Sentences with phrase «researchers from thinking»

Furthermore, widespread belief in the merit of this ineffective therapy prevents researchers from thinking they need to look into other potential treatment options, the authors say.
Those we place in the independent expert category are university academics, researchers from think - tanks or private research firms, parliamentarians (excluding ministers), and individuals without any organisational affiliation.

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One extra detail the researchers found: managers benefitted from the psychological impact of more open office plans — employees thought more highly of their boss's leadership abilities in this setting than in any other office type.
Through a series of experiments, researchers from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and the University of California, Berkeley discovered that spoken language most clearly reveals a person's thinking ability.
From the bank's universe of 37 million checking account customers, the think tank's researchers stripped identifiers and grabbed a sample of 2.3 million families across 23 U.S. states for whom they had «a very good window into their financial lives,» said Fiona Greig, JPMCI's Director of Consumer Research, who presented the study's key findings prior to the panel discussion.
«These peripheral glaciers and ice caps can be thought of as colonies of ice that are in rapid decline, many of which will likely disappear in the near future,» said one of the researchers, geologist Ian Howat from Ohio State University.
The researchers conducted a series of three experiments that encouraged some participants to think of time and money as interchangeable by calculating their hourly wage from their earnings.
A team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame thinks so, and they have some compelling evidence to support their idea.
I await confirmation from the researchers at Think Progress, but I suspect that the religious right's obsession with morays in particular and eels in general, derives not from the canonical Book of Job but from the non-canonical early church writing, The Epistle of Barnabas, which in verse 10:5 reads:
A researcher from Concordia University recently published a journal article with some rare access to high level Satanists exploring what they think about death and dying.
In the study, published Friday in the journal Science, researchers from Canada's University of British Columbia used subtle stimuli to encourage analytical thinking.
It also bears mentioning, in closing, that the gains from thinking about religion from a broader global perspective accrue not only to the academic researcher in pursuit of recondite problems to study but also to the practitioner of religion and to those whose interest in world affairs resides simply at the level of informed citizen.
In 1979 television researcher George Comstock, in assessing the impact and achievements of the educational television series «Sesame Street» observed that, «We simply do not know what we thought we did, but the lesson appears to be that too much can be expected from a mass medium even when, by its own terms, it is performing superbly.»
The researchers think that the falling testosterone levels are Mother Nature's way of protecting the offspring from male aggressiveness and also facilitating a caring mindset for the dad.
As noted above, nurturing touch appears to protect babies from harmful stress, and researchers think they know why.
Indeed, no legitimate SIDS researcher nor forensic pathologist should render a judgment that a baby was suffocated without an extensive toxiological report and death scene investigation including information from the mother concerning what her thoughts are on what might or could have happened.
Many manufacturers made the switch to BPS because researchers thought that less of the material would leak out from the plastic.
As a researcher in SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), Professor McKenna explains that these small transient arousals may lessen a baby's susceptibility to some forms of SIDS which are thought to be caused by failure to arouse from deep sleep to re-establish breathing patterns.
Researchers aren't sure where this ability to pick up on a sick beat comes from, but think it may have something to do with the baby jamming out to his mother's heartbeat for his entire stay inside of the womb.
So a new report from the think - tank Civitas, launched by veteran Labour MP Frank Field and parliamentary researcher Andrew Forsey, should be given credit for positive thinking.
But we know that the media take their cue from politicians, campaigners and researchers - and with a new wave of economics thinking emerging from these quarters, we have cause for hope.
Now, researchers think we could be on the cusp of a CO2 - recycling revolution, which would capture CO2 from power plants — and maybe even directly from the atmosphere — and convert it into these fuels at scale, they report today in Joule.
While many researchers think of citizen science as a way to engage children and teenagers, many of citizen scientists are adults, some of whom bring scientific expertise from other fields, she said.
The new theory suggests the first of the two explosions reported by eyewitnesses was a nuclear and not a steam explosion, as is currently widely thought and is presented by researchers from the Swedish Defence Research Agency, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, and Stockholm University.
