Sentences with phrase «arm of the study on»

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Spending on genetic tests has reached $ 5 billion annually and is on track to reach $ 15 billion to $ 25 billion within a decade, according to a recent study commissioned by the research arm of UnitedHealthcare.

They thus appeared to pour cold water on earlier studies, and the conventional wisdom that throwing curveballs leads to increased risk of arm injury in young pitchers.

The fabric isn't too bulky — but it is study enough that the knot at the back of your neck will help support your baby so their entire weight isn't on one of your arms but, as the manufacturers point out, it shouldn't be used as a baby carrier.

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In the study, 20 participants were randomized to receive a placebo pill or 50,000, 100,000, or 200,000 IU of vitamin D one hour after a small UV lamp «sunburn» on their inner arm.

Richard Hargreaves, executive director of imaging at Merck Research Laboratories, says, «Nuclear imaging using radiotracers gives the opportunity to put your arms around proof - of - concept very early in a drug discovery and development program by focusing the selection of doses to study on those proven to deliver enough drug to the target therapeutic sites.»

The ship would not be disturbed again until 1900, when a sponge diver clad in a clunky dry suit and brass helmet saw an unattached bronze arm from a sculpture on the seabed, says Alexander Jones, a historian of the ancient world at New York University who has studied the shipwreck and its cargo.

You may be coordinated and have a hands - free phone in your car, but recent studies at the University of Utah suggest that it isn't the dialing or the arm waving that makes driving while talking on a cell phone dangerous.

A second study showed that training in realistic environments, including practiced encounters with armed - opponent actors in buildings and streets, improved their shooting accuracy under stress Similarly, trials with 66 of the officers revealed that those who trained weekly on their own in a combat sport such as karate or kickboxing performed better under high - anxiety fights than those with no additional training, although both groups suffered performance decreases when conditions shifted from low to high anxiety.

The study, known as Brain Computer Interface (BCI) Controlled Prosthetic Arm Movement Is Possible in the Absence of Visual Input with Proprioceptive Feedback, demonstrates that proprioception can have a powerful impact on BCI - controlled prosthetic arm movements and should be an important target for sensory restoratiArm Movement Is Possible in the Absence of Visual Input with Proprioceptive Feedback, demonstrates that proprioception can have a powerful impact on BCI - controlled prosthetic arm movements and should be an important target for sensory restoratiarm movements and should be an important target for sensory restoration.

► «Armed with new data showing black applicants suffer a 35 % lower chance of having a grant proposal funded than their white counterparts, NIH officials are gearing up to test whether reviewers in its study sections give lower scores to proposals from African - American applicants,» Jeffrey Mervis wrote on Thursday.

Node - positive patients also had improved 10 - year rates of survival without metastasis and melanoma - free survival compared to those whose nodes were found to be positive on the nodal observation arm of the study.

To examine how the availability of food may have affected armed conflict in Africa, the study relies on PRIO - Grid data from over 10,600 grid cells in Africa from 1998 to 2008, new agricultural yields data from EarthStat and Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset, which documents incidents of political violence, including those with and without casualarmed conflict in Africa, the study relies on PRIO - Grid data from over 10,600 grid cells in Africa from 1998 to 2008, new agricultural yields data from EarthStat and Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset, which documents incidents of political violence, including those with and without casualArmed Conflict Location and Event Dataset, which documents incidents of political violence, including those with and without casualties.

The South Hills crossbill, potentially a newly discovered species of finch, has evolved over the past 6,000 years with a unique dependence on its food source, the Rocky Mountain lodgepole pine, in a coevolutionary arms race that also changed the tree, according to a genomic study led by Tom Parchman, a biologist at the University of Nevada, Reno.

In a proof - of - concept study, scientists selected a region for analysis on round or irregularly - shaped objects using a 3 - D camera on a robotic arm, which mapped the 3 - dimentional coordinates of the sample's surface.

The study, recently submitted for publication, was conducted in India by U.C.S.F. neurobiologist Jyoti Mishra with funding from the John E. Fogarty International Center, an arm of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) focused on global research.

In the new study, the researchers found that a fractured arm bone in newborn mice rapidly realigned through substantial movement of bone fragments rather than through bone remodeling — a slower process involving the simultaneous formation of new bone on one side and erosion of existing bone on the opposite side.

«We are the first to admit that the human arm in the study has only preliminary results on a small subset of individuals,» says computational biologist Eran Segal, one of the study authors.

In addition, the new trial randomized patients to receive their angioplasty via a catheter inserted in an artery in either the arm or the groin, thus accounting for the potential effects different catheter access points may have had on the results of previous studies.

«Despite the limitations of a single arm, non-randomized study, we infer from these data that Interferon ß - 1a treatment is worth further consideration for the treatment of Ebola virus disease,» said Dr. Fish, who is also a Professor in the Department of Immunology at the University of Toronto, noting that the decision to undertake the clinical trial was based on previous preliminary scientific data, and on the fact that no currently approved antivirals exist to treat Ebola.

Inclusion Criteria: • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1 • Have histologically or cytologically confirmed advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)(Stage IIIb or greater) • Measurable disease, as defined by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1 • Known PD - L1 tumor status as determined by an immunohistochemistry (IHC) assay performed by the central laboratory on tissue obtained at Screening • A woman of childbearing potential must have a negative highly sensitive serum (beta - human chorionic gonadotropin [beta - hCG]-RRB- at Screening within 14 days prior to study drug administration Inclusion Criteria for Crossover: • Participants must have been randomized to Arm A of the study and had radiographic disease progression according to RECIST 1.1 • Participants must have a mandatory biopsy at the time of disease progression according to RECIST 1.1 prior to crossing over.

