Sentences with phrase «for initial studies»

Brook says that when he started the High Conflict Diversion Program ™, the idea of «high conflict divorce» was rather new, yet the works of experts like Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq and Philip Stahl, Ph.D. provided a foundation for his initial studies.

For their initial study, McKenna and Mosko recruited a group of Hispanic mothers living around Irvine who normally slept with their babies (the practice is common in Hispanic households) and had them do so in a special sleep laboratory.

We are pleased to have provided funding for this initial study and are calling for urgent further investment in similar early intervention studies in autism.»

It will provide ample DNA for the initial study, but may or may not yield DNA of sufficient amount and quality for future studies.

The researchers, using $ 200,000 in seed money from the University of Washington, plan to use pets, not laboratory animals, for the initial study, and recruit volunteer dogs — or at least dogs whose owners volunteer them — for larger scale studies in the future.

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According to the Wells Fargo / Gallup study, women business owners said their top three sources of initial funding for their business are cash or savings (85 percent), personal credit cards (37 percent) and financial gifts or support from family or friends (29 percent).

According to a study by George Washington University and Zignal Labs, Sanders is the only candidate whose «echo» across the Internet has actually increased since his initial announcement of his bid for the presidency.

Oceanic data is valuable, but for decades the only way to study the world's hostile waters was to deploy a stationary buoy, launch a satellite into space, or send a government research vessel that runs hundreds of thousands of dollars a day to operate — on top of its initial price tag of hundreds of millions of dollars.

While the research was aimed at eventually developing treatments for those suffering from PTSD, the study authors said these initial findings were also useful for those of us who just have to deal with normal negativity like marital spats and nasty work disagreements.

For Crunchbase's continuing study of female founders, 43,008 global companies with founders had an initial funding between 2009 to 2017.

That's why, when Biogen shared initial positive results from an early study in December, the stock jumped 6 percent — and has continued climbing, up 39 percent since Dec. 1, compared with a 19 percent gain for the Nasdaq biotechnology index.

Abeona Therapeutics (ABEO)- Data for ABO - 102 in MPS IIIA appears encouraging to me (decreases in heparan sulfate, neurocognitive benefits), initial data for ABO - 101 in MPS IIIB showed early promise, EB - 101 in RDEB could see an expedited path to market if the pivotal study yields fruit, and other gene therapy candidates are soon to enter the clinic.

Per a recent Financial Planning Association's (FPA) study [2], the cost of developing and building an initial financial plan is coming in at around $ 2,600 on average (which includes the cost of the advisor spending up to 13 hours interviewing the investor as a basis for the plan).

Initial approaches to the study of mass communication effect, for example, attributed strong powers to the mass media to bring about change in viewers» attitudes and behavior.

But just very occasionally, for the simple reason that my initial decision — remember, this is five years after the player's career has ended — would have been preceded by a great deal of study, including a great number of facts.

[Editor's note and update: Dr. Balcer's advice to stay tuned was appropriate: since this initial study, three more peer reviewed studies2, 3,4 have confirmed that the KD test is a reliable tool for identifying possible concussion on the sports sideline.

The paper they reference is on - line at http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2802%2909454-0/fulltext, and, as you can see, the reduction the study found in risk actually equated to 4.3 % of initial risk for every twelve months of breastfeeding.

A prospective study of the progress of labor in 220 nulliparous women and 99 multiparous women who spontaneously entered labor evaluated the benefit of prolonging oxytocin augmentation for an additional 4 hours (for a total of 8 hours) in patients who were dilated at least 3 cm and had unsatisfactory progress (either protraction or arrest) after an initial 4 - hour augmentation period (21).

PFC was one of the initial study sites for FDA approval of the Follistim Pen, an FSH medication delivery device that today has made fertility drug administration much easier and comfortable for patients and is now widely used for ovarian stimulation.

«New Starts is geared toward projects like the Amherst - to - Buffalo connection,» the senator said, pointing to $ 600,000 he secured for the project's initial studies a few years ago.

To date, Nassau has paid Arizona - based AbTech Industries only $ 150,141, largely for initial design and study.

Initial studies conducted by Christine Radtke, new Professor for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at MedUni Vienna / Vienna General Hospital, have shown in an animal model that the threads have great potential for nerve and tissue repair.

Studies show that residual bed bug control remains for up to twenty days after the initial application!

Sapolsky would have likely not ever studied such relationships if it weren't for his initial interests in baboon social behavior and his love of Africa.

An initial focus group study that engaged U.S. - based scientists added clarity regarding the broad benefits of scientific progress relevant to the right and gave rise to a new conceptual framework for considering «access to science» in the context of Article 15.

For the new study, Bronson and co-author John Maisey, a curator in the Museum's Division of Paleontology, applied a small amount of dilute organic acid to the specimen — a method that has been widely used in paleontology since the time of the initial description of Platylithophycus.

