Sentences with phrase «colleagues designed a study»

So Maya Almaraz, an ecologist at the University of California, Davis, and her colleagues designed a study to examine the question — both from above and below.

So she and colleagues designed a study to see how soldiers» GAT scores aligned with later illnesses.

Ullén and his colleagues designed the study to circumvent «top - down» powers of higher reasoning and test basic, «bottom - up» neurological functioning instead.

Through a collaboration of two transplant centers in France and the United States, Carmen Lefaucheur, MD, PhD (Saint - Louis Hospital, in Paris) and his colleagues designed a study to determine the greatest risk for losing a transplanted organ based on the characteristics and function of donor - specific HLA antibodies.

Ditzen and colleagues designed a study using couples and found that those treated with synthetic oxytocin had far lower stress levels.

Not exact matches

In the current study, Whitney, along with colleagues John Hinson, WSU professor of psychology, and Hans Van Dongen, director of the WSU Sleep and Performance Research Center at WSU Spokane, compared how people with different variations of the DRD2 gene performed on tasks designed to test both their ability to anticipate events and their cognitive flexibility in response to changing circumstances.

However, this research has been inconclusive, so Kumar and colleagues designed a new study to address the question.

«Along with my lab colleagues Stefanie Makinson and Bryan Higashikubo, we designed studies to examine seizures,» added Clemente.

Dr. Salomon and his colleagues feel that such viewpoints may be too simplistic, and they would like to see studies designed to cautiously but effectively determine the true potential and impact of incentives of different kinds in the United States.

«I didn't think TILT was real until we completed this study,» says physiologist Leonid Bunegin, a colleague of Miller's at the University of Texas, who helped design and carry out the research.

Roboticist Takuya Umedachi and colleagues designed the robot after studying real - life caterpillars.

The study was designed by Robert Plomin of the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London and his colleagues, to tease apart the impact of genes and the environment on educational achievement.

What sets the study apart from most previous evaluations is its randomized, controlled design — a relatively new approach honed by lead author Abhijit Banerjee, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and his colleagues.

For the new study, O'Rourke and his colleagues designed a CAR targeting an aberrant protein called EGFRvIII that is present in roughly 30 % of glioblastomas and is thought to promote malignancy.

In hopes of designing hopping robots, Goldman and his colleagues first set out to study the physics of bouncing, and in the process they stumbled upon the secret to more effective jumps.

In one study, Nyhan and his colleagues had volunteers participate in an exercise designed to bolster their feelings of self - worth, such as remembering a time they felt good about themselves or recalling a value that was important to them, before presenting them with information that contradicted their beliefs about political events.

Vincent Beringue, from INRA Virologie Immunologie Moléculaires in Jouy - en - Josas, France, and colleagues designed the second study to address what makes rabbits relatively resistant to prions.

Bierut and her colleagues analyzed data gathered through the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA), a large, multi-center, family study designed to identify genes that contribute to Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA), a large, multi-center, family study designed to identify genes that contribute to study designed to identify genes that contribute to AUDs.

In their current study, described online today in Science, Discher and his colleagues copied short snippets of the CD47 protein, known as peptides, and attached them to nanoparticles designed to ferry either imaging agents or anticancer compounds to tumors.

Miller and colleagues were intrigued by the possibility of designing studies to lower tau in people, but first they needed to see how the oligonucleotide worked in an animal more similar to people than a mouse.

In the study, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Diehl and her colleagues outline a series of nine experiments involving over 2,000 participants in the field and the lab designed to examine the effect of taking photographs of an experience on people's enjoyment of an activity.

The study was designed by Sikora and performed by Ph.D. candidate Benjamin Baarda in collaboration with Philip Proteau, a colleague of Sikora in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Sarah Emerson in the Statistics Department of the OSU College of Science.

«The unique twin design of the study by Lónnberg and colleagues, in which increasing BMI was associated with a diagnosis of psoriasis, allowed the investigators to identify a genetic correlation between psoriasis and BMI,» writes Joel M. Gelfand, M.D., M.S.C.E., of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia.

«We found that, collectively, the cyber supply chain is fragmented and stovepiped, and companies are ill - prepared to sense and respond to risks in real time,» said research professor and center co-director Sandor Boyson, who collaborated on the study and portal design with faculty - colleague / center co-director Thomas Corsi, research fellow Hart Rossman and UMD - Smith CIO Holly Mann.

This unique, prospective study design allowed Peterson and his colleagues to follow babies from a critical point in fetal brain development in utero, through birth, and all the way into toddlerhood.

In the new study, Charles Hailey, an astrophysicist at Columbia University, and his colleagues scrutinized the past dozen years of data gathered by the Chandra X-ray Observatory, an orbiting craft whose instruments are designed to detect high - energy radiation emitted by the immensely hot material surrounding exploded stars and near black holes.

As they report in two new studies, the pair and their colleagues constructed viral vectors, each one containing an RNA molecule designed to shut down a gene with a complementary sequence.

Similarly, in a re-analysis of results of a previous study, my colleague Brooke Macnamara and I found that fluid intelligence — the general ability to reason and think logically — was a strong positive predictor of skill in the board game GO, as measured by a laboratory task that was specially designed to measure a GO player's ability to evaluate game situations and select optimal moves.

While studying a group of women at risk of HIV in Mombasa, Kenya, Dr. Julie Overbaugh and colleagues found a potential vulnerability in the AIDS virus that could lead to clues for designing an effective vaccine.

«For the first time, this allows us to begin the process of designing and synthesizing new anesthetics based on where and how they work rather than on serendipity and sheer dumb luck,» said Neil Harrison, PhD, associate professor of anesthesia and critical care at the University of Chicago and director of the study, which was carried out in collaboration with Adron Harris, PhD, (UC Denver) and colleagues Eric Greenblatt at Pennsylvania and John Mihic, now at Wake Forest University.

The new study «gives us a unique opportunity to improve our knowledge of the behavior of soil deposits during earthquakes, especially in urbanized areas,» write Leyton and colleagues, who say the data could be used to help improve building designs and codes.

A major new paper from Sarah Tabrizi and colleagues, reporting the final outcomes of the TRACK - HD study, provides information that will help us better design trials of new therapies in HD as well as understand how the disease progresses.

Plans and missions designed to study the effects of clouds and aerosols have been delayed or cancelled, Charlson and his colleagues write.

The policy change provided Phillipi and her colleagues with a handy way of assessing before - and - after changes in pacifier use and breast - feeding, but their analysis lacks the rigor of a carefully designed and controlled study.

So Hall and his colleagues wanted to design the most rigorous study they could.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

Today I'm talking to Professor Peter Barrett who, along with colleagues Dr Yufan Zhang, Dr Fay Davies and Dr Lucinda Barrett, from England's Salford University, carried out a three year study into the link between physical classroom design in primary schools and academic achievement.

Matt Springer and his colleagues at Vanderbilt released a study recently on a well - designed randomized trial of a merit pay experiment in Nashville.

New Project Hopes to Learn Which Pre-K Experiences Lead to Later School Success (Education Dive) Professor Nonie Lesaux and colleagues are seeing success with the Early Learning Study which is designed to identify indicators for long - term academic and social achievement rooted in Pre-K experiences.

In fact, my CRPE colleagues and I spend a lot of time studying and talking about what it takes to design and implement policies like these, especially in cities where the schools are made up of a mix of district and charter schools and multiple oversight agencies existing side by side.

Founded by a Licensed Educational Psychologist, we felt the need to design a study guide to assist other colleagues in passing the Licensed Educational Psychologist, (LEP) examination.

We are certain that the fruits of this pilot study with our new colleagues in Hong Kong will have a great effect on the broader field of design and maker - centered learning.»

The study's design, in which teachers were judged against percentile benchmarks rather than their colleagues» performance, sought to preserve collaboration among teachers.

EdNW Presenter: Rob Larson Time & Location: 2:45 — 4:15 p.m.; Westin St. Francis, Second Level — Elizabethan A Presentation: Equitable Leadership on the Ground: Converging on High Leverage Practices in the Leadership for Equity Assessment & Development Tool Description: Larson and colleagues will report on two studies to refine and validate the LEAD Tool ™, a professional growth tool with rubrics designed to catalyze leadership for equity.

Teachers found their own problems and questions, designed their own approaches to studying them, shared their work with colleagues, supported colleagues in similar endeavors by critiquing their work, and participated in public dissemination about the project.

In your PLC, you and your colleagues would study Design Question 2 («What will I do to help students effectively interact with new knowledge?»)

Mindset Scholars David Paunesku, Greg Walton, Carissa Romero, David Yeager, Carol Dweck, and their colleague Eric Smith designed a study to test whether brief, online programs could improve academic outcomes for large groups of high school students.

This Spencer Foundation - funded research is designed to study the work of skilled Mills Teacher Scholars teacher leaders as they support their colleagues to learn from classroom evidence.

Most of the questions contained in this study guide are ones you can think about on your own, but you might consider pairing with a colleague or forming a study group with others who have read (or are reading) How to Design Questions and Tasks to Assess Student Thinking.

To explore this question, we designed a year - long longitudinal study, now underway, on the innovation adoption process as it relates to ereaders and our colleagues.