Sentences with phrase «number of researchers with»

«You can count on the fingers of one hand» the number of researchers with topflight training in both fields, says geneticist David Botstein of Stanford University in California, a co-chair of the advisory panel.

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Looking at 100 large metro areas, the researchers analyzed public data across nine categories, including housing costs, income equality, Medicare enrollment, the numbers of hospitals and households with older adults, and volunteer rates for older adults.

So researchers at the NIH in 2013 — equipped with the latest tools of science — decided to check this number by instead measuring a pregnancy from the moment of ovulation (fertilization usually occurs within 12 to 24 hours after an egg is released).

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.

In a series of experiments, researchers at Northwestern University used brain scanners and EEG sensors to study neural activity in a number of participants tasked with solving complex word puzzles.

«Parenting daughters reduces the bias that one has towards women, which leads to more female hires,» the researchers wrote, noting that firms with a greater number of daughters over the age of 12 also lead to even greater gender diversity in firms.

By asking this question, the researchers could compare participants» predictions about how many ideas they would generate with the actual number of ideas they ended up generating during the second interval.

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.

Nonetheless, Canada came in third place for the number of researchers in our LinkedIn and conference presenter searches, making it a viable competitor to the U.S., with 1,154 high - level profiles, which is high given Canada's small population and GDP.

Tufekci offers up a number of recommendations for Facebook, including sharing data with outside researchers to better understand how misinformation spreads and the extent of filter bubbles, 1 acting much more aggressively to eliminate fake news like it does spam and other objectionable content, rehiring human editors, and retweaking its algorithm to favor news balance, not just engagement.

The Marketing Machine helped the organization launch the initiative to raise money for researchers focusing on developing proper conditioning, nutrition, training and rehabilitation specific to the growing number of canine athletes, and the agency continues to assist the AKC with quarterly newsletters and tapping into new markets for fundraising.

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.

Between January and September of 2003, after conducting seven different polls, researchers found that the answer was yes: «A substantial portion of the public had a number of misperceptions that were demonstrably false, or were at odds with the dominant view in the intelligence community... [These misperceptions] have played a key role in generating and maintaining approval for the decision to go to war»

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.

He decreed that the case brought by researchers Drs James Sherley and Theresa Deisher, along with a number of Christian groups including the Christian Medical Association, should be heard; and ordered an injunction temporarily blocking federal funding allocated for human - embryonic - stem - cell research.

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.»

It is time government institutions took the lead in establishing more incubation centres to enable researchers to scale up their innovative ideas, facilitating alignment with start - ups in order to bring in new innovations, which would help in solving a number of problems faced by the society.

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.

In addition, SportsInsights» researchers have shown that «anti-public» sports investing systems can be aided by keying in on games with a lot of public interest (such as games involving nationally - ranked teams, nationally - televised games, big rivalries or popular teams, or games with a large number of bets).

The capacities that develop in the earliest years may be harder to measure on tests of kindergarten readiness than abilities like number and letter recognition, but they are precisely the skills, closely related to executive functions, that researchers have recently determined to be so valuable in kindergarten and beyond: the ability to focus on a single activity for an extended period, the ability to understand and follow directions, the ability to cope with disappointment and frustration, the ability to interact capably with other students.

In fact, according to researchers Laura Glynn and Curt Sandman, the volume of gray matter (or number of neural cell bodies) increases in the above regions in new mothers and is associated with their positive feelings toward their infants.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania tested boxers and mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters before and after sparring sessions or bouts using the King - Devick (K - D) test, a simple, two - minute test in which the athletes were shown a set of three index cards with a series of numbers scattered across eight lines and asked to read the numbers as quickly as possible without any errors from left to right.

The McGill study is the first «to say that soft protective headgear for soccer significantly decreased the number of concussions for those athletes,» said lead researcher, Dr. Scott Delaney in an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Company.

Those approximated numbers were recorded before researchers tasked the couples with keeping detailed diaries of their time.

