Sentences with phrase «key authors of the study»

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Authors of the Australian study say the key to avoiding conflict with employees is clarity from the first salary negotiation.

«Age 1 is a key time for establishing the quality of the parenting and the relationship between parent and the child,» said study author Lisa J. Berlin, a research scientist at the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University.

«Taken together our findings show that EGF is a key factor present in breast milk that prevents the onset of NEC in two ways: EGF prevents intestinal cells from dying while at the same time restoring the cell growth that promotes gut healing,» says study author Misty Good, M.D., a neonatologist at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Several studies have also attempted to understand the role of breastfeeding on IQ, and although some authors conclude that the observed advantage of breastfeeding on IQ is related only to genetic and socioenvironmental factors, a recent meta - analysis showed that after adjustment for appropriate key co-factors, breastfeeding was associated with significantly higher scores for cognitive development than formula feeding.6 Longer duration of breastfeeding has also been positively associated with intelligence in adulthood.22 We also observed the benefits of long - term breastfeeding on mental indices, along with the indirect benefit of balancing the impact of exposure to p, p ′ DDE after adjustment for some socioeconomic variables.

According to the authors of the study, the key is not simply showering your baby with affection, which is no doubt important, but for mothers to be responsive to their babies.

«Evolution is one of the key concepts in understanding biology,» said Sara Brownell, senior author of the study and assistant professor with the school.

«This is a big step in determining the identity of key components of the molecular machinery that converts sound waves into electrical signals in the inner ear,» said the study's co-senior author, Gregory Frolenkov, of the Department of Physiology at the University of Kentucky.

«Many of the key players orchestrating DNA methylation had previously been characterized, but what we didn't fully realize before this study is that they all work together in an elegant way,» said Scott Rothbart, Ph.D., assistant professor at Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) and the study's senior author.

«Since the loop has been found to be a key segment in prion protein aggregation, this site could be targeted for the development of new therapeutics designed to block prion conversion,» said Christina Sigurdson, DVM, PhD, associate professor at UC San Diego and UC Davis and senior author of the study.

«Population studies have consistently supported a protective role of nuts against cardiometabolic disorders such as cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes, and we know that inflammation is a key process in the development of these diseases,» said corresponding author Ying Bao, MD, ScD, an epidemiologist in BWH's Channing Division of Network Medicine.

The authors also note that the National Dairy Council funded key studies underpinning the dietary fat theory, raising questions about the overall impact of the sugar industry.

The study authors noted that a key part of asthma management is a written asthma action plan that details the signs and symptoms of worsening asthma and the steps needed to combat it in layman's terms.

Along with the study's co-first authors, Drs. Aayoung Hong and Gatien Moriceau, Lo hypothesized that if they could identify the key tumor cell processes triggered by withdrawal of MAPK inhibitors, then scientists can exploit these process with existing or investigational drugs to trigger the maximal levels of tumor cell death immediately following cessation of the initial therapy.

Dr. David Brandman, lead author of the study and an engineering postdoctoral researcher at Brown University, said that while additional innovations will help to move implantable BCIs like BrainGate toward clinical availability for patients, this advance of rapid, intuitive calibration is a key one.

«In a number of these diseases, such as lupus and Sjogren's syndrome, a class of interferon known as type 1 interferon is made in abundance and plays a key role, contributing to the immune dysfunction,» said Mary K. Crow, MD, physician - in - chief at Hospital for Special Surgery and senior study author.

Personality can affect a person's risk for mental illness, however — past research has established neuroticism as a key risk factor for depression, explains Tony Tang of Northwestern University, the lead author of the study.

The study authors suggest that efforts to limit sulfur dioxide — a key precursor of sulfuric acid, one of the acids that scrubs ammonia from the atmosphere — could be partially responsible.

The key for these state programs is often patience and modest expectations, says University of Illinois sociology professor Kevin Leicht, the study's lead author.

«We identified the cytosolic protein Vms1 as a key component of a novel pathway termed mitoRQC that protects mitochondria from the toxic effects of such aberrant proteins,» explain the authors of the study.

«CRISPR - Cpf1 differs from CRISPR - Cas9 in a number of key ways, including being easier to deliver to muscle cells, said Yu Zhang, a graduate student in Dr. Olson's lab and the first author of this study.

The authors noted that their research confirms previous studies concluding that baseline pain intensity is a key predictor of future pain and disability.

COPD is expected to be the third largest cause of death globally by 2030, and it is important that we identify its key causes so that this burden can be reduced,» says study author Professor Shyamali Dharmage, School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

«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.

«With our results of a negative relationship between predation pressure and longevity that is largely independent of other key life history traits we were able to confirm the universality of the 50 year old evolutionary theory of aging on a broad geographical scale» concludes Mihai Valcu, first author of the study.

