Sentences with phrase «critical part of study»

What is often overlooked is the fact that these concepts also apply to laboratory animals, making diet a critical part of study design.

Doctoral student Stanley Cheuk and colleagues used up to 1,500 skin biopsies per experiment and a total of several hundred kilograms of healthy skin for the critical parts of the study.

Not exact matches

According to a Forrester study commissioned by Vision Critical, companies that have adopted this approach as part of their journey to becoming truly insight - driven could see substantial impact.

If we go to the book of Acts we see that Christianity is much more than mere Bible study - education is part of the equation, but communal praise, celebration and caring for each other's needs will still be critical.

I'm a grad student in Science and Technology studies so I think a lot about this stuff and actually struggle myself with how to be critical of science (part of my work) while taking it seriously.

«Containers are just now being studied as part of the cloud infrastructure, but our research indicates that how they function in the cloud is critical to developing and distributing future computer systems that maximize efficiency,» said Ali Anwar, lead author on the paper that details the research and a Ph.D. candidate in Virginia Tech's Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering.

«The ice cores obtained through international collaborations were critical to the success of this study in that they allowed us to develop records from parts of Antarctica not often visited by U.S. - based scientists,» said co-author Tom Neumann of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who participated in a Norway - U.S. traverse that collected several of the cores used in this study.

The study is part of a critical body of work on risk taking and decision making among older adults from the USC Davis School of Gerontology, named for AARP founder Leonard Davis and the leading research center in the world on aging and its biological, psychological, political and economic dimensions.

Mice in booze camp In the new study, performed on adolescent male mice, ethanol alcohol exposure seemed to enhance synaptic plasticity in the ventral tegmental area (VTA), a part of the brain that plays a critical role in the reward pathway.

«Prior research at Yale has demonstrated that buprenorphine treatment is highly effective in primary care, and this study was designed in part to expand the reach of this treatment to this critical ED patient population,» said Dr. Patrick O'Connor, professor of medicine and chief of general internal medicine at Yale School of Medicine.

Nearly all (98 per cent) of the flowers studied in natural conditions were damaged by herbivores, but in 85 per cent of the flowers, damage was restricted to just the nectaries, suggesting nectar was being sacrificed to protect more critical parts of the plant.

The study is part of a critical national conversation led by researchers at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics to find evidence - based interventions that lower health care costs and unnecessary use of health care.

Now, a study of more than 100 dog burials in prehistoric Japan claims to provide the strongest evidence yet that early dogs did indeed help people hunt — and may have been critical to human survival in some parts of the world.

«A fundamental question has been whether we can directly link expansion of harmful algal blooms to a warming ocean; this paper provides critical, quantitative evidence for just that trend, confirming an expected, but difficult to test, direct link between toxic blooms to climate,» said Dr. Raphael Kudela, Professor of Ocean Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, a national toxic algae expert who was not part of the study.

This study is part of Phase one of the RECOVER Program, a multi-phase project, involving 10 intensive care units across Canada, co-led by Drs. Margaret Herridge, Scientist at the Toronto General Research Institute, and Cameron, in collaboration with the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group.

That study focused on seabirds, but now my co-authors and I have found that plastic trash has a similar effect on anchovies — a critical part of ocean food chains.

In a field where time and accuracy can be critical to a patient's long - term prognosis, the study is a step toward automating part of biopsy analysis and improving the efficiency of the process, the researchers say.

A systematic review of studies from 2011 - 2016 led by Katherine Courtright, MD, MS, an instructor of Medicine in the division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care and the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center at Penn, found that among more than 795,000 Americans who were part of 150 different studies, 63 percent had not completed any advance directive.

A new study published this month in Science, from neuroscientist Susumu Tonegawa and a group of colleagues at the RIKEN — MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics, provides insight into what happens in the brain when a long - term memory is formed, highlighting the critical role of the forward part of the cortex.

Furthermore, as part of this study the team demonstrated the ability to position gold nanoparticles into prescribed 2D architectures less than two nanometers apart from each other along the crystal structure — a critical feature for future quantum devices and a significant technical advance for their scalable production, said co-lead author Wei Sun, Ph.D., Wyss Institute Postdoctoral Fellow.

Results of the study, which earlier this year won first prize in the inaugural «PAN Challenge» for research on improving access to critical medications for Americans with chronic and rare diseases, showed that patients in the latter, high - cost group were significantly less likely (45.3 percent vs. 66.9 percent) to have a Part D claim for a TKI prescription within six months of their CML diagnosis, compared to the subsidized, low cost - sharing group.

«A critical part of the NHGRI mission continues to be the study of complex issues at the intersection of genomics research and society,» said Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., director of NHGRI.

In addition, a critical part of NHGRI's mission continues to be the study of the ethical, legal and social implications of genome research.

«We do know through research and studies that activity is a critical part of maintaining weight loss.»

Other studies reveal a correlation between fasting and improved neural connections in the hippocampus (the part of our brain that plays a critical role in memory).

