Sentences with phrase «which academic researchers»

Successful trials of a communications system devised at the University of Leeds could signal the end of the fashionionable science parks in which academic researchers work side by side with high - tech businesses.

In response, SCJ is considering amending its code of conduct to spell out conditions under which academic researchers can accept military money.

Not exact matches

But The Times, which has viewed a set of raw data from the profiles that Cambridge Analytica paid an academic researcher to obtain, contacted nearly two dozen affected Facebook users in recent weeks.

An academic researcher at Cambridge University built an app called thisisyourdigitallife, which offered to pay Facebook users to take a personality test and agree to share that data for academic use.

The researcher Aleksandr Kogan was banned from the platform for creating the quiz app that was able to access 50 million user profiles, which he then shared with Cambridge Analytica, after claiming the app was for academic purposes, not political ones.

Dr Paul Ramchandani — a researcher and clinical psychiatrist now based at the Academic Unit of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London — led the study, which assessed father - infant interactions in the family home when the child was aged three months and compared them against the child's behaviour at the age of twelve months.

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

Clancy thought that quantitative data would give her work in this area more clout, so she and several other researchers collaborated to conduct a more formal survey and interview study, which they called the Survey of Academic Field Studies (SAFE).

The group, which now has more than 100 members (including Hatzikirou), was officially launched in June 2016 after an initial meeting of seven Greek researchers and academics, including scientists as well as legal scholars, economists, and strategic communication specialists.

He is volunteering with another organization, Chance for Science, which connects displaced researchers with academic resources and European peers.

The current academic funding system, which allocates public money to researchers based on the submission and peer review of countless research proposals, has served science well — but some people believe that the time has come to find more efficient ways to distribute the money.

After they've done the research, scientists generally want to publish it, which requires that it be commissioned or edited by a former researcher at an academic journal.

Meanwhile, a future $ 5.7 million increase for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, which now receives $ 537 million, is strictly for collaborations between academic researchers, businesses, and other partners toward what the budget calls «research and knowledge mobilization in the social sciences and humanities.»

The knockout mice, which will be made available to academic researchers at low cost, should help efforts to figure out what newly discovered genes do in the body.

More recently, as part of its response to the Roberts Review, the Government has proposed the introduction of new Academic Fellowships that will offer a more stable environment in which researchers can build their expertise and reputation, providing career - related training and, importantly, a permanent position at the end of the 5 - year awards.

There has only been one legal case in which academic privilege and researcher - participant confidentiality were on the table: In 2014, CAUT funded a legal challenge on behalf of two University of Ottawa criminology professors resisting police efforts to obtain records related to a study about male escorts.

While the professional life of Spanish academics broadly goes through the four traditional phases of predoctoral researcher (Ayudante), postdoctoral researcher (Ayudante Doctor), lecturer, and finally permanent research staff, it is early stage and transitional stage career scientists which have been identified as the most vulnerable.

«I decided to go to medical school, and then to work as a researcher within a university setting, to establish scientific credibility for this amazing work, which at the time, virtually nobody in academic medicine or science believed.»

moment when I found a wonderful article which succinctly describes the key differences between the academic and industrial work environments and links to a more comprehensive survey of researchers in both sectors.

One resource which I found myself reaching for again and again was HESDA's University Researchers and the Job Market — a comprehensive career development manual for academic rResearchers and the Job Market — a comprehensive career development manual for academic researchersresearchers.

Still, an academic career will involve interacting with people, particularly if you progress into holding a lectureship — in which you'd be involved in teaching and departmental administration — or into running your own research group — where you would direct the work of students and postdoctoral researchers.

The pact will do nothing, however, about the root cause of their plight, the dysfunctional pyramid structure of academic science, which encourages exploitation of young researchers.

Brains in Chains Marta Paterlini reported on the latest project of the Italian PhD - students association, ADI, which aims to highlight the plight of young academic researchers.

Plans involve taking on a minimum of 26 Ph.D. students and a similar number of postdocs to work at a newly built site in Cambridge, which will allow them «to bring together young researchers from different academic disciplines in one facility.»

In reality, «substantially more scientists and engineers graduate from U.S. universities than can find attractive career openings in the U.S. work force [and] the postdoc population, which has grown very rapidly in U.S. universities and is recruited increasingly from abroad, looks more like a pool of low - cost research lab workers with limited career prospects than a high - quality training program for soon - to - be academic researchers,» he continued.

Professor Pierre Friedlingstein and Professor Peter Cox, from the University of Exeter, collaborated with an international team of researchers from China, Germany, France and the USA, to produce the new study, which is published in the leading academic journal Nature.

The program — which was run in collaboration with the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin) and the German Academic Exchange Service, a funding organization that supports the international exchange of students and researchers — involved joint supervision by advisers in the two countries and research stays in Germany.

«Rather than focusing on total numbers of published reports, reviews of academic performance should explicitly take into account the proportion of a researcher's initiated studies (e.g., those receiving ethics approval or funding) that have been reported, for which protocols have been shared, and that have had their dataset reused by other researchers.»

