Sentences with phrase «group of human studies»

A small group of human studies have been done on a drug called propranolol, which blocks the action of stress neurotransmitters that help cement memories in the brain, but LeDoux's work shows the potential for greater precision.

Not exact matches

In a 1959 study published In Human Relations, for example, participants were told that certain members of a group discussion would probably like them.

The IARC evaluates substances suspected of causing cancer in humans, and arrives at its classifications by convening a working group of international experts to review and assess the strength and quality of the evidence — in this case, more than 800 studies.

Conducted by The RBL Group and the University of Michigan, the Human Resource Competency Study (HRCS) is the most comprehensive review of the HR profession around the globe, helping to define and shape the role of HR as a strategic contributor to the business.

In her pioneering study of cosmologies of different peoples, she shows that the human body is our most accessible metaphor for figuring what we really suspect about our group's and the world's makeup.

William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki, The Polish Peasant in Europe and America (Boston: Gorham Press, 1918 - 20); cf. Herbert Blumer, An Appraisal of Thomas» «The Polish Peasant in Europe and America» (New York: Social Science Research Council, 1939); Ellsworth Faris, «The Sect and the Sectarian,» in The Nature of Human Nature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938); Liston Pope, Millhands and Preachers, A Study of Gastonia (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1940); Raymond J. Jones, A Comparative Study of Civil Behavior Among Negroes (Washington: Howard University, 1939); Arthur H. Fauset, Black Gods of the Metropolis (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1944); J. F. C. Wright, Slava Boku, The Story of the Dukhobors (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1940); Ephraim Ericksen, The Psychological and Ethical Aspects of Mormon Group Life (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1922); Edward Jones Allen, The Second United Order among Mormons (New York: Columbia University Press, 1936); Robert Henry Murray, Group Movements Through the Ages (New York: Harper & Bros., 1935); David Ludlum, Social Ferment in Vermont, Columbia Studies in American Culture, No. 5 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939).

This work with experimental groups extended into a more chastened critical study of transactional analysis in relation to Pauline - Augustinian understandings of human bondage and freedom.4

For more consideration of the values in such an approach to group Bible study, read Walter Wink, The Bible in Human Transformation (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1973).

'' DNA studies suggest that all humans today descend from a group of African ancestors who about 60,000 years ago began a remarkable journey.

Thus, I strongly support the critical statement «human milk is the recommended source of nutrition for infants» in the FDA's proposed guidance, and urge a guidance revision that any breast milk comparison claims (e.g., «closer than ever to breast milk») made by formula companies must also be substantiated by studies that use a control group of exclusively breast - fed infants.

Waldorf teacher education at Sunbridge Institute includes a deep exploration of child and human development; development of a teacher's contemplative capacities; exploration of pedagogical approaches and skills; studies in the arts; courses that develop abilities for working in a group of colleagues; and practical learning or mentored teaching in the classroom with experienced teachers.

Do human clinical studies or epidemiological studies consistently support the concept that high doses of vitamin A may be teratogenic and produce a recognizable group of malformations?

On Tuesday, about 40 anti-fracking activists with New Yorkers Against Fracking (a coalition of 60 groups) held a rally in front of the Department of Environmental Conservation «s headquarters in Albany, demanding a human health study be added to the department's ongoing environmental impact study.

Malatras told the group that the state Department of Health was struggling to process the blood tests because the effects of PFOA on the human body were still being studied.

In this study, the group partnered with József Topál, a Hungarian pioneer of canine research who specialises in dog - human interaction and the social intelligence of dogs.

For preparation reasons of the receptors, the group chose to study the medaka fish T1r2 - T1r3 heterodimer over the human version.

Some of the researchers at the centre will study the differentiation of stem cells into other cell types, one group by using human embryonic stem cell biology and another by studying early embryo development.

Preliminary results of the study were presented at a World Health Organization (WHO) evidence review group meeting, while UNITAID has issued a call for further research into the use of endectocide class drugs, of which ivermectin is currently the only one registered for human use, as new vector control tools in the fight against malaria and other mosquito borne disease.

They studied genetic data from 1,983 living individuals across Africa, Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas and concluded that Neanderthals or another ancient hominid group must have interbred with our ancestors at least once, in the eastern Mediterranean, soon after humans migrated out of Africa.

Casey's group studied human families with multiple cases of situs inversus, which is usually harmless, or situs ambiguus, a much more dangerous condition in which the internal organs are scattered randomly.

«The study of the Dravidian languages is crucial for understanding prehistory in Eurasia, as they played a significant role in influencing other language groups,» explains corresponding author Annemarie Verkerk of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

A group of scientists planning to map all the major connections in the human brain began studying their first test subjects in August.

As reported in a paper published online in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from Penn Medicine, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, and a group of international collaborators studied ANGPTL3 in both humans and mice.

But when she got an offer to start her own research group studying the evolutionary history of Latin Americans at Mexico's new human genome research institute, less than 3 years after finishing her Ph.D., she couldn't turn it down.

Professor Thomas Higham said: «Other recent studies of Neanderthal and modern human genetic make - up suggest that both groups interbred outside Africa, with 1.5 % -2.1 % or more of the DNA of modern non-African human populations originating from Neanderthals.

