Sentences with phrase «conduct pilot studies»

Some granting agencies have programs offering small amounts of financial support for one year of work; these special opportunities are particularly valuable for scientists seeking to conduct pilot studies.

To look into this safety question, the Gluten Intolerance Group (GIG) recently conducted a pilot study at the University of Chicago's Celiac Research Center to investigate whether these beer options are truly free of detectable gluten, making them a product that consumers can confidently select.

About nine years ago, the school nurse suggested the change, and the school conducted a pilot study, tracking food waste and visits to the nurse along with anecdotal reports on student behavior.

Pugh et al. (33) conducted a pilot study in 2002 that paired a nurse and a PC to form a breastfeeding team who provided breastfeeding education and support to a low - income, predominantly black population.

An accompanying viewpoint article provides an ethical justification for conducting a pilot study of a federally regulated approach to providing financial incentives to living kidney donors, with the goal of assessing donors» perceptions.

The researchers conducted a pilot study using their comprehensive approach to assess the pollination performance of various bee species on economically important highbush blueberry crops in North Carolina.

So they conducted a pilot study of 13 volunteers and found they all had these archaea on their skin.

Canadian researchers conducted a pilot study with 20 newborns to determine the effectiveness of a targeted next - generation sequencing panel that included all 4813 genes currently known to be associated with rare diseases.

Since 2001 CDC has conducted pilot studies with STARHS, first at five sites and later at 24 sites with high HIV infection rates.

Project collaborator Paul Marini conducted a pilot study of band - tailed pigeon breeding cycles.

Monell researchers will begin the collaboration by conducting a pilot study with 1000 BHR participants to confirm their ability to self - administer olfactory tests using a mailed scratch and sniff test card with an online response format.

A group in Bahrain conducted a pilot study of 13 obese patients and found positive effects (65).

Currently, I am conducting a pilot study in conjunction with a colleague from the University of Tampa to determine the impact of teaching mindfulness techniques to the gifted elementary students I teach.

Jones and her team have conducted a pilot study of Brain Games in three low - income elementary schools in South Carolina.

Several years ago, a colleague and I conducted a pilot study that involved teaching 24 gifted elementary students how to meditate and practice other...

In year 4, the project will conduct a pilot study of the program and assessment in 40 second - grade classrooms in Texas and Virginia.

To address this problem, Grills and Vaughn conducted a pilot study examining the effects of a reading intervention program that featured strategies for reducing anxiety.

To answer that question, my nonprofit research organization, Faunalytics, which works to increase the effectiveness of animal advocates, helped the Jackson Galaxy Foundation conduct a pilot study that compared cats who received the Cat Pawsitive training with those who hadn't.

Conducting a pilot study of individuals» interactions with dispossessory courts, which handle eviction proceedings (funded by a grant),

We conducted a pilot study and case series for HF - ASD in adolescents.

To conduct a pilot study of Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TF - CBT) for adolescents with refugee backgrounds with PTSD or trauma symptoms.

Thus we conducted a pilot study to investigate whether a complex automatized program is feasible and potentially helpful in BPD.

Using an existing software program, FGP staff conducted a pilot study with over 50,000 child records from three of the state early childhood programs.

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A pilot study was conducted using 30 volunteers and the results proved that Active Manuka Honey might have a therapeutic role in treating gum disease and periodontal disease.

A first of its kind pilot study titled, «The Celiac Patient Antibody Response to Conventional and Gluten - Removed Beer,» was published online by the Journal of AOAC International, and was conducted by GIG at the University of Chicago's Celiac Research Center.

She was the Site Principal Investigator for an NINR - funded study investigating mechanisms of preterm labor and birth in women of African - descent, and is currently conducting a pilot project examining modifiable factors related to risk for preterm labor and birth.

In Montana, state school officials were looking for ways to improve children's eating habits and physical activity, and conducted a four - school pilot study of «recess before lunch» in 2002.

In order to study all aspects related to the topic, we used a reference questionnaire prepared by nutrition and breastfeeding experts, which had been tested, modified and validated two months before our research team1 started the study (following a pilot study conducted on 20 women to determine whether the questions were clear and understandable), and then administered in a standardized fashion to women in both groups (intervention group and control group).

Based on the encouraging, but not statistically significant, results of the pilot study, they conducted a larger study (34), with the intervention consisting of daily in - hospital visits and 3 PP home visits from the team, PC telephone support through 6 mo PP, and unlimited access to a nurse via pager.

County Executive Steve Bellone announced last week that the county will conduct a lottery to select 19 homeowners who will receive free advanced wastewater treatment systems as part of a pilot demonstration program study.

