Sentences with phrase «found decreased numbers»

In children with repeated exposure to antibiotics, the study found decreased numbers of some types of beneficial bacteria involved in training the immune system at an early age.

An NPR analysis of grants awarded by the National Science Foundation found a decreasing number with this phrase and a slight increase in the term «extreme weather.»

Not exact matches

It's tough to find reliable numbers about the costs of virus attacks because some effects — for instance, decreased productivity and unrealized business opportunity — are tough to quantify.

Similar gradations are found in the multi-leveled hierarchy, where with each step upwards the relative importance of the constraints decreases and the number of choices increases.

It seems when Arsenal find gettable players their value decreases with some in here, I could have sworn he was a much popular choice a number of years back.

But, a 2007 follow - up study found that Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation decreased the number of expulsions of preschool children by half.

Dr. Lemak founded the National Center for Sports Safety (NCSS) in 2001 after identifying a need to decrease the number and severity of injuries to youth, recreation, and high school athletes.

Sit Down Together at the Dinner Table The number of times you sit down with your children for family meals - and actually talk to them - is directly correlated with a decreased chance they will become involved in substance abuse, research has found.

Well I just found out I'm pregnant with baby number two, so I was wondering if that could be the reason for the decrease?

The number of infected ticks found in the vaccine treated plots decreased with time; the plot treated for 5 years saw a 76 per cent drop.

Further, neither they nor the Webb can directly image and investigate large numbers of exoplanets, which decreases the odds of finding any that support life.

They found a clear dose - dependent decrease in the number of larvae and pupae emerging from the BA - treated blueberries.

As the size of the planets we looked for decreased, the number that we found increased: We found more planets with 3 times the mass of the Earth than planets with 10 times Earth's mass, more planets 10 times as massive than 100 times, and so on.

They found that as each advanced factor was withheld from the high tech system, kernel number decreased.

They found that a broad range of insecticides commonly used in the U.S. kill amphibian parasites, which could potentially decrease the number of parasites that amphibians must defend against.

When the researchers manipulated the cell's genetics to increase levels of ALKBH5 without exposing them to low oxygen, they found this also decreased methylation of NANOG mRNA and increased the numbers of breast cancer stem cells.

The researchers found a decreased incidence of the NS sub-type of HL among those patients living in areas with more overcrowded households, and a 5 % increase in the level of household overcrowding had the effect of halving the number of cases of this subtype.

Joint research from the Monash branch of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (ARCCSS) and NASA published in Nature found even though other types of rainfall has decreased in frequency and the total number of thunderstorms remained the same, the increase in big storms had elevated total rainfall.

Although bee abundance decreased with an increasing level of urbanization, the number of species present was at its peak in periurban areas, and 60 species — a considerable number — were found at the most urban site.

Fewer but fiercer tornado days New analysis of tornado counts in the United States dating back to the 1950s has found that, while America has consistently seen around 1,000 tornadoes each year, the number of days in which those tornadoes have occurred has been steadily decreasing.

Results showed a large decrease in the number of birds in the «sonic net» and areas just outside and found that it was particularly effective at deterring a number of species that were at high risk of bird strike such as starlings.

The number of infected ticks found in the vaccine - treated plots decreased with time; the plot treated for 5 years saw a 76 per cent drop.

Researcher Van Kane found that as intensity increased, the canopy (red and orange) decreased, while the number of gaps (blue) increased, creating a mosaic of openings and forest stands in low - to moderately burned areas.

Over the 62 - year period, the researchers found that the number of ponds in the region had decreased by about 17 percent, while pond size had shrunk by an average of one - third.

In fact, the study, which was conducted by Carnegie Mellon University researchers, found that whether the copycat app increases or decreases the number of downloads of the original is dependent upon the quality of the copy.

«E-cigarettes will likely cause more public health harm than public health benefit unless ways can be found to substantially decrease the number of adolescents and young adults who vape and increase the number of smokers who use e-cigarettes to successfully quit smoking,» says Soneji.

During a follow - up two - year study being presented at the APIC conference, the Loyola researchers found a 68 percent decrease in the overall number of CLABSIs.

The researchers also found the urban areas experienced a huge increase in the number of «hotter than normal» nights — which actually decreased in the rural areas over the same period.

