Sentences with phrase «colleagues focused their study»

In this Brain paper, Drs. Kucewicz and Berry, and colleagues focused their study on four areas of the brain known to support memory for facts and events that can be consciously recalled.

Thomas Hladish, from the University of Florida in Gainesville, USA, and colleagues focused their study on Yucatán state in Mexico because dengue is a serious problem there and detailed information on disease incidence exists.

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For their report, Hauck and her colleagues looked at data from a large infant feeding study and they focused on about 1,800 mothers who were breastfeeding when their baby was two weeks old.

In the first study to assess the relationship between structural and functional MRI data in bipolar disorder, Dr. Shantanu Joshi and his colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles focused on brain regions that play a role in mood dysregulation in the disorder.

Unlike the previous studies that focused on certain species or a particular RNA virus, Skalka went broad: She and her colleagues surveyed every vertebrate genome available, 48 in all, and looked for hints of 5666 RNA viral sequences from 38 known families and nine genera that were unclassified.

Vines and his colleagues focused on a type of data collection that hasn't changed all that much, certain types of morphological studies of plants and animals.

Kim and his colleagues are planning to continue their studies of pancreatic and islet - cell development as part of a Stanford focus on diabetes and metabolism research.

Levy and his colleagues focused on 1,697 participants whose parents were also part of the Framingham Heart Study when it began in 1948.

For this study, Dr. Lou and his colleagues focused on triple - negative breast cancer, which is difficult to treat, because it does not exhibit receptors for estrogen, progesterone or the HER - 2 / neu gene, which are targets for many current breast cancer treatments.

Barbara Means of the Center for Technology in Learning at SRI International and colleagues (I am a co-principal investigator on this study) are conducting a longitudinal study comparing outcomes of ISHSs with those of non-STEM — focused high schools in three states.

In the current study, Huc and his colleagues have focused on enzymes that are generically capable of binding to DNA, irrespective of its base sequence.

But in the new study, he and his colleagues took a different tack: Instead of focusing on blocking and slow - moving Rossby waves, they turned to smaller and quicker undulations called «free, transient Rossby waves.»

Jens Hainmueller, lead author of the study and a political scientist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and colleagues looked at the childrens» medical records, focusing on two distinct types of psychiatric diagnosis.

Most studies into the snakes» gliding skills have focused on these wave - like body undulations, but Jake Socha of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg and his colleagues decided to focus on another factor.

In this study, Horney and colleagues focused on PAHs, which are a product of combustion from human activities such as petroleum consumption in transportation or natural processes such as wildfires.

During a three - year - long field study, Buchan and his colleagues focused on instances when an adult male intervened to protect an individual juvenile who was threatened or bullied.

Shalowitz and colleagues suggest future studies should focus on defining areas with poor clinical outcomes attributed to geographic factors, and creating a comprehensive national, geographically - linked database on the utilization of gynecologic cancer care and clinical outcomes.

Carrasco and her colleague Alejandro Jiménez focus their studies on a window in the main chamber built during the first stage.

In the new study, Burrows and colleagues focused on the protein HIC1, or «Hypermethylated in cancer 1, «so named because it was first identified in cancer cells; however, it also helps regulate gene expression in normal cells.

In a study described in the January 13 issue of Cancer Cell, Marikki Laiho, M.D., Ph.D., and her colleagues say their work focused on the ability of a chemical dubbed BMH - 21 to sabotage the transcription pathway RNA Polymerase pathway (POL I), shutting down the ability of mutant cancer genes to communicate with cells and replicate.

J H S Tong and colleagues report a study that brings into sharp focus the likely relevance of noncoding variants for the genetic risk associated with Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Peter and colleagues focused their initial studies on a standard panel, known as NCI60, of 60 human tumor cell lines that can genetically be divided into two large groups, which they called superclusters 1 and 2.

In response, Jacobson and colleagues at Stanford, the University of California at Berkeley and Aalborg University in Denmark have now produced a new study, focusing on 20 global regions encompassing the 139 countries, with supply and demand matching modelled for a range of storage / backup options over the period 2050 - 54.

To mimic these conditions in an animal study, Skaar and his colleagues focused their research on mice exposed to C. diff while being given antibiotics.

Still, the study focused only on kids with a milder form of eczema, so the results may not apply to children with more severe infected eczema, Francis and colleagues said.

In fact, a recent study by Focht and colleague Tom Raedeke, PhD, found just what Gilbert discovered: When the instructors feedback focused on an exercise routines fitness or health benefits, participants felt better, enjoyed the class more, and were more motivated to return than when the instructor emphasized looking good or losing weight.

To study this effect, Pearl and her colleagues at Penn's Center for Weight and Eating Disorders focused on 159 obese women who were enrolled in a clinical trial to test the effects of weight - loss medication.

The results came from a review of 19 studies done in Europe, North and South America, and Asia which focused on non-smoking pregnant women who were exposed to second - hand smoke in the workplace by colleagues or in the home by their partners.