County to Conduct Paint Stabilization Pilot Study «Method of Cost - Effective Interim Lead Hazard Control Sought» The Oneida County Health Department's Lead Primary Prevention Program (LPP), through its New York State Department of Health grant, will conduct a pilot project designed to study the impact of using new paints containing primer as a method of stabilizing deteriorating lead paint surfaces in Utica's pre-1978 houses, County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. announced tPilot Study «Method of Cost - Effective Interim Lead Hazard Control Sought» The Oneida County Health Department's Lead Primary Prevention Program (LPP), through its New York State Department of Health grant, will conduct a pilot project designed to study the impact of using new paints containing primer as a method of stabilizing deteriorating lead paint surfaces in Utica's pre-1978 houses, County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. announced tStudy «Method of Cost - Effective Interim Lead Hazard Control Sought» The Oneida County Health Department's Lead Primary Prevention Program (LPP), through its New York State Department of Health grant, will conduct a pilot project designed to study the impact of using new paints containing primer as a method of stabilizing deteriorating lead paint surfaces in Utica's pre-1978 houses, County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. announced tpilot project designed to study the impact of using new paints containing primer as a method of stabilizing deteriorating lead paint surfaces in Utica's pre-1978 houses, County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. announced tstudy the impact of using new paints containing primer as a method of stabilizing deteriorating lead paint surfaces in Utica's pre-1978 houses, County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. announced today.

«We're interested in determining patients» sleep patterns,» says John Kane, head of schizophrenia research at Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks, N.Y. Kane, who is conducting a Proteus - funded pilot study, says, «For certain mental illnesses, changes in sleep patterns are an early sign that an illness is accelerating.»

The small pilot study was led by Jeff Elias, MD, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and also was conducted at Swedish Neuroscience Institute in Seattle.

To that end, a recent pilot study conducted by Greenfield demonstrated that a woman - centered approach could be as effective as a mixed - gender control group over the course of a 12 - week study.

Building on the newly - published pilot study, the team will conduct experiments using a windtunnel which measures the behaviour of mosquitoes towards odours and electrodes which track the response of individual odour - detecting cells from within the antenna of the mosquito in specially - designed secure laboratories at the School to measure the responses of malaria - infected Anopheles gambiae s.s. females to human odours.

The pilot study of 40 animals was conducted by a multidisciplinary team of scientists from the University of Surrey (UK), Universidad de Extremadura (Spain), and SME Ingulados (Spain).

But in a pilot study conducted on heavy smokers, 24 percent of those who received the NicVAX vaccine were smoke free for the last two months of the six - month study — double the quit rate of those who received placebo shots.

The study arose from a pilot project conducted by UI undergraduate student Wes Smith, in Eberl's lab.

The new therapy has successfully gone through a pilot study with six patients conducted at the Singapore National Eye Centre and has yielded exceptional results, having shown to be both safe and effective in the treatment of glaucoma.

The bill also puts a roadblock in NIH's controversial plan to revamp how pregnant women will be recruited for the study: NIH can make «no changes to the current design or Vanguard pilot structure until at least 90 days after the IOM [Institute of Medicine] conducts a review of the proposed changes and impact on the results.»

This pilot study, conducted in upstate New York, measured the change in vegetable selection and plate waste when school grown salad greens were incorporated in the cafeteria school lunch.

In a pilot study conducted by scientists at the Ruhr - University Bochum, high frequency repetitive stimulation was investigated as a therapeutic approach for these patients.

Caron - Beaudoin and Verner have applied for funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to conduct a major study of 100 pregnant women, using the same research methodology as in their pilot study.

The Southampton team has been studying the development of a group of children who were identified with permanent childhood hearing impairment (PCHI) at a very early age in a pilot screening program conducted in Southampton and London in the 1990s.

In order to optimize for the action of the electric field on the biogas process comprehensive studies on pilot plants but also on small lab reactors are conducted.

A pilot study published earlier this year in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, was conducted in the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, where active exploration and manipulation of tools is encouraged.

In a similarly designed pilot study of the device conducted at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, researchers found striking improvements in motor function among people receiving the targeted stimulation compared with those in the simulation group.

That implies, Musil said, that grandmothers might be open to resourcefulness training, which has helped to reduce depressive symptoms in grandmothers in pilot studies conducted with Jaclene Zauszniewski.

Dr. Fish also pointed out that the onsite team for this pilot study was composed of 11 Guinean healthcare workers who received, for the first time, relevant training in all aspects of conducting a clinical trial according to international standards.

«The most promising outcome of this study was the absolute change in liver fat that we were able to measure using advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods previously developed and validated in pilot studies conducted at the UC San Diego NAFLD Research Center.