Sentences with phrase «researchers say the activities»

Researchers say the activities of helpers in groups of cooperative mammals may ensure that infants and juveniles born in the group (who are usually closely related to them) are adequately fed, even when resources are scare.

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... Even the better performing companies had significant gaps in disclosure on key issues that affect what a user can and can not say or do, or who knows what about their activities,» noted the Ranking Digital Rights researchers.

As as a result of being unable to classify exposure on type of activity, researchers could not say whether squads were more competitive or elite so as to determine whether they had different injury rates than less competitive squads who perform more of a traditional «spirit» role supporting other sports teams.

Researchers have found that children whose parents actively encourage their physical pursuits — by driving them to soccer practice, say, and cheering them on — are much more likely to stick with these activities than kids whose parents show little enthusiasm.

«The study, which the researchers say is the first to link brain activity with maternal behavior, is likely to reinforce the convictions of breast - feeding mothers that they're doing right by their babies».

Those changes in brain activity may inspire new ways to help insomniacs, the researchers say.

The study, which the researchers say is the first to link brain activity with maternal behavior, is likely to reinforce the convictions of breast - feeding mothers that they're doing right by their babies and make formula - feeding moms squirm a little.

What you should watch for, say researchers, are symptoms that last more than a few days, change your daily activities, or your sleep patterns.

That's the conclusion of a recent study that researched the quality and time of physical activity at 34 childcare centers in Cincinnati, which the researchers said would likely apply -LSB-...]

«It will be fascinating to see which youth activities the young people decide to buy,» says Sue Bond - Taylor, the lead researcher of the study.

While I traced Cambridge Analytica's activities, Facebook portrayed the 2016 election as a big commercial opportunity, says former Guardian researcher Harry Davies

As they studied brain activity in the knockout mice, the researchers also found prominent changes in a receptor in the brain known as mGluR5 and other proteins that support the function of neurons and synapses, said co-lead author Xiaoming Wang, M.D., Ph.D., senior research associate in Duke's department of pediatrics.

The researchers collected the brain activity — five additional sensors were placed on the volunteers» faces to allow researchers to screen for the impact of random movement, including eye blinks — and then mapped the signals back to the brain to determine how specific parts of the brain are involved in discrete tasks associated with walking, said Trieu Phat Luu, co-first author and a post-doctoral researcher in the Noninvasive Brain - Machine Interface System Laboratory at UH.

The hormone drop makes sense, the researchers say, since high testosterone tends to boost behaviors linked to competing for a mate, risky activities that may conflict with the responsibilities of fatherhood.

The researchers said meditation made people feel moderately more compassionate or empathic, compared to if they had done no other new emotionally - engaging activity.

University of Michigan researchers and their colleagues have created exceptionally detailed maps of five Great Lakes recreational activities and say the information can be used to help prioritize restoration projects.

«HPV vaccine, riskier sexual activity not linked, Canadian researchers say.»

«It appears that this activity plays an important role in the development of the auditory system,» lead researcher Dwight E. Bergles says.

The new method may make some types of gene therapy easier and could be a boon for researchers hoping to control gene activity in animals, scientists say.

The researchers also say that the development of this synthetic route will enable chemists to attenuate the toxicity and potentially improve α - amanitin's activity against cancer, something that is only made possible by the use of synthetic derivatives.

It is often said that more gambling (including playing the lottery) takes place during economic crises, but a study carried out by researchers at Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) indicates that the opposite is true: in the last year, people have decreased the frequency of gambling activities, the number of gambling activities participated in and the amount of money gambled.

Because the prion - forming protein identified in the study normally functions as a regulator of gene activity, the researchers say their discovery raises the possibility that when it switches to a prion state, it could alter genetic expression and bacterial behavior.

When infants in the Dartmouth study were shown a moving picture of a starfish, the left and right hemispheres of their brains lit up (dark red indicates high brain activity; dark blue, low activity)-- but not as much as when researchers spoke to them, saying: «Hello, baby.

Psychiatric disorders are in fact brain disorders that involve abnormal activity in brain circuits, so having researchers who understand the brain in a deep and integrated way is going to be critical for the future, says Thomas Insel, director of the US National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).

A tax on sugar - sweetened beverages such as sodas, energy drinks, sweet teas, and sports drinks would reduce obesity in adolescents more than other policies, such as exercise or an advertising ban, and would also generate significant revenue for additional obesity prevention activities, say researchers writing in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Indeed, AChE activity increased in the mice by two to three times in the 50 minutes following stress and was elevated for up to 80 hours, the researchers say.

