Sentences with phrase «study author robert»

Study author Robert Brulle, a professor of sociology and environmental science at Drexel University, said more than 75 percent of the funding behind «counter-movement» groups can't be traced to an identifiable source.

«All of the surrogate measures of metabolic health got better, just by substituting starch for sugar in their processed food — all without changing calories or weight or exercise,» study author Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital San Francisco, said in a statement.

Study findings were presented by senior study author Robert Michler, M.D., professor and chairman, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and co-director of The Montefiore Einstein Center for Heart and Vascular Care, at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2014 and published simultaneously in the New England Journal of Medicine.

«Historically, when treating early lung cancer with radiotherapy, progression at the site of the primary tumor was the most common failure resulting in suffering and death,» said lead study author Robert Timmerman, MD, professor and vice chair of the department of radiation oncology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

«The results of this study suggest there is little benefit to what is often considered a routine addition to the open - heart procedure of CABG for patients with moderate IMR,» said senior study author Robert Michler, M.D., professor and chairman, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and co-director of The Montefiore Einstein Center for Heart and Vascular Care.

To study the role of sweet taste receptors, Cohen and lead study author Robert J. Lee, PhD, a post doctoral researcher in his lab, partnered with colleagues from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Monell Chemical Senses Center to analyze cultures and tissue samples from the upper respiratory tract of patients who were undergoing sinonasal surgery for a variety of conditions.

Not exact matches

One of the keynote speakers is Robert Thurman, the foremost American scholar, author and activist on Tibetan Buddhist studies in the U.S., and a close personal friend of the Dalai Lama's.

Explaining their findings in Harvard Business Review, the study's authors, Harvard's Robert Huckman and Bradley Staats of the University of North Carolina, pointed to the time it takes new team members to learn how to communicate with one another and determine who is the best authority in different areas.

Robert Segal is associate professor of religious studies at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and author of Joseph Campbell: An Introduction (Garland).

Robert Royal is President of the Washington - based Faith and Reason Institute and the author of numerous books, including The Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century: A Comprehensive World History and the forthcoming study, A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition in the Twentieth Century.

Robert H. Bork is the John M. Olin Scholar in Legal Studies at the American Enterprise Institute and author of The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law.

As Dr. Robert Liston, a lead author of the most recent study cited above, has said, «Look, caesarean section is not just like falling off a log.

«This study shows that severe food allergies are beginning to impact children of all races and income,» said lead study author Dr. Ruchi Gupta, a professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and an attending physician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.

«There's a lot of ambiguity in post-2050 projections of sea - level rise and we may have to live with that for a while,» said Robert E. Kopp, the study's lead author and a professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Rutgers.

«Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients have limited treatment options and a desperate need for effective therapies,» said University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) neurologist Robert Griggs, M.D., lead author of the study.

'' [The authors] stitched together geological evidence, anthropological information as well as geophysical modeling to put together this story that is tantalizing for a geologist but it's frightening for people in Hawaii,» said Robert Witter, a geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Anchorage, Alaska who was not involved in the study.

«The interaction with the antibodies might be happening, but it never fully explained all cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever,» said study lead author P. Robert Beatty, an assistant research scientist at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health.

«This study suggests many reasons some children may be at extreme risk of severe physical abuse and murder, which points to different preventive actions,» said lead author Dr. Robert Hanlon, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and of neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a Northwestern Medicine neuropsychologist.

In addition, the study was authored by William Leineweber, three additional members of Parker's group, Moran Yadid, Ph.D., John Doyle, and Ville Kujala, Ph.D., and Wyss Research Associate Robert Mannix Ph.D,.

«Colorectal cancer is the second most common cause of cancer deaths [after lung cancer] in the United States and is an enormous health problem around the world,» said the study's lead author, Robert J. Mayer, MD, faculty vice president for academic affairs, medical oncologist and colorectal cancer researcher at Dana - Farber.

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.

In contrast, here we used green chemistry and common food ingredients,» says Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT and one of the study's senior authors.

It's time for the Surgeon General to say the same thing about UV tanning,» says Robert P. Dellavalle, MD, PhD, MSPH, investigator at the CU Cancer Center, associate professor of dermatology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and the study's senior author.

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.

«One criticism of the PARP drugs is they are not active in patients who have developed resistance to other therapies, but we found veliparib appears to be effective in some platinum - resistant patients with recurrent or persistent disease,» said Robert L. Coleman, MD, lead author of the study and professor and vice chair of clinical research at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston.

That's OK if you're looking for the best place to buy a set of kitchen utensils or back - to - school supplies, but the study's lead author, research psychologist Robert Epstein of the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology in Vista, California, showed that by simply putting links for one candidate above another in a rigged search, he and his co-author could influence how undecided voters choose a candidate.

Ultimately, doctors might be able to reduce a person's risk for cancer by analyzing the levels and types of intestinal bacteria in the body, and then prescribing probiotics to replace or bolster the amount of bacteria with anti-inflammatory properties, said Robert Schiestl, professor of pathology, environmental health sciences and radiation oncology at UCLA and the study's senior author.

