Sentences with phrase «researchers at universities»

Researchers at the Universities of Lisbon (Portugal) and Uppsala (Sweden) studied the behaviour of three kinds of amphibians that inhabit the Iberian Peninsula: the European tree frog (Hyla arborea), the Mediterranean tree frog (Hyla meridionalis) and the Iberian painted frog (Discoglosus galganoi) to find out what effect heat waves can have on their diets.

At 10 a.m., Rep. Richard Hanna will host a news conference at SUNYIT to discuss legislation that would help researchers at universities commercialize their ideas and create jobs, Cayan Library, Mele Room (second floor), 100 Gov. Horatio Seymour Rd., Utica.

Researchers at the Universities of Rome and L'Aquila in Italy recently conducted a study about how eating chocolate effects brain functions like memory, attention, and processing speed.

In 2004, a psychology study by researchers at the University of Florida and the University of North Carolina found that for every inch you stand above the national average, you could earn an additional $ 789 (unadjusted) per year.

«I'd be very surprised if they were actually able to cross the border with it,» argues Sylvain Charlebois, a food - policy researcher at the University of Guelph.

Researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland recently published findings from a series of studies in which 480 people were shown portraits of faces manipulated to appear warm or cold and competent or incompetent.

And Crispr - Cas9 isn't even the only type of Crispr out there: On April 12, researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center announced they had successfully paired the gene - editing tool with a different kind of enzyme, called Cpf1, to correct mutations associated with the devastating muscle - wasting disorder Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

WORK undertaken by researchers at the University of Western Australia has contributed to a dramatic rise in interest in a US drug company.

A peer - reviewed study by researchers at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, published recently in The International Journal of Drug Policy, pegged the retail value of marijuana consumption in B.C. alone at between $ 443 million and $ 564 million.

Researchers at the University of Georgia found that previously sedentary adults who started doing 20 minutes of low - to moderate intensity aerobic exercise three times a week for six weeks reported feeling less fatigued and more energized.

Researchers at the University of British Columbia asked 124 people to either limit checking email to three times a day for one week or click into their inboxes as often as possible.

In what one software engineer calls «the most demonically clever computer security attack I've seen in years,» researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a way to insert a hidden security flaw into a microprocessor chip that can't be detected by any known method of security analysis.

But researchers at the University of Aberdeen found that a treatment originally designed for fighting cancer and diabetes could melt away fatty arterial plaque with a single dosing and reverse the effects of atherosclerosis, which can lead to multiple heart problems.

In Germany, researchers at the University of Stuttgart have been working on what they describe as a «high performance,» electrically - powered two - seater aircraft called the e-Genius.

Researchers at the University of Arizona monitored a group of students and tracked their «loneliness levels» while posting Facebook status updates.

As part of what they're calling the «first systematic analysis of coffee machine - associated bacteria,» researchers at the University of Valencia in Spain swabbed 10 individual coffee pod - style Nespresso coffee makers.

Researchers at the University of Michigan who followed 2,300 adults for up to a decade reported in 2008 that even common work irritants interfere with good rest more than long hours, night shifts or fears about job loss.

Researchers at the University of Essex in the United Kingdom found that parents who set super-high expectations for their teenage daughters — and who constantly reminded them of those expectations — had daughters who were less likely to become pregnant, drop out of school, or wind up in lousy, low - wage jobs.

The researchers at the University of Essex found that girls whose «main parent» — that's usually the mother — consistently displayed high parental expectations were far less likely to fall into the traps that made the girls less likely to succeed in life.

Behind Federighi a slide bore a quote from the academic, Prof. Aaron Roth, a privacy researcher at the University of Pennsylvania.

You could also think of your brain like a baseball game, according to Yuval Nir, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

Yu Yanagisawa, a chemistry researcher at the University of Tokyo, presses together two pieces of resin glass together to repair them at the university's lab in Tokyo.

Researchers at the University of Miami have an underwater coral nursery, and the same techniques are being used by groups in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines.