It's no coincidence that golden rice, which has been tragically caught up in the larger uproar over GMOs, was developed not by a private corporation, but by foundation - funded academic researchers and a nonprofit organization supported by governments and philanthropies.

Some senior academic scientists have told Teitelbaum they are «very worried» about the fact that the supply of scientists that this country's universities train is thus totally unrelated to the demand for researchers in the market for career positions, but they find it «difficult to be open about it because it's very threatening to the structure by which research is done,» Teitelbaum says.

Individual researchers, in particular, are subjected to the academic rewards system employed by funders and academic institutions, which can be counterproductive.

Closer links between academic and commercial researchers is also the aim of a new Bio Innovation Centre (BIOZ) which will be completed by the end of next year.

Academic archaeologists are used to a system in which researchers conduct excavations and then publish their observations in monographs and journal articles, which are then available in libraries.

The Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI) had put real effort into making some space for young researchers in this year's Genomics Momentum, which each year welcomes a wealth of international academic, industrial, and governmental people working in genomics.

The main demand of the researchers was to revise the current reform of the Russian academic system, which has been going on since mid-2013.

New Ph.D. researchers with «stronger academic ability,» as indicated by having received university support in the form of a fellowship or assistantship or by having at least one parent with a college degree (which, especially in poor or middle - income countries, places the family among an educated class that is much smaller than in a rich country) are likelier to stay than those who lack these presumed correlates of academic strength.

Over the next 5 years, Microsoft will spend $ 80 million on the new center, which will employ about 40 leading researchers and accommodate other short - term academic staff and graduate students.

Moving On in Your Career — A guide for academic researchers and postgraduates, Lynda Ali & Barbara Graham, Routledgefalmer, (ISBN 0 -415-17870-3) which contains one of the best examples of a nonacademic CV I've seen, and University Researchers and the Job Market for yet more examples researchers and postgraduates, Lynda Ali & Barbara Graham, Routledgefalmer, (ISBN 0 -415-17870-3) which contains one of the best examples of a nonacademic CV I've seen, and University Researchers and the Job Market for yet more examples Researchers and the Job Market for yet more examples and advice.

Researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) have proven, for the first time in history, that physical fitness in children may affect their brain structure, which in turn may have an influence on their academic performance.

Additionally, the ROI Science Foundation Ireland co-investigator must be a member of the academic staff of an eligible Research Body (permanent or with a contract that covers the period of the grant) or a Contract Researcher with a contract that covers the period of the grant, who is recognised by the eligible Research Body as an independent investigator and will have an independent office and research space at the host eligible Research Body for which he / she will be fully responsible for at least the duration of the grant.

«We are excited to forge this new partnership with Calico, which represents a unique way for academic researchers focused on aging and the biotech industry to work together,» said Brian K. Kennedy, PhD, Buck Institute President and CEO.

Now in experiments in mice reported this week in Cell Metabolism, researchers at Joslin Diabetes Centers have highlighted the ways in which the host's genes interact with the microbial genes to create such conditions, says senior author C. Ronald Kahn, M.D., Chief Academic Officer at Joslin Diabetes Center and Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

These relationships between oncology and industry are increasing, and concerns exist regarding the extent to which financial conflicts of interest (FCOIs) can influence medical decisions and physician behavior.1, 2 Thus, there is a pressing need to better understand the effects of FCOIs on both practicing oncologists and academic researchers.

The Genomic Medicine Alliance is a global academic research network which aims to build and strengthen collaborative ties between academics, researchers, regulators and also members from the general public interested in genomic and personalized medicine.

The Applicant will be a researcher with between 3 - 15 years» experience beyond the award of their PhD or equivalent qualification, who at the time of application will be either in a permanent, full - time academic position (either within the institution at which they wish to base their CDA - funded research or another elsewhere in Ireland or overseas), or employed on a temporary (fixed - term) contract.

This effect was empirically proven in academic economists [28] and in a large sample of biomedical researchers (in a survey assessing their adherence to Mertonian norms [47]-RRB-, and may help to explain the lower frequency with which misconduct is admitted in self - reports: researchers might be overindulgent with their behaviour and overzealous in judging their colleagues.

For example, breastfed babies tend to be more robust, intelligent and free of allergies and other complaints like intestinal difficulties.1 Other studies have shown that breastfed infants have reduced rates of respiratory illnesses and ear infections.2, 3 Some researchers believe breastfed infants have greater academic potential than formula - fed infants, which is thought to be due to the fatty acid DHA found in mother's milk and not in most US formulas.4

Kurt seems to have been more persuaded than I am by Stephan Guyenet's food reward hypothesis (which is, of course, not of Stephan's creation — it is the dominant perspective in the community of academic obesity researchers).

Sarah's transition from academic researcher to stay - at - home mom to award - winning and internationally - recognized health advocate and educator was driven by her own health journey, which included losing 120 pounds and using both diet and lifestyle to mitigate and reverse a dozen diagnosed health conditions.

The researchers theorize that sustaining pre-k gains, optimizing learning in K — 3 (regardless of pre-k experiences), and acquiring excellent academic, cognitive, and social - emotional skills by the end of third grade will depend on which skills have been targeted and how.