Sentences with phrase «led this study of»

Linguistics professor Naomi Baron led a study of more than three hundred students in the United States, Japan, Germany and Slovakia that asked them about their reading habits.

Understanding Society is a world leading study of the socio - economic circumstances in 40,000 UK households.

Preventing a tragedy is understandable and good, but we have to do this in ways that are sensible rather than just reactionary,» says Kupchik, an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware, Newark, who is leading a study of discipline in American public high schools.

At the University of Washington Kavitha T. Kuppusamy led a study of a molecular switch that promotes heart cell maturation.

University of Illinois anthropology professor Kate Clancy led a study of sexual harassment and assault on researchers involved in scientific field studies.

Dietz led a study of household energy consumption, published online August 31, 2010, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, that looked at the effects of programs trying to influence energy use, many of which were very effective.

says Professor Valentin Troll at the Department of Earth Sciences, who led this study of Toba quartzes at Uppsala University.

Contrary to popular practice, a measure of the heart's pumping function known as «left ventricular ejection fraction» is not associated with the long - term outcomes of hospitalized heart failure patients, a UCLA - led study of Medicare patients has found.

David J. Varricchio of Montana State University, who led the study of the remains, speculates that a collapsing burrow or a sudden flood might have suffocated the psittacosaurs.

«The existing criteria for an induced earthquake do not allow earthquakes associated with the well activity to occur this far away from the wellbore,» said Katie Keranen, assistant professor of geophysics at Cornell University, who led the study of the Jones earthquake swarm.

Researchers leading the study of the 5200 - year - old traveller, came up with this version of events after discovering a settlement close to where he died.

It's like looking through a cosmic kaleidoscope,» said Yashar Hezaveh (McGill University, Montreal, Canada), who led the study of the gravitational lensing.

Dr. Collins has led studies of donor leukocyte infusions through an international network of more than 100 centers.

Dean Toste, left, of Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley, and Elad Gross, right, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, led a study of site - specific chemical reactivity on tiny platinum and gold particles at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source.

A new University of Michigan - led study of nearly 3,400 women in Michigan shows that one in five who underwent a hysterectomy may not have needed it.

Professor Tarnopolsky led a study of mice, some of which were genetically engineered to age prematurely.

In my first foray into education policy in the mid-1980s, I led a study of the Milwaukee metropolitan public school districts.

(At the U.S. Education Department, I helped lead a study of Japanese education as long ago as 1988.)

«These are folks trying to do something different, for academic progress and social and emotional progress, and measuring things like that are hard,» said Betheny Gross, who is leading a study of personalized learning at the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) in Seattle.

In 1981, Professor Sizer left Andover to lead the study of American high schools, which was sponsored by the National Association of Secondary School Principals and the National Association of Independent Schools.

Working again with Dr. Hatch, Deirdre led a study of the NYCDOE Local Measures of Student Learning, which are used to evaluate teacher and student performance in New York City Schools.

These meetings were informed by first - of - their - kind, Bush - Institute led studies of North Korean refugee resettlement and U.S. public opinion on North Korea.

Health Risk Assessments Support Veterinary Preventive Care Bob Lavan, MS, DVM, MPVM, DACVPM, associate director Outcomes Research Team, Zoetis, led the study of 563 companion animals (dogs and cats) that compared standard wellness office visits (history, physical exam, and limited laboratory screening) with medical findings and experiences with that same type of office visit but now including the PWR.

Jason Head, the University of Toronto, Mississauga, a paleontologist who led the study of the snake and its climate, warned that while the ancient tropics appeared to be a steamy thriving place, the pace of change projected now from the rapid buildup of greenhouse gases is likely to be disruptive.

However, as the main source papers for the IPCC had to be gathered some time ago, the Scripps - led study of the Pacific decadal oscillation will not have made it into the final report, the first part of which will be presented at a meeting in Stockholm next month.

Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration led a study of last year's drought in the vast plains and prairies between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains.

Ted currently leads the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) Permafrost Action Team.

Moreover, the CIFOR - led study of which this model is a part has found that the rush to produce biofuel has resulted in high levels of deforestation in many tropical countries, and therefore can have significant impacts on global climate change and local ecosystem services.

Audier & Partners led a study of the legal environment for BOT projects in Vietnam, providing information from existing Vietnamese regulations to identify the main legal and tax issues concerning foreign investors in relation to BOT projects.

Jessica Kirkpatrick, the lead product data scientist at Hired, led a study of «the state of wage inequality» using data from more than 100,000 job offers to 15,000 candidates at 3,000 companies who use Hired's software for recruiting.

Not exact matches

A whole host of studies prove that moving more leads to thinking better, which is a phenomenal thing to know if you're looking for a little inspiration to hit the gym.

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.

Professor Zhu Chaodong, the Institute of Zoology's lead scientist in insect evolution studies at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, said it would be a «catastrophe» if billions of cockroaches were suddenly released into the environment — be it through human error or a natural disaster like an earthquake that damaged the building.

At the first meeting of the I.S.O. blockchain group, the Russian delegation led a study group on security and privacy issues, which caused discomfort among some delegates from other countries, according to the two delegates who spoke to The New York Times.

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.

Though for many of us, studying for a big test or completing a grade - determining project can lead some to lose focus.

«We had been offering our Depression Care service for a number of years, and we wanted to dig into our data and measure our impact... look and see who our end users were,» says Barb Vader, Vice President, Clinical Services at Morneau Shepell, and the study's research lead.

«If something seems to be a nice invitation to join a group, I might ignore warning cues,» said Natalie Ebner, a University of Florida psychology professor and one of the phishing study's lead researchers.

One of the most exciting things about studying Musk and other breakthrough innovators is that it reveals that even though these people often have special, difficult - to - imitate abilities or traits, the mechanisms by which these abilities and traits lead to innovation are often something we can tap ourselves.

Studies have shown that personalization remains one of the most effective tools for leading a potential customer to a sale.

Last year, in a review published in the journal Nature, Beebe and coauthors wrote that hematology, the study of blood, was one of the leading areas of use for microfluidic technology, though «a «killer application'that propels microfluidics into the mainstream has yet to emerge.»

But it's important to note that these results were from observational studies of healthy adults, and there could still be plenty of confounding factors that lead to dementia.

The study, which was published in the September issue of Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, also indicated that one's perception of available time led powerful people to be, in general, less stressed.

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.

Last week, a study published by the Kauffman Foundation using census data from the past 50 years, revealed some eye - opening statistics about the number of immigrant - led companies in America.

Jackson is the lead author of a new study to be published in Psychological Science that tracked nearly 5,000 married Australians for five years and measured how a spouse's personality impacted whether their partner received a promotion, earned a higher salary or experienced higher levels of job satisfaction.

A 2012 study from the Centre for Retirement Research at Boston College in the United States found that the greater number of older persons employed led to better outcomes for the young, including reduced unemployment and a higher wage.

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.