The new study doesn't provide direct evidence of this group migration in human cancer.

In response to the recent revelations, an international group of researchers has launched a project called the Human Dark Proteome Initiative to study how disordered proteins cause disease.

The Palaeogenomics study conducted by the Human Evolutionary Biology group of the Faculty of Science and Technology, led by Concepción de la Rua, in collaboration with researchers in Sweden, the Netherlands and Romania, has made it possible to retrieve the complete sequence of the mitogenome of the Pestera Muierii woman (PM1) using two teeth.

Ressler's lab group is planning follow - up studies to examine in more detail the role of the Oprl1 receptor in humans, and test the safety of the Oprl1 - targeting drug.

As a result, large swaths of sub-Saharan Africa would fall into drought, the study says, while southeast Africa became warmer, wetter and more humid, transforming into prime real estate for early human groups.

In the past, nutritional scientists have largely relied on studies of animals, small groups of people, and / or petri - dish biochemistry that may not reflect the vagaries of human metabolism, although Willett uses such studies when he deems it appropriate.

To see whether cancer stem cell renewal involves a chain of events similar to that used by embryonic stem cells, and whether the process was affected by oxygen levels, Semenza and graduate student Chuanzhao Zhang focused their studies on two human breast cancer cell lines that responded to low oxygen by ramping up production of the protein ALKBH5, which removes methyl groups from mRNAs.

«Dogs and humans share a similar social environment,» says Attila Andics, a neuroscientist in a research group at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and the lead author of the new study.

The other part of the atlas was a physical map of the genome created by a group of researchers from the Center for the Study of Human Polymorphism in Paris.

A group of scientists led by Dr Kara Hoover of the University of Alaska Fairbanks and including Professor Matthew Cobb of The University of Manchester, has studied how our sense of smell has evolved, and has even reconstructed how a long - extinct human relative would have been able to smell.

Herr, who directs the Biomechatronics group at the MIT Media Lab, spent the last eight years studying and refining computer models of the human leg to develop the PowerFoot.

of Public Health, Midland, MI and Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Human Development, Michigan State University, School of Human Medicine, «Our study group consists of premature infants with birthweights at the lowest level that is compatible with life.

The group also studied the OR7D4 gene in the ancient DNA from two extinct human populations, Neanderthals and the Denisovans, whose remains were found at the same site in Siberia, but who lived tens of thousands of years apart.

The study adds to a growing body of Yale research into the complex dynamics of human social networks and how those networks influence everything from economic inequality to group violence.

Dr Jeffrey Donlea, one of the lead authors of the study, explains: «There is a similar group of neurons in a region of the human brain.

For the animal study, the researchers separated 52 mice with colon cancer tumors into three groups, including a control group and groups that were fed either the grape compounds or sulindac, an anti-inflammatory drug, which was chosen because a previous study showed it significantly reduced the number of tumors in humans.

The multi-author study, by the Global Alliance for Rabies Control's Partners for Rabies Prevention Group, also shows that annual economic losses because of the disease are around 8.6 billion US dollars, mostly due to premature deaths, but also because of spending on human vaccines, lost income for victims of animal bites and other costs.

«Humans are crazy for Facebook, but our research suggests that primates have been relying on the face to tell friends from competitors for the last 50 million years and that social pressures have guided the evolution of the enormous diversity of faces we see across the group today,» said Michael Alfaro, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in the UCLA College of Letters and Science and senior author of the study.

«Gall and Damsky's experiment helps us understand how human - caused noise can interfere with the transfer of information among animals in social groups,» according Florida Atlantic University's Rindy Anderson, an expert in vocal communication in birds who was not involved with the study.

Sabeti stresses that her team only has a «circumstantial» case about the timing of the mutation and the epidemic's explosion, but her group and an independent team that published the second study have amassed what she calls «compelling evidence» that for the first time links a mutation in the virus to a preference for human cells.

In previous studies, the same group along with others had demonstrated that microRNAs (miRNAs) produced by eukaryotic cells and viruses are present in human blood in highly stable, cell - free forms and these so called circulating miRNAs can serve as non-invasive biomarkers for the early diagnosis of various diseases, including viral diseases.

«The fact that the bonobos failed to imitate demonstrates that even enhanced social orientation may not be enough to trigger human - like cultural learning behaviors,» notes Claudio Tennie, research group leader at the University of Tubingen, who coauthored the study when he was at the University of Birmingham.

The study found that 8,600 families of genes are shared across deuterostomes, a large animal grouping that includes a variety of organisms, ranging from acorn worms to star fishes, from frogs to dogs, to humans.

Two studies presented at the Biology of Genomes meeting in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, last week show how human genomes have changed over centuries or decades, charting how since Roman times the British have evolved to be taller and fairer, and how just in the last generation a gene that favors cigarette smoking led to early death in some groups.

«They assume that most of the time [a human test] is going to work out in their favor, and if it doesn't, they can stop the study,» says Richard Wiles, a senior vice president of the Environmental Working Group in Washington, D.C., which has challenged the ethics of human testing.