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Figure 3: Distribution of the number of researchers convinced by the evidence of anthropogenic climate change (green) and unconvinced by the evidence (red) with a given number of total climate publications (Anderegg 2010).

There is a shared mechanism at work that has emerged from the detailed observations of a number of researchers, that is the key to the onset and progression of the ice retreat.

Now, as a codirector of MIT's Leg Lab, he's one of a number of researchers developing radically improved prosthetics.

Not exact matches

To get around this gatekeeper, researchers have tried a number of approaches — including attaching drugs to nanoparticles that might slip through the BBB.

In order to figure out why, the researchers ruled out a number of possibilities by controlling for variables such as family background and health.

The researchers drew their data from a number of British and American longitudinal surveys, including the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, which includes nearly 5,000 participants born in big US cities between 1998 and 2000.

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.

«The researchers say they factored those rates of transition in their multi-state model; further, the model can estimate the impact of some possible prevention efforts on the number of future cases.»

Michael Dillon, a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researcher, crunched the numbers and helped figure out just that in a 2014 study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences.

But researchers looking at data from the Department of Homeland Security believe that the number of people entering the country illegally has fallen to historically low levels in recent years.

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.

'' [The researchers»] conclusion was that the nature of action video game play was critical in «forcing players to simultaneously juggle a number of varied tasks (detect new enemies, track existing enemies and avoid getting hurt, among others)...»

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:

Researchers, led by Helen Pilcher, PhD, formerly of London's Institute of Psychiatry, looked into the number of calories burned by intense laughing and compared it to the calorie burn of other daily activities (strength training, running, even vacuuming).

The researchers also found that when boards did vary the number of options granted to CEOs, they often picked round numbers, such as increasing the number of options by 10 % or doubling it.

Such behavior, the researchers argue, suggests that boards indeed tend to think about grants in terms of the number of options, not their dollar value.

He's the number one professor six years running at Wharton, one of the leading business schools in the country; a New York Times bestselling author multiple times over; and a frequent keynote speaker, researcher and consultant.

Independent security researcher Harri Hursti said past attempts at tokenization have encountered exceptions that make the idea of disposable, proxy account numbers much more complex than it may seem at first glance.

«When attacking other devices, it is harder to decrypt all packets, although a large number of packets can nevertheless be decrypted,» say the researchers.

The researchers did a number of experiments to figure this out, but to me the most clever was a replica of the one situation in which even the most straightforward among us is going to be tempted to humblebrag: The job interview.

The hack, among the largest ever recorded, was especially alarming due to the richness of the information exposed, which included names, birthdays, addresses and Social Security and driver's license numbers, cyber researchers said.

A new study, conducted by researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center, serves up the grim conclusion that calorie labels, on their own, do not reduce the overall number of calories ordered.

Only 5 percent of the companies that received venture capital funding in 2004 had a female CEO, according to the Crain's Chicago Business article, a trend that has not changed since researchers started tracking these numbers in 1997.

Besides randomized controlled clinical trials, there are a number of ways researchers can study how a particular cancer treatment is playing out in the real world: there are retrospective studies, observational studies, and even prospective research done using patient registries.

«In some ways I think this further validates cryptocurrencies but at the same time there are a tremendous number of questions around the petro,» Garrick Hileman, a cryptocurrency researcher at the University of Cambridge, told CNBC Tuesday.

More broadly, a number of researchers have disputed the idea that playing brain games translates into any real - world value.

This why an increasing number of researchers are turning to advanced computer simulations.

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.

Iranian hackers have compromised more than a dozen accounts on the Telegram instant messaging service and identified the phone numbers of 15 million Iranian users, the largest known breach of the encrypted communications system, cyber researchers told Reuters.

Princeton researchers, for example, assumed that using Twitter alone meant looking at consumer sentiment and not the amount of buzz, measured by the number of tweets over time.

Before the study began, researchers asked 76 participants to rate the quality of a number of short films.

The researchers said the challenges would lead to an increase in the number of people uninsured due in part to the heightened uncertainty for insurers and beneficiaries.

Using open data from 7,236 cities, researchers looked at factors like affordability, access to jobs, frequency of service, quality, and number of stops.

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.

He wrote that security researchers in India have received the most number of payouts since Facebook initiated its bug bounty program, followed by the U.S. and Mexico.

The board game is favored by AI researchers because of the large number of outcomes compared to other games such as western chess.

Participants» depression levels, the researchers found, increased alongside the total amount of time spent using social media and the number of weekly visits to social media platforms.

But it is the sheer numbers of them that have researchers baffled.

Six years after New York City's mandate that calories be listed at chain restaurants, researchers have found that these labels, on their own, do not reduce the overall number of calories ordered.

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.

The study also notes a rise in the number of mineral - only sunscreens on the market — representing 34 % of the products EWG tested in 2017, double the number from a decade ago — while adding that those products often hold up better under the EWG researchers» scrutiny.

A University of Notre Dame researcher found that when people reduced the number of lies they told over 10 weeks they reported significantly improved physical and mental health.

Researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and their colleagues looked at myocardial infarction rates in Sweden since 1987 and found that the number of heart attacks rose about 5 percent during the first week of daylight saving time (called summer time in Europe).

Over the years, researchers have raised a number of serious conceptual and measurement concerns about how the official poverty rate is calculated.

Nevertheless, across a significant number of studies using different methodologies and performed by different researchers, a consistent picture is emerging about the effects of patent litigation: it costs innovators money; many innovators and venture capitalists report that it significantly impacts their businesses; innovators respond by investing less in R&D and venture capitalists respond by investing less in startups.

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.

You can gauge the interest in responsible investing simply from the increase in shareholder proposals being filed about ESG issues and the exponential growth in the number of questions being asked by institutional investors, researchers and clients - and as a CEO, I have to make trade offs that may not be in the best short term profit interest of the Bank but are viewed in our best long term interest.