Sentences with phrase «leading major studies»

Dr. Sommer is an internationally acclaimed public health scientist who has been at the forefront of research into vitamin A deficiency, leading major studies that were fundamental to the current understanding of the effect of vitamin A supplementation on mortality, malnutrition, and blindness.

University of York archaeologist Geoff Bailey recently led a major study of the ancient Red Sea coastline.

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But, while art - and writing - related majors do make the ranking, they don't have a monopoly on courses of study that can lead to underemployment.

According to a recent study by The NPD Group, a leading global information company, the value menus recently launched by three major U.S. quick service restaurant chains (QSR) are working.

He also led major initiatives including the development of a number of centres with key community leaders, including The Canadian Centre for Advanced Leadership in Business, The Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, The Westman Centre for Real Estate Studies, The Energy ande Environment initiative, and The Creative Destruction Lab — Rockies.

All the major oilsands companies are seriously pushing technology to reduce emissions and costs, and have been doing so extremely seriously the past couple years since the price crash of late 2014 and the Paris Agreement,» says Vredenburg, who also led a team of researchers that studied open innovation among energy companies.

Some historians have traced the roots of The Controversy to the early 1960s, when conflict over historical «critical study of the Bible produced a major crisis in the SBC leading to the dismissal of Ralph Elliott, a professor of Old Testament at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri.

They said it's the first major survey research into churchgoers and domestic abuse in the UK, and hope it will lead to a major national study.

The «Berlin» type of excellent theological education, which 1 comprises the two distinct enterprises of Wissenschaft and «professional» education for ministry, came to dominate Protestant theological education in North America by the middle of the twentieth century, in large part in the wake of a series of major studies of theological education that were widely read and sometimes led to significant reforms.

The study, which was led by Dr Shridhar Sathe, pinpointed the three major allergens in cashew nuts and established that they are still present following common processing methods, such as blanching, pressure cooking and dry roasting, meaning that they could be used as markers to detect cross-contamination even in small quantities in processed foods.

Many studies show that low - carb and ketogenic diets can lead to dramatic weight loss and improve most major risk factors for heart disease and...

A new study tracking the safety of home birth in the United States has taken a major step in that direction, its authors believe, finding that outcomes among women who had planned, midwife - led home births were «excellent,» and that the women experienced relatively low rates of intervention.

The first environment - wide association study borrows from genomics to reveal new leads in major complex diseases

«People around the world are aware that the ocean is threatened and what are the major threats to the ocean,» says Heike Lotze, a researcher at Dalhousie University in Canada, who led the study.

This has been shown by a major international study led from Lund University.

The results of the study, funded by the Malaria Eradication Scientific Alliance (MESA), are published in one of the world's leading medical journals The Lancet Infectious Diseases, and show that adding high doses of ivermectin, an endectocide class of drug, to the antimalarial dihydroartemisinin - piperaquine (DP) had a major and prolonged effect on mosquito mortality.

To look for potential blood - based markers of delirium, a team led by senior investigators Towia Libermann, PhD and Edward Marcantonio, MD, SM, both of BIDMC, screened plasma from adults without dementia aged 70 and older undergoing major non-cardiac surgery using data from the Successful Aging after Elective Surgery Study.

A new study from the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP), published in PLoS Genetics, represents a major advance in understanding how dietary restriction leads to these advantages.

The PAM used in the IU - led study worked by amplifying two brain compounds — anandamide and 2 - arachidonoylglycerol — commonly called «endocannabinoids» because they act upon the CB1 receptor in the brain that responds to THC, the major psychoactive ingredient in cannabis.

A team led by Marco Bohnhoff from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geoscience now presents a study indicating that the next major earthquake is more likely to originate in Istanbul's eastern Marmara Sea.

To make sure he recruited only patients with major depression, Jonathan Flint, a psychiatrist from the University of Oxford who led the study, says he examined older generations of Han Chinese women.

In this study in Timothy grass, researchers led by environmental health scientist Christine Rogers of the UMass Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences (SPHHS) determined the interactive effects of CO2 and ozone at projected higher levels on pollen production and concentrations of a Timothy grass pollen protein that is a major human allergen.

In the January issue of Environmental Science & Technology the researchers described their efforts mapping nearly 5,900 natural gas leaks of varying severity across 1,500 road miles of Washington, D.C. To learn more about the state of the gas pipelines running through several major U.S. cities — in particular those serving New York City — Scientific American interviewed Robert Jackson, professor of environmental sciences at Stanford and Duke universities and the study's lead author.

«Our study shows that protein production in neurons is one of the major utilizers of energy and that neurons of Leigh syndrome degenerate because they can't sustain a high enough level of energy,» says Tony Hunter, the Renato Dulbecco Chair and American Cancer Society Professor in Salk's Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, who led the research.

