Sentences with phrase «lead academic researcher»

(The lead academic researcher on that study, Jeff Hancock, needed police protection.)
Universities need to get better at sharing patented seeds and other products of publicly - funded agricultural science if the United States wants to keep producing bountiful harvests, argues a new report from a group of leading academic researchers.
«A compelling body of research is now available, from many leading academic researchers and from respected research organizations such as the National Bureau of Economic Research, the RAND Corporation, and the Urban Institute.
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Japan's academic AI footprint, however, is notably stronger than either South Korea or Singapore, since Japan has roughly 117 active researchers presenting at NIPS and other leading conferences.
We will hear from some of today's leading academics and researchers who are investigating retirement - related topics.
Naming an endowed Chair or Professorship at the Rotman School will help recruit and retain the world's leading teachers and researchers, enhance our curriculum, foster research and advance the academic performance of tomorrow's business leaders.
Dr Paul Ramchandani — a researcher and clinical psychiatrist now based at the Academic Unit of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London — led the study, which assessed father - infant interactions in the family home when the child was aged three months and compared them against the child's behaviour at the age of twelve months.
... it is more likely that good performance leads to high self - esteem rather than the other way around... (T) he researchers found that efforts to boost self - esteem have not been shown to improve academic performance and may sometimes be counterproductive.
As well as leading on and participating in a range of research and evaluation projects, the team also contributes to the development of effective policy and practice through the interpretation, synthesis and dissemination of research findings, and acts as a knowledge broker between policy and practice stakeholders, researchers and the academic sector (in the UK and Europe) to strengthen links and collaboration.
«Mr. Franklin Cudjoe will also speak in the main academic forum of leading Mexican educational institutions, researchers, scholarship fund managers, adding «Mr. Cudjoe will meet with the Mexican Agency for Cooperation and International Development: AMEXCID»
They regret «the absence of important elements» they had suggested, such as merging agency and university researcher status to replace the separate agency and university academic researcher categories, and turning the leading agencies into mere suppliers of cash.
«Past research has found a link between violent crimes and performance on tests, but researchers haven't been able to say why crime affects academic performance,» explains Jennifer A. Heissel, a PhD graduate in human development and sociology at Northwestern University, who led the study.
Prichard, like many other leading academics, recommends that universities accept corporate funding only if it does not limit the ability of researchers to publish their findings.
«Colorectal cancer is the second most common cause of cancer deaths [after lung cancer] in the United States and is an enormous health problem around the world,» said the study's lead author, Robert J. Mayer, MD, faculty vice president for academic affairs, medical oncologist and colorectal cancer researcher at Dana - Farber.
Although academic researchers from fields such as computer science and engineering have led innovative Google projects (such as the Internet - connected eyewear known as Glass), Google and other technology companies are increasingly recruiting life scientists as Silicon Valley broadens its reach into health care.
Kazuyoshi Maejima of the School of Medicine at Keio University in Tokyo led a team of academics that developed the Koken rat jointly with company researchers.
Written by 25 authors, it described the collaboration between government, academic researchers, and disease advocacy groups that led to the ICV trial as a model of the teamwork that can speed drugs through early development, boosting their chances of being commercialized.
Professor Pierre Friedlingstein and Professor Peter Cox, from the University of Exeter, collaborated with an international team of researchers from China, Germany, France and the USA, to produce the new study, which is published in the leading academic journal Nature.
In 2001 the editors of the 12 leading medical journals decried what they described as a «draconian» situation for academic researchers, but even that extraordinary joint statement went largely unheeded.
«It's important for our researchers that there is no gap» between the current program and the next, says Teresa Riera Madurell, a former academic from Spain and one of the lead negotiators for the European Parliament.
This tension sometimes complicates the collaboration but can also lead to mutual inspiration; academic researchers will come up with novel theoretical approaches while the industrial researchers will formulate surprisingly challenging problems.
We conferred with leading academics and unleashed a team of crack researchers to seek out the best of the best.
Led by researchers at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, the study builds upon recent findings that the same program generally improves the behavior and academic skills of children and helps shy students be more engaged in their classwork.
Women with higher breast density — detected on mammograms — have more compacted breast tissue and are more likely to develop breast cancer, but until now the reasons for this have been unclear.Manchester scientists, funded by leading UK research organisation Breakthrough Breast Cancer, worked with IBM researchers and academics in the USA and Cyprus to uncover the biological mechanisms at play.
