Sentences with phrase «new author advances»

The reality is, most traditional publishers offer new authors an advance of about $ 5,000.

Not exact matches

Director of the Columbia Astrobiology Center at Columbia University, New York, and author of «The Copernicus Complex,» Caleb Scharf explains how, using advanced technology, aliens could have progressed beyond physical matter.

This excerpt is a taste of what you need to know to build a platform so a top New York Publishing House will consider you an author who deserves a six - figure book advance.

McCray came up with the idea in collaboration with the Gracie Mansion Conservatory and one of its members, Pulitzer - prize winning author Tracy K. Smith, according to a spokeswoman for the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City, a nonprofit chaired by McCray.

But in a study published in this week's advance online publication of the journal Nature, Peters, the first author of the paper, and his colleagues found that the motor cortex itself plays an active role in learning new motor movements.

Senior author Dr. Leigh Hochberg — director of the BrainGate consortium and clinical trial, professor of engineering at Brown, critical care neurologist at MGH and director of the V.A. Rehabilitation Research and Development Center for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology at the PVAMC — agreed that the new paper is a key advance.

«Because there is currently no reliable screening available for ovarian cancer, most cases are diagnosed at advanced stages,» said the study's author, Bo (Bonnie) Qin, PhD, a postdoctoral associate at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey.

«This not only advances our understanding of how the body responds to cold, but could lead to new ways to control the amount of brown fat in the body, which has links to obesity, diabetes and fatty liver disease,» says senior author Ronald Evans, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and holder of Salk's March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology.

To investigate this, the authors conducted a study involving participants of Action in Diabetes and Vascular Disease: Preterax and Diamicron Modified Re-lease Controlled Evaluation (ADVANCE) trial (published in The Lancet in 2007 and the New England Journal of Medicine in 2008), with its cohort described by the authors as being generally representative of people with diabetes in developed countries such as Australia, New Zealand, China and nations of Europe, and also including China, a developing country.

«This approach offers a potentially new and safe way of treating liver cancer, and possibly other cancers,» said study senior author Dr. Ian Corbin, Assistant Professor in the Advanced Imaging Research Center (AIRC) and of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern.

«This is the first time [stimulated movement has] been linked to signals recorded from within the brain,» says biomedical engineer Chad Bouton, one of the study's authors and vice president of advanced engineering and technology at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset, New York.

Jana Beinhauer, a visiting scientist from Palacký University in the Czech Republic who spent nine months working at UT Arlington, and Liangqiao Bian, of the Shimadzu Center for Advanced Analytical Chemistry, are lead authors on the new paper.

«This finding is a major advance in understanding the natural carbon cycle, gained by applying a new understanding about how the «overturning circulation» of the Southern Ocean works,» said lead author Dr Andrew J Watson from the University of Exeter.

«In addition to advancing the wireless charging of vehicles and personal devices like cellphones, our new technology may untether robotics in manufacturing, which also are on the move,» said Shanhui Fan, a professor of electrical engineering and senior author of the study.

MDSINE is the first tool we've developed under the new BWH Precision Medicine Initiative, and we're releasing it as open source software in that hope that it will help to advance the bacteriotherapy field,» said senior author Georg Gerber, MD, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor in Computational Pathology at BWH and Co-Director of the Massachusetts Host - Microbiome Center at BWH.

«Homo naledi's foot is far more advanced than other parts of its body, for instance, its shoulders, skull, or pelvis,» said William Harcourt - Smith, lead author of the new paper, resident research associate in the American Museum of Natural History's Division of Paleontology, and assistant professor at CUNY's Lehman College.

In addition, the authors of the new study published in Science found that the strength of the barrier weakens with advancing age.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law by US President Barack Obama in 2010, can advance public health in the USA by supporting increased emphasis on prevention, and reversing the historic division between public health and private health care services, according to the authors of new research published in The Lancet as part of a new Series, The health of Americans.

«Our results using advanced, modern laboratory techniques called next - generation sequencing, allowed us to acquire a library of new knowledge about patients with ALS,» says the study's senior author, Leonard Petrucelli, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Neuroscience on Mayo Clinic's Florida campus.

«While there have been several advances in treating cancer and improving the quality of life of patients, the number of new cases continues to surge,» said Jamie Bernard, lead author and an assistant professor in pharmacology and toxicology.

«New pharmacologic options are welcomed by practicing clinicians like me who struggle to work with our patients who have diabetes — each of whom have unique circumstances that require customized approaches,» says Dr. Vivian Fonseca, M.D., Chief, Section of Endocrinology, Tulane University Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, and author of a paper describing new pharmacological advances in the management of type 2 diabetNew pharmacologic options are welcomed by practicing clinicians like me who struggle to work with our patients who have diabetes — each of whom have unique circumstances that require customized approaches,» says Dr. Vivian Fonseca, M.D., Chief, Section of Endocrinology, Tulane University Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, and author of a paper describing new pharmacological advances in the management of type 2 diabetNew Orleans, Louisiana, and author of a paper describing new pharmacological advances in the management of type 2 diabetnew pharmacological advances in the management of type 2 diabetes.

«We need to establish measures so that — in spite of potential variability between people, methods and researchers — we can really say, «clearly this new advance led to higher performance,» because we have systematic ways of comparing that,» says co-lead author Chethan Pandarinath, then a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford.

Tom Lapen, a geology professor at the University of Houston and lead author of a paper published Feb. 1 in the journal Science Advances, said the findings offer new clues to how the planet evolved and insight into the history of volcanic activity on Mars.

«Normally, the immune system will quickly recognize and act upon potential threats such as virally infected cells,» says Axel Nimmerjahn, assistant professor in Salk's Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center and senior author of the new paper.