«In the early days of insurance, [companies] looked at height as an indication of survival,» said David Batty, an epidemiology and public health researcher at the University College London, who was not involved in the study.

Researchers at the University of Tokyo recently developed a new type of glass that can be repaired by pressing it together after it cracks.

In 2015, researchers at the University of Washington's Cancer Vaccine Institute published a study on designing vaccines to prevent breast cancer.

«This new dinosaur is one of the most beautiful, but saddest, fossils I've ever seen,» Dr Steve Brusatte, a professor of geoscience and one of the researchers at the University of Edinburgh that studied the fossil, said in a statement.

Earlier this month, researchers at the University of Massachusetts and the Broad Institute identified four genes linked to obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD), a chronic condition characterized by uncontrollable repetitive thoughts and behaviors.

For instance, AI researchers at the University of Washington recently created a video of former President Barack Obama giving a speech that looks incredibly realistic, but was actually fake.

Yi Fuxian, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, believes China's population is much smaller than official statistics, owing to years of slower population growth under the one - child policy.

A study conducted by researchers at the University of London has revealed some interesting information about neurons in the male brain.

«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.

But during a series of experiments that occurred between 1920 and 1922, researchers at the University of Toronto were able to isolate a pancreatic secretion that they called insulin.

The No. 1 factor in triggering impulse shopping online is a calm, friendly, and knowledgeable website with attractive merchandise, according to a 2011 study by researchers at the University of Amsterdam Business school.

Among her colleagues and competitors is a team of researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that also is working on an implantable device to deliver drugs directly to a tumor; a group at the University of Pennsylvania that is looking at using specialized antibodies to combat the disease; and a team of German researchers who are experimenting with specialized peptides.

«Probable Intercept leaker of TS document emailed the Intercept from work!?!?!» Nicholas Weaver, a security researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, said on Twitter, using the acronym for «top secret.»

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign found that ambient noise played at 70 decibels — louder than conversational speech but comparable to street noise — actually increases creative thinking.

But 70 % of entrepreneurs rank other benefits higher, says Richard Swart, a crowdfunding researcher at the University of California at Berkeley.

«If we couldn't do it during a boring task, life would be horrible,» Jonathan Smallwood, a researcher at the University of California Santa Barbara, told The New York Times.

That's according to researchers at the University of Zurich.

More recently, researchers at the University of Waterloo and the University of Manitoba found that when we expect people to accept us, we act warmer toward them — thereby increasing the chances that they really will like us.

Researchers at the University of Vermont found that aerobic training of «moderate intensity,» with an average heart rate of around 112 beats a minute — elevated, sure, but it's not like they were hammering away — improved participants» mood for up to 12 hours after exercise.

But here's the science: A 2012 study, by researchers at the University of Melbourne, the University of Leuven, and New York University, found that people with more complicated last names are judged more negatively.

For Carlos Vargas - Silva, associate professor and senior researcher at the University of Oxford's Migration Observatory, the economic impact of migrants can be read in two ways: a fiscal impact — taxes and contributions that new arrivals will make, minus the benefits and services they receive — and the impact that they have on the labor market, which is essentially whether native workers will be displaced from their jobs or not.

For example, in a 2012 study conducted by two researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara, 145 undergraduates were asked to come up with as many uses for daily objects (clothes hangers, bricks, toothbrushes, etc.) as they could in two minutes — a standard exercise to measure creativity.

The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Sydney and examined three groups of students, who were tasked with completing an «alternate uses» test — a common creativity drill wherein subjects are given an object and asked to come up with as many uses for it as they can.

Researchers at the University of Sussex found that reading is a more effective way to beat stress than listening to music or taking a walk.

A new study from researchers at the University of North Carolina shows that loneliness can «vastly elevate» a person's risk of heart disease, stroke and cancer, making it as dangerous to your health as a lack of physical inactivity in youth or diabetes in old age.

Bianchi, the other co-author of the study, is a researcher at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Then he discovered the opposite (as did another researcher at the University of Chicago).