Sentences with phrase «several leading universities»

Schools Week revealed last week how several leading universities have shunned the government's offer of extra cash to open a new school.

The Italian university system has been «virtually butchered over the last decade,» Allesina said, with a staggering 10 percent overall loss of faculty, and losses of 20 to 30 percent of the faculty at several leading universities.

Not exact matches

The series of studies led by New York University's Gabriele Oettingen tested the effects of positive thinking on subjects» moods, both in the moment and several months later.

Cairngorm Capital has been backed by a consortium of leading, long - term, international institutional investors, consisting of several prestigious European funds of funds and US university endowments.

Chris also serves on the Steering Committee of the New Economy Initiative, the National Advisory Board of the University of Michigan Office of Technology Transfer, and boards or advisory boards of Invest Detroit, the Community Foundation of Southeastern Michigan, University of Detroit Jesuit, and several venture capital funds, including the Procter & Gamble - led fund of funds, Cintrifuse.

The Catholic University of America held such an event several days ago, and it included, appropriately enough, a beautiful mass led by Washington's Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl.

Several decades ago, for example, Duke Divinity School led the way in racially integrating Duke University.

Crowder, lead author and assistant professor of entomology at Washington State University, says he and Reganold became interested in the topic after reading a study several years ago that indicated that organic farming produces a lower crop yield than conventional agriculture.

Through the work of four playwrights, Matt Charman, Moira Buffini, Penelope Skinner and Jack Thorne, the play follows several intertwining stories: a couple in a therapy session discuss the impact that the strong environmental beliefs of one, and the indifference of the other, is having on their relationship, a young woman, against her parents» advice, drops out of university to become a climate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference.

There are several Gas Pipelines, which will transport Hydrofracked Gas from the Marcellus Shale region and other states, despite the fact that many of the wells especially in PA are already showing signs of being exhausted, and that is why there is much attention on the Southern Tier and Lower Western portion of NYS; the Delaware Valley and Catskill region south to New Jersey, where the «Industry» is slated to construct 100,000 new wells; an estimated 8.9 % of which will leak and contaminate our water resources according to the «Solutions Project» led by Dr. Mark Jacobson of Stanford University and other noted scholars from other institutions, (Cornell University and Pepacton Institute).

Several hours later, a team of astronomers known as the ROTSE (Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment) collaboration, led by Carl Akerlof of the University of Michigan, reported that the visible - light counterpart of the burst was also seen in the images taken with a small, robotic telescope operated by their team, starting only 22 seconds after the burst.

A team of researchers from several Portuguese centres and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) has analysed the presence of mercury, cadmium and lead in the blood of the 121 Griffon vultures (Gyps fulvus) in Portugal and Catalonia, and compared the concentration between populations of wild Griffon vultures and the individuals that were admitted, in a weak state — due to malnutrition — and wounded, into rehabilitation centres.

Dr Angela Wood, from the University of Cambridge, lead author of the study said: «If you already drink alcohol, drinking less may help you live longer and lower your risk of several cardiovascular conditions.

David received numerous honors and awards throughout his career, including several honorary degrees from leading universities.

A team led by Miloslav Druckmüller at the Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic took multiple photographs of several recent solar eclipses, when the sun's atmosphere, or corona, was visible as a halo around the blacked - out sun.

The study, led by Dr Allan Debelle and Dr Rhonda Snook in the University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, looked at the mating patterns of fruit flies after they evolved for 100 generations in either polyandrous populations (where several males have to compete for a single female) and monogamous populations (where each male has access to only one female).

The Rochester team, which included several undergraduate students, collaborated with archaeologist Thomas Huffman of the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, a leading expert on Iron Age southern Africa.

«Microplastic pollution has been in the news recently, with several governments planning a ban on microbeads used in cosmetics and detergents» says Alina Wieczorek from the National University of Ireland, Galway and lead author of the study.

Led by Jenna Goesling, PhD, of the University of Michigan, the study identifies several «red flags» for persistent opioid use — particularly previous use of high - dose opioids.

A team led by astronomer Steven Majewski of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville sorted through a half - billion objects in the 2MASS catalog to find several thousand M giants, a distinctive class of red - giant star common in the Sagittarius dwarf but rarely seen above or below the plane of our galaxy.

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.

«I don't want to give people false hope — these people weren't getting up and walking around — but it shows there is potential for the brain to recover functionality, even several years after damage,» says Steven Laureys at the University of Liège in Belgium, who led the research.

A team of archaeologists led by John Woods of the University of Chicago has spent several summers searching for it.

Dr Ivan Tyukin from the University of Leicester's Department of Mathematics said: «It is often infeasible just to re-train the systems for several reasons: they are huge and re-training requires significant computational resources or long time or both; it may be impossible retrain the system locally, at the point where mistake occur; and we can fix one thing but break another leading to that important skills could vanish.

«We explored several plausible reasons why Mexican - American immigrants, despite facing the considerable challenges of relocation, have fewer health limitations than Mexican - Americans born in the United States,» says lead author Esme Fuller - Thomson, Sandra Rotman Endowed Chair at University of Toronto's Factor - Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto.