«This conversion is a key event in the development of Alzheimer's,» says Robert A. Rissman, lead author of the study.

The authors conclude that the study of marine mammals is just the first demonstration of this new evolutionary approach, and is versatile enough to be applied to many other emerging questions concerning key genes involved in the diversity of life.

«The stiffness of the back of a mammal is key to whether evolutionary change is possible or not,» said Frietson Galis, researcher at Naturalis Biodiversity Center and one of the authors of the study.

«Cooperation between the default mode network, dorsal attention and the frontoparietal control networks is key to controlling internal trains of thought and achieving tasks in changing environments,» said Kihwan Han, Ph.D., study lead author and post doctoral research associate at the Center for BrainHealth.

«While the majority of siblings of children with ASD will not develop the condition themselves, for those who do, one of the key priorities is finding more effective ways of identifying and treating them as early as possible,» said lead author Katarzyna Chawarska, associate professor in the Yale Child Study Center and the Department of Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine.

«The stiffness of the back of a mammal is key to whether evolutionary change is possible or not,» said Frietson Galis, one of the authors of the study.»

«We realized that λ, which is rather large for water, was key to the uniqueness of these liquids,» study co-lead author John Russo says.

Samer Hattar, a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and lead author on the Neuron paper, says he isn't convinced that the study proves that mRGCs are a key component of conscious vision in mice with functional rods and cones.

According to McQuillan, a Ph.D. candidate in evolutionary biology at Lehigh and lead author of the study, the northern Black - capped Chickadee is a model species for studying spatial memory and learning, traits that are key to scatter - hoarders» survival.

«Recent theories have suggested that humans» fluency in relational learning — our ability to make comparisons between objects, events or ideas — may be the key difference in mental ability between us and other animals,» said Dedre Gentner, professor of psychology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern and a senior author of the study.

Panoskaltsis - Mortari, an author on one of the other recent lung - engineering studies using a similar matrix, and her group presented data at a conference last month showing that iPS cells can differentiate into a key type of lung cell when grown on decellularized matrices.

Dr Peter Campbell, joint lead author from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, said: «Our study shows that in order to catch breast cancer before it spreads, early detection of breast cancer is key, and we provide a good rationale for continuing to improve methods for detecting breast cancer sooner.

The authors of the study said the key question moving forward is to understand what specific changes in brain circuitry give rise to the effects observed in this study.

Phosphorus is a key nutrient that could, if it reaches the open ocean, enrich waters of the Arctic Ocean, potentially stimulating growth of the marine food chain, the study's authors said.

Study author Kerstin Jung says the combination of factual information with mental imagery is key because the information alone can leave a patient knowing the facts but not feeling they are true on an emotional level.

«Temperature was a key cause of reef collapse and modern temperatures are now within several degrees of the maximum these reefs experienced over their 6,750 year history,» said Lauren Toth, the study's lead author, who was a graduate student at Florida Tech during the study.

First author Dr Luigi La Spada also from QMUL's School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, said: «The study and manipulation of surface waves is the key to develop technological and industrial solutions in the design of real - life platforms, for different application fields.

Dr Clint Perry, another lead author of the study, added: «Despite the obvious differences between humans and other animals, understanding social learning and culture in animals holds a key to understanding the evolutionary roots of the peculiarities of social learning and culture in humans.»

In the new study, Srinivasan and her colleagues, first author Research Assistant Tallie Noble and graduate student Jonathan Stieglitz, used a series of gene - blocking experiments to identify some of the circuit's key elements.

«There's been a drive over the last several decades of trying to understand and improve biocatalysts from this key enzyme family,» said Gregg Beckham, group leader at NREL and senior author of the study.

«Understanding how cancers suppress the immune system is the key to identifying more effective immuno - therapies,» said Brent Hanks, M.D., Ph.D., at Duke and senior author of the study.

«The key message is, avoid mosquito bites because there is no dengue vaccine or specific treatment,» said Rachel Lowe, lead study author from the Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences in Spain.

«We found evidence reduced levels of circulating testosterone were associated with increased phthalate exposure in several key populations, including boys ages 6 - 12, and men and women ages 40 - 60,» said one of the study's authors, John D. Meeker, MS, ScD, of the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor, MI.

In fact, ACOs achieved meaningful improvements for patients in some key areas,» said lead author of the study J. Michael McWilliams, associate professor of health care policy and medicine at HMS and Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Based on studies of other genes related to FOXP2, the authors suggest that the loss of functioning protein from one copy of this gene might disrupt the proper growth of key speech and language structures in the brain.

The study's authors write that halving the amount of food waste and managing demand for particularly environmentally - damaging food products by changing global diets should be key aims that, if achieved, might mitigate some of the greenhouse gases causing climate change.