Sentences with phrase «researchers at major universities»

But, despite their best efforts, researchers at major universities including Caltech, Stanford, Perth, and Glasgow could not match the Russian's results.

He has called for investigations of climate scientists affiliated with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and NASA, and inundated climate researchers at major universities across the country with records requests that critics say are designed to distract them from their work.

Not exact matches

Zeynep Tufekci, a researcher and op - ed writer for the New York Times, published an open letter with over 70 major security researchers working at major universities and companies like Google condemning the story.

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.

What's curious about this response is that Zuckerberg elides to mention how Facebook's own staff have worked with the program he's suggesting his company «found now» — as if it had only discovered the existence of the Cambridge University Psychometrics Centre, whose researchers have in fact been working with Facebook data since at least 2007, since the Cambridge Analytica story snowballed into a major public scandal last month.

Researchers at Baylor University have released the findings of a new study that looked at the number of «emergency shelter beds» for the homeless across 11 major U.S. cities, and...

Researchers at the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University looked at the top 700 highest - grossing movies of 2014 — which make up almost all of the year's major theatrical releases — to see how many featured women in prominent production roles.

Loren Coleman, a researcher at the Human Services Development Institute at the University of Southern Maine and the author of Suicide Clusters, a 1987 book that examines suicide patterns, is finishing up a study of suicide among major league baseball players.

A few weeks after my trip to Queens, I visited the Stress Neurobiology and Prevention lab at the University of Oregon in Eugene, where a team of researchers led by Phil Fisher, a psychologist, has developed a series of interventions with parents that in many ways parallel the ABC program, though with one major difference: They use digital video as a teaching tool to help steer parents away from behaviors that cause fear and stress in children and toward patterns that promote attachment and self - regulation.

Researchers at the University of Toronto found that self - talk plays a major role in helping kids manage their impulsive behavior.

Lead researcher Joan Cook - Mills, a professor of allergy - immunology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, described the findings as a «major advance in our understanding of how food allergy starts early in life».

Dr Sheldon Stone presented the findings from a major three - year trial led by researchers at University College London, in partnership with the Health Protection Agency, showing that giving one - to - one feedback to healthcare workers makes them twice as likely to clean their hands or use soap.

«People around the world are aware that the ocean is threatened and what are the major threats to the ocean,» says Heike Lotze, a researcher at Dalhousie University in Canada, who led the study.

Now, researchers at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University (LKSOM) have identified a specific ingredient that protects against cognitive decline: extra-virgin olive oil, a major component of the Mediterranean diet.

Three commercially released facial - analysis programs from major technology companies demonstrate both skin - type and gender biases, according to a new paper researchers from MIT and Stanford University will present later this month at the Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency.

In the second Cell paper, researchers collaborated with scientists at the University of Cambridge, McGill University in Canada and several UK and European institutions to explore the role that epigenetics plays in the development and function of three major human immune cell types: CD14 + monocytes, CD16 + neutrophils and naïve CD4 + T cells, from the genomes of 197 individuals.

A team of researchers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and environmental testing firm URS reports that a small subset of natural gas wells are responsible for the majority of methane emissions from two major sources — liquid unloadings and pneumatic controller equipment — at natural gas production sites.

The work highlights «a major public health issue,» says Jonathan Patz, a public health researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who not involved with the research.

Dana Cox, 33, was a mathematics major at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, and then taught mathematics in Michigan for 7 years, primarily to seventh - graders, often collaborating with local university researchers.

By silencing the genes that account for the three major allergy - causing proteins in peanuts, researchers at Alabama A&M University in Normal hope to grow safer peanuts.

In the January issue of Environmental Science & Technology the researchers described their efforts mapping nearly 5,900 natural gas leaks of varying severity across 1,500 road miles of Washington, D.C. To learn more about the state of the gas pipelines running through several major U.S. cities — in particular those serving New York City — Scientific American interviewed Robert Jackson, professor of environmental sciences at Stanford and Duke universities and the study's lead author.

However, David Goulson, a bee researcher at the University of Sussex, UK, thinks that most of the major studies have used realistic doses.

The current study by researchers from the Metamaterials laboratory, led by Dr. Pavel Belov, principal researcher and head of the Department of Nanophotonics and Metamaterials at ITMO University, exploits the same basic principle, but with two major modifications that helped enhance the wireless power transfer efficiency.

Researchers at the University's Environment Department say the neglect of seagrass ecosystems represents «both a serious oversight and a major missed opportunity.»

