Sentences with phrase «researchers tracked the activity»

Watch The Love Competition and find out how researchers track activity in the area of the brain called the nucleus accumbens.

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To detect cerebral palsy in infants, researchers at the University of Oklahoma have developed a motorized robot for children to wear, tracking brain activity and muscle coordination using artificial intelligence.

In the latest twist, researchers have found that Google Play store is full of apps that track children's online activities and sensitive information without their consent.

Online platforms help researchers track their peer reviewing activity, which could help their career advancement

Without GPS or cameras, seismic systems could allay privacy concerns by tracking urban activity in an anonymous way, researchers reported today at the 168th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Indianapolis.

This made it easier for the researchers to design an automated system that used video to track the activity of the pulsing bell.

And this life - tracking craze has produced something that many clinical researchers covet: a deluge of intimate data about individuals» moment - to - moment behavior, and the chance to influence that behavior in real time, through activities built into an app or strategically timed alerts and messages.

The researchers tracked the variation in net extraction over time and compared it to seismic activity.

After initiating photoreceptor loss in the fish retinas, the researchers monitored the immune system's response by tracking the activity of three types of fluorescently labeled immune cells in and around the eye: neutrophils, microglia and peripheral macrophages.

Zebrafish larvae and fluorescently marked immune cells allow researchers to track immune system activity in a model of retinal degeneration.

Meanwhile, the researchers were tracking brain activity by means of a Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) machine provided, along with technical support, by TechEn, Inc..

To separate the owls from the larks from the finches, and gain a more accurate alertness profile, the researchers tracked students» activity levels on days that they did not attend a class.

Researchers at Brown University and the Georgia Institute of Technology used neuroimaging and a brain wave — tracking approach called polysomnography to record activity in four brain networks in 11 individuals as they slept on two nights about a week apart.

The researchers tracked the brain activity of the two groups and found that it was different in the people who had seen the show and could anticipate what was going to happen next.

Tracking the activities of metal - corroding microbes, researchers found that oil mixed into seawater roughly doubled the amount of observed metal corrosion.

So by looking at methylation patterns, the researchers could track if gene activity was cranking up or down.

In a press conference at the semiannual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in May, researchers laid out different approaches to tracking and predicting the sun's activity, but the final explanation — or, more likely, explanations — for the sun's curious recent lull remained opaque.

Breath measurements taken from volunteers throughout the day allowed researchers to track changes in isoprene levels following activities such as exercise or eating.

The scale includes seven activities that allow researchers to observe behaviors such as visual tracking and response to facial emotion.

Researchers at the Cells - in - Motion Cluster of Excellence at the University of Münster (Germany) have now developed a method enabling them to better evaluate and study the activity of inflammatory cells in mice: they have succeeded in genetically modifying precursors of immune cells, then increasing their numbers in a test tube and finally tracking them spatially and temporally in living organisms.

Other researchers involved in the study, conducted entirely at NYU Langone, were Mariela Mitre, BE; James D'amour, BSc; and Moses Chao, PhD, whose laboratory developed the oxytocin receptor antibody used to track hormone activity.

The team of researchers tracked when participants first activated their activity tracker, how frequently the device was used in the first six months following activation, average daily step counts and sociodemographic characteristics.

To track the birds» activity patterns, the researchers caught 142 of the animals by walking around on the tundra and tossing nets over them — the birds aren't afraid of humans — and glued a radio transmitter to each, the size of a small bean.

In one of the few studies to assess physical activity and cognition over a long period, the researchers began in 1990 to track the exercise habits and mental abilities of 295 men ages 70 to 90.

Using the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), researchers analysed the effects of Organo - Osmium FY26 in ovarian cancer cells — detecting emissions of X-ray fluorescent light to track the activity of the compound inside the cells.

Researchers tracked each participant's physical activity during selected times over seven days and considered socio - demographic factors — including household income, highest level of education attained by parents living in the household and median household income.

The technique allows researchers to track blood flow — and thus activity — in different areas of the brain.

Conducted at the University of Iowa, this is the first neuroimaging study to use a cutting - edge technique — functional near - infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)-- to enable researchers to track real time changes in brain activity as participants made these two types of stone tools.

The EnerCage system also uses Microsoft's Kinect video game technology to track the animals and recognize their activities, automating a process that typically requires researchers to stand and directly observe the rodents or watch countless hours of recorded footage to determine how they react to experiments.

The researchers believe noise could play a role, so they combine single - molecule analysis with time - lapse movies of individual cells to track random activity in many different genes as the cells switch states.

FlyMAD, or Fly Mind Altering Device, with its inbuilt video tracking system allows the researchers to target light or to heat specific body regions within the fly's body even while the insect is in motion and to simultaneously analyse brain cell activity.

The technique, called activity - based protein profiling, has been used in cancer research and allows researchers to track the actual activities of proteins operating within a cell.

In the new study, published today in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension, researchers at the University of California — San Diego and Harvard University assessed the sleep quality of the participants using polysomnography, a technique in which electrodes are used to track brain activity.

Researchers used standard tests to gauge people's memory skills, along with functional MRI scans to track their brain activity as they performed one of the memory tasks.

The studies also kept track on the number of physical activities the subjects took part in over the course of a month, which let the researchers figure out the amount of activity they were getting.

For instance, researchers who tracked brain activity in high - school students as they drank chocolate milkshakes found that high - sugar shakes stimulated pleasure centers in the brain that play a role in compulsive eating.

In a more recent study, researchers tracked the diets, physical activity, and stress fracture incidences of adolescent girls for seven years, and concluded that dairy products and calcium do not prevent stress fractures in adolescent girls.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, the researchers tracked blood flow in the participants» brains to identify the activity of neural circuits and networks.

Within days of the news of the breach, a security researcher revealed that the platform was tracking both teacher and student activity and selling it to data brokers.

Researchers from Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, tracked the eye movements and brain activity of 36 younger participants aged 21 - 34 and 21 older adults aged 60 and above as they read text from e-readers, tablet computers, and printed pages.

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