Sentences with phrase «body of data using»

It's just not answerable through the underlying body of data used in this study.

Not exact matches

She cites particularly the inclusion of a fraud exemption that would allow the use of data by non-specialist bodies like businesses to tackle fraud cases.

In a realm of swirling, incomprehensible big biological data — which is, perhaps, another way of thinking about the human body — the opportunity to use computer learning to better anticipate which drugs will work well (and not so well) in any one person is one we shouldn't pass up.

«I'd compliment the Chinese government in terms of leadership on using data,» Facebook Vice President Vaughan Smith said on Tuesday, citing government bodies such as the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) and Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

Biomica is using big data to analyze the interface between the bacterial environment of human beings and the human body.

To achieve this goal, several approaches are envisaged: identifying small populations with severe disease where a medicine's benefit - risk balance could be favorable; making more use of real - world data where appropriate to support clinical trial data; and involving health technology assessment bodies early in development to increase the chance that medicines will be recommended for payment and ultimately covered by national healthcare systems.

Based on the body of research and using monthly inputs for the Baker - Wurgler Index during July 1965 through December 2016, three sets of investor sentiment survey data since inceptions (between Dec 1969 and July 1987) through December 2016 and two sets of textual analysis data spanning Jan 2003 through December 2014 and Jul 2004 through Dec 2011, he finds that: Keep Reading

A scientific theory is simply meant to provide an explanation for some body of natural phenomenon with the use of what we have found - gathered evidence, data, laws, hypothesis, facts in their explanation.

it will make you wonder if there is a spirit beyond our bodies,,, or all of it is in the brain itself... I see how hard it is for stroke victims to return to their old self after the brain has been damaged... and I wondered sometimes if the person I knew was even in the body anymore... It is a question I do not have a firm answer for... but I like to think the spirit exists and just can not use the brain anymore... it is like a computer interface that is damaged and the body has failed to repair itself... Our brains can reroute data, or rebuild some damage..

We chose to model the effects on body weight because good evidence (from both trials and epidemiological studies) links regular consumption of sugar sweetened drinks to weight gain.8 10 12 Moreover, data from longitudinal studies support the idea that changes in the price of sugar sweetened drinks are linked to changes in body weight.20 Other groups have used this form of modelling to estimate the effects of a sugar sweetened drink tax on obesity.18 21 22

My hat is off to US Lacrosse (which, by the way, is an organization that I highlighted in my book, Home Team Advantage, for having a Board of Directors, unlike almost all other sports governing bodies, comprised equally of men and women), for providing the funding needed to design testing protocols and conduct the testing which yielded the data and measurements used in shaping the new headgear standard.

Interestingly, just days before the NFL's decision to suspend the use of impact sensors was announced, my local paper, The Boston Globe, came out with a powerful editorial in which it urged college, high school, and recreational leagues in contact and collision sports to consider mandating use of impact sensors, or, at the very least, experimenting with the technology, to alert the sideline personnel to hits that might cause concussion, and to track data on repetitive head impacts, which, a growing body of peer - reviewed evidence suggests, may result, over time, in just as much, if not more, damage to an athlete's brain, as a single concussive blow, and may even predispose an athlete to concussion.

With years of clinical, personal and research experience, Suzanne Colson uses research data to interpret breastfeeding behaviors in their natural habitat... mother's body.

For all women included in the study, we collected data on their age, height, weight before pregnancy, body mass index, income quintile, drug and alcohol use (v. no use) during pregnancy, smoking status, status of parenthood (single v. other), parity, gestational age at first prenatal visit, number of antenatal visits and history of ultrasonography before 20 weeks» gestation.

The new plan, developed by Professor Chris Gobler of Stony Brook University, the Cornell Cooperative Extension and state officials, will use data to determine whether to use oysters or clams in particular locations, whether adults or juveniles have the best chance of success, and which water bodies to seed.

In a study published in the May 29, 2014, edition of Molecular Ecology Resources, Duke researchers Peter Larsen, Ryan Campbell and Anne Yoder used high - throughput sequencing on sifaka blood samples to generate sequence data for more than 150,000 different sifaka antibodies — protective molecules that latch on to bacteria, viruses and other foreign invaders in the body and fight them off before they cause infection.

«For the first time, we have used a geophysical method to determine the internal structure of Enceladus, and the data suggest that indeed there is a large, possibly regional ocean about 50 kilometers below the surface of the south pole,» says David Stevenson, the Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Planetary Science at Caltech and an expert in studies of the interior of planetary bodies.

Using a United Kingdom database, they surveyed general practitioners about BSA affected by psoriasis and looked at data on 8,124 adults with psoriasis and 76,599 adults without psoriasis over the course of four years, and they adjusted the samples to account for any differences in age, sex, and body mass index and other diabetes risk factors.

The cat owners collected «spontaneous» data on whether the cats used their left or right paws when they stepped down the stairs or over objects and whether they slept on the left or right side of their body.

«What's appealing about the current growing body of evidence on right - to - carry laws is that different researchers using different methodologies and different data sets are coming to similar conclusions... We are all coalescing around the same message, and that's the best that science can do: Look at the imperfect data in different ways and see if a consistent story emerges.»

Using the computer - based visual evaluation of this data, they reconstructed the volume of the body cavity, which is delineated by the spinal column, the ribcage and the pelvis.

