Sentences with phrase «typing as the professor»

Step into any college lecture and you'll find a sea of students with laptops and tablets open, typing as the professor speaks.

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You see these same professors will pick up a stone with an axe type shape and as crude as it is say it was crafted by someone.

«Telling parents that there is one simple way to get kids to behave is, well, let's just put it like this: This type of parenting is part of this whole swing to the right all over the country,» says pediatrician and Harvard professor T. Berry Brazelton, known to millions of American parents and grandparents as the author of «Touchpoints» (Addison - Wesley) and numerous other bestselling books on parenting and child development.

Professor Reith's research shows that both the types of betting as well as the clientele of betting shops are changing.

Working in a Harvard Physics Department lab, a team of researchers led by Harvard Professors Mikhail Lukin and Markus Greiner and MIT Professor Vladan Vuletic has developed a special type of quantum computer, known as a quantum simulator, which is programmed by capturing super-cooled rubidium atoms with lasers and arranging them in a specific order, then allowing quantum mechanics to do the necessary calculations.

A University of South Florida professor and an international team of experts have found that older people with high levels of a certain type of cholesterol, known as low - density lipoprotein (LDL - C), live as long, and often longer, than their peers with low levels of this same cholesterol.

«In the past there weren't any alternatives that we could really offer these types of patients,» said Roger Fan, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Director of Arrhythmia Consult Service, «The LARIAT is a great alternative to the possibility of a lifetime of blood thinners which can have some serious side effects like GI bleeds, as well as an alternative to invasive open - heart surgery.»

This type of behaviour of the white blood cells served as an inspiration for the postdoc, Daniel Ahmed, who was working in Professor Bradley Nelson's research group at ETH Zurich.

«Our study provides a much - needed update on what we're seeing in community hospitals, and ultimately, we're finding similar types of infections in these hospitals as in tertiary care centers,» said Deverick Anderson, M.D., MPH, associate professor of medicine at Duke and the study's lead author.

«We're seeing that this cancer is likely very underreported, and as more information on this type of cancer comes to light, the number of cases is likely to increase in the coming years,» said Dino Ravnic, assistant professor of surgery, Penn State College of Medicine.

Associate Professor Rika Numano explained, «The W / O droplet electroporation technique has several advantages over conventional transfection techniques: small cell number required, as low as 1000 cells; small amount of DNA required, which makes it applicable for various cell types including neural cells; and changeable genome DNA.

To explore these questions Akiko Iwasaki, professor of immunobiology and investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and her co-authors observed replication of the Zika virus in the vaginal tissue of control, wild - type mice (genetically unmodified mice) and mice lacking genes that regulate immune system proteins known as type I interferons.

«By diversifying our labeling approaches, we also visualized different types of individual biomolecules in the chromosome - containing nucleus, including sequences in the DNA, proteins bound to DNA or the membrane that encloses the nucleus, as well as nuclear RNAs,» adds Yin, who is also co-leader of the Wyss Institute's Molecular Robotics Initiative, and Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School..

«While many people think of the ED as simply a place to go when you have a car accident or some type of major trauma, it is increasingly the case that the emergency department is caring for complex medical patients,» said lead author Renee Y. Hsia, MD, professor of emergency medicine at UCSF and director of health policy studies in the UCSF Department of Emergency Medicine.

«TGF - beta functions as an important time signal that controls when a stem cell should stop producing one type of nerve cell and instead start producing another, while also gradually limiting the stem cell's future development capacity,» says Johan Ericson, Professor of Developmental Biology, who led the study.

This may not come as a surprise, but it is actually the first time that this type of study — which presents a direct causal relationship between smoking and mortality — has been carried out,» says Professor and chief physician Børge Nordestgaard from the University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen University Hospital.

Sara Brownell, an assistant professor with the school and senior author of the study, said there is a national movement to create biology tests that are more cognitively challenging, as these types of tests can improve students» conceptual understanding of biology; however, doing so may harm the very students they are trying to help.

Professor Brown comments: «We can speculate that these types of locations were seen as «healthy» or «good» places to live which hominins revisited on a regular basis.

