Sentences with phrase «findings led the scientists»

The findings led the scientists to see a direct correlation between eating plant - based foods and improved emotional well - being among healthy young adults.

Their findings led the scientists to believe that dogs can tell by the sound of a voice when a person is sad [source: Doucleff].

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«These findings provide the world with a wakeup call on forests,» Alessandro Baccini, WHRC scientist and lead author of the report, said in a statement.

«We suspected that the young are most vulnerable because of their immature immune systems, but we didn't have a lot of hard evidence to show that before,» said study lead author Bo Hang, a Berkeley Lab staff scientist who previously found that thirdhand smoke could lead to genetic mutations in human cells.

When the headhunter contacted him months before, he wouldn't tell Eckert much except that the company had been founded by famed scientist Rodney Brooks, who, until a few years earlier, had led MIT's computer - science and artificial - intelligence lab.

GFI's innovation department has two primary areas of focus — firstly, encouraging scientists and entrepreneurs to join the plant - based and cultured meat industries, and secondly, supporting the ongoing success of existing companies in the industry.26 They have assembled a list of potential companies based on what they believe are promising ideas that have not been capitalized on, 27 and they have developed a list of more than 220 entrepreneurs and scientists, many of whom take part in monthly video calls led by GFI.28 In the last year, they have had some success in assisting in the founding of a plant - based meat company in India, Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFI.

The Black Church in the African American Experience by C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya Duke University Press, 519 pages, $ 47.50 When we cut through the many good reasons that lead social scientists to study religion, we find ourselves in the end confronting questions about politics.

, with all the trillions of possible combos there should be billions of fossils everywhere, yet even the leading scientists had to forge bones they found.

This second point means that openness to what sciences can teach us does not lead to acceptance of the way most scientists present their findings.

The disparity which relativity science finds between man's measure of physical realities and realities in themselves has led to a notion of indeterminacy and depth in experience which would not have occurred to scientists of an earlier period.

Leading contemporary paleontologists such as David Raup and Niles Eldredge say that the fossil problem is as serious now as it was then, despite the most determined efforts of scientists to find the missing links.

In 2012 the lines between the sacred and the profane will get even more blurry: Scientists will religiously maintain their search for the elusive God particle (they won't find it); evangelical sports superhero and Denver Bronco quarterback Tim Tebow will continue to be both an inspiration to the faithful and an object of scorn to skeptics (he will be watching, not playing in, the Super Bowl); at least one well - known religious leader or leading religious politician will be brought down by a sex scandal (let's hope all our leaders have learned a lesson from former Rep. Anthony Weiner and stay away from sexting); and the «nones» - those who don't identify with one religion - will grow even more numerous and find religious meanings in unexpected places (what TV show will become this season's «Lost»?)

Many believe that the Enlightenment was the death - knell of religion, but what they don't realize is that many of the leading scientists of the Enlightenment Era were Bible - believing Christians who went to nature looking for the order and beauty and logic that they believed they would find there as a result of their belief that God was created nature.

By studying the function of sorghum proteins, the scientists are hoping to find cultivars that will lead to a good - tasting, finely - textured sorghum bread.

Scientists reviewed the cases of xanthan gum - associated NEC, and found that the xanthan gum caused increased bacterial production of short chain fatty acids in the newborns» intestines, and thus contributed to the development of NEC, which led to their deaths.

As a research - driven organization led by nutrition scientists, the McCormick Science Institute is focused on advancing the scientific study of the health and wellness properties of spices and herbs, with all research teams required to submit their findings to reputable, peer - reviewed scientific journals for publication.

Founded in 1998 by Leonard A. and Ronald S. Lauder, the ADDF provides critical seed funding to leading scientists conducting breakthrough drug discovery and clinical research.

But Mars claims: «Most of the excitement and energy in this field today stems from the findings of Mars» scientists and their university partners that certain cocoa polyphenol - rich preparations have the potential to prevent and / or treat health conditions that are leading causes of death and disability around much of the world».

Last month Johnson said he had been told by Porton Down that the nerve agent used in the Salisbury poisoning case could only have come from Russia, but the lead scientist at the defence research laboratory later said this was not the sort of finding the organisation could make.

I needed to find the relevant literature and get to know the names of the leading scientists, and fast.

With no leads on the remaining 4,550 archival tapes, Nagihara tried to find some of the tapes NASA had sent to the project scientists for analysis — like the ones containing Langseth's heat data — in hopes that they hadn't been thrown out.

Two factors — the ease of finding unsubstantiated and false information online and the rise of populism — have led to a growing distrust of authority that has released cascading questioning of science and scientists, he added.

