Sentences with phrase «senior author of the study from»

Wim Janssens, the senior author of the study from the University of Leuven in Belgium, commented: «We have demonstrated that artificial intelligence can provide us with a more accurate diagnosis in this new study.

«Our previous findings showed that people who ate this ingredient gained less weight — but we did not know why,» says the senior author of the study from Imperial, Professor Gary Frost.

Not exact matches

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is the senior associate dean for leadership studies and Lester Crown professor of management practice at the Yale School of Management, and author of Firing Back: How CEOs Rebound From Career Disasters.

Negative attitudes toward the idea of women as senior pastors are well documented in Edward C. Lehman, Jr.'s, sociological study Women Clergy: Breaking Through Gender Barriers (Transaction, 1985) The author analyzed detailed responses from 1,720 Presbyterian lay - people and 1,143 Presbyterian clergy concerning a wide range of attitudes toward women in ministry.

«We were surprised by the large number of concerns mothers had, and we were very concerned by how particular concerns were strongly related to giving up with breastfeeding» - such as worries about babies not getting enough nutrition, said Laurie A. Nommsen - Rivers, the study's senior author, from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

The study's senior author, Associate Professor Natasha Nassar from the University of Sydney Menzies Centre for Health Policy said: «While the association between being born earlier — lower gestational age — and poorer developmental outcomes is well established, our results revealed that poor development is further exacerbated in the case of planned birth, where a considered decision made to deliver an infant determines gestational age.

The author Naomi Wolf accused Yale University officials of blocking her from filing a complaint against the famed literary critic and English professor Harold Bloom, whom she accused in a 2004 magazine article of having groped her when she was a college senior and taking a course of independent study with him.

«From purely looking at the DNA sequences we can conclude that snakes retain many enhancers that, based on mammalian studies, we thought were limb enhancers,» says senior study author Douglas Menke, a geneticist at the University of Georgia.

«Identifying which of these candidate genes actually causes variation in responses to cold snaps will give us the potential to understand whether evolution to climate change can occur in both wild and domesticated animals, allowing us to better predict which species or breeds will be «winners» and «losers» and to better mitigate the effects of anthropogenic climate change on a wide range of organisms from beneficial pollinators to invasive pests,» said Theodore Morgan an associate professor of evolutionary genetics in the Division of Biology at Kansas State University and senior author of the study.

«The reticular thalamus acts like a gate that filters information from the thalamus and dispatches signals to the cortex,» explained Jeanne Paz, PhD, assistant investigator at Gladstone and senior author of the new study.

We noted that surprisingly many canine inherited disorders are actually more widespread than indicated by their original discovery studies, which opens up the door for several future scientific investigations, explains senior author Dr. Hannes Lohi from the University of Helsinki canine genetics research group.

«We were looking at two questions: how could we identify the oil on shore, now four years after the spill, and how the oil from the spill was weathering over time,» explained Christoph Aeppli, Senior Research Scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine, and lead author of the study reported in Environmental Science & Technology.

Professor Janet Treasure from King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry and senior author on both studies says: «Patients with anorexia have a range of social difficulties which often start in their early teenage years, before the onset of the illness.

«Our work demonstrates that the generation of genome sequences from a large number of archaic human individuals is now technically feasible, and opens the possibility to study Neandertal populations across their temporal and geographical range,» says Janet Kelso, the senior author of the new study.

«For a long time, we've thought of brain imaging studies as mainly a way to corroborate or confirm aspects of brain function and pathology that we had already identified from studying a patient's behavior,» said Aysenil Belger, PhD, professor of psychiatry and psychology at UNC and the study's senior author.

The new study covers the entire U.S. West, from the High Plains states to the Pacific coast, and provides the first detailed look at how groundwater recharge may change as the climate changes, said senior author Thomas Meixner, UA professor and associate department head of hydrology and atmospheric sciences.