Rather than being created as pranks, it seems that many of the fake papers were coming from China where they were «bought by academics and students» to pad their publication records, says the lead researcher behind the investigation, Cyril Labbé, a computer scientist at Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France.
Over the next 5 years, Microsoft will spend $ 80 million on the new center, which will employ about 40 leading researchers and accommodate other short - term academic staff and graduate students.
«There has been a dramatic contraction of the prison education system, particularly those programs focused on academic instruction versus vocational training,» said Lois Davis, the study's lead author and a senior policy researcher at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.
In another study, using four data sets with sample sizes in the thousands, a team of researchers led by the University of Minnesota psychologist Paul Sackett investigated the relationship between cognitive ability and both academic and work performance.
The programme provides leading internal scientists with the opportunity to collaborate with talented postdoctoral researchers, and leading academic research groups, from around the world.
One of the key requirements for fellowships is that the Roche mentor can identify a leading academic collaboration partner and extremely talented postdoctoral researcher.
The SGC has active research facilities at seven leading academic institutions across the globe (Toronto and Montreal - Canada, Oxford - UK, UNICAMP - Brazil, Karolinska - Sweden, UNC Chapel Hill - USA and Frankfurt - Germany), and SGC scientists collaborate with more than 300 researchers in academia and industry.
«Interstellar» should be shown to school students, researchers wrote in a leading academic journal.
The researchers conclude that women face biases that are so deeply embedded in the processes followed by leading academic institutions that they may not even be noticed until they are eradicated.
GigaGen partners with leading academic and biopharmaceutical researchers to advance antibody - driven drug discovery and development programs for cancer, immune deficiency and other serious health conditions.
This spring's Bay Area Aging Meeting (BAAM), held at the Buck Institute, was a huge success — attracting hundreds of local researchers focused on aging from leading academic institutions and biotech companies.
A group of academic researchers, led by cognitive and computer scientists from Brown University, is teaming up with a cross-functional team from global play and entertainment leader Hasbro to design a smart robotic companion capable of assisting older people with simple but sometimes challenging tasks of everyday living.
Participants include leading researchers from academic, industrial, and federal laboratories in such disciplines as astronomy, astrophysics, atmospheric science, biology, biomedicine, chemistry, computer science, earth sciences, genetics, material sciences, mathematical sciences, neurosciences, pharmacology, and physics.
September 16, 2015 University of Chicago Medicine hosts symposium of leading Chicago heart researchers More than 100 leading researchers from Chicago's major academic medical centers as well as six out - of - state institutions will meet at the American Heart Association's 2015 Chicago Research Network Symposium, hosted by University of Chicago Medicine's Section of Cardiology, on Friday, September 18, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the University's Gordon Center for Integrative Science, 929 E. 57th St., Chicago.
Through focused investment in excellent and impactful scientific research and talented researchers, Science Foundation Ireland ensures that Ireland leads the world in strategic research areas, has globally recognised SFI Research Centres, and is a hub for industry / academic research collaborations.
Research, Educational and Networking activities are lead by the academic staff and supported by postdoctoral researchers.
The Delaney Collaboratory to Cure HIV - 1 Infection by Combination Immunotherapy (BEAT - HIV Collaboratory) is a consortium of more than 30 top HIV researchers from leading academic research institutions working with government, nonprofit organizations, and industry partners to test combinations of several novel immunotherapies under new preclinical research and clinical trials.
The work of Carol Dweck, the leading researcher on academic mindset, is readily available and provides excellent guidelines for helping students and teacher achieve an academic mindset.
A researcher looking to boost reading comprehension needs to distinguish the skills necessary for academic success from the ones that lead to social awareness.
Professor Paul Montgomery, lead researcher, University of Birmingham said: «We want people to be aware that sleep deprivation in adolescents is a real problem which affects their functioning, their wellbeing and even their academic performance.
In any case, the researchers argue such a boost in classroom engagement could be a stepping stone that may eventually lead to boosts in long - term academic outcomes.
Researchers from Stanford University, the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois confirm that CPS is leading the country for academic growth among large urban school systems.
«What we find in the field is really very solid research,» said Linda Dusenbury, a lead author of the report and a senior researcher at the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning.
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