Sentences with phrase «number of researchers who»

That's the conclusion of a growing number of researchers who argue that 30 years of test scores have not measured a decline in public schools, but are rather a metric of the country's child poverty and the broadening divide of income inequality.

The Portal is designed to help dramatically expand the number of researchers who can use human genetic data to study type 2 diabetes.

In terms of equipment, infrastructure and expertise researchers in this area have strong links with a number of researchers who work in the biodiversity and physiological areas described below.

Prusiner says that he persisted because he never found another problem as captivating as prions, but Dreger cites a number of researchers who, after bruising public disputes over unconventional conclusions, retreated to other, less inflammatory, lines of inquiry.

Colleagues say he has tried to foster such interdisciplinary work at MIT, and has boosted the number of researchers who hold joint appointments at two departments.

Spievack visited Badylak's lab and soon after joined the growing number of researchers who had begun pursuing their own research on ECM.

This piece in the New York Times cites a number of researchers who speak about mess and clutter in loving, productive terms.

And despite poorer prospects, the numbers of researchers who take multiple postdoctoral positions has not increased — nearly 60 % of former postdocs polled held only one position and 30 % held two, nearly identical to the results from the 2010 survey.

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Data from top university researchers shows that there are a large number of women investors who are actively looking to support women and minority business owners through targeted investments through crowdfunding.

In a study of more than 58,000 people who made their likes public through a Facebook app, researchers discovered that Likes could predict a number of identification traits that users had not disclosed:

With Dialog's conventional custom - search service, Dial - Search, a customer dials an 800 number to contact a trained researcher, who then hunts through Dialog's huge battery of databases and in a few days issues a report.

Challenge number one was how hard it was to find a large number of research subjects working in similar jobs, who could divide into work - at - home and work - at - the - office cohorts, and who were willing to cooperate with the researchers over a long enough period of time.

She joins a number of other top AI researchers coming out of University of Toronto who have gone on to secure positions of importance at major tech firms; U of T AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, who heads Google Brain's Canadian operations, is another.

Canada's National Household Survey on incomes produced flawed data with harmful implications for public policy, according to a range of researchers and statistics experts who have sifted through the numbers.

«In fact, we saw an all - time high number of people taking that view,» said Greg Smith, one of the researchers who produced the Pew report.

American students of religion in society, including growing numbers of «good society» researchers, are discovering that they have international colleagues who bring fresh historical experiences and philosophical assumptions...

Researchers undertook two extensive surveys in 2007 and 2014 and found that the number of Americans who identify with no religion grew by more than 6 percentage points during those seven years.

American students of religion in society, including growing numbers of «good society» researchers, are discovering that they have international colleagues who bring fresh historical experiences and philosophical assumptions to the table.

For the first time, the number of people who do not profess any religion (53 per cent) now outnumbers those who do, according to researchers.

The greatest outcry, however, came from survey organizations who produce the polls, social scientists who utilize poll findings to bolster arguments about the vitality of American religion, and a number of Roman Catholic researchers who argued that we exaggerated the overreporting in their constituency.

What The New York Times calls the «blame Woodstock» explanation for the rise of clerical sex abuse cases in the Seventies, despite the paper's evident scepticism, can not be entirely discounted, since as the researchers of the John Jay College (hereafter JJC) pointed out in their latest report, «the sexual abuse of minors is a pervasive problem in society and in organisations that involve close relationships between youth and adults... No exact measure exists for the number of youths who have contact with priests in the Catholic Church in a year... [but] despite the media focus on child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, it is clear that these abuse acts are a small percentage of all child sexual abuse incidents in the United States.»

The number of people who follow gluten - free diets is far larger than the number diagnosed with celiac disease, report researchers at Rutgers University, noting the public perception of the diet's health benefits may also be helping encourage its adoption.

The King - Devick (K - D) test measuring the speed of rapid number naming is an accurate and reliable method for identifying athletes who should be removed from a game or practice for further evaluation, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found.

While researchers continue to look for the concussion «holy grail» in the form of specific impact thresholds above which concussions are highly likely and / or the number of impacts or the magnitude of impacts per week or per season that substantially increase the risk of long term brain injury, impact sensor technology is available right now to do what we can to reduce total brain trauma by using impact data to identify kids who need more coaching so they can learn how to tackle and block without using their helmets.

She is part of a growing number who represent the highest percentage of minority women nursing their children since researchers began tracking such data.

Neurological milestones are outlined in «The Wonder Weeks», a book by Dutch researchers, psychologists Franz Plooij and Hetty Van Der Rit, who observed many children in their homes over a number of years.

For example, in MANA Stats there are such a small number of early neonatal deaths that it wouldn't be impossible for a researcher to figure out who some of the mothers and babies are in the sample.

