Sentences with phrase «whose research helped»

In recent years, MIT students have faced legal challenges for groundbreaking and creative work: an MIT student arrested by homeland security for wearing e-textiles who eventually dropped out; MIT researchers who found security flaws in public transportation systems; and a gradstudent whose research helped hobbyists extend the capabilities of their gaming hardware.

Today is the birthday of Isidor Traube, a German physical chemist born in 1860 whose research helped lay down fundamental principles of liquids.

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The ranking is part of a detailed new study of the world's billionaires, by WealthX, a market research firm that helps businesses reach ultra-rich consumers, and UBS, whose wealth management arm handles a big chunk of their money.

Michael Hyatt is a bestselling author whose latest book «Your Best Year Ever: A 5 Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals» uses the latest research to help us take control of our time and our dreams to build the lives we want.

And even the stock of struggling Research in Motion, whose sales of BlackBerrys were crushed by the iPhone in recent years, soared 10 % amid optimism that Apple's weakness might help it rebound.

Already at that time, the firm had invested in Synthego, a genetic engineering startup that provides scientists with genetic material used in their CRISPR research, and Color Genomics, a company whose genetics services help its customers understand their risk for the most common hereditary cancers.

But we can say, for example, that a religious, theological point of view can illuminate scientific research and can help to extract some coherent meaning... In the Catholic Church, we have a theology of creation whose point of view... gives to evolution an additional meaning which is not directly present in thescientific research, but that scientific research is coherent with this point of view.

However, common sense that is also backed by scientific research is a valuable resource, and a gift to those whose everyday work can be helped by the insight it provides.

He might have towrest that title from Michael Milken, a cancer survivor whose Prostate CancerFoundation has helped transform cancer research, streamlining the grant processand requiring recipients to share their research.

The Help Group's 2018 Advance LA Conference, Thriving Through Transitions: Finding Strengths in Differences, will feature 20 internationally prominent experts whose research and practice support young people with autism, learning differences and ADHD in their transition to college, the workplace and beyond.

The project also gathered insights on the survey data from a panel of school nutrition leaders whose districts are recognized for their success in serving healthy meals and snacks.3 The research makes clear that multiple strategies, particularly those that engage children's creativity and invite their input, have helped instill healthy eating behaviors at schools across the country.

«When we removed all of the bots in our dataset, [the] differences between the spread of false and true news stood, «says Soroush Vosoughi, a co-author of the new paper and a postdoc at LSM whose PhD research helped give rise to the current study.

Surely, however, anything that might help tip decisions toward riskier research would be good for science — and for the scientists whose novel ideas will help it progress.

As I admired the gilded allegorical ceiling panels representing science and excellence, I couldn't help thinking, corny as it may sound, that the building's namesake — whose innovative experiments included, along with the Declaration of Independence, an improved plow, a portable copying machine, an encryption device, and an outstanding institution of learning (the University of Virginia), and who sent Lewis and Clark on one of history's most daring research expeditions — would have approved of this educational effort, too.

«It's useful in modeling concepts in neuroscience to have a system that will yield a diverse range of behaviors for small changes of a control parameter, as this may help offer some insights about how the same neural tissue displays different responses,» Alonso said, whose research was funded by a fellowship from the Leon Levy Foundation.

The family of the woman whose cells have helped advance a great deal of biological research has agreed to a case - by - case release of her genomic data

The ongoing research has taken on a certain urgency as cities across America have set up task forces to help landlords and relatives deal with thousands of people like Moore whose health is endangered by their compulsion to stockpile.

SoundCitizen is still staffed by undergraduate students at the University of Washington, whose individual research topics help define the overall scientific aims of the program.

Their goal is to help you become a true chimera: a physician whose skills and interests are informed by his or her training as an investigator, and an investigator whose research interests are informed by a deep understanding of people, their biology, and their disorders.

It was high - profile research projects with institutions like these that helped win Alireza the L'Oréal U.K. fellowship, whose sponsors include the U.K. National Commission for UNESCO, the Irish National Commission for UNESCO, the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and the U.K. Resource Centre for Women in Science, Technology, and Engineering.

«Given the current state of the opioid overdose epidemic, it is critical that patients seeking help for opioid addiction have access to comprehensive treatment that includes highly effective medications whose effects may be enhanced with the provision of psychosocial interventions,» according to the report by Karen Dugosh, PhD, of Treatment Research Institute, Philadelphia, and colleagues

Still the study is «an important first step to show that manipulating AMPK - nNOS signaling at least has the potential to help muscle function in muscular dystrophy,» says Michele whose lab at the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Research Center focuses on inherited forms of skeletal and cardiac diseases.

Klimuc, whose company is selling a service to help businesses rewrite their programs, claims that research shows that the problem is huge.

Our neural circuits keep shifting «massively and continuously» not only during childhood but throughout our lives, says Michael Merzenich of the University of California at San Francisco, whose research has helped expose just how plastic neurons really are.

The project advisor is Zhiyun Qian, an assistant professor of computer science at UCR, whose research focuses on identifying security vulnerabilities to help software companies improve their systems.

Campbell, whose expertise and research focuses on understanding how protein nutrition and exercise influence adults» health as they age, served as a member of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, which helped provide the scientific foundation for the nation's 2015 - 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

The Office of Research and Development (ORD) is the scientific research arm of EPA, whose leading - edge research helps provide the solid underpinning of science and technology for theResearch and Development (ORD) is the scientific research arm of EPA, whose leading - edge research helps provide the solid underpinning of science and technology for theresearch arm of EPA, whose leading - edge research helps provide the solid underpinning of science and technology for theresearch helps provide the solid underpinning of science and technology for the Agency.

