Sentences with phrase «form study teams»

You can form study teams, play games, take quizzes, and show off your intellectual prowess.

Not exact matches

It may seem beneficial to introduce colleagues who don't normally interact to spark interdisciplinary thinking, but the results of this study indicate that giving co-workers who have a rapport with each other the autonomy to form their own teams might yield more results.

In all, the team managed to trap and detect just 194 atoms over a number of trials, which gives you some idea of the difficulties involved in studying even the simplest forms of antimatter.

The Japanese government has spent heavily on improving its information security systems and has formed teams to study possible threats to power supplies and other infrastructure.

Studies have shown that soldiers form strong bonds during missions in part because they believe in the purpose of the mission, rely on each other, and share the good and the bad as a team.

Working in groups in western Europe, North America, and to a lesser extent elsewhere, the study team produced and encouraged many papers and books on the problem of the local church.7 Naming as its focus the Missionary Structure of the Congregation, the study proposed that radically different forms of Christian assembly and witness be fostered within the secular context.

A University of Toronto team analyzed several studies of 3,100 healthy children at day care centers and discovered children chewing xylitol gum (xylitol is a natural form of sugar) were 25 percent less likely to develop acute ear infections.

We thank the North American Registry of Midwives Board for helping facilitate the study; Tim Putt for help with layout of the data forms; Jennesse Oakhurst, Shannon Salisbury, and a team of five others for data entry; Adam Slade for computer programming support; Amelia Johnson, Phaedra Muirhead, Shannon Salisbury, Tanya Stotsky, Carrie Whelan, and Kim Yates for office support; Kelly Klick and Sheena Jardin for the satisfaction survey; members of our advisory council (Eugene Declerq (Boston University School of Public Health), Susan Hodges (Citizens for Midwifery and consumer panel of the Cochrane Collaboration's Pregnancy and Childbirth Group), Jonathan Kotch (University of North Carolina Department of Maternal and Child Health), Patricia Aikins Murphy (University of Utah College of Nursing), and Lawrence Oppenheimer (University of Ottawa Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine); and the midwives and mothers who agreed to participate in the study.

Pugh et al. (33) conducted a pilot study in 2002 that paired a nurse and a PC to form a breastfeeding team who provided breastfeeding education and support to a low - income, predominantly black population.

And to do that, the team first had to weed out asteroids that formed from later collisions, explains study coauthor Kevin Walsh of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo..

Team scientists then estimate how many forms of life have yet to be discovered in each realm based on how well it has been studied and how many species have been discovered there so far.

Scientists have predicted a new phase of superionic ice, a special form of ice that could exist on Uranus and Neptune, in a theoretical study performed by a team of researchers at Princeton University.

«We're now studying whether women who form such trust - based friendships and negotiate in teams of friends achieve equal or better commercial outcomes than men.»

In a new study published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, Dr. Karen Hardy and her team bring together archaeological, anthropological, genetic, physiological and anatomical data to argue that carbohydrate consumption, particularly in the form of starch, was critical for the accelerated expansion of the human brain over the last million years, and coevolved both with copy number variation of the salivary amylase genes and controlled fire use for cooking.

«This crater and its recently - formed deposits will be a prime target of study for the team as Dawn continues to explore Ceres in its final mapping phase,» said Paul Schenk, a Dawn science team member at the Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston.

At LENS, Emiliani says, «I was in charge of forming a research team dedicated to developing high - resolution optical approaches to study single nanostructures.»

Scientists from the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) form part of the team which has just published a paper in the journal Scientific Reports, studying for the first time the original fossil remains conserved of «Peking Man.»

By studying the magnetic orientations in pristine samples of ancient meteorites that formed 4.563 billion years ago, the team determined that the solar nebula lasted around 3 to 4 million years.

For this study, the team set out to investigate the timing of supernova dust formation by measuring isotopes — versions of elements with the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons — in rare presolar silicon carbide grains with compositions indicating that they formed in type II supernovae.

«Cosmologists create largest simulation of galaxy formation, break their own record: A multi-institutional team gives the cosmology community a world - class simulation to study how the universe formed..»

The new computer models and the vast amount of data enabled the team to study the correlation between how quickly new species form and how rapidly they evolve new body sizes on a scale that had not previously been possible.

To test its model and lay the foundation for modeling increasingly complex material interactions, the team decided to simulate silicon dioxide (SiO2), a common, well - studied material, most well - known as the compound that forms quartz.

First, looking at a study of 185 cases of childhood epilepsy, Wittkowski's team found that mutations in genes that control axonal guidance and calcium signaling — both of which are important early in the developing brain when neurons are forming the appropriate connections — led to increased chances of having the disorder.

«Thanks to this detection, the team has been able to study for the first time the properties of extremely faint objects formed not long after the big bang,» said lead author Leopoldo Infante, an astronomer at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile).

