Sentences with phrase «led the study as»

«We hope these findings help government, industry and scientists to work together to address this issue,» says Sonter, who led the study as a UVM postdoctoral researcher, before joining the University of Queensland (Australia).

Now ancient DNA has rewritten the evolutionary history of this iconic group,» said first author Peter Heintzman, who led the study as a postdoctoral researcher at UC Santa Cruz.

These fluxes could have a large influence in coastal environments, especially in areas with low availability of nutrients and in semiarid regions, such as the Mediterranean Sea,» explains Valentí Rodellas, UAB researcher who led the study as part of his PhD thesis.

«Conservation of bird species should include decreasing noise in sensitive wildlife areas,» said Aaron Grade, who led the study as part of his master's thesis in the UF / IFAS wildlife ecology and conservation department.

Christian, who led the study as part of his research degree (MRes) in Vertebrate Palaeontology, adds: «Our results indicate that the number, and the relative thickness, of layers around the circumference of the rachis and along the feather's length are not fixed, and may vary either in order to cope with the stresses of flight particular to the bird or to the lineage that the individual belongs to.»

Not exact matches

Case in point, a recent study from Abertay University in Scotland found that a woman that's seen as wearing too much makeup can affect people's perception of her ability to lead.

In this study, consumption of a high ratio of PUFAs to saturated fats led to a higher resting metabolism, as well as a greater diet - induced calorie burn.

The study's lead author, Yorgi Mavros of Sydney University, was so impressed with the results that he has recommend twice - weekly weight training for all who want to keep their mental faculties sharp as they age.

The lead in NBC's «Blossom» as a kid, Bialek went on to get her bachelor's degree in neuroscience, as well as Hebrew and Jewish studies, from UCLA in 2000, though she had also been accepted to Harvard and Yale.

With a lot of offices beginning to take the «collaborative» approach to working, noise can become a significant problem, and studies have shown that more noise leads to higher degrees of stress, and less productivity as a result.

The proof is in the metrics: According to a study by Workboard, 69 percent of high - performing companies surveyed rated companywide communication of business goals as their leading tool for stacking a team of top performers.

In fact, the classic «marshmallow study,» led by psychologist Walter Mischel in the 1960s, found that kids who were able to delay the delicious gratification of eating a marshmallow wound up more successful as adults.

Participants were asked to not only guess what their partner's reservation price (the lowest price they would accept), but also questions that were designed to show how they perceived their partner — the study's authors were curious as to whether certain negotiation tactics might lead to a likability cost, even if they resulted in a few more dollars for the partner.

«At almost any given age, most of us are getting better at some things and worse at others,» Joshua Hartshorne, an MIT cognitive science researcher and the lead author of a study looking at how intelligence changes as we age, told Business Insider.

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.

An act as simple as renaming a cup size offers myriad ways to trick customers into buying more coffee, says Koert Van Ittersum, a Georgia Tech marketing professor who studies the behavioural biases that lead to overconsumption.

Additionally, a Roanoke College study led by Nicole Hurless found that beta wave amplitude went up as music tempo got faster.

One potential source of help, once the chaos subsided, came from a community organization called «US» (meaning «as opposed to them»), which was formed by members of a discussion group called the «Circle of Seven,» led by Malcolm X's cousin Hakim Jamal and one of Malcolm X's disciples, a UCLA Africana Studies doctoral student who was born Ron Everett but changed his name to Maulana Karenga.

A recent study from Babson College found that venture capital firms with female partners are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with female CEOs than firms led by all - male teams, but the percentage of women in the VC industry has dropped from 10 % to 6 % since 1999 — and only 2.7 % of VC - backed companies have a female CEO.

Both are likely true — not getting enough sleep could increase Alzheimer's risk (as the second study shows), and the factors that lead to Alzheimer's also seem to make it hard to sleep.

Massive open online course — MOOC — providers such as Coursera, edX and Udacity have millions of users and study material provided by some of the world's leading educational institutions.

«Public colleges are often touted as a cost - effective college choice,» says Elyssa Kirkham, lead researcher on the study, «but they aren't the only affordable option.

Cui Hongjian, a senior fellow with the China Institute of International Studies, said that the EU's core members viewed a rising China as a threat, which could lead to further confrontation.

As a 2013 study led by Susan Sprecher at Illinois State University suggests, simply sharing details about your hobbies and your favorite childhood memories can make you seem warmer and more likable.

In a study funded by NASA, David Dinges, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and a team of researchers found that letting astronauts sleep for as little as fifteen minutes markedly improved their cognitive performance, even when the nap didn't lead to an increase in alertness or the ability to pay more attention to a boring task.

