Sentences with phrase «structural studies in»

Phylogenetic and structural studies in the Thelebolaceae (Ascomycota).

The pace of structural studies in this field is breathtaking, and there is still a lot unknown.»

Not exact matches

Ronald Burt is a sociologist in the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business who for more than 30 years has studied the phenomenon of «structural holes,» i.e., gaps within organizations.

The university also ranks among the top 50 universities in the world for linguistics, computer science and information systems, civil and structural engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, mechanical engineering, agriculture and forestry, psychology, chemistry, environmental studies, materials science, physics and astronomy, and other fields.

The CRTC studied the idea of structural separation way back in the early nineties before ultimately rejecting it in 1994, opting to go with a less - stringent wholesale regime instead.

As shown in previous studies (www.3dpolicy.ca), the federal government has a relatively small structural deficit.

The structural emphasis in these studies might be described as an interest in institutional arrangements.

Drawing on the large numbers of studies undertaken by people in the aid world and by independent researchers (few of these studies are cited in Lancaster's volume), he points out that the structural reforms have largely failed and the situation continues to deteriorate.

It may be that the preacher will find the apparent points of some structural value later on in preparation but only after his study has led him to the point the author sought to make.

The study found that 72 percent of African Americans in predominantly black churches believe that the reasons for racial inequality are structural, rather than an individual's lack of motivation.

In contrast, the social - science approach seeks structural and cultural contexts for personages in the past by studying the actual behavior of contemporary people with similar social structures, values and human typeIn contrast, the social - science approach seeks structural and cultural contexts for personages in the past by studying the actual behavior of contemporary people with similar social structures, values and human typein the past by studying the actual behavior of contemporary people with similar social structures, values and human types.

Terry J. Prewitt's The Elusive Covenant: A Structural Semiotic Reading of Genesis (Advances in Semiotics Series, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990, 160 pp., $ 20.00) integrates the study of literary form, sign theory and kinship structures to demonstrate unifying structures in the narrative.

Many ecological studies support the key role of structural diversity (sometimes referred to technically as floristic heterogeneity) in increased biodiversity — of many types in many ecosystems well beyond the realm of coffee growing.

This study radiotracked several species of resident forest birds in the Coto Brus province of southern Costa Rica, now «dominated by sparsely - shaded coffee farms» — recall that in my post on coffee growing in Costa Rica that most farms, including those marketed as «shade» coffee, have few shade trees of only a couple of species, and lack the structural complexity necessary for true biodiversity preservation.

When an architectural study showed that the mansion could not handle a third expansion without costly structural work, the City Council, library board and Park District hammered out a land swap in which the Park District gave the city and library 27,000 square feet of land at Prospect Street near the Elmhurst Art Museum in exchange for 52,000 square feet of land on the north and south sides of the mansion.

The increased socioeconomic inequalities in breastfeeding observed in the intervention group supports the argument that population intervention strategies could inadvertently exacerbate, rather than mitigate, socioeconomic inequalities, particularly when the intervention aims to change individual behaviours rather than targeting «upstream» structural changes.25 Our results are also compatible with an observational study from Brazil reporting that breastfeeding rates increased first among the socioeconomically better - off, followed by increases among the poor, over a 20 - year period of active breastfeeding promotion campaigns in Brazil.26

A study led by Pilyoung Kim at the Universities of Denver and Yale showed structural changes in the brains of new fathers.

Dr. Cameron Carter, Editor of Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, noted the study is «an elegant synthesis of task fMRI and structural MRI» that shows a unique relationship between structure and function in bipolar disorder.

Apart from the Ayotzinapa case, Torero was involved in studying «the structural weaknesses that allowed fire to bring down the Twin Towers» in the 9/11 attacks and investigating a fire that killed 81 inmates in Chile's San Miguel prison in 2011.

In the first study to assess the relationship between structural and functional MRI data in bipolar disorder, Dr. Shantanu Joshi and his colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles focused on brain regions that play a role in mood dysregulation in the disordeIn the first study to assess the relationship between structural and functional MRI data in bipolar disorder, Dr. Shantanu Joshi and his colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles focused on brain regions that play a role in mood dysregulation in the disordein bipolar disorder, Dr. Shantanu Joshi and his colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles focused on brain regions that play a role in mood dysregulation in the disordein mood dysregulation in the disordein the disorder.

The study comes at a time when use of electronics is rapidly expanding among this age group and adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting that - because of structural differences in their eyes - children may be more vulnerable to the impact light has on sleep and the body clock.

A study published this week finds that an eight - week meditation course leads to structural changes in the brain.

Farmer argues that «careful study reveals that state power has been responsible for most human rights violations and that most violations are embedded in «structural violence» — social and economic inequities that determine who will be at risk for assaults and who will be shielded.

The neural bases of numerosity processing have been investigated in structural and functional neuroimaging studies of adults and children, and neural markers of its impairment in dyscalculia have been identified.

After productively using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to study protein structure during a Ph.D., she switched to structural mass spectrometry for her postdoc in the United Kingdom.

The study, published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, showed that a combination of genetics and epigenetics — factors that turn genes on or off — could explain how lactose intolerance develops over time.

Researchers using MRI have discovered a common pattern of structural abnormalities in the brains of people with depression and social anxiety, according to a study presented being next week at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

However, few studies have directly compared the brain structural effects of the two disorders, said the author of the new study, Youjin Zhao M.D., Ph.D., from Sichuan University in Chengdu, China.

Now 24, he is a first - year graduate student in the department of cellular and structural biology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio (UTHSCSA), where he is studying the role of oxidative damage — the wear and tear inflicted upon the cell by toxic molecules called free radicals — in the aging process.

In particular, I got to study how ultrahigh - vacuum techniques could shed light on kinetic, structural, and electronic mechanisms that govern a catalytic reaction.

«This opens the door to studies of atomic - level motions in many systems — structural dynamics that are at the heart of the correlation between structure and function in matter.»

The study, published by the journal Science via First Release on April 12, paves the way for determining the structures of other functional states of the ATP synthase, which has been the subject of structural studies for decades in labs across the globe.

Specifically, the Mount Sinai study was designed to test whether pharmacological compounds designed to block the function of XPO1 / CRM1 could stop disease progression in mouse models that exhibit some of the characteristics of MS. Researchers found that two chemical agents (called KPT - 276 and KPT - 350) prevented XPO1 / CRM1 from shuttling cargo out of the nucleus of nerve cells, which protected them from free radicals and structural damage.

In contrast, the dogs implanted with larger, bevel - shaped grafts maintained joint viability and structural integrity throughout the six - month study period.

Researchers at Umeå University show in a new, detailed structural study, published in the journal Nature Communications, how the binding of the signal - sequence triggers a number of structural changes within the SRP particle.

«These new studies, together with previous studies, show that no matter how you choose subjects or how you define Gulf War illness, you still see structural changes in the brain,» says Roberta White, a neuropsychologist from Boston University's School of Public Health.

A few animal studies have raised red flags, including some showing intestinal damage; structural changes in the kidneys, pancreas, and spleen; infertility; low birth weights in mice litters; and cancerous tumors in rats.

Horner and his experienced colleagues — a structural geologist; a stratigrapher; a taphonomist (one who studies what happens to animals after they die); paleontologists specializing in vertebrate, mammalian, plant, and mollusk fossils; a molecular paleontologist; and an expert on paleomagnetism — are surveying all the fauna and flora that existed during the Hell Creek period (and that survived as fossils), the ways they interacted, and how they may have evolved.

«Cryo - EM has revolutionized structural biology, particularly in the last three years, with the invention of new kinds of electron detectors for the microscope,» says Michael Rossmann, a physicist and microbiologist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., and a coauthor of the Zika mapping study.

Published in the Journal of the National Medical Association, this is the first study to examine the relationship between structural racism and racial disparities in fatal police shootings at the state level.

In a new study published in the journal Nature Structural and Molecular Biology researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have shown that a subtle epigenetic change plays an important role in the correct segregation of chromosomeIn a new study published in the journal Nature Structural and Molecular Biology researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have shown that a subtle epigenetic change plays an important role in the correct segregation of chromosomein the journal Nature Structural and Molecular Biology researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have shown that a subtle epigenetic change plays an important role in the correct segregation of chromosomein Sweden have shown that a subtle epigenetic change plays an important role in the correct segregation of chromosomein the correct segregation of chromosomes.

Dr Burgess added: «Amongst our allied health professions, what we did know about from decades of research and hundreds of case studies, is that bilateral damage to the hippocampal and / or diencephalon structures causes profound amnesia, and in the absence of apparent structural damage to these structures, it left an explanation widely open to speculation.

Studies have shown that exercise can have both structural and cognitive benefits in rodent models of pathological conditions like Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) and Alzheimer's disease.

This study, titled «Enamel Hypomineralization and Structural Defects in Amelotin - deficient Mice,» is published in the OnlineFirst portion of the Journal of Dental Research: the journal for dental, oral and craniofacial research.

The study, «Brain structural plasticity with spaceflight,» appeared in the journal Nature Microgravity.

Electrophysiology and structural studies were performed on an annexin V variant containing a mutation of glutamic acid - 95 to serine in the center of the pore region.

It is aimed at studying nanosystems of unique functionality and the potential of materials of a few nanometers in structural size.

«This is the first study to illustrate that a structural abnormality in the 3» untranslated region of the PD - L1 gene causes an abnormally high production of PD - L1 protein, consequently aiding cancer immune escape,» says one of the lead authors, Keisuke Kataoka, at Kyoto University.

The study from Zurich investigated structural brain changes in patients suffering from social anxiety disorder after a specific ten - week course of CBT.

A study by Florian Krause from the Donders Institute in Nijmegen shows for the first time that these individual differences have a structural basis in the brain.