Sentences with phrase «states than some of my colleagues»

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Murphy was joined by more than 30 Democratic colleagues on the floor, many of whom angrily told stories of mass shootings in their own states and called for action.

Not only was that assertion completely at odds with the uncertain state of the existing science, but it was contradicted by the study itself, in which Dr. McKee and her colleagues acknowledged that several other factors, besides prior participation in football, may influence CTE risk and disease severity, including factors other than cumulative hits to the head, and admitted that it was even «unclear» what roles concussions and repetitive subconcussive hits play in CTE risk, disease severity, and progression.

But his attempt to cast himself as in the same boat as marginal Democrats in a Democrat - dominated state is certainly an interesting approach — one some of his more conservative colleagues might look askance at, and the Democrats more than likely won't let go unchallenged.

Côte d'Ivoire's President Alassane Ouattara, who did President Mahama the honours said he sees him as a brother rather than a colleague Head of State.

The latter, aged 66, may well lead the party, but most important offices of the state are now in the hands of his younger colleagues using a different language and relying on different political advisers than Kaczyński.

State Sen. Tony Avella (D - Bayside) may be one of 62 senators, but the lawmaker said he has a stronger voice among his colleagues than when he was on the City Council, where he was one of 51 legislators — 48 of them Democrats.

«Senator Croci is no different than me or any one of my colleagues, no matter what part of the state.»

Because African - Americans were overrepresented on this list — they account for more than a fourth of its members — the typical black legislator earned more from state pension payments than their colleagues.

«For the past two months, as part of an unprecedented coalition, NYSUT members made more than 500,000 calls from phone banks; knocked on tens of thousands of doors; and distributed literature to their friends, families and colleagues,» New York State United Teachers said in a statement.

Commenting on this, he stated that the sign was initially regarded as a bit of a joke rather than a threat, until one of his colleagues was disciplined and later dismissed for the crime of not smiling.

New York City teachers, who were included in the data for the first time, performed worse than their colleagues in the rest of the state, with only 9 percent earning the «highly effective» rating, compared to 58 percent outside the city.

(CNN)- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is gushing over his former Senate colleague Hillary Clinton, saying Wednesday night the former secretary of state would do a «better» job in the White House than her husband.

The Democratic governor's statements came as his negotiating partners in the State Assembly and Senate once again huddled with their rank - and - file colleagues to discuss a spending plan that will total more than $ 140 billion, raise the minimum wage and implement a system of paid family leave.

Sheldon Silver, who in 2013 took in more outside income (excluding investment earnings) than any of his colleagues, was ousted last week as speaker of the state Assembly after prosecutors charged him with disguising «kickbacks» as legal fees.

State Senator Marc Panepinto, a Buffalo Democrat, urged his Republican colleagues to get behind a proposal that would fund paid family leave in New York State through a modest payroll deduction of less than a dollar per week.

During his more than three decades in the State Senate, Dean Skelos has earned the respect of his colleagues and the admiration of residents across the sState Senate, Dean Skelos has earned the respect of his colleagues and the admiration of residents across the statestate.

More than 300 people, including local, state and federal law enforcement professionals, elected officials, and family members, colleagues and friends of those who died, attended the ceremony at the memorial, which is located on the Empire State Plaza in Alstate and federal law enforcement professionals, elected officials, and family members, colleagues and friends of those who died, attended the ceremony at the memorial, which is located on the Empire State Plaza in AlState Plaza in Albany.

His former colleagues in the state Legislature always give him the loudest cheers at state events, he is a darling of organized labor and was elected in 2014 with more votes than either Schneiderman or Cuomo.

Bowyer and his colleague Samuel Fenker, also at Notre Dame, used state - of - the - art, commercial iris - matching software to measure differences in the software's performance when comparing more than 20,000 different images of 644 irises, taken between 2008 and 2011.

Astrophysicist Fred Espenak of the Goddard Space Flight Center speaks for many of his colleagues: «With the current state of technology, planetary science can be done much more inexpensively with robot missions than with manned ones.»

Hunt and his colleagues drew on large collections of ostracod fossils from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, the University of Southern Mississippi, and Louisiana State University, as well as additional fossils they collected themselves, to investigate whether species in which this male / female distinction was most prominent had been more vulnerable than others to changes in their environments.

After searching through images obtained from the Hubble Space Telescope's brand - new Advanced Camera for Surveys and the 10 - meter Keck Telescope in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, astronomer Michael West of the University of Hawaii, Hilo, and his colleagues in the United States and United Kingdom found what may be more than 300 intergalactic globular clusters, the farthest ones roughly 400 million light - years away.

«Beauty and the Beasts,» page 24 «The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships: The Mating - Warring Association in Men,» by Lei Chang and colleagues, in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, states that male participants primed by attractive faces or legs of young women were significantly faster in responding to images or words of war than those primed by unattractive faces or national flags.

By comparison, every one of the 24,000 computer - drawn districts was less gerrymandered than either the 2012 or 2016 voting districts drawn by state legislators, which Mattingly, Graves and their colleagues reported in April 2017 (S. Bangia et al..

