Sentences with phrase «human subjects they study»

Some of these commenters argued that these unequal protections would be especially apparent for the disclosure of research with authorization, since under the Common Rule, IRB review of human subjects studies is required, regardless of the subject's consent, before the study may be conducted.

Not exact matches

Legendary physicist Feynman won the Nobel Prize for his work in one of the subjects that's the most difficult for the human mind to grasp — quantum mechanics — yet his top advice for accelerating learning is actually to make whatever you're studying as dead simple as possible.

Take a much - trumpeted 2014 study out of MIT, in which research subjects underwent work trials with both human and robots in charge and found they preferred being managed by the machines.

ian... not sure which part you wanted me to reply on, but I will take issue with yr point about homosexuality being a threat to human existence.I'm no expert on the subject, but I think we cd safely assume that the phenomena has been with us since our ancestors came out of the trees... we're now over six billion and growing at an alarming rate.Not sure where you might find the data on this supposed threat to going forth and multiplying.BTW, I have read that homosexual behaviour is observable in the animal kingdom, but I wd need to do some work to reference a credible study.

However, if the subjects of study are concrete networks of human practices by which communities of faith attempt to respond to God faithfully, and if they are practices which mediate an understanding of God, then the movement of theological schooling is more like an engaged meditative gaze than it is like problem solving.

If one would learn to understand offense, let him study human envy, a subject which I offer as an extra course, pluming myself upon having studied it profoundly.

On first thought, no subject of study would seem a less likely candidate for the office as liberator of the human spirit.

Moreover, the academic disciplines practiced in a university are not merely subjects for study; they are forms of human behavior.

so often they just look at potential markers — but those don't always equate to diseases)- what was the health of the those being studied - I'm assuming the test subjects were people, but other studies done on animal subjects might not be as reliable as those done on humans.

Some of them are supported by scientific studies, some of them still need to be clinically proved on human subjects.

Ethics of human subject participation: As this was an observational study with no human subjects, no ethical approval was necessary.

Robert Larzelere, associate professor of human development and family science at Oklahoma State University, conducted a meta - analysis of 26 studies on the subject, and found that, overall, spanking seemed more effective than 10 of 13 alternative disciplinary methods for getting a child to behave or do as asked.

In fact, the more unfortified human milk a set of study subjects received as premature infants, the greater whole body bone size and density they exhibited at 20 years of age.

For the purposes of this initiative the social sciences are defined as inclusive of the subjects of economics, economic and social history, political science, socio - legal studies, education, psychology, cognitive studies, linguistics, management and business studies, human geography, environmental planning, international studies, area and development studies, social statistics, demography, social science computing, sociology, social anthropology, social policy and social work.

AAAS's partnership with HelpAge USA will ensure the scientific rigor of the study and that it is undertaken in a way that is ethically responsible, mindful that the subjects of the study are among the most vulnerable victims of human rights violations.

Says DiDonato: «We are very happy that our research was able to assist in the pharmacological characterization of RG3039 and contribute to dose selection and exposure estimates for the first studies with RG3039 in human subjects.

In one of her experiments she studied gene expression in nematodes subjected to 15 - G pressures, using Ames's human centrifuge.

Federal regulations on working with human subjects, for example, require filling out detailed applications on study design and subsequent reporting.

Preliminary studies of ampakines on healthy human subjects have shown small to moderate improvements in their performance on memory tests.

The topic was stress and the fight - or - flight instinct, a subject she knew a thing or two about, having studied human stress response for 20 years.

The new study focused on two areas that are now losing trees: western North America, which is suffering from drought, heat and beetle infestations that span from the southwestern U.S. to Alaska, and the Amazon rainforest, which has been subject to decades of intense human development.

The team's approach relied on methods developed in the past decade or so to study «functional connectivity» in the adult human brain — essentially using fMRI to determine which brain regions have synchronized activity when the subject is not engaged in any particular task.

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

More studies will be needed to confirm the benefits in human subjects.

Two studies — one in mice and the other in human subjects — offer the first definitive evidence that exercise alone can change the composition of microbes in the gut.

The origins of this dog - human relationship were subject of a study by behavioural scientists from the Messerli Research Institute at the Vetmeduni Vienna and the Wolf Science Center.

