Sentences with phrase «association study conducted»

Meta - analyses of genome - wide association studies conducted in these ethnically - diverse populations identified a total of 878 genetic variants belonging to 18 loci associated with asthma risk.

Not exact matches

The original paper contains a wealth of links to studies conducted by businesses, universities, industry associations and the military that supported early - 20th - century leaders as they embraced the short week.

The legislation, he said, grew out of a study conducted by his office and the private nonprofit Korea International Trade Association.

The Best Employers in Canada study measures the level of employee engagement at participating organizations and is based on results from a national survey conducted by Aon Hewitt, in association with the Queen's Centre for Business Venturing at the Queen's University School of Business.

A new study conducted by EarlyIQ, the Crowdfund Professional Association (SeedInvest sits on the Executive Committee) and Crowdfund Capital Advisors has just been released, bringing with it some very encouraging statistics.

Richard John Neuhaus notes that the decennial study of church membership conducted by the Glenmary Research Center and sponsored by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies has confirmed the phenomenon highlighted in Dean Kelley's 1972 Why Conservative Churches Are Growing (While We're At It, January).

Right now the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada is conducting a major study of the public character of theological education, with a special focus on how seminaries can educate leaders who take their public role seriously.

As late as October 2006, the journal of the British Medical Association, The Lancet, published a study conducted by researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and al - Mustansiriya University in Baghdad estimating that, since March 2003, there were some 601,027 more Iraqi deaths from violence than would have been expected without a war.

A 2015 study from the Water Quality Association (WQA), conducted by an independent market research firm, surveyed 1,200 adults and found that 56 percent of respondents — 4 percent more than in 2013 — were «concerned» or «very concerned» about the quality of water in their homes.

WASHINGTON, DC - Food, beverage and consumer products companies directly employed more than 1.7 million workers in manufacturing and directly and indirectly contributed more than 6 percent of the U.S. GDP, according to new study commissioned by the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP (PwC).

U.S. communities and states that have implemented alternatives to extended producer responsibility (EPR) policies are achieving high municipal solid waste recycling rates at reasonable costs, while also addressing a wider spectrum of the waste stream than narrowly - focused EPR mandates, according to a new study conducted by consulting firm SAIC for the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA).

Commissioned jointly by the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) Sales Agency Committee and the Association of Sales and Marketing Companies (ASMC) Foundation and conducted by Bain & Company, the study provides an analysis of performance results of CPG companies before and after outsourcing to SMAs.

«We applaud and support the recent study conducted by Canada's University of Guelph,» said Fibre Box Association President and Corrugated Packaging Alliance Executive Director, Dennis Colley.

According to a United States study conducted by the Organic Trade Association, Millennials are big buyers of organic products and becoming a parent will deepen their desire to purchase organic goods.

American Wine Consumers Overwhelmingly Prefer Cork Closures The Portuguese Cork Association and the California - based Cork Quality Council announced results from a joint study conducted by U.S. wine market research company, Wine Opinions...

The study was conducted by consulting firm BSR and commissioned by the Food Waste Reduction Alliance (FWRA), a cross-sector industry initiative led by the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) and the National Restaurant Association (NRA).

We conducted a systematic review of studies examining the association of industry sponsorship with the statistical significance of results, effect sizes, and conclusions of nutrition research.

The research study was conducted by Hart Research Associates and sponsored by FOSI with the support of Google, Microsoft, CTIA — The Wireless Association and Cable Impacts Foundation.

January 30, 2013 — The American Association of Birth Centers conducted a study over 3 years (2007 - 2010) with 79 midwifery - led birth centers in 33 states participating.

The flavored milk «study» being promoted by the School Nutrition Association was conducted by Prime Consultant Group, a major player in consumer analysis and sales strategies that lists among clients Coca - Cola, PepsiCo International, Kraft Foods / Nabisco, Sara Lee and Proctor & Gamble.

The School Nutrition Association, representing thousands of school food service workers across the country, has embraced a «study» promoting chocolate and other sugar - enhanced milk that was paid for by the dairy industry, conducted by a firm that specializes in devising corporate marketing schemes, and which the dairy group refuses to release for close inspection.

On Sunday, June 16, researchers released a recent study conducted by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) that was conducted to see how long the bacteria methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) could survive on fabrics used in hospital, clinical and long term care homes.

Seven studies [4 conducted in adults (6, 10, 11, 18) and 3 conducted in children (15, 30, 33); 5261 subjects in total; 6 observational studies and 1 trial] reported on the association between infant feeding and fasting blood glucose in later life (Table 1 and Figure 3).

Research, published in Scientific Reports, conducted by Professor Yin Xiao, from QUT's Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation and his team, in collaboration with Professor Lindsay Brown and his team at University of Southern Queensland, is possibly the first study to investigate the association between osteoarthritis and common dietary fatty acids.