While the results can't conclusively prove that all those second screens are causing the changes to the brain (differences in brain structure could also lead people to be more likely to multitask), the researchers suggest that the results should nonetheless serve as a red flag for fans of multiple devices while further studies are carried out to test causality.

Richardson has also started reviewing products in his niche areas on sites such as Amazon.com and has found, from studying his sales and traffic reports, that this is leading customers back to his eBay Store.

As part of a study, Google moved M&M s from clear to opaque containers, leading its 2,000 employees to consume 3.1 million fewer calories in the first seven weeks.

Y Combinator is certainly not the first to study basic income, and since it's just starting a pilot, we don't yet know how its work will lead to new or different findings than those uncovered by experiments in other places and times, such as those in Canada, the U.S., and India.

In another experiment, rather than prime participants for particular roles, testosterone levels were used as a marker of which study subjects were inclined towards dominating power structures and which less interested in leading.

Follow - up studies that tracked employee performance over time as people shifted between lower - and higher - scoring managers confirmed that great leadership scores do indeed lead to high team performance scores and not the other way around.

Because, as Belmonte rightly explains, the new «precisely targeted» tools can help us «study species evolution, biology and disease, and may lead ultimately to the ability to grow human organs for transplant.»

For example, a recent study by Lee, the KAIST professor, found that people who turn to their smartphones for «mood adjustment purposes,» such as to relieve boredom, stress or depression, may form a habit of using their phones for those objectives, which can lead to addictive behaviors.

Humor That Works at Work Depends on the Type of Humor You Use A study led by Adam Miklosi found that, yet again, dogs can teach us a little something about the effectiveness of humor as a stress - buster.

A study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond found that the Durbin Amendment is not working as Congress intended and has led to several unintended consequences.

His research has been published in the leading finance journals, such as the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Review of Finance.

We surveyed a variety of studies about credit card spending and present some of the most widely accepted explanations as presented by leading experts.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

«Colonization of the islands could have been possible thanks to natural rafts such as floating mangroves that typhoons occasionally break off the coast,» said Thomas Ingicco, the lead author of a study about the archeological site published in the journal Nature.

As much as Canada is a leading destination for international study, the fact is that China has already overtaken Canada in attracting foreign students, and very few Canadians avail of opportunities to study in ChinAs much as Canada is a leading destination for international study, the fact is that China has already overtaken Canada in attracting foreign students, and very few Canadians avail of opportunities to study in Chinas Canada is a leading destination for international study, the fact is that China has already overtaken Canada in attracting foreign students, and very few Canadians avail of opportunities to study in China.

An InsideSales.com study found that 35 - 50 % of sales go to the vendor that responds first to an inquiry, and a HubSpot study found that response rates decline as the age of a lead increases.

It's no surprise that people with higher morale would be more productive, and the facts speak for themselves: study after study, such as SHRM Foundation and Global Workplace Analytics, shows that work flexibility leads to greater productivity.

Of all the segments of content marketers we've studied over the last year, technology marketers are the most focused on lead generation as a goal for content marketing.

The reports of Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the International Center for Transitional Justice (the world's leading non-governmental organization studying political transitions), as well as the U.N. documents on the justice of nations moving from tyranny to democracy, give prominence to judicial punishment among all possible measures for addressing past human - rights violations.

Utah also leads the nation in the use of narcotic painkillers such as codeine and morphine - based drugs, the study found.

Contraceptives lead to abortion as pointed out in a recent study in Spain.

As part of the ministry, I help teach Sunday school and lead Bible study.

[25][26] Visceral Leishmaniasis Research The foundation awarded the He - brew University of Jerusalem Ku - vin Center for the Study of Infe - ctious and Tropical Dis - eases a $ 5 million grant in 2009 for research into vis - ceral leishmaniasis, an emerging pa - ra - sitic disease in Ethiopia where it is frequently as - sociated with HI - V / A-IDS, and a leading cause of adult illness and death.

James Nuechterlein's medley of reviews of the three new Lincoln studies is particularly artful in weaving together so much that we have come to know about the mature Lincoln who led the Union through the war years, as well as pointing out those areas in which Lincoln will perhaps always be clothed in mystery or contradiction.

These gifts combined with a free university education to so many people for whom there were then no appropriate jobs, as well as a civil war, led to the failure of the experiment failed, but in a time when it is clear, at least to me, that global pursuit of more and more wealth is suicidal for the human race, I think it would be worthwhile to study such efforts.