The lead scientist behind a revolutionary method to turn adult cells into stem cells has been found guilty of misconduct, but insists the mistakes were unintentional

In a groundbreaking study that provides scientists with a critical new understanding of stem cell development and its role in disease, UCLA researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research led by Dr. Kathrin Plath, professor of biological chemistry, have established a first - of - its - kind methodology that defines the unique stages by which specialized cells are reprogrammed into stem cells that resemble those found in the embryo.

The study's findings raise many questions about which activities in the basin were leading to the high emissions rates, said Steven Hamburg, chief scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund.

They know that they need to find a way to stand out in the sea of scientists or use the event to gain future exposure to the company with the idea of leading to a future job offer.

New findings from an international research team led by University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center scientists may improve detection of skin cancer that lacks any brown or black color.

Other scientists, led by Thomas Knutson, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, looked at 2012's hot spring temperatures over the eastern United States and also found that human influences contributed about 35 percent to late spring heat that year.

Scientists from the University of New Hampshire and colleagues have published comprehensive findings on space - based radiation as measured by a UNH - led detector aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).

By analyzing the fossils of thousands of ancient crustaceans, a team of scientists led by NMNH paleontologist Gene Hunt has found that devoting a lot of energy to the competition for mates may compromise species» resilience to change and increase their risk of extinction.

«We found that over half of the people with autism who used Vocational Rehabilitation services got jobs,» said Anne Roux, lead author of the report and research scientist in Life Course Outcomes at the institute.

Just as the finding that tea made from willow bark could alleviate headaches led scientists to the discovery of salicylic acid — which in turn led to the invention of aspirin — many acupuncture researchers think that their work might lead to a treatment for pain that is more effective than acupuncture.

Notably we found evidence that different risk attitudes, which have not received much attention in understanding evacuation behavior, are associated with different behaviors,» states Sarah McCaffrey, lead author and research social scientist with the USDA Forest Service.

Matters of the heart can be complicated, but York University scientists have found a way to create 3D heart tissue that beats in synchronized harmony, like a heart in love, that will lead to better understanding of cardiac health and improved treatments.

«We hope these findings help government, industry and scientists to work together to address this issue,» says Sonter, who led the study as a UVM postdoctoral researcher, before joining the University of Queensland (Australia).

Scientific American.com spoke with a leading neurobiologist to find out just how close scientists are to controlling recall.

«They found moondust in every nook and cranny,» says William Larson of the Kennedy Space Center, a lead scientist and program manager in NASA's efforts to develop techniques for using lunar resources.

Led by Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist and marine chemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the team found that a small fraction of contaminated seafloor sediments off Fukushima are moved offshore by typhoons that resuspend radioactive particles in the water, which then travel laterally with southeasterly currents into the Pacific Ocean.

Scientists may have found a way to prevent complications from surgery to treat cataract, the world's leading cause of blindness.

Scientists said the new findings are a sign that cadmium could have dangerous properties similar to lead that alter the way children's brains develop.

It was a surprise to find relatively similar DTI changes in both groups exposed to primary blast,» said Katherine H. Taber, Ph.D., a research health scientist at the W.G. (Bill) Hefner Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the study's lead author.

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh have now found a novel way to produce proteins that could lead to malaria vaccines being easy and cheap to manufacture.

«Consistently across all biomes, we found that soil respiration increased with soil temperature up to about 25 ° C (77 ° F),» said Joanna Carey, a postdoctoral scientist in the Marine Biological Laboratory Ecosystems Center in Woods Hole, Mass., and the lead scientist on the study.

«Our hope is that our findings will help other scientists and engineers more precisely capture the emotional states that underlie moods, brain activity and expressive signals, leading to improved psychiatric treatments, an understanding of the brain basis of emotion and technology responsive to our emotional needs,» he added.

Studying sediments from the harbor of Naples, Italy, scientists found a sudden shift in sediment lead around 79 C.E., coinciding with the famous eruption of nearby Mount Vesuvius.

Scientists drilling ice cores out of Greenland have found lead from fly ash, a byproduct of coal combustion, dating back to the era.

Led by Indonesian scientists and involving researchers from Griffith University's Research Centre of Human Evolution (RCHE) the team found problems with prior dating efforts at the cave site, Liang Bua.

«We've only found simple organic molecules so far,» says Ashwin Vasavada, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who leads Curiosity's science team.

In the study, scientists at the Salk Institute and the Chinese Academy of Science found that the genetic mutations underlying Werner syndrome, a disorder that leads to premature aging and death, resulted in the deterioration of bundles of DNA known as heterochromatin.

A team led by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that the type of plant inputs (that is, root or needle litter) affected total carbon and nitrogen retention over 10 years, but that soil horizon (essentially, the layer of soil, such as the topsoil organic or deeper mineral layers) affected how the litter - derived soil organic material is stabilized in the long term.