Sentences with phrase «because similar studies»

The results are somewhat surprising, especially because similar studies have shown that oil and gas development affect prairie chickens, Sandercock said.

Interesting, because a similar study (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17058282) found something different:

Not exact matches

just because some things are SIMILAR does not mean it is derived from them... secondly... did you ever study as to WHY the Apocrypha was not added..

Similar developments are occurring in most disciplines, though the evidence is murkiest in biblical studies, because experiment there is still the touchiest subject in evangelicalism.

I had been thinking of doing something similar since reading Patrick Holford's optimum nutrition bible but always put it off because of studies etc,... so it is so great you are doing this!

Being a psychology student isn't helping this situation at all because I can't find any case studies on people in similar situations.

The lead author is Patricia Janssen who published a similar study in 2002 and then was forced to publicly retract the conclusion that homebirth is safe because the homebirth group had two perinatal deaths and the hospital group had none.

Other strengths of the underpinning cohort study include high participation by midwifery units and trusts in England; the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias because of non-consent; and the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical risk.12 The economic evaluation was conducted according to nationally agreed design and reporting guidelines.15 26 Collection of primary unit cost data was thorough and accounted for regional differences in care patterns.

Except for the study cited above, there have been no other reports of clinical problems in infants of mothers with silicone breast implants.21 It is unlikely that elemental silicon causes difficulty, because silicon is present in higher concentrations in cow milk and formula than in milk of humans with implants.22 The anticolic compound simethicone is a silicone and has a structure very similar to the methyl polydimethylsiloxane in breast implants.

She explained that because all of the babies in the study were born early it isn't clear whether breast milk would provide similar benefits for babies born at full term.

In it, the agency noted that although these compounds are similar enough to natural forms of DHA and EPA to be «generally recognized as safe,» the FDA had concerns because «some studies have reported unexpected deaths among infants» fed these formulas.

The Scottish Government reduced its limit to 50mg / 100 ml in 2014, but similar measures in the rest of the UK have been resisted because of fears of their impact on pubs About the Institute of Alcohol Studies The Institute of Alcohol Studies is an independent institute bringing together evidence, policy and practice from home and abroad to promote an informed debate on alcohol's impact on society.

«Blacks and Latinos have aligned goals on issues such as economics and healthcare because African - Americans and Hispanics have similar problems in those areas,» said David Bositis, senior research associate at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Washington, D.C. - based think tank that studies public policy issues affecting African - AmeStudies, a Washington, D.C. - based think tank that studies public policy issues affecting African - Amestudies public policy issues affecting African - Americans.

In 2009, a similar study had been conducted with just on - the - ground and satellite data, said DeMott, but because it lacked the cloud sampling it was more difficult to understand what was actually happening with the dust in the atmosphere.

In a similar study Gratch co-authored with ICT senior research associate Gale Lucas and colleagues in 2016, participants were shown to often misread honesty when negotiating with each other because reassuring cues like head movement, positive language and even smiling signal honesty, but actually more frequently represent dishonest action and behaviors.

Because there's evidence that the words we hear and the words we recall or imagine trigger similar brain processes, the study, published online today in PLoS Biology, suggests scientists may one day be able to tune in to the words you're thinking — a potential boon for patients who are unable to speak due to Lou Gehrig's disease or other conditions.

«We need to do something similar with alcohol abuse, because it's clear from the results of our study that we are underestimating the number of people who abuse alcohol — the suffering associated with it is astronomical.»

A number of studies have used quantum dots to produce the similar effects but because the dots are much larger and not uniform in size, due to the nature of their synthesis, the results have not been reproducible — not every device made with quantum dots behaved the same way.

This finding improves on research in 2013 by the California Institute of Technology, which detected a similar self - lensing effect minus the brightening of the light because the two stars being studied were much closer together.

Because the Daohugou Biota and the much better studied Jehol Biota are similar in preservational mode and geographic location, but separated by tens of millions of years, they give palaeontologists an outstanding, even unique, opportunity to study changes in the fauna of this region over a significant span of geological time and an important period in vertebrate evolution.

Vasi says he chose Gasland for his study because it contains dramatic images similar to those of the burning Cuyahoga River, which helped launch the environmental movement in 1969.

The adult male effects are very interesting because we've seen similar effects in our animal studies.

«And so in the case of the research I was doing in this study, I wanted to know if squirrels would basically arrange their nuts in a way that might facilitate either recall of the location or recaching and redistribution of those nuts later, making it more convenient for them to remember where nuts were stored — because they stored nuts of a similar type or value in similar locations spatially.»

«We already assumed the sex determination to be an evolutionary young mechanism, because X and Y chromosome of N. furzeri still look very similar,» Kathrin Reichwald — Postdoc at the FLI and first author of the study — describes.

Because x-rays don't penetrate Earth's atmosphere and can be studied only from space, it was not until 1975 that researchers detected similar x-ray emissions from other stars.

