Sentences with phrase «emerging studies on»

Emerging studies on brain - derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) have shown that might be novel biomarkers and therapeutic targets for cancer.

Not exact matches

With a new lens and some added direction from a research study on collective intelligence (abilities that emerge out of collaboration) by a group of psychologists from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, and Union College, Project Aristotle's researchers went back to the drawing board to comb their data for unspoken customs.

The study found that emerging economies such as Brazil, South Africa and Russia are front - runners in the adoption of mobile devices (more than 70 %, on average) to access the Internet.

Tan's book is both a case study for a western audience of the emerging Chinese approach to innovation and a text on innovation generally — still a concept poorly understood in concrete terms.

The goal of their study, which was originally written in August 2016 but published on SSRN in March 2018, was to explore the prominent drivers of risk and return in emerging markets.

The goal of this study is to provide information to decision makers on the emerging market for lunar activity by analyzing customers, market size, trends, and areas of uncertainty in eight distinct potential markets.

Mr. Chair, committee members, thank you for the invitation to take part in your study on new and emerging issues faced by Canadian importers and exporters in relation to their international competitiveness.

Remarks delivered by Brian Kingston, Vice President, International and Fiscal Issues Mr. Chair, committee members, thank you for the invitation to take part in your study on new and emerging issues faced by Canadian importers and exporters in relation to their international competitiveness.

As an example, a recent benchmarking study on the software industry concluded that it took on average of five years for an emerging software company to reach $ 10 million in revenue.

The IDC Study features ten emerging companies that are innovating and excelling with a variety of mobile and wireless technology solutions including: mobile marketing, couponing, analytics, smart grid enablement, TV and video on demand — even for traditional phones, mobile money services, mobile enterprise Apps and product life - cycle management.

This is why I believe it's so important to study both historical religious arguments supporting the abolition of slavery and historical religious arguments opposing the abolition of slavery (see my post on Mark Noll's The Civil War as a Theological Crisis» for a sampling), as well as historical religious arguments supporting desegregation and historical religious arguments opposing desegregation — not because I believe both sides are equal, but because the patterns of argumentation that emerge are so unnervingly familiar:

I was hooked on this emerging field of environmental studies and followed my interests throughout college.

Not only are graduate theological schools producing more theses and dissertations on Wesleyan subjects, but Methodist periodicals (Quarterly Review, Methodist History, Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society) are increasingly printing their articles, and new publishing enterprises are emerging to take up their longer monographic works (among these are Zondervan's Francis Asbury Press imprint, Abingdon's Kingswood Books imprint, and Asbury Theological Seminary's new series in Pietist and Wesleyan Studies) These scholars are quite likely to be found in the Wesley Studies Working Group of the American Academy of Religion.

Luton has had a renewed focus in Britain after it emerged that Taimour Abdulwahab, an Iraqi - born terrorist who blew himself up on a Stockholm street in December, had lived there over the past few years and studied at a local university.

Last week a bunch of new reports emerged on a new infant sleep study being conducted by a nurse named Jennifer Combs.

There has been concern raised about a resurgence of vitamin D deficiency and rickets among infants and children, with reports emerging in the United States from Alaska, 1,2 Iowa, 3 Nevada, 4 California, 5 North Carolina, 6 Texas, 7 and mother - infant pairs in Boston, 8 among others.9 The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in young children also appears to be high in other countries, including England, 10 Greece, 11 and Canada.12, 13 One study from China found a 65.3 % prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among 12 - to 24 - month - olds, but few cases (3.7 %) of radiographic or clinical rickets were noted.14 Previous studies suggest risk factors to be dark skin pigmentation1,3 - 12 and breastfeeding without supplementation.1 - 7, 9,12,13 To date, reports have focused primarily on young infants compared with toddlers.

A few longitudinal studies, along with a small number of experimental studies, have recently emerged allowing an improved estimate of the causal impact of parenting behaviour on emotional health.

Luckily, emerging research has suggested that there is no greater risk of choking or deficiencies with BLW, particularly when parents have been educated on the approach, by either an expert or their own studies.

Finally, given that fatherhood is an emerging field of research, more prospective studies need to be conducted on the quality of fathering experiences, the types of effective interventions for fathers, and the different needs of fathers across cultures.

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

Topics discussed included international best practices and case studies on renewable integration; energy planning processes to support long - term development; and emerging business models.

As the authors explain in their introduction, for a long time it was relatively straight forward to compile a study on elections as they took place within a two - party and then a three - party system, from which, usually, a single party winner emerged.

The Nebraska Democrat sounded a positive note Thursday after emerging from a meeting with Reid and other moderate Democratic holdouts in the Senate Majority Leader's office, although he told CNN then he was withholding his final decision on the motion to proceed until he had a chance to «study (the bill) or at least review it to begin with.»

As program officer for the IES Cognition and Student Learning research grants program, Dr. Albro oversaw the preparation of an IES Practice Guide, Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning, which identified a set of instructional principles for use in schools and classrooms that emerged from basic research on learning and memory.

«What has emerged from our study as well as from other work on introgression is that interbreeding with archaic humans does indeed have functional implications for modern humans, and that the most obvious consequences have been in shaping our adaptation to our environment — improving how we resist pathogens and metabolize novel foods,» Kelso says.

Questions were specifically designed to elicit information on drug dealing activities and organisation of crime and, as the study progressed, a number of key issues started to emerge.

PaMZ's potential emerged from a study in which various permutations of its three constituent drugs, plus one newcomer, bedaquiline, were tested on sputum samples from groups of people with TB in Cape Town, South Africa.

Our study demonstrates the emerging ability of optical microscopy to investigate intracellular physiological processes on the nanoscale in real time.

Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin - Madison, lead researcher on the other study, adds that the meeting allowed him and Fouchier to explain their work, including the potential benefits for surveillance of emerging flu strains (Nature 481, 417 - 418; 2012) and for vaccine preparation (Nature 482, 142 - 143; 2012).

Studying nearly eight years» worth of high - speed smashups between protons and antiprotons, Guennadi Borissov of Lancaster University in the U.K. and other members of the Tevatron team focused on the B meson, a short - lived particle that emerges from the collisions.

In research that has implications for diabetes and other metabolic diseases, an international study based at UT Southwestern Medical Center found that the protein connexin 43 (Cx43) forms cell - to - cell communication channels on the surface of emerging beige fat cells that amplify the signals from those few nerve fibers.

The strangest version of all parallel universe proposals is one that emerged gradually over 30 years of theoretical studies on the quantum properties of black holes.

A recent study published in PLoS ONE, a peer - reviewed scientific journal, provides new information for public health officials on mitigating the spread of infection from emerging flu viruses.

«Solutions to understanding the connections between genes, neural circuits and behavior are now emerging from a unique union of genetics and neuroscience,» says Julie Korenberg, a University of Utah professor and an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute, who led the genetics aspects on the new study.

«From other studies ***** we know that epigenetic modifications of the DPP4 gene, which are associated with an increased production of the enzyme, have a negative impact on the liver metabolism already in young mice, long before fatty liver disease emerges,» says Baumeier.

Steve: Father of the World Wide Web, about Web science and this is particularly interesting because the Web has sort of come in to existence and evolved on its own, but now there are properties of it that are emerging that researchers can actually study to find a science of the Web.

Based on our studies with mice, we assumed that the symptoms would emerge much earlier — perhaps after ten years,» says Dierks.

By analyzing studies from after that time period as well as recent research relying on new statistical techniques for assessing the impact of legal changes, the pair found an emerging consensus that deregulating concealed carry restrictions increases violent crime.

Based on findings from an independent review board in Sweden, Science pulled the study because: The experiments lacked ethical approval, the original data could not be provided and questions emerged about experimental methods.

«Studying these fingerprints in detail requires very precise measurements of the wavelength, or colour, of the light emerging from the atmospheres of these stars» says Dr Matthew Bainbridge, who has been working on the detailed analysis techniques needed to detect the tiny changes expected.

The research emerged from a graduate seminar on atmospheric rivers developed by UGA Distinguished Research Professor Tom Mote, one of the authors of the study.

This study in Science, published on April 18, underlines this emerging reality, giving it a new and worrisome precision and leading Nick Gotelli and his co-authors to conclude that there «is need to expand the focus of research and planning from biodiversity loss to biodiversity change.»

For the follow - up study, outcomes were assessed at 4 years, a time point when any subtle effects on development should have emerged and can be more reliably assessed.

The bill also provides $ 500,000 to study new and emerging wildlife diseases and adds $ 1 million to USGS's $ 26 - million volcano hazards programs, specifically to repair and upgrade systems that focus on monitoring «high - threat» volcanoes.

Professor Friedlingstein, who is an expert in global carbon cycle studies added: «Current land carbon cycle models do not show this increase over the last 50 years, perhaps because these models underestimate emerging drought effects on tropical ecosystems.»

Other co-authors on the study, titled «Ecological selectivity of the emerging mass extinction in the oceans,» include Andrew Bush of the University of Connecticut and Doug McCauley of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

The role of weight in ovarian - cancer risk emerges from an analysis of data on some 68,000 women participating in one of three major ongoing investigations: the New York (City) University Women's Health Study, the Northern Sweden Health and Disease Study in Umea, and the Diet in the Etiology of Breast Cancer Study in Milan, Italy.

The Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues will advise the President on bioethical issues that may emerge from advances in biomedicine and related areas of science and technology.

Such lingering uncertainties emerge from the indirect and scattered nature of our studies of Mars, and ensure that any argument for life there is based solely on circumstantial information, Boston notes.

The women's health movement — a political force emerging in the 1960s that initially focused on reproductive rights — pushed against the assumption that the results of male - only studies applied equally to women.