For the acetazolamide group (n = 187), compared with the placebo group (n = 193), no significant between - group differences were found for median duration of mechanical ventilation -LRB--16.0 hours), duration of weaning off mechanical ventilation -LRB--0.9 hours), or for other respiratory parameter - values (respiratory frequency, tidal volume, and minute ventilation), although daily changes of serum bicarbonate and number of days with metabolic alkalosis decreased significantly more in the acetazolamide group.

Using a novel method — design - based stereology — which enabled researchers to estimate the volume of the liver and the total numbers and sizes of its cells in 3D, it was found that the liver of mice on a low protein diet had decreased by 65 %.

Carmen Blubaugh at Clemson University in South Carolina found that when caterpillars also snack on plants infested by aphids, the number of parasitoid wasps that attack the aphids decreases (Ecology, doi.org/ck8v).

The authors found that their heat engine model only yields high efficiency and output power when the number of photons involved is small; accordingly, its efficiency and power output rapidly decrease as the number of photons increases.

The number of carriers was found to decrease in mutant worms as indicated by the force measurement.

New research from the Texas Policy Evaluation Project (TxPEP) exploring the impact of House Bill 2 (HB 2)-- the restrictive Texas abortion law that was struck down by the Supreme Court — found that increases in travel distance to the nearest abortion clinic caused by clinic closures were closely associated with decreases in the official number of abortions.

The findings of this study have important implications for public health, as it shows that sunbed use increases the burden of melanoma in societies by both increasing the number of patients and decreasing the age at diagnosis.

And some researchers have found a decrease in the number of deaths of as large as 30 % before major holidays, followed by a rise of 30 % afterward, suggesting that people somehow fight off the inevitable until after the fun.

This possibility is supported by findings of a decreased number of CA2 inhibitory neurons in individuals with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and altered vasopressin signaling in autism.

A 2008 study by the California Department of Public Health found that the number of children receiving services for autism in the state has risen steadily, despite a decrease to trace levels of mercury in their inoculations.

These relationships have been reinforced by findings of a large increase in numbers and proportion of hurricanes reaching categories 4 and 5 globally since 1970 even as total number of cyclones and cyclone days decreased slightly in most basins.

UNC - Chapel Hill researcher Jessica Y. Islam, in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reported findings Wednesday at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting that the total number of HIV - positive cancer patients in the United States is projected to decrease through 2030.

UNC researcher Jessica Y. Islam, in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reported findings today at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting that the total number of HIV - positive cancer patients in the United States is projected to decrease through 2030.

In a recent study, scientists found that climate change will decrease the number of seasonal flowers, leading to an overall decrease in the number of butterflies, who rely on flowers for a sustainable source of energy - no destruction required.

These promised to provide a new therapeutic target for treating obesity, with the researchers finding that they share the fat - burning abilities of brown cells, though they do decrease in number as we approach middle age.

We found that, at 1.0 mg / kg, oxytocin significantly decreased the number of ultrasonic vocalizations compared to vehicle - injected pups.

(14,15)-RRB- have found age - related satellite cell attrition consistent with the senescence of a subset thereof; moreover, one such study (15) reported that decreases in the number and quality of satellite cells with aging are reliably associated with elevated expression of p16Ink4a (contrary to (14)-RRB-, and with secretory and proteomic abnormalities consistent with a rising burden of senescent cells.

In contrast, we found that VPA caused a slight decrease in the number of CD4 + Tregs in allogeneic BMT recipients.

Intriguingly, we also found that rare individuals moved out of the IRP category by a process of immune suppression, including increases in IL - 6 and IL - 10 and decreases in the number of CD3 + CD8 + CD28 - cells.

Thus far, Kepler has found 48 planetary candidates in their host star's habitable zone (of which 10 are near Earth - size), but this number is a decrease from the 54 reported in February 2011 only because the Kepler team is now applying a stricter definition of what constitutes a habitable zone around stars to account for the warming effect of planetary atmospheres, which would move such a zone away from the star, outwards in orbital distance resulting in longer orbital periods (NASA news release; and Kepler Press Conference slides — in pdf).

Chronic stress, and the depression that often follows it, have been found to decrease the functioning and number of cells in the hippocampus, an area of the limbic system, the emotional brain, involved in memory.

A 1995 study looked at school children for an entire cold / flu season and found a «lowering of the number of cases with acute or chronic symptoms, and decrease and sometimes suppression of the viral - microbial flora carriage of the upper airways» with the use of bee propolis.