Sentences with phrase «done by other researchers»

They supplemented their interviews with data from a survey of 273 rescuers done by other researchers.

Not exact matches

The CIA tools described by WikiLeaks do not involve mass surveillance, and all of the targets were government entities or had legitimate national security value for other reasons, Symantec researcher Eric Chien said ahead of Monday's publication.

«A study in the United States, published in the Social Forces journal and conducted by Sociology researcher Lisa A. Keister while she was at the Ohio State University, found that adherents of Judaism attained the most wealth, believers of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were in the middle, while conservative Protestants accu - mulated the least wealth, while in general people who attend religious services achieved more wealth than those who do not (taking into account variations of education and other factors).

By looking at pupil dilation, ear twitching, small head movements and other indicators of cat emotions, the feline - feeling researchers found cats do get really excited around their owners, yet they choose to express it in extremely subtle, essentially imperceptible ways.

On the other hand, the study found that families that didn't need the mother's salary might benefit from the mom being at home for the first year — something the researchers said could ideally be addressed by a more flexible maternity leave policy for working moms.

ORLANDO — Nursing mothers who attempt to ward off food allergies in their babies by avoiding milk, nuts, and other risky foods may be doing more harm than good, researchers said here.

Other points raised included Josh Marshall's mention of the power of distributed researchers to gather and filter information quickly (shades of the Dan Rather memo - explosion from» 04) and a brief discussion by Berman of the Obama MySpace profile flap and the inherent problems that arise when a campaign doesn't control a vital resource.

«We found that lemurs who were frequently observed by others while solving the task to retrieve the food received more affiliative behaviors than they did before they learned,» said Kulahci, who is a postdoctoral researcher at University College Cork in Ireland.

If others can achieve the kind of efficiency that Gantz and Bier did, researchers could make a giant leap in wiping out insect - borne diseases.

This had been done before by other researchers, but in this case, the zirconium complexes were slightly smaller than usual, allowing them to snuggle a bit closer to each other and to the nitrogen.

This discovery of these oversized versions of soldier ants, whose job is to defend the nest, led researchers to create their own supersoldier ants in the lab with the help of a hormone, and, by doing so, offer an explanation for how ants, and possibly other social insects, take on specific forms with dedicated jobs within their colonies.

The devices are being developed and studied by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign as a potential treatment for pain that does not respond to other therapies.

But the work done by University of California at Berkeley researcher Mark Nicas and others modeling infection pathways shows that we barely understand how infection works.

While parents use DVDs and other media in an attempt to teach their infants to read, these tools don't instill reading skills in babies, a study by researchers at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development has found.

Researchers at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna have discovered that tree sparrows can recognise eggs deposited by other tree sparrows but do not always reject them.

Speaking in the second in a series of AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award lectures this fall, Harris described the so - called «reproducibility crisis» in science, in which intriguing findings in pre-clinical cancer research and other areas often can not be replicated, even by the researchers who did the original studies.

By comparing the hibernation habits of eastern dwarf lemurs and their western counterparts, researchers hope to shed light on what sends hibernating animals into standby mode, and whether lemurs — our closest genetic relatives known to hibernate — do it differently from other hibernating animals.

A survey by Roach and Sauermann of more than 400 graduate students at three Research I universities shows that some of the aspiring researchers do strongly possess what Sauermann and other researchers call «a taste for science,» which they define as a desire to do basic research, to determine the direction of one's projects, to publish in peer - reviewed journals, and to participate actively in the scientific community.

By doing so, all researchers will have «access to the tissue samples in MNI's biobank and to its extensive databank of brain scans and other data.»

Even better, my robot will be able to improve in that regard, as in everything it does, by tapping into a networked database of the experience of other robots — a database that's already under construction as part of the RoboEarth collaboration of robotics researchers around the world.

Researchers led by Van Allen and Choueiri sought an explanation for why some patients with a form of metastatic kidney cancer called clear cell renal cell cancer (ccRCC) gain clinical benefit — sometimes durable — from treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors that block the PD - 1 checkpoint, while other patients don't.

The grass species could have been local, but plantains and bananas are not native to Ghana, and researchers don't think they were cultivated by the Koma Land people — although they were likely grown in other parts of West Africa.

The three other populations that the researchers studied are also losing genetic variation — and they didn't have much to begin with, because each was founded by a small number of Kapiti birds, the scientists report online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

By growing some locusts in cages on plots with fertilized grass and others on unfertilized grass akin to what they get in grazed areas, the researchers found the insects likely did best in the grazed areas.

Receiving these results does not appreciably drive up or diminish test recipients» demand for potentially costly follow - up health services, according to a study performed by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and colleagues at other institutions.

The Weills hope that by bolstering research and treatment, researchers will be able to tell why some people develop brain - related or mental health problems while others don't.

For years, researchers have come across so - called exceptional responders — people who defied all expectations by responding dramatically to a drug or treatment when others failed to do so.

For Alzheimer's prevention, researchers have long advised to keep your brain active by acquiring a higher level of education, doing puzzles, and practicing other mental exercises.

