Sentences with phrase «leading engineer studying»

He is a leading engineer studying the dynamic effects of wind on tall buildings.

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Perth - based company Lycopodium has been appointed as lead engineer and author for a pre-feasibility study at Jervois Mining's Nico Young cobalt - nickel project in NSW.

Though Iran initially had no idea it was attacked by a cyber weapon, believing its scientists and engineers were incompetent due to the failures, eventually the code escaped and worldwide infections led computer researchers to study it, and the idea of leaving «no trace» of the attacker was gone.

A leading mind in creating functional, beautiful, and simple wearable technology, and a visionary for the future of human - computer interaction, Matthew studied mechatronics engineering at the University of Waterloo and robotics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich).

Virginia Commonwealth teaches communication design, fashion design and interior design; Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, business and computer science; Texas A & M University at Qatar, chemical, electrical, mechanical and petroleum engineering; Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, premedical and medical studies leading to the M.D. degree.

A new study now finds, that backcrossing of the genetically engineered Golden Rice, with the Indian mega rice variety Swarna, leads to morphological changes such as pale green leaves, a reduced plant height and a drastic reduction in yield.

The study was led by research engineer Julie Mansfield, along with a team of researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, according to a press release sent to Romper.

«Storm surges globally lead to considerable loss of life and billions of dollars of damages each year, and yet we still have a limited understanding of the likelihood and associated uncertainties of these extreme events both today and in the future,» said Thomas Wahl, an assistant engineering professor in the University of Central Florida who led the study.

The study, led by Nima Mesgarani, associate professor of electrical engineering, is published in the Journal of Neural Engineering.

Müller's diverse training prepared him to enter the field of biomaterials science, and today he directs the Department of Health Sciences and Technology's Institute for Biomechanics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, leading a multidisciplinary laboratory that studies the structure and mechanical behavior of natural and engineered tissues.

«Our model's not saying the water would have definitely overtopped the levees at Cairo,» said UCI professor and chair of civil & environmental engineering Brett Sanders, an author of the study led by UCI graduate student Adam Luke.

A 2014 study led by Dr. Wenwei Xu, AgriLife Research corn breeder in Lubbock, and Thomas Marek, AgriLife Research irrigation engineer in Amarillo, and contributed to by Texas Tech University graduate students Karl Brauer and Traci Bland, showed the biggest factor in corn silage quality was water.

Though this research focused on the form of the disease called Leber congenital amaurosis 2, or LCA2, the scientists and engineers involved in the study believe the technology holds promise for other forms of LCA as well as other inherited diseases that lead to severe vision loss or blindness.

«This represents an important proof of concept of the 3D printing of custom nerve guides for the regeneration of complex nerve injuries,» said University of Minnesota mechanical engineering professor Michael McAlpine, the study's lead researcher.

«By taking the brain signals generated when Bill attempts to move, and using them to control the stimulation of his arm and hand, he was able to perform personal functions that were important to him,» said Bolu Ajiboye, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and lead study author.

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.

Professor Ali Tavassoli, who led the study with colleague Dr. Ishna Mistry, explains: «In an effort to better understand the role of HIF - 1 in cancer, and to demonstrate the potential for inhibiting this protein in cancer therapy, we engineered a human cell line with an additional genetic circuit that produces the HIF - 1 inhibiting molecule when placed in a hypoxic environment.

«We're trying to engineer a spring flood,» says Karl Flessa, a geoscientist at the University of Arizona who is leading the team that will study how the delta responds.

A climate scientist studying the cooling effects of various environmentally engineered roofing treatments recently led a tour of a large postal facility's green roof

The study, led by Ken Shepard, Lau Family Professor of Electrical Engineering and professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering, is published online Dec. 7 in Nature Communications.

Many products of nanotechnology, such as computer chips and self - cleaning windows, are no cause for new concern, says mechanical engineer Ann Dowling, who led the study.

The telling hot spot recently observed in the southeast was discovered when the Indian River Lagoon on Florida's Atlantic coast, known for its algae blooms and blankets of dead fish, became much saltier after 2011, and study lead author Arnoldo Valle - Levinson, professor of civil and coastal engineering sciences in UF's College of Engineering, began to investigate the situation.

The lead authors of the study are Hui Zhu and Qingxiao Wang, graduate students in materials science and engineering in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science.

Barclay Morrison III, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering, has led the first study to determine underlying biological mechanisms that promote functional recovery of the blood - brain barrier (BBB) after blast injury.

«This isn't like toothpaste coming out of a tube,» said Juan Carlos del Alamo, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego, who led a multidisciplinary team for this study, together with postdoctoral researcher Pablo Martinez - Legazpi and Dr. Javier Bermejo's group of cardiologists at Gregorio Marañon Hospital.

