Sentences with phrase «increasing number of authors»

But it's apparent that indie self - publishing remains as viable and robust a publishing option as it was a year ago, and an increasing number of authors — perhaps even the majority, according to Digital Book World's 2015 publishing survey — now see indie self - publishing as their first choice, and traditional publishing as a backup plan.

With Kindle sales in their millions again this year, an increasing number of authors are turning to ePublishing to launch their careers and get their work to readers worldwide.

It infuriates me, and I'm hearing from an increasing number of authors that it's starting to make them feel short - changed, too.

The same names keep being bandied about — the Bella Andres, the Hugh Howeys, the Barbara Freethys — but there are an ever - increasing number of authors who are not only pleased with their self - publishing decisions, but they're being hailed as savvy businesspeople for not being tricked into turning over their entire livelihoods to the traditional model and its sad royalty share.

And that is why for me, my cofounders, an increasing number of authors, and our early superfans, 2016 will be a year of spiraling deeper into the Fiction Vortex.

Luckily, there are plenty of editing and proofreading services out there to meet the increasing number of authors turning to self - publishing.

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The authors claimed that an «Increasing numbers of academic studies are finding that mental health problems have been soaring among girls over the past 10 - and in particular five - years, coinciding with the period in which young people's use of social media has exploded.»

Still, the increased number of women among the pool of nominees seems to indicate a commitment to improving gender diversity at the top of large U.S. companies, according to the report's author, Edward Kamonjoh.

Hope the author of this article is proud of the sort of ignorant, dishonest racially - informed (yes, «racially informed»... Bush increased the number of federal employes by much more than President Obama has and that's a fact.

CNN: My Take: More doubts about God doesn't mean religion is weakening Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» gives his take on a recent survey by the Pew Research Center, which shows a sharp increase in the number of millenials who doubt the existence of God.

While the authors note that the recession is a huge issue, there are other, more disturbing social trends facing men, including the rise of men having children outside of marriage, the increase in men having children with numerous women and the growing numbers of divorced fathers.

Dr. Thomas Trojian of Drexel University College of Medicine was lead author of a new study that showed a sharp increase in the number of youth athlete receiving medical treatment for sports - related concussions after CT concussion laws were passed in 2010.

«A number of observational studies and randomized trials, however, showed that routine episiotomy is associated with an increased incident of anal sphincter and rectal tears,» write the authors of Williams Obstetrics (23rd edition, p. 401, their emphasis), including a four to sixfold risk of fecal or flatus incontinence.

American research, the author claims, shows that the numbers of Machiavels are increasing; in 1980 15 per cent of American undergraduates displayed these characteristics, but in 2006 it was 24 per cent.

«[I] f all independent investigators aged 65 plus were to retire tomorrow,» the authors write, «NIH would need to increase its workforce under age 65 by 10 % in order to maintain the same number and level of research it currently funds today.»

Proof that community - authored rules are working, and hope for more local management of natural resources elsewhere in Hawaii and beyond, requires data linking new practices to increasing numbers of fish.

Increasing numbers of institutions require all authors to sign a statement indicating the contribution of each author.

«We chose the basal ganglia because they are primary targets of inflammation in the brain,» says lead author Andrew Miller, MD. «Results from a number of previous studies suggest that increased inflammation may be a contributing factor to fatigue in CFS patients, and may even be the cause in some patients.»

«In recent years, there has been an enormous increase in the number of studies examining mind wandering,» explains researcher Paul Seli, a post-doctoral fellow in the department of psychology at Harvard University and lead author on the study.

Therefore, instead of introducing payments or incentives, the authors believe that the number of organs available for transplantation should be increased only by removing all financial disincentives for organ donation.

After adjusting for a number of factors — including age, gender, surgery type, baseline cognition, presence of a vascular comorbidity and the presence of a genetic variant that has been associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease — the authors used a three - stage approach to examine the association between inflammatory cytokines and delirium.

Kimbro said she and her fellow authors are uncertain whether this shift is because higher - income families moved into high - poverty neighborhoods due to home foreclosure or other factors, or families within moderate - poverty neighborhoods losing income and becoming poorer (thus increasing the number of poor residents).

The authors contend that the Parkinson's community must come together and focus its activism in support of: developing a better understand the environmental, genetic, and behavioral causes and risk factors for Parkinson's to help prevent its onset; increasing access to care — an estimated 40 percent of people with the disease in both the U.S. and Europe do not see a neurologist and the number is far greater in developing nations; advocating for increases in research funding for the disease; and lowering the cost of treatments — many patients in low - income countries do not have access to drugs that are both lifesaving and improve quality of life.

The authors hypothesized that differences would exist between age groups, with younger patients having a larger number of symptoms, greater severity of symptoms, and increased time to return to baseline after sustaining a concussion.

