Sentences with phrase «earlier studies focused»

Earlier studies focused mainly on adults, while some looked at young people in more limited geographical areas, such as individual hospitals or cities, or used more limited surveillance data.

The Senseable City researchers also teamed with Strogatz, who is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell, on the earlier study focused on New York.

His early studies focused on supernova explosions, neutron stars, and neutrinos.

Early studies focused on established solar markets such as California found that home values increase by four percent or more when homes are equipped with solar panels.

[9] These early studies focused on attachment between children and caregivers.

Early studies focused on established solar markets such as California found that home values increase by four percent or more when homes are equipped with solar panels.

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That research actually bears out an earlier, more detailed study that Yesware conducted (albeit one that examined substantially fewer emails — about 500,000, focusing on sales emails).

Based on his studies during the 1960s and his practical experience in the early 1970s, Milken was determined to focus, first, on future cash flow rather than the past as reflected in book value and reported earnings; and second, to consider human capital part of the balance sheet.

The study focuses on the early adopters.

My early career focused on studying and working in marketing, with ancillary interests in both law and international trade.

In this essay a good deal of the emphasis upon the encounter with the historical Jesus by means of an existentialist historiography was quietly dropped, and attention was more sharply focused on the basic parallel between the message of Jesus and the kerygma of the early Church, and on the significance of scholarly study of the message of Jesus for the Church.

Since the French Paradox grabbed attention in the early 1990s, countless studies have focused on better understanding the cardiovascular benefits of alcohol, particularly red wine...

Taken together with an earlier study finding injuries to cheerleaders in the basing / spotting position most common, the researchers said that «bases are at particular risk of injury from contact with another athlete during stunts,» and that» [f] uture research should focus on identifying ways to better protect bases during stunts.»

A researcher at the University of Nottingham is studying «Men, Masculinity and Early Labour», and is looking for men to take part in research interviews and focus groups and to share their experiences of being with their partner in early laEarly Labour», and is looking for men to take part in research interviews and focus groups and to share their experiences of being with their partner in early laearly labour.

The study focused on a progesterone gel treatment that was found to be effective in reducing early births of singletons but did not have the same effect with multiples.

Her education is focused on nutrition and early childhood studies, making her an expert when it comes to writing about health and children's growth and development.

Berlin's study focused on particularly early ages, Larzelere noted; much of the spanking literature focuses on ages 2 and older.

To estimate additional resource use not captured on an individual level in the cohort study, we developed supplemental data collection forms after five focus groups held with midwives from all parts of England early in the project.

While the study focused on the judgment many women face from their own families and friends, society at large feels all - too - comfortable passing judgment: Moms are judged if they have children too early or too late in life.

The PhD course focuses on various aspects of human (donor) milk, with as main study a randomized clinical trial towards the effects of human donor milk in very low birth weight infants (the Early Nutrition Ststudy a randomized clinical trial towards the effects of human donor milk in very low birth weight infants (the Early Nutrition StudyStudy).

«Past studies have looked at the effects of differential parenting on the children who get more negative feedback, but our study focused on this as a dynamic operating at two levels of the family system: one that affects all children in the family as well as being specific to the child at the receiving end of the negativity,» explains Jennifer M. Jenkins, Atkinson Chair of Early Child Development and Education at the University of Toronto, who led the team.

Focus group participants were recruited across several settings via posters inviting participation in the study, at child health clinics, child care centres and early learning centres, to obtain women with a range of experience, socioeconomic levels and occupations.

Known as Betty, her contributions to public health policy came during her tenure from 1992 to 1998 as president of the William T. Grant Foundation, a social science research nonprofit focused on inequality and improving the lives of young people, and through her earlier work in 1977 as the director of studies of the President's Commission on Mental Health during the administration of President Jimmy Carter.

And a fourth study in the same issue of Nature, this one focusing on ancient climate, also makes the case for an earlier exodus.

The MOIRCS near - infrared spectrograph is very effective for studies focused on the distant, early universe because strong emission lines from star - forming galaxies are redshifted from the optical to the near - infrared regime.

As early as 1994, the National University of Singapore (NUS) formed the Environmental Technology Enterprise (ETE) for the purpose of providing a focus for environmental studies undertaken by its staff members.

