Sentences with phrase «study lead author»

«There are important links between the environment and infectious disease risk, not only in low - income countries, like places with a lot of malaria, but in high - income countries like the U.S. and Canada, too,» said study lead author Dr. David Fisman.

«The results are significant, since chances are, there are people who are consuming one to two glasses of alcohol per day that may not realize they are putting themselves at risk for irregular heartbeat,» said study lead author Dr. Peter Kistler.

«Our aim was to explore the effect of a more acidic ocean on every gene in the coral genome,» says study lead author Dr Aurelie Moya, a molecular ecologist with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University.

«Given the prevalence of childhood psychological abuse and the severity of harm to young victims, it should be at the forefront of mental health and social service training,» said study lead author Joseph Spinazzola, PhD, of The Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute, Brookline, Massachusetts.

«Mindfulness meditation is a method to learn how to be fully engaged in the present moment and not let the mind get so easily distracted,» explained study lead author Dr. Natalia Morone.

When examined with the earlier Georgian finds, the skull «shows that this special immigration out of Africa happened much earlier than we thought and a much more primitive group did it,» said study lead author David Lordkipanidze, director of the Georgia National Museum.

«Colombia is now only second to Brazil in the number of known Zika infections,» says study lead author Matthew Aliota, a research scientist in the UW - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM).

«This dataset provides information on turbine hub - height wind speeds in areas off the coasts where measurements are very sparse or nonexistent,» said study lead author Eric James, a scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder working in NOAA's Global Systems Division.

For the study, Pimm, along with study lead author Natalia Ocampo - Peñuela and colleagues, looked at 586 species of birds (the team is composed primarily of bird researchers) currently on the IUCN Red List from six bird - rich regions around the world, including the Western Andes of Colombia, Southeast Asia, and Brazil.

«In some regions, it is possible for average snowfall to decrease, but the snowfall extremes actually intensify,» study lead author Paul O'Gorman, an atmospheric scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), said in a news release.

Study lead author Kevin Ward, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Utah, said, «When we compared the amount of trapped plutonic rock beneath the plateau with the amount of erupted volcanic rock at the surface, we found the ratio was almost 30:1.

«One of the things about these shale deposits is they occur in certain periods in Earth's history, and one of those is the Cretaceous time, which is around the time of the dinosaurs,» said study lead author Cin - Ty Lee, professor and chair of Rice's Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences.

«We discovered brightness changes in X-rays that occurred about a month after similar changes were observed in visible and UV light,» study lead author Dheeraj Pasham, an astrophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said in a NASA statement.

Because most cases of Parkinson's disease appear to be at least partially caused by environmental factors such as pesticide exposure, these findings support the approach that targeting α - synuclein could slow or stop the progression of Parkinson's in most people with the disease, said study lead author Jeff Bronstein, a professor of neurology and director of movement disorders at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

«This spatial differentiation happens in biology naturally, but we demonstrated this process in vitro,» said study lead author Zhen Ma, a UC Berkeley postdoctoral researcher in bioengineering.

Study lead author Michael Raupach, GCP co-chair and atmospheric physicist at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, says it will take economic, policy and social changes to reverse the trend, such as capturing the CO2 emitted by coal - fired power plants and increased international cooperation.

«Our results demonstrate the universality of emotional responses across species,» said study lead author Mikel Delgado, a doctoral student in psychology at UC Berkeley.

«That was the first evidence of homeostatic scaling down in live animals,» says study lead author Richard Huganir, director of JHU's Department of Neuroscience and of the Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute.

«Despite warming temperatures and shifting salmon migrations, Dolly Varden do a great job of following their food,» says study lead author Chris Sergeant of the National Park Service.

A new study examining the long - term effects of sea - level rise on the 720 spots around the world that have been designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites found that roughly 20 percent of them could be ruined if temperatures rise 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit (3 degrees Celsius) above pre-industrial levels over the next two millennia, said study lead author Ben Marzeion, an assistant professor at the Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.

«This study provides one of the first footholds into biochemical understanding of humans» unique cognitive abilities,» said study lead author Kari Stefansson, M.D., Dr. Med., CEO of deCODE genetics.

«We are excited about these findings because they explain a mystery that's existed in the field for a decade,» said study lead author Amy Strom, a graduate student in Karpen's lab.

«Our findings highlight the need to ensure that blacks and Hispanics have access to high - quality and culturally competent hospice services,» said study lead author Rebecca Anhang Price, a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corp..

