Sentences with phrase «researchers at the fraud»

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Also, a former HIV researcher at Iowa State University pleads guilty to federal fraud charges for faking data.

It may also help to find out if there have indeed been past claims of scientific fraud made against this researcher or others at the institution at which you work.

A researcher accused of fraud last week for allegedly hiring actors to give false testimony at his own scientific misconduct hearing, William Fals - Stewart, a clinical psychologist formerly at the University of Buffalo, New York, was found dead in his home this morning, the Buffalo News reports.

► «Last week, federal prosecutors in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, announced the indictments of biomedical researchers Yu Xue and Lucy Xi, as well as three associates, for trade secrets theft, wire fraud, and other charges,» Mara Hvistendahl reported Tuesday at ScienceInsider.

That being said, the inquiry into misconduct should proceed according to the standard policies at the researchers» institution, with the media being notified only if the parties in question are indeed deemed guilty of research fraud.

June Tangney, a psychologist at George Mason University in Virginia who hasalso investigated the question of fraud, welcomes the new survey: «We are seeing a new generation of researchers who are more willing to discuss the problems.»

On 9 September, Cristian Dogaru, a Romanian health and social scientist studying pediatric respiratory epidemiology at the University of Bern's Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, launched an online petition «urging researchers to boycott the conference and thus send a message that the scientific community does not endorse (and has zero tolerance for) academic fraud,» he explains in an e-mail to ScienceInsider.

Under a new agreement with MasterCard, researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are trying to adapt computer algorithms that were developed to detect clandestine nuclear explosions to spot attempts at credit - card fraud, such as using someone else's credit card number without authorisation.

Masarah - Cynthia Paquet - Clouston, a criminologist with the University of Montreal, and Olivier Bilodeau, a cybersecurity researcher at Montreal - based company GoSecure, have uncovered a large botnet that recruits everyday devices such as connected toasters, fridges or even your grandmother's router to help commit social media fraud.