Sentences with phrase «team of his colleagues used»

Neurologist Kazunobu Sawamoto at Keio University in Japan and an international team of his colleagues used fluorescent dye and India ink to trace the flow of spinal fluid in mice and found that it followed the whiplike waving of hairlike projections known as cilia from cells lining the route.

In previous work published in 2013 in Nature Geoscience, Pogge von Strandmann and a different team of colleagues used geochemical simulations to determine that an increase in weathering during an era of warming 93.5 million years ago known as ocean anoxic event 2 may have led to sequestering of carbon and cooling of the planet.

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My client had a tendency to use fancy words and a lot of technical jargon when he was talking to his team, vendor partners and leadership colleagues.

Among her colleagues and competitors is a team of researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that also is working on an implantable device to deliver drugs directly to a tumor; a group at the University of Pennsylvania that is looking at using specialized antibodies to combat the disease; and a team of German researchers who are experimenting with specialized peptides.

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

Schneiderlin isn't particularly talented — he's neat in his passing, but has little range and even defensively he comes out of many challenges second best — yet his addition makes a big difference to the team as he allows his colleagues the freedom to use their talents.

Bernie was proposed by two colleagues, Annabelle Mackenzie, Infant Feeding Coordinator and Carolyn Le May, HV, who describe her as one of life's «very active participants» who uses her personal resources to full capacity in her drive to support families to reach their breastfeeding goals, to help educate colleagues and teams and to reduce commercial influence throughout the health sector.

He insists that he isn't the sole survivor of a very different era - shadow cabinet colleagues «like Andy Burnham, Hilary Benn, Rosie Winterton... I'm not sure that the word Blairite is used by them but we're proud of our record» - and says a period of relative tranquillity has set in amongst Labour's J - team.

A related paper, involving Svendsen, his colleague Gad Vatine, PhD, and a team from University of California, Irvine, published the same day in the journal Cell Reports, used a similar approach to study Huntington's disease.

Kohane and his colleagues, whose work is funded to the tune of about $ 250,000 annually from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, are one of several teams investigating the use of layered drug - dispensing soft contact lenses.

In a recent paper published in The Astrophysical Journal, Boorman (and colleagues from the NuSTAR active galaxies science team) described how data from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has been used to study the intrinsic behaviour of a «hidden» supermassive black hole in a galaxy nearby to our own — IC 3639 — some 175 million light years from Earth, relatively close by in cosmic terms.

In a preview of this future, your team recently saved a colleague's life by using genome data to put his blood cancer into remission.

«This study shows that a team consisting of plastic, orthopedic and general surgeons can manage almost all injuries sustained in modern conflict using their normally - practiced and therefore maintained skill sets,» Dr. Hettiaratchy and colleagues conclude.

Then, a team led by Robert Lanza, the chief scientific officer of Advanced Cell Technology Inc. in Marlborough, Massachusetts, and his colleagues published the first results ever of a clinical trial using human embryonic stem cells.

Domínguez - Bendala, who led the team along with colleague Ricardo Pastori, found that BMP - 7 caused pancreatic cells to secrete unexpectedly high amounts of insulin after they used it as a control in another, unrelated, experiment.

To create a virtual version of the hobbit brain, Falk's colleague, engineer Kirk Smith, of the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology in St. Louis, used three - dimensional CAT scans that Morwood's team had taken of its fossilized skull and braincase.

In 2016, a team led by University of Victoria archaeologist April Nowell and her colleague Cam Walker, a biological anthropologist with Archaeological Investigations Northwest Inc. in Portland, Ore., used CIEP to analyze tools found at a 250,000 - year - old animal processing site in Jordan's Shishan Marsh.

So using the Hubble Space Telescope, MIT astronomer Julien de Wit and his colleagues, including some members from Grimm's team, observed the four middle planets as they passed in front of the star.

Together with colleagues at IBM led by Scott Spangler, principal data scientist at IBM, the team initiated a research project to develop a knowledge integration tool that took advantage of existing text mining capabilities, such as those used by IBM's Watson technology (cognitive technology that processes information more like a human than a computer.)

By precisely measuring the orbital movements of MESSENGER using the subtle Doppler frequency shifts of its radio signal, geodesist David Smith of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and 16 colleagues measured how the pull of gravity varies across Mercury, as the team reports online today in Science.

Using a novel synthetic platform for creating vaccines originally developed in the laboratory of David Weiner, PhD, a professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, a team led by his colleagues at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has successfully eradicated precancerous cervical lesions in nearly half of the women who received the investigational vaccine in a clinical trial.