«We don't get finite clusters of emotions in the map because everything is interconnected,» said study lead author Alan Cowen, a doctoral student in neuroscience at UC Berkeley.

Study lead author Professor Martyn Chipperfield, from the School of Earth & Environment at the University of Leeds, said: «Our research confirms the importance of the Montreal Protocol and shows that we have already had real benefits.

«Although such systems are capable of understanding many words, they are often tripped up by creative uses of words that go beyond their existing, pre-programmed vocabularies,» said study lead author Yang Xu, a postdoctoral researcher in linguistics and cognitive science at UC Berkeley.

«Americans are getting the wrong signal from year - round weather about whether they should be concerned about climate change,» said study lead author Patrick Egan, a public policy professor at New York University.

«It was previously assumed that planets with masses similar to Earth would be habitable simply because they were in the «habitable zone,»» said Princeton astronomer and study lead author James Owen in a statement.

But the dabs are created using highly volatile butane gas, and a number of fires, explosions and severe burns have been linked to the production of this marijuana concentrate, said study lead author John Stogner, an assistant professor of criminology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

«We suspected that the young are most vulnerable because of their immature immune systems, but we didn't have a lot of hard evidence to show that before,» said study lead author Bo Hang, a Berkeley Lab staff scientist who previously found that thirdhand smoke could lead to genetic mutations in human cells.

More organizations in Great Britain are supportive and Canadian provinces are currently transitioning to midwifery, said study lead author Patricia Janssen, director of the Master of Public Health Program at the University of British Columbia.

«This study offers new insight on the problem of multiple stellar populations in star clusters,» said study lead author Chengyuan Li, an astronomer at KIAA and NAOC who also is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences» Purple Mountain Observatory.

«This discovery is really exciting, we get another chance to protect these two endemic Western Australian sea snake species,» says study lead author Blanche D'Anastasi from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at JCU.

Only when the slow waves and spindles come together in a very narrow opportunity time window (approximately one - tenth of a second), can the brain effectively place new memories into its long - term storage,» said study lead author Randolph Helfrich, a postdoctoral fellow in neuroscience at UC Berkeley

«The high linear polarisation that we measured with the VLT can't be easily explained by our models unless the vacuum birefringence effects predicted by QED are included,» said study lead author Roberto Mignani, a scientist at the National Institute for Astrophysics in Italy and the University of Zielona Gorá in Poland.

These associations did not vary by gender or smoking status,» says study lead author Kelvin Choi, PhD.

But unlike Guam, the coastal regions surrounding the Baltic Sea are «not a hot spot for ALS or any neurodegenerative disease,» says study lead author Sara Jonasson.

Women with this condition considering taking such medications should know the risks, said study lead author Marlena Fejzo, an assistant professor of research in obstetrics and gynecology at UCLA.

«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.

«We screened a diverse array of chiral catalysts, such as Lewis acid, Brønsted acid, and Lewis base catalysts,» study lead author Kazutaka Shibatomi says.

«Interestingly, we found that magnetic anisotropy is an inherent property in the 2 - D material we studied, and because of this characteristic, we were able to detect the intrinsic ferromagnetism,» said study lead author Cheng Gong, a postdoctoral researcher in Zhang's lab.

«The gravitational waves from these supermassive black hole binary mergers are the most powerful in the universe,» says study lead author Chiara Mingarelli, a research fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute in New York City.

The telling hot spot recently observed in the southeast was discovered when the Indian River Lagoon on Florida's Atlantic coast, known for its algae blooms and blankets of dead fish, became much saltier after 2011, and study lead author Arnoldo Valle - Levinson, professor of civil and coastal engineering sciences in UF's College of Engineering, began to investigate the situation.

«This vaccine appears to be safe for patients, and elicits a broad anti-tumor immunity — we think it warrants further testing in larger clinical trials,» said study lead author Janos L. Tanyi, MD, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Penn Medicine.

«No one knew how retailers would deal with the added costs of the tax,» said study lead author Jennifer Falbe, a UC Berkeley postdoctoral researcher in public health nutrition.

«There has been this kind of settled paradigm that caloric restriction universally extends the life span of animals, [and] some have implied that it also applies to humans,» says study lead author Rajindar Sohal, a pharmacologist at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

«Methane activation by radical species has been tried before,» study a lead author Prof. Kei Ohkubo says.