors and patients on
how to interpret new findings, especially regarding four treatment options that doctors have commonly used for their pregnant patients with migraines,» said Rebecca Erwin Wells, M.D.,
assistant professor of neurology at Wake Forest Baptist and lead
author of the paper.
«Until now, we haven't had a compelling narrative about
how leaf and stem traits have evolved to tolerate cold temperatures,» said lead
author Amy Zanne,
assistant professor of biology in George Washington University's Columbian College of Arts and Sciences who earned her doctorate at UF.
«We've been targeting traditional risk factors in public health campaigns for many years,» said Susan Cheng, M.D., M.P.H., study lead
author and
Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Mass. «We wanted to take a look at
how well we've been doing over time at keeping these risk factors from causing heart and vascular disease — both by preventing the risks from occurring and by minimizing their effects when they do occur.»
«Although the role of synergid cells has been identified, we did not exactly know
how the persistent synergid cell is degenerated and induces the polytubey block mechanism upon successful fertilization,» says Daisuke Maruyama, an
Assistant Professor at Nagoya University who is the first
author and leader of this research.
«While there is information available about counties in the United States that exceed EPA air pollution standards, there has not been a similar source of information about
how that air pollution actually affects the health of people living in those areas,» said lead study
author Kevin Cromar, PhD, director of the Air Quality Program at the Marron Institute of Urban Management and
assistant professor of population health and environmental medicine at the NYU School of Medicine.
«The dose of transplanted bone marrow has strong and lasting effects on
how HSCs specialize and coordinate their behavior,» said Rong Lu, senior
author and
assistant professor of stem cell biology and regenerative medicine.
When first
author Jianyu Li, Ph.D. (former Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wyss Institute and now an
Assistant Professor at McGill University) started thinking about
how to improve medical adhesives, he found a solution in an unlikely place: a slug.
Even simple differences such as
how big they are at birth correlate with differences in
how they respond to drug treatment,» said senior study
author Bree Aldridge, Ph.D.,
assistant professor of molecular biology and microbiology at Tufts University School of Medicine and adjunct
assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Tufts University School of Engineering.
«Drawing from the long - term datasets, we were able to investigate patterns within the same mother, examining
how she behaved with her sons versus with her daughters,» said lead
author Carson Murray, an
assistant professor at George Washington University, who was a PhD student under Pusey.
«Understanding
how this extinction happened and what role humans may have played could help us understand
how extinctions are progressing today and what we can do to prevent them,» says Siobhán Cooke, M.Phil., Ph.D.,
assistant professor of functional anatomy and evolution at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and lead
author of the study, described online in the Journal of Mammalogy on August 1.
«We wanted to study this phenomenon to better understand the kinds of problems that guideline - makers encountered in making reliable guidelines and
how processes might be improved in the future,» says lead
author, Mark Neuman, MD, MSCE,
assistant professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Senior Fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Jonathon Beckmeyer,
assistant professor in the Department of Applied Health Science at the IU School of Public Health - Bloomington and
author of the study, said his research generally focuses on the onset of teen alcohol use and
how their social relationships shape those experiences.
«We wanted to explore
how student - athletes at top - tier universities cope with the dual challenges of meeting the expectations of their teams while simultaneously complying with their responsibilities as university students,» says Dr. Lynsey Romo, an
assistant professor of communication at NC State and lead
author of a paper on the work.
In the study, published in the journal eLife, co-senior
authors Assistant Professor Shawn Je from Duke - NUS and
Assistant Professor Zeng Li from NNI have shown
how one brain - specific microRNA (miR - 128) plays a key role in causing abnormal brain development.
Jonathan Schertzer,
assistant professor of biochemistry and biomedical sciences and senior
author of a paper published by Cell Metabolism, explains it this way: «We know that gut bacteria, often called the microbiome, send inflammation signals that change
how well insulin works to lower blood glucose.
«We were interested in understanding
how cells commonly found in mucosal tissues affect the ability of HIV to infect immune cells,» explained Nadia Roan, PhD, a visiting investigator at Gladstone and
assistant professor at UCSF who is the senior
author of the study.
In the future, a Patient - on - a-Chip also could be used to predict
how a disease progresses in an individual, allowing for the design of personalized preventive medicine and treatment regimens to promote wellness and prevent disease, said Robert Barrett, PhD, an
assistant professor of Medicine at Cedars - Sinai and senior
author of the study in Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology.