Sentences with phrase «for experimental studies»

Sometimes that is accomplished through straightforward evaluation using qualitative and quantitative strategies, and sometimes it calls for experimental studies.

Research may include support for experimental studies that will lead to the understanding of the etiology of obesity and evidence for potential treatments.

There is the silo argument, for maintaining the existence of all those organisms useful to us; the laboratory argument for maintaining those organisms needed for experimental studies; the gymnasium argument of nature for leisure; and the cathedral argument of nature for aesthetic pleasure.

When the Wisconsin Legislature started the Milwaukee voucher program, lawmakers included money for an experimental study to compare results for low - income students in the private schools to those still in public schools.

For the experimental study, I randomized roughly 18,000 college - intending high school graduates into four experimental conditions in order to determine whether the behavioral framing of informational text messaging affects college enrollment, successful maintenance of TN Promise eligibility, and within - and between - year persistence.

Lead support for the Experimental Study Program is provided by the Keith Haring School, Teen, and Family Programs Fund.

METHODS: The study uses stratified random sampling technique for the experimental study undertaken to measure skin conductivity.

Not exact matches

Lilly faced a devastating clinical setback last year with a late - stage failure for its experimental Alzheimer's treatment, the studies for which cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars.

«A study published last year in Experimental Brain Research appeared to provide some partial scientific support for this idea,» notes BPS, explaining that brain scans of experienced long - distance runners revealed running really does seem to reduce activity in certain key brain areas.

The company is chasing an at least $ 80 million IPO to help fund the phase 3 studies that would be necessary for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to clear the treatment (the company has made modifications to the experimental, once - a-day pill that fights brain plaque buildup associated with Alzheimer's).

But according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) which did a study in 2013 on the drug shortage, other reasons include a lack of materials to make the drugs, as well as delays in getting government approval for new and experimental drugs.

Agios Pharmaceuticals shares plunged more than 18 percent after the company discontinued development of an experimental drug for rare blood disorder due to side effects seen in a study.

Gilead's R&D team brought home a clean sweep for its four Phase III studies adding the experimental drug bictegravir to its backbone HIV therapy.

Lilly outlined in July a likely multi-year delay for its experimental rheumatoid arthritis drug baricitinib, after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration declined to approve the drug, calling for an additional clinical study.

The National Ignition Facility: an experimental platform for studying behavior of matter under extreme conditions

«A 1999 follow - up by William S Harris et al. attempted to replicate Byrd's findings under stricter experimental conditions, noting that the original research was not completely blinded and was limited to only «prayer - receptive» individuals (57 of the 450 patients invited to participate in the study refused to give consent «for personal reasons or religious convictions»).

In terms of own price elasticity values, a recent meta - analysis estimated an average own price effect for carbonated sugar sweetened drinks (a near equivalent of the category non-concentrated sugar sweetened drinks, which predominantly includes carbonated drinks) of − 0.93, larger than our value of − 0.81.51 Our estimated value is also at the lower end of the range of own price elasticities frequently cited for sugar sweetened drinks of − 0.8 to − 1.0, based on one large review.52 Our own price estimate is comparable to experimental data (a 25 % reduction for a 35 % price rise) in a canteen study.53 However, all these estimates may be influenced by US studies in which higher estimates may reflect higher levels of consumption.

In response to «Effects of Energy Drinks Mixed with Alcohol on Behavioral Control: Risks for College Students Consuming Trendy Cocktails,» a study to be published in the July issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, Dr. Maureen Storey, senior vice president of science policy for the American Beverage Association, issued the following statement:

I studied for a term at Morley College in South London on their experimental machine knitting course with a fantastic tutor called Jo Thompson.

I wouldn't take my sick baby to a Ph.D. for care and I wouldn't take my study to an M.D. for advice on experimental design.

The source of financial backing for scientific studies was also a factor in determining what kinds of experimental studies would be conducted.

For instance, one experimental study found that mothers who wore their infants in soft baby carriers were more likely to have securely - attached babies than were moms who carried their babies in portable infant seats (Anisfeld et al 1990).

Measurement bias was an interesting one for water birth because measurement bias occurs when a study doesn't do a good job of sorting people into the experimental and control groups.

For example, animal studies have demonstrated that the expression of P - glycoprotein, a broad - specificity transmembrane transporter on intestinal enterocytes, is induced by breast milk (and not formula exposure) and is protective against experimental colitis (3).

The updated Cochrane Review concludes that there is no strong evidence from experimental studies (randomised trials) to favour either planned hospital birth or planned home birth for low - risk pregnant women.

The strongest research methods for psychological studies are: qualitative findings versus quantitative; experimental rather than descriptive or correlational; controlled - experiment, meta - analysis, and observation designs over archival, case study, computational modeling, content analysis, field experiment, interview, neuroimaging, quasi experiment, self - report inventory, random sample survey, or twin study; and prospective (where subjects are recruited prior to the proposed independent effects being administered) and longitudinal (where subjects are studied at multiple time points) rather than retrospective or cross-section study.

McKenna JJ, Mosko S. Evolution and infant sleep: an experimental study of infant - parent co-sleeping and its implications for SIDS.

After the number of mothers for the experimental group were selected, all women eligible for the study were added to the control group until the sample was complete.

«Nonetheless, the proof of concept studies we have obtained thus far are extremely encouraging, and we are confident that with proper support and efforts we could translate our findings into experimental therapeutics for a variety of solid tumors that are driven by EphA2 overexpression, including breast, lung, prostate, pancreatic, and ovarian cancers,» said Pellecchia, who serves as the founding director of the Center for Molecular and Translational Medicine at UCR.

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But the researchers were able to show the concept at work in their experimental system, says biophysicist Xavier Trepat of the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia in Barcelona, who was not involved in the study.

Reductions in biodiversity from illegal wildlife trade can have other substantial negative human health impacts, including the loss of potential sources of pharmaceuticals, experimental models for studying disease, crop pollination and micronutrients for humans lacking alternative sources of protein.

An experimental drug in early development for aggressive brain tumors can cross the blood - brain tumor barrier, kill tumor cells and block the growth of tumor blood vessels, according to a study led by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — James).

Now, a pilot study presented here 18 April at the Federation of Societies for Experimental Biology meeting has identified 10 proteins that can distinguish ALS patients from healthy individuals.

An experimental drug for the genetic disorder fragile X syndrome was ineffective in two studies in people.

It also provides novel insight into human mesenchymal stem cell - heart cell interactions that can guide future experimental studies to understand the mechanisms underlying mesenchymal stem cell therapy for the heart.

«It is essential that rigorous protocols for the study of experimental interventions are developed quickly so that African countries have the same opportunities to consider them that western ones would, and that there is equitable access to any that prove effective,» Farrar said in a statement.

The study's principal investigator, Dr Riccardo Marioni, from The University of Edinburgh's Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, said: «We are still a long way from making an accurate prediction for an individual's hair loss pattern.

More than 35,000 individual images were acquired and processed for this study as part of the experimental trials.

The study, «AKR1B1 promotes basal - like breast cancer progression by a positive feedback loop that activates the EMT program,» which has been published in The Journal of Experimental Medicine, suggests that an inhibitor of this enzyme currently used to treat diabetes patients could be an effective therapy for this frequently deadly form of cancer.

Improper pronunciation and intonation can be real communication breakers, says Ian Wilson, an associate professor at the Center for Language Research at the University of Aizu in Fukushima, Japan, who studies experimental phonetics.

With the help of students from a University of Denver work - study program, his company was able to complete two experimental net - zero homes — the second of which recently sold for under $ 190,000.

A technique using anesthesia - containing nanoparticles — drawn to the targeted area of the body by magnets — could one day provide a useful alternative to nerve block for local anesthesia in patients, suggests an experimental study in the April issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS).

Ten - month - old infants looked longer at scenes in which the bigger object surrendered, indicating that they were surprised at this outcome (the amount of time infants spend studying a scene is a well - tested experimental metric for piqued interest).

This was an experimental study in mice, which allows for conclusions to be made about cause and effect in this species.

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.

But Jacob Taylor, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland, says it provides experimental data for «a quiet revolution» in statistical physics, the study of how heat flows both in microscopic systems and on the scale of everyday life.

Schmidt and Spann studied customers» willingness to pay for non-ticketed items in a number of experimental situations.

To tease out these links, Clive Jones and Richard Ostfeld's team at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York, and Jerry Wolff of Oregon State University in Corvallis first showed by trapping mice in experimental forest plots that fewer mice means much greater survival rates for gypsy moth pupae.

New experimental technologies, such as terahertz absorption spectroscopy, pave the way for studies of the dynamics of water molecules surrounding biomolecules.