Sentences with phrase «because early research»

In part, that's because early research was based on animal studies.

Scientists have paid less attention to soot — particles made of so - called black carbon and organic carbon — because earlier research indicated that their effects were relatively minor.

Not exact matches

Conrad told Inc. in March that he got the idea for Zenefits when he was researching health care benefits for employees at an earlier startup, and because he is a cancer survivor with an ongoing interest in health care coverage.

Research firm NPD Group earlier this month warned much of the same would continue in 2017: it sees stalled growth and says those cutting back on restaurant visits are doing so because they think prices are too high.

One piece of good news: Business travel tends to slow down in the days before Christmas, and some travelers flying for work are likely to have called off trips booked for early in the week because of the chaos in Atlanta, said Henry Harteveldt, travel industry analyst and founder of consulting firm Atmosphere Research Group.

Early this week I was with an Australian government representative in Beijing whom I have known for many years and he told me that iron ore prices were currently around $ 83 (I think they dropped another $ 2 last week), and that while some people in Canberra were reluctant to say it too loudly, he and others were increasingly in agreement with my lower forecast of less than $ 50 well before the end of the decade, in part because supply has come off much more slowly than predicted, but mainly because they now recognize that China's rebalancing was indeed going to be a far bigger deal for Chinese demand than sell - side research had predicted.

I could go on and elaborate on a number of other disciplines or facts that creationists have to pretend into oblivion to retain their faith, including the Ice Ages, cavemen and early hominids, much of microbiology, paleontology and archeology, continental drift and plate tectonics, even large parts of medical research (medical research on monkeys and mice only works because they share a common ancestor with us and therefore our fundamental cell biology and basic body architecture is identical to theirs).

Universities became important in American life, as earlier colleges had not been, because they served the technological economy, training its experts and its supporting professionals, and conducting much of its research.

Although you may remember starting your own college search in the fall of your senior year, many teens these days need to get started earlier because of the extensive research involved and the deadlines for early admissions programs to competitive programs.

I did this because research shows creative play drives early development and learning.

«The Walt Disney Company's entire Baby Einstein marketing regime is based on express and implied claims that their videos are educational and beneficial for early childhood development,» a letter from the lawyers said, calling those claims «false because research shows that television viewing is potentially harmful for very young children.»

Identifying core components of interventions found to be effective and understanding what it takes to implement those components with fidelity to the program model is critical to successful replication and scale - up of effective programs and practices in different community contexts and populations.7 There is growing recognition in the early childhood field of the importance of effective implementation and the need for implementation research that can guide adoption, initial implementation, and ongoing improvement of early childhood interventions.8, 9,10 The promise of implementation research and using data to drive program management is compelling because it offers a potential solution to the problem of persistent gaps in outcomes between at - risk children and their more well - off peers.

He added that Samia failed to retain her seat in 2012 not because she was cheated as she claims, but due to the fact that she ignored the earlier research findings.

Nevertheless, the Electoral Commission report into these elections drew back from their earlier recommendation because its research showed that a large minority of people wished to retain the option of voting at polling stations.

Don't specialize too early, he cautions, because science is constantly changing thanks to emerging new technologies, discoveries, and even research fields.

Early on, I realized that specializing in plant systems might narrow my chances for future employment because of the relatively smaller number of academic positions and biotechnology companies devoted to plant research.

And she has found that a certain number of Japanese early career professionals «don't find any necessity to go abroad because the research environment in Japan has gotten better.»

Earlier this year, STRI research associate William Laurance published a paper in Science, stressing the importance of considering wildlife conservation during transportation infrastructure planning, because it is well known in the conservation community that roads «can unleash a Pandora's box of environmental ills, such as land encroachment, wildlife poaching, forest fragmentation, exotic species invasions and illegal mining.»

In the early 1990s, when Nir Barzilai, now the director of the Institute for Aging Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, decided to study aging, he did so in part because the competition was so sparse.

Dr Gerrit - Jan Liefers (MD, PhD), a surgical oncologist and head of the geriatric oncology research group at Leiden University Medical Centre (Leiden, The Netherlands), said: «For a screening program to be effective, one would expect that the incidence of early stage breast cancer would increase while the incidence of advanced stage cancer would decrease because any cancer would have been detected at an earlier stage.

These kicks at the freshly defeated McCain - Palin ticket, as I write in early November, are an attempt to knock some sense back into the group of my fellow Americans who seem determined to ignore or even denigrate valuable scientific research because it's something outside the realm of Joe the Plumber's daily activities.

The new bill is an especially bitter pill, they say, because Prime Minister Matteo Renzi earlier this year had championed research and education as a potential cure for Italy's economic malaise.»