The study, «Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Manage Pain and Opioid Use after Major Surgery: Preliminary Outcomes from the Toronto General Hospital Transitional Pain Service,» is published in the Canadian Journal of Pain, by first author Muhammad Azam, Ph.D. candidate at York University and senior authors Dr. Joel Katz, Affiliate Scientist, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute (TGHRI) and Dr. Hance Clarke, Director of the Transitional Pain Service at TGH, UHN and Clinical Researcher, TGHRI.

Researchers [Tyler Owens, Mark Allen and Diane Spangler, Personality and Individual Differences, http://bit.ly/aCnszw] at Brigham Young University studied women who seemed to have no major body image issues, based on a standard psychological assessment.

To test the state of the ocean, researchers at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management in Makati, Philippines, assigned each major food fish a «trophic level,» depending on how high it is on the food chain.

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.

Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, show that a major HDAC still functions in mice even when its enzyme activity is abolished, suggesting that the beneficial effects of HDAC inhibitors may not actually be through inhibiting HDAC activity, and thus warranting the reassessment of the molecular targets of this class of drugs.

«If you can prevent antibody formation in the first place, by finding some way of producing immunological tolerance that gets around that type of protocol, that would be a major advantage,» says David Lillicrap, a clinician and researcher who specializes in bleeding disorders at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

The researchers, including Penn and co-senior author Daphne Koller, a computer scientist at Stanford University, set out to develop a more accurate yet noninvasive tool for predicting major complications in the tiniest newborns.

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have uncovered a major reason why the Parkinson's - related protein alpha - synuclein, a major constituent of the Lewy bodies that are the pathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD), is toxic to neurons in the brain.

Links between genetics and mental illness led to several major discoveries this year: Researchers at Myriad Genetics in Salt Lake City reported finding a gene related to depression, and researchers at the University of California at San Diego found a flawed gene linked to manic Researchers at Myriad Genetics in Salt Lake City reported finding a gene related to depression, and researchers at the University of California at San Diego found a flawed gene linked to manic researchers at the University of California at San Diego found a flawed gene linked to manic depression.

The model developed by the three researchers Prof Markus Werning, Prof Sen Cheng (both Mercator Research Group «Structure of Memory» at RUB) and Prof Thomas Suddendorf (University of Queensland) differs from other approaches with regard to one major aspect: it suggests a new relationship between mental time travel and episodic memory.

Researchers at McMaster University have found that short, intense bursts of stair climbing, which can be done virtually anywhere, have major benefits for heart health.

Marine researchers are facing «substantial» water damage to one of two major laboratory buildings at the University of Texas (UT) Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas, according to Communications Coordinator Sally Palmer.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have found that major flooding and large amounts of precipitation occur on 500 - year cycles in central China.

In contradicting a theory that's been the standard for over eighty years, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign have made a discovery holding major promise for the petroleum industry.

«It seems a major adjustment to renewable energy policy is afoot,» wrote Liu Li, a science and technology policy researcher at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

One likely option is expanding a questionnaire - based screening system already in place at a few major universities and for government researchers within the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Mark Hildebrand, a researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, says, «A major consideration» in development of such technology «is the economic costs of production.»

A major part of his role will be to ensure that high - quality advice is available across government departments as they deal with the legal and regulatory consequences of the UK's decision to leave the European Union, says Graeme Reid, a science - policy researcher at University College London.

Researchers at the University of Bath, United Kingdom have created a new kind of laser capable of pulsed and continuous mid-infrared (IR) emission between 3.1 and 3.2 microns, a spectral range that has long presented a major challenge for laser developers.

Furthermore understanding why populations sometimes reproduce asexually may help us to understand the evolutionary advantage of sex, which is a major conundrum for evolutionary biologists, says Matthew Webster», researcher at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology at Uppsala University.

Melanoma patients» response to a major form of immunotherapy is associated with the diversity and makeup of trillions of potential allies and enemies found in the digestive tract, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center report at the ASCO - Society for Immunotherapy in Cancer meeting in Orlando.

Patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) have increased brain levels of a marker of microglial activation, a sign of inflammation, according to a new study in Biological Psychiatry by researchers at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom.

At least for the model system of hard spheres, researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany have now taken a major leap in reconciling these two opposing viewAt least for the model system of hard spheres, researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany have now taken a major leap in reconciling these two opposing viewat Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany have now taken a major leap in reconciling these two opposing views.

This has been shown in a major study by researchers at Lund University.

The findings show that climate change is already a major threat to many species on Earth, not at some vague point in the future, said James Watson, a researcher at the University of Queensland in Australia.

William Pardridge, a researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has long criticized biotech and pharmaceutical companies for not developing strategies to get therapies across the blood - brain barrier, says Genentech may be the first major company to do so.