Sentences with phrase «culture study led»

A protein that normally protects cells from environmental stresses has been shown to interact Marburg virus VP24, allowing the deadly Marburg virus to live longer and replicate better, according to a cell culture study led by scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

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One 20 - year study of workplace environments found that those cultures that lacked supportive relationships increased the risk of mortality by 240 percent, which makes sense when you consider that chronic stress is a leading contributor to premature death.

During the Ottoman rule Muslim culture declined in Egypt because of the belief of the rulers that the study of philosophy, geography, mathematics, and related fields would lead to heresy.

This study of Jesus and Paul leads us to examine the role of the pastor and the non-Anglo congregation in the many - cultured society.

Because it is education that must proceed indirectly by way of the examination of texts and practices whose study is believed to lead to understanding God and all else in relation to God, and because those texts and practices employ ordinary languages belonging to widely shared cultures and do themselves have cultural locations, such education is inescapably a public undertaking, understandable to anyone who understands the relevant languages and cultures.

As a recent study conducted by Pew Research Center makes clear — and this is supported by other studies including a significant study released last fall, «A Survey of American Political Culture,» by Dr. James Davidson Hunter, who wrote the book Culture Wars — White Evangelical Protestants are not, as the Washington Post famously called them in 1993, «less affluent, less educated, and more easily led than the average American.»

For some years a wide ranging study on «Gospel and Culture» has been going on in the World Council of Churches, that led to a world conference in 1996 on the theme «Called in One Hope: the Gospel in Diverse Cultures.

The committee included an international group of academics with expertise in various aspects of food culture and gastronomy such as Joxe Mari Aizega, General Manager of Basque Culinary Center; Jorge Ruiz Carrascal, Professor of the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen; Marta Miguel Castro, a Research Associate at the CIAL Institute of Research in Food Science, who studies how food components could prevent disorders such as diabetes and obesity; Melina Shannon Dipietro, executive director of Rene Redzepi's MAD project; and Dr F. Xavier Medina, author, social anthropologist and leading scholar of Food and Culture at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barculture and gastronomy such as Joxe Mari Aizega, General Manager of Basque Culinary Center; Jorge Ruiz Carrascal, Professor of the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen; Marta Miguel Castro, a Research Associate at the CIAL Institute of Research in Food Science, who studies how food components could prevent disorders such as diabetes and obesity; Melina Shannon Dipietro, executive director of Rene Redzepi's MAD project; and Dr F. Xavier Medina, author, social anthropologist and leading scholar of Food and Culture at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in BarCulture at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona.

The study, «Polarity of varicosity initiation in central neuron mechanosensation,» which will be published June 12 in The Journal of Cell Biology, observes the swelling process in live cultured neurons and could lead to new ways of limiting the symptoms associated with concussive brain injuries.

These sorts of studies led Loosli and Perry to develop a curriculum and philosophy that focuses on three main topics: taking care of the person inside the mom physically, spiritually and emotionally; focusing on family systems, including rules and consequences, family responsibilities and family culture; and organization, including ways to create projects and take action without feeling overwhelmed.

This book series commissions leading scholars of ritual to write broadly conceived, synthetic, and comparative studies of rites of passage in cultures around the world and in North America.

To study the role of sweet taste receptors, Cohen and lead study author Robert J. Lee, PhD, a post doctoral researcher in his lab, partnered with colleagues from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Monell Chemical Senses Center to analyze cultures and tissue samples from the upper respiratory tract of patients who were undergoing sinonasal surgery for a variety of conditions.

Led by Dr Claire White from the University's School of Psychology, the study suggests that such risky social media posts are not just due to impulsivity, but might be a deliberate strategy to fit in with the wider social media culture that makes people believe «it's the right thing to do».

Sequence of causal and timing factors According to Hill, who has studied hunter - gatherers in South America for nearly 30 years, whether by shell beads, other kinds of gifts or through female transfer, the traits of cognition, culture and cooperation would eventually lead to specializations and government.