Honeybees may have pushed north into Europe from warmer, Mediterranean locales several thousand years earlier than previously thought, the researchers propose in the October Antiquity.
Although the study participants all suffer from bipolar disorder, the researchers behind the study think that the mechanisms also apply to other psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia.
As suicide rates rise, researchers separate thoughts from actions.
The researchers found that black women in the United States are dying from cervical cancer at a rate 77 percent higher than previously thought, while white women are dying at a rate 47 percent higher.
Researchers now think that in female animals, the presence of estrogen promotes female development at specific life stages, and having a second X chromosome makes female brains different from those of males.
Some researchers think stone tools can answer the big questions in human evolution: How do we differ from other primates and when did our unique human traits emerge?
«The researchers have taken a technique that most in the field thought would be impossible for complex organs such as the kidney, and have painstakingly developed a method to make it work,» says Jamie Davies at the University of Edinburgh, UK, who was part of a team that last year made some headway in their attempts to grow kidneys from scratch in the lab.
The researchers fed the data from the scans into a machine - learning computer program, which eventually could identify which concept a volunteer was thinking about based on his or her brain activity.
Just as the finding that tea made from willow bark could alleviate headaches led scientists to the discovery of salicylic acid — which in turn led to the invention of aspirin — many acupuncture researchers think that their work might lead to a treatment for pain that is more effective than acupuncture.
Researchers think similar effects contribute to death from anthrax and pandemic flu.
A team of international scientists, including a researcher from Simon Fraser University, has isolated a gene thought to play a causal role in the development of Alzheimer's disease.
I also think both clinicians and researchers can learn a lot from paying more attention to individual symptoms and their interactions.
«Innovation is fundamental to all aspects of our business,» adds Norbert Bischofberger, Gilead's executive vice president, research and development, and chief scientific officer, «from what our researchers do in the lab to how we think about reaching patients to the way we work with government, public health, and industry partners.»
Nestlé researchers think the protein could turn out to help adult patients suffering from the immune responses that cause Crohn's disease.
In addition, it's been difficult to repeat the findings from individual genetic studies — partly, researchers think, because autism is so variable and may really be many different diseases.
The researchers think the skull is better for assessing sex because it's not a load - bearing bone, meaning it is subject to fewer outside forces — allowing forensic practitioners to detect bone mineral density differences that result from an individual's biological sex.
I don't think I would have made as strong a connection... not only because he is a Mexican scientist, but also because he is a top researcher and one of the main promoters and supporters of minority students from around the world.»
The number of veterans at risk is large: traumatic brain injury caused by explosive blasts is thought to afflict about 20 percent of the 2.3 million servicemen and women deployed in combat since 2001, according to a team of researchers from Boston University, New York Medical College and the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System.
At the US Geological Survey's Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Wisconsin, whooping cranes are raised from birth by researchers dressed as cranes, a ploy which tricks the birds into thinking the scientists are their parents.
The researchers think that men may get a boost in self - esteem from feeling desired.
We had initially thought our focus would be in the United States but we have had a lot of interest from overseas researchers, particularly interest in the facilities that are available here.
Both methods for obtaining nectar were effective, but the researchers think that the grooved - tongue bats may have an advantage in acquiring nectar from flowers of certain shapes that hold the sweet liquid differently.
Researchers had thought that since there were no other obvious energy inputs, the fodder for bacterial life must fall from the surrounding forest into cenotes, eventually floating into the deep parts of the caves.
Most researchers — including Stringer and McPherron — think the bulk of cultural exchange passed the other way, from humans to Neanderthals.
The next thoughts of the researchers who probed the calamity, aside from outrage, were how and why it happened from an engineering perspective.
By reconstructing past global warming and the carbon cycle on Earth 56 million years ago, researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute among others have used computer modelling to estimate the potential perspective for future global warming, which could be even warmer than previously thought.
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