Sentences with phrase «first aim of this study»

The first aim of this study is to dissect the signaling pathways activated downstream of TLR2 by CEP in the various cells local to the retina.

The first aim of this study was to present the reliability and validity of a Turkish version of the QELC for 10th grade students.

The first aim of this study was comparing the concentration and serological tests results, obtained from 2 samples of dogs with heartworm patent infection, in an endemic (Alexandria, Piedmont) and a non-endemic area (Fermo, Marche) of Italy (Fig. 5).

The first aim of this study was to investigate possible differences in online activities, friendship quality and well - being between D / HH and hearing students in the US and the Netherlands.

The first aim of the study was to test the validity of the YPI in a clinical sample, hypothesising the same factor structure as reported by Andershed et al. (2001).

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The board studied Bill's detailed plan for the first 100 days, which aimed to capture as much of the synergy and integration benefits as possible.

The paper is regarded as the first stage in a larger research project and aims to provide the fintech industry in Hong Kong with a reasonably comprehensive study of the key features, benefits, risks and potential of DLT.

And he ran down SoHe who was only 22 and a Toronto university studying molecular biology and he aimed the steering wheel at Betty and accelerated — Betty whose mother had long ago named her Mary Elizabeth — and who was revelling in one of the first warm April days in her 95th — and last — spring on this spinning orb.

The study had two aims: first to help church people and the public to identify the issues; and second, to identify solutions that would not restrict the rights of citizens to express themselves freely in a democracy.

That is to say that not only the incentives to the study of the history of religions have varied in the last century — the first of its existence as «Wissenschaft» — but that ideas as to the aim and scope, the nature and the method of this discipline also have been changing.

Kate Percy shares a case study of one of the first students to join the «Eat Like an Athlete» healthy eating programme for schools, which aims to enable children to make sense of food by linking what we eat to how we perform and feel.

The increased socioeconomic inequalities in breastfeeding observed in the intervention group supports the argument that population intervention strategies could inadvertently exacerbate, rather than mitigate, socioeconomic inequalities, particularly when the intervention aims to change individual behaviours rather than targeting «upstream» structural changes.25 Our results are also compatible with an observational study from Brazil reporting that breastfeeding rates increased first among the socioeconomically better - off, followed by increases among the poor, over a 20 - year period of active breastfeeding promotion campaigns in Brazil.26

In this pilot study, we used simulation as a methodology with 2 aims as follows: first, to explore the use of simulation incorporating a standardized pregnant patient as an investigative methodology and, second, to determine similarities and differences in content and style of prenatal counseling between American and Dutch neonatologists.We compared counseling practice between 11 American and 11 Dutch neonatologists, using a simulation - based investigative methodology.

In collaboration with Elsie M. Taveras, MD, MPH, Chief, Division of General Academic Pediatrics at Mass General Hospital for Children and her First 1,000 Days Study, TFP's contribution is aimed at developing and evaluating focused interventions for fathers and families to decrease obesity in children.

Now, when I edit grants, I first aim to broadly understand the area of study, and then I work to identify the specific elements that provide the strongest rationale for the proposed study.

The results come from the first phase of a University of Michigan study aimed at understanding the effects of medical training stress.

The first government - funded human genomics research study performed on African soil — aimed at unlocking the unique genetic character of southern African populations — has revealed a high level of genetic diversity.

The first large U.S. study aimed at resolving an ongoing debate about the best way to treat an early sign of breast cancer will launch later this year under the direction of a Duke Cancer Institute investigator.

Published in the October Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, this is the first large - scale, multi-site study aimed at identifying specific social - communicative behaviors that distinguish infants with ASD from their typically and atypically developing high - risk peers as early as 18 months of age.

The main aim of LOFAR is to study the era in the early universe when the very first stars and galaxies were forming and ionizing all the interstellar gas around them.

Researchers at The Royal Manchester Children's Hospital and The University of Manchester have recruited the first child into a new study, which aims to evaluate the clinical effectiveness of a treatment developed in Manchester.

A program aimed at reducing behavior problems in order to boost academic achievement has improved performance in math and reading among low - income kindergartners and first graders, according to a study by researchers at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

Esposito's experiment had aimed to study for the first time the effect of electric field on the creation of martian dust storms.

It does not, however, specify when that activity should take place, and as the authors state: «The current study is the first controlled study conducted in free - living adults with T2D that has aimed to determine whether prescribed walking taken for short periods after meals confers longer - term benefits than walking on a single occasion at any time of the day.»

The aims of this study were to examine temporal changes in the proportion of cardiac arrest patients who received resuscitative efforts before EMS arrival (CPR, defibrillation, or both) by bystanders, first responders, or both, including the combination of efforts between bystanders and first responders in North Carolina from 2010 through 2013; and to examine the association between these interventions and outcomes.

The three new detections of radio - emitting brown dwarfs are just the first results from the systematic study, which aims to observe all the known brown dwarfs within about 45 light - years of Earth.

