Sentences with phrase «such as investigators»

That defence — a defence which recognizes that people in particular positions, such as investigators for regulatory bodies, must be immune from lawsuits for their saying things that may lessen someone's reputation, even where the plaintiff alleges «malice» — was accepted by the Ontario Court of Appeal in D'Mello v. Law Society of Upper Canada, 2014 ONCA 912:

This includes both eyewitnesses and those trying to reconstruct the crash such as investigators or hired experts.

The CrimPR apply to the parties to criminal proceedings and their witnesses (such as investigators and experts).

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NTSB investigators examine three or four such cases a year, including incidents outside the U.S. on which they assist, said Chairman Robert Sumwalt as he prepared to depart for the accident site in Philadelphia.

Since then, the company's had to weather such self - inflicted wounds as a pretexting scandal in which a board member, an executive and HP - paid investigators faced criminal charges for spying on journalists; the $ 1 billion acquisition of Palm Computing in 2010 to beef up HP's mobile capabilities; then the sale of Palm's intellectual property.

According to Science Daily, Dr. Nagy, senior investigator at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, there is a «new method of generating stem cells that does not require embryos as starting points and could be used to generate cells from many adult tissues such as a patient's own skin cells.»

In such inquiries the past is no longer dead; it comes alive as the historical investigator attempts to reenact the events studied.

But, Customs and Justice Department investigators told Food Safety News that whenever U.S. food safety or criminal experts verify a method to identify potentially illegal honey — such as analyzing the pollen — the laundering operators find a way to thwart it, such as ultra-filtration.

Investigators have been looking at whether coaches at these schools have been paid by outside entities — such as financial advisers, agents, and apparel companies — in exchange for pressuring players to associate with those entities, people familiar with the investigation said.

The emails do not appear to provide evidence of illegal activity, but legal experts say Trump Jr. could run into trouble if investigators find he aided a criminal action, such as hacking into Democratic computer networks, or violated campaign - finance laws by accepting gifts from foreign entities.

Now, back to the question of attorney - client privilege: If investigators seize privileged materials, such as electronic communications, in a raid, that kicks into gear a special process that creates a «clean team» to review those items.

Defense attorneys thus far have attacked Singh's credibility as a government witness and sought to use his own words against him — in part by playing secretly made recordings in which Singh says he has no story about politicians to share with federal investigators and Mangano gave him «nothing» for gestures such as hiring Linda Mangano.

Investigators said $ 227,662 from the account was used for operating expenses such as computer software, insurance and office parties.

Before his election to the Legislature, Mr. Losquadro was a claims adjuster and fraud investigator for State Farm Insurance, investigating such incidents as arson, auto thefts and staged accidents.

The commission found that the Maziarz campaign doled out more than $ 125,000 at retailers such as Target and BJ's Wholesale Club, including $ 56,250 in expenditures that investigators concluded had not been reported.

Investigators in heuristics and biases contend that people can't help but make many types of systematic thinking errors, such as being overconfident in their decisions.

People who give up activities and outlets they enjoy such as exercise, music, or art while in graduate school or medical training are more likely to report emotional distress, according to Liselotte Dyrbye, an internist and investigator at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who has studied suicidal thoughts among U.S. medical students.

... She expects to expand HHMI's partnerships with other philanthropies, such as one she helped create that supports early career investigators.

The artist of this depiction, Raquel Lieberman, is the principal investigator of the team that confirmed a Y - shaped structure, the first ever found that was encoded as such by a gene and not constructed out of protein component parts.

The «single discipline, single investigator» model remains dominant in many universities, she said, while challenges such as those as the intersection of food, energy and water usage cry out for multidisciplinary approaches.

«You'll see a bimodal distribution, with Bachelor's graduates trained in specific fields such as RNA interference or signaling pathways and the Ph.D. s who can be project leaders and investigators.»

With the harvested follicles, investigators such as James V. («Vince») Gruber, global director of research and development at Lonza Consumer Care, can test the effectiveness of new hair and skin products without relying on laboratory animals.

Next Wave asked some of academia's rising stars (see box)-- marked out as such because the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) has chosen to award them its prestigious Young Investigator accolade — to share the secrets of their success.

The investigators corrected for many factors that might have skewed their data, such as what antibiotics patients received, how long they took them, and what kind of infections they had.

«It's fabulous that our waveform models have pulled out from the noise such a weak but incredibly valuable gravitational wave signal,» said Alessandra Buonanno, a UMD College Park Professor of Physics and LSC principal investigator who also has an appointment as Director at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany.

Participants also noted that staff scientists are much more common at research institutes in other countries, such as Germany's Max Planck Institutes, where grants to institutions rather than to individual investigators are a common funding mechanism.

Will they suggest changes in incentives, such as requiring grant recipients and institutions to track and report on the progress of their postdoc «alumni» and to consider them part of the university's and principal investigator's scholarly production?

