Quoted: ?It?s very clear it?s a different quality of mental engagement when you?re playing games of skill than when you?re reading a book,? said Ozioma Okonkwo, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and senior author of the study. ?To win a card game, you have to judge, you have to plan, you have to do something, you have to remember what the last player played.?
Noted: However, the chicken-or-egg question remains, said lead researcher Stephanie Schultz. “The cause-and-effect here is unclear,” said Schultz, a research specialist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Noted: This makes comparing Obama?s use of unilateral action to other presidents? difficult, said Kenneth Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: In the past, U.S. butter exports have gone primarily to the Middle East and North Africa. But Brian Gould, an agricultural economist and dairy marketing specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the growing global middle class, especially in Asia, has helped spark new demand for more dairy products. That includes butter, as the popularity of pizza, ice cream and other U.S. food staples increases overseas.
Quoted: Hart Posen, a professor of management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said Lyft?s tactics in New York are part of a familiar playbook for app-driven services trying to shake up the industry. He predicted Lyft will eventually strike an agreement with regulators.
Noted: Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wis., recounted a chapter in North Carolina history after the Civil War in which black men had been granted the right to vote and did so in large numbers. With that increase in participation came a push by white legislators to change the law to make it more difficult for blacks to vote, Burden said.
?Most Americans want to live independently in the community for as long as possible and avoid being a burden on their families when their health declines,? Michal Engelman told Reuters Health in an email. Engelman is a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was not part of the new study.
Noted: The last witness Wednesday was Barry C. Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He and another expert, Charles Stewart III, a political science professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, testified that the new law would be detrimental to blacks.
Quoted: ?It?s important to remember: What?s the cost of getting the wrong person in there?? says Russell Coff, professor of strategy at the University of Wisconsin Madison. ?In many cases it?s a creative endeavor, putting together product development teams, and there?s only so much you can handle in terms of a personality that doesn?t fit.? An internship is a good way to suss that out.
Quoted: Patti Nagai, horticulture educator for the University of Wisconsin-Extension in Racine County, and Brian Hudelson, outreach specialist and plant disease diagnostician for UW-Extension at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, put their heads together on this one.
Quoted: ?Spiritual oneness also predicted donating to a pro-environment group,? reports a research team led by University of Wisconsin psychologist Andrew Garfield.
“For us it?s been a bad mosquito year,” said P.J. Liesch, manager of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab. “The mosquitoes are pretty happy, they?re doing well.”
Quoted: Patrick Liesch, who manages the University of Wisconsin Insect Diagnostic Lab but was not involved with the study, told Reuters Health by email that a lot of stinging insects have evolved to look fairly similar. ?They have these bright flashy colors ? yellow and black ? and it kind of serves as a warning pattern,? he said.
Quoted: To the list of potential health risks for children exposed to even tiny amounts of the double herbicide, Warren Porter, a toxicologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and another signatory, added attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, asthma and immune disorders.
Quoted: Cohabitation has become more common as social mores have shifted; mostly gone is the sentiment that such arrangements constitute ?living in sin.? More women and men have delayed marrying and having children in favor of pursuing educations, careers and personal goals, said Christine B. Whelan, a sociologist in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Noted: That same day, Paul Robbins, director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, showed the benefit of experience, zipping through the 21st installment of his 24-lecture course on cultural and human geography in 29:48.
Quoted: ?The character was invented to be fake,? said Andrew Peck, who has studied Slender Man, in an interview with The Washington Post. He is a PhD candidate in folklore and media at the University of Wisconsin. ?There?s something fun about letting ourselves be scared. There?s something fun about suspending our disbelief. That?s by and large what the Slender Man is ? it?s a campfire story.?
The spectacular view was a matter of the sun setting at just the right time, said Jordan Gerth, post-doctoral research associate with the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies.
Quoted: The University of Wisconsin, Madison?s Dietram Scheufele knows a thing about the power of emotions in the digital media. The professor of science communication has reported on a psychological “nasty effect” of reader comments on online news stories. His team showed that negative comments make people dislike the subject of otherwise neutral-toned news reports, while positive ones skewed them the other way.
