Sentences with phrase «for pnas»

If you look at the online supplement for the PNAS paper, you see that the cultural fit condition actually did the best compared to control — although the finding is not statistically significant and would need to be replicated.

And when they got it up front for the PNAS article, did they bother to look at it?

Press releases sometimes don't give an entirely accurate account of a piece or work, so going into the paper itself has to be desirable, and that's as much a challenge for PNAS and other subscription journals as it was when the issue of open - access publishing first arose.

In one experiment for the PNAS paper, Mechanical Turk participants answered a classic delay discounting question, such as: Would you prefer $ 60 today or $ 100 in six months?

Not exact matches

In a 2015 paper in the journal PNAS, Boris Schmid of the University of Oslo proposed a climate - based explanation for the cyclical epidemics that characterized the disease's presence in Europe.

The PNAS article authors do not provide a practical strategy for overcoming the dense tangle of vested interests and perverse incentives that protect the current system.

The authors of the PNAS article are generous to the scientific and governmental figures who have long ignored repeated calls for reform and who for so long failed to see (or to acknowledge) that problems even exist.

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The findings, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), define a mechanism in which the oncogenes turn on a protein called RSK2 that is required for cancer cells to move.

The advance, reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal, for the first time allows scientists to analyze how normal gut microbes and pathogenic bacteria contribute to immune responses, and to investigate IBD mechanisms in a controlled model that recapitulates human intestinal physiology.

The first female's grooming «stock value» decreased, while the second monkey's rose, until both arrived at roughly the same value and were groomed for the same amount of time (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.0812280106).

When the number of shapes matched the number of syllables, 15 of the 16 newborns looked for significantly longer at the screen than when it didn't (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.0812142106).

They thrived in temperatures of up to 21 °C and atmospheric CO2 concentrations of up to 780 parts per million — beyond predicted rises for the next century (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.0811143106).

In this latest advance reported in PNAS, the Wyss team showed that the human gut - on - a-chip's unique ability to co-culture intestinal cells with living microbes from the normal gut microbiome for an extended period of time, up to two weeks, could allow breakthrough insights into how the microbial communities that flourish inside our GI tracts contribute to human health and disease.

The unsolved mystery resurfaced in the PNAS cyanobacteria bloom study, which provides the first evidence for BMAA biomagnification in an aquatic food chain.

But overall, a PNAS study says, the amount of land suitable for winemaking could decrease by more than half.

The discovery of «decision fatigue», for instance, which makes judges four times more likely to grant bail in the morning than in the afternoon, might persuade you to take more time out when facing a string of tough problems (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.1018033108).

As expected, brain areas responsible for processing emotion responded more strongly to the angry voice, but this effect was amplified by blue light (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.1010180107).

The research, to be published the week of July 20 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), indicates that music instruction helps enhance skills that are critical for academic success.

On the one side, there's Moggie the Mass Murderer, which sees cats as directly responsible for the extinction of many species of mammal, bird and reptile (63, according to a recent PNAS paper).

PNAS confirmed that Venter chose all three reviewers for the study.

In a new study due this week in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Rice University theoretical physicist Qimiao Si and colleagues at the Rice Center for Quantum Materials in Houston and the Vienna University of Technology in Austria make predictions that could help experimental physicists create what the authors have coined a «Weyl - Kondo semimetal,» a quantum material with an assorted collection of properties seen in disparate materials like topological insulators, heavy fermion metals and high - temperature superconductors.

«This establishes the proof - of - principle that PNAs may be used for therapy.»

Moa genetic diversity was nearly constant for 3000 years before their extinction, a sign of a stable population (PNAS, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.13149721PNAS, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.13149721pnas.1314972111).

The findings, published in the journal PNAS, suggest that if the bodily environment that a mother provides for her baby is unfavourable, for example through small body size or metabolic dysfunction, the placenta will change the flow of nutrients to the fetus relative to her own state.

Then, this past April, she teamed up with three other scientific superstars — Bruce Alberts, former president of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor - in - chief of Science; Marc W. Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School; and Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate, former director of NIH, and current director of the National Cancer Institute — to publish «Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws,» a critique and call for reform that seems already to have altered the course of the workforce debate, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

«When that happened, some killer whales, which had been preying on big whales, had to do other things to make a living,» says James Estes, a research scientist in Santa Cruz, California, for the U.S. Geological Survey and coauthor of the PNAS article.

It has been devised by a group of researchers headed by Prof. Klaus Rajewsky of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), and is now described in the journal PNAS.

But the clincher was when the bacterium gained another chunk of DNA, coding for a further two toxins (PNAS, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.14031381PNAS, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.14031381pnas.1403138111).

At one meeting held last September in Montreal, Canada, geographer Diana Liverman of The University of Arizona (UA) in Tuscon, an IPCC participant for 2 decades, presented the results of the PNAS survey.

This suggests that the chimps frequently felt compelled to reward Tai for her perceived unselfishness, even at their own expense, the researchers report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

The study, published in the October 28 Early Online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), is the first to demonstrate the application of this methodology to the design of self - assembled nanostructures, and shows the potential of machine learning and «big data» approaches embodied in the new Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering at Columbia.

The research team's findings are detailed in a peer - reviewed article in the scholarly journal for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

«Our work describes for the first time that, along with the classical mutualist relationship between both insects, there exists an aggressive mimicry of aphids towards ants,» explains Genetics professor David Martínez Torres, director of the study whose results were published in PNAS, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal.

The study, which appears in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), shows that when we come across low - valued items, we're willing to pay more for products we later face; by contrast, when we see high - valued items, we'll pay less for products we view in the future.

The researchers say his tools meet the criteria for both tool groups made by early Homo — wedges and choppers, and scrapers and drills (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.1212855109).

The study, published recently in the online version of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), was carried out at the UAB, with collaboration from Radboud University Medical Center (the Netherlands), University of Colorado (USA) and Maximilian University of Munich (Germany), and was funded principally by Fundació La Marató, the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, and the International Foundation for Research in Paraplegia.

This surprising dark - centric organization could be a consequence of a size distortion for lights that originates at the photoreceptor (Kremkow et al., PNAS, 2014), the very first neuron in the visual pathway.

In a companion study published online on 1 September in the American Sociological Review, Evans, Rzhetsky, and Jacob Foster — an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, who is also a co-author of the PNAS paper — found that this possibility of prize - winning is «the most plausible explanation» for why researchers take the risks they do.

As they report in this week's issue of PNAS, brain mass accounts for the vast majority (94 %) of the variance in walking time between species.

A team of researchers including members of the University of Chicago's Institute for Molecular Engineering highlight the power of emerging quantum technologies in two recent papers published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Researchers from the Radboud university medical center have provided the first scientific evidence for this in an article published in the scientific journal PNAS.

«If we could build a «family tree» of all cancer nodules in a patient, we could determine how different tumors are related to each other and reconstruct how the cancer evolved,» says Kamila Naxerova, PhD, of the Steele Laboratory for Tumor Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), corresponding author of the report being published in PNAS Early Edition.

This has been demonstrated experimentally for the first time in a study by Eawag and ETH Zurich scientists published in PNAS.

Also, PNAS guidance for comments is limited to about 500 words, so substantive disagreements have to be framed as original research, he said.

Their study published online ahead of print in PNAS Early Edition suggests a new therapeutic strategy for patients with Duchene muscular dystrophy, a progressive neuromuscular condition, caused by a lack of dystrophin, that usually leaves patients unable to walk on their own by age 10 - 15.

«This protocol is essentially intended to be a one - stop reference for any scientist around the world who wants to replicate the results we showed in our PNAS 2016 and PNAS 2014 papers, and give them a framework for building their own bio-bots for a variety of applications,» Raman said.

The statement from law firm Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC says PNAS should have published the Clack study as a «letter» — which is for differences of opinion — rather than as a report, which is reserved for «research of exceptional importance.»

«This work shows that dendritic spines, which are sub-micrometer compartments within individual neurons, are the prime candidates for the initial tag of transient, millisecond synaptic activity that eventually orchestrates memory traces in the brain lasting tens of years,» said Shahid Khan, senior scientist at the Molecular Biology Consortium at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a co-author on the PNAS paper.

What's really impressive about Babar's accomplishment is that he did the work for both papers — one on the role of a population of stem cells in lung cancer development (published in Cell) the other on gene expression in group A Streptococcus (published in PNAS)-- as a participant in summer undergraduate research programs.