Sentences with phrase «other center researchers»

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Ding Ruxi, a researcher at the academy, said the method of of measuring 35 major cities is well established, which covers 23 provincial capitals, five municipalities, and a few other major centers.

Many institutions still lack the technological infrastructure needed to harness their own researchers» mammoth data sets, let alone those at other academic centers; fixing that alone could present medical science with one of the greatest research opportunities in decades.

However, a researcher at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, Brooke Williams, uncovered that Pfizer, among other companies like General Motors and ExxonMobil, had given between $ 10,000 and $ 25,000 to the National Bureau of Economic Research.

She admits that though she has faced other obstacles as a researcher — including the challenge of securing funding for her projects — a new Science Center should take priority over other funding concerns.

1) Protective Antioxidants: Blueberries rank # 1 in antioxidant activity, according to researchers at the USDA Human Nutrition Center (HNRCA) in a study that compared blueberries to 40 other fresh fruits and vegetables.

That situation prompted researchers at New York University's Langone Concussion Center to begin wondering recently whether there might be other, easier diagnostic tools to check young players for concussions.

Researchers on this project included lead author Ian M. Paul, Jennifer S. Savage and Michele E. Marini, Center for Childhood Obesity Research, Penn State College of Health and Human Development and others.

Researchers in Texas tested lunches with perishable items at nine preschool / child - care centers, using a heat - sensing gun to measure the temperatures of sandwiches, yogurts and other items.

Researchers at eight other institutions are members of the Center and are dedicated, like Noebels» group, to increasing the understanding of epilepsy and deadly complications such as SUDEP.

But the previous studies shared a common problem, says Marc Baum, a chemist at the Oak Crest Institute of Science, a nonprofit research center in Baldwin Park, California: They tracked car exhaust drifting out of highway tunnels, and the researchers were concerned that ammonia could react with the walls of the tunnel or other gases and thus not show up on detectors.

After researchers excluded other features in these communities, including recreational centers, the data suggested that decreased access to heart - healthy food stores is the common thread in more rapid progression of coronary atherosclerosis in middle - aged and older individuals.

So it is that Gary Erickson and two other veteran NASA aerodynamics researchers at the agency's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, are huddled around a 33 - inch - long version of what may be mankind's ticket to the cosmos.

A few years ago, Snyder's team and other researchers found that if NO reacts with GAPDH, GAPDH can then bind to another protein that whisks GAPDH away from its humdrum sugar metabolism tasks and into the nucleus, the cell's control center.

Researchers will link two SGI - Cray T3E supercomputers, one at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, the other at the Konrad Zuse Institute in Berlin.

The search for food is linked to other areas in the olfactory center of female tobacco hawkmoths (Manduca sexta) than the search for plants to best lay eggs, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, found.

«To ensure that researchers and research facilities funded through the DHS [Center of Excellence] award meet the highest safety standards possible,» the UCCLS report states, «DHS requires every recipient to develop a Research Safety Plan» showing, among other things, that the researcher has identified the potential hazards in the research and will use accepted and appropriate protocols and practices; that the institution provides faculty oversight for students and education and training to develop a culture of safety; and that subject matter experts not involved in the research review protocols and practices.

Future studies are planned by Chang and other School of Medicine researchers — including senior author Kenneth R. Carson, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of oncology, and Graham Colditz, MD, DrPH, a cancer expert who also is associate director of prevention and control at Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes - Jewish Hospital.

Other researchers on the study are Monica Taljaard, PhD, of Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada; Pedro L. Gozalo, PhD, and Roshani Dahal, MPH, both with the School of Public Health, Brown University; H. Edward Davidson, PharmD, and Lisa F. Han, MPH, both with Insight Therapeutics, LLC; Jessica Ogarek, MS of Brown; and Vincent Mor, PhD, with Brown and the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Providence.

Unlike other open - source initiatives, which ask centers to transfer or retrieve data from one centralized location, the CCC allows researchers to keep their data local.

The paper's other co-authors are Pepijn Moerman, a researcher at NYU's Center for Soft Matter Research at the time of the study and now at the Netherlands» Utrecht University, Eric Vanden - Eijnden, a professor at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and Pierre Hohenberg *, a professor emeritus in NYU's Department of Physics.

In 1975, O'Neill spearheaded a ten - week - long study at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, working with engineers, social scientists, and other researchers, as well as architects, to see whether such structures were feasible.

A team under Professor Scheffler, consisting of researchers from the Bonn University Hospital, the Life & Brain Center, The German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research, Tufts University Boston / Massachusetts, and other institutes in the USA, has now developed a new method that is expected to combat such complex brain tumors better.

Other researchers include Randy Strong, Department of Pharmacology and Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, UTHSC, San Antonio, TX; Clifford Rosen, Center for Clinical and Translational Research, Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Scarborough, ME; and Michael Nelson, Heart Institute, Cedars - Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.

The study's other co-authors are Vespa, who holds UCLA's Gary L. Brinderson Family Chair in Neurocritical Care and is director of neurocritical care at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center; Caroline Schnakers, a UCLA neurosurgery researcher; and Alexander Korb, a Semel Institute researcher.

The other part of the atlas was a physical map of the genome created by a group of researchers from the Center for the Study of Human Polymorphism in Paris.

Led by Sudha Ram, a UA professor of management information systems and computer science, and Dr. Yolande Pengetnze, a physician scientist at the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation in Dallas, the researchers looked specifically at the chronic condition of asthma and how asthma - related tweets, analyzed alongside other data, can help predict asthma - related emergency room visits.

Among other things, researchers have found that the hippocampus is usually smaller in schizophrenics, whereas some of the ventricles (four cavities at the center of the brain that are filled with cerebrospinal fluid) are larger.

