Sentences with phrase «studies in university settings»

She works with communities of Indigenous iTaukei Fijians and conducts lab - based studies in university settings.

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The study was presented recently at the 2014 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference at Western University's Ivey Business School in London, Ont., which set out to uncover the factors that «influence variance in entrepreneurial orientation» — risk - taking, innovativeness, pro-activeness — among family firms.
Mullen, who studied entrepreneurship at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, set out to rethink those previous models.
Like many Japanese bureaucrats on the fast track, Kuroda studied law at Tokyo University but then left Japan to get a master's degree in economics at Oxford, training that set him apart from his peers.
In other words, exercising after a long period of not eating could set us up for a longer, more intense fat burn, noted Eric Doucet, the lead author on the study and a professor of kinesiology at the University of Ottowa.
You will have noted, for example, that the study of God (rather than religion) is not an occupation high on the list of priorities set forth in the development plans of most of our colleges and universities.
Although the university provided the setting for some of the most enduring theology of the medieval and Reformation eras, and though the philosophy of religion in the modern period emerged under similar auspices, the recent development of departments of religious studies in secular universities represents a unique phenomenon that has profound implications for theology.
When she's not writing creative non-fiction, short stories, and poetry, Erin spends her time working on her Masters of Arts in Urban Studies online through Eastern University, fighting for the last carrot in the house with her two rabbits, Bug and Sage, and enjoying mentoring time with local youth both in and out of church settings.
That is, the data used in the study suspiciously match another data set entirely; the prestigious gay - rights research institute at the grad student's university says it did not fund any survey effort as he claimed it did; the student admits to having no such funding and to not having paid survey respondents as he claimed; the private firm allegedly employed to collect survey data says it has never heard of him or his study.
Thus a true Catholic Studies program, Briel suggested, offers students an encounter, «not merely with a set of texts but with living Catholic minds who share in that gaudium de veritate, that joy in the truth at the heart of the life of a university, properly understood.»
It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.
I suspect my tea drinker's fate was set on the night of busy studying at University when I drank lots of strong black coffee to stay awake... though I did well in the exam my stomach said no more to coffee and so I slowly turned to tea.
It alsoboosts your immune system and a study at Ball State University, Indiana, found taking a minimum of 0.88 g of whey per pound of body weight could prevent the ills of overtraining from setting in.
Despite finding that underreporting continues to be what she wrote in two 2013 studies to be an «alarming» and «overwhelming» problem, Dr. Johna Register - Mihalik, a research scientist and member of the faculty at the Matthew Gfeller Sport - Related TBI Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, recently told MomsTEAM that the reason she and her colleagues did not recommend the use of impact sensors in addressing the problem was that she viewed «the use of impact sensors in concussion detection, as the science, although a growing field of information, [as] just not quite there in [terms of] how the [y] may best be used from a clinical standpoint and across all sport settings
«We know from lots and lots of other ecosystems that how you set up the house has a real impact for all the later guests,» says medical microbiologist David Relman of the Stanford University School of Medicine, who was not involved in the study.
When Marc Walton, the senior scientist at Northwestern University and the Art Institute of Chicago's Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts in Illinois, set out to identify the hand behind a set of three portraits found with mummies from Egypt's Roman period, he didn't have a famous name in mind.
«The rise of «superbugs» leaves the clinical community with a rapidly dwindling number of options to treat infectious disease and to prevent the spread of resistant bacteria in, for example, hospital settings,» explains Professor Vincent O'Flaherty of the National University of Ireland Galway, co-corresponding author on the study, recently published in Frontiers in Microbiology.
«Humans are able to cooperate even in costly settings like warfare beyond the residential community and beyond kin,» says Sarah Mathew, an anthropologist at Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe, who studies the evolution of human cooperation.
When Lars Schmitz at the University of California, Davis, studied 77 bird species, he found he could predict the foraging lifestyle of any species simply by measuring the bones that their eyes are set in.