Mothers who have experienced a high number of cesarean sections might be interested in this study by researchers Cahill, Tuuli, Odibo, Stamilio & Macones, published in BJOG in 2010.

Opening those massive stores of statistical data to researchers, watchdogs and that crazy guy who's coding in his basement all night could have serious positive effects, not the least in bringing in a lot more number - crunchers to help with analysis and also with relating that data to other non-governmental sources.

There are researchers and activists in a number of countries who are currently exploring how republican values might be applied in the economy.

The IASOS has over 60 researchers from glaciology to biology and oceans policy, as well as the same number of students who are doing postgraduate courses, masters, or PhDs.

According to researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) while the merits of screening tests and screening intervals warrant further discussion, they firmly believe that increasing the number of women who participate in cancer screenings and ensuring that women are not lost to follow - up with lengthened screening intervals is more important than the choice of test to decrease rates of cervical cancer.

The Duke researchers who made this discovery say it may help explain how a relatively small number of genes can create the dazzling array of different cell types found in human brains and the nervous systems in other animals.

Early - career scientists who wish to win research funding from federal agencies face a number of obstacles, not least of all the formidable competition: senior researchers who have spent years improving their grantsmanship skills.

Researchers often assume that predator numbers grow and shrink based on their food supply, says evolutionary biologist Blaire Van Valkenburgh of the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not involved in the new study.

It had been a different story at RAS's zoological museum a few days earlier, where she wasn't allowed to sample the bones she had come for because they were already covered with drill marks from other researchers who, like her, hoped to mine the relatively small number of ancient polar bear samples to reveal their evolutionary history.

Currently the field is dominated by a relatively small number of established, well - funded labs, but there is another generation of researchers who are coming into their own and looking to carve out some space for themselves in this dynamic field.

The survey did not ask about using the pill to treat less common medical problems such as hirsutism (unwanted, male - pattern hair growth in women), menstrual migraines and fibroids, so researchers noted their numbers may underestimate the number of women who use the pill for reasons besides pregnancy prevention.

The researchers noted that an extraordinarily high number of people who were approached were willing to participate in the pilot.

So a number of times, I found myself back out around the Denver, Boulder area talking to a lot of researchers there who have been involved with things.

«If the efficiency of the extracellular enzymes increases, for example, with an increase in temperature, our study shows that the number of lazy microbes also increases, so that the overall speed of decomposition remains about the same,» says IIASA researcher Oskar Franklin, who also contributed to the study.

In an early - morning announcement today, researchers reported that an experimental HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) vaccine effectively reduced the number of people who contracted the virus by nearly a third.

A multicenter team of researchers reports that a full genomic analysis of tumor samples from a small number of people who died of pancreatic cancer suggests that chemical changes to DNA that do not affect the DNA sequence itself yet control how it operates confer survival advantages on subsets of pancreatic cancer cells.

Kristen Marhaver, who began this work while she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California at Merced, USA, said: «Now that we've successfully reared juvenile Pillar Corals in the lab, not only can we study them in more detail to find out what factors could be threatening their survival in the wild, but it also means that we can try to out - plant a small number back to the reef.

The number of people who suffer from celiac disease has been steadily increasing in the past decade, and some researchers feel it may be blamed on environmental factors.

«Looking at changes in the number of dry days per year is a new way of understanding how climate change will affect us that goes beyond just annual or seasonal mean precipitation changes, and allows us to better adapt to and mitigate the impacts of local hydrological changes,» said Polade, a postdoctoral researcher who works with Scripps climate scientists Dan Cayan, David Pierce, Alexander Gershunov, and Michael Dettinger, who are co-authors of the study.

In the study, researchers used the blood of seven people who survived Ebola Bundibugyo virus infection during the 2007 outbreak in Uganda to isolate a large number of B cells that produce antibodies, which are the small protein molecules capable of inactivating the virus.

Because a number of trials suggested that vaccination efficiency is higher in people who had some previous exposure to dengue, the researchers considered routine vaccination of children at different ages (2, 9, or 16 years), with and without a one - time catch - up campaign targeting individuals up to age 30 who had missed routine vaccinations.

After adjusting for confounding factors such as age, education and occupational status, the researchers found that not only was there a 30 % increased risk of any arrhythmia with the highest number of races completed and the fastest finishing time, but also the risk increased by 10 % between each category for the number of races completed, i.e. there was a 10 % increased risk from the least exposed group of participants (those who completed only one race) to the next group (two races), another 10 % increase in risk to the next group (three - four races) and another 10 % to the most exposed group (five or more races).

Within the first two weeks of infusion, a detectable number of CART - EGFRvIII cells trafficked to the tumors, with signs of activation in the four patients who had «early surgery,» the researchers reported.