This simple numerical comparison (leaving aside other factors affecting the classrooms in Spanish universities such as the large number of students in many centers and the increase in the type of «unquantifiable» work that this generates for teaching staff) shows that the «civil servant professor» has a significant decrease in availability of time for research compared to members of research - only institutes.

«Type 2 diabetes itself is preventable, as are diabetes complications, but only if people at risk of or who have diabetes are screened, aware and take preventative action,» Professor Teede said.

Co-author Marina Bedny, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences, says the findings here, taken together with earlier results, suggest the brain as a whole could be extremely adaptable, almost like a computer that — depending on data coming in — could reconfigure to handle almost limitless types of tasks.

«To predict the effects this type of deforestation has on the relationship between rain forest and the savanna — and on the local and global climate — it's necessary to understand how the transitional forest evolves in time and reacts to disturbances,» explained Yannick De Decker, associate professor at the Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, as well as the Nonlinear Physical Chemistry Unit at ULB.

«Plants have evolved defense mechanisms to protect themselves, such as thorns, bitter - tasting berries, and in the case of certain types of grass, by harbouring toxic fungus deep within them that can be dangerous or even fatal for grazing animals,» says York U Biology Professor Dawn Bazely, who worked with University of Cambridge researcher Andrew Tanentzap and York U researcher Mark Vicari on the project.

Longer term, they want to quickly diagnose additional cancer types, including ovarian and pancreatic cancers, which are fast - spreading and require early detection for a patient to survive, says Goda, who was recently appointed as a chemistry professor at the University of Tokyo but will continue his research with U.C.L.A..

As José Luis Quiles Morales, Full Professor of Physiology at the UGR explains:» [the research] demonstrates that fat accumulates in the liver with age, but the most striking finding is that the type of fat accumulated differs depending on the oils consumed and this means that, regardless of this accumulation, some livers age in a healthier way than others and with a greater or lesser predisposition to certain diseases.»

In 2002, the research team for TRIGR (Trial to Reduce IDDM in the Genetically at Risk), led in the U.S. by principal investigator Dorothy Becker, M.D., professor of pediatrics at Children's Hospital and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, embarked on a large - scale study of 2,159 infants with a family member affected by type 1 diabetes and with genetic risk for type 1 diabetes to find out whether delaying the exposure to complex foreign proteins such as cow's milk proteins would decrease the risk of diabetes.

In efforts to enhance pre-clinical drug testing, Thomas Gaddy of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and colleagues in the research group of Professor Stacey Finley investigated a potential predictive biomarker for a type of cancer drug known as anti-angiogenic therapy.

The odds of type 2 diabetes were not statistically significant after adjustment for multiple comparisons among the second generation, but co-corresponding author Dr. Sun Changhao, professor of nutrition and dean of the School of Public Health at Harbin, noted that these people were only in their 20s and 30s and could still be at increased risk as they age and that the research team will continue to follow up on these participants.

University of Calgary researchers Raylene Reimer, professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology, and PhD student Heather Paul, in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology graduate program in the Cumming School of Medicine, have published a new animal study that describes how a special type of dietary fibre known as prebiotic impacts the gut microbiota and may be one factor in reducing obesity in mom and baby.

In particular, Shah and her colleagues — her student Been Kim, whose PhD thesis is the basis of the new paper, and Cynthia Rudin, an associate professor of statistics at the MIT Sloan School of Management — were trying to augment a type of machine learning known as «unsupervised.»

«Current trends in the neuroscience field, particularly in alcohol research, indicate that drugs which are used to treat various types of cancer, such as HDAC inhibitors, appear to be very important in regulating brain function,» said Subhash C. Pandey, Ph.D., professor and director of the Alcohol Research Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

As a professor of endocrinology and metabolism at Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth, England, and the founder of the respected scientific journal Autoimmunity, Wilkin knew he was going against the well - established understanding of type 1 diabetes that had been worked out half a century earlier.

People develop type 2 diabetes over time as their bodies become more and more resistant to the hormone insulin, which is necessary to process the glucose in blood that provides energy for cells, explains Dr. Patti, who is also an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School.