However, the N.Y.U. researchers knew that in recent years, trainers working with athletes in sports such as boxing and mixed martial arts, where concussions are common, had begun supplementing the Standardized Assessment with a simple vision exam, known as the King - Devick test, during which someone reads slightly jumbled lines of numbers printed on three cards as quickly as possible.

Using DTI imaging technique, researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, found in a 2013 study [16] significant differences in brain white matter of varsity football and hockey players compared with a group of non-contact-sport athletes, with the number of times they were hit correlated with changes in the white matter.

Here's an update on a story I shared with you last February: Back then, I told you how a team of researchers had examined four published studies by the Cornell Food and Brand Lab and had raised a number of serious concerns about the studies» data.

To learn more about the mental processes of infants, researchers have come up with a number of creative tasks that reveal the inner workings of the baby brain.

Researchers Rudolph Schaffer and Peggy Emerson analyzed the number of attachment relationships that infants form in a longitudinal study with 60 infants.

For this study, the researchers focused on the total number of minutes the new fathers spent in positive engagement activities with their infants on the non-workday.

I was at our party conference recently and, as one does, found myself gravitating towards the bar with a number of other researchers.

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.

The article described how a team of researchers, surgeons and radiologists had successfully carried out a number of islet cell transplantations in people with Type 1 diabetes, in Edmonton, Canada..

The bill would make it mandatory for researchers to publish all information from cancer clinical trials, with the goal being to get more researchers to work together and bring down the number of duplicative studies.

Researchers were surprised by some of the numbers, but public health officials and elected officials weren't entirely shocked with the results.

In 2014, Christiano and other CUMC researchers identified the immune cells responsible for destroying hair follicles in people with alopecia areata and tested an FDA - approved drug that led to complete hair regrowth in a small number of patients.

Plus, the researchers said they were left with inconclusive results because of the small number of patients enrolled.

Researchers with the Air Transportation Center of Excellence for Airline Cabin Environment Research are testing a system that uses mathematical models and sensors designed to pinpoint problem passengers down to their seat number and alert flight and ground crews of an emergency.

Although a number of groups have investigated the potential for geoengineering, researchers continue to find problems with the concept, and former Vice President Al Gore has called the idea «insane.»

«To our knowledge, no other chemical has been able to successfully lure mosquitoes to traps in large numbers in the absence of CO2, let alone at rates comparable with CO2,» the researchers report in their study.

When the researchers compared their data with figures from the US Centers for Disease Control, they found they could accurately predict the number of cases in the country two weeks earlier and with a difference of just 0.27 per cent.

The development of eye freckles correlated with increasing age, lifetime number of sunburns and a history of severe sunburns resulting in blisters, report researchers.

The researchers found that the development of eye freckles correlated with increasing age, lifetime number of sunburns and a history of severe sunburns resulting in blisters.

University of Queensland and CSIRO PhD student Viv Tulloch, affiliated with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, said this was the first time researchers had used this approach to predict future Southern Hemisphere whale numbers.

To help elucidate the workings of the compass once and for all, the researchers propose a number of experimental conditions inspired by cases they analyzed with their computational methods.

Then, to boost the number of cells, which is another hurdle in tissue engineering, the researchers mixed the chondrocytes with human mesenchymal stem cells from bone marrow.

In a session organized by Elsevier and conducted with the participation of the U.K. - based researcher professional development organization Vitae, among others, speakers highlighted a number of these tools and offered advice for how to go about incorporating them into your day - to - day work.

However, the researchers say the findings are consistent with a large number of studies linking road traffic noise and hypertension, which is a leading cause of stroke.

The researchers found that treating the mice with a drug that lowers blood sugar levels not only reduced the numbers of circulating monocytes and neutrophils but also allowed plaques to normally heal after blood cholesterol was reduced.

Additionally, researchers found that the Rocky Mountain region, with its large number of wells with a high frequency of unloadings that vent to the atmosphere, accounts for about half of overall emissions from liquid unloadings.