Sentences with phrase «more fundamental studies»

More fundamental studies of brain function and connectivity, as well as studies of the spine, are performed in non-human primates.

They're calling for more fundamental studies to understand how an exoskeleton and human leg interact.

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But perhaps more fundamental is why are you so threatened by an invitation to Study, Ponder and Pray?

To the Christian, such an atheistic approach to human nature is essentially inhuman, since men do not exist without a fundamental religious vocation any more than they exist in this life without physical needs, individuality or communities, all aspects of the human condition eagerly studied by social scientists.

A UN Commission on Transnational Corporations devoted about 15 years of study and negotiation on a draft Code of Conduct for Transnational Corporations that included a general provision requiring transnational corporations to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms in the countries where they operate and more detailed provisions on observance of laws on labor relations and involvement of trade unions.

A previous study highlighted infant nutrition as a major contributor to the early microbiota composition and function, with cessation of breastfeeding contributing the most fundamental shift in the composition of bacteria.8 A longitudinal study with more participants would allow us to determine the temporal dynamics of the effects of feeding practices and changes therein, as well as the persistence of the effects of both feeding and delivery mode later in infancy.

More than 1,000 physicists from around the world will use this high - intensity beam to more closely study neutrinos and fleeting particles called muons, both fundamental building blocks of our univeMore than 1,000 physicists from around the world will use this high - intensity beam to more closely study neutrinos and fleeting particles called muons, both fundamental building blocks of our univemore closely study neutrinos and fleeting particles called muons, both fundamental building blocks of our universe.

So it seemed logical to concentrate on studying those more fundamental laws, presumed to be found in physics and mathematics.

«A phylogeny and taxonomy is fundamental for all fields of biology that use lizards and snakes, to understand how to classify the species being studied, to interpret biological patterns in terms of relatedness, and even at a more basic level, to count how many species are in an area, for example, for conservation management purposes.»

But the new study suggests that the ACC may be doing something even more fundamental — making subjective judgements about whether outcomes of behaviors are good or bad, even before people are consciously aware of the results of what they've done.

Evans sees a more fundamental problem with epidemiological studies of chronic disorders in older people.

The fundamental trade - off between speed and accuracy in decision making has been studied for more than a century, with a number of studies suggesting that the subthalamic nucleus region of the brain plays a key role.

By adding fundamentals of biology to their computer science training, more than a few native computer scientists are contributing — and preparing themselves to contribute — to the advancement of the life sciences (among other fields), laying foundations for new branches of study.

AMSTERDAM — For more than 3 years, virologist Ron Fouchier has battled the Dutch government over a fundamental question in the balance between academic freedom and biosecurity: Did he need a government license to publish his hotly debated gain - of - function (GOF) studies on the H5N1 influenza strain?

The understandability of the natural world is all the more impressive when one considers the fact that fundamental human assumptions about time and space — the idea that there are 60 minutes in an hour, and that a circle can be broken down into 360 degrees — come from a time with «no articulated sense of nature... no reference or word for it,» according to Francesca Rochberg, professor of Near Eastern studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Perhaps most chillingly, the study reveals how inadequate our present observing systems still are when it comes to certain fundamental climate questions — such as whether the world is getting more or less cloudy, Stevens adds.

To learn more, her group, including postdoctoral fellow Maria Fernanda Forni, who studies skin stem cells, paired up with Jorge Shinohara in Sao Paulo's Fundamental Chemistry Department, who built a custom - made temperature sensor for mouse skin.

The study of such oscillations could eventually shed light matters as fundamental as how the universe generated so much more matter than antimatter.

Rather, he said, the study was designed to ask the more fundamental question of whether a physical barrier of cells would indeed act as a barrier to prevent damage to cells on the other side.

What's more, the approach they developed gives scientists a completely new and direct way to study a wide range of «emergent» materials whose surprising properties emerge from the collective behavior of fundamental particles, such as electrons.

The study done at PNNL — which is the first of its kind — provides fundamental knowledge that allows researchers to control the synthesis of gold particles or other nanosized clusters in a more rational manner.

Even though miRNAs have been systematically studied for more than ten years, fundamental questions regarding their biogenesis and function remain unanswered.

«We hope this study now provides a new cohesive direction for BRCA1 research so that we can answer the fundamental questions about how this gene promotes cancer and how we might be able to improve early diagnosis and, possibly, treat BRCA1 - induced cancer more effectively.»

These include fundamental experimental studies of the geometric and electronic structure of oxide surfaces, as well as more applied studies that are developing oxides as catalytic materials.

2/13/2007 Study Shows Liver an Excellent Target For Cancer Gene Therapy Using Viral Vectors A featured paper in the February issue of the research journal Cancer Gene Therapy demonstrates that cancer cells in the liver are excellent targets for gene therapy using adenoviral vectors, based upon a fundamental new understanding of the differen... More...

Coordination between NASA and the NSF can be advantageous because (1) the sheer scale of many modern astronomical investigations requires a coordinated national, if not international, effort; (2) the enormous increase in technical, computer, and Web - based capability reduces the barriers to cooperation; and (3) the growing sophistication of researchers» investigations implies that coordination across wavelength bands and across disciplines is required to produce a deeper and more fundamental understanding of the objects and processes under study.

Such structural changes are certainly welcome, but Levine's study raises a more fundamental question as to whether the content of preparation courses, in addition to their structure, must be reconceptualized.

There have been questions about the quality of the study, but this merely underscores one of NAS's fundamental problems: the lack of independent, reliable research on the effectiveness of its designs, a deficiency that allows decisions like Memphis's to be made more on the basis of politics than sound evidence about what works.

However even more troubling was the fundamental problems that the independent study discovered with the entire common core testing program.

This sobering and important study of the long experience with this system in Tennessee (where it was invented) shows that it did not work, was unfair, and took attention away from other more fundamental issues.»

The study and its findings have catalyzed fundamental changes in all aspects of the DMA's practices and programs — from exhibition and programming development to new marketing strategies and interpretation tools — leading to a 100 % increase in attendance and motivating more than 50 % of the museum's visitors to participate in its educational and public programs.

That the researcher responsible for the study is clearly not a «climate change denier» makes the IPCC's credibility gap all the more significant, and it raises new questions regarding the fundamental credibility of any claim coming from an organization which has relied on shaky science to back its demand for the power to take $ 76 trillion from the economies of the industrialized world and «redistribute» those funds for «green technologies» in the third world.

A new study alleges that human - induced global warming is a fundamental cause behind the 7.1 trillion gallons of torrential rainfall that a storm dumped on Louisiana in August, leading to a flooding disaster that killed at least 13 people and caused more than $ 1 billion in damage.

While they show that there is indeed an influence on a molecule's radiative efficiency with respect to whether a CF3 group is bonded to the ether oxygen atom or whether it is more removed from the ether oxygen, for example, their study misses the underlying fundamental molecular properties responsible for radiative efficiency.

Supported by their measurement studies, the authors suggest that «more aggressive» scaling will, in the longer term, require fundamental redesign to bitcoin's protocol.

Exclusive survey results from the fourth annual NREI / NIC Seniors Housing Market Study indicate a more positive outlook across the board on questions related to improving fundamentals, access to capital and transaction pipeline.