Quoted: Some of the growth in hot spot locations has been fueled by more people working in nontraditional settings, including freelance contractors who hang out at coffee shops with a laptop computer and mobile phone as their office tools.If you can work like that, it might as well be in a place with good coffee and food, said Barry Orton, a telecommunications professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dipesh Navsaria, assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, said that in order to address the achievement gap, the focus must be on the first 1,000 days of a child’s life. Research shows that significant development occurs in the brain during the first three years of a child’s life, and being read to daily can build and stimulate a base for cognitive and emotional development.
A concise Wall Street Journal overview of Jordan Ellenberg’s book “How Not to Be Wrong”: “Mr. Ellenberg’s key point: Mathematics is not some strange language used by a few single-minded experts. Rather, it is a powerful extension of our common sense, one that anyone can employ to tackle real-life problems.”
Emily Stanley, a UW-Madison limnologist and zoologist, acknowledged that it can feel like we?re merely treading water in the Yahara chain of lakes, not making the water clean enough to tread in the first place. She said it could take from three to 10 years to start seeing results from the county?s renewed push for lake health. But the alternative is far worse.
Quoted: Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
After noticing his neighbors flocking to the idea of his miniature library, Bol teamed up with Rick Brooks from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to form the Little Free Library organization in 2010.
Quoted: “One has to wonder how sincere a consultation process is when infrastructure in support of the project is being put into place at the same time,” said Ian Baird, an expert on Laos and specialist on hydro-power dams and fisheries at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Although the new passive plan is considered by some to be a do-nothing “faith healing” approach, research by Stacie Robinson and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison demonstrating genetic resistance to CWD is only one reason why current CWD management policy has adapted toward this logical solution.
Quoted: As a candidate, Burke could resemble another Wisconsin lawmaker from the other side of the aisle. Barry Burden, a professor of political science at University of Wisconsin-Madison, says that Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson launched his campaign when he was relatively unknown, was a first-time politician and also used his business experience as the CEO of the Oshkosh-based Pacur Inc. to paint himself as a jobs creator.
Quoted: ?We?ve had a rebound that we haven?t seen in many, many years,? said Gene Clark, a coastal engineer with the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute in Superior, Wis. ?We?ve been historically below average, and now we are finally back to above-average water levels. At this time last year, I was talking to Wisconsin state legislators about what was happening, why the levels were so low and what could the State of Wisconsin do about it. It was very much a crisis.?
QUoted, Edward Friedman: “CIs come in many forms. For smaller colleges with no budget for teaching the Chinese language, a CI seems a good trade-off with the purpose of serving one?s students and their future career opportunities.”
Quoted: Don Downs, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who focuses largely on constitutional law, said the potential change in policy mirrors a change in public opinion, both statewide and nationwide. Gallup polls taken annually show support for same-sex marriage has more than doubled since 1996, and a Marquette University poll taken in May shows 59 percent of Wisconsin residents polled think the state?s same-sex marriage ban should be repealed.
Quoted: “There is so much that can be done upstream to prevent the need for health care,” said Bridget Catlin, a senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin who directs the RWJF program.
Quoted: “This does seem to signal a fairly broad protection of security in terms of electronic information, in terms of electronic devices like this,” said UW-Madison law professor Adam Stevenson. He said Wednesday?s decision could have implications on whether police are able to search laptops or tablets as well.
And UW-Madison?s Sara Goldrick-Rab is at the center of media skepticism about the coffee giant?s tuition reimbursement offer for classes taken online from Arizona State University.
In March, BICEP2, a collaboration of physicists, announced that it had found evidence of primordial gravitational waves, ripples in space and time that are considered a “smoking gun” for a period of inflation in the early universe. Quoted: Daniel Chung, associate professor of physics (not in Experts Guide) and Peter Timbie, professor of physics (in Experts Guide).
Participants Wednesday will include University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor William P. Jones, Alder Shiva Bidar-Sielaff, Centro Hispano executive director Karen Menendez Coller, and Gee.
Quoted: The connection to traditional sports raises some interesting questions. David Williamson Shaffer, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an expert in educational games, says this is a sign of games as a growing “cultural phenomenon.” He compares the move to what many high schools have done by turning debate into a letter ?sport.?
Quoted: ?What this study shows is that there?s a correlation between facial markings and sociality and the need to communicate,? said zoologist Patricia McConnell of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a dog behavior researcher who was not involved in the study.
Quoted: ?If we can get that first 1,000 days of life right,? said Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, ?we?re really going to save a lot of trouble later on and have to do far less remediation.?