In this study, a team led by Panos N. Papapanou, DDS, PhD, professor and chair of oral, diagnostic and rehabilitation sciences at the College of Dental Medicine at CUMC, «reverse - engineered» the gene expression data to build a map of the genetic interactions that lead to periodontitis and identify individual genes that appear to have the most influence on the disease.

But the study's lead author, environmental engineer Paul Westerhoff, says it could prove worthwhile for cities looking for ways to gain value from something that can be a costly disposal problem.

«It's a step in the right direction,» said Michael Dukes, a UF / IFAS professor of agricultural and biological engineering and the lead author on the study.

The question, an issue of engineering and economics, is being studied by a team led by Yushan Yan, Distinguished Professor of Engineering.

«All 12 of the modeled scenarios produced results beneficial to phosphorus reduction,» said Don Scavia, lead author of the study, environmental engineer and director of the University of Michigan's Graham Sustainability Institute.

Achia Urbach, PhD, lead author on the study, engineered a strain of mice to express a Lin28 transgene in the kidneys.

Yuan Chen, a professor of chemical engineering at NTU led the new study, working with Dingshan Yu, Kunli Goh, Hong Wang, Li Wei and Wenchao Jiang at NTU; Qiang Zhang at Tsinghua; and Liming Dai at Case Western Reserve.

«We had been studying the area of land that would be available to grow crops for energy and we were curious to discover the most efficient use of these crops,» explains environmental engineer Elliott Campbell of the University of California, Merced, who led the study.

The study team, led by neuroscientist Joseph Buxbaum of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and including coworkers at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia and Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, genetically engineered mice to carry defective versions of the FOXP2 gene.

«Finding inexpensive ways to remove lignin is one of the largest barriers to producing cost - effective biofuels,» says Ezinne Achinivu, a Ph.D. student in chemical and biomolecular engineering at NC State and lead author of a study describing the new technique.

These latecomers to the research scene, called anammox bacteria, are the subject of a new study led by Daniel Noguera and Katherine McMahon, professors of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

«No scientific method has a zero error rate,» said John Song, a NIST mechanical engineer and the lead author of the study.

Fiori, with support from the National Science Foundation and the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C., led the first detailed engineering study on the Inca Road.

Dr Aramesh, the lead author of the study, said that for researchers and engineers this finding offered potential new methods to engineer future smart materials.

A new Columbia Engineering study, led by Pierre Gentine, associate professor of earth and environmental engineering, analyzes global satellite observations and shows that vegetation alters climate and weather patterns by as much as 30 percent.

The study, published online in the Aug. 21, 2015, issue of Nature Communications, was led by Zheng - Rong Lu, Ph.D., CWRU M. Frank Rudy and Margaret Domiter Rudy Professor of biomedical engineering and an expert in molecular imaging for cancer and other diseases.

Dr. Andrew Cohen, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering in the College of Engineering, is leading a group of researchers who are developing software and hardware that will enable biologists to better track and study the movement and multiplication of cells.

«We found that climate engineering doesn't offer a perfect option,» said Daniela Cusack, the study's lead author and an assistant professor of geography in UCLA's College of Letters and Science.

Apon, who led the study, said the fields that benefited the most were chemistry, civil engineering, physics and evolutionary biology.

A lens for negative refractive properties would have a flat surface and would not share the same resolution limitations and image distortions of a normal curved lens with positive refractive properties, says lead study author Anthony Hoffman, a Princeton engineering graduate student.

«Some of these effects are really hard to predict from animal models because the situations that lead to them are idiosyncratic,» says Linda Griffith, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation, a professor of biological engineering and mechanical engineering, and one of the senior authors of the study.

Marc Baldo, the electrical engineer who led the study, said that concentrators could be used to bolster solar cells almost anywhere the sun shines.

Using a combination of human or specially engineered mouse cells in vitro and in vivo animal models, study senior investigator Judy Lieberman, MD, PhD; study lead investigator Farokh Dotiwala, PhD, with a team lead by the Brazilian parasitologist Ricardo Gazzinelli, DSc, DVM, found that when an immune killer cell, such as a T - cell or natural killer (NK) cell, encounters a cell infected with any of three intracellular parasites (Trypanosoma cruzi, Toxoplasma gondii or Leishmania major), it releases three proteins that together kill both the parasite and the infected cell:

Now, researchers led by Xiaoyu «Rayne» Zheng, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech have published a study in the journal Nature Materials that describes a new process to create lightweight, strong and super elastic 3 - D printed metallic nanostructured materials with unprecedented scalability, a full seven orders of magnitude control of arbitrary 3 - D architectures.

Henry Brown, a civil research engineer at MU, was lead author on a third study that investigated common practices for diverting traffic while constructing and later maintaining geometric interchanges, which included DDIs.