Only 17 of the studies were in humans, and they did not include any long - term follow - ups of their subjects.

It is a common issue with nutrition studies, she notes — given the vast diversity of human research subjects, variations in the concentration or mixture of supplements, and often uncontrolled factors such as baseline diets or preexisting illnesses, it's not unusual to see different studies canceling each other out.

Last year the National Institutes of Health announced plans to put some 180 ex-Coulston chimps currently housed at the Alamogordo Primate Facility back in service, to rejoin the roughly 800 other chimps that serve as subjects for studies of human diseases, therapies and vaccines in the U.S., which is the only country apart from Gabon to maintain chimps for this purpose.

In the original study, Scott Campbell and Patricia Murphy of Cornell University Medical College in New York state reported that by shining light on the backs of the knees of human subjects, they could shift the so - called circadian clock that governs sleep - wake cycles (Science, 16 January 1998, p. 396).

Wathan and McComb plan to continue to explore facial features related to the expression of emotion in their horses, noting that horses» rich social lives and close relationship to humans make them particularly interesting as study subjects.

Ongoing studies by investigators across the country, including Drs. Abraham Palmer and James MacKillop, who also participated in the conference, involve analysis of DNA and questionnaire responses from as many as 25,000 human subjects in order to identify specific genes involved in delay discounting.

«You can't put human [study subjects] on caloric restrictions all their lives,» he says, but adds: «There is no reason why it couldn't apply to humans.»

Notes Snowdon, «The benefit of the nonhuman primate model is that we can control and know the developmental and social histories of our study subjects, to carry out studies not possible in humans.»

In a recent study of human couples, social psychologist Lisa Diamond of the University of Utah observed minor withdrawal - like symptoms, such as irritability and sleep disturbances, along with an increase in cortisol in subjects after they were separated four to seven days.

In their study, the researchers had 60 human subjects view a series of digital photographs of female rhesus macaque monkeys, above, whose facial color changes to give social cues.

Our goal for this new program is to provide in - depth and customized education in ethical issues that arise in research conducted with human subjects, such as informed consent, genetics research, and in the study of vulnerable populations.

Some of the study's subjects viewed photos of the transformation of the monkeys» faces as a human or primate would see them while others saw pictures as a color - blind person would and others as a camera would.

In addition to studying the monument's environment, the deep divers were in turn the subjects of a medical study to understand the effects of extreme dive exposures on human physiology.

Understanding the brain's facial code could help scientists study how face cells incorporate other identifying information, such as sex, age, race, emotional cues and names, says Adrian Nestor, a neuroscientist at the University of Toronto, who studies face patches in human subjects and did not participate in the research.

For this study, the researchers used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to scan human subjects as they viewed a series of overlapping images of faces and houses.

The subjects» criminality was determined by a local justice system run by humans making (perhaps subconsciously) biased decisions, notes Blaise Agüera y Arcas, a principal scientist at Google who studies machine learning.

In addition to the human subjects, the researchers studied the effects of BPA on pregnancy in sheep, rats and mice.

A new report, published online October 24 in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, reviews 18 carefully controlled laboratory studies that tested human subjects» physiological and behavioral responses to sleep deprivation as they relate to metabolic health.

Yes, using mice in early drug studies can spare human test subjects from harm, which most people would argue justifies the frequently misleading findings.

Recent studies have shown that endorphin blockers do lessen the activation of reward circuits in humans and rodents that are presented with appetizing food — the subjects eat less.

Ravens are a good subject for study, he said, because despite their obvious evolutionary divergence from humans, their social lives go through several distinct phases, similar to people.

The three - year study conducted by McLean researchers points to specific neuroanatomical changes in human subjects with these illnesses, and specifically to neurons that regulate anxiety and stress response, according to Harry Pantazopoulos, PhD, assistant neuroscientist at McLean's Translational Neuroscience Laboratory and instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

«Although many reports have addressed the effect of lactic acid bacteria on skin properties in subjects with skin diseases, such as atopic dermatitis, few studies have involved healthy humans,» explains lead investigator Hiromi Kimoto - Nira, PhD, of the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO) Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science (NILGS), Tsukuba, Japan.

OHRP is working on new rules for human subjects» protections for studies involving the standard of care and should be releasing them for comment in the coming weeks or months, the Chronicle reports.