Sentences with phrase «explained by its exposure»

As this gene has previously been associated with kidney cancer and obesity risk, the results suggest this association may be partially explained by exposure to meat - cooking mutagens.

In a longitudinal study of 180 children, the success of Head Start's graduates was explained by exposure to both a developmentally appropriate intervention and to parental involvement (Marcon, 2000).

Two decades of research has shown that the returns of a diversified equity portfolio can largely be explained by its exposure to three factors: the market premium, the value premium, and the size premium.

Not exact matches

As I've explained numerous times before, one of the most prudent ways investors have positioned their portfolios in times of rising inflation is by adding to their gold exposure.

As she explained, the previous law only allowed a suit to be filed within three years from the occurrence of an injury caused by exposure to a contaminant.

A genetic vulnerability may also explain why some people are affected by prenatal exposure to infections.

Studies on detoxification pathways — the immune mechanisms by which the body dismantles toxins — were few and far between; research never explained how certain exposures could snowball into the profound dysfunction reported by this hobbled patient group.

Hackermüller suspects that non-coding RNAs have an important function at the epigenetic level, for example as a type of cellular long - term memory: «This could also explain why the health effects caused by exposure to hazardous environmental substances often do not emerge until years later.»

As reported in Current Biology on August 10, those color differences are explained by differences in the snakes» exposure to pollution.

The team, composed of researchers in Canada and the UK, and led by Lauren Mokry, carried out a Mendelian randomization study in large population datasets to investigate whether genetically determined obesity was associated with increased risk of MS.. Such a study decreases the probability that exposures linked to obesity, such as smoking, can explain the findings.

Scientists are still trying to explain how this microbial diversity comes about, but it is likely influenced by factors including diet, environment, host genetics and exposure to microbes early in life.

«The early benefit of child care exposure can potentially be explained by the hygiene hypothesis,» said Cabana.

«The early benefit of child care exposure can potentially be explained by the hygiene hypothesis,» said senior study author Dr. Michael Cabana, chief of the UCSF Division of General Pediatrics.

Kuk further explains that our body weight is impacted by our lifestyle and environment, such as medication use, environmental pollutants, genetics, timing of food intake, stress, gut bacteria and even nighttime light exposure.

The authors discuss detoxification of carcinogens by the body, or not, explaining how toxins may persist in the body for a lifetime and explain how carcinogens cause cancer through their many avenues of entry / exposure.

Print exposure, as measured by the number of words children read on the READ 180 computer lessons, explained 4 % of the variance in vocabulary and 2 % of the variance in word reading efficiency after all pretest reading scores were partialed out.

While a formal civics course is not offered until high school, kindergarten students learn to «identify personal traits, such as courage, honesty, and responsibility» and third - graders learn to «explain how local government officials are chosen, e.g., election, appointment,» according to the Idaho State Department of Education's social studies standards.22 By the time students reach 12th grade, they are more prepared to learn civics - related topics, such as the electoral process and role of political parties; the methods of public participation; and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, than students with no prior exposure to a civics curriculum.

This explains how it is that the Canadian equity market has managed to outperform the S&P 500 this year by a cool 2,000 basis points (in this sense, Canada is basically a low - beta way to play the emerging markets via commodity exposure).

In mid-March, ISI Total Return U.S. Treasury Fund (TRUSX) and North American Government Bond Fund (NOAMX, which had 15 % each in Canadian and Mexican bonds) reorganized into Centre Active U.S. Treasury Fund (DHTRX, which has no such exposure to explain its parlous performance); ISI Strategy Fund (STRTX, which holds a 10 % bond stake) merged into Centre American Select Equity Fund (DHAMX, which doesn't but which still manages to trail STRTX, its peers and the S&P 500); and, finally, Managed Municipal Fund (MUNIX, which was also a substantial laggard) was absorbed by Centre Active U.S. Tax Exempt Fund (DHBIX).

He explained that targeting a particular factor exposure involves numerous active decisions, which are made by most index providers when constructing the index for a factor fund.

Factor exposure matters To reiterate: While dividend - paying stocks may have surprised investors with their robust performance in the face of rising interest rates following the Nov. 8 election, much of this performance can be explained by factor tilts.

A researcher writing for Bloomberg summarized the findings of a Northern Trust Corp study explaining, «Unintended exposure caused annualized returns for smart - beta ETFs tied to dividend stocks to vary by as much as 80 percent over the past 10 years.»

With the equal weight return being explained being by rather simple factors, perhaps we could gain exposure to the factors in a lower without paying the relatively 3x higher free.

This difference in currency exposure explains why XIN outperformed the TD International Index Fund by over 2.5 % during the last 12 months.

Documentation of the extended shedding period of canine influenza A H3N2 virus in the affected dogs of the present report helps to explain, at least in part, why such a large number of dogs were affected by H3N2 infections in this outbreak, as prolonged shedding increases the likelihood of exposure.

Among other ways to reduce your exposure, they explain how to cook with Teflon - coated pans if you have to by following these basic guidelines:

Thus, «By the end of the rulemaking, EPA had fully explained all of the choices it made along the path of converting available scientific knowledge about lead toxicology and exposure into a policy - based finding of endangerment from automotive lead emissions sufficient to justify regulation, and allow — and survive — judicial review.»

The researchers figured out the level of daughters» exposure to DDT in utero by analyzing stored blood samples that were taken from the mothers during pregnancy or shortly after they delivered their babies, explains The Washington Post.

Daily activities seen on Radiological Technologist resumes are completing tasks as assigned by physicians, setting up equipment, explaining procedures to patients, positioning patients, maintaining records, and preventing unnecessary exposure to radiation.

If baseline child behavioral traits actually explain associations of high media exposure with later poor outcomes, our current understanding of the detrimental effects of media may have been the product of bias by indication.

This too may be explained by increased autonomy and mobility, and consequential exposure to a wider range of influences, in later adolescence.

Furthermore, the paradoxical protective effects of antenatal parental alcohol use found in some studies [9,17,18] are most likely explained by 1) misclassification of the exposure or outcome, 2) residual confounding, or 3) small sample size [6,19].

Exposure to violence exercised by support sources — teachers and classmates — explains more than 90 % of the total variance explained in bullying behavior.

His time at Deloittes did, however, give him some necessary exposure to property; he explains that one of his clients was the Board of Executors (BOE) later acquired by Nedbank which was quite active in the property syndication industry.