Sentences with phrase «begun population studies»

Mignot and his colleagues have begun population studies to see whether hypocretin receptor 2 mutations appear in narcoleptic people.

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Mr. Lippman said last week he was not beginning the commission with a particular outcome in mind, but intended only to study the population, see if it could be shrunk, and determine whether a different model is feasible.

The condition afflicts about 1 % of the population beginning around age 16, is often detected by age 22 and impacts women and men equally, he said citing a study.

The search for the gene began in Finland, whose isolated population has often been studied for its elevated rate of rare genetic diseases.

Since that time, the Gorongosa Restoration Project has managed and studied existing wildlife populations and has begun to restock species struggling to recover on their own.

«As you start losing resources, then that's going to have a disproportionate impact on that specialist whose flowers are not really common to begin with; this is one of the real strengths of the study: it shows that the change in the flower population is actually exerting a selective pressure on the pollinator.»

Wolf populations on the island, once numbering about 50, are at their lowest level since the study began in 1958.

Twins in the study whose genomes showed a low risk for Alzheimer's, for example, did have about a 12 percent (thus, much, much smaller) risk than that of the general population (which, to begin with, has a relatively small risk of getting Alzheimer's during their lifetimes).

According to Both's research, caterpillar population now peaks 16 days earlier than in 1985, when the study began.

That curtain began to lift a bit a few years ago, when Doody and student Philip Paull of Monash University in Australia began studying a population of delicate skinks (Lampropholis delicata) in a park near Sydney.

However, beginning in the 1980s the tide turned again due to mounting evidence from new approaches: parentage and spatial population genetic structure studies.

The study population included offspring of participants living in all 50 states in Nurses» Health Study II, a cohort of more than 116,000 female U.S. nurses begun in study population included offspring of participants living in all 50 states in Nurses» Health Study II, a cohort of more than 116,000 female U.S. nurses begun in Study II, a cohort of more than 116,000 female U.S. nurses begun in 1989.

The three other populations that the researchers studied are also losing genetic variation — and they didn't have much to begin with, because each was founded by a small number of Kapiti birds, the scientists report online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

This population has been continuously monitored since 1972, and data collected on more than 3000 elephants since the study began.

Since Christophe Boesch began studying wild chimpanzees in the Taï forest in Côte d'Ivoire in 1979, the animals» populations have declined by more than two - thirds.

But he says Nance needs to repeat the study in other ethnic populations, because the frequency of Cx 26 mutations may have been different in Mongolians to begin with.

Emerging Ag began organizing scientists to join the online forum long before on behalf of a client it has had for 4 years, Target Malaria, a nonprofit consortium that is funded by Gates to study gene drives to reduce populations of malaria - transmitting mosquitoes.

«We found there is little diversity in skin tone in these textbooks,» said the study's lead author Patricia Louie, who began the research at UBC and is now a PhD student at U of T. «Proportional to the population, race is represented fairly accurately, but this diversity is undermined by the fact that the images mostly depict light skin tones.»

For China, Germany, and the USA, the study showed that population aging would peak and begin declining well before the end of the century.

A 2010 graduate of the doctoral program in archaeological anthropology at Washington University, he began research for this study as part of a dissertation examining fluctuations in populations of mice and other small animals living around Maasai cattle herding settlements in Kenya.

Project leader Ben Novak begins researching the historical ecology of the Passenger pigeon, starting with population genetics studying the paleoecology of eastern N. American forests.

With 8 -10-meter class telescopes coming online equipped now in the next decade with large fields - of - view (such as the Subaru Telescope with Hyper Suprime - Cam and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope), I think we'll be able to find many more residents of the inner Oort Cloud, and begin to really study this population of remote icy bodies that until now has remained rather elusive.

These studies began with the adult population and have been expanded to offer the agents to adolescents.

In this study, we have begun to explore the population structure and molecular determinants of AMR amongst E. coli isolates from Malawi.

During his career as a fitness coach, Alwyn began with assisting in martial arts lessons in 1986 and teaching fitness classes in 1989, and has studied under all of the top fitness professionals and coaches in the world and has worked with a wide variety of clientele, from general population clientele to several top level athletes, World Champions, and professionals in a multitude of sports.

His career success began in 2006 at Celgene Corporation, where he was the principal investigator behind a highly interdisciplinary program focused on mass spectrometry - based proteomic studies of placenta - derived populations of stem cells and natural killer cells.

As soon as someone begins taking vitamin D supplements at the levels recommended by Dr. Mercola and the Vitamin D Council, they are no longer a member of the vitamin D - deficient population studied in the Nurses» Health Study so the results of that study do not apply to Study so the results of that study do not apply to study do not apply to them.

When several New London teachers begin their professional development this summer, they'll study learning strategies that will allow them to develop the talents of their students, improve academic performance and develop their own unique programs based on local resources, student populations and school leadership dynamics.

They also studied the population of the county in the six years before the program began, to compare it with the first six years of the program.

This 11 - year study followed a population of 155 free - roaming campus cats from 1991, when the TNR program began, to 2002.

By naming the turtles we can begin to study them more closely, keep track of their health and population dynamics and relate that data to the health of the ecosystem.

Friday morning, I began sifting the literature on saiga mortality and found strong hints of a possible cause in a study of smaller saiga die - offs in 2010 (12,000 animals) and 2011 (just 450) in the animal's westernmost population, in the Urals.

This is the first study to document how population - level health inequalities have changed during childhood in a nationally representative cohort of UK children born at the beginning of the 21st century.

But after the vacancies began to mount, Lane officers studied the surroundings and discovered that a predominantly Hispanic population and blue - collar businesses had replaced a more diverse base of residents and companies.