Sentences with phrase «part of her research involved»

Part of her research involved determining if the relationship these soldiers have with field robots could affect their decision - making ability and, therefore, mission outcomes.

The first part of the research involved a pretest to see whether or not the dogs could already be induced to perform the task.

If your home visiting program is interested in being a part of research involving home visiting, the following are some opportunities:

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«Ontario's No. 1 industry is the manufacturing of cars and car parts,» says Peter Purslow, the associate dean of research and innovation at the University of Guelph's Agricultural College, one of the institutions involved with the project.

This new research will be part of a major project involving similar studies on South Korea (Prof. Dr. Christine Lienemann - Perrin) and South Africa (Katrin Kusmierz, MTh).

«A major part of our research and product development in this area involves creating flavors that perform well in good - for - you products with fewer calories,» he adds.

Part of the process of becoming a certified birth doula involves reading a lot of books (see picture below) and doing a lot of studying and extensive research.

Johnson's research, which is part of the national study, found that the majority of unwed fathers are involved in ways not measured by court - ordered child support.

The company was deeply involved in a project known as Cuomo's «Buffalo Billion» initiative in Buffalo, part of a state government plan to finance programs that boost manufacturing and research across New York's upper tier.

Part of the additional state funding this year is going to a research program that involves planting hemp seeds on 2,000 acres from Erie County to Long Island.

Lennox is also involved in efforts to communicate research findings on the role of nutrition in child development to the public and policymakers as part of the British Nutrition Foundation.

As for cortical thinning, Dr. Zhao said that other research provides convincing evidence to support the theory that reduced cortical layer thickness in some brain regions may result in the decreased thickness of the frontal lobe, a large part of the brain that is involved in variety of functions, including emotion.

The new rules state that stem cells can be used if they are part of a study approved by the federal government, or if the protocol has been approved by an Institutional Review Board (IRB) that provides ethical review for research involving human volunteers.

A new study involving The University of Queensland, which might be useful for biomedical research, re-writes parts of the rulebook on how mammalian brains — including our own — could have evolved.

Kuang is also involved in efforts to model various aspects of tumor growth and management as part of ASU's efforts on cancer research.

«The proteins we study are part of the most efficient system ever built, capable of converting the energy from the sun into chemical energy with an unrivaled 60 percent efficiency,» said Yulia Pushkar, a Purdue assistant professor of physics involved in the research.

He graduated in 1993 but stayed on at Danone for 2 years, taking part in several European research projects involving Danone, the Autnoma University of Barcelona, and other public and private research centers.

To measure division of labor, Walsh and Lee asked respondents to describe the extent to which «[t] he project involved a strict division of labor [within the lab] with each person responsible for a specific part of the research.»

While opportunities involving a range of different skill sets are available, in general, companies are seeking research scientists with highly developed technical expertise that possess the ability to think creatively and fix problems, while being able to function as part of a team.

Part of Kellaris» earliest research involved mailing a questionnaire to about 1,000 respondents at four U.S. universities.

Joseph Berry, senior research scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, who studies solar cells but was not involved in the research, said the research project is interesting because the device scales well and targets a specific part of the solar spectrum.

This research was part of an international collaboration involving team leads, Dr Niranjan Nagarajan and Professor Patrick Tan from Sinagpore's GIS, and Dr Neil Young and Professor Robin B. Gasser from Australia's University of Melbourne, and others from Thailand and China.

Franco believes that the new European legislation — which would require systematic evaluation of all research involving laboratory animals in all E.U. countries, with ethical considerations a big part of the assessment — makes now a good time «to assess what [researchers] think about using animals, what effect training can have not only about their knowledge of the three R's but also how it affects their attitudes.»

The research involved a collaboration among Weissman's laboratory at Penn and several others, including the laboratories of Barton F. Haynes at Duke University and Theodore C. Pierson at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The study was carried out at Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine in 2005 - 2011 and it involved more than 1,400 men and women living in the eastern part of Finland.

Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the research team also found anatomical changes in the brains of children whose reading abilities improved — in particular, a thickening of the cortex in parts of the brain known to be involved in reading.

This research is part of a broader effort to understand more about the decisions involved in migrating to and settling in a new country, he said.

Aside from the terrific research I was involved in, the most exciting part of my experience was to have the opportunity to learn a foreign language and get accustomed to a different culture — up close and personal.

The study also involved researchers from the universities of Leeds, Imperial College London, Kassel (Germany), Sussex and the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP - WCMC) as part of the research programme of the UK Energy Research Centre research programme of the UK Energy Research Centre Research Centre (UKERC).

This research was part of the NOC - led collaborative project «Autonomous Ecological Surveying of the Abyss» funded by the Natural Environmental Research Council, involving the universities of Glasgow and Liresearch was part of the NOC - led collaborative project «Autonomous Ecological Surveying of the Abyss» funded by the Natural Environmental Research Council, involving the universities of Glasgow and LiResearch Council, involving the universities of Glasgow and Liverpool.

This PhD research was part of SINBAD, a major international research project involving researchers from the University of Aberdeen, University of Liverpool and Deltares.

The research, which formed part of a vast study carried out over the past four years by the international Avian Phylogenomics Consortium, involved the analysis of the whole genome structure of the chicken, turkey, Pekin duck, zebra finch and budgerigar.

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have shown for the first time that ensembles of genes within the striatum — a part of the brain that coordinates many primary aspects of our behavior, such as motor and action planning, motivation and reward perception — could be deeply involved in the disorder.

