Sentences with phrase «several pioneering studies»

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Alan is also a founding team member of Media Bureau Networks, a pioneer in streaming media services; a contributing editor to PoliticsOnline.com; serves on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals dedicated to the study of the Internet, politics, and government; and is a member of the board of directors for E-Democracy.org.

A Russian astrophysicist who pioneered the study of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background to learn more about the universe and an American chemist whose work led to the development of several new materials have won the Kyoto Prize from the Japanese Inamori Foundation.

In the course of this work, he has pioneered several new approaches in the fruit fly that have had important implications for mammalian neurobiology, including: the demonstration that the fruit fly has a sleep - like behavior similar to that of mammals, studies of physiological and behavioral consequences of mutations in a neurotransmitter system affecting one of the brain's principal chemical signals, studies making highly localized genetic alterations in the nervous system to alter behavior, and molecular identification of genes causing naturally occurring variation in behavior.

Prof. Vijay Pande and his group have pioneered several areas of simulation methodology (including large - scale distributed computing via the Folding@home program, Molecular Dynamics on GPUs, and Markov State Model approaches) as well as applications of these tools to the study of protein folding.

Several recent studies have shown that cells can be returned to pluripotent state using «defined factors» (specific proteins that control which genes are active in a cell), a technique pioneered by Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, a professor at Kyoto University in Japan.

He has pioneered and patented several novel imaging techniques, including visible light OCT (vis - OCT), as well as inverse spectroscopic OCT (IS - OCT) which are two cornerstones of this study.

A draft of a report by Maris A. Vinovskis, a professor of history at the University of Michigan, cites several exemplary studies by the institutions, including an analysis of youth - training programs, the development of the «Success for All» program for disadvantaged students, and «pioneering» work in understanding how children learn mathematics.

After serving as the head of talent for several top law firms, including Arnold & Porter, Weil Gotshal, McGuireWoods, and Cooley, Caren co-founded a start - up company that pioneered a data - driven «Moneyball» approach to lawyer recruitment and executed the first large - scale empirical study to uncover the traits and behaviors of successful rainmakers.