«This conversion is a key event in the development of Alzheimer's,» says Robert A. Rissman, lead author of the study.

«It's important they've found this gene, but it took a sample of 20,000 people to find it, precisely because the effect is so small,» says Robert Plomin at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, and lead author of a groundbreaking study in 2007 which failed to find any single genes of disproportionate importance in intelligence.

Bushman conducted the study with lead author Robert Lull, a graduate student in communication at Ohio State.

«We suspect that the effect of fungi will be strongest in wetter, hotter areas because this is where they thrive,» said lead author Dr Robert Bagchi, who began the study at Oxford University and completed it at ETH Zurich.

«Our study suggests that if we had looked at whether or not Zika would be a problem using previous epidemiological evidence, we would not have wasted energy or effort worrying about tourists getting Zika,» said Robert Snyder, the study's lead author and program manager for the Center for Global Public Health.

«In this study we successfully targeted histone acetylation with a bromodomain inhibitor, a compound that is currently in studies for different types of advanced cancers in adults, but has never been studied in DIPG,» said senior author Ali Shilatifard, PhD, Chair of Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and Robert Francis Furchgott Professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

«Our study is unique because we were actually out in the forest peeling bark off of the burned trees, looking for evidence of the beetle,» said Robert Andrus, a graduate researcher in the Department of Geography at CU - Boulder and lead author of the new study.

«Our work and that of our colleagues on stress and CRF have been mechanistically implicated in Alzheimer's disease, but agents that impact CRF signaling have not been carefully tested for therapeutic efficacy or long - term safety in animal models,» said the study's principal investigator and corresponding author Robert Rissman, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Neurosciences and Biomarker Core Director for the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study (Astudy's principal investigator and corresponding author Robert Rissman, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Neurosciences and Biomarker Core Director for the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study (AStudy (ADCS).

«Cancer constitutes an enormous burden to society, and both cancer and heart failure are well - known causes of increased mortality,» said Veronique Roger, M.D., senior author of the study and director of the Mayo Clinic Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery in Rochester, Minnesota.

This means, for instance, that «if you've learned that oranges are good, the smell of a tangerine will also get you thinking about food,» says Robert Campbell, a postdoctoral researcher in the Turner lab and lead author on the new study.

Studies of individual neurons in dishes of cultured neurons and in brain slices by co-first author Robert E. Stanley, a graduate student in the lab, revealed that neurons in the mutant mice had decreased numbers of dendritic spines, an important part of the synapses that neurons use to communicate with one another.

Study authors Dr. Robert C. Amland, Dr. James M. Haley, and Dr. Jason J. Lyons studied data from a hospital that uses the two - stage sepsis CDS system to encourage early detection of sepsis.

While noting that evidence for the pain - relieving properties of cannabis is limited, some studies have suggested «it may provide relief for some individuals,» said lead author, Marcus A. Bachhuber, MD, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at Penn and the Philadelphia VA Medical Center.

Our results suggest that in addition to «pure» species and populations, hybrids between protected animals and non-protected ones may deserve protection,» said Robert Wayne, a biologist at University of California Los Angeles and senior author of the study.

The theory came under additional fire when one of the authors of the original Science study, Robert Silverman, announced that further research on his part showed the positive specimens from chronic fatigue patients had actually been contaminated with XMRV DNA.

«We established a link between one bacterial species — Lactobacillus reuteri — that is a normal part of the gut microbiome, and the development of a population of cells that promote tolerance,» said Marco Colonna, MD, the Robert Rock Belliveau MD Professor of Pathology and the study's senior author.

«Showing that pleasure and value of music can be changed by the application of TMS is not only an important — and remarkable — demonstration that the circuitry behind these complex responses is now becoming better understood, but it also has possible clinical applications,» says Robert Zatorre, a professor of neurology and neurosurgery and the study's senior author.

Traverso and Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT, are the senior authors of the study, which appears in the Jan. 9 issue of Nature Communications.

«We thought that patients who have CFS breaks might be more sensitive to radiation therapy - induced DNA damage,» said the lead author of the study, Robert G. Bristow, MD, PhD, a Professor within the radiation oncology and medical biophysics departments at the University of Toronto; and a Clinician - Scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto.

«In the rainforest, many animals die each and every day, but it's really rare to find a carcass,» says Sébastien Calvignac - Spencer, an evolutionary biologist at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin and lead author of the new study.

This sound - converting mechanism is like that in humans but much simpler, says bionanoscientist Daniel Robert, one of the study's authors.

«In combination with findings from human studies, work with chimpanzees can provide enormous insights into core biobehavioral processes relevant to psychological illness and health,» said Robert Latzman, lead author of the study and assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Georgia State.

Added Robert Rieben, PhD, associate professor of Transplantation Immunology, Department of Clinical Research, University of Bern, co-corresponding study author: «Continuous release of the drugs irrespective of disease severity is a hallmark of existing drug delivery vehicles and could be a thing of the past.