«Our work describes the structure and function of an important enzyme called Rumi, which adds a glucose molecule to several signaling proteins to modify their activities,» said the study's lead author, Huilin Li, a biologist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University.

A team led by Dr. Nathan H. Lents of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (CUNY), sampled bacteria from the ear and nasal canals of 21 cadavers through several weeks of decomposition.

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 depression.

To find out, a team led by Matthew Bennett of Bournemouth University in the United Kingdom scanned and digitized at least four trails of footprints laid down over several thousand years at Ileret.

A recent study published in Scientific Reports, led by researchers of the University of Barcelona in collaboration with several other research institutions, shows that the direct effect of climate change in regulating fuel moisture (droughts leading to larger fires) is expected to be dominant, regarding the indirect effect of antecedent climate on fuel load and structure - that is, warmer / drier conditions that determine fuel availability.

A new study led by the University of Utah School of Medicine and Chung - Ang University provides evidence that several regions of the brain are hyperconnected in adolescent boys diagnosed with Internet gaming disorder (lines between colored areas, colored areas represent specific brain networks).

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«By considering that stethoscopes are used repeatedly over the course of a day, come directly into contact with patients» skin, and may harbor several thousands of bacteria (including MRSA) collected during a previous physical examination, we consider them as potentially significant vectors of transmission,» commented lead investigator Didier Pittet, MD, MS, Director of the Infection Control Program and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, University of Geneva Hospitals.

«Our workgroup on genome editing included experts in several subfields of human genetics as well as from countries with varying health systems and research infrastructure,» said Kelly E. Ormond, MS, CGC, lead author of the statement and Professor of Genetics at Stanford University.

Parchman, who specializes in evolutionary and ecological genetics in in the University's College of Science, is the lead author on a recently published scientific paper in the journal Molecular Ecology detailing the study, a culmination of several years of work with his colleagues Alex Buerkle and Craig Benkman of the University of Wyoming, and Victor Soria - Carrasco of University of Sheffield, UK.

Now, scientists at the Autonomous University of Barcelona have led a study which analysed several brands of beer by applying a new concept in analysis systems, known as an electronic tongue, the idea for which is based on the human sense of taste.

Rudy Castellani, a neuropathologist at the University of Maryland, has been the lead author on several skeptical reviews of CTE.

We discovered several variants in SP110 that were more common in the PWCs that developed DM says Emma Ivansson, former PostDoc at Uppsala University leading the study.

«Melanopsin is a part of our visual system from long ago in evolution, and it controls several important biological responses to light,» said lead author, Manuel Spitschan, PhD, who received his doctorate from the Psychology program at Penn in 2016 and is now a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford.

«We were very surprised to find such close correlation between the disappearance of dinosaurs and the beginning of daytime activity in mammals, but we found the same result unanimously using several alternative analyses,» explained lead author, PhD student Roi Maor (Tel Aviv University and UCL).

Even several species such as the red shiner and sand shiner, which were thought to be plentiful, are declining as a result of reduced stream habitat, according to Perkin, who was the lead researcher for the study and is now an assistant professor at Texas A&M University.

Recently, many scientists came to suspect that a protein called NF - κB, a master regulator of infection and inflammation, was at work; in 1996, several groups had found that it also inhibited cell death, which can lead to tumor formation.To find out whether suspicions about NF - κB were well - founded, molecular biologist Michael Karin of the University of California, San Diego, and his colleagues turned to a mouse model of colitis.

Griffith University Chair in Rock Art Professor Paul Taçon led the research which involved field work with collaborative international teams in rugged locations of several countries.

«By midcentury, we expect to see less reliable surface water supplies in several regions of the United States,» said the study's lead author, Kristen Averyt, associate director for science at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder.

At least that's the view of a team of physicists led by Jose Luis Aragon of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, who analysed several of Van Gogh's later paintings, including Starry Night, Road with Cypress and Star (see below) and Wheat Field with Crows.

Several laboratories, including one led by Stewart Anderson of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, have demonstrated that transplanting inhibitory neurons from healthy mice has improved symptoms in mice with models of those diseases.

«Evidence indicates that the fatty and inflamed liver expresses several pro-inflammatory and procoagulant factors, as well as genes involved in accelerated atherogenesis,» explained lead investigator Raluca Pais, MD, PhD, of the Pierre and Marie Curie University, INSERM, and the CDR Saint Antoine, Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition (ICAN), Paris, France.

Several years ago, a team of yeast researchers led by Bruno André of the Free University in Brussels, Belgium, identified yeast proteins that transport ammonium.

The study, led by Ralph J. Cicerone and Kelly R. Redeker of the University of California, Irvine, examines the emissions of hydrocarbons in California rice paddies over several seasons.

Researchers led by D.J. Patil of the University of Maryland took global wind predictions from five so - called ensemble forecastsa combination of a main forecast and several adjusted forecasts that show different possible weather developments.