Sentences with phrase «focus subsequent studies»

The screening revealed coibamide A to be capable of killing many types of cancer cells, but Ishmael decided to focus subsequent studies on two types in particular — brain tumors, or glioblastomas, and a breast cancer subtype known as triple negative breast cancer.

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Each of the subsequent years might be devoted to the study of one of the problems selected for foci by the university.

This study represents the initial stage of a multi-pronged evaluation of John Jay's URE program with subsequent phases focusing on quantitative comparisons.

The international team of scientists focused their study around Aira caldera — a large, submerged crater caused by the violent explosion and subsequent collapse of a voluminous magma reservoir.

In the state under study, public schools that had failed to make AYP focused instruction on the entire range of low - performing students in the subsequent school year, and did so without negative impact on high - performing students.

The Evaluation of the Comprehensive School Reform Program Implementation and Outcomes: Third Year Report (2008) provides third - year study findings regarding schools receiving comprehensive school reform (CSR) assistance awards in 2002, focusing on how CSR award receipt was related to subsequent changes in achievement and whether aspects of program implementation were associated with achievement gains.

In a study published in the journal Environmental Psychology, the University of Melbourne's Kate Lee and a group of colleagues found that interrupting a tedious, attention - demanding task with a 40 - second «microbreak» — in which one simply looks at a computerized image of a green roof — improved focus as well as subsequent performance on the task.

Process - based studies have focused on understanding the role of the land surface on climate, with research looking into the regional impact of historical or hypothetical (future scenario) land - use change on climate, as well as understanding diurnal - scale relationships between surface fluxes of heat and moisture and subsequent atmospheric processes such as convection and the generation of precipitation.

Our findings add insight into the pathways linking early childhood adversity to poor adult wellbeing.29 Complementing past work that focused on physical health, 9 our findings provide information about links between ACEs and early childhood outcomes at the intersection of learning, behavior, and health.29 We found that ACEs experienced in early childhood were associated with poor foundational skills, such as language and literacy, that predispose individuals to low educational attainment and adult literacy, both of which are related to poor health.23, 30 — 33 Attention problems, social problems, and aggression were also associated with ACEs and also have the potential to interfere with children's educational experience given known associations between self - regulatory behavior and academic achievement.34, 35 Consistent with the original ACE study and subsequent research, we found that exposure to more ACEs was associated with more adverse outcomes, suggesting a dose — response association.3 — 8 In fact, experiencing ≥ 3 ACEs was associated with below - average performance or problems in every outcome examined.

The exclusive or limited focus on physical abuse and maltreatment might in part explain the failure of some previous studies to confirm the role of MAOA genotype in moderating the relationship between early stress and subsequent aggressive behavior [18]--[20].

The realignment of the parental monitoring literature resulted in a series of subsequent studies primarily focused on adolescent self - disclosure.