Sentences with phrase «professor leading the research»

The professor leading the research did not reveal that he was on the board of the natural gas company, and received $ 400,000 in compensation for his work there.

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Led by management professor Russell Johnson, the research looked at smartphone use both among upper - level managers and a variety of mid-level professionals, like nurses and accountants, asking them to both report their nighttime smartphone use and then answer questions about their levels of alertness and productivity the next day.

DeepMind, now a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet (goog), recruited three University of Alberta professors from to lead the new research lab.

According to Bloomberg and research by Lesa Mitchell and Professor Vivek Wadhwa, women - led high - tech startups are more capital efficient, achieve 35 percent higher return on investment, and generate 12 percent higher revenue than male - owned companies when venture - backed.

«These findings have profound implications for talent development and CEO compensation,» says David Larcker, the James Irvin Miller Professor of Accounting at Stanford Graduate School of Business, who led the research.

«I knew this research would be contentious,» said Adam Liska, the lead author and an assistant professor of biological systems engineering at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln.

«If they could figure out a way to streamline, it would be a lot better,» said Kim Janda, a professor of chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, who leads a team of researchers developing a vaccine that would prevent fentanyl overdoses by keeping the drug from reaching the brain.

Entitled Women Entrepreneurs 2014: Bridging the Gender Gap in Venture Capital, the study was conducted by Babson professors leading the Diana Project ™, a program founded in 1996 to research women - led businesses globally.

«The first stage of our project has resulted in the capacity to produce 2 cubic meters of drinking water in a 12 - day period,» said professor Darren Reynolds, who is leading the research team.

Located in the world's most diverse city, Rotman School professors offer a rich blend of teaching acumen, industry experience and leading - edge research.

This new experiment, led by Professor Alex «Sandy» Pentland and Managing Director David Shrier, will take MIT's experiential research approach to blockchain and provide new opportunities to test and deploy...

For BTN's 2016 Corporate Travel Index, the 32nd annual, BCD Travel's Advito provided the average hotel and car rental costs paid by BCD corporate clients, BTN collected hotel taxes and surcharges from hotels, and eight New York University School of Professional Studies Advanced Research Seminar students, led by academic chair and clinical assistant professor Lynn Minnaert, called restaurants in October and November to gather meal prices.

ChipCare's platform technology was commercialized out of Professor Stewart Aitchison's research laboratory at theUniversity of Toronto and is led by ChipCare's multidisciplinary team including James Fraser, James Dou, Rakesh Nayyar and Dr. Lu Chen.

Professor Youngsook Park is a leading futurist from South Korea, where she serves as Chair of the Milennium Korea Node and represents various global future research organisations such as TechCast Global and the DaVinci Institute.

Economist and international trade professor Mike Moffatt will join Canada 2020, Canada's leading, independent progressive think - tank, as Director of Policy & Research starting January 8, 2018.

It was an Anglican clergyman, the professor of botany at Cambridge, who encouraged him to move away from studies for ordination in the Church of England, and to take up botany, and indeed to take up the post of an unpaid naturalist on the HMS Beagle — the research from which ultimately led him to the ideas he formulatedon evolution.

-- Eric Martens, Ph.D., an associate professor of microbiology at the University of Michigan Medical School who led the research along with his former postdoctoral fellow Mahesh Desai, Ph.D., now at the Luxembourg Institute of Health.

In addition, attending the conference had allowed me to meet up with some leading experts in different fields of research, as far as food security is concerned, as well as young researchers and the discussions provoked during the different presentations by leading scientists like Professor Louise Fresco were really interesting.

According to the study's lead author, Charles M. Benbrook, a research professor at Washington State University's Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, consuming organic milk «will certainly lessen the risk factor for cardiovascular disease.»

The completed sequencing of the seven wild rice varieties is a significant progress to drive further genome evolution and domestication,» explained Dr. Rod Wing, leader of the International Oryza Map Alignment Project (IOMAP), an AXA Chair holder at the International Rice Research Institute, Professor at the University of Arizona, and one of the lead scientists in the study.

The committee included an international group of academics with expertise in various aspects of food culture and gastronomy such as Joxe Mari Aizega, General Manager of Basque Culinary Center; Jorge Ruiz Carrascal, Professor of the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen; Marta Miguel Castro, a Research Associate at the CIAL Institute of Research in Food Science, who studies how food components could prevent disorders such as diabetes and obesity; Melina Shannon Dipietro, executive director of Rene Redzepi's MAD project; and Dr F. Xavier Medina, author, social anthropologist and leading scholar of Food and Culture at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona.

He was there at the invitation of a leading concussion expert, Kevin Guskiewicz, PhD, ATC, Kenan Distinguished Professor and Director of the Matthew Gfeller Sport - Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center at UNC.

The shift to longer, dedicated, paid father leave, has also been recommended by leading researchers, including Margaret O'Brien, Professor of Child and Family Policy, University College London and Director of the Thomas Coram Research Unit, UK.

