Sentences with phrase «first studied as»

3BP, part of a class of compounds known as small molecule drugs, was first studied as an anti-cancer agent more than a decade ago at Johns Hopkins by biochemists Young Hee Ko and Peter Pedersen, together with radiologist Jeff Geschwind.

The team, who published some of their first studies as early as 1999, culminated their efforts with the first synthetic cell, Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI - syn 1.0 in 2010, and in March 2016 published result of the successful construction of the first minimal synthetic cell, JCVI - syn 3.0.

Zeger (one of the collaborators on survey design), a professor of biostatistics, worried about «recall bias»... Zeger made sure that the second survey would cover not just the months elapsed since the conclusion of the first one, but go back over the period of the first study as well.

Not exact matches

An important trigger this year will be the outcome of a study where Darzalex is being tested as first - line treatment in combination with Celgene Corp's Revlimid.

As I wrote when the study first came out:

So what I've observed is when I first did the study two years ago — and I did it together with US News and WPP — when I first did this study, the US was ranked as the fourth - best brand.

As the British Psychological Science Research Digest blog points out, this isn't the first study to link tea drinking with improved mental performance, but it is the first to suggest that a cup of Earl Grey or chamomile might enhance creativity specifically.

Other studies by Kross suggest that, when people use their first names, they're more likely to see stressful situations (like public speaking) as challenging, rather than threatening.

Burnout was first identified in the 1970s in studies of overworked, overstressed «helping professions,» such as health workers and teachers, who found all their efforts never slowed the flow of pain and despair.

The first trial was supposed to have been completed this month, but the FDA website lists it as pending, which means the study has not been initiated (type in «flibanserin» in the product box here).

And the giant that makes the platform he's building on, Apple, for example, is running large - scale medical studies using its software, and is said to be looking to handle clinical data as the first step to a real attempt to break into the medical market.

Norrie, who studied geography and physical education at the University of Alberta, first landed at Mica's sister company, Island Lake Lodge, as a mountain guide in 1998.

Not only did the vast majority Americans» net - worth tumble during the recession, for 93 % of households, it continued to slide during the first two years of the recovery as well, a recent study by the Pew Research Center found.

After he left the Army in 2008 and later finished his undergraduate studies at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, he worked as a web communications specialist at the VA, helping to formulate the department's messaging at a time when the medical backlog issue was first becoming widely known.

His findings feature in textbooks and management training courses, and his debut book, The Procrastination Equation, combines the first meta - analysis of the topic (encompassing some 800 studies) with original research, including some for which the professor served as his own subject.

Meanwhile, yesterday's hard - won customers just «slip away,» as the study's authors put it, not because another brand was more attractive but because the first one stopped caring as soon as the cash register rang.

After studying accounting at the University of Colorado at Boulder, she worked as a CPA for Ernst & Young, first in Denver and then in L.A..

Jurich's first reason to skip car ownership is perhaps the simplest — commuting by car is objectively awful (really, study after study ranks it as one of life's most misery - inducing activities), so given that she lives in a place that provides alternatives, it simply makes sense to take them.

For the first time ever, business has surpassed education as the most popular course of postgraduate study.

In the first - year, MBA candidates must read, absorb and debate some 270 case studies in 10 courses, often fighting for «air time» with equally clever students just as eager as they are to score points with professors.

While it's well understood that natural features such as rivers and fertile soil matter for economic growth, this study provides some of the first evidence that natural amenities are also important.

Many of the researchers who use the data are first - time grantees from small institutions who likely wouldn't have gotten their studies off the ground without TCGA as a resource.

Fewer than a quarter of U.S. consumers polled in the first quarter of this year had heard of the Switch, as this chart from Statista, based on a recent Nielsen study, indicates.

(As the parent of a first - year university student off to study tuba performance, I'm in no position to lecture anyone on practicality over passion.)

