Sentences with phrase «last author of the study»

«What makes this controversial is the age and location of the prints,» says Professor Per Ahlberg at Uppsala University, last author of the study.

Raynard Kington, an African - American former NIH deputy director, now president of Grinnell College in Iowa, and last author of the study, says: «This shouldn't be news.

Hans Häring, the last author of the study adds «the application of precise phenotyping strategies in clinical trials will also help to improve understanding of the pathophysiology of cardiometabolic diseases.»

The last author of the study, Prof. Georg Schmidt, a cardiologist at the internal medicine unit at TUM's university hospital Rechts der Isar, believes that societal and psychological causes play an important role.

Not exact matches

I didn't see any evidence (1) actually connecting the former to the latter, (2) that the differences at birth are lasting, (3) that the purported diseases associated with the microbiome in adulthood are the same ones associated with c - section (the author cites obesity, but we know that those observational studies re: c - section and obesity are deeply flawed by confounding)(4) that the «microbiotic» benefit of vaginal birth exists regardless of maternal health and matenral microbiome.

Although infant sleeping practices have gotten safer over the last twenty years — 86 percent of babies slept with bedding in 1993 to 1995, compared with 55 percent in 2008 to 2010 — study authors found that the decline has slowed since 2000, and hazardous sleeping areas are still a widespread practice, despite doctor recommendations.

Last week the Centre for International Studies held an excellent discussion panel (shortly to be made into a podcast) with Jean - Claude Piris (author and former Director General of the Legal Service of the Council Secretariat), discussing his new book, Towards a Two Speed Europe.

Don't say «I'm a postdoc studying chemistry,» say «I'm a chemist,» because you totally are a chemist, and the fact that someone wealthier is last author on all your papers doesn't make you less of a chemist.

Senior author, Professor Anjali Goswami (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment and UCL Earth Sciences), said: «Our findings refute those of other studies which overlooked the fossils of placental mammals present around the last mass extinction.

Extensive studies by the authors over the past decades on these islands have documented stratigraphic, sedimentologic, and geomorphic evidence of major oceanic and climatic disruptions at the close of the last interglacial.

«While our study found that some stress - related effects on circadian rhythms are short - lived, others are long - lasting,» said William Carlezon, PhD, chief of the Division of Basic Neuroscience and director of the Behavioral Genetics Laboratory at McLean Hospital and senior author of the study.

Over the last 50 years, neuroscience has seen an «increase in research flexibility and the complexity of study designs combined with the stability of sample size and search for increasingly subtle effects,» the article's authors write.

«In the last few months, we've diagnosed several people with the disease years before the diagnosis is typically made, which has changed how we do medicine in our nerve clinic,» says Michael Polydefkis, M.D., professor of neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and senior author on the study.

«This regenerative technology, termed AAV gene transfer, provided long - lasting benefit to the entire musculature of affected dogs that would have otherwise perished, extending a healthy lifespan for more than 4 years,» said Dr. Martin Childers, senior author of the Muscle & Nerve study and a UW Medicine researcher in Seattle.

He's a professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and he studies the use of empirical research to inform legal policy; and he's the author of an article in the August issue of Scientific American titled, «How New York Beat Crime», about the reasons for the huge drops in crime over the last couple of decades in America's largest city.

«Over the last several decades there have been conflicting theories for how the DNA is organized inside these chromosomes,» said Dr. Dekker, co-director of the Program in Systems Biology at UMMS and senior author of the Science study.

► «A controversial study that showed genetically engineered golden rice could alleviate vitamin A deficiency in children was retracted» because of concerns about whether the authors behaved ethically in their work with the children in China who participated in the nutritional trial, Erik Stokstad wrote at ScienceInsider last Friday.

«Our research found that unemployment rates for STEM employees rose significantly in the last few years and still haven't dropped to the extremely low levels of a decade ago,» said Michael Hicks, author of the study and director of CBER, in a university release.

The authors note some limitations, including that the last measurement in their study is at the age of 53, when COPD is just starting to emerge, but most patients are diagnosed in their sixties.

«There has been widespread confusion in the biomedical community and the general public in the last couple of years about the health effects of specific types of fat in the diet,» said Dong Wang, a doctoral candidate, SD» 16, in the Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology at Harvard Chan School and lead author of the study.

However, during winter field surveys over the last decade, lake ice has typically only grown to 1.5 meters (5 feet) thick, and has been as thin as 1.2 meters (4 feet),» said Christopher Arp, research assistant professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Water and Environmental Research Center and lead author of the new study accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

«Over the last decade, geneticists have identified hundreds of genetic risk factors for several human diseases, but the functional consequences of those factors on relevant cells are largely unknown,» said Towfique Raj, PhD, BWH Department of Neurology and a postdoctoral scholar at the Broad Institute, lead study author.