Using information from the VITamins and Lifestyle study, Dibaba and the other co-authors analyzed an enormous trove of data on over 66,000 men and women, ages 50 to 76, looking at the direct association between magnesium and pancreatic cancer and whether age, gender, body mass index, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs use and magnesium supplementation play a role.

A paper in this week's Science, using 10 days of early data gathered by Kepler, demonstrates the spacecraft's ability to spot large planets and provides encouragement that Earth - size bodies are within its reach.

The rise is linked to a «creeping homogenisation» of diets across the world, says the report, whose figures are based on trends extrapolated using body - mass index data.

The revised map draws on 30 years of data and uses a complex algorithm to factor in other variables that affect local temperatures, such as altitude and the presence of water bodies.

Stankowich et al. used natural history data, including range overlap with potential predators, body size, and activity patterns, in conjunction with comparative phylogenetic analyses on 181 species of mammals to identify patterns of predation risk that could have contributed to the evolution of these two defensive strategies.

Microsoft also uses professionally staged motion - capture scenes, which provides similar data but without all the manual labor of coding by hand (since the systems use sensors that mark individual body parts).

The first results from the FIRAS experiment, using only 9 minutes of data, showed that the cosmic background radiation has exactly the black - body spectrum expected in the hot big bang theory, with a temperature of 2.735 + / - 0.060 kelvin.

After adjusting the data for age, sex, race, education, smoking, alcohol use, blood pressure, diabetes, high blood pressure medication, cholesterol levels, statin use and body mass index, the researchers found that those people who met both the recommended activity levels and had vitamin D levels above 20 nanograms per milliliter experienced about a 23 percent less chance of having an adverse cardiovascular event than those people with poor physical activity who were deficient for vitamin D. On the other hand, people who had adequate exercise but were vitamin D deficient didn't have a reduced risk of an adverse event.

While more data are needed to improve the model, and it is unclear if it can be extrapolated to animals of much larger body mass, the researchers hope that it might help predict features of non-avian dinosaur locomotion using data from fossils and footprints.

Researchers used data from different people's genotypes and metabolism to build personalized models that simulate how a drug will affect a particular set of cells in the body.

The threads collected data on tissue health (e.g. pressure, stress, strain and temperature), pH and glucose levels that can be used to determine such things as how a wound is healing, whether infection is emerging, or whether the body's chemistry is out of balance.

Based on data gathered when participants entered each study, the investigators used four AHA - defined lifestyle factors — no current smoking; lack of obesity, defined as a body mass index less than 30; physical exercise at least once a week, and a healthy dietary pattern — to determine a lifestyle score, whether participants had a favorable (three or four healthy factors), intermediate (two factors) or unfavorable (one or no healthy factors) lifestyle.

NOAA, NASA, EPA, and the U.S. Geological Survey announced, in April, a $ 3.6 million multi-agency research effort designed to be an early warning system for freshwater nuisance and toxic algal blooms by using satellites that can gather color data from freshwater bodies during scans of the Earth.

Movement data was collected using a 10 - camera 3D motion analysis system from reflective markers placed at anatomical locations on the body to calculate whole - body centre - of - mass (CoM).

Land's team is developing maps of the body's structure which the computer uses to correct the raw data.

An experimental augmented reality headset shows a virtual 3D map of a patient's internal organs, created using data from MRI and CAT scans and overlaid on the body.

The scientists developed whole - body models to simulate the fate of each drug after ingestion and validated the models using experimental data from scientific literature.

This data from almost 4,000 individuals was also used to analyze the contribution of excess body weight to years of life lost and healthy years of life lost.

«Our technology could be used to provide scalable and fine - grained access control to various bodies of data collected by different organizations and shared via the cloud, with applications in areas such as healthcare, finance and data - centric cloud applications,» says Zhou.

Dr. Grover and his colleagues used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (from years 2003 to 2010) to develop a model that estimates the annual risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease in adults with different body weights.

Since 2003, Kevin Hall, PhD — a physicist turned metabolism researcher at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases — has been using data from dozens of controlled feeding studies conducted over decades of nutrition research to build mathematical models of how different nutrients affect human metabolism and body weight.

Sapsis and Cousins used the statistical data to quantify the range of wave possibilities, for a given body of water.

CT detectors report the results of these X-rays to a powerful computer that uses the data to compute cross-sectional views of organs in the body.

Tasked with constantly measuring his son's glucose levels and trying to give him just the right amount of insulin, he realized that what he needed was a computer algorithm — a set of rules designed to solve a problem — that could use data from a CGM to instruct an insulin pump on how to respond to the body's need for the hormone.

Dr. Curren's specialization in laboratory experimentation (used to supplement spacecraft data) has led her to explore the environmental processes that dictate the evolution of materials on the surfaces of solar system bodies.

Combining these new images and photometry with ancilliary data from the literature, we undertook simultaneous multi-wavelength modelling of the discs» radial profiles and spectral energy distributions using three different methodologies: single annulus, modified black body, and a radiative transfer code.

The Vivosmart 3 can also track your VO2 max — the maximum amount of oxygen your body can use at any given moment — and translate that data into your «fitness age.»

These algorithms use indirect respirometry data as their standard.15 This means that researchers measure a bunch of people's energy needs by analyzing the combination of gases expired in their breath, and then make formulas that account for different variables like gender, body mass, and body composition to help you estimate your calorie needs.

Essentially, the researchers took genetic copies who had become different in body weight and used 3 - day food logs and 7 days of accelerometer data to get a very rough estimation whether food and diet could explain most of the difference in body weight between the two.