Sentences with phrase «assessment study from»

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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.

In some universities, you can go from enrolment to graduation without requiring paper for anything other than exams — study guides, textbooks, assignments, teacher assessments are all executed and delivered digitally.

The authors of the study wrote of their findings that they had «obvious industrial applications where an objective assessment of audiovisual material is sought from groups of people, for example, in advertising, video game design or in filmmaking.»

The study is patient - funded; participants, who range in age from late 30s through 80s, must pay $ 8,000 to take part, and live in or travel to Monterey for treatments and follow - up assessments.

At the end of the study, the particular recommendations come as no great surprise: seminary training should include the study of asceticism and the regimen of ascetical discipline; assessment should be of the candidate's capacity to live a life of chaste celibacy and spiritual poverty; wilful deviations from discipline should be taken to indicate the lack of a religious vocation; those who form and mentor students should be sterling examples of ascetical discipline.

I will sketch my own assessment of the issues emerging from this group's study, thus indicating the type of reflection that is being fed into the World Council's process.

While we can infer from this study that some degree of contamination exists in naturally gluten - free grains, seeds, and flours sampling was not large enough to make any assessment on the overall percentage of contaminated product.

A recent impact assessment study showed that Filipino farmers have gained an additional Php2, 300 (US$ 52) per hectare from using improved IRRI - bred rice varieties.

Standardized Assessment of Concussion or «SAC», Sport Concussion Assessment Tool Version 3 or «SCAT3», the Balance Error Scoring System or «BESS», King - Devick Test», Maddocks» questions) already shown by studies to be reliable in making the initial remove - from - play decision, or one of a number of new assessment screens being developed and tested.

One way, I believe, to address the problem of under - reporting and increase the chances a concussion will be identified early on the sports sideline may be to rely less on athletes themselves to remove themselves from games or practices by reporting concussion symptoms (which the most recent study shows occurs at a shockingly low rate, [9] or on game officials and sideline observers to observe signs of concussion and call for a concussion assessment, but to employ technology to increase the chances that a concussion will be identified by employing impact sensors designed to monitor head impact exposure in terms of the force of hits (both linear and rotational), number, location, and cumulative impact, in real time at all levels of football, and in other helmeted and non-helmeted contact and collision sports, where practical, to help identify high - risk impacts and alert medical personnel on the sideline so they can consider performing a concussion assessment.

A subsequent study from the United Kingdom included additional subjects and additional follow - up assessments at 18 and 30 months.9, 10 Adjusted risk estimates revealed that the risk of ear infections at 18 and 30 months was related to infant sleeping position at age 1 month.

Methods: The current study surveyed fathers attending antenatal classes in public and private hospitals (n = 307) in New South Wales, Australia, using psychosocial questions derived from the questions commonly asked in assessments of mothers.

This was not a problem in the water birth studies because, as I have said, they were all reporting basic neonatal assessments from the medical record.

An overview of the home study, family assessment and post adoption process of adopting from China.

When the agency directors meet on March 30, they are expected to approve $ 425,000 in allocations — part of its external special projects budget — to help finance a local labor market assessment study, a plan to generate more development leads from Canadian firms and aid the operation of the Beverly Gray Business Exchange Center on Buffalo's East Side.

The predictor that emerged as most powerful in both the UNC study and the UC San Francisco analysis was letters of recommendation from applicants» undergraduate teachers — in other words, subjective assessments from people who presumably knew both them and their subjects well.

Income from forests has been largely «undervalued», particularly in assessments of poverty and income such as the World Bank's Living Standard Measurement Survey, says Arild Angelsen, an environmental economist at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Aas and a lead author of the study by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) based in Bogor, Indonesia.

From the 1,295 women enrolled in the study at the beginning of pregnancy, the researchers obtained data on exposure to both air pollution and lung function assessment at 4.5 years old for 620 (48 %) of their children.

The study included 677 patients from the multicentre, prospective cohort study B - SAFE.4 BMIPP scintigraphy, ECG and C - reactive protein assessment was performed in all patients.

And we have done many validation studies where we compared our diet assessments to biochemical measures, say of, tansfat in the fat tissue of a person or the level of beta - carotene in the blood, and we found pretty good correlations — not perfect but they are pretty good — and that means that we are able to pick up meaningful differences in people, among people that we can tell someone who is eating a large amount of transfat from a person eating low amount of transfat.

«These chemicals are just about everywhere, from the blood in polar bears to eagles to humans on every continent,» said Joseph Allen, assistant professor of exposure assessment science at Harvard Chan School and the study's lead author.