«I used to think of neonicotinoids as being a [localized] problem next to a small set of crops,» says Amro Zayed, who studies bees at York University in Toronto and wasn't involved in the research.
During my biochemistry studies, I was often struck by the great gap between the prevailing views on biotechnology from within the university setting and the views put forward in the public debate «outside.»
«The last missing piece in the puzzle was spin Nernst and that's why we set out to search for this,» says study coauthor Sebastian Goennenwein, a physicist at the Technical University of Dresden in Germany.
«Previous studies of the impacts of drought on flowers and bees have looked at individual species, often in the laboratory, but we used an experiment with rain shelters to examine the effects on real communities of plant species living in chalk grassland,» said Dr Ellen Fry from the University of Manchester, who set up the experiment.
She studied cognitive science and comparative literature at the University of Georgia before setting out in search of the vague job description «learn and explain things.»
Writing in Pediatrics and Therapeutics in 2012, Swedo, along with Jim Leckman of the Child Study Center at Yale University and the famed Johns Hopkins University immunologist Noel Rose, set the criteria for PANS.
Those who heard the talk in a packed auditorium at the University of Basel were impressed by the genomic data's high resolution — it is the largest data set of ancient DNA ever presented in a single study — even though some aren't convinced about the exact details.
Shruti Muralidhar, a Ph.D. student studying neuroscience at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, noted that in a university setting, «everybody expects you to follow this path» — the academic path — «and nothing else.
In a new study published in EPJ E, Mu - Jie Huang and Raymond Kapral from the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada show that small synthetic motors can attach to polymeric filaments and — unlike what previous studies showed — move along without changing either their shape or the direction in which they set out to movIn a new study published in EPJ E, Mu - Jie Huang and Raymond Kapral from the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada show that small synthetic motors can attach to polymeric filaments and — unlike what previous studies showed — move along without changing either their shape or the direction in which they set out to movin EPJ E, Mu - Jie Huang and Raymond Kapral from the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada show that small synthetic motors can attach to polymeric filaments and — unlike what previous studies showed — move along without changing either their shape or the direction in which they set out to movin Ontario, Canada show that small synthetic motors can attach to polymeric filaments and — unlike what previous studies showed — move along without changing either their shape or the direction in which they set out to movin which they set out to move.
In the present study, he and co-author Alan Schlegel studied a randomized and replicated experiment that was set up in 1961 at Kansas State University's Southwest Research - Extension Center in TribunIn the present study, he and co-author Alan Schlegel studied a randomized and replicated experiment that was set up in 1961 at Kansas State University's Southwest Research - Extension Center in Tribunin 1961 at Kansas State University's Southwest Research - Extension Center in Tribunin Tribune.
Dr Arnaud Wisman and Dr Nathan Heflick, of the University's School of Psychology, set out to establish in four separate studies whether people lose hope when thinking about death — known as Terror Management Theory — under a range of different conditions.
In the fall of 2003, two media researchers at the University of Southern California set up a study to look at the patterns of brain activity triggered by violent video games.
In this set of studies, lead researcher Oliver Sheldon, a specialist in organizational behavior at Rutgers University, and co-author Ayelet Fishbach, a social psychologist at the University of Chicago, set out to understand the factors that influence self - control in ethical decision - makinIn this set of studies, lead researcher Oliver Sheldon, a specialist in organizational behavior at Rutgers University, and co-author Ayelet Fishbach, a social psychologist at the University of Chicago, set out to understand the factors that influence self - control in ethical decision - makinin organizational behavior at Rutgers University, and co-author Ayelet Fishbach, a social psychologist at the University of Chicago, set out to understand the factors that influence self - control in ethical decision - makinin ethical decision - making.
«If you look at a set of lung cancer patients, like we did in the paper, who develop brain metastases, they all have those two genes in their primary lung cancer,» said Sheila Singh, the study's supervisor, associate professor at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, scientist with the Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute at McMaster University and neurosurgeon at McMaster Children's Hospital.
