Sentences with phrase «broad studies such»

But broad studies such as Vanguard's do little to evaluate the ability of «truly» active managers to add value.

Not exact matches

The social media platform made such data grabs easy for app developers — though it began severely restricting them in 2015 — and Wylie saw it as a powerful way to study an entire nation on a scale at once broad and precise.

Despite difficulties in conceptualizing and measuring the idea of broad meaning systems or broad explanatory frameworks, the studies seemed to demonstrate the importance of such cognitive perspectives.

Such foreign study, under a broad program of regular international exchange of teachers and students, should increasingly become a normal feature of formal education for mature young people.

SNA will present a broad body of research that exists around breakfast consumption, and two specific research studies examining breakfast - in - the - classroom, specifically; we'll examine benefits beyond increased participation such as academic performance, decreased tardiness, improved behavior and attendance, a and a reduction in visits to the nurse's office.

Very few research studies have investigated the effects of specific foods on fertility, but the broader food groups — such as fruits, vegetables, dairy, and whole grains — have been studied.

A broader economic approach to the measurement of outcomes, such as stated preference discrete choice modelling, might have captured women's preferences for alternative attributes of planned place of birth and might have been more informative to decision makers, 28 but this was not practically possible given the anonymity involved in the study design and the available resources.

«Today's announcement to make it compulsory will exacerbate the already evident problems that far too many children and young people are being denied the opportunity to study a broad and balanced range of subjects, particularly creative subjects such as music, art and drama.

Using such a broad range of approaches «enabled me to get a very good overview of different techniques and different organisms that can be used to study complex problems in biology,» Outeiro says.

«The broad adoption of POLST in California's nursing homes is possible due to a combination of state - level efforts — such as passing legislation and developing a standardized POLST form and curriculum — and the grassroots efforts of local POLST coalitions who educate providers and consumers in cities and counties throughout the state,» said Judy Thomas, study co-author and CEO of the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California, the organization that runs the POLST program in California.

For Leicht, the author of books such as «Middle Class Meltdown in America,» the study of high - tech development over a couple decades has been part of his broader research focus on economic development and jobs - related issues.

Acting on advice from the NSABB, the U.S. government last month asked Science and Nature to publish only the broad conclusions of the two studies, and not to reveal the scientific details, in order to limit the risk that uncontrolled proliferation of such research might lead to accidental or intentional release of similar mutant viruses.

This finding is important because it demonstrates the potential for broad applications of such models to study brain function, even for people with visual deficits.

Marshall suggests that it also emphasizes the importance of considering broader environmental contexts, such as predation risk, as well as the perceptual abilities of natural observers like predators in studies of animal behavior.

«The imaging technique could shed light on the immune dysfunction that underpins a broad range of neuroinflammatory diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction,» said Christine Sandiego, PhD, lead author of the study and a researcher from the department of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn. «This is the first human study that accurately measures this immune response in the brain.

The collection of studies in the theme issue provides a rallying point for broader discussions of how human influences shape evolution and how that evolution, in turn, influences species traits, biodiversity, and «ecosystem services» — the benefits that nature provides to humans, such as food, water and clean air.

► The Broad Institute received a huge donation — $ 650 million, the largest ever made for psychiatric research — from philanthropist and businessman Ted Stanley, to study the biological basis of psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, Emily Underwood wrote at ScienceInsider.

This study aids in the broader understanding of the complex mechanisms that influence harmful algal bloom progression in bodies of water rich in organic nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen, and points to the direct need to reduce nutrient pollution in the face of both urban and agricultural development.

What's not clear from this study is how such damage might be affecting pteropod populations or the broader ecosystem.

«Though our study is preliminary, based upon these findings and the broader literature, patients and clinicians should consider insomnia as an additional warning sign of potential suicidal behavior, not just a symptom of other warning signs, such as depression or alcohol use,» Nadorff said.

The Broad Institute, a collaborative biomedical research center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has received a $ 650 million donation from philanthropist and businessman Ted Stanley to study the biological basis of diseases such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

The study, published in the July issue of the journal Epidemiology, offers benefits over typically used randomized clinical trials, as such studies are often too small to identify rare side effects or may be performed in a group of patients who do not take other types of medications or have other conditions that could skew the drug's effect in a broader group following approval.

Studying data from between 2007 - 2009, they identified a sample of 238,624 visits by patients 18 and older at those medical facilities and found that 61 percent of antibiotic prescriptions were for broad - spectrum drugs, such as Levaquin ®.

The researchers caution that it's impossible to draw broad conclusions about Neandertal life histories from this one sample, such as whether Neandertals weaned their children earlier or later than modern humans who lived at the same time, or whether Neandertal children grew up faster, as some earlier studies have suggested — questions that could heavily bear on why Neandertals could not keep up with modern humans in the survival sweepstakes.

The study also may have broader implications for how clinicians approach the development of such treatments and understand mechanisms behind resistance to treatment in other cancers.

Greening already under way Isla Myers - Smith, a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh who did not participate in the research, said the study is a «major advance» because it is the first to link such a broad range of vegetation changes with several climate feedbacks in the Arctic.

«The real question is, how does this relate to performance in the real world under less controlled circumstances,» says Timothy Roehrs, a psychophysiologist at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, who cautions against drawing broad conclusions from such a small study.

Researchers leading the largest genomic tumor profiling effort of its kind say such studies are technically feasible in a broad population of adult and pediatric patients with many different types of cancer, and that some patients can benefit by receiving precision drugs targeted to their tumors» mutations or being enrolled in clinical trials.

«We need to study a broader patient population to not only validate these findings but also determine other factors, such as inflammatory cytokines, that may contribute to the development of fatty liver in the IBD population.»

In further studies, they plan to explore the role of autophagy in immune reactions toward other tumor cell types, to determine whether such therapies might be effective in a broad range of cancers.

It is a real opportunity to explore the diversity of marine micro-eukaryotes which will help us to understand their relative importance through studying specifics such as their metabolic function from a gene repertoire to more broad concepts such as the identification of their ecological functions.

It covers a broad range of topics, from basic scientific processes to specific concepts such as the electromagnetic spectrum, the life cycles of stars, the reasons for Earth's seasons, exploration of the Moon, and the ways in which we detect and study extrasolar planets.

Those that choose to study a broader degree such as Biomedical Sciences or Biological Sciences will not be disadvantaged when applying for postgraduate immunology courses.

Such broad functionality compounds studies of their reproductive evolution because the selective pressures driving their evolution may be due to critical somatic functions, and not a reproduction - related function.

The broad conservation of neurohormonal signaling pathways between mammalian systems and C. elegans such as insulin - like signaling, serotonin, etc., validates studying the cell non-autonomous control of protein homeostasis by the nervous system of C. elegans to instruct our understanding of age - related human disease.

Also, although the studies cited above used only strontium, plus calcium and vitamin D, better results would be achieved by including other potential anti-osteoporotic substances such as a broad - spectrum mineral replacement that includes magnesium, vitamin K and boron, plus Xylitol, ipriflavone, calcium hydroxyapatite, progesterone cream (and in some cases, estrogen), and DHEA.

These results are further confused by the broad variations in study type, where L - arginine is often provided to study participants in combination with other supplements, such as antioxidants or other amino acids.

First off, this is an epidemiological study, utilizing nothing more than a questionnaire to find broad associations between factors such as diet and lifestyle.

These changes improve a broad range of stress - related health outcomes, such as your inflammatory health,» says J. David Creswell, PhD, lead author of the study and associate professor of psychology at CMU.

Studies suggest that gut microbiota alterations due to unhealthy lifestyle and inadequate nutrition may contribute to the pathogenesis of a broad spectrum of diseases such as obesity, diabetes mellitus, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, colorectal cancer, cardiovascular disease, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and type 2 diabetes.

Linked Learning offers secondary students a multi-year course of study that combines academic and technical learning organized around broad industry sectors, such as biomedical and health sciences; finance and business; information technology; public services; and arts, media and entertainment.

And since this curriculum touches on a broad range of skills and content — including activities related to study skills, conflict resolution, and college and career exploration — counselors often reach out to and collaborate with people who have expertise in these areas, such as local college faculty, healthcare professionals, and employers.

(B) provide satisfactory assurances to the Secretary that the States has studied and considered a broad variety of means for providing services to individuals with the most severe handicaps; provide for such methods of administration, other than methods relating to the establishment and maintenance of personnel standards, as are found by the Secretary to be necessary for the proper and efficient administration of the plan;

The study finds that a portfolio of such stocks has beaten the broad stock market, as measured by the S&P 1500 Index, by an average of 1.3 percentage points per year since 1990.

The story details how several retailers and restaurants have reaped significant rewards by increasing their ratio of full - time staff, a premise that is supported by broader studies, such as one conducted by consulting firm Korn Ferry Hay Group.

Seen through the lens of curatorial studies, the vectors of such a broad list take on real specificity, allowing for reflection on the growing — if still productively rogue — history of curatorial practice while providing a firm foundation for experimental projects in the field.

With topics such as luxury objects in the pre-Columbian Americas, 20th - century Afro - Brazilian art, alternative spaces in Mexico City, and boundary - crossing practices of Latino artists, exhibitions will range from monographic studies of individual artists to broad surveys that cut across numerous countries.

Finally, Nicholas Pinter, a Southern Illinois University scientist studying flooding disasters, says Obama should consider broader shifts in the budget and bureaucracy at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which still is mainly focused on responding once a disaster has struck — with only 15 percent of its spending in such instances devoted to steps that can cut known vulnerability the next time around.

But from such broad open - minded study of all data, valid conclusions can be drawn.

I'd like to think he's read our stories on such climate engineering options, including one last year in our Energy Challenge series by Bill Broad (with some help from me) in which the president of the National Academy of Sciences, the atmospheric chemist Ralph Cicerone, endorsed the need to aggressively study such options, even as the world works to limit emissions.