Pressure to play needs to be taken off kids in order for them to feel comfortable reporting their signs and symptoms of a possible concussion,» says Tamara Valovich McLeod,, PhD, ATC, FNATA, Professor in the Athletic Training Program and Directors of the Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory and Athletic Training Practice - Based Research Network in the Department of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences at A.T. Still University in Mesa, Arizona, co-author of the attitude study, and lead author of an earlier study [3] on attitudes on concussions among high school students.

«We weren't researching energy drinks,» says Dr. John Sproule, lead author of the sports drink study and a professor in the Department of Physical Education, Sport and Leisure Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

Supported by funding from the Canadian Institute for Health Research, Professor Vedam conducted a national, mix - methods study on factors leading to divergent attitudes among maternity care providers» regarding planned home birth.

According to Professor Paul Ramchandani, who led the research, the study has far reaching implications.

Contributors: Members of the writing committee for this paper were Peter Brocklehurst (professor of perinatal epidemiology, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU), University of Oxford; professor of women's health, Institute for Women's Health, University College London (UCL)-RRB-; Pollyanna Hardy (senior trials statistician, NPEU); Jennifer Hollowell (epidemiologist, NPEU); Louise Linsell (senior medical statistician, NPEU); Alison Macfarlane (professor of perinatal health, City University London); Christine McCourt (professor of maternal and child health, City University London); Neil Marlow (professor of neonatal medicine, UCL); Alison Miller (programme director and midwifery lead, Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)-RRB-; Mary Newburn (head of research and information, National Childbirth Trust (NCT)-RRB-; Stavros Petrou (health economist, NPEU; professor of health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery).

The economics professor's research indicates that loving what you do every day will make you better at what you do, which will naturally lead to a higher paycheck.

So new technologies are always going to catch our eyes, and parents are always going to be tempted to buy the newest, biggest, best thing,» says Dawn Comstock, a professor at University of Colorado's School of Public Health and a leading voice on concussion research.

For this reason, research led by Professor Charlotte M Wright from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, who is a child specialist, advice that traditional spoon feeding should also be combined along with self feeding in baby led weaning.

Professor Jane Norman at the Medical Research Council's Centre for Maternal and Fetal Health in Edinburgh is leading the AFFIRM study.

«Depression can lead to other problems,» agrees Constance Ahrons, PhD, professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and an author and speaker based in San Diego who has researched and written about divorce.

The workshop features videos and research from world - leading professors and scientists including:

Meanwhile the general term «human milk feeding» is used by researchers and administrators to describe both mother's own milk and donated milk (or combinations of the two) despite the fundamental differences in the two, according to the lead author, Paula Meier, PhD, Rush University Medical Center's director for Clinical Research and Lactation, Special Care Nursery and a Professor of Pediatrics and Women, Children and Family Nursing.

«Restricting calories can slow your basal metabolism, and if by - products of metabolism accelerate aging processes, calorie restriction sustained over several years may help to decrease risk for chronic disease and prolong life,» says lead author Leanne M. Redman, associate professor of Clinical Sciences at Pennington Biomedical Research in Baton Rouge, LA.

Research led by Barry M. Lester, PhD, director of the Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, found the single greatest contributor to long - term neurobehavioral development in preterm infants is maternal involvement — and that a single - family room NICU allows for the greatest and most immediate opportunities for maternal involvement.

«It's another way moms provide immune information to their babies,» said Ameae Walker, a professor of biomedical sciences in the UC Riverside School of Medicine, who led the research.

Dr. Lester and his colleague, James F. Padbury, MD, pediatrician - in - chief and chief of Neonatal / Perinatal Medicine at Women & Infants Hospital and the William and Mary Oh - William and Elsa Zopfi Professor of Pediatrics for Perinatal Research at the Alpert Medical School, published research in September 2014 in Pediatrics, which found that a single - family room NICU environment provides for appropriate levels of maternal involvement, developmental support, and staff involvement, which are essential to provide the kind of care that can optimize the medical and neurodevelopmental outcome of the preterm infant and lead to the development of preventive interventions to reduce later impResearch at the Alpert Medical School, published research in September 2014 in Pediatrics, which found that a single - family room NICU environment provides for appropriate levels of maternal involvement, developmental support, and staff involvement, which are essential to provide the kind of care that can optimize the medical and neurodevelopmental outcome of the preterm infant and lead to the development of preventive interventions to reduce later impresearch in September 2014 in Pediatrics, which found that a single - family room NICU environment provides for appropriate levels of maternal involvement, developmental support, and staff involvement, which are essential to provide the kind of care that can optimize the medical and neurodevelopmental outcome of the preterm infant and lead to the development of preventive interventions to reduce later impairment.

