Temper your actions from what you learn
from sensitivity studies.
Additionally, we show results
from a sensitivity study with a reduced Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) at 130 ka28 and for a 130 ka scenario with a closed Bering Strait (BS) and half - flooded Siberian shelf seas (Supplementary Fig. 9) as well as for future (2300 and 2100) scenarios following the IPCC Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) scenarios RCP4.5 (583 ppm CO2eq) and RCP6 (808 ppm CO2eq) 2, 27.
Not exact matches
[6] At the academic level, the field of New Testament
studies has shown its
sensitivity to various theories emerging
from diverse fields by wrestling with the challenges issuing
from such theories.
Studies suggest that breastfeeding mother - infant pairs exhibit increased
sensitivities and responses to each other while sleeping, and those
sensitivities offers the infant protection
from overlay.
With regard to the impact of home visiting programs on maternal depression, evidence
from recent
studies suggests that some components help to improve child's health and development and mothers»
sensitivity to child cues.
For one
study that was conducted in China (Wu 2014), data were not presented in the paper or available in the WHO Global Data Bank on Infant and Young Child Feeding and so were therefore excluded
from the
sensitivity analysis.
In a
sensitivity analysis, inclusion in the meta - analysis of the assumed zero estimates
from the five
studies (table 1) with no published mean differences attenuated the overall summary estimate for systolic blood pressure (mean difference: — 1.0 mmHg, 95 percent CI: — 1.6; — 0.4; p = 0.002), but there was still strong evidence of an inverse association.
«We stress that requests
from diverse patients have to be approached with great cultural
sensitivity,» the researchers wrote in the
study.
On reanalysing data
from the group's past
studies, such as on pain
sensitivity to hot water, the researchers found that mice tested by men showed lower baseline pain
sensitivity than mice tested by women.The work indirectly demonstrates potential effects on nearly any kind of medical research, says Joseph Garner, who
studies mouse behavior and well - being at Stanford University in California.
Earlier
studies on the
sensitivity of tropical cyclones to past climates have only analyzed the effect of changes in the solar radiation
from orbital forcing on the formation of tropical cyclones, without considering the feedbacks associated to the consequent greening of the Sahara.
Underscoring the relevance to humans, the researchers
studied nasal and bronchial cells
from people who suffer
from asthma or chronic rhinosinusitis (nasal congestion / sniffles) due to dust - mite
sensitivity, and found that on average these cells had a markedly lower expression of the dectin - 1 gene.
It also explains why a much - trumpeted
study from 2013,
from a team that included Shindell, used the temperature record and concluded that the short - term
sensitivity to CO2 was just 1.3 °C (Nature Geoscience, doi.org/mj7).
«Unlike previous
studies we isolated different immune cell types
from the actual site of disease to determine whether specific subsets of immune cells (specific T cell groups) have equal
sensitivity to vitamin D.»
«Methodology and results
from this
study build on previous research and imply that if sexual functioning is related to circumcision status, this relationship is not likely the result of decreased penile
sensitivity stemming
from neonatal circumcision,» observed Ms. Bossio.
To evaluate
sensitivity and specificity of the device, Tyburski
studied blood taken
from 238 patients, some of them children at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and the others adults at Emory University's Winship Cancer Institute.
At the same time, new
studies of climate
sensitivity — the amount of warming expected for a doubling of carbon dioxide levels
from 0.03 to 0.06 percent in the atmosphere — have suggested that most models are too sensitive.
In a recent
study in The Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, researchers
from Brigham and Women's Hospital and the University of Murcia investigated whether human adipose (fat) tissue possesses its own circadian rhythm in insulin
sensitivity that could contribute to this phenomenon.
The team, however, did find that a decreased
sensitivity to salt correlated well with higher general anxiety levels among the 20
study participants — as did
sensitivity to bitterness — although no one in the
study suffered
from either anxiety disorders or depression.
«The whole world has been in urgent need of a serological method to distinguish dengue virus
from Zika virus infections, and this the first to have such high
sensitivity and specificity in dengue - endemic regions,» said Eva Harris,
study co-author and UC Berkeley professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology at the School of Public Health.
Each such channel can be
studies individually, and the data
from several adjacent channels can be combined to yield the equivalent of a wider channel without any loss of information or
sensitivity.
The
study used data from Dr. Sothern's Study of Insulin sensitivity in Low - birthweight Louisiana Youth (SILLY) and Mechanisms for the Metabolic Syndrome in Pre-pubertal Youth (MET) stu
study used data
from Dr. Sothern's
Study of Insulin sensitivity in Low - birthweight Louisiana Youth (SILLY) and Mechanisms for the Metabolic Syndrome in Pre-pubertal Youth (MET) stu
Study of Insulin
sensitivity in Low - birthweight Louisiana Youth (SILLY) and Mechanisms for the Metabolic Syndrome in Pre-pubertal Youth (MET)
studies.
In their
study, published online today in The Quarterly Review of Biology, the authors propose that differences in
sensitivity to sex hormones result
from «epigenetic» changes.
Scientists tested the
sensitivity of several diagnostic technologies using samples drawn
from participants in MHRP and Thai Red Cross's RV254 acute infection
study, in which individuals in the acute HIV infection stage are identified and immediately begin ART, some within days of HIV exposure.
The enhanced lower range of
sensitivity, compared to most instruments, allows the
study of everything
from comets (which have interesting features in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum) to the blue light
from star formation, to the red light of very distant objects.
The current crop of models
studied by the IPCC range
from an equilibrium
sensitivity of about 1.5 °C at the low end to about 5 °C at the high end.
National Geographic News reports that this week's issue of Nature will publish a
study from a team led by Gabriele Hegerl of Duke University which finds climate
sensitivity of 1.5 º to 6.2 ºC, with a higher end somewhat higher than the standard range of 1.5 — 4.5 ºC.