The study compared results from electromyography assessments of leg and arm muscles to basic physical performance tests such as gait speed, balance and hand - grip strength.

But the year's worth of data that has arrived from Titan has allowed him to check his studies against new observational data and to improve his assessment of the impact of data uncertainties.

Jenerette and others have studied local NOx emissions from soils in California, but no statewide assessment existed.

The other bill would «require that the data from any study that EPA draws upon to inform its regulations, risk assessments, and guidance documents be «reproducible» and released publicly as long as the law doesn't forbid it.»

A study from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Institute for Technology assessment finds that, after viewing CT scan results, physicians in the emergency departments of four major academic medical centers made key changes in clinical decision - making for patients with symptoms frequently seen in emergency rooms.

As part of the Concord Health and Ageing Project (CHAMP) in Sydney, the research included 1,318 men ages 70 and older who had health assessments when they entered the study from 2005 to 2007, and again two years later.

«Our study is the first long - term and large - scale assessment of the impacts of dams and diverting water from the rivers and wetlands of the Murray - Darling Basin,» says study lead author UNSW Professor Richard Kingsford.

«These are the best - done and largest assessments of how the microbiome may influence therapeutic outcome» from those drugs, says immunotherapy researcher Jeffrey Weber of New York University in New York City, who was not involved in the studies.

To study the Gorkha quake landslides, the scientists used their satellite - based findings plus media reports, eyewitness photography and field assessments from helicopters.

This study is the first national assessment of the age at which parents report making the transition from rear - facing to forward - facing car seats.

In the spirit of Lombardy's open innovation model, the Forum will feature professionals from diverse areas: responsible research and innovation; science and technology studies; public communication of science; participative and deliberative methods; public engagement; social innovation; social impact and its assessment; sociology of risk; sociology of science; technology assessment and governance; open innovation, science, and data; data ethics; and bioethics.

Dr. Zhang points out that the unique value of this study derives from the ability to perform longitudinal assessments of cognition in PD patients over a long time period and access to data from a large cohort that began when patients were in the earliest stage of disease.

The findings of the study point to the importance of addressing the health - related needs of people recently released from prison: «Many of the factors identified are easily measurable prior to release from prison, and could inform improvements to transitional planning without the need for additional, in - depth assessment.

They base their assessment on more than 80 studies from around the world that incorporated house - by - house surveys of active cases.

It is worth remembering that in 2009, the year analysed by the study, Federer achieved first place on the ATP ranking; therefore we can draw the conclusion from this study that, although the assessment of Nadal's and Djokovic's play comes out higher than Federer's, Federer competed better.

The results from the study confirm that personality assessment can make a useful contribution to identifying and training crisis management personnel.

Field - scale experiments with HTC reactor should be conducted to confirm the assessments from this laboratory - scale study.»

Along with them, the new study suggests that for risk assessment in earthquake - prone areas, not just a single seismic cycle from one earthquake to the next should be considered.

Results from two studies, involving a total of 2892 Italian employees, provide evidence of the added value of a more comprehensive approach to the assessment of self - efficacy at work.

«Quite alarming for an educator from our research, however, is the implication that we are failing some students based not on subject matter, curriculum, teaching methods or assessments, but on providing them with study skills to make the most of their undergraduate study.

Added Vengosh: «Our new study, which integrates data from multiple government and industry sources, provides the first comprehensive assessment of fracking's total water footprint, both nationally and for each of the 10 major U.S. shale gas or tight oil basins.»

Their analysis included data from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study, which contained repeated assessments of marijuana use and kidney outcomes.

So while material needs matter, self - assessments about being «savers» or «spenders» do «a phenomenally good job of separating those who save from those who don't,» says Jonathan Parker, the MIT economist who authored the study.

According to the study, which will be published in next month's issue of Evolution and Human Behavior, pride arises from a positive self - assessment a few moments after combat, generally producing a small smile and an easy, open stance.

Worm and his 18 co-authors used data from catch reports, scientific surveys, stock assessments, modeling and other sources to try to get a clearer picture of the fisheries statuses than previous studies had achieved.

Parents» estimations of their children's happiness differ significantly from the child's own assessment of their feelings, a study has shown.

Previously the company reported data from this study on event - free survival, measures of muscle function and assessments of developmental milestones.

According to the authors of the study, who hail from the Hemholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), assessments of rainforest loss has focused primarily on deforestation itself, estimating how much carbon is dumped back into the atmosphere by measuring how much forest was cleared away.

Data on the levels of road traffic and air pollution were taken from the European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects and French Institute for the Environment assessments.