Now, health economist Janet Currie at Princeton University and her colleagues have tried to overcome those problems by looking at birth certificates for all 1.1 million infants born in Pennsylvania between 2004 and 2013 — a period that spanned the drilling of thousands of fracking wells in the state, which now has more than 10,000 of them.

Juan Yin and colleagues at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, Anhui, teleported a quantum state 97 kilometres, 81 km further than the previous record.

In January 2005, for example, Ohio State University geophysicist Ralph von Frese and his colleagues noticed a concentration of higher - than - average - density material in the rock about a mile under the surface of the East Antarctic ice sheet.

Using two data sets of functional MRI brain scans from more than 350 adult and child siblings during resting state, Fair and colleagues applied an innovative technique to characterize functional connectivity and machine learning to successfully identify siblings based on their connectotype.

Based on findings for a paper he and colleagues wrote more than 20 years ago on diathesis — a Greek term for disposition or vulnerability, Vitaliano argues that psychiatric states and psychological outcomes are a function of exposure to stressors and vulnerabilities (early family environment, genetic factors, disposition).

For more than a quarter century, evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski and colleagues have been growing 12 flasks of E. coli at Michigan State University.

Dr. Eli Y. Adashi, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Brown University, and his colleagues calculated that more than a third of twin births and more than three - quarters of triplets or higher - order births in the United States in 2011 were the result of fertility treatments.

However, the routine practice of data sharing in scientific research, rather than reactive data sharing, will be needed to effectively prepare for future public health emergencies, according to Jean - Paul Chretien from the Integrated Biosurveillance Section, Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch, Defense Health Agency, United States, and colleagues, writing in PLOS Medicine.

As Venkateswaran and colleagues explain online today in Microbiome, they relied on state - of - the - art «deep - sequencing» machines, which are better able to assess diversity and abundance of organisms than traditional techniques.

Leonardo Calle of Montana State University (formerly Florida Atlantic University) and his colleagues wanted to assess how wading birds respond to these changes, because different species face different constraints — longer - legged birds can forage in deeper water than those with shorter legs, and birds that are only active during the day have different needs than those that will forage day or night.

Women who have polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a common hormone condition that contributes to infertility and metabolic problems, such as diabetes and heart disease, tend to have less diverse gut bacteria than women who do not have the condition, according to researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, in collaboration with colleagues at Poznan University of Medical Sciences in Poland and San Diego State University.

Aiming for that broader view, he and his colleagues assembled a database of more than 187,000 injection wells across the central and eastern United States, and compared that to data on 7,175 earthquakes that struck the region between 1973 and 2014.

Kimberly A. Young of Florida State University and her colleagues found that pair - bonded voles responded less than unattached, sexually naive voles to the rewarding properties of amphetamine.

Dr. Rhodes and colleagues also found that respondents from Connecticut were more likely than residents of other states to be aware of the potential masking effect of breast density on mammographic detection of cancer and were more likely to have discussed breast density with a health care provider.

According to an online study of more than 17,000 single, heterosexual men and women by Janet Lever of California State University, Los Angeles, and her colleagues, it may be nearly impossible to guess whether your date wants you to pick up the bill.

Jagai and her colleagues used the U.S. EPA's Environmental Quality Index, a county - level measure incorporating more than 200 of these environmental variables and obtained cancer incidence rates from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program State Cancer Profiles.

In a 2016 study published in EcologyUSGS ecologist Adrian Das, Stephenson and their colleague Kristin Davis of Colorado State University's Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory tracked the lives of more than 23,000 trees in plots throughout Sequoia National Park over a 13 - year period.

In addition, after taking into account factors such as age and the severity of the disease, the risk of death among people with cystic fibrosis was 34 per cent lower in Canada than in the United States, according to the research by lead author Dr. Stephenson and colleagues.

In an effort to change that, Kristy Murray, a researcher at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, and her colleagues went through all 4162 cases of West Nile virus reported to the Texas Department of State Health Services for the more than 10 years between July 2002 and December 2012.

With the help of commercial speed dating firm HurryDate, Kurzban and his colleagues studied data from more than 10,000 singles in their 20s, 30s and 40s who participated in speed dating events across the United States.

Since 1979, he and his RBT colleagues have taught in - depth professional development programs centered on the knowledge base of teaching to educators in more than 200 school districts each year in the United States and other countries.

Both white and minority children in Connecticut's magnet schools showed stronger connections to their peers of other races than students in their home districts, and city students made greater academic gains than students in non-magnet city schools, Casey Cobb and a team of colleagues found in this research commissioned by the state of Connecticut.

... However, only about one - third of elementary teachers in the United States felt well prepared or very well prepared to use computers and the Internet for classroom instruction, and less experienced teachers felt better prepared to use technology than their more experienced colleagues.

William T. Gormley and colleagues measured the skills of 3,500 incoming kindergartners in Tulsa, finding that those who had been enrolled in the state's preschool for all program had better reading, math and writing skills than those who spent time in federally funded Head Start programs or attended no public preschool program.

As my colleagues Bonnie O'Keefe, Kaitlin Pennington, and Sara Mead noted earlier this week in their slide deck analyzing the education landscape in Michigan, DeVos» home state of Michigan has one of the nation's largest charter sectors, with more than 40 charter school authorizers and 10 percent of its students attending charter schools.