«The impact of large earthquakes in mountain belts is devastating,» commented Luca Dal Zilio,
lead author of the study from Geophysical Fluid Dynamics — ETH Zürich.
«We know that doctors rarely take the weather forecast into account when treating or making recommendations to heart failure patients,» said Prof. Pierre Gosselin,
lead author of the study from Universitié Laval in Canada.
«We urgently need new and better antimicrobial materials if we are to tackle drug - resistant bacteria,» said Dr Maria Ngu - Schwemlein,
lead author of the study from Winston - Salem State University.
«We are the first to examine all important ecological processes of forest regeneration in a global meta - analysis of existing case studies,» explains Dr. Eike Lena Neuschulz,
the lead author of the study from the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center.
Dr Shanon Casperson,
lead author of the study from USDA - Agricultural Research Service Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, USA said: «We found that about a third of the additional calories provided by the sugar - sweetened drinks were not expended, fat metabolism was reduced, and it took less energy to metabolize the meals.
Professor Giovanna Elisiana Carpagnano,
lead author of the study from the University of Foggia, Italy, said: «Our results suggest that lung cancer causes an increase in the exhaled temperature.
Camilla Mousing,
lead author of the study from Aarhus University and VIA University College, said: «The findings of our research are very relevant for healthcare professionals working with patients with life - threatening illness.
Dr Alexander Mazein,
lead author of the study from the European Institute for Systems Biology and Medicine, commented: «In - depth understanding of asthma means redefinition of asthma subtypes based on the mechanisms that lead to the development of the disease.
Professor Phillip Bennett,
lead author of the study from the Department of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial, said: «Although the cervical stitch procedure still holds benefits for women overall, our results suggest the thicker thread may encourage the growth of potentially dangerous bacteria in the cervix.
«Our motivation for this study came from information local law enforcement agencies gave us about using scent - detection dogs to help them find living and deceased victims after mass disasters like earthquakes,» explained Prue Armstrong,
lead author of the study from the University of Technology Sydney.
Dr. Claudius Werner,
lead author of the study from the University Hospital Münster, in Germany, said: «PCD is a rare, but debilitating, disease, which currently has numerous uncertainties related to its diagnosis and treatment.
«It has already grown to more than 15 percent of the mass of our own Milky Way today,» said Pascal Oesch,
lead author of the study from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
Not exact matches
Mark Rubinstein, the
lead author of the
study, said «the vapor produced by e-cigarettes is not harmless water vapor, but actually contains some
of the same toxic chemicals found in smoke
from traditional cigarettes.»
Mr Azar was the
lead author of another
study, published this month, which found similar effects
from overlapping shareholders in American banks.
Anna Nyberg, the
lead author of the
study and a researcher at the Stress Research Institute at Stockholm University, says there's an important takeaway
from the research: «The longer you have worked at a workplace, the better or worse the situation becomes.
«The paper shows that components
of the BFHI steps are important for breastfeeding continuation and are more important than whether a hospital has BFHI accreditation or not,» wrote Wendy Brodribb, the
study's
lead author from The University
of Queensland, in an email to Reuters Health.
«It's just a reality check that in itself, promoting breastfeeding, while a good thing and will have other health benefits, is unlikely to have any effects on stemming the obesity epidemic,» said the
study's
lead author, Richard Martin,
from the University
of Bristol, UK.
Dr. Daniel Taber, the new
study's
lead author from the Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University
of Illinois at Chicago, said students who receive free or reduced - price lunches
from the government tend to be more obese, but that may be due to their families» low - income status.
«Contrary to the prevailing scientific opinion about the biological effects
of nitrite and nitrate, our data support the view that humans may require these dietary components
from birth —
from nature's most perfect food,» said Norman G. Hord, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.D., the
study's
lead author and an associate professor
of food science and human nutrition at Michigan State University (MSU).
