Sentences with phrase «help advance their studies»

In principle, scientists don't pay much attention to the nationality of their collaborators: they simply seek out people who can help advance their studies.

«Our identification of a possible microRNA target could help advance the study of these largely untested, but promising approaches to promoting muscle growth in older people.»

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Alan Weil of the Urban Institute, which has studied welfare reform extensively, notes that the system has been slow to acknowledge the evolution of responsibility from helping the nonworking to supporting those who have advanced in the work world, as Myrna's case illustrates.

Banire, who explained that Justice Agbadu - Fishim was an old colleague of his while lecturing at the University of Lagos and a fellow researcher at the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, said the last contact he had with Agbadu - Fashim was about 14 years before three years ago when he received a text message from Agbadu - Fashim soliciting financial help for the funeral of his mother.

Wesley Kerr, whose graduate studies will be completed in the UCLA Department of Biomathematics, and his trainees, Akash Patel and Sarah Barritt, will present their poster entitled «Computer - Aided Diagnosis of Epilepsy Using Clinical Information» outlining advances in the use of computational machine learning to help clinicians detect and diagnose epilepsy correctly.

Professor Jianfeng Feng commented that new technology has made it possible to conduct this trail - blazing study: «human intelligence is a widely and hotly debated topic and only recently have advanced brain imaging techniques, such as those used in our current study, given us the opportunity to gain sufficient insights to resolve this and inform developments in artificial intelligence, as well as help establish the basis for understanding and diagnosis of debilitating human mental disorders such as schizophrenia and depression.»

In a new study, published today in the journal Advanced Functional Materials, researchers used a combination of 3D imaging and 3D printing techniques to create a custom silicone guide implanted with biochemical cues to help nerve regeneration.

Technological advances in agriculture helped reduce greenhouse gas output by reducing the need to convert forests to farmland, the study said.

Dr. David Brandman, lead author of the study and an engineering postdoctoral researcher at Brown University, said that while additional innovations will help to move implantable BCIs like BrainGate toward clinical availability for patients, this advance of rapid, intuitive calibration is a key one.

Now, in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Thomas Albright and Ricardo Gil - da - Costa of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies describe a model system that completes the bridge between cellular and human studies of schizophrenia, an advance that should help speed the development of therapeutics for schizophrenia and other neurological disStudies describe a model system that completes the bridge between cellular and human studies of schizophrenia, an advance that should help speed the development of therapeutics for schizophrenia and other neurological disstudies of schizophrenia, an advance that should help speed the development of therapeutics for schizophrenia and other neurological disorders.

«This advance will help allow us to more effectively — and more economically — study one of the largest bears on the planet,» Wheat said.

An ongoing companion study of GVAX in patients with less advanced prostate cancer should help clarify this issue.

«We now have a way to study this process in real time at the scale it's occurring, which will help scientists better understand the process and possibly optimize it,» says David Shapiro, a physicist with the Advanced Light Source who helped Chueh develop the technique at the facility.

NEPTUNE Canada and the University of Victoria's Centre for Global Studies (CFGS) developed Digital Fishers with help from $ 1 million in funding from CANARIE, Canada's Advanced Research and Innovation Network.

A new study from The Auk: Ornithological Advances explores how Poland's cavity - nesting Marsh Tits deal with predator attacks and finds that while tactics such as small entrances and solid walls do help, adaptations like this can only take the birds so far.

Dust that blew into the North Pacific Ocean could help explain why the Earth's climate cooled 2.7 million years ago, according to a new study published in the journal Science Advances.

«Funding research focused on helping patients survive longer is critical, and studies such as this advance our goal of not only improving treatments for brain cancer, but eventually finding a cure.»

The experiments set off a debate about the safest way to do gene drive experiments in the lab and helped prompt the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support the academies's study.

Dr. Michael Motes, senior research scientist at the Center for BrainHealth and one of the lead authors of the study, said, «Finding a nonpharmacological intervention that can help the aging brain to perform like a younger brain is a welcome finding that potentially advances understanding of ways to enhance brain health and longevity.

Using advanced computer analysis techniques designed to study and process biological data, the researchers identified SND1 among a handful of other genes that miR - 184 helps regulate.

That study established that daily high doses of certain antioxidants and minerals — called the AREDS formulation — can help slow the progression to advanced AMD.

When University at Buffalo chemists began studying waste disposal at a dairy farm in New York State, they thought that the farm's advanced system for processing manure would help remove estrogens and antibiotics from the excrement.

The study also had the help of experts from Miguel Hernández University in Alicante, the Polytechnic of Madrid, the Seville Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology (IRNAS) and the Segura Centre of Edaphology and Advanced Biology (CEBAS) in Murcia.

«Studies like this one help advance our understanding of autism and improve the way scientists and clinicians develop new treatments,» said Lisa Gilotty, Chief of the Research Program on Autism Spectrum Disorders at the National Institute of Mental Health, one of the agencies that funded the study.