A new study, led by researchers from Imperial College London and the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, has now provided evidence that a major Himalayan river did not flow at the same time as the development of Indus Civilisation urban settlements.

There are four main areas where molecular imaging can have a major impact, according to the study's lead author David A. Mankoff, MD, PhD, the Gerd Muehllehner Professor of Radiology and director of the PET Center at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

A surge in major wildfire events in the U.S. West as a consequence of climate change will expose tens of millions of Americans to high levels of air pollution in the coming decades, according to a new Yale - led study conducted with collaborators from Harvard.

The study aims, in part, to address the fact that the U.S. spends about 40 percent more on health care per capita than the next highest - spending country in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a group of 35 major nations — a figure that leads many to wonder whether there are significant inefficiencies in U.S. health care spending.

The current study by researchers from the Metamaterials laboratory, led by Dr. Pavel Belov, principal researcher and head of the Department of Nanophotonics and Metamaterials at ITMO University, exploits the same basic principle, but with two major modifications that helped enhance the wireless power transfer efficiency.

The study is one of the early steps toward a major goal of Dr. Elhanan Borenstein, the lead scientist on the project.

Researchers led by Caroline Beghein, assistant professor of earth, planetary and space sciences in UCLA's College of Letters and Science, used a technique called seismic tomography to study the structure of the Pacific Plate — one of eight to 12 major plates at the surface of the Earth.

The study, which has major significance on the prediction of earthquakes, was led by Asst Prof Barbot's PhD student, Miss Deepa Mele Veedu.

«The findings of our study strongly suggest that DDT use increases pre-term births, which is a major contributor to infant mortality,» lead author Matthew Longnecker of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences says.

«We find a major surprise: Europeans are a mixture of three ancient populations, not two,» says David Reich from Harvard Medical School, one of the lead investigators of the new study.

Lead researcher Professor Vardhman Rakyan from QMUL said: «The fact that genetic variation of ribosomal DNA seems to play such a major role suggests that many human genetics studies could be missing a key part of the puzzle.

The work may lead to tricks for quickly pinpointing what's popular with the people, Kezhen Chen, computer science major and study coauthor told me.

«While many people think of the ED as simply a place to go when you have a car accident or some type of major trauma, it is increasingly the case that the emergency department is caring for complex medical patients,» said lead author Renee Y. Hsia, MD, professor of emergency medicine at UCSF and director of health policy studies in the UCSF Department of Emergency Medicine.

Wilson famously led a gene therapy study with an adenovirus vector that killed a patient, Jesse Gelsinger, in 1999 — a major setback for the entire field.

The study highlights some major differences between patients with depression seen in everyday clinical practice and those enrolled in ARTs — the studies of antidepressants that lead to FDA drug approval.

So a research team, led by Suerie Moon at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, synthesized seven major post-Ebola reports and laid out the key problems and recommendations they highlighted.

«There was a major gap for researchers using genomic DNA sequences to understand the evolution of species complexes,» says Ryan Folk, lead author of a study in a recent issue Applications in Plant Sciences.

Dr. Chew leads the Age - Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS), which was designed to investigate a combination of nutritional supplements for slowing age - related macular degeneration (AMD), a major cause of vision loss among older Americans.

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:

A University of Colorado study published in April assessing the impacts of climate change on the Navajo Reservation in the Southwest said climate change - related sun kinks are a major concern for the Navajo Nation because derailments could lead to the disruption of coal production there.

To examine the relationship between dietary intake of major sources of protein and kidney function, a team led by Woon - Puay Koh, MBBS (Hons), PhD (Duke - NUS Medical School and Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health in National University of Singapore) analyzed data from the Singapore Chinese Health Study, a prospective study of 63,257 Chinese adults in SingaStudy, a prospective study of 63,257 Chinese adults in Singastudy of 63,257 Chinese adults in Singapore.

Professor Rachel Wood, of the University of Edinburgh's School of GeoSciences, who led the study, said: «How animals produced shells and skeletons is one of the major events in the evolution of life.

The study, reported in the journal eLife, represents a major step in understanding the «bacterial brain,» said University of Illinois physics professor Klaus Schulten, who led the new research.

However, researchers believe inhalation is likely a major exposure route for people living near heavily treated fields, said Janie Shelton, an epidemiologist who led a study linking chlorpyrifos to autism in babies born to moms near treated fields in farm - heavy Northern California last year.

The study, led by Darja Marolt, PhD, a NYSCF - Helmsley Investigator and Giuseppe Maria de Peppo, PhD, a NYSCF Research Fellow, and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, represents a major advance in personalized reconstructive treatments for patients with bone defects resulting from disease or trauma.

The study further states that the observed feeding behavior also leads to vulnerability to entanglement in bottom set fishing gear, an issue which is a major mortality factor for the species.