Dr. Lester and his colleague, James F. Padbury, MD, pediatrician - in - chief and chief of Neonatal / Perinatal Medicine at Women & Infants Hospital and the William and Mary Oh — William and Elsa Zopfi Professor of Pediatrics for Perinatal Research at the Alpert Medical School, published research in September 2014 in Pediatrics, which found that a single - family room NICU environment provides for appropriate levels of maternal involvement, developmental support, and staff involvement, which are essential to provide the kind of care that can optimize the medical and neurodevelopmental outcome of the preterm infant and lead to the development of preventive interventions to reduce later impResearch at the Alpert Medical School, published research in September 2014 in Pediatrics, which found that a single - family room NICU environment provides for appropriate levels of maternal involvement, developmental support, and staff involvement, which are essential to provide the kind of care that can optimize the medical and neurodevelopmental outcome of the preterm infant and lead to the development of preventive interventions to reduce later impresearch in September 2014 in Pediatrics, which found that a single - family room NICU environment provides for appropriate levels of maternal involvement, developmental support, and staff involvement, which are essential to provide the kind of care that can optimize the medical and neurodevelopmental outcome of the preterm infant and lead to the development of preventive interventions to reduce later impairment.

A team of researchers, led by Professor Sotaro Kita from the University of Warwick and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, found that empathic people made larger and more gestures that encouraged interaction with the listener.

According to the research team led by Columbia University professor William Eimicke, Upstate would keep six acres to build a $ 22 million biotechnology center and COR would develop eight acres with $ 230 million worth of offices, apartments and shops.

Dr. Pradeep Haldar, a former interim dean and current tenured professor at the Colleges of Nanoscale Science & Engineering at SUNY Polytechnic Institute, has filed a lawsuit in state court against the school, SUNY Research Foundation, and certain officials at the institutions, alleging he was wrongly barred from leading sponsored research projects after an internal investigation sharply criticized his stewardship of two distinctResearch Foundation, and certain officials at the institutions, alleging he was wrongly barred from leading sponsored research projects after an internal investigation sharply criticized his stewardship of two distinctresearch projects after an internal investigation sharply criticized his stewardship of two distinct awards.

Professor Alex Haslam, who led the research, is now based at the University of Queensland in Australia.

A new «Review of Research Using Non-Human Primates», led by Professor Sir Patrick Bateson, was published in July 2011, and raised further concerns.

The Steering Group agreed the terms of reference for the review and, in consultation with the UK Human Geography community, appointed an International Panel of leading international experts, chaired by Professor David Ley, University of British Columbia, Canada The International Panel visited the UK for one week in May 2012 and met with about 150 stakeholders in UK Human Geography Prior to its UK visit, the Panel was provided with a range of background data including: Overviews of research trends and outputs since 2000 completed by representatives of the nine Human Geography sub-disciplines Two - page assessments by Heads of UK Geography Departments of strengths, weaknesses, overall health, and future opportunities and challenges to Human Geography in the UK (15 submissions were received) A statistical profile of UK Human Geography: Briefing Document: Statistical Overview and Commentary by Paul Wakeling (2012) Bibliometric Data for the ESRC International Benchmarking Review of Human Geography by Thomson Reuters (2012) A Short Introduction to UK Research Funding Policy by David Mills (2012) Survey of Users of Human Geography Research by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian Millsresearch trends and outputs since 2000 completed by representatives of the nine Human Geography sub-disciplines Two - page assessments by Heads of UK Geography Departments of strengths, weaknesses, overall health, and future opportunities and challenges to Human Geography in the UK (15 submissions were received) A statistical profile of UK Human Geography: Briefing Document: Statistical Overview and Commentary by Paul Wakeling (2012) Bibliometric Data for the ESRC International Benchmarking Review of Human Geography by Thomson Reuters (2012) A Short Introduction to UK Research Funding Policy by David Mills (2012) Survey of Users of Human Geography Research by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian MillsResearch Funding Policy by David Mills (2012) Survey of Users of Human Geography Research by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian MillsResearch by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian Mills (2012).

Speaking as the epigenetic symposium commenced Professor John Hobcraft of the University of York, the lead scientific organiser of the Symposium, said: «Research is beginning to indicate how environmental and social factors are linked to a series of epigenetic changes, sometimes across quite broad areas of the genome.

Professor Stephen Duffy, lead researcher and Cancer Research UK's professor of cancer screening, said: «The results of our study showed that the NHS breast cancer screening programme has been even more effective at saving lives than we pProfessor Stephen Duffy, lead researcher and Cancer Research UK's professor of cancer screening, said: «The results of our study showed that the NHS breast cancer screening programme has been even more effective at saving lives than we pprofessor of cancer screening, said: «The results of our study showed that the NHS breast cancer screening programme has been even more effective at saving lives than we predicted.

To address this, the research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), led by Professor Charles Alderson at Lancaster University, set out to identify the factors that determine how this skill develops in a number of different languages and what factors in people's first language influence progress in research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), led by Professor Charles Alderson at Lancaster University, set out to identify the factors that determine how this skill develops in a number of different languages and what factors in people's first language influence progress in Research Council (ESRC), led by Professor Charles Alderson at Lancaster University, set out to identify the factors that determine how this skill develops in a number of different languages and what factors in people's first language influence progress in reading.

The new concept was developed by a team led by W.M. Keck Professor of Energy Yang Shao - Horn, graduate student Sokseiha Muy, recent graduate John Bachman PhD» 17, and Research Scientist Livia Giordano, along with nine others at MIT, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and institutions in Tokyo and Munich.