«This was an important finding because it suggests that community agency providers can achieve similar treatment gains in applied settings,» said James P. Donnelly, PhD, a co-investigator on the study.

The study also looked at the likelihood of gender homophily — the notion that people affiliate with others who are similar to themselves and, in particular, of the same gender — a well - established phenomenon in heterosexual relationships because cross-gender friendships can add the complicating factor of possible romantic or sexual tension, or the jealousy of one's partner.

«Over the years, a program that is similar to those employed in private charter schools has been implemented, but the results of this study can not be extrapolated to those schools because it is not clear that they have the same level of teachers prepared to implement the program,» the professor states.

Many animal studies have demonstrated that several classes of flame retardants act as endocrine - disrupting chemicals and interfere with thyroid homeostasis (function), partly because they share a similar chemical structure with thyroid hormones, Sosa said.

Neurologist Steven Laureys of the University of Liège in Belgium, who has studied similar cases, says, «This is very welcome, because there's so little we know about these late recoveries.»

Ravens are a good subject for study, he said, because despite their obvious evolutionary divergence from humans, their social lives go through several distinct phases, similar to people.

Because the mice involved in the study were genetically similar, researchers ruled out a genetic link to the different responses.

Similar studies are under way in Europe and Japan, it notes, but the U.S. version would be more comprehensive in part because researchers would collect extensive data on environmental exposures.

Because the duck's touch sensors are similar to mammals» and their bills aren't covered in fur, the authors suggest embryonic duck bills might be a better model than standard laboratory rodents to study touch sensation as it applies to us relatively hairless humans.

In a similar study, Daniel Janzen, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and colleagues sequenced mitochondrial DNA from nearly 500 specimens of the tropical skipper butterfly preserved at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. DNA barcoding of the specimens reveal 10 species within the tropical skipper group, a classification that had eluded naturalists because the adult forms of the butterflies are so similar, the team reports online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

«Because humans and mice have similar responses, mice may be a good model for studying this further.»

Price also said the president's proposal to fold the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) into NIH would not require retaining its $ 334 million budget because NIH supports similar studies on improving health care delivery.

CRYAA, CRYAB, and similar proteins are known as «undruggable» because their activity can't be measured, says Jason Gestwicki, a biochemist at the University of California (UC), San Francisco, and a senior author of the new study, published online today in Science.

The map suggests that patterns of word meaning are consistent between different people's brains, but the team say this might be because they studied a small number of people with a culturally similar upbringing and education.

«Titan is an especially interesting target for exploration because the organic chemistry now taking place there provides the only planetary - scale laboratory for studying processes that may have been important in the prebiotic terrestrial atmosphere,» the report added, meaning that on Titan is chemistry that could have been similar to what was present on Earth before life arose.

Musen emphasizes that it is important to study both the structural and functional aspects of the brain in cognitive decline, explaining that, «We look at the correlation between the two because if a correlation exists, then it might suggest a common set of mechanisms underlying brain structure and function raising the possibility that similar treatments may be useful for improving both.»

«Our galaxy is so similar to Andromeda, it really helps us to be able to study it, because we can learn more about our galaxy and its formation,» study co-author Regina Caputo, a research scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said in the statement.

Dr Richard Melloni, who led the research, said that because the part of the brain which his team studied is similar in rodents and humans, the scientists say their findings are probably applicable to people.

«Although we first became aware of prions because they cause several bizarre neurological diseases, the discovery that something so awesomely similar happens in organisms as different as humans and yeast makes us suspect that there is a fundamental, common biochemical process at work here,» said study director Susan Lindquist, PhD, professor of molecular genetics and cell biology and an investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Chicago.

There are tradeoffs in using X-rays vs. electrons to study ultrafast processes at ultrasmall scales, he noted, though «even if the capabilities are similar, it's worth pursuing» because of the smaller size and lesser cost of machines like APEX and HiRES compared to X-ray free - electron lasers.

One such method requires frequency counts in each exposure group and assumes that adjusted relative risks are similar to unadjusted ones.88 However, frequency data were not reported for many studies, and it is essential to use age adjusted relative risks because age is an important confounder for cardiovascular disease; and ideally other known confounders should also be accounted for.

Although this limitation is present in other studies using similar artificial grammar - like nested sequences64, 104, the effects of length were typically not observed, possibly because the differences in duration in those studies were around 1 s compared to 3 s in the current experiment.

Second, because we utilized specimens from a matched case - control study, reproductive and other risk factors were more similar than in the prior pilot and allowed for multivariable modeling to adjust for any potential confounders.

It's more likely that meat, milk, and similar foods help trigger earlier puberty because they are rich in protein, calories, and nutrients, says Marcia Herman - Giddens, an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, in Chapel Hill, and the lead author of an influential 1997 study on early puberty in girls.

A similar drug, Adderall, is composed of mixed amphetamine salts and was not included in the study results because it was first approved in 1996.