Meltzer is lead author on the study and an expert in the Clovis culture, the peoples who lived in North America at the end of the Ice Age.

Exposure to verbal and physical aggression between parents may hurt a child's ability to identify and control emotions, according to a longitudinal study led by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

«This rich assemblage of materials in bronze, silver, lead and iron, along with the abundant ceramics and remarkable evidence of organic remains, create an unparalleled opportunity for the study of culture, religion and daily life in Chianti and the surrounding region,» she said of the well excavation that began in 2011, which is part of a larger dig encompassing the entire Cetamura settlement.

«The fact that glutamine addiction has mainly been investigated in cell culture systems may have overestimated the lethality of glutamine deprivation,» said Martin Eilers, University of Würzburg, who led the study together with Kempa.

«People need to realize that the cultural choices they make have a significant bearing on outcomes for humans, individuals, families, and cultures,» says Deborah Rogers, lead author of the study and a graduate research fellow at Stanford University.

An experimental drug that targets abnormally high levels of a protein linked to cancer growth appears to significantly reduce the proliferation of prostate cancer cells in laboratory cell cultures and animals, while also making these cells considerably more vulnerable to radiation, according to results of a study led by Johns Hopkins scientists.

Dr Clint Perry, another lead author of the study, added: «Despite the obvious differences between humans and other animals, understanding social learning and culture in animals holds a key to understanding the evolutionary roots of the peculiarities of social learning and culture in humans.»

Studies by Bausch and others have also detected live Ebola virus in sexual fluids that can successfully grow in cell culture, suggesting it could also lead to infections in other individuals.

Even though tarantulas as a group are generally well known and easily recognized by the public from their appearances in popular culture, far less was known to science about their distribution, diversity and how they lived in the wild, according to the study's lead author, Chris Hamilton.

The lead author of the Minnesota study, Yuehua Jiang, counters that the same reservations apply to embryonic stem cells: «Are they cultured naturally?»

Led by researchers at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, the study builds upon recent findings that the same program generally improves the behavior and academic skills of children and helps shy students be more engaged in their classwork.

To find out if differences in diet and culture have also led to two species of killer whales in the Northeast Atlantic, Foote and his colleagues studied the dietary choices and genetic relationships of orcas from Greenland to Norway.

«Our results suggest that megakaryocytes might be used clinically to facilitate adult stem cell regeneration and to expand cultured cells for adult stem cell transplants,» says Meng Zhao, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at Stowers and lead author on the study.

The new study, led by Walter Mothes, a Yale microbial pathogens expert, involved creating one culture that mixed healthy rat cells with cells infected by the murine leukemia virus, a cancerous pathogen in rats and monkeys that is not known to affect humans.

This fact makes the LCSB scientists» results of extraordinary interest to Parkinson's researchers worldwide, as Schwamborn stresses: «On our new cell cultures, we can study the mechanisms that lead to Parkinson's much better than was ever the case before.

A 2,700 - year - old portico was discovered this summer on the site of the ancient city of Argilos in northern Greece, following an archaeological excavation led by Jacques Perreault, Professor at the University of Montreal's Centre of Classical Studies and Zisis Bonias, an archaeologist with the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports.

Expanding from their previous studies with mice, the researchers first established that under specific conditions, culturing human embryonic stem cells with fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2) leads to neural differentiation particular to the midbrain / hindbrain region — the location of the cerebellum — within three weeks, and the expression of markers for the cerebellar plate neuroepithelium — the part of the developing nervous system specific for the cerebellum — within five.

Increased expression of a gene linked to autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) leads to a remodeling of dendrites during brain development, according to a new study conducted in cultured neurons and an ASD mouse model published in JNeurosci.

In the current study, lead authors David V. Hansen, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow, and Jan H. Lui, a graduate student in the Kriegstein lab, examined the OSVZ, using new labeling and tracking techniques to follow individual cells and their progeny over time in cultured tissue slices from fetal cortex tissue that had been donated for research.

