Sentences with phrase «for regional studies»

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Cheryl and I were featured on regional and national TV for our contribution to a study about the effects of tango dancing on Parkinson's patients.

«More so than for any other religious tradition, a person can become UU because of what he already believes rather than believing what he does because of becoming a UU,» said James Casebolt, coauthor of two papers on the regional survey read at the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion annual meeting in October.

offers ongoing formation for priests in its annual Symposium and regional study days.

Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980 - 2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

Steering group — This study was planned and coordinated by Jean Davies, research midwife, Newcastle; Pat Davies, health visitor, Sunderland; Alan Fortune, general practitioner, Alnwick; Linda Hedley, senior midwife, Berwick; Edmund Hey, consultant paediatrician, Newcastle; Barbara Hinchcliffe, health visitor, Hexham; Maureen Hodgson, community midwife, North Durham; Ann Kirkpatrick, midwifery supervisor, Darlington; Jane Lumley, National Childbirth Trust, Hexham; Norma McPherson, community midwife, Barrow in Furness; Diane Packham, Association for the Improvement of Maternity Services, Newcastle; Willie Reid, consultant obstetrician, Carlisle; Marjorie Renwick, regional maternity survey coordinator, Newcastle; Margaret Robinson, community midwife, Cockermouth; Laura Robson, director of midwifery education, Newcastle; Sheila Smithson, community midwife, Middlesbrough; Ann West, senior midwife, Penrith; Margaret Whyte, the Society to Support Home Confinement; Jane Wright, community midwife, Teesside; and Gavin Young, general practitioner, Penrith.

Other strengths of the underpinning cohort study include high participation by midwifery units and trusts in England; the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias because of non-consent; and the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical risk.12 The economic evaluation was conducted according to nationally agreed design and reporting guidelines.15 26 Collection of primary unit cost data was thorough and accounted for regional differences in care patterns.

Studies that have evaluated the role of maternal characteristics, such as age, weight, and ethnicity, have consistently found these factors do not account fully for the temporal increase in the cesarean delivery rate or its regional variations (13 — 15).

The study is a part of a larger regional research project and will be a significant guide for the village moving forward in matters of housing and development.

The regional ethics committees for medical research approved the study and written informed consent was obtained from the women.

The study from Trowbridge Wolf Michaels Landscape Architects projected a rehab cost «far more than we thought it would be,» said Sam Hoyt, regional vice president for Empire State Development and an Erie Canal Harbor Development Corp. board member.

Al Carlacci, the regional air pollutant control engineer for the state Department of Environmental Conservation, said he doesn't need a meter or an air quality monitor to tell him that there's some dirty air in the West Side near the Peace Bridge, where studies have shown high levels of asthma.

To mark, and celebrate, its first decade of path - breaking work the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR) is convening a major international conference on building legitimate authority in global and regional governance in cooperation with GARNET, the EU - funded Network of Excellence on Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation: The Role of the EU.

The study allows for deeper analysis of a wide range of sections of the population as they respond to regional, national and international change.

The study is being conducted through the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council, a regional transportation planning organization mandated by the federal government that identifies, plans and seeks federal funding for such projects.

Dr. Holloway is a Professor in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where she leads a research program that employs computer models and satellite data to understand links between regional air quality, energy, and climate.

Josef Schmidhuber, a senior policy analyst at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, questioned some of the underlying assumptions for regional production figures and said that this UEF study also fails to consider other external factors that could affect these results.

«In order to expand our knowledge in these areas, doctors in clinics and regional hospitals must be on the alert for unusual disease phenotypes and refer such patients to specialized university hospital clinics for further evaluation,» says study author Mike Recher.

In the largest study to date, Dr. Davidson's study compared rates of apnea after general or regional anesthesia among 722 infants and found that while there was little evidence for a difference in late apnea, there was evidence that regional anesthesia reduced the risk of significant apnea in the first 30 minutes after surgery.

In a study, the share of college graduates — often referred to as human capital — and the quality of life in a community were found to significantly contribute to economic growth, said Stephan Goetz, professor of agricultural and regional economics, Penn State and director of the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development.

Things went quite well at the regional session, and I won the opportunity to visit the International Centre for Theoretical Physics and the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste.

«For the first time, we have used a geophysical method to determine the internal structure of Enceladus, and the data suggest that indeed there is a large, possibly regional ocean about 50 kilometers below the surface of the south pole,» says David Stevenson, the Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Planetary Science at Caltech and an expert in studies of the interior of planetary bodies.

They said the key messages from the study were that stroke is a highly preventable disease globally, regardless of age and sex; that the relative importance of modifiable risk factors means there should be development of regional or ethnic - specific primary prevention programs, and that additional research on stroke risk factors is needed for countries and ethnic groups not included in INTERSTROKE.

Additionally, for pneumatic devices, the study confirmed regional differences in methane emissions first reported by the study team in 2013.

In the past, several small studies have shown that compared with general anesthesia, regional anesthesia reduces intraoperative blood loss and the need for blood transfusions.

After studying high - resolution satellite imagery and compiling records from local and regional government agencies, the authors concluded that all land leased for palm oil production in Indonesia added up to an area the size of Greece.

The models can be incorporated into global or regional models for studying climate change, visibility and air quality.

Co-author, Professor John Pandolfi from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at the University of Queensland says global patterns of species richness will change significantly, with considerable regional variability.

After seeing the regional effects in this new study, she agrees that the toxic element likely comes from outside the U.S. «We see for other types of pollutants that [the Rocky Mountain region] tends to be more influenced by nonlocal sources because of its higher elevation — it has access to the free tropospheric air,» she says.

