Sentences with phrase «authors tested the hypothesis»

For this reason, the authors tested the hypothesis that voluntary blood donation is associated with reduced risk of acute myocardial infarction in a prospective epidemiologic follow - up study in men from eastern Finland.

The authors tested this hypothesis in T2d using the WGS dataset for 2,657 individuals, which they describe as having «near - complete ascertainment of genetic variation.»

Not exact matches

We tested the hypothesis that genetic changes in the breakdown of disaccharides — small carbohydrates from sugars and starches — may be associated with increased risk of IBS» says corresponding author Mauro D'Amato from Karolinska Institutet.

We want them to understand the scientific method, and to ask whether the author had a hypothesis and conducted an experiment that allowed them to test the hypothesis with a yes or no answer to a question.

«We wanted to test the hypothesis that both the extent of the liver resection and the location or type of colorectal resection influence the overall risk and patient outcomes associated with these operations,» says the article's first author, Christopher Shubert, M.D., who is also a surgeon and Kern Scholar at Mayo Clinic.

First author Professor Martin Hrabe de Angelis, Director of Institute of Experimental Genetics at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, who invented the mouse clinic concept, said: «Our findings with regard to the genes examined are now available to the scientific community as a valid data set, which can be downloaded free of charge from the IMPC (International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium) website, and form an excellent basis on which we and other research groups can develop and test new hypotheses.»

«These authors make no effort to test the alternative hypothesis that these cracks and other breaks were made during the process of fossilization and erosion,» he wrote in an email.

To test this hypothesis, a team led by first author Mei Tran, a senior scientist in the Parikh laboratory, began conducting studies of mitochondrial metabolism using microscopy, biochemistry and bioinformatics tools.

Further tests have allowed the authors to develop a hypothesis for this unexpected attitude.

To test the hypothesis, they examined data from 35,000 biomedical science papers published between 1999 and 2003, each with at least one Harvard author.

Title: NMDA receptors, cognition and schizophrenia - Testing the validity of the NMDA receptor hypofunction hypothesis Author: G. Gilmour et al..

The authors, who also include Santiago Schnell, Ph.D. and Jing Liu, Ph.D., note that part of their group's interest in doing the study sprang from their hypothesis that a flat NIH budget is likely to have negative consequences but they wanted to gather data to test their hypothesis.

«This book reminds us that we need to go back to models of learning and use them to help students see similarities and differences, learn how to summarize and take notes, practice deliberately, use imagery to build a deeper conceptual understanding on which they can «hang» surface level knowledge, learn from one another, solve problems, generate and test hypotheses, and give and receive feedback,» wrote education professor and author John Hattie in his foreword to the publication.

The hypothesis put forward is the author's novel method of «joint estimation» and the test is «does it increase our understanding?»

Thus, the authors predicted that being in an implemental mindset for a personal goal would cause people to make one - sided assessments of their relationships and conducted two experiments to test this hypothesis.2

Analyses of findings from an earlier intensive child development program for low birth weight children and their parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour.