Sentences with phrase «brief exposure»

Studies show that even brief exposure to light in the middle of the night can disrupt a woman's cycle.

It is much more productive to have frequent and very brief exposures than occasional prolonged exposures.

The medical researchers added that indirect evidence indicating that even relatively brief exposures could lead to a heart attack is compelling.

Even through brief exposure to images of frightening events on the television and other forms of media, children can become distressed, fearful and believe that the world is a scary place.

There were significant associations between brief exposure to maternal mental ill - health, but the outcomes for children were less marked than for those repeatedly exposed to a mother with mental health problems.

The central hypothesis examines whether brief exposure to a Web adventure format containing virtual lab experiments and computer games within an engaging story line can impact student learning.

Knit socks are another workable solution for brief exposure to cold winter weather.

Effects of brief exposure to water, breast - milk substitutes, or other liquids on the success and duration of breastfeeding: a systematic review

Not surprisingly, even healthy individuals show significant changes in brain wave activity during brief exposures to olfactory stimuli that are actually below the sensory threshold and not even consciously perceived.

In the journal Optical Materials Express, from The Optical Society (OSA), the researchers reported that graphene oxide sheets treated with brief exposure to bright light in the form of a camera flash exhibited reversible bending at angles from zero to 85 degrees in response to switching the relative humidity between 33 and 86 percent.

Brief exposure in infancy to several industrial chemicals that are common in the human environment, particularly bisphenol A (BPA), caused fatty liver disease in adulthood, the researchers found in rats.

Yang, J. et al. (7) wished to trigger intracellular Ca + + release with an optogenetic receptor, melanopsin, requiring brief exposure to 470nm blue light.

It helps that the Pixels shoot in HDR + by default — the feature stitches together multiple brief exposures to improve the resulting photo's dynamic range and detail.

While brief exposure to a mother with poor mental health has been associated with adverse emotional and cognitive outcomes for the child (Murray et al., 1996, and Wachs et al., 2009), long - term exposure may additionally be associated with adverse behavioural outcomes (Lyons - Ruth et al., 1993 and Chang et al, 2007).

«Our study is the first to examine brief exposure to a range of modifiable triggers for an acute episode of low back pain.»

So in general, we think about blanching as involving very brief exposure to heat.

So even brief exposure to biased nonverbal signals, she said, could result in them developing generalized biases.

In conclusion, our results show for the first time, we believe, that even a relatively brief exposure (less than two weeks) to an urban environment during early development can have detrimental effects on TL, with potential carryover effects on lifespan and fitness.

There were significant associations between brief exposure to maternal mental ill - health, but the outcomes for these children were less marked than for those repeatedly exposed to a mother with mental health problems.

Adams's music burrows so deeply into the mind's soft tissue that even brief exposure is likely to leave you murmuring Peas lyrics.

Sometimes, brief exposure to cool air outdoors can relieve the cough.

So far, experts strongly recommend sealants based on their proven benefits and the brief exposure to BPA, which can be minimized by taking certain steps in the application process.

Reporting in the journal Child Development, researchers found that even brief exposure to a picture made the subject familiar when 9 - month - olds encountered the object later.

Neuroscientists think that the brief exposure beforehand reactivates the memory of drug taking, making it easier to erase the link between the cues of drug taking and getting high, and to replace it with a memory in which no such link is formed.

More and more, researchers are finding that an extra bit of a vitamin, a brief exposure to a toxin, even an added dose of mothering can tweak the epigenome — and thereby alter the software of our genes — in ways that affect an individual's body and brain for life.

«Brief exposure to charismatic career women inspires female students to pursue same field: Easy, inexpensive experiment briefly sent inspiring role models into intro to econ classes and sharply increased college female interest in the male - dominated, well - paying field of economics.»

Relapses are the reason most treatment programs fail, he says, because a single, brief exposure to a disavowed drug ignites a compulsion in addicts more powerful than that engendered by continual use.

Drs. Leapman and Kaplan note that the study suggests that even brief exposures to opioids may result in problems for a minority of patients.

During Apollo, astronauts had only a brief exposure to cosmic rays.

«Brief exposure to tiny air pollution particles triggers childhood lung infections.»

Jesse says, «In all of our experiments, we found learning with a very brief exposure to the previously unfamiliar speakers.

893 first - year female students at three Canadian universities (the universities of Calgary, Guelph and Windsor) were randomly assigned to either the EAAA resistance program or brief exposure to brochures about sexual assault (control group), which is what most universities have available to students on campus.

«You could mimic someone getting a brief exposure on a battlefield and then look at the neurons over six months and see what happens,» Kulp said.

Remarkably, unpublished results suggest this brief exposure also proved effective at reducing students» perception of a conflict.

For some people, that one brief exposure is all it takes to alter the brain's systems for controlling cravings and to set up a lifelong weakness for nicotine.

«As we have now shown, even brief exposure to IL - 6 can lead to long - lasting alterations in colon cancer cells that enhance their mobility and thus increase their metastasizing potential,» says Heiko Hermeking of LMU's Institute of Pathology.

The researchers believe the study is the first of its kind to find that brief exposure to spanking research can alter people's views toward spanking.

«These studies demonstrate that a brief exposure to research findings can reduce positive corporal punishment attitudes in parents and non-parents.»

Even brief exposure to high radiation released from nuclear power plants or from bomb testing deranges DNA for generations to come, says Yuri Dubrova, a geneticist at the University of Leicester in England.

«It is quite telling that brief exposure to biased nonverbal signals was able to create a bias among children in the lab.»

Brief exposure to anti-smoking television ads with messages about why to quit smoking can influence a smoker to quit within a month, while ads about how to quit smoking do not influence smoking behaviors, according to new research by RTI International.

«We are showing for the first time that even a brief exposure to opioids can have long - term negative effects on pain,» said Grace, who is a faculty member along with Watkins in CU - Boulder's Department of Psychology and Neuroscience.

The new research findings are consistent with the results of previous studies; however, this study is unique because it is the first to find that brief exposure to ads containing messages about why to quit smoking that feature strong, negative emotions or graphic images can influence smoking behaviors.

The study, published online today in PLoS Genetics, is the first to suggest that low, brief exposures to bisphenol - A, or other estrogens such as those used in birth control but found as water contaminants, early in life can alter the stem cells responsible for producing sperm later in life.

«We are showing for the first time that even a brief exposure to opioids can have long - term negative effects on pain,» said Professor Peter Grace from the CU - Boulder's Department of Psychology and Neuroscience.

Brief exposure to anabolic steroids may have long lasting, possibly permanent, performance - enhancing effects, shows a study published today [28 October] in The Journal of Physiology.

Brief exposure to low levels of nicotine, as little as that provided by a single cigarette, can cause lasting changes in the brain's «reward» areas, report two University of Chicago scientists in the August 2000 issue of Neuron.

While any amount of learning is beneficial, it's unlikely that a brief exposure to a second language actually helps lower your dementia risk.