Stern, who is also the former head of NASA's Science Mission Directorate and the principal investigator of the New Horizons robotic mission now en route to Pluto, said he believed tourists and commercial businesses (such as mining companies) would also be potential customers.

In Bronze Age Europe, even the historical accounts of war were lacking, and all investigators had to go on were weapons in ceremonial burials and a handful of mass graves with unmistakable evidence of violence, such as decapitated bodies or arrowheads embedded in bones.

She sees AAAS as offering many avenues for encouraging multidisciplinary approaches, including raising the visibility of such approaches through the Science family of journals and through meetings, making discoveries accessible to AAAS members from all disciplines through expanded highlights and previews of journal articles aimed at non-specialists, and gathering investigators from different fields around particular challenges or topics.

The scientific community has long considered single - investigator research grants, such as the RO1 offered by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Holy Grail of science funding — but that goal often remains elusive, particularly for young investigators.

Several programs have been initiated to help promote young investigators, such as the Avenir program at INSERM, which provides young scientists who already have a permanent position with fully equipped space within their host department and funding toward research expenses and salaries for nonpermanent staff for up to 5 years.

Moore is instructive too on dead ends such as that which, at the close of the 19th century, confronted investigators who were trying to fathom the basis of inheritance by using the techniques of cytology alone.

«In addition to cooling urban microclimates, these trees, which are integrated within dense urban street networks, also provide other benefits, such as reducing the risk of flash flooding and cleaning the air,» says Peter Edwards, Principal Investigator at the Future Cities Laboratory and Director of the Singapore - ETH Centre.

When patients present with variables associated with a greater risk for VPC, clinicians should direct more intensive management of modifiable factors, such as smoking and lung function, as well as improved medication adherence or alternative treatment strategies, the investigators concluded.

«Improving how we anticipate activity using new technology such as this is an important first step in doing better at forecasting and preparing for volcanic eruptions,» said STREVA Principal Investigator, Dr Jenni Barclay.

For the study, Levy and a team of 10 investigators looked at such variables as harm from e-cigarettes, and amount of youth uptake, and the rate of cessation among others.

«We spend a lot of time thinking about traditional risk factors for stroke such as high blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes and smoking — but our data underscore the possibility that everyday air pollution may also pose a significant stroke risk,» said senior investigator Jeffrey S. Berger, MD, an assistant professor in NYU Langone Medical Center in the Department of Medicine, Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology.

The senior author of the study, Deanna Kepka, PhD, MPH, a Huntsman Cancer Institute investigator and assistant professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Utah, added that, «We are interested in looking at cultural values that may make certain demographic groups in the United States, such as Latinos, more supportive of adolescent vaccination than other demographic groups.

«When researchers use video games as a tool for cognitive enhancement, they assume that game performance relies on specific cognitive / brain function, yet there is a little evidence that establishes such a connection,» explained lead investigator Chandramallika Basak, PhD, Assistant Professor at The Center for Vital Longevity, University of Texas at Dallas.

Scientists and some field investigators, such as Lentini, knew that flashover fires could char wood at the floor level, melt metal, and create burn patterns that might suggest poured flammable liquid.

Indeed, some groups, such as the French air accident investigator BEA, already use this technology.

«The treatment of multiple myeloma has improved significantly in recent years with the introduction of therapies such as proteasome inhibitors [which interfere with tumor cells» protein - disposal system] and potent immuno - modulatory agents,» said the paper's senior author and lead investigator, Paul Richardson, MD, clinical program leader and director of clinical research at Dana - Farber's Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center, and the R.J. Corman professor at Harvard Medical School.

In their analysis, the investigators took into account known risk factors for physical decline, such as older age, smoking and obesity.

According to the principal investigator of this research project, Juan Pedro Arrebola, from the Biohealth Research Institute (IBS), «there is currently an increasing tendency in the impact of a diversity of different types of cancer, which can be attributed in part to the influence of several environmental factors, such as exposure to certain chemical pollutants.»

In earlier work, these investigators showed — as numerous others had done — that the messenger molecule, cyclic - di - GMP (c - di - GMP) promotes biofilm formation when such surfaces are present, said principal investigator Vincent T. Lee, Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park.

If she's wrong, say her detractors, her crusade is drawing focus away from investigators looking at other, more likely scenarios, such as the eruption of hundreds of volcanoes in prehistoric Siberia.

At NASA, a 6 - month period is typical for principal investigator — led spacecraft, such as the MESSENGER mission to Mercury, says James Green, the director of NASA's planetary science division in Washington, D.C.. However, Green says, NASA headquarters can insist that the principal investigator release data for key media events.

So far, she says, there have been no effects on the demographics of who is applying, such as the age of the principal investigator or the type of university they are applying from.

«He says the idea is to offer salary support and independence to scientists who hold less high - profile but essential jobs, such as managing a core facility or doing informatics within a principal investigator's lab.