Sentences with phrase «systems science professor»

«There's only one way to put together a very large - area study like this, and that is with satellites,» said senior author Jay Famiglietti, senior water cycle scientist at JPL on leave from UC Irvine, where he is an Earth system science professor.
«Dirt is not exciting to most people,» said Earth system science professor Rob Jackson... «But it is a no - risk climate solution with big co-benefits.

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Founded in 1999 by an Israeli businessman and a professor of computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mobileye sold its 1 millionth driver assistance system last year.
Randy Connolly, an associate professor of computer science and information systems at Calgary's Mount Royal University, says it could lead to less innovation.
Alex Halderman, a computer science professor who has studied voting machine security, told Politico that he believes there will be consequences if the U.S. voting system isn't fixed.
Kai - Lung Hui is a chair professor in the Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics, and Operations Management at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Professor Behe was questioned concerning his 1996 claim that science would never find an evolutionary explanation for the immune system.
In this same court case, Professor Behe was questioned concerning his 1996 claim that science would never find an evolutionary explanation for the immune system.
Refrain from dieting while you are breastfeeding, advises Barbara Struempler, professor of nutrition and food science and nutrition specialist at Auburn University, in an article for the Alabama Cooperative Extension System.
«The real hazards are in food service, where the regulatory system is weakest,» said Dr. Susan Brewer, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign food science professor.
The system by which New York would amend its constitution is «cumbersome, lengthy and probably doomed to failure,» said Doug Muzzio, a professor of political science at Baruch College's Marxe School of Public and International Affairs.
At Clarkson University, the highly regarded science and engineering school in St. Lawrence County, a professor working on smart energy grid systems was just awarded a grant by IBM.
As associate professor and first - author Johan Bollen writes in an e-mail to Science Careers, they wanted their new system to «enable scientists to set their own priorities, fund scientists... not projects, avoid proposal writing and reviewing, avoid administrative burdens, encourage all scientists to participate collectively in the definition of scientific priorities, encourage innovation, reward scientists that make significant contributions to data, software, methods, and systems, avoid funding death spirals (no funding - > no research - > no funding) but still reward high levels of productivity, create the proper incentives for scholarly communication (publishing to communicate, not to improve bibliometrics), enable funding of daring and risky research, and so on.»
Murali Haran, a professor in the department of statistics at Penn State University; Won Chang, an assistant professor in the department of mathematical sciences at the University of Cincinnati; Klaus Keller, a professor in the department of geosciences and director of sustainable climate risk management at Penn State University; Rob Nicholas, a research associate at Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State University; and David Pollard, a senior scientist at Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State University detail how parameters and initial values drive an ice sheet model, whose output describes the behavior of the ice sheet through time.
«We argue that conscious experiences, regardless of their content, arise from one system in the brain,» explains LeDoux, a professor in New York University's Center for Neural Science.
«Although we were initially quite skeptical that this planet could exist, as we continued to investigate its orbit and what it would mean for the outer solar system, we become increasingly convinced that it is out there,» says Batygin, an assistant professor of planetary science.
In practice, however, the ban — which applies to wells using more than a certain amount of fluid — will eliminate the most attractive sites because drillers now won't «have enough water» to operate effectively, says Robert Jackson, a professor of environmental earth system science at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
«We found that the syncytiotrophoblasts formed in our system recapitulated the barrier properties of the naturally occurring cells and they resisted infection by a model virus and three genetically different strains of Toxoplasma,» said co-investigator Jon P. Boyle, Ph.D., associate professor of biological sciences at Pitt.
Co-author Eric Rignot, UCI professor of Earth system science, added, «Now that the picture is clear, the role of the ocean in glacier evolution is overwhelming.»
Bry «has developed a highly innovative and nationally recognized system to use the biological samples obtained routinely in the course of clinical care as the basis of population - based discovery research,» Isaac «Zak» Kohane, director of the Children's Hospital Informatics Program and professor of pediatrics and health sciences and technology at Harvard Medical School, writes in an e-mail.
Last year Cuervo collaborated with Sheng Zhang, a professor at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston on experiments showing that huntingtin — the Huntington's disease protein — helps the cell's autophagy system identify what it should eliminate.
Yu and his colleagues — Srinivas Devadas, the Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT; Christopher Hughes and Nadathur Satish of Intel; and Onur Mutlu of ETH Zurich — avoid all that metadata transfer with a slight modification of a memory management system found in most modern chips.
Using an electroencephalogram (EEG) to detect electrical activity in the brain, Emmanuelle Tognoli, Ph.D., co-principal investigator, associate research professor in FAU's Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, and an expert in electrophysiology and neural, behavioral, and cognitive sciences, will examine how the tactile information from the robotic sensors is passed onto the brain to distinguish scenarios with successful or unsuccessful functional restoration of the sense of touch.
«P. aeruginosa biofilm infections are a leading cause of death for people suffering from cystic fibrosis, a genetic condition that affects the lungs and the digestive system,» said Principal Investigator Lars Dietrich, an associate professor of biological sciences.
In work presented in March to a committee of the National Academies, Stefan Savage, a computer science professor at the University of California, San Diego, and Tadayoshi Kohno of the University of Washington, placed malicious software on an unspecified car's computer system using its own Bluetooth and cell phone connections.
A research group led by Chengsi Pan, Postdoctoral Researcher, and Tsuyoshi Takata, NIMS Special Researcher, at the Global Research Center for Environment and Energy Based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN; Director - General: Kohei Uosaki) of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS; President: Sukekatsu Ushioda), and Kazunari Domen, a professor of the Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (President: Junichi Hamada) newly developed a water - splitting photocatalyst that is operable over a wider range of the visible light spectrum than before.
