Sentences with phrase «supports studies related»

She was principal investigator (P.I.) of an NIMH RO1 grant examining the effectiveness of CBT for HIV related peripheral neuropathy and has been PI of several institutional - supported studies related to CBT and mindfulness.

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Seeking entry into this field at mid-life meant competing with established professionals or those much younger than me, many holding a degree in journalism or another directly related course of study, an experience - rich resume to support their interest, and the freedom to work long hours in an office away from home.

The WTO Agreement on Safeguards governs the circumstances and requires studies and related supporting documentation for a country to impose tariffs.

The government is already studying issues related to equipping its new F - 35 stealth fighter jets with air - to - surface missiles, and Japan is prioritizing new investments in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance that would be necessary for supporting enemy base strikes.

This temporary staff provides support for returning officers, electoral logistics, communication with electors, and studies relating to the operation of an electoral event.

- «Analytical work: preparing studies and reports supporting the multilateral decision - making process related to the normative work; assessing progress made in gender mainstreaming policies...

Several studies of young unmarried mothers have found that between 20 and 25 per cent became pregnant again within two years (with the rate going much higher among certain minority groups) The repeat of pregnancy appears to be related to a lack of knowledge about the risks of sexual intercourse, limited opportunity for further education, boredom with homelife, and the unavailability of a strong female support group.

Wilson collects an astonishing array of psychological and sociological studies relating to nearly every facet of the moral life from every conceivable quarter and synthesizes them to support the general ideas that he posits.

It is this difference in theological outlook, according to Lohmeyer, which explains the alternation of Galilee and Jerusalem as the scene of the appearances of Jesus after his resurrection; and the probability is now enhanced and supported by his study of the traditions relating to the two centers in the apostolic church.

Sunfiber is supported by more than 100 published clinical studies related to digestive health.

The most comprehensive child care study conducted to date to determine how variations in child care are related to children's development, supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), found that the more hours children spend in child care, the higher the incidence of problem behavior and the greater its severity.

The scholarship was established to support graduate studies to enhance job skills related to the practice of school nutrition.

The US Africa Command - funded study focuses on understanding «combatant - related» sexual violence among survivors in the DRC in order to support US military operations in their effort to «break the cycle of violence».

It will allow Cornell Cooperative Extension to commission a feasibility study to help identify resources and specific data - based strategies for food distribution related to the development of a virtual food network to support a comprehensive local foods and farmer to consumer initiative.

Despite teenagers» ability to assess content, the study emphasizes that adults still have a crucial role to play in supporting young people, and helping them to understand how harmful health - related information might reach them.

«Our results indicate that this simple intervention could be an effective and scalable approach to use the design of electronic health records to increase the rate of flu vaccinations, which are estimated to prevent millions of flu cases and tens of thousands of related hospitalizations every year,» said study lead author Mitesh S. Patel, MD, MBA, MS, an assistant professor of Medicine and Health Care Management in Penn's Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School, a staff physician at the Crescenz VA Medical Center, and director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit, whose work is supported by the Penn Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics.

The results of this study support comprehensive vaccination programs and inform public health decision related to implementation,» said Giuliano.

Dr. Vaillancourt's study showed that a greater free water increase in the substantia nigra was associated with a decrease in dopamine neuron activity in one of these nearby regions, supporting the idea that free water changes are related to progression of the disease.

The organization supports vaccine - related research, and Singer knew that her bosses would expect her to vote for more studies of vaccines as a possible cause of the condition.

A new study looks at what happens when a company's employees view its efforts related to corporate social responsibility as substantive (perceived to be other - serving and genuinely aimed at supporting the common good) or symbolic (perceived as self - serving and performed primarily for reputation and to enhance profits).

The study, which was supported by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the General Research Directorate of the Government of Catalonia, also demonstrates for the first time the widespread presence of tobacco related carcinogens in house dust, even in «smoke - free» environments.

The closer the work is to your area of study, the more significant it will be in the evaluation of your application, but even work that is not related to your academic interests may indicate that you have contributed to your own financial support while keeping up with your studies.

NIH, by the way, has recently recognized that «the career outcomes of NRSA - supported training programs include both research - intensive careers in academia and industry and research - related careers in various sectors, e.g. academic institutions, government agencies, for - profit businesses, and private foundations» and is encouraging universities with T32 programs to provide «structured, career development advising and learning opportunities» to prepare trainees for those opportunities, according to a notice issued in September 2013, near the end of the study period.

Dorothy Romanus, lead author of the study, states «this analysis supports the value of multiplexed testing for EGFR and ALK gene rearrangements followed by molecularly - guided therapy in decisions surrounding coverage of related testing and targeted therapy.

A new King's College London study supports the notion that multiple personality disorder is rooted in traumatic experiences such as neglect or abuse in childhood, rather than being related to suggestibility or proneness to fantasy.

Norman Myers, a marathon runner in his spare time, takes the reader several times around the planet to support his thesis with regional case studies, while considering how problems such as population, mass migrations and the massive extinction of species are related.

In many previous studies, researchers have found an association between adults» social well - being — including their close relationships and sources of social support — and health - related outcomes including cardiovascular risk factors.

In the first study, researchers examined the degree to which these two forms of victimization (relational and overt) represent separate phenomena; this included the degree to which each form is uniquely related to symptoms such as depression and anxiety, as well as to aggressive behavior and receiving support from other peers.

«Our results strongly support other evidence about the power of public policies to reduce excessive drinking and related medical and social problems,» said Timothy Naimi, MD, MPH, a pediatrician at BMC and associate professor of public health and medicine at BUSPH, who was the study's lead investigator.

«The critical next step is to study this biological mechanism in a mammalian model and generate data to support a clinical trial of rapamycin or a related drug for DCM patients who have these genetic variants.»

Four private groups — the Allen Institute for Brain Science, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Kavli Foundation, and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies — say they will support the project by funding BRAIN related research at their institutions.

«Regions with stronger gun laws have fewer gun - related pediatric emergency department visits: Five - year national study could support changes in regional firearm legislation.»

Briscoe and study co-leader, UCI post-doctoral scholar Kyle McCulloch, added «Finding this level of color receptor diversity in closely related butterflies supports other studies showing that eye evolution is not always a slow and conservative process.

«While the study's cross-sectional design limit the conclusions we can draw, our results support the hypothesis that environmental exposure to endocrine - disrupting chemicals such as phthalates could be contributing to the trend of declining testosterone and related disorders,» Meeker said.

«Although this study demonstrates that atrasentan treatment results in clinically significant albuminuria reduction with minimal fluid overload - related or cardiovascular side effects, a larger study on hard renal and / or cardiac outcomes is needed to further support these findings,» said Dr. de Zeeuw.

In our study, we examined whether the role of specific brain regions for communication within and among brain modules varies with individual differences in intelligence, i.e., whether a specific brain region supports the information exchange within their own «family» more than information exchange with other «families», and how this relates to individual differences in intelligence.»

Additionally, they wrote, the study strongly supports the hypothesis that this species is an emerging pathogen, as it is closely related to established pathogens such as Campylobacter jejuni.

Given the potential for adverse mental affects of living liver donors» ambivalence, the present study investigated the effect of social support and concerns related to the donation process.

This study and related investigations were supported by funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD082373), the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R24NS092989), the Atlanta Clinical & Translational Science Institute (UL1TR000454), and CURE Epilepsy: Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy.

They will perform preliminary studies to prepare for large - scale testing, conduct related studies to support specific trials, provide mentoring for junior faculty, and help recruit appropriate patients to Network trials, especially those expected to have a significant positive impact on cancer treatment.

Following a period of intensive meditation, genes involved with the infectious cycle may get downregulated along with related host genes regulating protein synthesis, an explanation that is supported by other stress reduction interventions that have shown increased innate antiviral activity, such as upregulated Type 1 interferon activity.40 Shorter telomeres in population - based studies have been predictive of earlier onset of chronic diseases of aging, including diabetes, 41 cardiovascular disease9 and certain cancers.42

Dr Ricardo Rodríguez Varela, researcher at Stockholm University and lead author of the study, explains: «By generating the first autosomal genetic data from these populations we can conclusively demonstrate that the Guanches were most closely related to modern North Africans of Berber ancestry than to any other population we included for comparisons, supporting previous studies but adding more detail and nuance.»

All the student unions have student liaison officers who work with advice and support to students in work environment and study - related issues.

«In this GRF - supported study, we treated retinas with three related but different, high IOP - induced ischemic conditions: preconditioning (short ischemia, causing litter injury), injurious (prolonged ischemia, severe injury), and tolerant (preconditioning followed by prolonged ischemia, protected from injury).

«This finding lends support to using delivery - related hospitalization as a window of opportunity to identify high - risk women and develop surveillance strategies before discharge,» said the study's lead author, Mulubrhan Mogos, assistant professor of nursing at UIC.

This may be the neural support of expertise or great abilities in either speech or music processing domains that were related with duplications by previous studies.

The expert review panel recommended one practice guideline based on a 2005 randomized trial that provided data to support a memory retraining protocol.12, 13 The trial enrolled 29 subjects with MS - related learning deficits and randomized them to either the control group (n = 14) or the experimental group (n = 15).13 Both groups participated in 8 «treatment» sessions, which consisted of nontraining memory tasks for the control group and the Story Memory Technique (SMT), which taught the skills of visualization and context to improve learning, for the experimental group.13 In subjects with moderately severe impairment, 88 % in the experimental group showed significant improvement in learning abilities compared with 38 % in the control group (P <.01).13 Subjects with mild impairment showed little improvement.13 On this basis, the technique used in this study was recommended by the review panel as a practice guideline for the rehabilitation of learning and memory in persons with MS. 12

As of 2015, this program has supported 341 studies that address multiple areas of diabetes research relating to islet cells.

In 2013, over 5 billion dollars were awarded by the National Science Foundation to support research and education [3]; the National Institutes of Health dispenses even more money for health - related research and clinical studies Since everyone benefits from progress in science, the US federal government should be praised for financially supporting so many university researchers and research projects.

And studies endorse vitamin D to support various immune - related conditions including allergy - related sinus infections.