All of the participants underwent their infertility treatments between 1986 and 2002, so the findings don't reflect new advances in the field that may have affected the risk of birth defects, the authors say.

-- Mark Hyman, MD, 10x New York Times bestselling author «The advance copy of the book blew my mind.»

Fantastic filmmakers and an author responsible for a whole new world of magic can be found at Carnegie Hall on November 12, as JK Rowling hosts a special advance screening of «Harry Potter» spinoff / prequel film «Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them» to benefit the Lumos Foundation.

It hasn't been clear sailing all the way, mind: popular historian Stephen Marche recently took to the NEW YORK TIMES to debunk such «prophets of truthiness» — Emmerich and Orloff are but a new, high - profile strain of Oxfordians, a group who name nobleman Edward de Vere as the true author of Shakespeare's texts, even the ones dated after his death — for advancing a lunatic conspiracy theory based on little more than class snobbeNEW YORK TIMES to debunk such «prophets of truthiness» — Emmerich and Orloff are but a new, high - profile strain of Oxfordians, a group who name nobleman Edward de Vere as the true author of Shakespeare's texts, even the ones dated after his death — for advancing a lunatic conspiracy theory based on little more than class snobbenew, high - profile strain of Oxfordians, a group who name nobleman Edward de Vere as the true author of Shakespeare's texts, even the ones dated after his death — for advancing a lunatic conspiracy theory based on little more than class snobbery.

Author Bio: Alexandra W. Logue is former university provost and executive vice chancellor of the City University of New York (CUNY) system, and a current research professor at CUNY's Center for Advanced Study in Education (CASE).

Dr. Paul Manna, a recognized scholar of education and author of the new Wallace Foundation Report, Developing Excellent School Principals to Advance Teaching and Learning: Considerations for State Policy, joins the conversation to discuss policy levers available to states to promote effective principals.

Melody (first author) developed the new literacies course to accomplish three main objectives: (a) to provide teachers with a scholarly foundation in literacy studies that recognizes how advances in technology influence literacy practices; (b) to support teachers in building their pedagogical knowledge of digital texts and tools as well as social practices influencing composing practices; and (c) to provide teachers with a setting for direct application of the theories and practices discussed in class as they worked with children in a writing camp.

WASHINGTON, DC — In advance of this morning's major announcement from Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler on the federal E-rate program, a new report released today by the Alliance for Excellent Education and the Leading Education by Advancing Digital (LEAD) Commission, and authored by Dr. John B. Horrigan, a leading authority on broadband adoption and use, shows that African American, Latino, low - income, and rural students are more likely to be in schools with slow internet access (10 Mbps or less) than their peers and less likely to be in schools with high - speed broadband internet (100 Mbps or more) needed for digital learning.

Dr. Tony Wagner, Innovation Education fellow at Harvard University and author of the new book, Creating Innovators (due out April 17), explains, «I do agree that the IB is a significantly better framework for intellectual rigor than the advanced placement (AP) curriculum for several reasons: the requirement that all students complete a 4500 word research paper, the service learning requirement, and the interdisciplinary theory of knowledge requirement, all of which take learning beyond the confines of the conventional curriculum.»

The authors discuss the limitations of using a single composite accountability index, advance principles and a conceptual framework to drive next generation accountability, describe potential indicators of what they call an «Educational Quality and Improvement Profile,» and offer recommendations to guide the design and implementation of these new accountability systems.

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Publishers could find that the high advances they've been paying — usually offered to bestselling authors to keep them in the fold, and to authors who have sought - after new manuscripts — are being regularly miscalculated.

All of us are grappling in one capacity or another with the industry's rapidly advancing new suite of potentials that can look, on a good day, like bright new beginnings, and on another day like an accelerating luge run down the slippery slope directly into opportunism, blurring ethical lines, and new relationships under the banner of author management.

Most advances, especially for «new» authors fall in the four - digit range.

ADVANCE TEASERS — Have you noticed how many big named authors release the first 10 chapters or so for a new novel coming out shortly?

To make this promotion exciting for even the people who already have all 3 books, we organized a private Google + Hangout and the four of us talked about a whole load of things for both new authors and more advanced stuff.

E-reader owners who bought Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling's new novel, The Casual Vacancy, on Thursday — or had ordered it in advance — discovered a text formatting error during the heavily - hyped release day.

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She also references the New York Times report that author Garth Risk Hallberg received a $ 2 million advance for his 900 - page debut, City on Fire — a clear indication a shorter debut novel is not always the best route to critical acclaim and financial riches!

Publishers occasionally use the power of the giveaway (especially in advance of an author's new release), and just as often they'll use the power of deep discounting.

However, the industry has changed dramatically since those golden years, and today's new traditionally published author might expect to get, on average, $ 5,000 as an advance.

In newer models, they may partner with authors (e.g.: Harper Studio) or communities (e.g.: Cursor) instead of «financing» them via exorbitant advances that rarely earn out, but the other aspects remain critical to the role of being a publisher.

First of all, can you guys talk about the changes that have taken place in the publishing industry in the last few years — Borders have closed, author advances have plummeted, new authors have turned to self - publishing, some agents are becoming book packagers for self - published authors...

Most authors still try the traditional route of getting a literary agent, then a publisher for their masterpiece, and there is no denying this is still probably the best way to advance your writing career (especially if you can pick up a nice three book deal from you new publisher!).

The way I personally look at it, if you have made enough that it equals the average advance for a new author then no one should ever have the audacity to say you are anything but a professional.

One of the best things about being a BookBrowse book critic is gaining advance notice that a favorite author has written a new book.