Sentences with phrase «led research»

Dr Sarah Purdy, who led the research, said: «GP Practices serving the most deprived populations have emergency admission rates that are around 60 per cent higher than those serving the least deprived populations.

A Children's - led research team has turned the tables on Schistosoma haematobium, a parasitic worm that freeloads in humans, by using a protein derived from the parasite as a therapeutic molecule to reduce bleeding and pain associated with chemotherapy - induced hemorrhagic cystitis.

Researchers from the Universities of Edinburgh and Leeds, who led the research, say their findings could help quantify the amount of carbon available to trade in areas of forest.

«There is so little detailed analysis of the way in which pandemics spread — so much of the current thinking is based on opinion and presumption,» said Dr Julia Gog of Cambridge's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, who led the research.

«Having been a student mother in the 1990s, I recognised, in the accounts of these mothers, the amazing struggle it can sometimes be,» said Dr Clare Lyonette who led the research.

Hunter led a research team that isolated a unique DNA segment found in manatees» body residues, such as saliva, skin cells, excrement and exhaled water vapor.

The discovery, reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, suggests that the widespread practice of throwing away egg yolks to maximize one's dietary protein intake from eggs is counterproductive, said Nicholas Burd, a University of Illinois professor of kinesiology and community health who led the research.

A Yale - led research team has adapted traditional asset valuation approaches to measure the value of such natural capital assets, linking economic measurements of ecosystem services with models of natural dynamics and human behavior.

«Our results indicate that both these phenomena, dark and bright lightning, are intrinsic processes in the discharge of lightning,» said Nikolai Østgaard, who is a space scientist at the University of Bergen in Norway and led the research team.

«If we want to take advantage of the promising properties of nanoparticles, we need to be able to reliably incorporate them into larger - scale composite materials for real - world applications,» explained Brookhaven physicist Oleg Gang, who led the research at Brookhaven's Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), a DOE Office of Science User Facility.

A Yale - led research team used a new gene editing strategy to correct mutations that cause thalassemia, a form of anemia.

«The giraffe's stature, dominated by its long neck and legs and an overall height that can reach 19 feet (~ 6 m), is an extraordinary feat of evolution that has inspired awe and wonder for at least 8,000 years — as far back as the famous rock carvings at Dabous in the Republic of Niger,» said Douglas Cavener of Penn State University, who led the research team with Morris Agaba of the Nelson Mandela African Institute for Science and Technology in Tanzania.

If that happens, says Kevin Anderson, who led the research for the Tyndall Centre at the University of Manchester, UK, aviation...

Maja Djukic, PhD, RN, assistant professor at the College of Nursing, New York University, led the research team.

«These plants had more water than they needed, but that won't always be the case,» said co-first author Katarzyna Glowacka, a postdoctoral researcher who led this research at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB).

It will open a completely new set of applications, such as optical communications and sensing at a scale below one nanometer,» said ICREA Professor Frank Koppens at ICFO — The Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona, Spain, who led the research.

Professor Duncan Wass, whose team led the research, said: «The alcohol in alcoholic drinks is actually ethanol — exactly the same molecule that we want to convert into butanol as a petrol replacement.

«This is the first study to follow patients in the hospital on a more aggressive feeding protocol and it's clear that we're seeing better results as compared to the traditional approach,» said Garber, who led the research with colleagues in the UCSF Adolescent Eating Disorders Program.

«We developed a technique that targets lipid rafts on cancer cell membranes,» says Professor Ye Zhang from OIST's Bioinspired Soft Matter Unit, who led the research.

«I decided to take on the challenge of developing a system that can see through actual fog,» says Guy Satat, a graduate student in the MIT Media Lab, who led the research.

«To say the effects were severe is putting it lightly,» says forest ecologist Gregory Asner of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Palo Alto, California, who led the research.

«This graphene system is able to detect the level of activity of an interfaced cell,» says Vikas Berry, associate professor and head of chemical engineering at UIC, who led the research along with Ankit Mehta, assistant professor of clinical neurosurgery in the UIC College of Medicine.

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Pigs and humans have similar colonic stem cell populations and microbiomes, according to Jairam K.P. Vanamala, who led a research effort to better understand those similarities.

INBio's importance is clear when one looks at its productivity: The institute has led research on about 30 percent of known species in Costa Rica with the participation of more than 600 scientists from 42 different countries.

The aim is to improve fish stocks — but Professor Mike Heath, who led the research team from Strathclyde's Department of Mathematics and Statistics, said this outcome was uncertain.