Sure, there might be a few papers that take climate
sensitivity as a given and somehow try to draw conclusions about the impact on the climate
from that... But, I hardly think that these are swamping the number of papers trying to determine what the climate
sensitivity is,
studying if the water vapor feedback is working as expected, etc., etc..
This large range of wavelength coverage, combined with the instrument's high
sensitivity, allows the
study of everything
from comets (which have interesting features in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum), to the blue light
from star formation, to the red light of very distant objects.
«The architectures available
from switchSENSE ® are uniquely placed to offer us the flexibility and extraordinary
sensitivity in our molecular interaction
studies.
Finally, the SKA will have the resolution and
sensitivity to
study the J = 1 - 0 transitions of amino acids and other complex carbon bio-molecules, and to follow their progress
from molecular clouds to proto - planets.
Our sample of 107 YSO candidates was selected based on IRAC colors
from the high spatial resolution, high
sensitivity Spitzer / IRAC images in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ), which spans th... ▽ More We present results
from our spectroscopic
study, using the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) onboard the Spitzer Space Telescope, designed to identify massive young stellar objects (YSOs) in the Galactic Center (GC).
And a third clue emerged
from their
studies: One strain of the knockout mice showed
sensitivity to sunlight — a characteristic of human lupus patients that produce antibodies against the Ro protein.
The results of the
study demonstrated that analyzing ctDNA
from plasma is feasible for the identification of EGFR mutations with mutation status concordance in 1,162 matched samples of 89 % (
sensitivity 46 %; specificity 97 %; positive predictive value [PPV] 78 %; negative PV 90 %).
From 2008 - 2010, he was supported by the CGGH to
study phenotypic variation in the drug
sensitivity of Plasmodium falciparum isolates collected Kilifi District, and to investigate genotype - phenotype associations using genome sequencing data generated on these isolates at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.
Therefore, I wouldn't attach much credence, if any, to a modelling
study that didn't explore the range of possibilities arising
from such uncertainty in parameter values, and particularly in the value of something as crucial as the climate
sensitivity parameter, as in this example.
A 2008
study led by James Hansen found that climate
sensitivity to «fast feedback processes» is 3 °C, but when accounting for longer - term feedbacks (such as ice sheet disintegration, vegetation migration, and greenhouse gas release
from soils, tundra or ocean), if atmospheric CO2 remains at the doubled level, the
sensitivity increases to 6 °C based on paleoclimatic (historical climate) data.
It is important to regard the LGM
studies as just one set of points in the cloud yielded by other climate
sensitivity estimates, but the LGM has been a frequent target because it was a period for which there is a lot of data
from varied sources, climate was significantly different
from today, and we have considerable information about the important drivers — like CO2, CH4, ice sheet extent, vegetation changes etc..
Only a few estimates account for uncertainty in forcings other than
from aerosols (e.g., Gregory et al., 2002a; Knutti et al., 2002, 2003); some other
studies perform some
sensitivity testing to assess the effect of forcing uncertainty not accounted for, for example, in natural forcing (e.g., Forest et al., 2006; see Table 9.1 for an overview).
This is a 0.9 ºC reduction
from the
sensitivity of 2.5 °C estimated in that predecessor
study, which used the same climate model.
One current limitation of our
study, and of others performing serologic and PCR testing for XMRV, is the absence of bona fide positive and negative control specimens
from infected and uninfected humans to determine the analytical
sensitivity and specificity of the detection assays.
Lanes 1 - 5, 6 - 10, and 11 - 14 are results for persons with CFS
from Wichita, Georgia, and the Georgia registry
studies, respectively; lanes 15 and 16, water only controls; lane 17, negative human PBMC DNA control; lanes 18 and 19, assay
sensitivity controls consisting of 101 and 103 copies of XMRV VP62 plasmid DNA diluted in a background of 1 ug of human PBMC DNA, respectively.
NIRSS will directly address the NASA scientific objective of
studying cosmic origins by using a 1.5 - meter telescope to reach full - sky 0.2 uJy (25.6 mag AB)
sensitivities in four passbands
from 1 to 4 microns in a 4 - yr mission.
One recent
study examining the Palaeocene — Eocene Thermal Maximum (about 55 million years ago), during which the planet warmed 5 - 9 °C, found that «At accepted values for the climate
sensitivity to a doubling of the atmospheric CO2 concentration, this rise in CO2 can explain only between 1 and 3.5 °C of the warming inferred
from proxy records» (Zeebe 2009).
Estimates of the most likely
sensitivity from most such
studies are, however, consistent with those based on other analyses.
In another
study the aim was to find improved quantitative CMR criteria to distinguish LVNC
from dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) with high
sensitivity and specificity.
I use ocean and adjoint modelling as well as tools
from uncertainty quantification to
study sensitivities and uncertainties of ocean circulation.
Inverse estimates of aerosol forcing
from detection and attribution
studies and
studies estimating equilibrium climate
sensitivity (see Section 9.6 and Table 9.3 for details on
studies).
A
sensitivity study of the LIdar - Radiometer Inversion Code (LIRIC) using selected cases
from Thessaloniki, Greece database
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University published a
study in the 2012 Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology where they found that children with high levels of triclosan, a common component in everything
from cleaning products and toothpaste to pizza cutters and countertops — anywhere «antibacterial» properties are marketed), were at significantly higher risk for developing seasonal allergies, food, drug, and insect allergies, hay fever, and other immune - related
sensitivities.
Insulin resistance is an early stage in the diabetes development, and while several
studies have demonstrated that it can be reduced with physical activity, this
study estimated the impact on insulin
sensitivity from long - term changes in daily step count.