But immigrants from Latin America are less likely to have those requests granted than are immigrants from other regions, according to a new study conducted by scholars at MIT and Brown University — a study that also suggests a potential remedy for this problem, by finding that this regional disparity does not exist when officials examine cases in greater detail.

The study — authored by Aroa Jiménez - Aranda, Gumersindo Fernández - Vázquez, Daniel Campos, Mohamed Tassi, Lourdes Velasco - Perez, Tx Tan, Russel J. Reiter and Ahmad Agil — has been part - financed and supported by the Granada Research of Excellence Initiative on BioHealth (GREIB), the University of Granada Vice-Rectorate for Scientific Policy and Research, and the regional government of Andalusia research group CTS - 109.

«This study, for the first time, shows that the use of regional anesthesia improves outcomes in patients with sleep apnea undergoing total joint arthroplasty.

For this study, 10 subjects with Alzheimer's underwent PET following the injection of three radiotracers: fluorine - 18 fluorodeoxyglucose (F - 18 FDG), which images regional metabolic activity; carbon - 11 Pittsburgh compound B (C - 11 PiB), which has an affinity for amyloid plaques; and F - 18 AV - 1451, an emerging imaging agent that binds to tau in the braFor this study, 10 subjects with Alzheimer's underwent PET following the injection of three radiotracers: fluorine - 18 fluorodeoxyglucose (F - 18 FDG), which images regional metabolic activity; carbon - 11 Pittsburgh compound B (C - 11 PiB), which has an affinity for amyloid plaques; and F - 18 AV - 1451, an emerging imaging agent that binds to tau in the brafor amyloid plaques; and F - 18 AV - 1451, an emerging imaging agent that binds to tau in the brain.

With good foresight and strategic planning, it could develop into a premier regional center for the study of drug response in Asians — a timely development toward better therapeutics for at least a third of the world's population.

In a study of how recent Chinese imports affected the U.S. labor force, the researchers found that counties with higher rates of self - employment suffered fewer negative effects, such as reduced job growth, from increased imports than counties with lower self - employment rates, said Stephan Goetz, professor of agricultural and regional economics, Penn State and director of the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development.

«This study paves the way toward regional and time - specific therapeutics for drug craving and relapse,» said Shi.

In a study of relationships between socioeconomic variables and opioid - related drug overdoses, researchers found several correlations that are often not discussed in the current conversation about the nation's deaths of despair, which includes opioid overdoses, said Stephan Goetz, professor of agricultural and regional economics, Penn State and director of the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development.

A new study from the University of Exeter has revealed that the Central African country of Gabon is providing an invaluable nesting ground for a vulnerable species of sea turtle considered a regional conservation priority.

«Both regional measurements and analyses, as reported by Miller et al., and source specific studies, are needed to identify opportunities for emission reductions.»

Ford, an associate professor in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology and an investigator at the Neuroscience Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) in Atlanta, Georgia, says that when he came to the historically black MSM four years ago he chose stroke research as the area he wanted to concentrate on for two reasons: The medical school recognized the racial and regional disparities of the disease and placed stroke high on its list of illnesses to study, and the field combines the several prongs of his varied academic training and interests.

The study provides concrete starting points for developing measures targeted at increasing regional wood supply from forests or lowering harvest pressure in regions where forests are heavily used.

An information sheet for prospective trial participants, posted on a French regional news site, provides an overview of the study's goal and procedures, while also offering a glimpse of what it's like to partake in a lengthy drug safety study.

In a study published last month in the journal Environmental Research Letters, Georgescu demonstrated that these effects change with the seasons and have consequences for regional hydrology, as well.

The findings appear in the study Global, regional, and national levels of neonatal, infant, and under - 5 mortality during 1990 - 2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013, which is published alongside another study, Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990 - 2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study study Global, regional, and national levels of neonatal, infant, and under - 5 mortality during 1990 - 2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013, which is published alongside another study, Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990 - 2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study Study 2013, which is published alongside another study, Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990 - 2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study study, Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990 - 2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study Study 2013.

Other projects include an analysis of regional variations of cancer treatment in Texas, a study of the effect of smoking bans on hospitalization rates, and a study of whether shared savings programs for physicians can reduce overall patient health care expenditures.

This study was approved by the regional ethical review board of Gothenburg, Sweden, which issued a waiver regarding the need for patient informed consent.

Procedures for top - level sports students have been developed in dialogue with and according to wishes from students, departments at the university and sports organisations at local, regional and national level so that Uppsala University can to a greater extent facilitate the combining of academic studies and with top - level sports activities.

Dr. Polonis has coordinated regional labs in Thailand and East Africa for the Duke University Comprehensive Antibody Vaccine Immune Monitoring Consortium (CA - VIMC) funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and is a standing member of the HIV Vaccines Study Section for the Center for Scientific Review at the NIH.

By taking a «close - in» view, the study revealed that the occurrence of clouds too small for climate models to detect individually can have a big impact on regional surface solar radiation and, therefore, on brightening or dimming.

Through regional networks in the U.S. like the Pediatric Neuromuscular Clinical Research (PNCR) Network and Project Cure, and international organizations such as the International Coordinating Committee (ICC) and TREAT - NMD, the SMA community has collaborated effectively on recruiting patients, establishing standards of care, standardizing outcome measures, and supporting multi-site clinical efforts, such as the Biomarkers for SMA (BforSMA) and the PNCR Network Natural History studies.

Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980 — 2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013