To learn which survival strategy the filamentous fungus Eurotium rubrum uses, a team of researchers led by Eviatar Nevo from the University of Haifa in Israel, Igor Grigoriev of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), and Gerhard Rambold, University of Bayreuth, Germany and their colleagues studied its genome.

However, the research team — which included lead author Yu Shu and colleagues Dongli Yu, Wentao Hu, Bo Xu, Julong He, and Zhongyuan Liu of Yanshan University, and Yanbin Wang of University of Chicago — used a pathway of successive pressure and temperature conditions to create a form of bismuth that has a «structural memory» of a previous phase.

In a clinical trial, the Caltech team and colleagues from Keck Medicine of USC have successfully implanted just such a device in a patient with quadriplegia, giving him the ability to perform a fluid hand - shaking gesture and even play «rock, paper, scissors» using a separate robotic arm.

The breakthrough was possible because the research team used conditional reprogramming (CR), a laboratory technique, developed and described by Liu, Richard Schlegel, MD, PhD, director of the CCR, and their colleagues at Georgetown in 2011, that makes it possible to continuously grow cells in a laboratory indefinitely.

An international team of scientists working with Prof. Pfeifer, under the leadership of the University of Bonn, with colleagues from San Diego and Bethesda (both USA), Gothenburg (Sweden) and the Universities of Heidelberg and Leipzig, has discovered a «switch» in the fat cells of mice which can be used to accelerate fat burning.

Sergey Bulat, a molecular biologist at the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute in St. Petersburg, and colleagues in France and Russia described how the team searched for traces of bacterial DNA in ultraclean laboratory conditions and used four sets of controls to reduce the chance of contamination.

The study culminates many years of effort by an international team of scientists who have discovered a large number of the satellite galaxies, developed new techniques to measure their distances, and have used the Keck Observatory with colleagues to measure their radial velocities, or Doppler shifts (the speed of the galaxy relative to the Sun).

To find out, Marc McKee's research team in McGill's Faculty of Dentistry, together with Richard Chromik's group in Engineering and other colleagues, used new sample - preparation techniques to expose the interior of the eggshells to study their molecular nanostructure and mechanical properties.

Along with colleagues at UC Santa Cruz, the team used the Swope telescope at Las Campanas Observatory to discover the light produced by the merger, pinpointing the origin of a gravitational wave signal less than 11 hours after it was detected.

PHILADELPHIA - Using a novel synthetic platform for creating vaccines originally developed in the laboratory of David Weiner, PhD, a professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, a team led by his colleagues at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has successfully eradicated precancerous cervical lesions in nearly half of the women who received the investigational vaccine in a clinical trial.

An elaborate sequence that uses Downtown L.A. as a backdrop sees Enos» Alice Vaughan and her requisite crack team of colleagues try to set up their man, Ben (played by Peter Krause), only to have him cleverly avoid them.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

The Academic and Personal Behaviors Institute is a network of educator teams from New York City public schools who are dedicated to using data and improvement science methodologies to spread academic mindsets (growth, value, and belonging) among both colleagues and students.

Perhaps the strongest model in the United States of a collaborative urban school system, Cincinnati has a long history dating back to the mid-1980s of experimenting with team - based instructional approaches, using innovative compensation systems to reward excellence, and providing career ladders to enable the most effective teachers to coach their colleagues.

Participants will be a mix of seasoned and new principals who will convene to discuss the degree to which data are currently used to inform team decisions, examine evidence - based practices to strengthen the use of data across the district, and collaborate with colleagues on how the effective use of data supports continuous improvement efforts.

