Sentences with phrase «lead author of a study last»
«These changes on the Greenland ice sheet are happening fast, and we are definitely losing more ice mass than we had anticipated,» said Isabella Velicogna, lead author of the study last year.
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«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.
«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.
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.
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.
«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.
«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.
«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.
«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.
The findings suggest that «the anterior insula is important for assessing trust, period,» explains U.C.L.A. doctoral student Elizabeth Castle, lead author of the study published last December in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.
«This study confirms in an animal model that high - THC cannabis use by adolescents may have long - lasting behavioral effects,» said lead author Dr. Ken Mackie, professor in the IU College of Arts and Sciences» Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and director of the Linda and Jack Gill Center for Biomolecular Science at IU Bloomington.
The finding also suggests that there is a «lasting biological and not just parental or short - term environmental component to this type of chronic antisocial behavior,» said Keith McBurnett, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Chicago and lead author of the study.
«Inhibiting ULK1 would eliminate this last - ditch survival mechanism in the cancer cells and could make existing anti-cancer treatments much more effective,» says Matthew Chun, one of the study's lead authors and a postdoctoral fellow in the Shaw lab at Salk.
«We showed that a single dose of Vorinostat could expose the hidden virus several years ago, but it has taken two studies over the last five years to define the proper interval dosing strategy to use Vorinostat safely and effectively,» said Nancie Archin Ph.D., lead author of this study and an assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at UNC.
«If you look at the last 500 years of literature in Western anatomy, it is the one major body system that hasn't really been studied,» said Thomas W. Myers, author of the seminal text Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual & Movement Therapists and arguably the leading expert on fascia in America.
«Epstein - Barr virus infects over 90 percent of adults, and the infection lasts for a lifetime,» said study lead author Dr. John Harley.
«We investigated those factors that were known to cause a short - lasting sudden increase in blood pressure,» says the lead author of the study, Monique Vlak, MD, a neurologist at the University Medical Center, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
«Natural droughts like the 1930s Dust Bowl and the current drought in the Southwest have historically lasted maybe a decade or a little less,» said Ben Cook, climate scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University in New York City, and lead author of the study.
«Natural droughts like the 1930s Dust Bowl and the current drought in the Southwest have historically lasted maybe a decade or a little less,» said Ben Cook, climate scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University in New York City, and lead author of the paper, in a statement.
«Conventional water management assumes that what you had for river flow the last 50 years is what you will have for the next 50,» said Dave Sauchyn, a climate scientist at the University of Regina in Canada and lead author of the study.
But we were surprised to see that the effect lasted this long — up to 12 years after treatment we could see an increased risk of divorce if the couple did not have a baby,» the study's lead author said.