We believe that our data on NS3 substrate specificity, combined with the recent report on protein structure from other researchers, will allow for development of highly specific inhibitors in the future,» said Dr. Krzysztof Pyrć, senior author of the FEBS Letters study.

«We found benefits from vitamin D were dose - dependent,» said Kurt Lu, MD, senior author on the study and Assistant Professor of Dermatology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center.

«The mistiming prevents older people from being able to effectively hit the save button on new memories, leading to overnight forgetting rather than remembering,» said study senior author Matthew Walker, a UC Berkeley professor of neuroscience and psychology and director of the campus's Center for Human Sleep Science.

Dr Tomi Pastinen, senior author on the second study, from McGill University said: «We have created an expansive, high - resolution atlas of variations that deepens our understanding of the interplay between the genetic and epigenetic machinery that drives the three primary cells of the human immune system.

«We found that a particular vaginal bacterium, Gardnerella vaginalis, did not cause infection during exposure to the urinary tract, but it damaged the cells on the surface of the bladder and caused E. coli from a previous UTI to start multiplying, leading to another bout of disease,» said the study's senior author, Amanda Lewis, PhD, an assistant professor of molecular microbiology and of obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University.

«Although radiosurgery has been shown to be an effective post-surgical treatment for metastatic brain tumors, previous studies did not compare patient outcomes from a single hospital over the same period of time,» said N. Scott Litofsky, M.D., chief of the Division of Neurological Surgery at the MU School of Medicine and senior author of the study.

«Estimating from various studies that looked at increasing BMI and endometrial cancer risk, a woman with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 40 would have approximately eight times greater risk of endometrial cancer than someone with a BMI of 25,» said first author Kristy Ward, MD, the senior gynecologic oncology fellow in the Department of Reproductive Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

«We found that nearly one in four patients with small tumours are at risk of distant metastases and do benefit from chemotherapy,» said Dr Fatima Cardoso, senior author of the study, Co-Principal Investigator of MINDACT and Director of the Breast Unit of the Champalimaud Clinical Centre, Lisbon, Portugal.

«Our research reveals that a country's climate and geographical location have a startling influence on the burden of liver cirrhosis,» said Dr Neil D. Shah, lead author of the study, and senior author, Dr Ramon Bataller, from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States.

Senior author Madhav Dhodapkar, M.D., the Arthur H. and Isabel Bunker Professor of Medicine and Immunobiology, and chief of Hematology, said the study, using tissue and blood samples from humans and mice, shows that chronic stimulation of the immune system by lipids made in the context of inflammation underlies the origins of at least a third of all myeloma cases.

«Collectively we are still coming to terms with the data deluge from wearable devices, but it is imperative that we begin to generate value from this data,» says the study's senior author Jared Hawkins, PhD, who is director of informatics at Boston Children's Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator (IDHA).

Dr David Carslake, the study's lead author and Senior Research Associate from the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU) at the University of Bristol, said: «An alarming increase in obesity levels across the world which have risen from 105 million in 1975 to 641 million in 2014, according to a recent Lancet study, create concern about the implications for public health.

Edward Messing, the senior author of the study, says that PSA is capable of detecting the disease earlier, which could, in theory lead to fewer deaths from prostate cancer.

«Poor adherence with the Canadian pregnancy prevention guidelines means that Canada, inadvertently, is using pregnancy termination rather than pregnancy prevention to manage fetal risk from isotretinoin,» states lead author Dr. David Henry, senior scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and executive co-lead of the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies (CNODES).

LSTM's Dr Robert Harrison, senior author of the study and Head of the Alistair Reid Venom Unit, said: «The findings underscore challenges to developing broad - spectrum snakebite treatments, because conventional antivenom is produced by immunizing horses or sheep with the venom from a specific species of snake.

«It provides a unique vantage point from which to consider the intricate interface between capacities inherent in the human infant and the shaping force of experience,» said Sandra Waxman, senior author of the study, director of the Project on Child Development, faculty fellow in Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research and the Louis W. Menk Chair in Psychology at Northwestern.