The
study's
lead author, Mr Jason Bentley
from the Menzies Centre for Health Policy commented: «There is an urgent need for strategies to inform more judicious clinical decision making about the timing
of planned birth.»
«Lexigrams were learned, as human language is, during meaningful social interactions, not
from behavioral training,» said the
study's
lead author, Kristen Gillespie - Lynch, an Assistant Professor
of Psychology at the City University
of New York and a former UCLA graduate student in Greenfield's laboratory.
Study lead author Dr Ryan Hossaini,
from the Lancaster Environment Centre at Lancaster University, said: «Dichloromethane is a human - made ozone - depleting chemical that has a range
of industrial applications.
Dr Angela Wood,
from the University
of Cambridge,
lead author of the
study said: «If you already drink alcohol, drinking less may help you live longer and lower your risk
of several cardiovascular conditions.
«Organisms can deal with these stressful transitions
from warm to cold by either acclimating - think about dogs putting on their winter coats - or by populations genetically evolving to deal with new stresses, a phenomenon known as rapid climate adaptation,» said Alison Gerken, a post-doctoral associate with UF's Department
of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and the
lead author of a new
study, published this month in the journal Proceedings
of the National Academy
of Sciences.
«The presence
of these elongated skulls in parts
of eastern Europe is most commonly attributed to the nomadic Huns,
led by Atilla, during their invasion
of the Roman Empire
from Asia, but the appearance
of these skulls in western Europe is more mysterious, as this was very much the fringes
of their territory,» said Dr. Krishna Veeramah, first
author of the
study.
«POLST is an especially useful tool for nursing home residents because they often experience transitions
from the nursing home to the hospital or emergency department and back again,» said Dr. Lee Jennings, assistant professor
of medicine in the division
of geriatrics at the David Geffen School
of Medicine at UCLA, and the
study's
lead author.
«We were looking at two questions: how could we identify the oil on shore, now four years after the spill, and how the oil
from the spill was weathering over time,» explained Christoph Aeppli, Senior Research Scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine, and
lead author of the
study reported in Environmental Science & Technology.
«MUSE has the unique ability to extract information about some
of the earliest galaxies in the Universe — even in a part
of the sky that is already very well
studied,» explains Jarle Brinchmann,
lead author of one
of the papers describing results
from this survey,
from the University
of Leiden in the Netherlands and the Institute
of Astrophysics and Space Sciences at CAUP in Porto, Portugal.
«The results show that evaporation at high temperatures, similar to those at the beginning
of planet formation,
leads to the loss
of volatile elements and to enrichment in heavy isotopes in the left over materials
from the event,» said Day, a Scripps geoscientist and
lead author of the
study.
«A better understanding
of the process
of antepartum cervical remodeling, loosely divided in two distinct phases called softening and ripening, is critical to improve the diagnosis
of cervical malfunction and anticipate the occurrence
of birth,» said the
study's
lead author, Gabriele Masselli, M.D.,
from the Radiology Department at Sapienza University in Rome.
The
lead author of the new
study, Guillem Anglada [1],
from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC), Granada, Spain, explains the significance
of this find: «The dust around Proxima is important because, following the discovery
of the terrestrial planet Proxima b, it's the first indication
of the presence
of an elaborate planetary system, and not just a single planet, around the star closest to our Sun.»
«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.»
Using data
from National Database for Autism Research (NDAR),
lead author Kristina Denisova, PhD, Assistant Professor
of Psychiatry at CUMC and Fellow at the Sackler Institute,
studied 71 high and low risk infants who underwent two functional Magnetic Resonance imaging brain scans either at 1 - 2 months or at 9 - 10 months: one during a resting period
of sleep and a second while native language was presented to the infants.
«The mistiming prevents older people
from being able to effectively hit the save button on new memories,
leading to overnight forgetting rather than remembering,» said
study senior
author Matthew Walker, a UC Berkeley professor
of neuroscience and psychology and director
of the campus's Center for Human Sleep Science.
