Sentences with phrase «growing bodies of research in»

A growing body of research in the last decade has looked at what makes human psychology special, and scientists have said that the basic social communication skills that begin to develop around 9 months are what first seem to set humans apart from other species, said MacLean, assistant professor in the School of Anthropology in the UA College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

A growing body of research in personality psychology suggests that others are actually more accurate in rating certain aspects of ourselves than we are — especially when the traits in question are highly visible and evaluative, like humor or attractiveness.

There is a growing body of research in this area and recent studies show omega - 3 to provide a variety of health benefits for animals.

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Gender diversity in corporate leadership, a growing body of research suggests, can produce a tangible financial return.

A growing body of research has identified sugary drinks as the biggest contributors to added, empty calories in the American diet, and as a major culprit in a range of costly health problems associated with being overweight.

«Through this collaboration with the cancer community's leading clinical and pathology experts, thousands of more patients can potentially benefit from the world's growing body of knowledge about this disease,» said IBM Research and Cognitive Solutions senior vice president John Kelly in a statement.

There's also a growing body of research that suggests that getting lost in well - written stories actually can actually make you better leader.

«A growing body of research suggests that negative thinking, if strategically pursued, has a role to play in happiness, too,» reports Oliver Burkeman in the Center's newsletter.

Sun Life will also conduct periodic reviews of the growing body of clinical research supporting the use of medical cannabis for other conditions, and update its criteria if necessary, the company said in a document updating their client base of 22,300 plan sponsors.

And with a growing body of research that suggests employee happiness yields a promising return on investment, many employers are interested in perking up their workers with more than just K - Cup coffee.

The New York Times recently highlighted the long - term impact difficult schedules can have on family wellness, in an article called: «A growing body of research suggests that a child's language and problem - solving skills may suffer as a result of their parents» problematic schedules, and that they may be more likely than other children to smoke and drink when they're older.»

Sustainability Reporting: Final chart in this session looks at the proportion of companies which have adopted «sustainability reporting» - it speaks to the emerging field of ESG research where there is a growing acceptance and body of evidence which says that ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) factors are also relevant and can particularly be useful in filtering out companies that are at risk of brand impairment, legal liability, and general backlash due to inferior ESG practices and ratings.

In November the Lancet published the results of an international research project whereby a Colombian lady received a new trachea (windpipe) which had been grown from a donor trachea (as it were, a «scaffold») repopulated with stem cells, for the very first time, from the patient's own body.

Richard John Neuhaus notes that the decennial study of church membership conducted by the Glenmary Research Center and sponsored by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies has confirmed the phenomenon highlighted in Dean Kelley's 1972 Why Conservative Churches Are Growing (While We're At It, January).

According to Advanced Lipids, a growing body of scientific research is behind the popularity of OPO in China's infant formula market.

New research published in the scientific journal Food Chemistry adds to the growing body of evidence that shows that cooking and cooling potatoes can significantly increase the amount of Resistant Starch (RS).

Part of the evidence supporting this belief comes from neuroscience and pediatrics, where recent research shows that harsh or unstable environments can create biological changes in the growing brains and bodies of infants and children.

Munsch is among those contributing to a growing body of research on threats to masculinity, and is working on a book Man Up: Masculinity Threat and Compensation in Young American Men.

A large body of additional research suggests that a child's early attachment affects the quality of their adult relationships, and a recent longitudinal study of 81 men showed that those who grew up in warm, secure families were more likely to have secure attachments with romantic partners well into their 70s and 80s.

On the one hand, there appears to be a growing body of research suggesting that playing contact or collision sports for a long period of time likely has, at least for some unknown percentage of athletes, serious adverse health consequences, not just from concussions but from the cumulative effect of sub-concussive blows to the head, blows which athletes in youth football, lacrosse, and, until recently, hockey, suffer on an almost constant basis in both games and practices.

There is, in fact, already a large and growing body of research about the outcomes of home birth (p 8).»

The research adds to a growing body of evidence on just how essential father - child bonding is, especially in the earliest part of a child's life.

Once believed to be important only for bone and dental health, a rapidly growing body of scientific research now indicates that Vitamin D plays a vital role in preventing a wide range of medical conditions, from diabetes to various forms of cancer.

They discuss the current emphasis on these kinds of skills in American education, and the emphasis on standardized testing, and then turn our attention to a growing body of research that suggests we may be on the verge of a new approach to some of the biggest challenges facing American schools today.

BPA, found in products such as baby bottles and the linings of canned food and infant formula, is an environmental estrogen that can, according to a growing body of research, lead to a host of health problems.

Studies about the lasting importance of a child's experiences in the first three years of life, once relegated to scientific or academic journals, are now fueling a broad national conversation about what this growing body of research means for families and communities across the country.

According to Child Trends Data Bank, 77 percent of men and 65 percent of women in 2012 said children sometimes need a «good, hard spanking,» a proportion that's been decreasing steadily over the past 20 years over a growing body of research showing that spanking and other physical punishment may be harmful in the long - term and doesn't actually work that well.

«This study adds to the large and growing body of research that has found that planned home birth with a midwife is not only safe for babies and mothers with low - risk pregnancies, but results in health and cost benefits that reach far beyond one pregnancy.»