«Future studies [are needed] to understand why some babies are born with increased innate immune responsiveness, and ultimately, what can be done to prevent this,» said senior author Peter Vuillermin, also from the University of Melbourne.

«What we're observing from the combined dietary intervention is a reduction in systolic blood pressure as high as, if not greater than, that achieved with prescription drugs,» says senior study author Lawrence Appel, M.D., M.P.H., professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

«Although preliminary, our data suggest that patients with MS have reduced levels of good bacteria responsible for overall benefits obtained from consuming healthy foods, such as soybean and flaxseeds,» says Mangalam, who is senior author on the study.

«This is the first genome - wide data on prehistoric humans from the hot tropics, and was made possible by improved methods for preparing skeletal remains» says Ron Pinhasi at University College Dublin, a senior author of the study.

«Aside from the direct association with cardiovascular risk factors, skipping breakfast might serve as a marker for a general unhealthy diet or lifestyle which in turn is associated with the development and progression of atherosclerosis,» said Jose L. Peñalvo, PhD, assistant professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University and the senior author of the study.

«It shows that the egg is playing an active role in creating the microenvironment that it needs to continue its development,» says Dr. Clarke, lead study author, who is also a senior scientist from the Child Health and Human Development Program at the RI - MUHC and a professor and research director of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at McGill University.

It's unclear how these changes occur, said senior study author Maria Dominguez - Bello, PhD, an associate professor of medicine at the university, «if these bacteria are transferred from the fingers to the lens and to the eye surface, or if the lenses exert selective pressures on the eye bacterial community in favor of skin bacteria.»

«It's very important for your system to have protection from damaging sound,» said study senior author Jaime García - Añoveros, associate professor of anesthesiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Professor Gianni Liti, a senior author on the paper from the Institute for Research on Cancer and Ageing, Nice, said: «We were able to study the evolution in time by combining genome sequences of the cell populations and tracking the growth characteristics of the yeast cells.

Lead author and TED Senior Fellow Kristen Marhaver from the CARMABI Foundation on the Caribbean island of Curaçao said: «Strangely enough, pillar corals happen to spawn just half an hour before another threatened coral that is far better studied — the elkhorn corals.

«Notably, we also observed a small increase in blood histamine levels and a slight release of tryptase from mast cells in the skin of unaffected individuals exposed to vibration,» said Hirsh Komarow, M.D., of NIAID's Laboratory of Allergic Diseases, the senior author of the study.

Professor Ian Day from the School of Social and Community Medicine was one of the study's senior authors.

«The overall diet is still far from optimal - less than one - third of American adults meet guidelines for most foods,» said senior study author Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, dean of the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy in Boston.

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.

«The discovery of this unanticipated pathway between gut, liver and bone would not have been possible without the use of mouse molecular genetics and studies in the clinic that allowed us to understand interactions between these organs,» says Dr Vijay K Yadav, a senior author from the Sanger Institute.

«The goal of our research was to see if an objective measure like physical examination or imaging from an MRI could help predict non-operative treatment failures in these professional pitchers,» commented Mark S. Schickendantz, MD the study's senior author from the Cleveland Clinic Sports Health Center in Cleveland, OH.

«Activation of these cell receptors appear to prevent brain cells from cleaning out the trash — the toxic buildup of proteins, such as alpha - synuclein, tau and amyloid, common in neurodegenerative diseases,» says the study's senior author, neurologist Charbel Moussa, MBBS, PhD, director of Georgetown's Laboratory for Dementia and Parkinsonism, and scientific and clinical research director of the GUMC Translational Neurotherapeutics Program.

«We think this could be one way cancer cells actually migrate from one place to another to induce metastasis,» says Besim Ogretmen, Ph.D., senior author for this study, director of the Developmental Cancer Therapeutics Program at the Hollings Cancer Center and professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at MUSC.