«The comparison
of the MRI images
from the two mazes reveals which brain regions were specifically contributing to the formation
of spatial memories,» says Svenja Brodt, a doctoral candidate at the Graduate Training Center
of Neuroscience and
lead author of the
study.
«We found that the coldest places near the moon's south pole are also the brightest places — brighter than we would expect
from soil alone — and that might indicate the presence
of surface frost,» said Elizabeth Fisher, the
lead author of the
study, published in Icarus.
«The undersides
of glaciers in deeper valleys are exposed to warm, salty Atlantic water, while the others are perched on sills, protected
from direct exposure to warmer ocean water,» said Romain Millan,
lead author of the
study, available online in the American Geophysical Union journal Geophysical Research Letters.
«Much
of our historical data about species» population - level responses to climate change comes
from observational
studies, which can suggest but not confirm causation,» said Anne Marie Panetta,
lead author of the
study and a post-doctoral researcher in CU Boulder's Department
of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EBIO).
Study lead author Dr Christopher Doughty,
from the Environmental Change Institute in School
of Geography and the Environment at the University
of Oxford, said: «Tropical rainforests have been popularly thought
of as the «lungs»
of the planet.
«Under the microscope, eggs
from reproductively young and old animals may look identical, but the environment in which they are growing is completely different,» said
lead study author Francesca Duncan, executive director
of the Center for Reproductive Science at Northwestern University Feinberg School
of Medicine.
John Mathai,
lead author of the overarching carnivore community paper in the supplement and a wildlife ecologist
from Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo,
studies Hose's civet in the highlands
of Sarawak.
The
lead author of the new
study, Paolo Molaro, at the INAF - Trieste Astronomical Observatory, takes up the story: «As soon as the Dawn spacecraft revealed the mysterious bright spots on the surface
of Ceres, I immediately thought
of the possible measurable effects
from Earth.
«We found that a particular vaginal bacterium, Gardnerella vaginalis, did not cause infection during exposure to the urinary tract, but it damaged the cells on the surface
of the bladder and caused E. coli
from a previous UTI to start multiplying,
leading to another bout
of disease,» said the
study's senior
author, Amanda Lewis, PhD, an assistant professor
of molecular microbiology and
of obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University.
«We narrowed down the origin
of domesticated apple
from very broad central Asia to Kazakhstan area west
of Tian Shan Mountain,» explained Zhangjun Fei, BTI professor and
lead author of this
study.
«Microplastic pollution has been in the news recently, with several governments planning a ban on microbeads used in cosmetics and detergents» says Alina Wieczorek
from the National University
of Ireland, Galway and
lead author of the
study.
«We know
from our sleep loss
studies that when you're sleep deprived, it negatively affects weight and metabolism in part due to late - night eating, but now these early findings, which control for sleep, give a more comprehensive picture
of the benefits
of eating earlier in the day,» said Namni Goel, PhD, a research associate professor
of psychology in Psychiatry in the division
of Sleep and Chronobiology, and
lead author of the ongoing
study.
«The findings speak to the necessity
of continuing to encourage meaningful substance use prevention programs during adolescence and making sure students have the resilience skills necessary to stay away
from substances,» said Dr. Nadine Connell, assistant professor
of criminologyand
lead author of the
study.
«The rural Native American children, who so often are described as less talkative than their peers, were actually more likely to talk and act out activities with the diorama than children
from the other two communities,» said Karen Washinawatok,
lead author of the
study and former chair
of the Menominee Indian Tribe
of Wisconsin.
«We can predict the beginning
of the Indian monsoon two weeks earlier, and the end
of it even six weeks earlier than before — which is quite a breakthrough, given that for the farmers every day counts,» says Veronika Stolbova
from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the University
of Zurich, the
lead -
author of the
study to be published in the Geophysical Research Letters.
says Henrik Svensmark,
from DTU Space at the Technical University
of Denmark,
lead author of the
study.