«What was really cool about this research was we've known for a long time that a lot of different transcription factors were involved, but it was hard to understand how all the pieces fit together,» said Jenny Mortimer, director of plant systems biology at the Joint BioEnergy Division, a part of the Department of Energy.

The model, developed by Frank, Cockburn and co-author Anne Collins, was based on prior research on the function of the striatum, a part of the brain's basal ganglia (BG) that is principally involved in representing reward values of actions and picking one.

Part of Vul's research involves finding ways to anticipate driver errors — «so that the control system knows when to take over,» he says.

RUMPEL's development has been part of the overall Hub - of - All - Things (HAT) initiative, a # 1.2 million Research Councils UK digital economy project, involving six UK universities — Warwick, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Nottingham, Surrey and the University of the West of England — plus a host of industry partners and advisors including Dyson, Arup and GlaxoSmithKline.

Orr's job, which Moniz created last year as part of a reorganization of DOE's top leadership, involves overseeing all of DOE's science research programs, including 10 national laboratories that do not work on nuclear weapons.

«We identified the most important parts of this protein that is involved in making up the outer structure of some pathogenic bacteria and found that the protein regulated itself in quite an unusual way,» said Dr Mirella Vivoli, associate research fellow at the University of Exeter and first author on the paper.

This study is part of Phase one of the RECOVER Program, a multi-phase project, involving 10 intensive care units across Canada, co-led by Drs. Margaret Herridge, Scientist at the Toronto General Research Institute, and Cameron, in collaboration with the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group.

Part of the problem is that trials involving vitamin D and calcium are inconsistent — they test different doses for varying lengths of time in diverse populations, which «makes it extra tricky when you try to put them all together and come up with a final analysis,» says Erin LeBlanc, an endocrinologist at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland, Ore..

While courses related to professional ethics, ethical issues in clinical research, or research involving vertebrate animals may form a part of instruction in responsible conduct of research, they generally are not sufficient to cover all of the above topics.

Crew 155, a six - person team led by veteran commander Paul Bakken, arrived «on Mars» yesterday, beginning a two - week field rotation, which will involve daily work and research as part of the Mars Society's Mars surface simulation program in Utah.

By studying these conditions in rats and other animals, Roberts and his colleagues say, researchers can avoid the ethical conundrum involved in forcing active children to refrain from exercise, imposing biopsies and other tissue sampling techniques, or other parts of research that are possible in animals but not in humans.

For the past two decades, he has been involved with the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), initially leading the construction of a large part of the tracking system for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment.

She implemented in 2010 and currently oversees the Norms and Integrity Unit, regrouping a major part of the activities related to the responsible conduct of research: scientific probity, ethics of research involving humans, ethics in animal experimentation and controlled goods.

It seems to be a welcome addition to what those of us involved in targeted drug delivery research for the last 10 years would recognise as part of this field.

As part of his training he became involved in neuroscience research; in particular he was part of group that was using new imaging techniques to see how different parts of the brain worked together in real time.

In a substudy, review outcomes were also compared across different types of clinical research, based in large part on the designations and definitions derived from a number of sources, including a report by Nathan, 14 the Institute of Medicine, 20 the NIH Director's Panel on Clinical Research, 9 the Association of American Medical Colleges and American Medical Association, 21 and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.22 All 3599 R01 applications involving human subjects that were submitted to NIH for the October 2002 council were categorized into 1 of the following: (1) patient - oriented studies of mechanisms of human disease (bench to bedside); (2) clinical trials and other clinical interventions; (3) patient - oriented research focusing on development of new technologies; (4) epidemiological studies; (5) behavioral studies (including studies of normal human behavior); (6) health services research; and (7) use of deidentified humanresearch, based in large part on the designations and definitions derived from a number of sources, including a report by Nathan, 14 the Institute of Medicine, 20 the NIH Director's Panel on Clinical Research, 9 the Association of American Medical Colleges and American Medical Association, 21 and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.22 All 3599 R01 applications involving human subjects that were submitted to NIH for the October 2002 council were categorized into 1 of the following: (1) patient - oriented studies of mechanisms of human disease (bench to bedside); (2) clinical trials and other clinical interventions; (3) patient - oriented research focusing on development of new technologies; (4) epidemiological studies; (5) behavioral studies (including studies of normal human behavior); (6) health services research; and (7) use of deidentified humanResearch, 9 the Association of American Medical Colleges and American Medical Association, 21 and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.22 All 3599 R01 applications involving human subjects that were submitted to NIH for the October 2002 council were categorized into 1 of the following: (1) patient - oriented studies of mechanisms of human disease (bench to bedside); (2) clinical trials and other clinical interventions; (3) patient - oriented research focusing on development of new technologies; (4) epidemiological studies; (5) behavioral studies (including studies of normal human behavior); (6) health services research; and (7) use of deidentified humanResearch and Quality.22 All 3599 R01 applications involving human subjects that were submitted to NIH for the October 2002 council were categorized into 1 of the following: (1) patient - oriented studies of mechanisms of human disease (bench to bedside); (2) clinical trials and other clinical interventions; (3) patient - oriented research focusing on development of new technologies; (4) epidemiological studies; (5) behavioral studies (including studies of normal human behavior); (6) health services research; and (7) use of deidentified humanresearch focusing on development of new technologies; (4) epidemiological studies; (5) behavioral studies (including studies of normal human behavior); (6) health services research; and (7) use of deidentified humanresearch; and (7) use of deidentified human tissue.

The study involved 52 clinical sites within the Diabetic Retinopathy Clinical Research Network (DRCR.net), supported by the National Eye Institute (NEI) and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health.