Her books include Rape - Revenge Films: A Critical Study (McFarland, 2011), Found Footage Horror Film: Fear and the Appearance of Reality (McFarland, 2014), a 2016 monograph on Dario Argento's Suspiria (part of Auteur's Devil's Advocates series), a 2017 book on Abel Ferrara's Ms. 45 as part of Wallflower / Columbia University Press's Cultographies series, and in 2018, a book on Robert Harmon's 1986 film The Hitcher, published by Arrow Books.

This research is part of the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers, a multi-year research project addressing critical questions about the future of our nation's teaching force by studying how best to attract, support, and retain quality teachers in U.S. public schools.

The workbook is a critical part of Uni Pathways and a great opportunity for you to create a unique, challenging scheme of work tailored precisely to your academic studies.

However, the most critical finding from this study is that this robust impact was a function of both decline on the part of the comparison students as well as growth of treatment students.

In part, I agree with the importance of incorporating video into the classroom both to prepare students for the demands of the 21st century and to use critical analysis to study primary sources (or, as Susan suggests, biases and ideologies presented in documentaries).

Peer effect is a critical missing measure in studies that purport to show charter effectiveness (CREDO NJ for example)-- because it's really hard to separate «school effect» from «peer effect» [because «peers» are an integral part of the «school»] Clearly, schools like North Star that serve substantively different student populations than district schools, and shed «weak» non-compliant students (& their parents) at astounding rates, create peer conditions that are advantageous to those few (50 % or so) who actually make it through.

She was editor and chair for the 87th Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part I, Critical Issues in Curriculum, 1988 in which she contributed the introductory chapter, Critical Issues in Historical Perspective.

As part of the A level, students also produce an independent critical study, which allows them to pursue their own interests in reading.

One emergency critical care resident studied patients receiving Procalamine as part of their treatment protocol.

As part of our commitment to «stay true to BLUE,» we established and continue to support the Blue Buffalo Foundation for Cancer Research, which sponsors critical studies of pet cancer, health, treatment and nutrition at top veterinary medical schools across the United States.

His research has been supported by several grants including a Fulbright Fellowship and a Helena Rubinstein Fellowship for Critical Studies as part of the Whitney Independent Studies Program.

Whitney Independent Studio Program Location: New York, NY The Independent Study Program (ISP) consists of three interrelated parts: Studio Program, Curatorial Program, and Critical Studies Program.

Common Room is a two - part exhibition curated by students of The University of British Columbia's MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies (CCST) program.

As part of this exceptional MFA in Visual Studies, students respond to the art world's constant evolution with rigorous creative and critical investigation.

Guest curated by Jaroslav Andel and most recently on view at the Reykjavik Museum of Art, this traveling exhibition brings together works by artists who view education as a critical field of study in contemporary society, and who consider creativity an integral part of the learning process.

Tell them that the Earth is a planet, and studying it, studying its climate and our effect on it, is absolutely part of NASA's mission, and perhaps its most critical one.

But your argument that the validation practices need to be improved is quite wrong — they are already better than any V&V process I've seen in any part of the software industry (and I've studied V&V practices in some of the most demanding safety - critical applications in the world).

I was at that debate, Don, and Mike Crichton «s performance prevailed not just because he could act — he was a screenwriter after all, but because besides practicing his act before a critical CalTech audience, he was studying environmental law as part of his due diligence for State of Fear — John Gresham made for serious hardcover competition in those days.

The Energy Commission believes that the comprehensiveness, completeness, and timeliness with which both utilities provide the studies identified in the AB 1632 Report will be a critical part of the California Public Utilities Commission and Nuclear Regulatory Commission reviews of the utilities» license renewal applications.

Latent heat release is certainly a critical part of tropical dynamics, but Hadley cell dynamics have been studied in the context of Mars, Venus, Snowball Earth, etc, which largely operate in the dry dynamical limit.

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This study tells a story: Planned Parenthood's 877 health care centers are an important and integral part of the country's health care delivery system, providing access to critical health services for women who have no place else to go.

Studies show that intimacy is a critical part of our overall health, happiness and sense of meaning in life.

KRH conceived of the study, its design and coordination as part of her doctoral dissertation; JF drafted the manuscript and aided in interpretation of the data; DWN conceived of the study, participated in its design and coordination, and critically revised the manuscript for important intellectual content; AAP performed the statistical analysis, aided in interpretation of the data and helped to draft the manuscript; RLG: aided with statistical analysis and interpretation, and offered critical revisions to the manuscript.

LESSON 1: Reserve Fund Planning Process and Course Expectations LESSON 2: Critical Thought LESSON 3: Principles of Research LESSON 4: Subject Property Identification LESSON 5: Report Writing - General LESSON 6: Basis of the Reserve Fund Study LESSON 7: Property Identification and Evaluation LESSON 8: Lifecycle Analysis LESSON 9: Cost Analysis LESSON 10: Financial Analysis: Part 1: Preparation & Research LESSON 11: Financial Analysis: Part 2: Cash Flow Analysis LESSON 12 Reconciliation, Certification and Introduction LESSON 13: Summary and Linkages LESSON 14: Submission of the Reserve Fund Study Report