REDUCE - IT is the first multinational cardiovascular outcomes study evaluating the effect of prescription pure EPA therapy, or any triglyceride - lowering therapy, as an add - on to statins in patients with high cardiovascular risk who, despite stable statin therapy, have elevated triglyceride levels (150 - 499 mg / dL).

Ankumah says he first studied the «underpinnings of technology» as a high school student at an all - boys boarding school in Ghana — all without access to computers.

As part of a study, Google moved M&M s from clear to opaque containers, leading its 2,000 employees to consume 3.1 million fewer calories in the first seven weeks.

Y Combinator is certainly not the first to study basic income, and since it's just starting a pilot, we don't yet know how its work will lead to new or different findings than those uncovered by experiments in other places and times, such as those in Canada, the U.S., and India.

Rao has been working on the problem since 1984, when he first visited Hyderabad as an undergraduate studying agriculture sciences.

Companies remain hyper - aware and committed to investing in their employer brand online and via social media, as the study revealed that 61 % of job seekers visit a company's online properties first before applying, which was a 17 % increase from 2015.

First, as a raft of studies has shown, harassment flourishes in workplaces where men dominate in management and women have little power.

The first thing we wanted to do was to see if the participants in our study lined up reasonably well with Mamoon's benchmark of 4 as a goal for promising SaaS companies.

According to a recent Deloitte study, 92 % of executives feel they must redesign their organizations to appear more fun and engaging to younger talent, as if we'll swoon if there's a wild party thrown for us on our first day on the job.

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 first one — called the CPW Lab app — was developed after he had begun a collaboration with Facebook in early 2013, as part of his academic studies.

Based on his studies during the 1960s and his practical experience in the early 1970s, Milken was determined to focus, first, on future cash flow rather than the past as reflected in book value and reported earnings; and second, to consider human capital part of the balance sheet.

Straticyte is the first and only molecular diagnostic test for oral precancerous lesions that provides an objective and accurate prediction score as evidenced by retrospective clinical studies.

John McAfee (The Big Dog), Senior Strategist & Advisor John started as a programmer for NASA's Institute for Space Studies before becoming the creator of the first anti-virus software company that continues to bear his name.

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.

As CNBC studies, some large names are on the traders checklist, together with Spark Capital, First Round Capital, Twitch CEO Emmett Shear and founder and former CEO Justin Kan..

Today is my FIRST DAY as a member; as I read & study Price action w / the pin bars and Confluence, I am identifying Pin Bars in the AUDUSD 240 min live chart.

That may come as a surprise amid hand - wringing about the spiraling cost of health care, but two new studies, one from research company IMS Health and one from pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, show that the amount of money Americans spend on prescription drugs went down in 2012 for the first time in decades.

An InsideSales.com study found that 35 - 50 % of sales go to the vendor that responds first to an inquiry, and a HubSpot study found that response rates decline as the age of a lead increases.

«There was a study done on college students, as freshman, were having trouble in their first year with their study habits.

Indeed, in the last six months of the study, «62 per cent of Housing First (HF) participants were housed all of the time... whereas 31 per cent of treatment as usual (TAU) participants were housed all the time...» Further, «Among participants who were housed, housing quality was usually better and more consistent in HF residences than TAU residences.»

Discover ranked first for overall satisfaction in J.D. Power's 2016 U.S. Credit Card Satisfaction Study, earning high marks in categories such as rewards and customer interaction.

Marking the 40th anniversary of the first formal meeting between Canada and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), this comprehensive study provides detailed snapshots of the 10 member economies of ASEAN as well as an assessment of the opportunities they represent for Canada.

Rather than debate academic studies about first - century womanhood, why not try out a biblical notion such as head covering and see what happens?

That to find ot about God and God's plan for us also involves first - hand experience such as following the teachings, study and asking in prayer.

Nevertheless, I believe that, from the time of the Enlightenment to the present, one can read the history of the study of divinity as one in which the second commandment, which is like the first but not the first, has increasingly been made into the first and then the only commandment.