The scientists became interested in studying salsalate, an anti-inflammatory drug, after research conducted by Steven Shoelson, M.D., Ph.D., Head of the Section on Pathophysiology and Molecular Pharmacology and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, identified inflammation as a factor in the development of type 2 diabetes.

Christophe Benoist, M.D., professor of Microbiology and Immunobiology at Harvard Medical School, (who spoke on behalf of Diane Mathis, Ph.D., also a professor in the same department) discussed a molecule called I - BET that, when used as a treatment in animals during pre-diabetes or in the early stages of clinical type 1 diabetes, seemed to slow the progression of the disease.

«Dr. Tsuang's ultimate goal is to help prevent psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and other mental illnesses before their onset, and to identify traits that might predispose a person to developing this type of devastating illness, either because of genetic or environmental causes,» said Lewis L. Judd, M.D., Mary Gilman Marston Professor and Chair of UCSD's Department of Psychiatry.

«Child - parent dietary resemblance in the U.S. is relatively weak, and varies by nutrients and food groups and by the types of parent - child dyads and social demographic characteristics such as age, gender and family income,» said Youfa Wang, MD, PhD, senior author of the study and associate professor with the Bloomberg School's Center for Human Nutrition.

An Associate professor Phillip Morris, from Queensland University of Technology's Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation was quoted as saying «The gene that we have been studying is a type of dopamine receptor gene.

«The additional information we can now derive from tumor biomarkers such as E-cadherin, nm23 and microvessel counts should begin to allow us to tailor therapy according to individual tumor types,» added Samuel Hellman, MD, A.N. Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor of radiation and cellular oncology at the University of Chicago and co-author of the paper.

Professor Zhou explained: «We built a database of epigenetic markers, specifically methylation patterns, which are common across many types of cancer and also specific to cancers originating from specific tissue, such as the lung or liver.

MAUNA KEA, HAWAII — A team of researchers led by Justin R. Crepp, the Freimann Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame, has directly imaged a very rare type of brown dwarf that can serve as a benchmark for studying objects with masses that lie between stars and planets.

Professor Denk reasoned that any asymmetry in the signals from starburst amacrine cells must therefore be due to an as yet undetected imbalance, either in the arrangement of the tiny connections, synapses, formed between the two cell types, or in the types of signals that they deliver — some synapses delivering inhibitory signals more strongly than others.

This research builds on previous studies by Professor MacLeod, Dr. Forrin, and colleagues that measure the production effect of activities, such as writing and typing words, in enhancing overall memory retention.

«A shift to a dietary pattern higher in healthful plant - based foods, such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds, and lower in animal - based foods, especially red and processed meats, can confer substantial health benefits in reducing risk of type 2 diabetes,» said Frank Hu, professor of nutrition and epidemiology at Harvard Chan School and senior author of the study.

«With Type 2 diabetes, your body can no longer make or use insulin, the hormone which helps the body regulate glucose levels,» Dr. Sheri Colberg, a professor of human movement sciences at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., specializing in exercise as it relates to diabetes told the WSJ.

As Wendy White, a professor of food science and nutrition at Iowa State University, notes, drinking fruit juice spikes blood sugar levels more and faster than eating whole fruit, and one Harvard study linked regular juice consumption to an increased risk of type 2 diabetes.

Written and directed by Angela Robinson, Professor Marston uses the DISC behavior types as a structure to tell the story of how Bill (Luke Evans) and his wife Elizabeth (Rebecca Hall), met a young student named Olive Byrne (Bella Heathcote) who changed their lives forever.

X-Men: First Class is one of the many Batman Begins / Casino Royale - type prequels, which go into unnecessary detail about their heroes» formative years — as if anyone needed to know how Professor X got his team of mutant superheroes together.

Patrick Stewart is also back as Professor Xavier as he and Logan aim to protect a little girl (Dafne Keen as Laura Kinney or X-23) who seems to have the same types of powers as Wolverine.

Cast against type as a creative writing professor at a Pittsburgh college, Michael Douglas gives one of his funniest performances in this adaptation of writer Michael Chabon's poignant campus novel.