Sentences with phrase «universities are close by»

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In the spring of 2013, research conducted by psychologists at Cambridge University blew the lid off how this easily accessible digital record of your behaviour can be used (ultimately without your consent) to extract sensitive personal information about you — the kind of information that you might not even share with your closest friends.

«We weren't surprised that better adolescent close friendships turned out to be important, but we were surprised by just how important they turned out to be into adulthood,» Rachel Narr, University of Virginia doctoral student and lead author of the study, told New York Magazine.

The administration of President Donald Trump is closer to watering down Obama era rules that protected college students defrauded by universities from having to pay...

When I learned that they were graduate students at the university and that they were enrolled in the southeast Asia program, of which I am a member by virtue of the Indian philosophy seminar I teach, I felt that I ought to restrain my impulse to close the door.

When Bertrand Russell stated at Columbia University in 1950 that Christian love or compassion was the thing most needed by modern humans, he moved revealingly close to declaring intellectual bankruptcy on his and many others» behalf.

Ken Olson, «Eusebius of Caesarea Tradition and Innovations», Center for Hellenic Studies, distributed by Harvard University Press (2013), wrote «Both the language and the content have close parallels in the work of Eusebius of Caesarea, who is the first author to show any knowledge of the text.

By January of 1985 it was evident that reprisals against the lay signers were beginning as well — particularly against Daniel Maguire, professor of ethics at Marquette University, the male signer generally regarded as holding something close to official status as a Catholic theologian.

It can take the form of simply spreading the word about university closings, deportations, house arrests or house demolitions, or it can mean developing data banks on violations of human rights — for example, in the careful documentation of the more than 500 Palestinian villages that have been destroyed by the Israelis since 1948; this information has been compiled by the Arab Study Society in East Jerusalem.

Because while I may envy the fact that there are university peers who have been able to buy their own houses and cars by age 30 thanks to fast - tracked banking careers; or the fact that some of my close friends are already engaged or married; or that others get to stop working for a year and take off traveling — these aren't my stories to tell.

«Part of the reason we're so close to the university is because we want to continue to raise the bar by having the best people in the company,» Liske says.

Among the most interesting topics in the publication «It's time to end food waste» is a closer look at the psychology of food waste by Nina Waldhauer at the University of Wageningen.

Bayer was joined at the café's opening by Drexel University President John Fry, 11 - term U.S. Congressman Chaka Fattah and Dean of Drexel's Close School of Entrepreneurship Donna De Carolis, who joined Bayer in pulling the café's first espresso shots.

Building on an outstanding foundation of curriculum, programming and thought leadership at Drexel, the Close School is the engine driving the expanded culture of entrepreneurship envisioned by the University's strategic plan.

The Oxford Q - Step Centre is hosted by the Department of Politics and International Relations, in close co-operation with the Department of Sociology, University of Oxford.

With regards to the emergency question on the London Met debacle, immigration minister Damien Green said that there were three specific areas that had to be addressed: 1) why students had been studying without permission 2) a closer inspection of the university's student selection 3) the student attendance monitoring by the university.

Academies and their close relative, free schools, university technical colleges (UTCs), studio schools, the Teach First initiative, are all initiatives supported by or initiated by the Labour government.

But while the chamber has closed, Kathryn Wylde, president of the Partnership of New York City, said the Israeli tech community is well - represented in New York City by the country's consul general and the Technion Institute, which has partnered with Cornell University to build a new graduate engineering school on Roosevelt Island.

Meanwhile, decisions on first choice candidates by universities will end on October 15, and second choice candidates will end on December 15; after which the remaining students will be available in the market place for other institutions till the January closing dates.

Authorities at the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), have closed down all of the school's campuses following a court ruling that some actions taken by the school's council was illegal.

The secret meeting, as first reported by the Observer, was closed to the press with an undisclosed guest list, was scheduled for this morning at the University Club.

Miner scuttled a planned stadium for Syracuse University backed by Mahoney and Cuomo, and separated herself from Cuomo's investments in the area — many of which were built by a firm, COR Development, whose executives are now facing charges for bribing some of Cuomo's closest aides.

The Cuomo administration's claim that closing the plant «will have little to no effect on New Yorkers» electricity bills» was concurred by Dr. Robert Brinkmann, founder of the Sustainability Studies program at Hofstra University.

Malloy won by less than 1 percentage point four years ago in the closest Connecticut gubernatorial election in more than 50 years, and previous Quinnipiac University polls this year have shown the two combatants are in a dead heat.

But a CNN / WMUR survey conducted by the University of New Hampshire also indicates that the race is far from settled, with nearly nine in ten potential Republican primary voters saying they haven't come close to making up their minds and more than four in ten saying they're not satisfied with the field of GOP candidates running for president.

When scientists from the University of Chicago asked a group of women to sniff T - shirts worn for two consecutive nights by different men, the women pinpointed their closest genetic matches — even though there could be millions of unique combinations of MHC genotypes.

«By reading a label on a closed door you can sometimes get a good idea of what can be found behind it,» says Posner, a roboticist at the University of Oxford.

While Jarvis and Genome 10K were deciding which avian genomes to sequence, with Jarvis making sure the list included vocal learners and species believed to be their close relatives, they learned about another collaboration in the works led by Guojie Zhang of Chinese sequencing giant BGI and University of Copenhagen evolutionary biologist Tom Gilbert.