«It continues to amaze us; every time we look carefully we continue to find that Planet Nine explains something about the solar system that had long been a mystery,» says Batygin, an assistant professor of planetary science.
A standardized system could most benefit people in the early - career positions — those that fall between postdocs and professorships, says Gottfried Schatz, professor emeritus at the University of Basel in Switzerland and former president of the Swiss Science and Technology Council.
Maureen Boyle, chief of the Science Policy Branch of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and Edward Bilsky, a professor of pharmacology and the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Neurosciences at the University of New England, showed how opioids can commandeer the brain's natural systems that control pain and reward, and trigger a vicious response cycle that can diminish the pain - relieving power of medications, prompt users to reach for increasingly larger quantities of opioids and lead to deadly overdoses.
Chien Ho, professor of biological sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, and his colleagues have developed a novel way to improve delivery of chemotherapy nanodrugs by using Intralipid ®, an FDA - approved nutrition source to temporarily blunt the reticuloendothelial system — a network of cells and tissues found throughout the body, including in the blood, lymph nodes, spleen and liver, that play an important role in the immune system.
Hyodo Ryuki, a second - year student in the Doctoral Program, and Professor Ohtsuki Keiji of the Graduate School of Science at Kobe University have revealed that Saturn's F ring and its shepherd satellites are natural outcome of the final stage of formation of Saturn's satellite system.
We have been able to prove that the nervous system plays an important regulatory role here,» emphasises Professor Thomas Bosch, evolutionary developmental biologist and spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Centre 1182 «Origin and Function of Metaorganisms,» funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG).
Any company that has significant diagnostic information and genomic capabilities, if they want to go for the gold ring, they try to figure out how to make it useful to the health industry rather than just producing research tools,» says David Galas, a professor at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, Washington, and the vice president and chief science officer for biological and life sciences at the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio.
Navin Ramankutty, an assistant professor of geography and Earth system sciences at McGill University in Montreal, says this study is the first to take a comprehensive look at the consequences of deforestation on the entire world.
In the Pattern Recognition and Image Processing laboratory, Anil Jain, MSU Distinguished Professor of computer science and engineering, and Josh Klontz, a research scientist, tested three different facial - recognition systems.
«In our human airway epithelial model system, one of the drugs destabilizes and deactivates the protein that the other drug tries to correct,» said Martina Gentzsch, PhD, an assistant professor of cell biology and physiology and senior author of the UNC Science Translational Medicine paper.
«Fitness trackers that monitor heart rate and step count are very popular, but wearable, non-invasive biosensors would be extremely beneficial for managing diseases,» said Prasad, the Cecil H. and Ida Green Professor in Systems Biology Science.
Others have devised and even built such small - scale cooling systems, says Leonard Schulman, a professor of computer science at the California Institute of Technology, but the distinction in the new work is that it is self - contained — the qubits do not need to receive instructions from outside the system.
Led by Sudha Ram, a UA professor of management information systems and computer science, and Dr. Yolande Pengetnze, a physician scientist at the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation in Dallas, the researchers looked specifically at the chronic condition of asthma and how asthma - related tweets, analyzed alongside other data, can help predict asthma - related emergency room visits.
«The amazing increase in Chinese manufacturing over the past 15 years has driven the world economy to new heights and supplied consumers in developed countries with tremendous quantities of lower - cost goods,» said co-author Steven J. Davis, an assistant professor of Earth system science at the University of California, Irvine.
«Invasive aspergillosis often is overlooked, but early diagnosis and treatment are key,» said Thomas Patterson, MD, lead author of the guidelines and chief of the Division of Infectious Disease and professor of medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio.
Those systems are gradually replacing clinic - centered healthcare, and we wanted to find a unique solution to protect sensitive personal health data with something simple, available and cost - effective,» said Zhanpeng Jin, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science at Binghamton University.
«The way manufacturing and commerce are structured in the world today means that air pollution mortality is being felt disproportionately by people living in or near producing regions, often far from where goods are consumed,» said paper co-author Steven Davis, associate professor of Earth system science at the University of California, Irvine.
«The data from these games will help us better understand how to use multi-robot systems with massive populations to perform coordinated, complex tasks,» said lab director James McLurkin, assistant professor of computer science at Rice.
The system's success «has serious implications concerning the fairness of the justice system,» says Stamos Karamouzis, dean of Regis University's School of Computer and Information Sciences in Denver, who led the 2006 — 07 study when he was a professor of computer and information sciences at Texas A&M.
«StimDust is the smallest deep - tissue stimulator that we are aware of that's capable of stimulating almost all of the major therapeutic targets in the peripheral nervous system,» said Rikky Muller, co-lead of the work and assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at Berkeley.
The creation of neural dust at Berkeley, led by Maharbiz and Jose Carmena, a Berkeley professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences and a member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, has opened the door for wireless communication to the brain and peripheral nervous system through tiny implantable devices inside the body that are powered by ultrasound.
«If a person has chronic stress, their cortisol levels increase, and their resulting insulin resistance will gradually drive their glucose levels out of the normal range,» said Prasad, Cecil H. and Ida Green Professor in Systems Biology Science.
«This finding really excites us because it makes us think that this is a gene repair system that could be used to treat a range of diseases — not just tyrosinemia but others as well,» says Daniel Anderson, associate professor in MIT's Department of Chemical Engineering and a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES).
«This sets the stage for next - generation antibiotics using programmable CRISPR - Cas systems,» says Dr. Rodolphe Barrangou, an associate professor of food, bioprocessing and nutrition sciences at NC State and co-author of the manuscript.
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