However, in the new study, when the researchers looked at Sup35 surrounded by other cellular proteins, they found that the intrinsically disordered region actually does take on a regular structure, which they believe to be beta sheets.

A growing number of researchers believe that declaring «war» on Alzheimer's by «attacking» amyloid may ultimately be an exercise in self - harm, particularly if amyloid is representative of the brain's repair response, and may be channeling resources away from other drug - based approaches that do not assume amyloid toxicity.

On the other hand, a study conducted by researchers at the University of Guelph had 32 men eat low or high levels of isoflavones from soy protein for 57 days, and found that it didn't affect semen quality.

Like other researchers of his time, Price did not understand the mechanisms by which food created health and disease; he could only observe that certain foods led to health or disease.

Although these particular types of antioxidants were pointed out by researchers as potentially helping to inhibit negative effects of acrylamides, I wouldn't assume that other powerful antioxidants don't help too.

Ashwagandha is one of the few herbs that has been rigorously studied by researchers — and it has a mountain of quality scientific research behind it showing that it truly does work to improve health on many levels — from repairing and rebuilding the brain and nervous system, to balancing hormone levels, to strengthening the immune system, fighting aging, reducing anxiety and stress and improving mood, among many other things.

This study was funded by the almond industry, and researchers didn't evaluate other types of nuts.

Although Davis did not become a zombie - at least not more so than any other doctoral candidate - his adventures inspired this thriller in which a Harvard researcher, played by Bill Pullman, ventures into the heart of voodoo and witnesses strange and gruesome realities.

In my book, The Collapse of Parenting, I share data from many sources — including the National Institutes of Health, international databases such as the PISA program, scholarly papers by researchers such as Professor Jean Twenge, and many other sources — showing that American kids are indeed more likely to be obese, less likely to be physically fit, more likely to be anxious and depressed, compared with American kids 30 years ago — and in the case of academic achievement, doing much less well compared with kids in other countries, again a big change compared with American kids 30 years ago.

More specifically, the district and its teachers are not coming to an agreement about how they should be evaluated, rightfully because teachers understand better than most (even some VAM researchers) that these models are grossly imperfect, largely biased by the types of students non-randomly assigned to their classrooms and schools, highly unstable (i.e., grossly fluctuating from one year to the next when they should remain more or less consistent over time, if reliable), invalid (i.e., they do not have face validity in that they often contradict other valid measures of teacher effectiveness), and the like.

Some of the secondary schools supported by City Challenge programmes subsequently became sponsored academies, but they did not improve significantly more than other schools supported by the scheme, the researchers found.

A study conducted by researchers N.L. Collins and L.C. Miller found that those who disclose a little about themselves are liked by others more than those who don't.

In this 18 - month study funded by Maddie's Fund, researchers hope to learn now many cats will test negative within six months after a positive test, to examine the accuracy of and agreement between different testing methods, to understand what can be learned from discordant test results, and potentially to identify why some cats overcome the virus and others don't.

Dog owners feel that their vets are doing their dogs a great service by vaccinating every three years instead of annually — why do we allow it when these studies were done over thirty years ago and have been replicated time and again by other researchers?

That's the conclusion of a new study by Henry Ford Hospital researchers, which finds that homes with so - called hypoallergenic dogs don't have lower household levels of allergens than those with other breeds.

Although some earlier work along similar lines had been done by other paleoclimate researchers (Ed Cook, Phil Jones, Keith Briffa, Ray Bradley, Malcolm Hughes, and Henry Diaz being just a few examples), before Mike, no one had seriously attempted to use all the available paleoclimate data together, to try to reconstruct the global patterns of climate back in time before the start of direct instrumental observations of climate, or to estimate the underlying statistical uncertainties in reconstructing past temperature changes.

Some researchers do worry that if the Pentagon activities simply displace efforts previously carried out by other agencies, there could be substantial risks.

The researchers summarize their work by writing that «observations of large contemporary emissions reported in other studies can not be considered proof of accelerating hydrate destabilization, although neither do they prove that catastrophic destabilization is not accelerating.»

While the damage wouldn't be felt equally - with some regions harder hit than others - the overall economic ramifications would be considerable, the researchers concluded: the global value of crop production could fall by as much as 12 % by 2100 if nothing is done.

Interestingly, they also found that the better throwing chimps didn't appear to posses any more physical prowess than other chimps, which the researchers suggest means that throwing didn't develop as a means of hunting, but as a form of communication within groups, i.e. throwing stuff at someone else became a form of self expression, which is clearly evident to anyone who has ever been targeted by a chimp locked up in a zoo.

«The Surui Forest Carbon Project is now recognized as a national and international reference, and its concepts and methodological construction are used by Federal Government agencies such as FUNAI (Fundação Nacional do Índio, the National Indian Foundation) and the Ministry of the Environment and other project developers in Brazil and globally,» says Mariano Cenamo, Senior Researcher at Idesam.

Not only that, but the essential features of the original MBH have been confirmed by several other researchers, using a variety of methodological variations, although most show a * lower * MWP than MBH did.