Sentences with phrase «concept study used»

This proof - of - concept study used preclinical models to demonstrate that the device was effective in reducing the cancerous tumour in the living brain.

The proof of concept study used a beta version of Watson for Genomics technology to help interpret whole genome sequencing (WGS) data for one patient.

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When Flombaum teaches computer - science courses, he uses storytelling skills acquired while studying creative writing, and incorporates history into his lessons, including highlighting the programmer who created the concept at hand.

One study found using both hands to explain a concept prompts the brain to consider multiple perspectives.

Using the concept of citizen representation as its main conceptual anchor, the study examines longitudinal patterns in two cities that underwent divergent institutional and political leadership experiences during the late 1990s and following.

Focus groups as well as usability studies can play a role in triangulating research by being used to gauge the reaction to prototypes and new concepts that may be born out of the combined quantitative and ethnographic research.

Though the concept of a persona, a fictional character used to understand a particular audience segment, has existed for years, this study sought to uncover why organizations fail to create, update, maintain or apply persona intelligence in meaningful ways, rendering them ineffective.

The principal value of the scientific study of race is to render the concept more exact than it is in common use and to demonstrate its severe limitations as a classification device.

And Whitehead's reopening of the theme used this concept only in passing, as an arbitrarily chosen case - study of the difference between scientific abstractions and adequate common - sense.

Since Marx himself has not developed it, we shall examine this important concept by using an indirect method by means of the study of Marx's humanism.

Michigan State University Extension says that within the academic world, experts are studying how parents can establish healthy relationships with their children at an early age, using the concept of responsive parenting as a foundation for their relationship with their growing child.

Using small group, integrated, thematic instruction, your child will develop independent exploration skills in mathematics, early literacy, social studies, and science concepts.

Given the ambiguity surrounding the concept of satisfaction, it was not surprising to find inconsistency in the instruments, scales, timing of administration and outcomes used to «measure» satisfaction across studies.

«A pair of medical magnets shows promise as a new tool for creating an anastomosis: Proof - of - concept study in patients shows use of the device is safe, easy for surgeons to use.»

As a proof of concept for this study, the researchers tested the plant virus - derived nanoparticles with a nematicide called crystal violet, which has been used to kill nematodes on skin but not in agriculture.

However, this study has provided proof - of - concept that devastating tsunamis could be mitigated by using acoustic - gravity waves to redistribute the huge amounts of energy stored within the wave, potentially saving lives and billions of pounds worth of damage.»

Richard Hargreaves, executive director of imaging at Merck Research Laboratories, says, «Nuclear imaging using radiotracers gives the opportunity to put your arms around proof - of - concept very early in a drug discovery and development program by focusing the selection of doses to study on those proven to deliver enough drug to the target therapeutic sites.»

Brooke Blevins, Ph.D., assistant professor of curriculum and instruction and Karon LeCompte, Ph.D., assistant professor of curriculum and instruction in Baylor's School of Education studied the effectiveness of iCivics, a free online website founded by retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor that teaches civics concepts using 19 educational games.

For this study, Guttridge, first author David J. Wang, who developed many of the study's concepts, and their colleagues monitored NF - kB activity during tumor development using mouse embryonic fibroblasts and two mouse models.

Using genomic analysis to study cancer in dogs can help develop new therapies for humans with cancer, according to a proof - of - concept study led by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen).

While studying reliability analysis in one of her courses, William came up with the idea to use a seemingly unrelated mathematical concept called fragility curves to confront this problem.

«We stress that this is a proof - of - concept study in which a form of tungsten, a heavy metal that is dangerous in high doses, was used.

The preliminary proof - of - concept study shows that it is possible to use direct brain control to get a person's legs to walk again.

In a prior study, the Project 2061 team showed that students using the THSB unit had a better understanding of chemistry concepts central to biology than students using a traditional curriculum.

Researchers at Oregon State University are pursuing a new concept in treatment of epithelial cancer, especially head and neck cancer, by using two promising «analogs» of an old compound that was once studied as a potent anti-tumor agent, but long ago abandoned because it was too toxic.

The present study is a proof - of - concept of how these models might be used to develop new PD therapies.

A proof - of - concept study authored by the Spectrum Health experts also opens the way for these techniques to be used in combination with a third tool — magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Though the study was a small one, confirmation of the concept that PET scanning could be used as an objective test for CFS / ME could lead to better diagnosis and ultimately to the development of new therapies to provide relief to the many people around the world afflicted by this condition.

