Sentences with phrase «pilot research study»

The Human Animal Bond Research Initiative (HABRI) Foundation today announced it has awarded a $ 6,000 grant to The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Nursing for a pilot research study, Biobehavioral Effects of Therapy Dog Visitation in Elderly Intensive Care Unit Patients, to investigate how brief visits from therapy dogs can reduce stress in older intensive care unit (ICU) patients.

«The primary goal of our ground - breaking pilot research study with Project Zero is to empower our children from a very young age to be reflective explorers and instill in them a confidence to be creators.

This first part of this presentation looks at a pilot research study which explores the relationship between intravenous (IV) fluids given to mothers during the peripartum period and postpartum breast or nipple swelling in the first ten days postpartum.

In collaboration with both children's hospitals and universities across the country, American Humane and Zoetis have completed a comprehensive needs assessment and have piloted a research study to inform the...

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To look into this safety question, the Gluten Intolerance Group (GIG) recently conducted a pilot study at the University of Chicago's Celiac Research Center to investigate whether these beer options are truly free of detectable gluten, making them a product that consumers can confidently select.

A first of its kind pilot study titled, «The Celiac Patient Antibody Response to Conventional and Gluten - Removed Beer,» was published online by the Journal of AOAC International, and was conducted by GIG at the University of Chicago's Celiac Research Center.

Research studies in Europe and the United States of America (on farm and pilot trials) on the effects of farming systems on beneficial invertebrates and birds consistently shows a better performance of the organic system.

This paper contributes to the developing research evidence about the meanings and experiences of fathering whilst in prison, by presenting new data from a pilot study of 43 men serving sentences in English prisons.

In order to study all aspects related to the topic, we used a reference questionnaire prepared by nutrition and breastfeeding experts, which had been tested, modified and validated two months before our research team1 started the study (following a pilot study conducted on 20 women to determine whether the questions were clear and understandable), and then administered in a standardized fashion to women in both groups (intervention group and control group).

However, available research (e.g., waitlist - controlled pilot studies) suggests that behavioral / cognitive - behavioral interventions and pharmacotherapy with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are effective for treating SM.

A pilot study was done in Konongo, a mining community in Ashanti Region to test the applicability and validity of the research in January, 2013.

This pilot research builds on an earlier study by Milovancev and collaborators that examined the ability of MRIs and CT angiograms to detect cancerous lesions related to FISS, and another study that looked at three methods for assessing margins for canine mast cell tumors and soft tissue sarcomas.

«We're interested in determining patients» sleep patterns,» says John Kane, head of schizophrenia research at Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks, N.Y. Kane, who is conducting a Proteus - funded pilot study, says, «For certain mental illnesses, changes in sleep patterns are an early sign that an illness is accelerating.»

Research centers in Japan, Europe, and the United States have all begun individual pilot studies to assess the difficulty of such a project.

The researchers view this study as a pilot, and plan to do additional research using online courses as a «natural laboratory.»

Invisible tattoos could replace the permanent dark ink tattoos used to ensure that breast cancer patients having radiotherapy are treated in exactly the same spot during each session, according to results from a pilot study to be presented at the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference.

We're heading to the remote village of Veal Roulem, which means «rainy field» in Khmer, one of several sites where a team from the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Bangkok is wrapping up a pilot study of a radical approach to eliminating malaria.

Now a pilot study, in which more than 1,100 hours of birdsong were analyzed, is available in the journal Ecological Research which is the official journal of the Ecological Society of Japan and is published by Springer.

In this pilot study, 16 overweight and obese participants will be housed throughout the experiment in research facilities to ensure accurate assessments of calorie consumption and energy expenditure.

To study how this can be done in practice, the commission proposes using a tool called Preparatory Action, essentially a pilot program funding collaborative defense research projects that paves the way for a fully - fledged military R&D component in future E.U. programs.

In a pilot study involving 13 patients with non-cardiac chest pain, Dr. Schey and his research team found that patients who were given 5 mg of dronabinol twice daily for four weeks fared better than patients who took a placebo, or dummy pill.

Yong, a neuroscientist, initially had the idea to test the acne medicine in an animal model since minocycline has many anti-inflammatory properties that he thought could be useful in treating MS. Soon after obtaining successful research results, in studies also supported by the MS Society of Canada and MSSRF, Yong teamed up with Metz who led the transition into a pilot clinical trial, then a Phase 2, and finally the definitive Phase 3 trial.

«Previous pilot studies researching the use of DBS in Alzheimer's have indicated the potential to slow cognitive decline in some patients, and have even shown metabolic changes in the brain that may slow the progression of the disease.»

The CCTS pilot study findings helped Powers secure a grant from the Brain Aneurysm Foundation and a Young Clinician Investigator Award from The Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation (NREF) of the American Association of Neurosurgeons.

The study was a pilot to see if the idea was worth researching in depth, and consequently included only 18 women between the ages of 20 - 49.

NIH also announced a plan to work with federally funded community health centers to find cohort volunteers from underserved groups; an ethics review board for the cohort study; and a pilot project to work with companies on apps for allowing people to share their data for research.