«At the moment, only about one third of children under the age of 15 who are in need of ART are likely to receive antiretroviral treatment, compared with two - thirds of adults,» says Dr. Marie - Renée B - Lajoie, from McGill's Dept. of Family Medicine, who led the research.

New NOAA - led research maps the distribution of aragonite saturation state in both surface and subsurface waters of the global ocean and provides further evidence that ocean acidification is happening on a global scale.

Prof. Udi Qimron of the Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology at TAU's Sackler Faculty of Medicine led the research team, which also included Dr. Ido Yosef, Dr. Moran Goren, Rea Globus and Shahar Molshanski, all of Prof. Qimron's lab.

«By learning more about how these cells work, we are one step closer to understanding the disease states in which these cells should be studied,» said Cagla Eroglu, an assistant professor of cell biology and neurobiology at the Duke University Medical Center, who led the research.

Professor Mike Heath, of Strathclyde's Department of Mathematics and Statistics, led the research.

«We have added another piece of information showing that the timescales on which humans have changed the composition of the atmosphere are extremely short compared to the natural time cycles of the climate system,» says Thomas Stocker of the University of Bern in Switzerland, who led the research.

In a study published April 2 in the journal Advanced Materials, a University at Buffalo - led research team describes how kirigami has inspired its efforts to build malleable electronic circuits.

Professor Michael P. Lisanti, Director of the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Unit, led the research.

Low - cost, high - volume health services account for a high percentage of unnecessary health spending, adding strain to the health care system, new UCLA - led research suggests.

A large number of chemicals that dissolve relatively easily in water do not break down as readily in air, building up «specifically in nonaquatic food webs: mammals, birds, human beings,» explains Frank Gobas, an environmental toxicologist at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, who led the research.

«Implantation to mother's uterus is arguably one of the hardest things we ever have to do in life,» said Ruohola - Baker, University of Washington professor of biochemistry and associate director of the UW Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, who led the research team.

This is the first time such a «retirement» pattern has been seen in fish that make this river - to - ocean migration, according to University of Washington - led research published in July in the journal Ecology.

Dr Walid Magdy, of the University of Edinburgh's School of Informatics, who led the research, said: «The introduction of skin tone choices for emojis has been a success in representing diversity and their extensive use shows that they meet a real demand from users.»

This finding could have obvious implications in preventing heart disease and diabetes, but also could be important for older adults because higher lean body mass can contribute to a longer life with more independence, said Ohio State's Martha Belury, a professor of human nutrition who led the research.

Curtin University - led research has shown squirrels have adapted to New York City's human behaviour, allowing them to thrive just as well, if not better, than their fellow squirrels in the woods.

«Because the attractive interaction between the rare - earth element and protons causes the proton trapping, introducing another defect having positive charges — that is to say, oxygen vacancy — appears to liberate the trapped protons,» said Hitoshi Takamura who led the research at Tohoku University.

The Oxford University - led research found that fungi regulate diversity in rainforests by making dominant species victims of their own success.

«Our research shows that targeting cannabinoid receptors in the periphery with pharmacological inhibitors that do not reach the brain holds promise as a safe therapeutic approach for the treatment of overeating and diet - induced obesity,» said Nicholas V. DiPatrizio, an assistant professor of biomedical sciences in the School of Medicine, who led the research project.

With the goal of providing basic information to help improve preparedness and mitigation efforts, new University of Iowa - led research published online in September in the Journal of Hydrology examined how accurate current forecasting systems are in predicting rainfall from North Atlantic tropical cyclones that reach land in the United States.

«We expect our smart glass to cost one tenth of what current smart glass costs because our version can be manufactured with the same methods used to make many plastic parts and does not require complicated electro - optic technology for switching,» said Keith Goossen, who led the research team with Daniel Wolf of the University of Delaware.

IBM - led research to create lithium - air electric vehicle batteries gets a boost from Japanese chemical companies toward the goal of 800 kilometers out of a full charge

Thomas J. D. Jørgensen and Professor Ludvig M. Sollid from the University of Oslo / Oslo University Hospital led the research.

Liverpool Seismologist, Stephen Hicks from the School of Environmental Sciences, who led the research, said: «It was previously thought that dense geological bodies in an active fault zone may cause more movement of the fault during an earthquake.»

Wireless power transfer technology may find use in a wide range of applications beyond powering electric vehicles, said Xiaofang Yu, an electrical engineer and postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University who led the research.