Study authors randomly selected 200 patients and split them into four groups of 50, based on the time lapsed from their last colonoscopy: two months, one year, two years, and four years.

«Most clinical trials for psychotic disorders are limited to cross-sectional or short - term studies that typically last one year or less,» said Martin T. Strassnig, M.D., lead author of the study and associate professor of Integrated Medical Science in FAU's College of Medicine.

The authors of On the Beauty of Physics feature «The Last Supper» as a case study of entropy — a measure of the tendency toward disorder in a thermodynamic system.

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.

In a debate with LaDou at a seminar organised by the Scottish Occupational Health and Safety Research Network at the University of Glasgow last month, the study's lead author, Richard Elliott from the HSE, stuck to his conclusion.

«In this study we show how the Eurasian siskin is able to form stable group relationships lasting for periods of several years in addition to travelling in each other» company over distances spanning more than 1,000 km,» points out Juan Carlos Senar, lead author of this study and a scientist at the museum.

«Humans are crazy for Facebook, but our research suggests that primates have been relying on the face to tell friends from competitors for the last 50 million years and that social pressures have guided the evolution of the enormous diversity of faces we see across the group today,» said Michael Alfaro, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in the UCLA College of Letters and Science and senior author of the study.

«In the last few decades, genetic information has become an important source for the study of human history,» says Prof. Keinan, the study's senior author.

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.

It only vanished within the last 2,000 years,» adds Dr. Cristina Gamba, post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for GeoGenetics at the time of the study, and co-leading author of the study.

«As luck would have it, that was the first gene I tried, and that was the last gene I tried,» said Ubil, who conducted the research as a graduate student in the laboratory of former UNC faculty member and senior study author Arjun Deb, MD..

Eric Courchesne, the principal author of the study, says that the «burst of extreme growth» is primarily in the frontal cortex — the center of complex cognitive functions — and typically lasts only a few months, ending somewhere between the sixth and 14th month of life.

«This paper demonstrates that despite all of the advances made over the last 100 years, the experience of discrimination continues to be a significant problem for people with epilepsy,» said Dr. Victoria Nimmo - Smith, first author of the Epilepsia study.

Many people know about the threatened polar bear and extinct passenger pigeon, but few have heard of endangered and extinct languages such as Eyak in Alaska, whose last speaker died in 2008, or Ubykh in Turkey, whose last fluent speaker died in 1992, says Tatsuya Amano, a zoologist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and lead author of the new study.

Gardner's theory was rejected, however, by the authors of the last major study carried out by the National Radiological Protection Board and others (This Week, 15 November 1997, p 5).

In the same vein, the authors note that while the light - emitting diode is in fact the most energy - efficient, longest - lasting, and greenest source of artificial lighting, studies show that as the cost of lighting has decreased, total consumption has increased dramatically.

«For various periods over the last 60 years, we have been able to combine important processes: atmospheric variability, such as the North Atlantic Oscillation, water and air temperatures, the occurrence of fresh surface water, and the duration of convection,» explains Dr. Marilena Oltmanns from GEOMAR, lead author of the study.

«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.

«The radiation dose rates from measurements obtained over the last four years exceeded trends from previous solar cycles by at least 30 percent, showing that the radiation environment is getting far more intense,» said Nathan Schwadron, professor of physics and lead author of the study.

Professor Oscar Marín, last author from the MRC CDN, said: «Our study demonstrates the tremendous plasticity of the brain, and how this relates to fundamental processes such as learning.

«Banning commercial logging in natural forests, establishing nature reserves and helping residents in the reserve change behaviors that damaged habitat has been beneficial,» said Liu, who published Pandas and People (Oxford University Press) last year with four other authors of the new study.

«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.

«We wanted to know what it would mean in terms of the size of an outbreak, how long an outbreak lasts, how likely an outbreak is to occur and the reproductive ratio of the parasite, a measure of how effectively the parasite transmits in populations,» said the study's lead author John Vinson, a doctoral student in the Odum School.

Noah Diffenbaugh, a professor of earth system science at Stanford University, was the lead author of a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences released last week detailing a four - step framework for testing whether global warming contributes to record - setting weather events.

«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.

He was one of the authors of the study, which was published online in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives last month.

The study's authors found that in the last 30 years of the study, the ice sheet gained nearly 5 meters (16 feet) more water than it did during the first 30 years of the studied time period.

«Our primary question is how the Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica will contribute to sea level rise in the future, particularly following our observations of massive changes in the area over the last two decades,» said UCI's Bernd Scheuchl, lead author on the first of the two studies, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters in August.