Sentences with phrase «studies research unit»

«Coming into hospital with a self - inflicted injuries or poisoning is a strong risk factor for suicide,» said Dr. Anne Rhodes, lead author and research scientist in St. Michael's Hospital's Suicide Studies Research Unit.

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The 10 - year, $ 25 million toxicological studies are the most comprehensive assessments to date of health effects and exposure to radio frequency radiation in rats and mice, according to the online notice from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, a unit of the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. medical research agency.
(Hanna Tuomisto, who in 2011 conducted a study at Oxford University's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, found that growing meats in - vitro would use 35 % to 60 % less energy, emit 80 % to 95 % less greenhouse gas and use around 98 % less land than conventionally produced animal meat.)
«The limited research on the effects of foreign military policies indicates little or no impact on unit cohesion, operational effectiveness, or readiness,» the study said.
Construction of rental housing on Long Island came to a near standstill in the 1980s and 1990s and more than 22,000 rental units were converted to for - sale housing, according to the Long Island Index, a research study compiled by nonprofit the Rauch Foundation.
Case Study 2: From Plant Wastes to Sustainable Aquafeeds — The NovacqTM Case History Dr Cedric J. Simon, Senior Research Scientist in Aquaculture Nutrition, Integrated Sustainable Aquaculture Production, Agriculture and Food Business Unit, CSIRO
We thank the Metabolic Research Unit of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging for recruiting our volunteers and for performing the human study procedures and David Dworak and Chee - Ming Li of the USDA / ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center for helping to label and produce the Golden Rice.
The study, by Howard Steele, director of the Attachment Research Unit at University College London, also found, however, that the effects of fathers» relationships with their children do not begin to show until their offspring hit puberty.
Current research includes: co-leading organisational case studies in Birthplace in England, a national study of birth outcomes in home, midwife led, and obstetric led units; investigating the relationship between measures of safety climate and health care quality in A and E and intrapartum care; and conducting nested process evaluations of two trials of obesity in pregnancy behavioural interventions.
Funding: This study combines the Evaluation of Maternity Units in England study, funded by the National Institute for Health Research Service Delivery and Organisation (NIHR SDO) programme, and the Birth at Home in England study funded by the Department of Health Policy Research Programme (DH PRP).
For the purposes of this economic evaluation, the forms were initially used in a related study funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birResearch (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birresearch for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth care.
Jane Sandall was and is principal investigator for two studies evaluating models of midwife - led continuity of care (Sandall 2001), and co-investigator on the «Birthplace in England Research Programme», an integrated programme of research designed to compare outcomes of births for women planned at home, in different types of midwifery units, and in hospital units with obstetric sResearch Programme», an integrated programme of research designed to compare outcomes of births for women planned at home, in different types of midwifery units, and in hospital units with obstetric sresearch designed to compare outcomes of births for women planned at home, in different types of midwifery units, and in hospital units with obstetric services.
Emeritus Professor Peter Moss Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London Professor Margaret O'Brien Co-director, Centre for Research on the Child and Family, University of East Anglia Professor Michael Lamb Professor of psychology, fellow and director of studies, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University Professor Tina Miller Professor of sociology, Oxford Brookes University Adrienne Burgess Joint chief executive, Fatherhood Institute Susanna Abse Chief executive, Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships Rebecca Asher Author, Shattered Duncan Fisher Author, Baby's Here: Who Does What?
We conducted our study in conjunction with the clinical trials and epidemiology research unit, which is an independent organisation funded by the National Medical Research research unit, which is an independent organisation funded by the National Medical Research Research Council.
Declan Devane is a co-author in one of the included trials in this review (Begley 2011) Jane Sandall was and is principal investigator for two studies evaluating models of midwife - led continuity of care (Sandall 2001), and co-investigator on the «Birthplace in England Research Programme», an integrated programme of research designed to compare outcomes of births for women planned at home, in different types of midwifery units, and in hospital units with obstetric sResearch Programme», an integrated programme of research designed to compare outcomes of births for women planned at home, in different types of midwifery units, and in hospital units with obstetric sresearch designed to compare outcomes of births for women planned at home, in different types of midwifery units, and in hospital units with obstetric services.
Professor Jill Manthorpe Director, Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King's College London A study of those who work with homeless people with complex needs, with a particular focus on the advantages and disadvantages of how people in different jobs work together
Speaking on the Report, the Reviewer, Dr Otive Igbuzor said the document was a research study carried out to examine the accessibility of PWDs to polling units and elections materials during the 2016 governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states.
The research community consists of faculty and researchers divided into «units» based on area of study.
Professor Keith Godfrey, from the Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit and the National Institute for Health Research Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, and a member of the study team, said: «The new findings provide the first direct evidence linking faltering of a baby's growth in the womb with epigenetic modifications that themselves may increase the risk of childhood obesity.
«When we first began this study, there had not been a lot of experimental research done,» said Prof Gail Tripp, one of the authors of the paper and director of the Human Developmental Neurobiology Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST).
SI Fellowships are awarded annually to scholars wishing to conduct independent study or research at one or more of the Smithsonian's 19 units and research centers.
Oxford University's WildCRU (Wildlife Conservation Research Unit) had been following his every move for eight years as part of a study of his pride.
David Macdonald is part of a team of scientists at the University of Oxford's Wildlife Research Conservation Unit in the United Kingdom that was studying Cecil.
As Saaïd Safieddine, CNRS Director of Research at the Institut Pasteur and co-senior author of the study with Prof. Christine Petit (head of the Genetics & physiology hearing unit at the Institut Pasteur), explains, «we have just shown that it is possible to partially correct a specific form of hereditary hearing loss accompanied by balance problems using local gene therapy performed after the embryogenesis of the ear, which is primarily affected by the mutation responsible for the disorder.
Three British investigations focused on the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, site of the stolen e-mails and a leading center for studying global warming.
«I don't necessarily care what the taxonomic rank would be of the units I'm studying,» says Hey, whose current research involves cichlid fish in Lake Malawi.
These are the findings of the first Danish study of the correlation between anti-epilepsy medicine and the general health of the child which has been carried out by the Research Unit for General Practice, Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital.
The study began with a collaboration among the two lead authors — Harrison Brand, PhD, a research fellow in Talkowski's lab, who sequenced and analyzed the genomes of patients with arhinia, and Natalie Shaw, MD, then with the MGH Reproductive Endocrine Unit and now at the National Institute for Environmental Health Science, who was investigating the lack of reproductive development in a few patients with arhinia.
«We were very intrigued by the higher lean mass, the possibility that vitamin D can help infants to not only grow healthy skeletons but also healthy amounts of muscle and less fat,» said Hope Weiler, one of the study's authors and Director of the Mary Emily Clinical Nutrition Research Unit at McGill University.
Dr David Carslake, the study's lead author and Senior Research Associate from the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU) at the University of Bristol, said: «An alarming increase in obesity levels across the world which have risen from 105 million in 1975 to 641 million in 2014, according to a recent Lancet study, create concern about the implications for public health.
Speaking about the study, Co-investigator and Senior Author Mr. Andrew Beswick, also a Research Fellow of the Musculoskeletal Research Unit at the Bristol Medical School: (THS), said: «Our research and the subsequent adoption of the one - stage strategy by surgeons and hospitals, could improve lives, prevent unnecessary deaths, and save moneyResearch Fellow of the Musculoskeletal Research Unit at the Bristol Medical School: (THS), said: «Our research and the subsequent adoption of the one - stage strategy by surgeons and hospitals, could improve lives, prevent unnecessary deaths, and save moneyResearch Unit at the Bristol Medical School: (THS), said: «Our research and the subsequent adoption of the one - stage strategy by surgeons and hospitals, could improve lives, prevent unnecessary deaths, and save moneyresearch and the subsequent adoption of the one - stage strategy by surgeons and hospitals, could improve lives, prevent unnecessary deaths, and save money.»
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.
Participants taking 4,000 international units — more than six times the daily 600 IUs the Institute of Medicine currently recommends for most adults and children — received the most benefit, says Dr. Anas Raed, research resident in the MCG Department of Medicine and the study's first author.
The future studies on animals and humans are being supported by the Strategic Health Innovation Partnerships, a unit of the South African Medical Research Council, with funding from the Department of Science and Technology.
The study was carried out by academics from Imperial College London's NIHR Health Protection Research Unit for Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance, and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
The Children's Worlds study, co-ordinated in England by the Social Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at York, asked children about all key aspects of their lives including their family and home life, friendships, money and possessions, school life, local area, time use, personal well - being, views on children's rights, and their overall happiness.
«There were absolutely no transfer effects» from the training tasks to more general tests of cognition, says Adrian Owen, a neuroscientist at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brian Sciences Unit in Cambridge, UK, who led the study.
In an accompanying editorial, Anna Alisi, PhD, of the Liver Research Unit, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy, and Pietro Vajro, MD, of the Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, «Scuola Medica Salernitana,» Unit of Pediatrics, University of Salerno, Baronissi (Sa), Italy, commented, «This elegant observational study by Ayonrinde and colleagues is the first epidemiological evidence for the connection between maternal obesity, breastfeeding, and NAFLD.»
The 8 - year - old Office of Research Integrity (ORI), a small unit within the Department of Health and Human Services, hopes to support studies aimed at gauging the frequency of misconduct and how to raise ethical standards.
Cyrus Cooper, Professor of Rheumatology and Director of the MRC LEU at the University of Southampton where the research was carried out, adds: «This study forms part of a larger programme of research at the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit at the University of Southampton.
Whilst established to examine possible safety issues with biologic therapies, it provides the opportunity to look at additional benefits beyond the direct effect on disease severity,» explains William Dixon, MD, MRC clinician scientist / senior clinical lecturer and honorary consultant rheumatologist; Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit, The University of Manchester; and an investigator in the study.
«Our model showed that stocking Chinook salmon can still help maintain their populations in Lake Michigan,» said Mark Rogers, a USGS Tennessee Cooperative Fishery Research Unit scientist and co-author on the study.
Professor Kristina Akesson, Clinical and Molecular Osteoporosis Research Unit at Lund University, Chair of the IOF Capture the Fracture Campaign, stated, «This study concludes that in the population sample of elderly women, vitamin D insufficiency sustained over 5 - years was associated with increased 10 - year risk of osteoporotic fracture.»
For the Muscle Tendon Tissue Unit Repair and Reinforcement Reconstructive Surgery Research Study, which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense and is continuing to enroll new participants, five men who had at least six months earlier lost at least 25 percent of leg muscle volume and function compared to the uninjured limb underwent a customized regimen of physical therapy for 12 to 26 weeks until their function and strength plateaued for a minimum of two weeks.
In research funded by the Wellcome Trust, scientists and doctors at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Vietnam studied the factors that influence the transmission of dengue viruses from dengue patients to the mosquitoes that feed research funded by the Wellcome Trust, scientists and doctors at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Vietnam studied the factors that influence the transmission of dengue viruses from dengue patients to the mosquitoes that feed Research Unit at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Vietnam studied the factors that influence the transmission of dengue viruses from dengue patients to the mosquitoes that feed on them.
For the Muscle Tendon Tissue Unit Repair and Reinforcement Reconstructive Surgery Research Study, which was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense, 11 men and two women who had lost at least 25 percent of leg or arm muscle volume and function first underwent a customized regimen of physical therapy for four to 16 weeks.
This study was conducted by the Texas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit in collaboration with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Wildlife Plus Consulting, Grasslans Charitable Foundation, the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, the Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative and the Nature Conservancy.
Despite these findings, little is known about the risk of nonceliac autoimmune disease in these individuals,» said lead study author Louise Emilsson, MD, PhD, from Oslo University and Primary care research unit, Värmlands Nysäter.
And that could exacerbate vector - control efforts in Malawi, says study co-author Maureen Coetzee, who directs the medical entomology research unit at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
This humanmade noise takes a toll, says study co-author Julian Tyne of the Murdoch University Cetacean Research Unit in Perth, Australia.
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