«Much attention has focused on mercury methylation or how methylmercury forms, but few studies to date have examined microbial demethylation, or the breakdown of methylmercury at environmentally relevant conditions,» said Baohua Gu, co-author and a team lead in ORNL's Mercury Science Focus Area.

Kathleen Benison, a geologist at Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, led a team that studied the sediments formed by acidic and very salty lakes in modern day Western Australia, and those deposited around 250 million years ago in North Dakota.

Beghein and her research team advanced our understanding of how oceanic plates form and evolve as they age by using and comparing two sets of seismic data; the study revealed the presence of a compositional boundary inside the plate that appears to be linked to the formation of the plate itself.

As director of the Poly - PEDAL Laboratory, a cross-disciplinary team of researchers — many of them undergraduates — Full is devoted to forming general principles from the study of animal motion.

To that end, both Stodden and King require their undergraduate students to form teams and replicate current studies in class.

In the second study, a team of French, Belgian, and Japanese researchers used cutting - edge digital simulations to show how these satellites were able to form from the debris of a gigantic collision between Mars and a protoplanet one - third its size.

This new way of seeing clouds — and the way wet and dry air form sharp boundaries — is the focus of the team's study, published in Science this week.

The team's research is the largest study of molecular gas in galaxies to date and provides unique insight into how the Milky Way might have formed.

In brainstorming sessions, the research team realized their combined effect had not been studied before; together the chemicals could potentially react with lithium metal to form a stable, solid interface between the electrode and the electrolyte.

At the beginning of the study, the team struggled to produce a crystal form — needed to obtain data to recreate the high - resolution structure — of the receptor bound with AM6538, a stabilizing a molecule that blocks the receptor's action.

The team led by Dr Rubén López — of the UAB's Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology and Institute of Neuroscience, and the Centre for Networked Biomedical Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED)-- used a genetically modified mouse that produces the human form of IL - 37 to study the function of this protein.

Her team studied infrared and radio wave emissions from disks in several star - forming clusters with well - known ages.

Creticos says his team has also begun studies of other non-injectible forms of immunotherapy, including ragweed allergy drops, and treatment applications where the allergen is lightly pricked or inserted into the middle layers of the skin.

In a new study in the journal Nature Astronomy, a team of researchers from Dublin City University, Columbia University, Georgia Tech, and the University of Helsinki, add evidence to one theory of how these ancient black holes, about a billion times heavier than our sun, may have formed and quickly put on weight.

To test whether the hippocampus could actually form spatial maps using only visual landmarks, Mehta's team devised a noninvasive virtual reality environment and studied how the hippocampal neurons in the brains of rats reacted in the virtual world without the ability to use smells and sounds as cues.

Dubock, who has kept in touch with the research team, says they avoided the term «genetically modified» because U.S. government guidelines on consent forms ask researchers to explain a study in «language understandable to the subject or the representative,» and because the term «genetically modified» has become so loaded that people might equate it with danger.

The team's observations, as well as previous studies, haven't spotted any nascent planets inside the protoplanetary disk, she notes: Either those measurements haven't had high enough resolution to discern the objects, or it's too early in the star's evolution for such bodies to have formed.

In the new study, Lee's team tested this idea in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease by raising the levels of one of two forms of neuregulin - 1 in the hippocampus, an area of the brain responsible for learning and memory.

For the study, Dr. Hodgson's research team gathered published information from dozens of studies about the risk of developing breast cancer in childhood lymphoma survivors, the accuracy of different forms of breast cancer screening, and the rates at which women agree to be screened when asked.

Through recent work by the same team at UCL, this issue was resolved by creating a new tree of life for placental mammals, including these early forms, which was described in a study published in Biological Reviews yesterday.

In a new study published in Nature Catalysis, a team at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory reports a breakthrough in understanding the chemistry of the microscopically thin layer that forms at the interface between the liquid electrolyte and solid electrode.

By studying the mode of action of the interleukin - 33 protein, an alarmin for white blood cells, a team at the Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale (IPBS — CNRS / Université Toulouse III — Paul Sabatier) has been able to evidence truncated forms of the protein that act as potent activators of the cells responsible for triggering allergic reactions.

ASCB President Don Cleveland of the University of California, San Diego, said his team just published an animal study on a gene silencing therapy for treating a form of Lou Gehrig's disease that they now hope to move to clinical studies.

In studies of cells, the team was surprised to learn that a family of ligands they had never considered as relevant to FOP, called activins, were switching on the mutant form of ACVR1; activins typically curb signaling by the normal receptor.

A study by an international team of researchers into sarcopenia - where muscles lose form and function with age — found that those with the condition reported higher numbers of falls in the last year and a higher prevalence of fractures.

For the second study, the «global», the team approached Facebook directly, who provided data on every friendship formed over the network in every country in the world at the national aggregate level for 2011.