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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A teacher or lower rank than an associate professor
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("assistant professor" is a kind of...):
prof; professor (someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university)
Context examples:
We estimate that between 1.8 and 4.1 billion people in the Global South — with a median of 3.7 billion for 26 degrees Celsius set point threshold and at least five days of annual exposure — are potentially exposed to heat stress in their homes, says Narasimha Rao, co-author of the study and assistant professor of energy systems at Yale University in the United States.
(Billions at risk from heat stress at home, SciDev.Net)
While it is encouraging that losses are lower than in the past, I would stop short of calling this 'good' news, said Dennis van Engelsdorp, an assistant professor of entomology at the University of Maryland and project director for the Bee Informed Partnership, in a summary of the study.
(Study Finds Mixed News About Bee Populations, VOA)
Understanding the characteristics and outcomes of people with suicide risk who visit emergency departments is important for helping researchers and practitioners improve treatment and outcomes, said lead author Sidra Goldman-Mellor, Ph.D., an assistant professor of public health at the University of California, Merced.
(Emergency department study reveals patterns of patients at increased risk for suicide, National Institutes of Health)
Kartik Sunagar, an author of the study and assistant professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, tells that the venom of spectacled cobra found in West Bengal is strongly neurotoxic while that of the same species in Arunachal Pradesh state is extremely cytotoxic.
(‘India needs region-specific snakebite antivenoms’, SciDev.Net)
We observed that in moderation, your body has the machinery to handle sugar, said Brian Hoffmann, lead researcher on the study and assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Marquette University.
(Artificial Sweeteners Can Still Lead to Obesity, Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
"A big problem associated with type 2 diabetes is that beta cells stop functioning properly and fade away," said senior author Dr. James C. Lo, assistant professor of medicine and of pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medicine and a cardiologist at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
(New Potential Approach Found to Type 2 Diabetes Treatment, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Our work provides new mechanistic insights into the long-standing question of why olive products can be anti- diabetic, said Bin Xu, lead author, assistant professor of biochemistry in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and a Fralin Life Science Institute affiliate.
(Health Benefits of Olives and Olive Oil, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
