Sentences with phrase «first direct study»

Athanassakos, in a 2011 Journal of Investing paper, in the first direct study of value investors, examined whether value investors add value over and above a simple rule that dictates they invest only in stocks with low price - to - earnings (P / E) and low price - to - book (P / B) ratios.

Not exact matches

Her discovery of radium lead to the development of using X-rays in medicine, and Curie was at the forefront for cancer research, directing the first studies that used radiation to treat tumors.

Fernando Pagan, a GUMC associate professor of neurology who directs the Movement Disorders Program at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, said that to his knowledge, the study «represents the first time a therapy appears to reverse — to a greater or lesser degree depending on stage of disease — cognitive and motor decline in patients with these neurodegenerative disorders.»

The research institute I direct, housed at Regent University in Virginia, published the first study of its kind...

* Preliminary results from an Oxford - based study suggest a higher proportion of infant - directed negativity in the way depressed fathers talk about, and to, their infants (Sethna et al, 2009) * Depressed fathers are less likely to read, sing songs and tell stories to their babies than other fathers — and than depressed mothers (Paulson et al, 2006), which may explain why fathers» depression has a more powerful negative impact than mothers» depression on their infants» language development in the first year.

A researcher in Israel conducted the first study of hand - clapping songs, revealing a direct link between those activities and the development of important skills in children and young adults, including university students.

However, the study reported in this volume is the first one directed specifically toward maternal nutrition during lactation.

But the new study is among the first to show that a single exposure to the chemical can have a direct and fairly immediate impact on cardiovascular health.

Katko's legislation directs the National Park Service to conduct a study, the first step toward placing Fort Ontario on a path to become part of the national parks system.

Professor Keith Godfrey, from the Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit and the National Institute for Health Research Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, and a member of the study team, said: «The new findings provide the first direct evidence linking faltering of a baby's growth in the womb with epigenetic modifications that themselves may increase the risk of childhood obesity.

This study is the first of its kind to assess quality of direct - to - consumer telemedicine as compared to in - person care for common acute respiratory infections.

This year DISCOVER honors David Charbonneau, a Harvard University astronomer whose research could soon lead to an equally stunning revelation: By studying alien worlds, he may find the first direct evidence of life beyond Earth, a sign that our living planet is — yet again — one among many.

«For the first time, we have direct images of what the Milky Way looked like in the past,» said study co-leader Pieter G. van Dokkum of Yale University in New Haven, Conn. «Of course, we can't see the Milky Way itself in the past.

The study also demonstrated for the first time impaired goal - directed control and lack of cognitive plasticity early in the development of OCD.

This is the first time a direct connection has been established between a person's eye movements and patterns of brain activity, which follows up on previous studies linking what we see to how we remember.

The study shows the first direct evidence of BNF by tracking the presence of a nitrogen radiotracer as it was absorbed first by the bacteria and then moved through the plant.

While the study is the first to confirm this link between dolphin motivation and communication, some ecologists question its validity, since the dolphins were artificially separated and the female was directed to behave a certain way.

The report is the first phase of a five - year study directed by the Health Effects Institute and conducted by the Coordinating Research Council.

«This study provides the first direct estimate of the cost of sex, and the results validate Maynard Smith's foundational theory in evolutionary biology.

«With the availability of more and more data analytics in health care, it's the right time to use data to direct the investments of drug discovery and biomedical research for the common good,» said the study's first author, Lixia Yao, PhD, assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

The study, published in the July 3 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is a first step toward enabling doctors to direct the body's own immune system to better fend off disease.

In an article in the latest edition of Psychology of Popular Media Culture, Karla Murdock reported that texting was a direct predictor of sleep problems among first - year students in a study that examined links among interpersonal stress, text - messaging behavior, and three indicators of college students» health: burnout, sleep problems and emotional well - being.

«Several studies and clinical evidence suggest AIM2 functions as a tumor suppressor, but until now, we've had very little direct evidence to explains how this occurs,» said Justin E. Wilson, PhD, the study's first author and a postdoctoral fellow at UNC Lineberger, the UNC School of Medicine Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the Department of Genetics.

«Direct and regular observation of plasma by satellites started after the late 1960s — almost a decade after the first human - made satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched in 1957,» explains Masahito Nosé, an author of the study.

The study, conducted by the BICEP2 team that claimed the discovery and scientists with the Planck space telescope, nullifies a result that would have provided the first direct evidence of cosmological inflation, a brief moment after the Big Bang when the universe rapidly ballooned in size.

The Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study, directed by Malcolm Sears, MB, ChB, professor in the Department of Medicine at McMaster University, is believed to be «the first to determine the effects of timing of food introduction to cow's milk products, egg, and peanut, on food sensitization at age one in a general population - based cohort,» said lead investigator Maxwell Tran, a research student at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

The Nicaraguan study is the first to demonstrate that educating women has a direct effect on their children's health and that this has nothing to do with these other factors.

A team of scientists, led by University of Illinois physicist Peter Schiffer, has reported direct visualization of magnetic charge crystallization in an artificial spin ice material, a first in the study of a relatively new class of frustrated artificial magnetic materials - by - design known as «Artificial Spin Ice.»

The study marks the first time that researchers have discovered a direct correlation between seasonal allergens and dry eye, with both pollen and dry eye cases reaching a yearly peak in the month of April.

«We were looking at the direct result of a 66 - million - year old forest fire, preserved in stone,» says Emily Bamforth, of the Royal Saskatchewan Museum and the study's first author.

This may not come as a surprise, but it is actually the first time that this type of study — which presents a direct causal relationship between smoking and mortality — has been carried out,» says Professor and chief physician Børge Nordestgaard from the University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen University Hospital.

«This is one of the first direct comparisons of 6mA and 5mC in eukaryotes, and the first 6mA study across the fungal kingdom,» said DOE JGI Fungal Genomics head and senior author Igor Grigoriev.

In the years after World War II, on the grounds of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, mathematician John von Neumann assembled a group of eccentric engineers to build and program a «universal machine» — the modern computer's direct ancestor, which was first envisioned by logician Alan Turing.

In the first part of their study, the Johns Hopkins team showed that exercise levels positively corresponded to vitamin D levels in a direct relationship, meaning that the more one exercised, the higher their vitamin D levels seemed.

«This study provides one of the most direct demonstrations to date that first - hand pain and pain empathy are functionally related,» says neurobiologist Bernadette Fitzgibbon of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, who was not involved in the new research.

A new study from The Condor: Ornithological Applications provides the first direct estimates of the population size and annual survival of young birds in Oahu's Laysan Albatross population, giving important new insights into the demographics of these «prebreeders.»

And in April, Gael Chauvin of the European Southern Observatory and his team took the first direct photo of a possible planet around another star and managed to study its light.

But this is the first time, to my knowledge, that the direct link is established from a novel gene to a novel structure to the invasion of a completely new ecological opportunity,» said Abderrahman Khila, an evolutionary and developmental genomicist at the Institute of Functional Genomics of Lyon, who led the study on the delicate insects called water striders.

Jeff Smith, a first - year postdoc at OISB who studies cell signaling using proteomics, notes that with no specific categories for systems biology on research - grant applications, he has no choice but to place himself in direct competition with biochemists and biologists in other fields.

Early sipping represents what is often a child's first direct experience with drinking, yet little research has examined the long - term impact of this behavior, in part because most studies do not measure early sipping and tasting alcohol with parental permission.

«This study was the first direct evidence that interstitial pressure is a viable mechanism of long term load support and lubrication,» Burris said.

Over the past five to 10 years, studies of brain activity during sleep have provided some of the first direct evidence that the brain employs a Boltzmann - like learning algorithm in order to integrate new information and memories into its structure.

«This is the first real study of gene expression in the striatum for bipolar disorder,» said Ron Davis, chair of the Department of Neuroscience at TSRI, who directed the study.

This study, however, is the first to identify direct physical contact between the two organelles.

A new, 20 - year study, led by University of Illinois at Urbana — Champaign ecologist David Philipp, «provides the first direct experimental evidence that vulnerability to angling is a heritable trait,» the authors wrote.

By studying sections of marine shelf on the Atlantic Coastal Plain associated with the period between the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, Schaller and colleagues uncovered some of the first direct evidence for such an impact event.

The observations «for the first time draw a direct link between surface pollutants in Asia and aerosols in the tropopause,» says Kenichi Ueno, a climate scientist at the University of Tsukuba in Japan, who is not involved in the study.

Three years ago Drs. Byvaltsev and Preul secured the first - ever international neurosurgery scientific project funded by the Russian Science Federation and directed at the study of the degenerating spinal disc.

More than 20 years ago, in a study that triggered both scientific and cultural controversy, the molecular biologist offered the first direct evidence of a «gay gene,» by identifying a stretch on the X chromosome likely associated with homosexuality.

This study reveals for the first time, that the interaction between cells and the ECM can control and direct the mechanical tension between cells.