Richard Hargreaves, executive director of imaging at Merck Research Laboratories, says, «Nuclear imaging using radiotracers gives the opportunity to put your arms around proof - of - concept very early in a drug discovery and development program by focusing the selection of doses to study on those proven to deliver enough drug to the target therapeutic sites.»

Earlier studies led by Berenson have focused on completion rates among females ages 9 - 27 and differences in parents» willingness to vaccinate their sons and daughters.

Coss, who taught drawing classes early in his academic career and whose previous research focused on art and human evolution, used photos and film to study the strokes of charcoal drawings and engravings of animals made by human artists 28,000 to 32,000 years ago in the Chauvet - Pont - d'Arc Cave in southern France.

Earlier studies have demonstrated that cocoa flavanol intake improves the elasticity of blood vessels and lowers blood pressure — but, for the most part, these investigations have focused on high - risk individuals like smokers and people that have already been diagnosed with conditions like hypertension and coronary heart disease.

Zheng wants to wrap up his studies either late this year or in early 2012, at which time he hopes to focus on a start - up he formed with his advisor, Changhuei Yang, a Caltech professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering.

«There appear to be interregional differences between the U.S. and Canada,» he noted, «but it's too early to say yet whether those reflect operational differences in the geological site conditions, or if it simply reflects the focus of studies that have been completed to date.»

The study is also the largest research project in Finland that focuses on early detection, intervention and prevention of mental health problems in families with children.

For the study, the researchers used an unusually large dataset made up of the sequences of 128 proteins from 55 species, including representatives of all the major animal groups, focusing in particular on those that diverged very early.

In earlier studies that primarily focused on energy expenditure, teachers observed increased attention and better behavior of students using standing desks.

While there have been advances in early detection and many studies involving the treatment of children with ASD, few efforts to date have focused on interventions for adults.

Lead author Moustafa Abdalla writes: «Almost all genomic studies of breast cancer have focused on well - established tumours because it is technically challenging to study the earliest mutational events occurring in human breast epithelial cells.»

«The impetus of this study was to better characterize resource use, which is rising, by focusing on how the number of transplants performed within a center influences cost and early hospital readmissions.»

In a study published September 22, 2015 in Nature Communications, a team led by Northen used seven bacterial isolates from desert biocrusts, one of them the cyanobacterium Microcoleus vaginatus - sequenced by the DOE JGI — that had been the focus of earlier work.

The study focused on survivors of a mass famine that took place in the early 1920s in several rural regions of Russia.

The study focused on the removal of the flowers of the invasive shrub Prosopis juliflora, which is native to Central and South America but was introduced to new areas in the late 1970's and early 1980's as an attempt to reverse deforestation.

In a recent study appearing in Nature Publishing Group's Scientific Reports, the researchers focused on the properties of schreibersite and conducted experiments with the mineral to better understand how — in a chemical reaction with the corrosive effects of water called «phosphorylation» — schreibersite could have provided the phosphate important to the emergence of early biological life.

Dr. Epperson's study enrolled 30 women between the ages of 48 and 60 who had experienced a diminished ability to focus and multi-task in their early post-menopausal years.

NASA is restructuring part of a program that focuses on studying planets such as Saturn, seen here in an image taken earlier this year by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

«Studies on early childhood education programs have historically focused on child outcomes,» said study lead author Terri Sabol, an assistant professor of human development and social policy at Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy.

But because that research had focused on specific schools rather than school transitions in general, movement to a lesser - ability school may be harmful for mental well - being in ways overlooked by earlier studies, researchers said.

Their study focused on changes occurring at the school level, a focus which had been overlooked by earlier studies on college transitions and student well - being, Andersson said.

Monitoring remains an important tool to provide early warnings of forests at risk of reaching a tipping point, and the results of this study can inform and focus conservation and management decisions in areas of concern.

Future studies will focus on developing biomarkers capable of making early predictions on whether patients will develop a severe form of the disease.

The new study will focus on four areas of high public health concern: obesity, birth defects and other early outcomes, neurodevelopmental disorders (such as autism and depression), and airway diseases (such as asthma and allergies).