«This is the first time in the world that people can operate a robotic arm to reach and grasp objects in a complex 3D environment using only their thoughts without a brain implant,» said Bin He, a University of Minnesota biomedical engineering professor and lead researcher on the study.

The study, the first to test the influence of arm training on post-stroke leg function, is published ahead of print in the Journal of Neurophysiology.

Now, in a study published in Stem Cells, the laboratory of Seung Hyun Kim (Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea) report on an open ‐ label, single ‐ arm, investigator ‐ initiated trial to identify biological markers of MSCs to predict response to in patients with ALS [3].

A new study on the role of the brain in the improvement of motor learning has said appropriate improvements in brain - machine interfaces can help paralyzed patients to control robotic arms using their mind power.

We have continued our work on the extension phase of the study, which includes: recruitment of additional African American participants into the sequencing arm and re-phenotyping of participants with monogenic findings.

Armed with this knowledge, and the results of an initial feasibility study, the Dream Team will conduct a clinical trial to evaluate if personalized therapy, based on the genetic profile of each individual patient's cancer, improves outcomes.

Soft Tissue Sarcoma Opportunity: in both our monotherapy single arm Phase 1 and combination randomized Phase 2 studies, we are focusing on two types of sarcoma where we believe there is significant unmet need: synovial sarcoma and Myxoid round cell liposarcoma.

While it didn't score too highly on the rectus abdominus activation study the hover, or plank as it's more commonly known works the core, glutes, shoulders, arms, back, hamstrings and calves making it more of a total body exercise than pure abs.

A Single Arm Pilot Study of Effects of Berberine on the Menstrual Pattern, Ovulation Rate, Hormonal and Metabolic Profiles in Anovulatory Chinese Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.

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The analysis was based on data from 123 overweight - to - obese, sedentary, Seattle - area women, ages 50 to 75, who were randomly assigned to two arms of a controlled, randomized year - long dietary weight - loss intervention study: diet only and exercise plus diet.

To date, muscle moment arm studies using cadavers or computerised models have not been able to provide data on the moment arm lengths of the trapezius during its primary actions.

[5:01]-- Research paper; Glycemic variability — assessing glycemia differently and the implications for dietary management of diabetes by Jeannie Tay, Campbell Thompson, and Grant D. Brinkworth [6:47]-- Continuous glucose monitoring [8:29]-- Methods to diagnosis diabetes [9:29]-- Associated health issues with glucose variability [10:13]-- CSIRO study; Comparison of low - and high - carbohydrate diets for type 2 diabetes management: a randomized trial [10:43]-- The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)[14:34]-- The breakdown of macronutrients between the low carb and the high carb arm of the study [18:47]-- The outcomes of the study [22:52]-- How to approach reducing medication on a low carb diet [26:44]-- CSIRO announcement based on this study?

Perhaps the most interesting study was one performed on 146 post-fight boxers who had major bruises to their faces and haematomas of the obits, ears, lips, chest, and arms.

Effects of a parallel arm randomized controlled weight loss pilot study on biological and psychosocial parameters of overweight and obese breast cancer survivors.

Armed with a clearer vision of her talents and goals, Dr. Walker worked extremely hard on her path to becoming a doctor, going straight from undergraduate studies to medical school with little time between the two.

I'm studying at one of those private institution that is costing me an arm and leg for four years so that I can get a fancy piece of paper with its name on it.

The story, as it were, focuses on an all - female expedition into the depths of the unknown — it's The Descent, but instead of spelunking into hell we're just going to walk there, armed only with assault rifles and PhDs in various applicable fields of study.

Granted, the balancing act doesn't always go as planned, and there are certainly some tonal issues in a number of scenes — ahem, the love story that's soldered in; the ridiculous gun fight — but it's a sour character study that's always held at arm's length, all while you're duck - taped to a chair wondering what's going on.

In 1984, after a stint on an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, Texas native Richard Linklater, armed with a Super-8 camera, projector and editing equipment moved to Austin, Texas and enrolled in Austin Community College to study film.

The shortcomings of this study, the paucity of independent research on the National Board, and the large investments being made by states in rewarding National Board - certified teachers highlight the need for a rigorous and arm's - length cost - benefit study of National Board certification.

Tough alludes to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) studies, which show that a young adolescent's score on the Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) is the best single predictor of later income.

In separate studies, Derek Neal and William Johnson in 1996 and June O'Neill in 1990 found that most of the wage gap between black and white adults disappears once the data are adjusted to reflect their scores on the Armed Forces Qualifying Test; in other words, those adults with similar scores earned similar wages.

One study found that the black - white gap in scores on the Armed Forces Qualifying Test in 1964 could account for only a quarter of the difference in wages between black men and white men.

Michael Hansen, a senior fellow in Governance Studies and director of the Brown Center on Education Policy, evaluates President Trump's recent proposal to arm public school teachers.

A study released by the Wisconsin Budget Project, an arm of the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families, recounts the effects of several years of slim funds to local schools.

Researchers of a brief released from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the primary research arm of the United States Department of Education (USDOE), recently set out to «shed light on the extent to which disadvantaged students have access to effective teaching, based on value - added measures [VAMs]» as per three recent IES studies that have since been published in peer - reviewed journals and that include in their analyses 17 total states.

Education Development Trust has joined forces with Oxford University to head up, on behalf of the Department for Education, the England arm of a pioneering international study.

House education chairman John Kline (R - MN) and Senator Lamar Alexander (R - TN), the top - ranking Republican on the education committee, have requested that the Government Accountability Office (GAO)-- Congress's investigative arm — conduct a study on the department's Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) waiver policies, specifically examining the cost of applying for such waivers and the implications of the waivers on teacher and principal evaluation systems.