The implication of this proof - of - concept study of a novel technology for reversing transporter - related drug resistance, they say, «is not limited to a single nanobody used to demonstrate the technology, nor to a single drug, nor indeed to trypanosomiasis.»

Munroe studies how land is used in a global context, using concepts such as «telecoupling,» which involves how humans and natural systems interact over long distances.

As Manel del Valle, the main author of the study, explains: «The concept of the electronic tongue consists in using a generic array of sensors, in other words with generic response to the various chemical compounds involved, which generate a varied spectrum of information with advanced tools for processing, pattern recognition and even artificial neural networks.»

Thermodynamics, the physical theory that resulted from the study of these machines, proved to be an extremely fruitful approach; it is still a central concept in the optimisation of energy use in heat engines.

In a proof - of - concept study, scientists selected a region for analysis on round or irregularly - shaped objects using a 3 - D camera on a robotic arm, which mapped the 3 - dimentional coordinates of the sample's surface.

«Stool microbes predict advanced liver disease: Proof - of - concept study suggests a noninvasive test for specific microbial population patterns could be used to detect advanced nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.»

The new study used the concept of «virtual water,» an economic concept used to track water flows through trade, to track how water is traded through agricultural products and other goods that require water to produce.

The study illustrates the concept using Dover sole as a primary target species, and less profitable weaker stocks of Pacific Ocean perch, darkblotched rockfish, bocaccio, and yelloweye rockfish.

In our study, we have drawn on commercial methods used to evaluate brands and new product concepts to develop a comparative approach for evaluating the public reaction to a variety of climate engineering concepts.»

The new study provides proof of concept that the iPSC technology can be used to understand some of the evolutionary differences between humans and non-human primates, says Narvaiza.

The studies support the concept of using natural exposure in combination with malaria - fighting drugs to help people build up protection against disease, says malaria vaccine researcher Robert Sauerwein of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center in the Netherlands.

While this study in Cell demonstrates proof - of - concept, the team is eager to secure the necessary partners and resources to proceed to the product development phase, followed up by scaled up manufacturing and distribution so that the diagnostic tool can be deployed for use in the field.

«In this study we have demonstrated how novel concepts initially used to create a successful model of collaborative care for dementia were successfully applied to create the CCRC providing innovative collaborative care for ICU survivors,» she said.

«Tracheobronchial transplantation with a stem - cell - seeded bioartificial nanocomposite: a proof - of - concept study,» which described the first case of a transplant using an artificial trachea seeded with the patient's own stem cells, now bears an expression of concern from The Lancet editors, citing ongoing investigations.

More than 90 percent of those diagnosed with the syndrome are women, said Eshel Ben - Jacob, a lead author of the proof - of - concept study who developed the analytical method used to show the association between patients» improvement and changes in their brains.

The study, published this week in Ecology and Evolution, is a proof of concept that «preference for a trait used in same - sex competition is a way for preference to evolve in monogamous species,» Stern says.

Our current study aimed to provide proof - of - concept for this phenomenon in diabetes, and for that reason, we used the models and methodologies traditionally used in the prion field to demonstrate the transmission process.

As Manel del Valle, the main author of the study, explains to SINC: «The concept of the electronic tongue consists in using a generic array of sensors, in other words with generic response to the various chemical compounds involved, which generate a varied spectrum of information with advanced tools for processing, pattern recognition and even artificial neural networks.»

Couple that with a condition known to the plant community as «plant blindness» - the tendency for students to be more interested in studying animals than plants, and biology teachers» preference for using animal systems to demonstrate biological concepts - and you have yourself a plant publicity crisis.

Dr. Sonntag studies this concept on the molecular and cellular level using a translational research approach that integrates the analysis of human material, such as postmortem brains, primary cell systems, and neural cell populations generated from patients» - or healthy individuals» - derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC), or induced neurons (iNs), in combination with molecular, biochemistry, and lentivirus - mediated gene - engineering technologies.

This technology is currently being proposed for use on an Explorer satellite mission named Arcus and studied for potential use in the Lynx mission concept, a potential successor to Chandra in the next decade.

Lengthy and expensive reviews that are «methodologically robust» but unusable in practice often fail to inform, inspire, or influence.55 A recent systematic review of diabetes risk scores revealed that the authors of most studies were primarily concerned with the intellectual concept of improving the predictive value of the score but had given little or no thought to how their score might be used, by whom, or for what — nor what the implications would be for real people who would be designated «at risk» by the score.56