Hi colleagues this for the GCSE Religious Studies AQA SPEC B Religion and Life Issues Unit 2 and focusses on the topic of Religion War and Peace.

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Hi colleagues this for the GCSE Religious Studies AQA SPEC B Religion and Life Issues Unit 2 and focusses on the topic of Religion and Prejudice.

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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).

Since arriving at PZ in 2003, James has worked with Howard Gardner and colleagues on the Good Project and co-directed several multi-year initiatives, including The Good Play Project, (a MacArthur Foundation - Funded initiative focused on youth, ethics, and new digital media) and the Good Participation Project (a study of MacArthur's Youth and Participatory Politics Research Network focused on civic participation and civic education in the digital age and).

While there is more emphasis on academics at all grade levels today and evidence that the middle school burden can be overcome (Williams and colleagues showed in a major 2010 study, called «Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better,» that an intense focus on academics can work), it is odd that Walcott would favor reforming middle schools instead of doing what the research suggests is better and easier — creating smaller, «elemiddle» (K — 8) schools — and what the trends are showing is happening all over the country — as David Hough, managing editor of the Middle Grades Research Journal, told me, «the trend is definitely away from stand - alone middle schools.»

The conversation focused on twin new studies penned by two authors, my AEI colleague Andrew Kelly and Drew University Professor Pat McGuinn, examining parent power and reform advocacy.

The findings, from a study of teachers by GL Assessment, indicate that some schools are unnecessarily adding to teacher workload by running too many assessments and focusing colleagues» energies on administration rather than analysis.

In research closely related to the Science IDEAS model, Guthrie and his colleagues (Guthrie & Oztgungor, 2002; Guthrie, Wigfield, Barbosa, & Others, 2004; Guthrie, Wigfield, & Perencevich, 2004) have conducted series of studies showing consistent improvement in student reading comprehension and motivation - to - learn resulting from embedding science - focused instructional modules into traditional reading programs using their CORI model.

Barbara Means of the Center for Technology in Learning at SRI International and colleagues (I am a co-principal investigator on this study) are conducting a longitudinal study comparing outcomes of ISHSs with those of non-STEM — focused high schools in three states.

The sense that «history was being made» was present, and I thought about the many, many colleagues who have made the education abroad field what it is today, and what they might be thinking about the fact that a meeting focused on study abroad was being held at The White House.

In a study published in the journal Environmental Psychology, the University of Melbourne's Kate Lee and a group of colleagues found that interrupting a tedious, attention - demanding task with a 40 - second «microbreak» — in which one simply looks at a computerized image of a green roof — improved focus as well as subsequent performance on the task.

The article was directing this point at medical studies that focus on an obscure or rarely studied disease, where there are few researchers, and so fewer «peers» to undertake critical review, and those few that there are may either be close colleagues or rivals.

To date, only one published study has focused on the long - term effects of playing violent video games on youth.91 Craig Anderson and several colleagues tested a sample of 430 third through fifth graders twice, roughly five months apart.

Parental mental illness Relatively little has been written about the effect of serious and persistent parental mental illness on child abuse, although many studies show that substantial proportions of mentally ill mothers are living away from their children.14 Much of the discussion about the effect of maternal mental illness on child abuse focuses on the poverty and homeless - ness of mothers who are mentally ill, as well as on the behavior problems of their children — all issues that are correlated with involvement with child welfare services.15 Jennifer Culhane and her colleagues followed a five - year birth cohort among women who had ever been homeless and found an elevated rate of involvement with child welfare services and a nearly seven - times - higher rate of having children placed into foster care.16 More direct evidence on the relationship between maternal mental illness and child abuse in the general population, however, is strikingly scarce, especially given the 23 percent rate of self - reported major depression in the previous twelve months among mothers involved with child welfare services, as shown in NSCAW.17

This was the focus of a newly published study I ran with my friend and colleague Sena Koleva.2 We wanted to assess people's attitudes toward a variety of potential moral violations that did not have a clear «right» or «wrong» answer.

Formally founded in 1998 by Dr. Martin Seligman and colleagues, positive psychology focuses on the study and practice of the positive emotions, strengths, and virtues that make individuals and institutions thrive.

Benoit discusses the fact that, in an analysis of 15 studies from their 2003 meta - analysis, Bakermans - Kranenburg and colleagues concluded that attachment interventions that focus on preventing or reducing disorganized attachment may need to target the reduction of atypical caregiver behaviours.8 Specifically, frightened or frightening caregiver behaviour has been implicated in the etiology of disorganized attachment.

And whereas, two decades ago, the most prominent models of therapy focused almost exclusively on individual work, today as many as 70 percent of therapists here and abroad treat couples as part of their practices, according to a study conducted by prominent psychotherapy researcher David Orlinsky of the University of Chicago and his colleagues around the world.