In 2009 Dr. Drevets became the first President and Scientific Director of the Laureate Institute for Brain Research in Tulsa, OK, a private research institute founded and supported by The William K. Warren Foundation, to lead a multidisciplinary team in studies aimed at investigating interrelationships between neuroimaging, genetic and other biomarkers, illness course, and treatment outcome in psychiatric disorders.

«This study is only the first step of a major project done in collaboration with David Reich at the Broad Institute that aims to create an Iberian paleogenomic transect, from the Mesolithic to the Middle Age,» Lalueza - Fox said.

New data compiled from a range of sources — from Navy submarines to satellites — suggests that thinning is happening much faster than models have estimated, according to a study aiming to link those disparate data sources for the first time.

A group of well - known companies aims to be the first to analyse brain scans together with genomic, clinical and phenotypic data to study neurodegenerative diseases at a population level, then distil it down to an individual's personal treatment plan.

Given that the aim of this study was to investigate general trends among first neighbours of cancer - related proteins, all known subtypes of these cancers were included in the analysis, listed in Supplementary Table 1.

What was the aim of the study, first of all?

Though principally aimed at first - level undergraduates, Fundamental University Physics serves as an additional, comprehensive resource to help GCSE and A-Level students advance their understanding and prepare for their first year of studies at university.

This study aims to address that gap by providing the first analysis of differences in self - reported measures of grit, locus of control, self - esteem, and political tolerance associated with the LSP.

The aim of this study was to identify classes of children at entry into first grade with different patterns of academic and behavior problems.

This study aims at discovering the relevance of general competence of Turkish and Arab learners who have an A1 level of English proficiency in preparatory school of University of Turkish Aeronautical Association (UTAA) to their speaking skill in terms of syntax by analyzing the recordings of speaking exams in the first semester.

Studies by Lee et al. (2008a, 2008b), which were part of a five year professional development effort called Promoting Science among English Language Learners (P - SELL), built on research in effective first - language science teaching and aimed at improving science and literacy achievement of English language learners in urban elementary schools.

Study 2 aims to develop and pilot the first child - level measure of quality that specifically addresses the unique needs of DLL children.

Today the New Museum «s director, Lisa Phillips, announced three major new scholarship opportunities that aim to promote the study of contemporary art and culture.The first initiative, titled the Mellon Grant for Contemporary Scholarship in Contemporary Art, is a $ 500,000 fund that will be... Read More

For his first exhibition in the Hudson Valley, Pittsburgh - based artist Jon Rubin has conceived of a new, site - specific project at the Center for Curatorial Studies that aims to catalyze a more direct relationship between the CCS and its local audience.

With an intense exhibition program consisting of no less than six solo shows a year, augmented by occasional live performances, Annka Kultys also hosts two group exhibitions annually, one in January with recently graduated artists, enabling them to have a first gallery show following completion of their studies, and one in July organised in collaboration with a guest curator aimed at highlighting new perspectives on young and / or established artists.

The following year, she traveled to Austria with the aim of studying at the Academy of Fine Arts, but there, she first enrolled to the University of Economics.

A type of performance piece which aims to study the various tips and directions on mobile phone documentation, as shared via the medium of Facebook and other virtual communication tools during the first year's events of the Syrian revolution.

Mycologos, the world's first online mycological institute, aims to make the study and application of fungi accessible and approachable for more people.

Long and Iles (1997) point to the US Department of Transportation's Climatic Impact Assessment Program (aimed not at the greenhouse effect but aircraft emissions) for producing, in 1975, «the first assessment to focus on social and economic measures,» (p. 6) and the 1989 US Environmental Protection Agency study as «the first extensive appearance of an economic analysis of impacts.»

The bloc's proposed greenhouse gas curb will be studied closely by China, the US and other major emitters ahead of a global climate summit in Paris next year that aims to agree on the first new emissions - cutting treaty since the Kyoto protocol in 1997.

The present study aimed to compare emotional creativity and social adjustment of gifted and normal high school freshman students (first period) in Khash.

Whereas a few large studies find a similar prevalence of antineuronal antibodies in patients with psychotic disorders, other psychiatric disorders and healthy controls, 1 2 there is some evidence of an increased prevalence of N - methyl - D - aspartate receptor (NMDAR) antibodies in patients with first - episode psychosis.3 4 In their present study, the authors aimed to (1) investigate the prevalence of neuronal cell surface antibodies in patients with first - episode psychosis and healthy controls and (2) compare the clinical and cognitive profile of patient's with and without these antibodies.

If sleep deficits across the school term are found to be a predictor of mental health status in adolescents and, further, if cumulative sleep deficits are found to be related to increases in mental health problems, then results from this study could be used to develop targeted sleep intervention programs (trials of which are currently underway with members of this research team) and / or clinic - based intervention programs that aim to improve adolescents» sleep and mental health or even avoid them in the first place.

Our first and main aim was to study the relationship between anxiety and depression symptoms in adolescence and later receipt of medical benefits in young adulthood.