Though his name is curiously absent from most biographical dictionaries of scientists, it was two papers published by the then 25 - year - old student at Columbia University in New York City in the early 1900s that demonstrated the close correlation between the behaviour of Mendel's hereditary units and that of the chromosomes in meiosis and fertilisation.

«The ALMA data reveal that AzTEC - 3 is a very compact, highly disturbed galaxy that is bursting with new stars at close to its theoretically predicted maximum limit and is surrounded by a population of more normal, but also actively star - forming galaxies,» said Dominik Riechers, an astronomer and assistant professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and lead author on a paper published today (Nov. 10) in the Astrophysical Journal.

Meanwhile, a second, smaller team led by Richard Fishel at the University of Vermont and Richard Kolodner at the Dana - Farber Cancer Institute in Boston was closing in on the same gene, using a more traditional strategy.

«It's fascinating that entanglement is something we could see with the naked eye — it brings us closer to this strange quantum phenomenon,» notes researcher Nicolas Gisin, a quantum physicist at the University of Geneva in Switzerland Entanglement is measured by creating entangled particles, sending them to different detectors, and seeing how quickly a measurement on one influences the other.

«By learning more about how these cells work, we are one step closer to understanding the disease states in which these cells should be studied,» said Cagla Eroglu, an assistant professor of cell biology and neurobiology at the Duke University Medical Center, who led the research.

Jacqueline Crisman was on her way to research superstardom studying proteases, chemokines, and the cellular hallmarks of inflammatory bowel disease at Pennsylvania State University when in 2004, motivated by her parents» unstable health, she relocated to be closer to them.

Chan was pleased to see that the program, running just 15 minutes on a laptop, produced results very close to those of weeklong computer simulations run by his colleagues at Trinity and Aberystwyth University in the United Kingdom.

That's exactly how two astronomers from Seoul National University in Korea found an ancient, relatively close galaxy — by combing other researchers» leftovers.

A team of researchers led by biophysicists at the University of Washington have come one step closer to designing tailor - made drug molecules that are more precise and carry fewer side effects than most existing therapeutic compounds.

So she and her colleagues have instead looked for venom genes in the genome of a close Latrodectus relative, the common house spider, Parasteatoda tepidariorum, which was reported on 31 July in BMC Biology by a team headed by Alistair McGregor of Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom.

Advances in materials science, distributed algorithms and manufacturing processes are bringing all of these things closer to reality every day, says a review published today in the journal Science by Nikolaus Correll, assistant professor of computer science, and research assistant Michael McEvoy, both of the University of Colorado Boulder.

On June 30, following on work published in the scientific journal Nature by STRI post-doctoral fellow, Scott Mangan, a group of 50 researchers from 12 countries published a paper in Science (lead author, Joe LaManna, Washington University in St. Louis) showing that close plant relatives make bad neighbors and that the negative interactions between relatives are stronger in the tropics, which may explain why tropical forests are so rich in species diversity: Because plants do not do well next to their relatives, there is more space for non-relatives to fill.

This explains why close - ups of an actor appear on screen for shorter periods than shots in which the person's face is smaller and is surrounded by distracting objects, according to a study by James Cutting and Kacie Armstrong of Cornell University in the US, published in Springer's journal Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.

The project headed by Professor Norbert Frey of the University Hospital Schleswig - Holstein, Campus Kiel, was conducted in close cooperation with Professor Andre Franke's team at the Christian - Albrechts - Universität zu Kiel, which found that the sections of the bacterial genome deciphered the distinction of the microorganism.

During the mid-1990s in a University of Colorado physics lab, Wieman enlisted lasers to bring matter as close to absolute zero as anyone is likely to get — a temperature so low that atoms freeze together into quantum - mechanical clouds predicted by Einstein but never before observed.

A team of more than 200 researchers, including Penn State Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Assistant Professor Jason Wright and led by Louisiana State University's Tabetha Boyajian, is one step closer to solving the mystery behind the «most mysterious star in the universe.»

The researchers, who include Alessandro Bruno of the University of Bari in Italy and the INFN in Bari, focused on a region known as the South Atlantic Anomaly, where Earth's inner Van Allen radiation belt comes closest to the planet's surface and the density of particles encountered by the craft would likely be the highest.

Those things that look like curved metal arms in the Garden Sprinkler are really pulsing jets of gas, emitted by some kind of nozzle close to the central star that is wobbling like the axis of a top, says Angels Riera of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Spain.

Recently, teams of researchers, including Shahbazian - Yassar at UIC and Perla Balbuena at Texas A&M University, have been inching closer to finding a solution, in part by applying the power of supercomputers to understand the core chemistry and physics at work in dendrite formation and to engineer new materials that can mitigate dendrite growth.

It has been found in Autumn 2002 on right bank of the Volga River, close to the city of Ulyanovsk, by Gleb N. Uspensky (Ulyanovsk State University), one of the co-authors of the paper.

A recent study by an Indiana University researcher has found that adolescents» alcohol use is influenced by their close friends» use, regardless of how much alcohol they think their general peers consume.

And now, new research by academics at the University of Nottingham has suggested that the impact of the condition on those closest to them should be considered when personalising rehabilitation plans for patients with deafness.

In 2012, a research group headed by Aalto University Professor Unto K. Laine proved that the source of sounds associated with the Northern Lights is located close to the ground at an altitude of approximately 70 meters.