Findings from two studies conducted by researchers at AAAS's Project 2061 will be presented at the following sessions taking place during the annual meetings of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) and the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

«If you were to develop a drug to treat PTSD, you'd want it to do exactly what MDMA does,» says Rick Doblin, founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), which funds and conducts the research.

The Immunochip for fine - mapping is an important tool for conducting genome - wide association studies of the genetic components of disease.

The AAAS Board charged the new special Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, chaired by Allen V. Astin, former director of the National Bureau of Standards,» (i) to study and report on the general conditions required for scientific freedom and responsibility; (ii) to develop suitable criteria and procedures for the objective and impartial study of these problems; and (iii) to recommend mechanisms to enable the Association to review specific instances in which scientific freedom is alleged to have been abridged or otherwise endangered, or responsible scientific conduct is alleged to have been violated.»

Based on these points, Dr. Canli suggests a major research step would be to conduct large - scale studies with depressed patients, controls, and infectious - disease related protocols to determine the association or causal nature of infectious disease and depression.

In conducting their study, which includes detailed behavioral, medical and genetic observations of 14 boys with CS from 12 families, the team of scientists and physicians worked closely with families of the small but fast - growing Christianson Syndrome Association, including hosting the group's inaugural conference at Brown's Alpert Medical School last summer.

«GarCO operators have collectively decided a Garfield County air study, conducted by the Colorado Public School of Health [sic], is unworkable and one they are unable to participate in moving forward,» wrote David Ludlam, executive director of the West Slope Colorado Oil & Gas Association, in an Aug. 3 email that was forwarded to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

Given their different physiology and risk factors, we have conducted the first large prospective study on the association of fruit with subtypes of stroke in Chinese adults from both rural and urban areas.»

In a world first researchers from the University's Institute of Translational Medicine, led by Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed, conducted a genome - wide association study (GWAS) to pinpoint the genes responsible for increasing the risk of a person developing adrenal suppression.

The intensive population study was conducted in a project founded by George Wittemyer of Colorado State University with Save the Elephants, and in association with the Kenya Wildlife Service.

«During the 2015 — 16 school year, more than 15,450 students and over 2100 scholars from the six countries targeted in this ban studied and conducted research at U.S. universities,» said Peter McPherson, president of the Association of Public and Land - grant Universities in Washington, D.C., in a statement.

To conduct the study, the authors gathered data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the National Association of State Budget Officers, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Governors Association, the Bureau of Economic Analysis and several other sources from 1989 to 2012.

The longitudinal study, conducted by Monica Bertoia of Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, and colleagues, shows differences by type of fruit or vegetable, suggesting that characteristics of these foods influence the strength of their association with weight change.

Now results from the first large population study conducted to assess the association show that older age at natural menopause and the use of oral HT are each associated with a higher risk of hearing loss.

In 2006 the American Psychological Association (APA) assembled a task force of researchers with wide - ranging expertise to evaluate all peer - reviewed studies published in English since 1989 (when the last such review was conducted) that compared the mental health of women who had an abortion with that of other women.

Given these connections between hormonal or reproductive life events and rheumatoid arthritis in women, researchers conducted an observational study to investigate the association of menopause with functional status in women with the disease.

Shanna Swan, director of the University of Rochester's Center for Reproductive Epidemiology, conducted studies that found an association between pregnant women's exposure to phthalates and altered genital development in their baby boys.

Nestadt and his team conducted what is known as a genome - wide association study, scanning the genomes of more than 1,400 people with OCD and more than 1,000 close relatives of people with the mental disorder.

«Given the expanding prevalence of shift work worldwide and the heavy public burden of cancers, we initiated this study to draw public attention to this issue so that more large cohort studies will be conducted to confirm these associations,» he added.

The genome - wide association study, conducted by a UCL - led collaboration of 65 academics in 11 countries and funded by Alzheimer's Society and the Lewy Body Society, is published in The Lancet Neurology.

Jeste and colleagues determined to see if PTSD might show a similar association by conducting a comprehensive review of published empirical studies relevant to early aging in PTSD, covering multiple databases going back to 2000.

But private universities do not necessarily outperform their public counterparts: Earlier this year, the German Donors» Association (Stifterverband) conducted a study of 16 international private universities located in Germany.

Conducting future studies on specific genes and epigenetic factors that cause this association is relevant,» the study concludes.

So Chakravarti and colleagues conducted a new genomewide association study of the disease, comparing the genetic markers of more than 650 people with Hirschsprung's disease, their parents and healthy controls.

A study conducted by researchers at LSU Health New Orleans suggests that age is an important factor in the association between cancer and sugar - sweetened beverages and recommends that intervention programs to reduce consumption of added sugar be focused on lower socio - economic status, young males, as well as cervical cancer survivors.

The study draws on an earlier analysis the lab conducted for the Western Governors» Association to identify areas where renewable resources are the strongest, most consistent, and most concentrated, and where development would avoid protected areas and minimize the overall impact on wildlife habitat.