Until a smaller study on sex mismatches by the same Dutch team six years ago, no one had thought to look at the pregnancy history of red blood cell donors, says Rutger Middelburg, an epidemiologist with Sanquin Research in the Netherlands, who helped lead that pilot work and the study published Tuesday.

A new pilot study carried out by the European Science Foundation (ESF) aims to give research institutions, funding bodies, and policymakers a new tracking instrument to fill in the gap and to nudge them toward changing the system.

The pilot study — an autumn 2014 online survey complemented with focus groups — looked into the career paths of some 500 young scientists who had obtained a Ph.D. in the previous 7 years and done at least one postdoc with one of a small and diverse range of research and funding organizations.

Each man needs to work within his own limits, and each has different needs nutritionally,» said Focht, who wants to replicate the research with about 200 prostate cancer patients to see if the findings in this small pilot study hold true.

An international consortium of research institutions, including the Fraunhofer research organization and the Technical University of Munich in Germany, hopes to raise $ 10 million in philanthropic funding to launch a ten - year pilot project later this year that will study long - term, sustainable conservation and restoration approaches at Pompeii.

Leigh Hochberg, MD, PhD, a neurologist and neuroscientist at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brown University and the VA Rehabilitation Research and Development Center for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology in Providence, Rhode Island, directs the pilot clinical trial of the BrainGate system and is a study co-author.

Caron - Beaudoin and Verner have applied for funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to conduct a major study of 100 pregnant women, using the same research methodology as in their piloResearch to conduct a major study of 100 pregnant women, using the same research methodology as in their piloresearch methodology as in their pilot study.

Memory and attention research helps design cockpit displays and controls that pilots can manage despite noise and distractions, while studies of human - computer interactions help engineers construct virtual reality displays and training simulations.

The research, «A Pilot Study: Association between Antidepressant Use and Implant Failure,» was funded by the Student Research Program through the SDM Dean's Visiresearch, «A Pilot Study: Association between Antidepressant Use and Implant Failure,» was funded by the Student Research Program through the SDM Dean's VisiResearch Program through the SDM Dean's Vision Fund.

«The most promising outcome of this study was the absolute change in liver fat that we were able to measure using advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods previously developed and validated in pilot studies conducted at the UC San Diego NAFLD Research Center.

The Pilot Bioproduction Facility at WRAIR manufactured the ZPIV vaccine being used in Phase 1 clinical studies, and the Army recently signed a cooperative research and development agreement to transfer the ZPIV technology to Sanofi Pasteur to explore larger scale manufacturing and advanced development.

Emphasis is on clinical research, but recently we initiated pre-clinical studies to pilot new interventions and to enhance our understanding of tretament processes.

Jingchun Chen (Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine) received a UNLV IDeA Pilot Grant in the amount of $ 69,300 for her pilot study to develop a cellular model of microglia for schizophrenia resePilot Grant in the amount of $ 69,300 for her pilot study to develop a cellular model of microglia for schizophrenia resepilot study to develop a cellular model of microglia for schizophrenia research.

In this pilot study, recipients and donors will be asked whether they would consider participation in this research protocol before any work - up as a direct donor has begun.

This pilot study was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and supported by the European Mobile Laboratory, a partner of the (WHO) Emerging and Dangerous Pathogens Laboratory Network and the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network.

In a pilot study conducted at BWH that helped inform the design of the BabySeq Project, parents of healthy newborns were asked on the BWH post-partum unit how interested they would be in genome screening of their newborn if available through a research study.

In addition, Dr. Wiesner has established VICC as a research site along with Dana Farber in a pilot multi-centered study of lung cancer.

He served as the Project Co-Director of two NIDILRR - funded Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers (RRTC), and is principal investigator for Kessler's pilot study of vocational rehabilitation in SCI funded by the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation.

Funding provided by the Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) supports several types of pilot projects (1) highly innovative pilot projects focusing on proof - of - concept or translational research; (2) preliminary collaborative investigations that lead to multi-investigator grant awards or clinical trial; (3) projects that closely align with the Cancer Center's strategic plan and enhance key initiatives; and (4) pilot funding for junior investigators to jump - start independent projects or for more senior investigators looking to study a novel idea derived from discovery.

Pilot studies are important because they show how raw theoretical ideas can be converted into practical reality (i.e., sometimes a very clever idea just will not work in the research laboratory).

In modern universities, pilot studies now often are: (1) conducted as minor side efforts during the investigations funded by a research grant, (2) assigned to a graduate student or a research technician, or, (3) done during a sabbatical leave.

«If the pilot trial is successful, we plan to pursue a larger trial to explore this strategy's potential as a straightforward and cost - effective way to improve the existing therapy for AML and MDS,» said Peter Jones, Ph.D., D.Sc., co-senior author of the PNAS study, chief scientific officer at Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) and co-leader of the Van Andel Research Institute — Stand Up To Cancer (VARI — SU2C) Epigenetics Dream Team.

Funding for this study was provided by a grant from the North Carolina Triad Chapter of Golfers Against Cancer, a pilot grant from the Carolina Center for Nanotechnology Excellence, and the North Carolina University Cancer Research Fund.

Ely cautions that it's only a pilot study with a small group of women of the same age, and much more research is needed to draw any conclusions.