In a new study published in the current issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, researchers in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science at Florida Atlantic University and Humboldt - Universität zu Berlin in Germany measured the effects of situations on human behavior in real - time and outside of a laboratory setting in one of the largest studies to employ experience sampling methodIn a new study published in the current issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, researchers in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science at Florida Atlantic University and Humboldt - Universität zu Berlin in Germany measured the effects of situations on human behavior in real - time and outside of a laboratory setting in one of the largest studies to employ experience sampling methodin the current issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, researchers in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science at Florida Atlantic University and Humboldt - Universität zu Berlin in Germany measured the effects of situations on human behavior in real - time and outside of a laboratory setting in one of the largest studies to employ experience sampling methodin the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science at Florida Atlantic University and Humboldt - Universität zu Berlin in Germany measured the effects of situations on human behavior in real - time and outside of a laboratory setting in one of the largest studies to employ experience sampling methodin Germany measured the effects of situations on human behavior in real - time and outside of a laboratory setting in one of the largest studies to employ experience sampling methodin real - time and outside of a laboratory setting in one of the largest studies to employ experience sampling methodin one of the largest studies to employ experience sampling methods.
The study is remarkable because it was carried out in a natural setting, yet boasts a huge sample size and good controls, says Lee Dugatkin of the University of Louisville.
«We kind of know it goes on,» says Jeffrey Hoover, an avian ecologist at the University of Illinois in Urbana who wasn't involved with the study, «but we never had a good data set to point to.»
«This is an important proof - of - principle that the test can really be used in a field setting,» says infectious disease doctor Charles Chiu of the University of California, San Francisco, who was not involved in the study.
The students set up a new compost receptacle at Radina's Coffeehouse and Roastery in the university's Leadership Studies Building.
In an independent study, immunologist Yang Xu at the University of California, San Diego, set out to test the presumption that IPS cells would elude rejection.
Seeing the Light While studying neurobiology at the University of California at Santa Barbara in the early 1980s, Widder boarded a ship and set out to sea.
«This study shows, through a «before and after» design, that a particular set of learning activities is both the necessary and sufficient causal explanation for resulting differences in brain characteristics,» says John Sloboda of Keele University in the UK, and a long - time champion of practice over genius.
«Working with large data sets allows us to make discoveries that would never be possible in smaller studies,» said Laramie Duncan, PhD, of Stanford University, who served as lead analyst on the project.
Led by researchers at Duke University, the study offers clues to a longstanding question in developmental biology, namely how plants and animals make so many types of cells from the same set of instructions.
Researcher Amy Brunell of The Ohio State University wondered whether narcissists are particularly attracted to would - be partners who already have a significant other and set about answering that question in a four - part study.
«This [set of studies] was the last hope for microbicides in many ways,» says Thomas Hope of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois.
«We set out to find out about human genes that are implicated in the regulation of the gut microbiome, and we found some that are,» says senior author Ruth Ley, an Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology at Cornell University and the study's senior author.
Researchers from the University of Leicester's Department of Cancer Studies and Molecular Medicine, in collaboration with Cleaver Scientific Ltd., have developed a novel, high throughput method of performing the assay which is set to overcome this problem and to push down the costs of processing large numbers of samples.
«This work sets the stage for additional animal studies to see if tamoxifen can be used as a drug in people and will allow us to design new drugs related to tamoxifen that are better antifungals,» says Damian Krysan of the University of Rochester, an author on the study.
«We demonstrate that anthropomorphic features may not prove beneficial in online learning settings, especially among individuals who believe their abilities are fixed and who thus worry about presenting themselves as incompetent to others,» says psychological scientist and study author Daeun Park of Chungbuk National University.
For the study, VanEpps and colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University set up a system in which corporate employees ordering lunch from a cafeteria via a newly - developed online portal were presented with the calorie information for menu items via numeric or traffic light calorie labels, both together, or none at all.
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