A growing body of scientific research suggests that small amounts of BPA may leach into foods or beverages stored in polycarbonate containers, especially when the contents are acidic, high in fat, or heated.

In the same way that soda made with cane sugar in lieu of high fructose corn syrup is not a healthful beverage, there needs to be a clear message that «slime - free» ground beef is by no means the golden standard, especially when an ever - growing body of research continues to highlight the harmful effects of red meat consumption (the latest: it «contributes substantially to premature death»In the same way that soda made with cane sugar in lieu of high fructose corn syrup is not a healthful beverage, there needs to be a clear message that «slime - free» ground beef is by no means the golden standard, especially when an ever - growing body of research continues to highlight the harmful effects of red meat consumption (the latest: it «contributes substantially to premature death»in lieu of high fructose corn syrup is not a healthful beverage, there needs to be a clear message that «slime - free» ground beef is by no means the golden standard, especially when an ever - growing body of research continues to highlight the harmful effects of red meat consumption (the latest: it «contributes substantially to premature death»).

Despite widely held misconceptions about hypnosis, a growing body of research supports this ancient practice as an effective tool in the treatment of a variety of issues, from anxiety, creativity, sleep, chronic pain, concentration, natural child birth, weigh loss, phobias, ect.

But a growing body of research indicates that early nutrition has the power to improve cognitive skills that may make a difference in the classroom.

Despite a growing body of evidence - based research over the past decade regarding the management of sport - related concussions, the question often raised by many healthcare professionals in the clinical field pertains to return to participation procedures.

The research on PFOA is stronger than on most chemicals and the documented connections between the chemical and cancers has grown exponentially in recent years, building a uniquely large of body of research, compared to most chemicals, said Phil Brown, director of the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute at Northeastern Uniresearch on PFOA is stronger than on most chemicals and the documented connections between the chemical and cancers has grown exponentially in recent years, building a uniquely large of body of research, compared to most chemicals, said Phil Brown, director of the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute at Northeastern Uniresearch, compared to most chemicals, said Phil Brown, director of the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute at Northeastern UniResearch Institute at Northeastern University.

After a growing body of research identified hormone - mimicking effects from BPA — a compound found in some plastics, dental sealants and cash register receipts — consumers began reaching for BPA - free products.

A growing body of research indicates that the B2M - MHC I complex, which is present in all cells in the body except red blood cells and plasma cells, can act in the brain in ways not obviously related to immunity — guiding brain development, shaping nerve cell communication, and even affecting behavior.

Together, the studies are part of a growing body of research indicating that relationships between the bacterial and fungal kingdoms can affect health, says David Andes, a fungal biologist at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison.

The study adds to a growing body of research highlighting other cognitive functions affected by aphasia, and indicates that the consequences of brain damage in aphasia patients may be more extensive than originally thought.

The results are largely consistent with a growing body of research about the neural basis of aggression, and how it is triggered by changes in the way that the prefrontal cortex, the limbic system and reward - related regions of the brain function.

Dr Claudia Wellbrock, study author and Cancer Research UK scientist at The University of Manchester and a member of the Manchester Cancer Research Centre, said: «We used to think that cancer cells spread by first specialising in invading other parts of the body and then change in order to grow rapidly.

Researchers report in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A that they successfully grew cartilage around carbon nanotubes in their lab — and are optimistic that one day they will be able to duplicate the feat inside the human body.

Attanasio, an assistant professor of health policy and management at UMass Amherst's School of Public Health and Health Sciences, explains that a growing body of research at the individual level has shown that compared to women cared for by physicians, women considered at low - risk for complications in childbirth who receive care from midwives have good outcomes that include lower use of interventions such as cesarean delivery.

But a growing body of research suggests that sublethal exposure to the pesticides in nectar and pollen may be harming bees too — by disrupting their ability to gather pollen, return to their hives and reproduce (see «The buzz over bee health»).

In addition to helping guide campus and classroom mobile device policies, this study contributes to the growing body of research on how the brain processes information when confronted with multiple, simultaneous sources of input.

Jay Baker, owner of Fat Dog Shellfish Co., said Grizzle's latest research adds to a growing body of work that demonstrates the value of farmed oysters in improving coastal water quality and mitigating human impacts to sensitive estuarine waters.

Deliberately distancing itself from the traditional hospital look, feel and smell, this and other places like it are drawing on a growing body of research that shows that buildings themselves can speed the recovery of patients, as well as boosting the health and happiness of the staff who work in them.

A growing body of research has found that the child's specific age makes a big difference in his or her ability to differentiate between say a ghost and someone wearing a white sheet.

The new research adds to the growing body of evidence of epigenetic changes in diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, type 2 diabetes, and obesity.

The work, funded by national charity Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund, uncovers new evidence that PAK4 plays a key role in enabling cancer cells to grow and to spread from the pancreas into other areas of the body, a process called metastasis.

Professor Milica Radisic (IBBME, ChemE), graduate student Boyang Zhang and the rest of the team are among those research groups around the world racing to find ways to grow human tissues in the lab, under conditions that mimic a real person's body.