This gave me a great boost because it demonstrated that I was capable of conducting independent research of publishable quality at a very early stage.

The total for DOD basic research, labeled 6.1 in DOD jargon, should cheer research advocates and university groups because it more than reverses a cut of 8.3 % proposed by the White House in its 2016 request earlier this year.

Early - career scientists in particular are eager for Sharp to write about their work on FYFD — which Sharp is generally happy to do because it provides a «nice situation» for her to «point people to that research.

Previous research into star formation in the early universe has typically been biased toward massive galaxies because they're brighter.

Early biotech companies clustered in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Massachusetts, Abair says, because these regions boasted a combination of top research universities, a qualified workforce, and investors who saw promise in biotech.

«During your research career, you have to focus on your research, especially in the early stages, because it is hard to be a research leader if you don't do good research.

Maggie Blanks, Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund's CEO, said: «It's because of these bleak facts that our funding strategy focuses on finding and developing alternative, effective treatments for patients as well as finding a way to diagnose pancreatic cancer at an early stage.

We want to give people tools they don't currently have, because research has shown that early intervention can greatly impact the severity of the symptoms common in autism spectrum disorders.»

«I believe that it is too early to start taking too many responsibilities outside of research, above all because the postdoctoral phase is, from my point of view, still a training phase, and abilities must be acquired that are going to be indispensable in the future scientific activity,» he says.

There's growing concern among researchers that public wariness about the newborn screening program will create a backlash — with parents declining to screen their kids (who may end up much sicker because their disease wasn't caught early), and with the spots no longer made available for valuable pediatrics research, such as tracing the origins of childhood leukemia.

«I think in the early days,... I was willing to take almost any graduate student who wanted to come into my lab, which can be a mistake because if you take a graduate student or a postdoc or a research assistant who requires tremendous time and training and they don't have the commitment to really learn, it diverts you and your own research effort.»

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The Augusta area in particular was studied because of earlier research indicating higher than normal exposures.

But because that research had focused on specific schools rather than school transitions in general, movement to a lesser - ability school may be harmful for mental well - being in ways overlooked by earlier studies, researchers said.

Because the findings contradict earlier studies, additional research is needed to determine whether a true link exists between multiple sclerosis and cancer.

In the early 20th century the vagus nerve was at the forefront of physiological research because of its importance and accessibility, Liberles said.

«These women suffer hot flushes that are more severe and often earlier in life, so we think they warrant specific research because breast cancer survivors can't take Hormone Replacement Therapy,» Dr Ee explained.

In an earlier study, the research team, led by U.T. Southwestern psychiatry professor Eric Nestler, found that levels of BDNF — which is implicated in learning because of its role in creating stronger connections between neurons — increase in the nucleus accumbens in response to chronic stress.

«We had to learn how to feed this species, we had to learn about its reproductive physiology, and thank goodness we started as early as we did because now it looks like [captive breeding] is a serious need for the species,» says Terri Roth, director of the zoo's Center for Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife, which works closely with Indonesia's Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary in Way Kambas National Park.

CRISPR is becoming a powerful technique in cancer research because it overcomes some of the limitations of earlier tools.»

«This is exciting because we now have a proven resource that could finally bring definitive answers to fundamental questions about the early movements and conditions of human populations — and new information about the importance of vitamin D for modern populations,» says McMaster anthropologist Megan Brickley, lead author of the paper and Canada Research Chair in the Bioarchaeology of Human Disease.

The research suggests that in some familial cases of early onset Parkinson's Disease, because alpha - synuclein malfunctions as a result of genetic alterations, the protein's marshalling role is compromised.

Because of the success of early treatment, some research suggests that people with liver diseases should routinely be screened for HE through cognitive tests so that HE can be caught and treated before it progresses into the more advanced stages.

Dr. Seidman, who was not involved with this research, noted that the use of screening in younger women has led to lower rates of mastectomy and of chemotherapy because of earlier detection.

Synthetic biology poses few risks because it is still in its early stages and there is no need to impose new restrictions on, or temporarily halt, this type of research, says a report being released Thursday by the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.

The bottom line, says Daley, is that research on both types of stem cells must continue, because it's too early to predict where the safest and most effective cell - based therapies will come from.

Summary: Because there has been only scattered progress in treatment since the «War on Cancer» was declared in December 1971, researchers from the University of Chicago recommend, in a New England Journal Special Article, shifting much of the research emphasis away from treatment and toward prevention and early detection.

If the recipients of LRPs and early career awards are successful at the next stage of their careers, the average age of physician - scientists should begin to decrease during the next decade (that decrease in age may not be dramatic, however, since research careers now begin later in life than a generation ago because of lengthened training requirements).