Sentences with phrase «study he led at»

Professor Ruth Plummer, study lead at the Newcastle Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, said: «It is incredibly exciting to have the opportunity to run a trial of a completely new type of potential drug to treat patients across a range of different cancers.

«The transponders were the cause of the tumors,» said Keith Johnson, a retired toxicologic pathologist, said in regards to a 1996 study he led at Dow Chemical.

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Professor Zhu Chaodong, the Institute of Zoology's lead scientist in insect evolution studies at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, said it would be a «catastrophe» if billions of cockroaches were suddenly released into the environment — be it through human error or a natural disaster like an earthquake that damaged the building.

At the first meeting of the I.S.O. blockchain group, the Russian delegation led a study group on security and privacy issues, which caused discomfort among some delegates from other countries, according to the two delegates who spoke to The New York Times.

«Our survey results clearly show that when it comes to cardiovascular disease, marital status really does matter,» said Dr. Carlos Alviar, who led the study at New York University's Langone Medical Center.

«We had been offering our Depression Care service for a number of years, and we wanted to dig into our data and measure our impact... look and see who our end users were,» says Barb Vader, Vice President, Clinical Services at Morneau Shepell, and the study's research lead.

Studies have shown that content marketing is more effective at obtaining leads than traditional interruption - based messaging.

In fact, psychological studies have shown that people who attempt to engage in numerous tasks at once can lead to lost productivity and time.

She taught environmental studies at Dartmouth University and is currently the lead ambassador for Bayer's science literacy program Making Science Make Sense.

A 2012 study from the Centre for Retirement Research at Boston College in the United States found that the greater number of older persons employed led to better outcomes for the young, including reduced unemployment and a higher wage.

RI will be working with Honeywell, which is leading the suit avionics (the electrical and electronic devices that assist flight) and software development, to test its software application at what's called Desert RATS (Research and Technology Studies) in September.

Chinese real estate mogul Zhang Xin speaks about her organization SOHO China's scholarships to help young people study at leading universities across the globe.

«Our findings suggest that frequent e-cigarette use may play an important role in cessation or relapse prevention for some smokers,» Daniel Giovenco, an assistant professor of sociomedical sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the lead study author, said in a statement.

A review of 24 studies found that being distracted during a meal led people to consume more calories at that meal.

All three groups showed some improvement on cognitive measures when assessed after the ten weeks, says Dr. Caryn Lerman, the study's lead author and a psychiatry professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Another study led by Michael Kane, a psychologist at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, and published in Psychological Science also found that some forms of mind wandering can be beneficial.

«We wanted to create a situation where people could choose to lie or not lie, and it would happen naturally,» says the study's lead author, Lyn M. Van Swol, a professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

«Short sleep was more important than any other factor in predicting subjects» likelihood of catching cold,» said Aric Prather, assistant professor of psychiatry at UC San Francisco and the study's lead author.

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.

WebMD cites a study led by Laura Berman, Ph.D., assistant clinical professor of psychiatry and ob - gyn at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, which studied 2,000 couples.

«At almost any given age, most of us are getting better at some things and worse at others,» Joshua Hartshorne, an MIT cognitive science researcher and the lead author of a study looking at how intelligence changes as we age, told Business InsideAt almost any given age, most of us are getting better at some things and worse at others,» Joshua Hartshorne, an MIT cognitive science researcher and the lead author of a study looking at how intelligence changes as we age, told Business Insideat some things and worse at others,» Joshua Hartshorne, an MIT cognitive science researcher and the lead author of a study looking at how intelligence changes as we age, told Business Insideat others,» Joshua Hartshorne, an MIT cognitive science researcher and the lead author of a study looking at how intelligence changes as we age, told Business Insideat how intelligence changes as we age, told Business Insider.

SnowEx — a NASA - led research campaign — will be spending the next five years studying how much snow is on the ground worldwide at any given time.

One pretty effective way to get the message across is telling them this: regardless of where you sleep, getting more sleep can lead to getting more sex, at least for women, according to a 2015 study.

After 11 years of studying the habit, and a lifetime battling it, Steel — now a professor of human resources and organizational dynamics at the University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business — has become the world's leading authority on not getting things done.

Perth - based company Lycopodium has been appointed as lead engineer and author for a pre-feasibility study at Jervois Mining's Nico Young cobalt - nickel project in NSW.

We'll talk below about two studies involving school - age children, both led by Carol Dweck, a professor of psychology at Stanford University.

«There are a lot of naturally occurring dog diseases — especially psychiatric diseases — that are very similar to human diseases,» Hyun Ji Noh, a geneticist at the Broad Institute and the lead author on the study, told Business Insider.

«If an unfortunate human were ever to descend through Uranus's clouds, they would be met with very unpleasant and odiferous conditions,» Patrick Irwin, a physicist at the University of Oxford who led the new study, said in the press release.

«Ride - sharing services have enormous potential for positive societal impact with respect to congestion, pollution and energy consumption,» Daniela Rus, the professor at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory who led the study, said in a press release.

For instance, a new study led by a professor of marketing at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business finds that when hiring managers are given a choice between proven ability and apparent potential, they often opt for the excitement of the untested but promising candidate.

The school offers more than 20 off - campus study groups — a study - abroad - like experience in which Colgate faculty lead a course at an international institution.

«We found that in general, the more you engage in creative activities, the better you'll do,» said the study's lead author Kevin Eschleman, an assistant professor of psychology at San Francisco State.

These are great for building case studies and your reputation; but at some point, if you want to rapidly grow your business, you have to figure out a scalable source of lead generation, like Facebook or Google advertising.

Her discovery of radium lead to the development of using X-rays in medicine, and Curie was at the forefront for cancer research, directing the first studies that used radiation to treat tumors.

The study appears in the current edition of the journal Frontiers in Psychology, led by Dr. Thomas Bak, a lecturer at Edinburgh's School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences.

As a 2013 study led by Susan Sprecher at Illinois State University suggests, simply sharing details about your hobbies and your favorite childhood memories can make you seem warmer and more likable.

That led investigators to conclude that ResearchKit is «particularly suitable for studies of short duration that require rapid enrollment across diverse geographical locations, frequent data collection, and real - time feedback to participants,» according to Yvonne Chan, who heads up the digital health and personalized medicine unit at Mount Sinai.

«This is an important issue to study because mental health problems and social isolation are at epidemic levels among young adults,» lead author Brian Primack, M.D., Ph.D., director of Pitt's Center for Research on media, technology and health said in a statement.

The research, led by Michigan State psychologist Zachary Hambrick, combed through six previous studies looking at the achievement and practice history of more than 1,000 chess players.

For example: A 2015 study looked at 115 people who'd been taking Ayurvedic supplements and found that 40 % of them had lead poisoning, NPR reports.

«This study showed us that looking at an image of nature for less than a minute was all it took to help people perform better on our task,» explained lead researcher Kate Lee.

In a study funded by NASA, David Dinges, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and a team of researchers found that letting astronauts sleep for as little as fifteen minutes markedly improved their cognitive performance, even when the nap didn't lead to an increase in alertness or the ability to pay more attention to a boring task.

And a recent study of therapeutic itineraries of infected individuals in rural Gambia, led by Sarah O'Neill of the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, shows at least one reason it's often hard to find and treat them earlier.

PsyBlog sums up one study on the subject which entailed showing some research participants a video on the idea that stress can be enhancing: «This led to them reporting better performance at work and fewer psychological problems over the subsequent two weeks.

According to a recent study at MIT, humans stated that they would be inclined to have a robot boss over a human boss since the robots improve the efficiency of the team and lead to better overall productivity.

Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, led by Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, revealed that they'd created their own viable chimeras — or, in polite company, «interspecies blastocyst complementations.»

A recent study led by Professor Andrew Oswald, Dr. Eugenio Proto, and Dr. Daniel Sgroi from the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick investigated the link between happiness and productivity.

These events naturally led to networks that went beyond his time at Stanford, but Walker's ability to make connections did not stop there, says Pfeffer, who was so impressed that he wrote a case study charting Walker's networking efforts.

«People often make decisions that are influenced by emotions that have nothing to do with the decisions they are making,» says Stéphane Côté, a professor at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, who co-wrote the study with lead researcher Jeremy Yip of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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