Functions The teacher leader: a) Collaborates with colleagues and school administrators to plan professional learning that is team - based, job - embedded, sustained over time, aligned with content standards, and linked to school / district improvement goals; b) Uses information about adult learning to respond to the diverse learning needs of colleagues by identifying, promoting, and facilitating varied and differentiated professional learning; c) Facilitates professional learning among colleagues; d) Identifies and uses appropriate technologies to promote collaborative and differentiated professional learning; e) Works with colleagues to collect, analyze, and disseminate data related to the quality of professional learning and its effect on teaching and student learning; f) Advocates for sufficient preparation, time, and support for colleagues to work in teams to engage in job - embedded professional learning; g) Provides constructive feedback to colleagues to strengthen teaching practice and improve student learning; and h) Uses information about emerging education, economic, and social trends in planning and facilitating professional learnUses information about adult learning to respond to the diverse learning needs of colleagues by identifying, promoting, and facilitating varied and differentiated professional learning; c) Facilitates professional learning among colleagues; d) Identifies and uses appropriate technologies to promote collaborative and differentiated professional learning; e) Works with colleagues to collect, analyze, and disseminate data related to the quality of professional learning and its effect on teaching and student learning; f) Advocates for sufficient preparation, time, and support for colleagues to work in teams to engage in job - embedded professional learning; g) Provides constructive feedback to colleagues to strengthen teaching practice and improve student learning; and h) Uses information about emerging education, economic, and social trends in planning and facilitating professional learnuses appropriate technologies to promote collaborative and differentiated professional learning; e) Works with colleagues to collect, analyze, and disseminate data related to the quality of professional learning and its effect on teaching and student learning; f) Advocates for sufficient preparation, time, and support for colleagues to work in teams to engage in job - embedded professional learning; g) Provides constructive feedback to colleagues to strengthen teaching practice and improve student learning; and h) Uses information about emerging education, economic, and social trends in planning and facilitating professional learnUses information about emerging education, economic, and social trends in planning and facilitating professional learning.

Functions The teacher leader: a) Facilitates the collection, analysis, and use of classroom - and school - based data to identify opportunities to improve curriculum, instruction, assessment, school organization, and school culture; b) Engages in reflective dialog with colleagues based on observation of instruction, student work, and assessment data and helps make connections to research - based effective practices; c) Supports colleagues» individual and collective reflection and professional growth by serving in roles such as mentor, coach, and content facilitator; d) Serves as a team leader to harness the skills, expertise, and knowledge of colleagues to address curricular expectations and student learning needs; e) Uses knowledge of existing and emerging technologies to guide colleagues in helping students skillfully and appropriately navigate the universe of knowledge available on the Internet, use social media to promote collaborative learning, and connect with people and resources around the globe; and f) Promotes instructional strategies that address issues of diversity and equity in the classroom and ensures that individual student learning needs remain the central focus of instruction.

Creating mass social media contacts; figuring out what technology you would be using; who would be part of your marketing / shout out team; who in your circle of friends and colleagues would be in your camp to eblast their worlds that your book was HOT and that they should get a copy on your big day / week; contacts for guest blog posts; even pitching media and journalists.

One of my colleagues in the management team used a wonderful soccer analogy when talking about the need to balance innovative thinking with risk abatement.

I think we've struck a better balance after that initial introductory period but I think there are also risks there were if you're fully remote and therefore the only way to interact with colleagues is through some sort of chat portal, it can get too fun to just chat with people rather than using it to communicate about work and sometimes personal check in stuff to see how you're team is doing because you care about them because you work with them, but to focus it on getting work done rather than just being fun and silly.

The aim was to engage their colleagues at the university in thinking about how they might use free - to - use applications (apps) in support of teaching, so was targeted firmly at academic staff and others with a teaching role at the university: e-learning teams and librarians.

SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS • Attended all monthly team meetings and provided cleaning managers with feedback which led to 50 % increase in the overall efficiency • Reported defective equipment and safety concerns to supervisor which led to increase in personal accountability as well as 80 % increase in school's safety environment • Used an assortment of a trash compactors which decreased 70 % waste bulk • Cleaned and maintained high school facilities and led a custodial staff of 6 six members which resulted in absolute reliability and trust amongst colleagues and school staff

Created and implemented developmentally - appropriate curriculum that addressed all learning styles.Maintained daily records of children's individual activities, behaviors, meals and naps.Promoted good behaviors by using the positive reinforcement method.Established a safe play environment for the children.Distributed quarterly educational assessments, similar to report cards, to each parent.Supervised children on field trips to local parks, fire stations and zoos.Encouraged children to be understanding of others.Completed all required documentation for the National Head Start program.Developed professional relationships with parents, teachers, directors and therapists.Worked closely with the site director, family care workers, classroom teaching team and other specialists.Collaborated with colleagues on developing new classroom projects and monthly themes.

Want to be part of an exciting and congenial team of people where my strengths are put to good use to complement the skills of my colleagues.

Plan formal opportunities, such as: (titles on screen)- a regular time to come together with your colleagues to join in professional discussions; - scheduling a time on the agenda at team meetings for reflection, using this time to share alternative views on a significant issue for your service - keeping a journal of significant events along with your reflections.