Dr Jean - François Exbrayat, of the NCEO, who led the study, said: «Technological advances are enabling us to build a clearer picture of the resilience of the Amazon and other tropical forests, which will help develop strategies to safeguard these environments.»

The goal of the study, she said, was to help guide conservation efforts in advance of the expected rise in ocean temperature and acidity by the end of this century, as forecast by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

«This study results are significant in helping to advance medical alternatives for patients with immune tolerant Hepatitis B, a sub-group of patients who thus far, doctors have been hesitant to treat,» said Professor Tom Hemming Karlsen, EASL Vice-Secretary.

These new findings help us better understand the causes of depression and show how the UK Biobank study and big data research has helped advance mental health research.

«In the St. Lucie Estuary study area, septic - to - sewer programs, which include nitrogen and phosphorus removal through advanced wastewater treatment, could help meet this challenge and mitigate future harmful algal blooms,» said Lapointe.

Visionary applications Pioneering studies of thinking cells by Itzhak Fried and Christof Koch could help advance at least two technological endeavors.

Genomic research is helping scientist to unravel the mysteries behind neurological disorders, and increasingly advanced imaging technologies allow neuroscientists to study mental and biologic processes real - time in living subjects.

Earlier dating work by Lepre and Kent helped lead to another landmark paper in 2011: a study that suggested Homo erectus, another precursor to modern humans, was using more advanced tool - making methods 1.8 million years ago, at least 300,000 years earlier than previously thought.

«We believe the experimental and computational results reported here,» they wrote in their paper, «will help advance the fundamental study and exploration of these and similar materials for energy conversion devices.»

Trial studies suggested that fish oil could help, but larger clinical trials proved inconclusive — possibly because the trials involved people with advanced cancers that were difficult to treat.

Journals should require authors to register reports in advance so that the study protocol and analysis plan is locked in place before data collection even begins, and scientists should be encouraged to store methods and data in repositories to help other groups reproduce experiments.

«We're no longer optical astronomers or X-ray astronomers or gamma - ray astronomers,» says John Bahcall, a professor of natural sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University and a key member of the group that helped plan the telescope in the 1970s.

(HealthDay)-- Palbociclib can help slow the progression of advanced breast cancer, according to a study published in the Nov. 17 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

«Our study shows that this unique stem cell - based retinal implant thus far is well - tolerated, and preliminary results suggest it may help people with advanced dry age - related macular degeneration,» says coauthor and lead inventor of the implant Dr. Mark S. Humayun, MD, director of the USC Institute for Biomedical Therapeutics, co-director of the USC Roski Eye Institute, affiliate principal investigator with the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC and university professor of ophthalmology at the Keck School.

In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the team describes their sequencing study of three types of plants and the comparisons they made with other plants that had been previously sequenced, and why they believe that what they found might help such trees survive as the planet warms.

ORLANDO - The natural fetal estrogen estetrol, also called E4, is being tested as a new drug that may help treat advanced prostate cancer, according to an ongoing industry - sponsored study from the Netherlands.

The program, called PennPREP, is geared toward postbaccalaureate students there, in hopes to help encourage their interest in advanced study in the sciences.

June 7, 2011 Many patients with advanced cancers get treatments that won't help A study of more than 1,000 patients with colon cancer that had spread to distant sites found that one in eight was treated with at least one drug regimen that was not recommended.

But Spector argues that EpiTwin has already made valuable contributions — for example, through a study of 15 twin pairs discordant for breast cancer that pointed toward hypermethylation of the DOK7 gene, which he believes could one day be used as a biomarker to help identify women at risk for breast cancer years in advance.

«This study has a relatively simple message: those with advanced prostate cancer should consider genetic testing both to help their own treatment and also so family members can take preventive action,» says Dr. Kenneth Offit, chief of clinical genetics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and a co-author of the study.

And while she is an obvious proponent of skin probiotics — having founded a product line and working to advance skin microbiome research with her company's parter AOBiome — this is a pretty exciting area of study, since uncovering the precise benefits of our skin bacteria will help us understand what might be happening when these same bacteria become unbalanced (think skin disease).

Studies have proved that not only does yoga give you pleasure, it can increase productivity and help you advance your career.

Professor Fernando Reimers, who has an ongoing collaboration with the NIE as part of the cross-national study of 21st century education he directs, expressed «I am deeply honored by this invitation of my colleagues in the NIE, to further our already productive exchanges, animated by our common desire to advance knowledge that can help all children gain the skills they will need to become architects of their own lives and contributing members of their communities.

Though principally aimed at first - level undergraduates, Fundamental University Physics serves as an additional, comprehensive resource to help GCSE and A-Level students advance their understanding and prepare for their first year of studies at university.

Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Jonah Rockoff have helped advance the conversation through their longitudinal study of 2.5 million students over a 20 - year span.

This study helps to advance the ongoing renewal and revitalization of Catholic schools in the U.S. through a careful study of some primary stakeholders — the pastors of parishes with schools.