By studying healthy people, researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Vaccine Research Center, part of the NIH, and colleagues from King's College London have created a reference resource for other scientists.

The researchers used high - resolution X-ray computed tomography (CT) at the Museum's Microscopy and Imaging Facility, the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, and the Biomaterials Science Center of the University of Basel in Switzerland to scan the skulls of 21 felid specimens, including seven modern cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) from distinct populations, a closely related extinct cheetah (Acinonyx pardinensis) that lived in the Pleistocene between about 2.6 million and 126,000 years ago, and more than a dozen other living felid species.

The three Ras genes found in humans — H - Ras, K - Ras and N - Ras — were among the first to be linked to cancer development, and a new study led by VCU Massey Cancer Center researcher Paul Dent, Ph.D., has shown the recently approved breast cancer drug neratinib can block the function of Ras as well as several other oncogenes through an unexpected process.

«Compared to any other device that converts chemical energy into electricity, the fuel cell, and in particular the solid oxide or ceramic fuel cell, is hands down the most efficient,» says veteran fuel cell researcher Eric Wachsman, director of the University of Maryland Energy Research Center, who published research pointing the way to lower temperature SOFCs on November 18 in Science.

To test the nasal vaccine in adults, researchers at 13 hospitals nationwide, led by Kristin Nichol of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Minneapolis, gave it to more than 2800 people in fall 1997; 1400 others got a placebo.

Other researchers who contributed to the work include Xi C. He, Ryohichi Sugimura, John M. Perry, Fang Tao, Meng Zhao, Matthew K. Christenson, Rebecca Sanchez, Jaclyn Y. Yu, Jeffrey S. Haug, Ariel Paulson and Hua Li at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Joanne L. Thorvaldsen and Marisa S. Bartolomei in the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology at the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Lai Peng and Xiao - bo Zhong in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City as well as Thomas L. Clemens in the Center for Musculoskeletal Research at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore.

According to this 2009 article by the late bioweapons researcher Jonathan Tucker, after most smallpox stocks were shifted to the two central repositories, «[a] few scientific research centers also reported finding and destroying vials containing the smallpox virus that had been retained inadvertently in laboratory freezers, sparking fears that other poorly secured samples might exist that could fall into the hands of terrorists.»

The process, which located a genetic site for the most common form of prostate cancer, has potential for developing precision therapy for other cancers, such as breast, brain and colorectal, say researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

During the last few months, these activities have moved «a large part of the university community to the street,» Ravaglia says, as researchers and others have organized strikes and demonstrations at universities, research centers, and major cities.

Other researchers involved in the study are Jennifer Maloney, M.D., Amarjot Kaur, Ph.D., Nancy Lui, Ph.D., and Hendrik Nolte, M.D., Ph.D., at Merck; David Bernstein, M.D., at the Bernstein Clinical Research Center and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, in Ohio; Thomas Casale, M.D., at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb.; Robert Fisher, M.D., at Allergy Research and Care in Milwaukee, Wis.; Kevin Murphy at Boys Town National Research Hospital in Omaha, Neb.; and Kristof Nekam, M.D., at Hospital of the Hospitaller, Brothers of St. John of God, in Budapest, Hungary.

Her team is collaborating with researchers in the Colorado School of Public Health's Center for Global Health to design and test ways to improve the health of sugarcane workers and other agricultural workers in the region.

The Center for Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, a new institute in Rome that was officially inaugurated yesterday, aims to bring together some of the brightest scientific minds in the Italian capital and lure other eminent researchers from abroad.

The massive projects needed now — such as devising a model of climate change detailed enough to be truly predictive or batteries efficient enough to compete with gasoline — can not wait or depend on chancy funding, he believes.He added that a strong national commitment to goal - centered basic science could help solve other important problems by drawing America's talented young people into scientific work and providing them with better opportunities for aspiring researchers to build careers with a realistic chance of making both a significant scientific contribution and a decent living.

Other collaborators included David C. Williams M.D., Ph.D., co-director of the Tissue and Data Acquisition and Analysis Core at VCU Massey Cancer Center, researcher in the Developmental Therapeutics program at Massey and assistant professor in the VCU Department of Pathology; and Andrea Ferreira - Gonzalez, Ph.D., professor in the VCU Department of Pathology.

Marijuana may bring on temporary paranoia and other psychosis - related effects in individuals at high risk of developing a psychotic disorder, finds a preliminary study from researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC).

Researchers will use it to study the flashes of light given out when black holes, including the giant ones at the centers of galaxies, consume stars and other material.

They also threatened to exclude Germany from their international collaboration, which would deny the country's researchers access to biological material and data from the other centers.

At Missouri S&T, McMillin and other researchers are working to improve cyber security with an emphasis on safeguarding the nation's infrastructure while educating students in this field through its National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education.

An international team of researchers from NASA Ames Research Center, Environmental and Radiation Health Sciences Directorate at Health Canada, Oxford University, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, Insilico Medicine, the Biogerontology Research Center, Boston University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Lethbridge, Ghent University, Center for Healthy Aging and many others have published a roadmap toward enhancing human radioresistance for space exploration and colonization in the peer - reviewed journal Oncotarget.

For instance, a finding published by researchers at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 2009 said that longer lengths of sitting were directly proportional to an increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease and most causes of death other than cancer.

Other IU contributors to the research were Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research and an assistant research scientist at the IU Network Science Institute, and Jaehyuk Park, a doctoral student in informatics.

When we think of narcissism most of us can all think of a colleague, friend, or former significant other that would fit the description; «A bit full of themselves, self - centered, and don't seem too concerned about the effects they have on other people,» says lead researcher, Erica Hepper.

Other researchers on the review article were Charles T. Lee, Eddie Zhang and Thomas J. Galloway, all at Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia; and Scott W. Keith at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia.