Sentences with phrase «also studies models»

Likewise, our laboratory also studies models of Alzheimer's, ALS, and «mad cow» diseases, where proteins involved in these diseases aggregate inside axons.

The Center also studies models of collaborative planning among church organizations, so such collaborative models can be duplicated elsewhere.

Not exact matches

«If China fails, or even if this fixed investment model fails, countries like Australia and Canada are in deep trouble,» says John Lee, a foreign - policy expert at the Hudson Institute who is also a research fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney, Australia.

(Ibid., p. 60; also see Max Black, Models and Metaphors: Studies in Language and Philosophy [Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1962], p. 221.)

The picture of good teaching developed here to counter the fragmentation of theological schooling also tends to counter the previous two studies» tendency to change the «Berlin» model of theological schooling by adopting a functionalist picture of «professional» schooling and an individualistic picture of the teaching proper to Wissenchaft.

This case study has viewed SEA of India in terms both of what it does and how it does it, benchmarking it against a model of best practice published by the UK's Trade Association Forum and also drawing on a previous ITC study visit with East African sunflower associations

The lower levels of baseline sugar sweetened drink consumption in the UK compared with the US may in part explain why the effect on obesity that we estimate in the UK is much less than that estimated in the US.12 The differences with respect to other modelling studies may also be partly explained by their use of higher own price elasticity values for sugar sweetened drinks than we have calculated and used here.18 22 52 We can not make direct comparisons between the results of our study and the results of recent studies of the effect of reducing sugar sweetened drink consumption on body weight in children, 5 7 as the relation between energy balance and change in body mass index in children who are growing is different from that in adults.

This model also takes on hills quite well, and is made of study steel.

Although the observational studies that underlie our models all adjusted for multiple confounders, including known risk factors for the disease outcomes of interest, risk factors for early breastfeeding cessation such as preterm birth, preeclampsia, and obesity are also risk factors for metabolic disease in later life.

Also, all of these studies include breastfeeding as a covariate in their statistical models.

Although not directly comparable, our findings are in broad agreement with those from routine data in Scotland that have indicated a positive association between Baby Friendly accreditation, but not certification, and breastfeeding at 1 week of age.17 Our findings reinforce those of Coutinho and colleagues who reported that high exclusive breastfeeding rates achieved in Brazilian hospitals implementing staff training with the course content of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative were short - lived and not sustained at home unless implemented in combination with post-natal home visits.35 Similarly in Italy, training of staff with an adapted version of the Baby Friendly course content resulted in high breastfeeding rates at discharge, with a rapid decrease in the days after leaving hospital.36 In contrast, a cluster randomized trial in Belarus (PROBIT) found an association between an intervention modelled on the Baby Friendly Initiative with an increased duration of breastfeeding37 an association also reported from an observational study in Germany.38 Mothers in Belarus stay in hospital post-partum for 6 — 7 days, and in Germany for 5 days, with post-natal support likely to be particularly important in countries where mothers stay in the hospital for a shorter time, with early discharge likely to limit the influence of a hospital - based intervention.

The effectiveness study will also include an implementation analysis that will examine how the program models operate in their local and state contexts and describe the families who participate; and an economic analysis that will examine the financial costs of operating the programs.

A recent German study concluded that bike trailers were a particularly safe way of carrying children - although, being German, they also recommended a few improvements to present models!

Given the heterogeneity in the choice of outcome measures routinely collected and reported in randomised evaluations of models of maternity care, a core (minimum) data set, such as that by Devane 2007, and a validated measure of maternal quality of life and well being would be useful not only within multi-centre trials and for comparisons between trials, but might also be a significant step in facilitating useful meta - analyses of similar studies.

A variety of studies suggest that fathers» engagement positively impacts their children's social competence, 27 children's later IQ28 and other learning outcomes.29 The effects of fathers on children can include later - life educational, social and family outcomes.1, 2,26 Children may develop working models of appropriate paternal behaviour based on early childhood cues such as father presence, 30,31 in turn shaping their own later partnering and parenting dynamics, such as more risky adolescent sexual behaviour32 and earlier marriage.33 Paternal engagement decreases boys» negative social behaviour (e.g., delinquency) and girls» psychological problems in early adulthood.34 Fathers» financial support, apart from engagement, can also influence children's cognitive development.35

Given the heterogeneity in the choice of outcome measures routinely collected and reported in randomised evaluations of models of maternity care, a core (minimum) dataset, such as that by Devane 2007, and a validated measure of maternal quality of life and wellbeing would be useful not only within multi-centre trials and for comparisons between trials, but might also be a significant step in facilitating useful meta - analyses of similar studies.

We hope that it will be a model for future symposia in other areas and will also provide a framework for further workshops, conferences and symposia in the field of constitutional studies.

Poloncarz said the study is not just about location, but also about what the community needs from the convention center to compete with competition in model cities.

Justine Greening, Secretary of State for Transport also announced the publication of the terms of reference for the study into the feasibility of new ownership and financing models for the strategic road network.

The scientists also do not know if their model applies to people who smoke e-cigarettes or other forms of tobacco, as their study used condensates typically found in traditional cigarettes.

The study also showed that participants had a less favorable impression of the brand when the models were inexpressive.

By validating model results against geological observations, the study indicates that changes in runoff, sea level and wave energy have profoundly affected the past evolution of the Great Barrier Reef not only in regard to reefs evolution but also sediment fate from source - to - sink.

He and Krause also think that Willerslev's study needs to be confirmed with higher resolution sequencing to rule out contamination, and to have more population genetics modeling explain the distribution of these genetic types.

The study also suggests that the standard Community Atmosphere Model version 4 has difficulty simulating the MJO because it produces sufficient upper level heating but not enough lower level heating.

Pacella, who was lead author on the study, used the detailed data he collected to create a model to estimate the daily carbonate chemistry weather during the summer dry season back to the year 1765, and also projected conditions ahead to 2100 altering the amount of anthropogenic carbon in the system.

«Our results also suggest that understanding the neural underpinnings of complex motor tasks such as learning a new dance can be an effective model to study motor learning in the real world.»

Climate models, which are central to attribution studies, have also improved and are able to represent the current climate and that of the recent past with considerable fidelity.

«Our study validates using fruit flies as a model to discover new genes that may also control aggression in humans.»

«Social media data have been suggested as a way to track the spread of a disease in a population, but there is a problem that in an emerging outbreak people also use social media to express concern about the situation,» explains study team leader Sherry Towers of ASU's Simon A. Levin Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center.

They also studied animal models of LUAD to identify common pathways.

«Besides being a great genetic model, it's also easier for us to study effects like sleep rebound in flies, as we have automatic equipment that can monitor thousands of them.

The study also explains why climate models usually simulate a lower sensitivity than can be detected in observations.

«It also provides a genetic model to study how sleep pressure can be modulated by other biological drives.

But Shindell said Jacobson's model was also the study's «strongest limitation.»

Nadeau also studies the potential impacts of climate change on species around the globe, using modeling, field observation and experiments to predict where species are most vulnerable and determine how conservation groups can best mitigate the negative impacts of climate change on animal populations.

Using these models, we get a global view of the entire molecule and they also allow us to study changes in large proteins using a laptop in only a few minutes,» explains Orellana.

The mouse model should also be useful for studying the immunological reactions and viral clearance in hepatitis B virus infection, they note in the Journal of Virology.

The team also conducted two clinical translation studies to test whether pharmacologically blocking miR -17-92 might have clinical relevance in the lupus - like condition and the scleroderma cGVHD model.

«This mouse model also will be useful in studies to further investigate impact of the omega - 3 omega - 6 ratio in disease prevention and treatment.»

Flaherty, who studies conditions such as hypergraphia (an uncontrollable urge to write) and writer's block, also looks to disease models to explain the drive behind this mode of communication.

Harding also argues that because rodent studies suggest that these animals do lose neurons to alcohol, they may be unreliable models for the human hippocampus.

This means that the model can also be used in further studies of a driven particle in a granular fluid, which is relevant to a number of industries, ranging from construction to pharmaceuticals.

The brochures contain information about toxicology, pharmacology, and animal safety studies used to determine the potential risk a particular therapy may pose to humans, but they also include efficacy studies done in animal models to demonstrate a therapy's potential benefit.

The paper also describes an atmosphere - ocean modeling study of feedback loops caused by ice sheet melting under 2 °C conditions.

Wood scans can also be used to model sap - flow simulations, to study fungus development, and even to model the penetration of paint layers.

And by providing an animal model for the fetal damage, the studies should also ease the path for testing potential vaccines and treatments.

Not only did these factors make the waves much more manageable to model and study in the field, but also resulted in a clearer understanding of wave dynamics that can be used to understand internal waves elsewhere in the ocean, she said.

In this study, tungstate treatment in mouse models of colitis shifted gut microbiota to a more normal state in terms of the balance of bacterial species and also reduced gut inflammation, the researchers report.

The study, which compared each model's success in Caucasian women with those of Asian descent (Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean and Vietnamese), also raised important questions about the effect of race on cancer development: When Caucasian and Asian patients with similar family histories of breast and ovarian cancer were compared, the Asian women had higher rates of genetic mutation, although the rates of these cancers for Asians have traditionally been lower.

Previous studies tend to underestimate such connections as simulated land - atmosphere interaction is also resolution - dependent, which means that the signals for changes in small - scale land use are likely to be much weaker in a coarse resolution model,» says Minchao Wu.