Sentences with phrase «increasing author advances»

Or that literary agents in the early 20th century are credited (or blamed, depending on how you look at it) for increasing author advances?

Not exact matches

«In pregnancies complicated by fetal CHD, global placental perfusion significantly decreased and regional variation of placental perfusion significantly increased with advancing gestational age,» says Zungho «Wesley» Zun, Ph.D., the study's lead author.

«The link between increases in sugar intake, particularly fructose, and the rising obesity epidemic has been debated for many years with no clear conclusions,» said Catarina Rendeiro, a postdoctoral research affiliate at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and lead author on the study.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law by US President Barack Obama in 2010, can advance public health in the USA by supporting increased emphasis on prevention, and reversing the historic division between public health and private health care services, according to the authors of new research published in The Lancet as part of a new Series, The health of Americans.

Calling the findings «shocking,» the authors said the sickness and death related to coal emissions underscores the need to enact more stringent emissions standards, deploy advanced pollution control technologies and increase the use of cleaner energy options.

Stress resistance has not been assessed however and so the biological relevance of this finding is currently unknown.32 Several IER trials (75 - 85 % ER on restricted days) in overweight / obese populations have reported reductions in various markers of oxidative stress 37, 41, which in one study was accompanied by a complementary increase in the anti-oxidant uric acid.37 In a direct comparison of IER (75 % ER for two days / week) and CER, both ER strategies displayed equal efficacy in reducing levels of fast - acting advanced oxidation protein products (AOPP) after six months, which displayed a tendency to occur earlier (i.e. at three months) in the IER group.41 Levels of slow - acting (i.e. long term) AOPP tended to decrease in the IER group and increase in the CER group which the authors proposed may have resulted from IER - induced activation of autophagy, a key homeostatic cellular process in which dysfunctional or unnecessary cellular proteins are degraded and recycled.41 On the other hand, a follow - up study using similar IER / CER protocols demonstrated comparable reductions in AOPP in both groups after three months.48 Summary and Future Research Directions

Completion of more - advanced math courses increased the predicted probability of college graduation even when the authors controlled for demographic traits, socioeconomic status, family and school characteristics, and overall measures of math ability (i.e., math GPA and grade 10 math test score).

With the expansive growth of social media, and tech advances that help multiply reach and increase access, even the smallest of businesses, with the smallest of budgets (authors included) are able to grab and hold the attention of their target audiences in a very impactful way — through brand storytelling.

If you sign an author for three books and Kensington is pleased with the performance of those books, shouldn't the author expect to see an increase in his or her advance when you offer the next contract?

«I'm blessed to represent a core group of successful authors whose advances have held steady or even increased.

The biggest houses may shrink some as ebooks grow, but the higher margins involved and the lower overhead costs associated with producing and shipping physical books may actually increase publishers» margins and having money to pay authors in the form of advances will remain a significant advantage for publishers in pursuing the biggest authors.

«Other highlights include: an increase in the royalty rate (65 %) for eBooks priced $ 10 and above on all copies sold, and the ability for authors to set eBook pre-orders 12 months in advance.

There are huge opportunities to be had for authors to both increase readerships and make money from potential advances and on - going royalties in foreign territories (not to mention publishing in different formats, TV and Film, media rights, permissions and so on).

Due to most - favored - nation royalty provisions that would require the publisher to increase royalties to dozens of other authors if they paid a higher royalty percentage to a blockbuster author, publishers increase the effective royalty to the blockbuster author by paying an advance that will never be earned out.

It does seem that advances are dropping, so more authors may be earning out than before, especially with higher publisher profits due to increased ebook sales.

«We're seeing increasing temperatures and relatively little change in average precipitation, but an increase in the variability and the occurrence of both wet and dry extremes,» said Daniel Swain, an atmospheric scientist at Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences and the lead author of a new paper published in Science Advances.

But a new study published in the journal Science Advances has concluded that another impact of global climate change might help coral reefs survive increasing sea temperatures: «even a modest sea level rise can substantially reduce temperature extremes within tide - dominated reefs, thereby partially offsetting the local effects of future ocean warming,» the authors of the study write.

The study authors noted that the improved survival rates may come from changes in the management of advanced lung cancer over the past two decades, including new chemotherapy agents and regimens, increased use of salvage chemotherapy and the introduction of molecularly targeted therapies.