Sentences with phrase «handful of studies in»

A handful of studies in the 1980s found that male rats produced less sperm in space, but sperm quality was not assessed.

Not exact matches

In a handful of recent studies, scientists have identified what they believe to be some of the most reliable genetic hallmarks of mental illness, a discovery that would transform our current approach to treating the disorders.

«If you're a digital native, you should be aware that the Internet may have partially re-wired your brain in such a way that when you meet people face to face, you're less capable of figuring out what they're thinking,» John Mullen recently wrote on the HBR blogs, citing a handful of fairly alarming studies.

A handful of studies found that half to two - thirds of consumers enrolled in a debt settlement plans cancelled within two years.

«and the handful who are not I believe are desparately trying to fit their theology with their science and are willing to ignore peer reviewed studies in favor of their personaly held beliefs.»

Even though interest has increased, it has not been the object of an extensive study since Stauffer's Christ and the Caesars in 1955 and has only played a significant part in a handful of other published works.

Even though interest has increased, it has not been the object of an extensive study since Stauffer's Christ and the Caesars in 1955 and has only played a significant part in a handful of other...

In the past two decades of biblical studies, whether in the work of Samuel Sandmel, Brevard Childs, Robert Alter, Rolf Rendtorff, Earhard Blum or even John Van Seters — and these are only a handful among many others — the interest has shifted away from discrete, historically unfolding «sources» toward an appreciation of the internal relationships of diverse traditions in their final canonical (received) forIn the past two decades of biblical studies, whether in the work of Samuel Sandmel, Brevard Childs, Robert Alter, Rolf Rendtorff, Earhard Blum or even John Van Seters — and these are only a handful among many others — the interest has shifted away from discrete, historically unfolding «sources» toward an appreciation of the internal relationships of diverse traditions in their final canonical (received) forin the work of Samuel Sandmel, Brevard Childs, Robert Alter, Rolf Rendtorff, Earhard Blum or even John Van Seters — and these are only a handful among many others — the interest has shifted away from discrete, historically unfolding «sources» toward an appreciation of the internal relationships of diverse traditions in their final canonical (received) forin their final canonical (received) form.

When I was on study abroad several years ago, my roommates and I frequented a handful of restaurants semi-regularly, one of which was a creperie in Dublin's city center.

So far, only a handful of farmers are cultivating cocoa in the SAVA region, but a recent feasibility study conducted by VDB has shown that the Sambava area was suitable for growing cocoa.

In 2008, the Journal of Sports Economics published a study that suggested a recruit's decision on where to attend college is «governed by a handful of primary factors» including «the opportunity for individual success and exposure, a team's recent on - field success and the distance to the school from his hometown.»

True, a handful of studies have claimed that the differences are negligible, but the studies were flawed in a lot of important ways.

Danielle, thanks for laying it all out there, but can you explain why you compared the intrapartum fetal mortality rate for the Birth Center study, which had no twins, a handful of surprise breeches (most of which were probably transported to the hospital as soon as they were discovered) and another handful of VBACs because all of these are disallowed in accredited birth centers per AABC's & CABC's rules (I read the study)... and compared it to MANA's intrapartum rate for the group that contained a load of VBACs, breeches and twins that comprised nearly 10 % of the total sample?

The latest study to bolster this argument was presented earlier in the meeting by lead author Courtney Dressing, another CfA astronomer, who measured the masses and sizes of a handful of small transiting planets to estimate the rocky - to - gaseous transition zone.

McCallion's strategy to make sense of all this data looks at the active genes in cells affected by a disease, groups of genes that interact with one another, their vulnerability to mutation and information from past scientific studies to filter more than a thousand gene candidates for disease risk down to just a handful within any one implicated region.

The handful of labs that continued to pursue ApoE did so in the face of indifference from funding agencies and the neuroscience community, and without the resources needed to validate experimental findings with larger studies.

In the new study, researchers at the NIAID used a virus - like particle vaccine cocktail that expressed a handful of different subtypes of a key surface protein of the influenza virus: hemagglutinin H1, H3, H5 and H7.

Most geologists who study seismology try to eliminate background noise in their data, but a handful of researchers have started to take a closer look at it.

Only a handful of previous studies have looked at the humidity issue in relation to climate change.

Higher blood levels of pollutants such as bisphenol A (BPA), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and hexachlorobenzene (HCB) have been found in mothers with failed IVF attempts, according to a handful of recent studies.

I was studying a handful of families in which people had inherited a recessive disease affecting platelet aggregation, looking for mutations in their genomic DNA.

(It should be noted that Price made those comments during a debate over an amendment, which he supported, that would have defunded a handful of NSF projects targeted as wasteful or unnecessary by GOP lawmakers; the hit list included grants to study bison hunting on the late prehistoric Great Plains and the sexual politics of waste in Dakar.)