«With increasing numbers of blacks entering professional and management roles in numerous industries, it is important to investigate and address the social factors contributing to the short sleep disparities in blacks compared with whites in general, and particularly in professional settings,» said lead author Chandra Jackson, Yerby postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Nutrition at HSPH.

The report, «U.S. Academic Scientific Publishing,» published November 19, follows a July 2007 NSF study which found that the absolute number of science and engineering (S&E) articles published by U.S. - based authors in the world's major peer - reviewed journals plateaued in the early 1990s even as funding and personnel increased.

However, the authors point out that with increased commitment to preventing the most important causes of child deaths, this number could be nearly halved, with just 2 · 8 million child deaths in 2030.

«What we saw in mice lacking STIM1 — whose T - cells can not generate calcium signals — is that the number of mycobacteria in their lungs was dramatically increased, resulting in excessive inflammation,» says Stefan Feske, MD, an associate professor of pathology at NYU Langone and the study's senior author.

Its author, Charles Kerpelman, says the number of storms and other potentially disastrous events has probably remained constant, but the world's growing population means the chances of large numbers of people being killed, or of serious economic damage, have increased.

«[T] he number of women on the editorial board increased and female editors invited more female reviewers than did male editors,» the authors write.

Dr Hanno Seebens from Senckenberg, Germany, first author a new study on the topic has an answer now: «For all groups of organisms on all continents, the number of alien species has increased continuously during the last 200 years.

As in the former case, after being treated with telomerase gene therapy «the telomeres in the peripheral blood in these mice also lengthened and the number of blood cells increased considerably,» write the authors.

«Across all countries a substantial number of people who inject drugs are living with HIV or HCV and are exposed to multiple adverse risk environments that increase health harms,» says UNSW's Professor Louisa Degenhardt, lead author of the paper reviewing prevalence of injecting drug use and HIV and Hepatitis in this population.

An aging population, and rising levels of obesity, mean that the number of people with diabetes has increased dramatically over the past 35 years» says Professor Majid Ezzati, senior author from Imperial College London, London, UK.

As the world's population grows, and the proportion of elderly people increases, the number of people living in suboptimum health is set to rise rapidly over coming decades, warn the authors.

The authors note that the device would likely also identify cars where the driver is sober but the passengers are not, or if there is spilled alcohol in the car, but that the device «will surely decrease the number of cars that have to be checked by police and, at the same time, will increase efficacy of stopping drunken drivers.»

Inappropriate testing for heart attacks increases the cost of treatment; increases the number of false positives, which could lead to further testing and unnecessary consultations; and adds to patient anxiety, said Dr. Anil Makam, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern and first author of the study published today in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The study authors propose that increased spread from person to person will be responsible for the growing number of drug - resistant tuberculosis cases.

In this study, UCLA researchers tested a number of other pesticides and found 11 that also inhibit ALDH and increase the risk of Parkinson's, and at much lower levels than those at which they are currently being used, said study lead author Jeff Bronstein, a professor of neurology and director of movement disorders at UCLA.

«Given the substantial reduction in maternal mortality and the increase in the number of older women over the last 10 years, health systems in low - and middle - income countries must adjust accordingly, otherwise this trend will continue to increase,» said Dr John Beard, director of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Department of Ageing and Life Course and one of the authors of the study.

According to the authors of a new study, the number of acres of land used for certified organic dry bean production has increased significantly in recent years, and a similar trend is occurring across the United States.

The authors found that their heat engine model only yields high efficiency and output power when the number of photons involved is small; accordingly, its efficiency and power output rapidly decrease as the number of photons increases.

«Handguns account for the majority of childhood gunshot wounds and this number appears to be increasing over the last decade,» said lead study author Arin L. Madenci, MD, MPH.

«Additionally, we showed that obesity increases the number and activity of NK cells in abdominal fat but not in other tissues,» says Lee, senior author on a paper published online in Cell Metabolism.

The authors blame lowering of entrance requirements, and the increasing numbers of students moving to engineering degrees from vocational courses.

«Though these galaxies are very faint, their increased numbers means that they account for the majority of star formation during this epoch,» said team member Anahita Alavi, a Ph.D. graduate student in Siana's lab, and the first author of the research paper.

The authors also show that mice with tumors show an increase in the number of this type of circulating progenitor cells.

Emissions from wildfires totalled more than 1bn tonnes of CO2 from 2003 - 2015, the lead author tells Carbon Brief, and climate change, along with forest fragmentation, could cause a further increase in the number of forest fires in the coming decades.

For example, in 2000 only two percent of the research papers the new study looked include 21 or more authors — a number that increased to 12.5 percent in 2015.

This could explain an increase in the number of people in Europe (where the study was conducted) getting sick from swimming or eating tainted seafood, say the study authors, and it could make infections more likely in other warm climates as well.