Published this week in Nature Climate Change, the initial study finds that embankments constructed since the 1960s are primarily to blame for lower land elevations along the Ganges - Brahmaputra River Delta, with some areas experiencing more than twice the rate of the most worrisome sea - level rise projections from the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

«This study's results can have practice changing implications on how future prostate cancer trials are designed in terms of identifying the men for these studies who are at high risk for early death due to ineffective initial treatment for their prostate cancer,» stated Anthony Victor D'Amico, MD, PhD, chief, Genitourinary Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and senior author of the study.

Dr Lee Campbell, Research Projects and Science Communications Manager at Cancer Research Wales, who part - fund the study, commented: «This is an exciting breakthrough as cancer stem cells are thought to be responsible for the failure of many cancer treatments and the re-emergence of cancers, often many years after the initial disease.

«AMANDA is much like the Model T Ford, a great breakthrough, a great initial success,» says astrophysicist John Bahcall of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

Clinically, the study confirms that effective pain relief in the initial management of low - back pain has implications for long - term improvement.

The research does not conclude that the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) can transmit Zika to humans, but it highlights the need for deeper research into additional potential vectors for the virus that has rapidly spread through the Americas since its initial outbreak in 2015, says Chelsea Smartt, Ph.D., associate professor at the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory at the University of Florida and lead author on the study to be published this week in the Entomological Society of America's Journal of Medical Entomology.

The initial motivation for studying deep - reef ecosystems was the declining health of shallow reefs.

«Previous studies in men have shown that initial viral load can be used to gauge their likelihood of progression to AIDS,» says Thomas Quinn, a senior investigator for NIAID and professor at Johns Hopkins.

To this end, Aucott and his group are currently analyzing cognitive testing results and blood samples taken from patients who participated in this study to search for research biomarkers that were not examined in the initial study.

In the in - car information system study, the researchers did an initial test on the subjects, then let them take the cars home for five days to practice using the systems.

With the initial contract of $ 24.9 million over the next 18 months, Mapp Pharmaceutical will manufacture a small amount of the drug for early - stage clinical studies to demonstrate its safety and efficacy in people.

Using their newly calculated location for the hypocenter, Zhang and colleagues now agree with earlier studies that suggest the initial Lushan rupture was a circular rupture event with no predominant direction.

These can be used inside the U.S. or outside — in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland — to support up to 2 years of postdoctoral study followed by an initial faculty appointment, for a total of 5 years of funding.

The initial study, with its personalized approach, reportedly cost about $ 875,000 for just one patient.

For example, in a grant application which requires an Abstract, Specific Aims, Background, Progress Report — or Preliminary Studies in the case of an initial application — Research Design and Methods, and Literature Cited, it would be wise to outline the sections in the following order: Progress Report / Preliminary Studies, Specific Aims, Research Design and Methods, Background, and Literature Cited.

The study conducted by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) / Wellcome Trust Manchester Clinical Research Facility at The Royal Manchester Children's Hospital builds on initial research from The University of Manchester, which was funded by the MPS Society.

Patients seen in the emergency department (ED) for chest pain who did not have a heart attack appeared to be at low risk of experiencing a heart attack during short - and longer - term follow - up and that risk was not affected by the initial diagnostic testing strategy, according to a study published online by JAMA Internal Medicine.

An analysis of diagnostic test results from the Prospective Multicenter Imaging Study for Evaluation of Chest Pain (PROMISE) trial — in which patients with stable chest pain were randomized to either anatomic or functional testing as an initial diagnostic strategy — showed that the presence and extent of coronary artery disease detected by CT angiography better predicted the risk for future cardiac events than did measures of exercise tolerance or restricted blood flow to the heart muscle.

The newly created Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group has selected four initial researchers — Jennifer Doudna of the University of California (UC), Berkeley, Ethan Bier of UC San Diego, James Collins of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and Bassem Hassan of the Brain and Spine Institute in Paris — to receive $ 1.5 million each to study topics ranging from novel techniques for gene editing, how shapes and forms arise over the course of evolution, and how synthetic biology can create microbes that trap and kill dangerous bacteria.

For this reason, we recommend that when designing an experiment, the initial screening step should consider the biological units (i.e., species, subspecies, populations) that are as close as possible to the target units to be studied.»

If yoga is associated with improving behaviour control, as suggested by the results of the computer test, there may be implications for managing aggression, antisocial or problem behaviour in prisons and on return to society, the researchers note — though this is not measured in this initial study.

The researchers studied eye gaze responses in young children with autism at the time of their initial diagnosis in order to have clearer evidence about the initial underlying reasons for reduced eye contact.

The initial hint that KLF4 regulates mitochondrial biology came from genome - wide studies that revealed a strong signature for KLF4's control of mitochondrial genes.

«Initial activation of the ABI is like a newborn entering the world and hearing for the first time, which means these children will need time to learn to interpret what they are sensing through the device as «sound,»» said audiologist Laurie Eisenberg, Ph.D., a Keck School of Medicine of USC otolaryngology professor and study co-leader.