A handful of scientists had known about the beetles» temperature threshold for some time — had studied it extensively, in fact.

Currently only a handful of known genetic mutations have been found to account for about 10 percent of glaucoma, says Liu, corresponding author of the study in the journal Human Molecular Genetics.

► On Monday, writing for Science, John Bohannon reported on a study in Current Biology showing that a handful of publication - related metrics can go a long way toward predicting success in academic science.

In the largest study of its kind, people who ate a daily handful of nuts were 20 percent less likely to die from any cause over a 30 - year period than were those who didn't consume nuts, say scientists from Dana - Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Harvard School of Public Health.

A mix of offshore and onshore wind, along with contributions from solar power, could provide reliable and cost - effective power flow during all but a handful of days in a hypothetical four - year period under study

Of the handful of similar analyses, a 2008 study found population losses in amphibians living in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, and another found that small mammals in Yosemite National Park in California had tracked warming temperatures in the past century by shifting their rangOf the handful of similar analyses, a 2008 study found population losses in amphibians living in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, and another found that small mammals in Yosemite National Park in California had tracked warming temperatures in the past century by shifting their rangof similar analyses, a 2008 study found population losses in amphibians living in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, and another found that small mammals in Yosemite National Park in California had tracked warming temperatures in the past century by shifting their range.

«The main issue is that there is only a handful of islands in the Southern Ocean and not all of them are suitable to sustain large breeding colonies» says Robin Cristofari, first author of the study, from the Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC / CNRS / University of Strasbourg) and the Centre Scientifique de Monaco (CSM).

A new study attributes the recent surge of quakes in central Oklahoma to the injection of wastewater at a handful of high - rate wells across the state

A handful of other teams are taking an immersive, multivariable approach to studying human responses to indoor conditions, using flexible facilities — from the Total Indoor Environmental Quality Lab at Syracuse University in New York, to the SenseLab at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, which should open in December.

UTMB is also planning to build a biosafety level 4 lab, of which there are currently just a handful in the world; that would allow Galveston researchers to study any virus they want to and really put their center on the map, say colleagues.

Only a handful of scientists worldwide, for example, receive funds to study the amount and nature of virus in seminal fluid and vaginal secretions.

The protein's role in cancer was an unexpected finding in Kniss's lab because only a handful of studies had described the connection before his group pursued this line of research.

After calculating height and weight projections drawn from the impressions, as well as studying flint tools and other artifacts previously found nearby, the team believes the tracks were made by a small group of adult and juvenile members of the species Homo antecessor, known mostly from a handful of fossils in Spain.

This is one of only a handful of studies of plastics in lakes, and the first of its kind to be undertaken in Lake Geneva,» explains Dr. Turner.

Just recently a handful of studies stirred the scientific community by showing that epigenetic marks indeed can be transmitted over generations, but exactly how, and what effects these genetic modifications have in the offspring is not yet understood.

DeBruyn, who typically studies the communities of microbes in soils, is one of a handful of researchers probing such communities in and on cadavers.

«This was seen in only a handful of patients, but it's certainly something of concern and warrants further study,» Douglas said.

In 2011, when ProPublica first reported on the different health problems afflicting people living near gas drilling operations, only a handful of health studies had been published.

In the end there are only a handful of rigorous studies linking Chernobyl to disease, Chumak explains.

The study of exoplanetary atmospheres is currently in its infancy, with only a handful of observations taken so far.

«Some of astronomy's most important results in the past five years have come from studying a handful of strong lenses.

Although a handful of recent studies have suggested that the blast locked the world in a deep freeze, a 1992 estimate indicated a milder climate impact.

In the study, the scientists used a type of mouse, called CVN - AD, that they had created several years ago by swapping out a handful of important genes to make the animal's immune system more similar to a human's.

Janka seemed to work nonstop, his ferocious drive coexisting with a persistent fear: Because he was one of only a handful working in what was then a limited field of study, Janka worried that by the time he completed his doctorate, he'd be a 30 - something with few job prospects.

Rather than waiting decades to see the effect of a gradual rise in CO2, a handful of studies have immersed stands of trees in a continuous bath of extra CO2, several hundred parts per million above ambient levels of about 400 parts per million.

The paper by Collinge and his colleagues has sparked a worldwide hunt for similar amyloid pathology in autopsied brains, and a small study published this January revealed a handful of related cases.

«In the space of just five years, reasonably affordable studies using DNA sequencing have advanced from using only a handful of genetic markers to more than 2,000 — an unbelievable amount of DNA,» adds Simison.

But a handful of real - life archaeologists are already making a bid to study culture in space — of the human, not alien, variety.