His research utilizes molecular biology, cell culture, and animal models to study your body's cannabinoid system in an attempt to further our understanding of Cannabis as a medicine, and possibly lead to the development of new drug compounds.»

In addition to WARF, the current study was funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Center for Research on Influenza Pathogenesis; Scientific Research on Innovative Areas from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan; the Strategic Basic Research Program of the Japan Science and Technology Agency; and the Leading Advanced Projects for Medical Innovation from the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development.

Pine described becoming a cloud chamber expert at Cornell, which landed him a position at the Stanford Linear Accelerator doing «big - time physics» and then taking on a physics position at Caltech, which he left when his growing interest in neuroscience led him to the Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, where he studied mammalian cell cultures and neurons using data - recording electrodes.

Using a mouse model for this disease, which in humans involves the destruction of white matter in the brain, a research team led by Albee Messing, director of the UW — Madison Waisman Center, found that a protein behind the symptoms of the disease, called GFAP, is broken down more rapidly in the body than researchers previously found in cell culture studies.

One study on the culturing method involved in the production of the Japanese traditional food «Miso» concluded that the culturing process itself led to a lower number and growth rate of cancer cells.

All youʼd really have to do is start studying EVERY resource available on old - time physical culture and gymnastics, read every training journal and periodical you can get your hands on, study for and attend dozens of advanced exercise, nutrition and bio-chemistry seminars, seek out and learn from the worldʼs leading alternative exercise method gurus, and put all that knowledge to the test, 40 hours per week, on a variety of in - person clients from all walks of life.

Her love for the performing arts led her to study Voice Performance and Modern Media & Culture at Oberlin College & Conservatory.

In fact, in one study, a dose of mercury sufficient to kill 1 percent of lab rats (lethal dose «LD01»), when combined with a dose of lead sufficient to kill 1 percent, killed 100 percent of the rats.13 A similar test involving mercury and aluminum in cultured neurons killed 60 percent of the cells when the two low - dose toxicants (LD01) were combined.14 Even antibiotics have been shown to enhance the uptake, retention and toxicity of mercury.14 Additionally, testosterone appears to aggravate mercury toxicity during development, while estrogen protects against it.15 This may explain why more boys than girls are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders and attention deficit disorders.

• In a University of Florida study lead by Stephen Talcott, an assistant professor with the university's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, the berries destroyed leukemia cells in cell cultures.

Read the latest articles of Journal of Archaeological Science at, Elsevier's leading platform of peer - reviewed scholarly literature Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

The first season set the scene — St. Louis in the 1950s, a prestigious teaching hospital, a leading gynecologist pursuing research that is controversial at best in the conservative culture with a partner who has no acknowledged credentials but shows a keen interest in and understanding of the topic and a way with putting the human subjects as ease — and introduced the complexity of the study, which was condemned when the initial findings were presented.

And this has led to a district culture «of shared planning, decision - making, and responsibility» that is «built on respect, commitment, and trust,» as a 2011 case study puts it.

In Public Impact's latest Opportunity Culture case study, Touchstone Education: New Charter With Experienced Leader Learns From Extending Teachers» Reach, we look at how this teacher, Tiffany McAfee, led the school's teachers in their focus on literacy, and how the school combined her leadership with online instruction.

Study authors Ben Backes of American Institutes for Research (AIR) and Michael Hansen of the Brookings Institution found that students in classrooms of team teachers led by Opportunity Culture «multi-classroom leaders» showed sizeable, statistically significant academic gains.

During Lewis» study, teachers and school personnel demonstrated how school policies and culture often lead to discrimination.

The study compared student growth in classrooms led by teachers in Opportunity Culture roles to student growth in non-Opportunity Culture classrooms.

The study compared student growth in classrooms led by teachers in Opportunity Culture roles to student growth in non-Opportunity Culture classrooms in both the same schools and in different schools, controlling for various factors including student background and prior performance.