Quoted: Brian Hellmer, director of the UW-Madison School of Business? Hawk Center for Applied Security Analysis, said novice investors should be cautious about these opportunities . ” You should not confuse investing for retirement with providing yourself with entertainment,” he said.
Quoted: B. Bradford Brown, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who writes about adolescent peer relationships and was not involved in the study, said it offered a trove of data.
Brian Hellmer, director of the UW-Madison School of Business? Hawk Center for Applied Security Analysis, said novice investors should be cautious about these opportunities . ? You should not confuse investing for retirement with providing yourself with entertainment,? he said.
Quoted: ?There is a relationship between rainfall and mosquito activity,? said Patrick Liesch, assistant researcher for the UW-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab. ?Mosquitoes are associated with water, so whenever we get more rainfall, that?s an opportunity for mosquitoes to lay eggs.?
Wisconsin?s summer could be cooler than normal this year, according to a Wisconsin meteorologist, leaving it in uncertain territory when it comes to severe weather.
Bill Murphy, co-director of the Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where the first human embryonic stem cells were isolated, agreed.
?The advances in human iPS cells are really quite exciting,? he said. ?But I would say there?s remaining value in human embryonic stem cell research.?
Julie Underwood, dean of the School of Education at UW-Madison, sums up neatly why she doesn?t give much credence to the National Council on Teacher Quality rankings of teacher training schools.
Quoted: “If we look at what you can buy on the Internet today vs. what was available even five years ago, it?s a night and day difference,” said Jeff Sindelar, a professor in the Meat Science & Muscle Biology Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a certified barbecue contest judge. “Today, you can buy any ingredients, essentially, that a small, medium or large meat processor can buy, just in much smaller quantities.
Quoted: “To get a tornado, you need just the right conditions,” said Steven Ackerman, director of the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Sara Goldrick-Rab of the University of Wisconsin, Madison sums up the results of all this in a paper she wrote last year for the Lumina Foundation.
Quoted: If you think that shrewdness sounds like old-fashioned checkbook journalism, you?re not far off. But a lot has changed since the days when media outlets lived by the edict that they would not pay for news content. Things aren?t so simple since the digital disruption, according to Katy Culver, associate director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?It?s a very complex situation,? she said. ?New players that haven?t been part of this contested field of media ethics over the last four or five decades are out there doing things.?
Quoted: ?What the CDC is reporting is a surveillance, which is going to be a conservative estimate of the number of people who have actually gone to a doctor with symptoms and been diagnosed with Lyme,? said Susan Paskewitz, entomology professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: The margin, though, is slim. Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, argues that wholly online education is of questionable value for low-income students. This is especially a problem when such students are required to pay for those first 21 credits before they qualify for reimbursement.
Quoted: ?Wisconsin?s performance is not impressive either in absolute terms or relative terms,? said Steven Durlauf, a University of Wisconsin-Madison economics professor.
Quoted: Students may not be able to count on as much need-based financial aid as they might expect. The reimbursement from Starbucks will count against them in the financial aid process, said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of educational policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in an interview with USA TODAY Network.
Noted: “Somebody has a self interest here, whether it is a noble, social cause or a product. And this is kind of a tried and true way of getting people?s attention and getting excitement and conversation going,” University of Wisconsin life sciences senior lecturer Michael Flaherty said.
Noted: China Real Time recently spoke with the author via phone from Wisconsin, where he is currently pursuing a Ph. D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Edited excerpts, translated from the Chinese.
Quoted: Sounds great, right? Not according to Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who said she found it ?incredibly problematic? that Starbucks has decided to limit its tuition assistance to a single online university.
Quoted: Don Downs, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who focuses largely on constitutional law, said the change in policy mirrors a change in public opinion, both statewide and nationwide. Gallup polls taken annually show support for same-sex marriage has more than doubled since 1996, and a Marquette University poll taken in May shows 59% of Wisconsin residents polled think the state?s same-sex marriage ban should be repealed.
Quoted: ?We argue that one of the ways to help your case is to show that you have a voice,? said André Phillips, the senior associate director of recruitment and outreach at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?But in that effort, sometimes students cross the line. In trying to be provocative, sometimes students miss the point.?
Quoted: Richard Monette, law professor and director of the Great Lakes Indian Law Center.