Among the 54 Members featured in the book are a biologist and Nobel Laureate who helped decode DNA; an epidemiologist recognised for groundbreaking research on HIV prevention in women; a social scientist who nudged and cajoled into place the campaign to understand and contain HIV / AIDS in South Africa; a leading mathematics education proponent; a human geneticist whose work helped to clarify the origins of indigenous groups in Africa; one of the world's leading theorists in cosmology; and a leading immunologist and physician who pioneered higher education transformation in South Africa, in sometimes controversial ways.

The research holds promise in helping to develop new treatments for the more than 20 percent of the world's population infected with nematodes and for agricultural producers whose crops are destroyed by the pests.

The hospital is grateful to its donors, whose philanthropic investments exemplify their trust in the talented investigators listed below who are helping to advance the field of mental health research and treatment.

In 2015, Susan helped start the Institute for Sustainable Weight Loss, a nonprofit foundation whose mission is research on achievable and sustainable weight loss.

«To me, this looks like a very early step in a whole line of research that can really help us understand what are some of the driving forces in developing antibiotic - related diarrhea, in general, and C. difficile, specifically,» says Marya Zilberberg, MD, a professor at the University of Massachusetts, in Amherst, whose research has helped show that C. difficile infections are becoming more common — and more deadly — in the United States.

Dr. Engelbart, whose practice and research is focused on the connections between nutrition and functional neurology, said that maintaining probiotic balance can help ensure that all the nutrients in a person's daily diet are actually getting absorbed into the body.

A CRUCIAL note on the topic of starvation diet - related research: when you go on a starvation diet, your thyroid (whose function is to help the body put on straight mass) goes into overdrive, in order to get as much bang for a little buck as possible.

Phoenix, Arizona About Blog SABR is a nonprofit membership association whose purpose is to help people do baseball research, provide a place to share baseball research and to preserve baseball research information.

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Since joining the HGSE faculty in 2007, Higgins, whose research focuses on leadership development and change in organizations, has been helping education administrators find new ways to address challenges outside the classroom, in situations where being «in charge» may not always be the best approach.

Each seminar is designed and taught by a content instructor, whose scholarly interests frame the course and help to define the research agenda, and a visualization instructor, who sets the visualization portion of the curriculum and help the students realize the project's goals in a digital form.

The charity's research, released in its #FightingFor report, involved interviews with more than 2,700 children and young people (79 per cent of which were under 18) who have sought help for mental health problems, and more than 1,600 parents whose children had sought support.

The final piece of an eight - year, $ 10 million research project on KIPP, whose mission is to help low - income students graduate from college, found that campuses across the nation continued to increase test scores at every grade level over the past five years.

This approach helped when the students» research made «some conclusions that were going to be a little bit shocking to the faculty,» said Diego Gutierrez, principal of the Multimedia and Visual Arts School, whose student co-research team uncovered the facts that only 23 percent of students considered their courses interesting and only 19 percent of sophomores considered their courses challenging, compared to 75 percent of teachers who believed their courses were interesting and challenging.

Some time ago I posted a list of those I consider the (now) top 35 VAM Scholars whose research folks out there should be following, especially if they need good (mainly) peer - reviewed research to help them and others (e.g., local, regional, and state policymakers) become more informed about VAMs and their related policies.

This credit / no - credit continuing education course is designed to help develop educators» theoretical and practical knowledge of effective, research - based assessment and intervention for struggling readers of all ages who have reached a primer level, but whose reading abilities are below mid-grade three level.

In addition, we are indebted to Margo Healy, our research assistant, whose insights greatly strengthened the manuscript; to Larry Burke, our detail wizard, who provided invaluable suggestions for structure, word choice, and format; and to our graduate assistants Katie Bubak, Glen Croft, and Shelly Wooten for all their help.

For several years I supported my writing habit through a variety of dull, poorly - paid, and sometimes horrible jobs (the weirdest was probably my stint as a research assistant / housekeeper / dogsbody for an egomaniacal self - help author whose elderly husband spent much of his time in the basement with his huge collection of Hustler magazines).

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Piya engages Fokir to help with her research and finds a translator in Kanai Dutt, a businessman from Delhi whose idealistic aunt and uncle are longtime settlers in the Sundarbans.

An author of books for young adults points to research showing that strong school library programs led by a certified school librarian help ALL students do better in school, including students whose parents can't afford to provide all the resources kids need to do well in school: «[Research] tells us that even after adjusting for factors such as parental education, father's occupation, and social class, the impact of having books available in the home is as strong a predictor of school success as socioeconomic statusresearch showing that strong school library programs led by a certified school librarian help ALL students do better in school, including students whose parents can't afford to provide all the resources kids need to do well in school: «[Research] tells us that even after adjusting for factors such as parental education, father's occupation, and social class, the impact of having books available in the home is as strong a predictor of school success as socioeconomic statusResearch] tells us that even after adjusting for factors such as parental education, father's occupation, and social class, the impact of having books available in the home is as strong a predictor of school success as socioeconomic status.»

Also, we determined that dogs whose tumors responded to PALLADIA experienced an improved quality of life,» 3 said Dr. London, who has helped Pfizer Animal Health's Veterinary Medicine Research & Development to develop PALLADIA since 2000.

The MAF was founded in 1948 by Dr. Mark L. Morris Sr., a veterinarian whose research on diet and animal health saved dogs from kidney failure and helped revolutionized the pet food industry.