Sentences with phrase «for quantitative studies»

With his Pioneer Award, Ismagilov will develop droplet - based microfluidic technologies for quantitative studies of protein aggregation diseases and aging at the molecular level and in entire organisms.

Not exact matches

With the advent of powerful computers, databases, and stock screeners it has become increasingly easy for investors to implement Graham's quantitative strategies, while the qualitative study of companies remains nearly as time consuming and research intensive as it was in 1934.

Benefits of Training: • Discipline: Builds character that applies to every area of life, • Focus: Scientific studies show that karate training is good for the brain and helps with brain function, problem solving and quantitative reasoning skills.

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.

It appears that other types of protocols are utilized by the WHO, such as for the newly released Intrapartum Care for Positive Childbirth Experience, which includes all types of quantitative research, for example observational studies, and is not limited to RCTs.

In one study, a large reduction in blood pressure associated with having been breastfed for at least 3 months (Web table 1) was reported to have been somewhat attenuated after controlling for current weight, age, birth weight, time of birth, birth order, mother's age, and history of high antenatal maternal blood pressure (14), but quantitative estimates suitable for inclusion in the meta - analyses were not available.

«It suggests that the interbreeding event may have happened in the Middle East, and that lineage then migrated east» without additional contact with Europe, says Adam Siepel, a quantitative biologist at New York's Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and a co-team leader for the study.

International Studies Association, agenda includes several symposia and speakers that address human rights, for example, «MNCs and the Protection of Human Rights», «Quantitative Analysis of Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention», and «Security, Human Rights and the War on Terror», 2012

«For every 20 surgery procedures to take out the prostate, it is estimated that only one life is saved,» said Gabriel Popescu, director of the Quantitative Light Imaging Laboratory (QLI) and senior author on the study.

While landslides triggered by earthquakes have caused damage and casualties worldwide, they have not often been the subject of extensive quantitative study or fully incorporated into seismic hazard assessments, say authors of this study that looks at just one scenario among potentially hundreds for a major earthquake in the Seattle area.

For all such studies, however, objective, credible, disinterested and quantitative risk - benefit analysis is needed before further experiments continue.

Budimirovic says the current study updated the 2013 recommendations by using a more systematic approach that classified existing outcome measures as either being able to detect shorter - term changes (measures in FXS placebo - controlled trials lasting less than 12 months) or longer - term changes (lasting longer than 12 months) changes and by grading the measures» quantitative properties using the COnsensus - based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN) system, an initiative that aims to improve how health measurement tools are selected.

«By numerically studying energy landscapes, we now have a quantitative basis for designing optimized patterned surfaces in engineered systems,» says Ren.

Dr Søren Brage (MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge), joint senior author on the study says: «Providing quantitative estimates regarding the dose - response relationship is essential for approximating how changes in levels of physical activity in the general population would impact disease incidence, and would support more nuanced guidance to the public and evidence - based dialogue in clinical settings.»

«A fundamental question has been whether we can directly link expansion of harmful algal blooms to a warming ocean; this paper provides critical, quantitative evidence for just that trend, confirming an expected, but difficult to test, direct link between toxic blooms to climate,» said Dr. Raphael Kudela, Professor of Ocean Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, a national toxic algae expert who was not part of the study.

Center for Quantitative Biology, Peking - Tsinghua Joint Center for Life Sciences, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, State Key Laboratory for Artificial Microstructures and Mesoscopic Physics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.

The team also included Adam Siepel, who is Chair of CSHL's Simons Center for Quantitative Biology and co-lead the study, and a former member of Siepel's Lab, Ilan Gronau, who is now at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center, Israel.

«Our actions can substantively change the environment and, in turn, the changing environment influences the incentives for future action,» said Joshua Weitz, who led the study and is a professor in Georgia Tech's School of Biological Sciences and director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Quantitative Biosciences.

«The mitotic spindle is a complicated, perfectly balanced machine,» said Forth, a quantitative biologist who recently joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as an assistant professor of biological sciences and member of the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies.

UC Santa Barbara distinguished research professor Richard P. Appelbaum, former MacArthur Chair in Sociology and Global & International Studies, and Xueying Han, a former postdoctoral scholar at UCSB who now works for the Science and Technology Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., have co-authored the first comprehensive quantitative analysis of China's STEM research environment.

«The study was performed using a human norovirus surrogate called murine norovirus (NoV), and a hepatitis A (HAV) virus along with advanced quantitative microbial risk assessment tools,» explained Pillai, professor of microbiology and director of the National Center for Electron Beam Research at Texas A&M University.

«Our study provides a quantitative methodology for assessing the relative response rate of ecosystems, either natural ones or those with a strong anthropogenic footprint, to climate variability,» Seddon explains.

Sampson UK, Perati RR, Prins PA, Pham W, Liu Z, Harell F, Linton MF, Gore JC, Kon V, Fazio S. Quantitative estimates of variability of in vivo ultrasound imaging measurements of mouse aorta important for studies of abdominal aortic aneurysms and related arterial diseases.

The quantitative analysis of molecule interactions in bioimaging is key for understanding the molecular orchestration of cellular processes and is generally achieved through the study of the spatial colocalization between different populations of molecules.

Quantitative proteomics study of breast cancer cell lines isolated from a single patient: discovery of TIMM17A as a marker for breast cancer.

Additionally, a more intense study for virus replication including quantitative RT - PCR assays might have confirmed the probability that virus replication is required for induction of the immunopathology after vaccination.

For rapid and efficient classification this study applies a Ligand - Based Computer Aided Drug Discovery (LB - CADD) profiling approach: Quantitative Structure Activity Relationships (QSAR) were established that for each compound provide a probability profile to act via inhibition of a range of malaria protein targeFor rapid and efficient classification this study applies a Ligand - Based Computer Aided Drug Discovery (LB - CADD) profiling approach: Quantitative Structure Activity Relationships (QSAR) were established that for each compound provide a probability profile to act via inhibition of a range of malaria protein targefor each compound provide a probability profile to act via inhibition of a range of malaria protein targets.

Quantitative estimates of the variability of in vivo sonographic measurements of the mouse aorta for studies of abdominal aortic aneurysms and related arterial diseases.

The completion of the study will generate direct clinical impact by introducing a new quantitative diagnostic rule for early detection of glaucoma.

Winning the World Prize for agricultural research is Trudy Mackay, from the Department of Biological Sciences at North Carolina State University in the US, who pioneered research in quantitative genetics, which studies the interaction between genes, traits and environmental effects.

The work is significant because it lays the groundwork for the development of quantitative models of animal development, enabling the use of mathematical tools more commonly associated with the physical sciences to be applied in biological studies.

Through services that rise to the challenges inherent in quantitative system - scale studies, the journal aims to publish and facilitate research for our communities of readers and authors.

The gene test is being studied as an accurate, quantitative way to identify cysts that are more worrisome and to help patients avoid unnecessary surgeries for harmless cysts.

If properly performed, PET / CT scanner images are comparable and reproducible across multiple study sites for image noise and texture, quantitative accuracy and lesion detectability, thereby promoting standardization.

The Animal and Human Imaging Shared Resource enables Cancer Center investigators to execute high throughput, quantitative and noninvasive in vivo imaging studies on animal models, apply and validate MRI, optical, CT, PET, SPECT and ultrasound methods for noninvasive detection and characterization in small animals and incorporate emerging and clinical relevant quantitative MRI and PET protocols into Phase I, II and III clinical trials in a centralized, cost effective manner.

June 8, 2011 Grossman Institute for Quantitative Biology and Human Behavior created The University has created a new institute designed to establish a group of scholars working at the intersection of quantitative biology, neuroscience, and the study of social and individuaQuantitative Biology and Human Behavior created The University has created a new institute designed to establish a group of scholars working at the intersection of quantitative biology, neuroscience, and the study of social and individuaquantitative biology, neuroscience, and the study of social and individual behaviors.

We examined 152 SNPs in 71 candidate genes for association with diabetes status and related phenotypes in 2,134 Caucasians in a case - control study and an independent quantitative trait (QT) cohort in the United Kingdom.

RNA sequencing (RNA - seq) is a genomic approach for the detection and quantitative analysis of messenger RNA molecules in a biological sample and is useful for studying cellular responses.

According to a new study conducted by RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center or QBiC at the University of Tokyo, calcium is not only good for our bones but also a key to a longer and better sleep.

For these studies to be strengthened, several more cell lines of each type need to be examined and equivalent knockdown needs to be demonstrated by both quantitative protein and mRNA analysis.

study cohorts of 10,000 s - 100,000 s healthy participants from the UK population for 100s to 1000s of quantitative traits, relating these to cardiometabolic and other diseases; and identify thousands of homozygously null genes compatible with human life.

A number of studies show that the serum levels of antithyroid peroxidase antibodies (TPO - Ab) in patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis decline during levothyroxine treatment, but do not provide quantitative data or report the fraction of patients in whom test for TPO - Ab became negative («normalization percentage»).

One is the lesser profile accorded to curriculum and instructional practice and to what happens once the teacher closes the classroom door; another is the view that random assignment is premature, given its dependence on expert school management and high - quality program implementation; and another is the view that quantitative techniques have only marginal usefulness for understanding schools, since a school's governance, culture, and management are best understood through intensive case studies.

Resources provide opportunities to: - explore how adverts play on our fears and dreams - explore persuasive language in advertising - explore presentational features - analyse adverts across 3 mediums (TV, radio and web)- explore synergy - study advertising across a range of mediums - plan own advertising campaign - conduct risk assessments and planning document as would be the case in the industry - give a pitch for the campaign created - explore legal and ethical - investigate the ASA (advertising standards agency)- consider budgets - conduct primary and secondary research - gather qualitative and quantitative data A work book is also included for students to complete as they study the course.

The primary aims of this study are to document the process of moving towards new, integrated systems in each of these cities; to highlight which strategies moved the cities forward in creating these systems and what barriers the cities encountered; to examine how these cities incorporated the needs of students with disabilities, English language learners, and students from different economic backgrounds into their system designs; to understand how students, teachers, and parents, and others experience elements of the new system and how these experiences differed for students with special needs; and to document quantitative outcomes on a range of measures, disaggregated by student subgroup.

The school - based research approach meant that causal influences could not be robustly identified; the quantitative component of the study primarily sought to provide an estimated effect size for any intervention that could be used in future trials.

Susan L. Aud, Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow with the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation and teaches doctoral - level quantitative methods courses as a professorial lecturer at the Paul H. Nitze School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

He is a leading scholar on quantitative methods for studying child and youth development within social settings such as classrooms, schools, and neighborhoods.

While at Stanford, Ericka has worked in partnership with a California school district to help answer high priority and actionable research questions; mentored first and second year doctoral students as a part of the Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education program; served as a doctoral student representative on the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Interdisciplinary Policy Studies Area Committee; and served as a teaching assistant for quantitative and theoretical courses on educational inequality.

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