But it could pay for a handful of researchers to examine California's unique data set on statewide gun transfers and other firearm - related activities, he says.

«For a long time, neuroscience researchers had to record activity at one point in the brain at a time and put many data points together without seeing the whole picture simultaneously,» says Lyle Muller, a Salk research associate and first author of the new work.

«This suggests that the beneficial influence of physical activity on the brain and cognition is not solely based on decreasing vascular risk factors,» says researcher Paula Iso - Markku from the University of Helsinki.

These findings support the importance of both reducing time spent sitting and increasing physical activity, say researchers.

«We estimate that the peak activity for the volcanic field at the summit of Arsia Mons probably occurred approximately 150 million years ago — the late Jurassic period on Earth — and then died out around the same time as Earth's dinosaurs,» said Jacob Richardson, a postdoctoral researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Since sea stars can act as keystone predators, meaning their predatory activities shape an ecosystem, their loss could have far - reaching impacts, the researchers say.

The study also suggests that the reduction in volume drives the reduction in brain activity,» says doctoral student Kristoffer NT Månsson, who led the study together with Linköping colleague Gerhard Andersson and researchers from the Karolinska Institutet, Uppsala University, Umeå University and Stockholm University.

But some vision researchers still dismiss these oscillations as noise, convinced that the activity of single neurons — and not the collective waves that result from that activity — is the key to understanding the brain, Schroeder says.

Researchers say understanding daily patterns of physical activity could help design more effective interventions.

In that sense, the researchers say, the moon is unique: Its craters are constantly erased by the solar system's most relentless volcanic activity — 25 times more frequent than that seen on Earth — which adds an estimated 1 centimeter of fresh material to Io's surface each year.

Maged Harraz, Ph.D., a research associate and the first author of the newly published research paper, says the researchers already knew that ketamine interacts with excitatory NMDA receptors on nerve cells in the brain to block their activity.

While previous research has indicated that sleep disruption and psychiatric disorders often occur together, this latest study is the first to causally demonstrate that sleep loss triggers excessive anticipatory brain activity associated with anxiety, researchers said.

The researchers say that community activities and social networks can not replace early warning systems and disaster training, but rather that they can complement and promote diffusion of such efforts.

Such activity fosters out - of - the - box thinking, the researchers said.

The seven - gene test is a vast improvement over earlier tests that look at the activity of hundreds of genes, the researchers said.

«We found that in tsunami - prone areas, people who have participated in community activities are more likely to undertake disaster risk reduction actions,» says IIASA researcher Raya Muttarak, who led the study.

Igoshin said that when the researchers set out to find how sporulation decisions were timed to the cell cycle, several studies including prior work by team members, provided a significant clue: Under starvation conditions, the activity of the master regulator gene had been shown to spike once per cell cycle.

Although data on how the trails are used are limited, it is known that they inspire some exercise: in a January 2007 study by PATH foundation staff and Emory University researchers, sponsored by Georgia Healthcare Foundation, a third of 315 trail users surveyed at Davidson - Arabia Mountain Nature Preserve said that most of their weekly physical activity has involved the trails.

«It was particularly exciting to see plasticity in the neurons impaired by mHTT,» said Davidson, noting that in the HD mice, brain areas that had begun to atrophy recovered volume and permitted better motor function after the researchers restored mTORC1 activity to more normal levels.

«We instructed volunteers to walk or jog on the treadmill at a speed which they felt corresponded to the «light,» «moderate» and «vigorous» intensity descriptors used in the physical activity guide, yet they underestimated how hard they should be working to achieve moderate and vigorous intensity,» lead researcher and graduate student Karissa Canning says.

But the new study, he says, provides an important caution for researchers using any enzyme, not just firefly luciferase, to report on biological activity.

Researchers say this brain activity could reflect an immediate emotional reaction that influences how people make decisions.

At the moment, a survey of 300 Arctic scientists revealed, many researchers who participate in international research collaborations «do so as a volunteer activity,» Pfirman said.

When beavers go out of control, their activities can transform the landscape for decades or centuries, even indefinitely, says Marta Lizarralde, a researcher with the Molecular Ecology Laboratory at the Southern Center for Scientific Research (CADIC) in Ushuaia, Argentina.