Sentences with phrase «identifying key study»

SEA, Inc. continues to work with decision - makers in government and industry in applying available science and identifying key studies to improve the knowledge base for better environmental decision - making.

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Using Shanghai as a case study, Dr. Zhou identified the key challenges to low - carbon city development in China as well as the role that Shanghai can play in creating a sustainable path of development for Chinese cities to model in the future.

Longman identifies the key fact by quoting a 1977 study by economists Spencer Spengler and Robert Clark: «Expenditures for the elderly at all levels of government exceed the amount spent on children, age seventeen and under, including the total amount spent on public education, by more than three to one.»

However, this study not only points to specific problems but identifies key areas that, when addressed, will begin correcting the problems.

For over 20 years, we have been continuously studying the properties of plants to identify, extract, and standardize the key compounds responsible for their effects.

With this release, Off - Piste Wines are fulfilling «three key consumer trends» that they have identified in a collaborative consumer study performed with wine industry market researchers, Wine Intelligence.

The video case book follows a study in which Dr Emma Banister and Dr Ben Kerrane identified that one of the key barriers individuals face when considering SPL is the lack of accessible, credible and accurate information about the scheme.

The workshop also included topics that will identify key data sets and relevant research literature that may inform a future consensus study to address these concerns.

The workshop also included topics intended to identify key data sets and relevant research literatures that may inform a future ad hoc consensus study to address these concerns.

Of the ten studies that compared programmes, which varied in only one of the key characteristics, few differences were identified.

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«A molecular atlas of calcific aortic valve disease: Study builds molecular networks of calcific aortic valve disease to identify key molecules and therapeutic targets for a disease that affects one in four older Americans.»

Along with the study's co-first authors, Drs. Aayoung Hong and Gatien Moriceau, Lo hypothesized that if they could identify the key tumor cell processes triggered by withdrawal of MAPK inhibitors, then scientists can exploit these process with existing or investigational drugs to trigger the maximal levels of tumor cell death immediately following cessation of the initial therapy.

He says that the R&D carried out in Singapore are among the top in the region and are in line with studies carried out in the U.S. «Singapore is moving toward the knowledge - based economy and was one of the earliest countries to identify environmental studies as a key area for development.

She's learned the ropes from people like John Matsui, BSP's director, who says that a generation of studies has identified the key elements of a successful program: relevant and timely academic advice, a community environment, strong mentoring, and early involvement in research.

Yet in a study led by Aimy Sebastian, a graduate student in the School of Natural Sciences at UC Merced who is conducting her Ph.D thesis work under Loots, identified the secreted bone protein Sclerostin (SOST), as a key molecule dysregulated as a result of prostate cancer - bone microenvironment interactions.

«We identified the cytosolic protein Vms1 as a key component of a novel pathway termed mitoRQC that protects mitochondria from the toxic effects of such aberrant proteins,» explain the authors of the study.

Wagner and Katsanis have been studying this program and identified key challenges, such as ensuring that participants are consenting voluntarily to providing DNA samples and that these samples are not used for purposes other than those of the program's mission.

Identifying these children as early on as possible and making special education available to them is of key importance in overcoming RSD and in preventing other, secondary difficulties in learning and studying,» Professor Holopainen concludes.

COPD is expected to be the third largest cause of death globally by 2030, and it is important that we identify its key causes so that this burden can be reduced,» says study author Professor Shyamali Dharmage, School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

A new study by researchers at Roche in Basel, Switzerland has identified a key brain region of the neural circuit that controls social behavior.

Published a month apart in PLOS Pathogens, the studies from Professor Ethan Bier's laboratory used a series of experiments to identify key pathways and mechanisms previously unknown or overlooked in the body's defenses.

The study identified five genes predictive of feeding success representing a range of biological systems: sensory integration (NPHP4, PLXNA1); hypothalamic regulation, a region of the brain that plays a key role in hunger signaling (NPY2R); facial development (WNT3, a gene associated with lip and palate development); and energy expenditure (AMPK, a regulator of whole body energy balance).

With distance identified as a key factor, the ideal animal model to study this disease, Dorn quipped, is the giraffe.

No single solution exists for alleviating crowding in emergency rooms, but a new study identifies four key strategies that have reduced the problem.

«Given the key similarities to human infections, a marmoset model of Zika may be useful for testing of new drug and vaccines,» said Texas Biomedical Research Institute virologist Jean Patterson, Ph.D. «Having an animal model of Zika infection to study may help us identify places where we might be able to block transmission.»

«While the majority of siblings of children with ASD will not develop the condition themselves, for those who do, one of the key priorities is finding more effective ways of identifying and treating them as early as possible,» said lead author Katarzyna Chawarska, associate professor in the Yale Child Study Center and the Department of Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine.

Nevertheless, the results identify key factors to consider during the transition from long - term residential treatment to the community, and the findings from this study will inform future intervention development that aims to significantly improve mid-range and long - term outcomes among people with SUDs leaving residential treatment.

In their latest study, researchers at La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology identified a key signal that drives the commitment of immature Tfh cells into fully functional Tfh cells and thus driving the step - by - step process that results in a precisely tailored and effective immune response.

In the new study, Srinivasan and her colleagues, first author Research Assistant Tallie Noble and graduate student Jonathan Stieglitz, used a series of gene - blocking experiments to identify some of the circuit's key elements.

«Understanding how cancers suppress the immune system is the key to identifying more effective immuno - therapies,» said Brent Hanks, M.D., Ph.D., at Duke and senior author of the study.

Some of the common genetic alterations identified in the study were gains and losses in chromosome 8, as well as cell proliferation and cell - cycle progression — key mechanisms of cancer caused by genetic alterations — linked to the genes AURKA, AURKB and FOXM1.

Olson and co-authors Nicholas Eaton at Stony Brook University and Aidan Key of Gender Diversity, a Seattle organization that provides training and runs support groups for families of gender - nonconforming children, specifically focused their study on transgender children who were living as their identified gender in all aspects of their lives, who came from supportive home environments, and who had not yet reached puberty.

In a new study from the University of Pennsylvania, a group of researchers have identified key intervention points where patients perceived overlap between healthcare and law enforcement activities: at the scene of injury; in transport to the hospital; during emergency care; and throughout hospitalization and rehabilitation.

As a basis for their experiments, the researchers drew on mouse studies that have identified key regulatory mechanisms acting within and between different cell types to coordinate developmental programs.

In the latest study, published in Nature Microbiology, the team have identified two key proteins that malaria parasites need to escape red blood cells and infect fresh cells.

A key factor in this study was the collaboration with the Dutch LifeLines study, which allowed the researchers to replicate their findings: more than 90 % of the identified factors were also detected in the Dutch cohort.

In a study recently published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers in USF's Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair say the results of their experiment are an early step in pursuing stem cells for potential repair of the blood - spinal cord barrier, which has been identified as key in the development of ALS.

The key to sustainable use of natural gas is identifying and halting «super emitters» — valves or hatches that are stuck open, corroded holes in pipes or other major leaks — according to this study.

«Natural killer cells help to drive inflammation, insulin resistance: Study in mouse models of diabetes identifies key immune mechanisms in abdominal fat.»

«The current study identified sleep quality, rather than pain and low mood, as a key driver of physical activity the next day.

The study, «Directed network wiring identifies a key protein interaction in embryonic stem cell differentiation,» was supported by the National Institutes of Health.

«More studies are warranted to confirm the deleterious effect of antibiotic use in large prospective trials and to develop novel diagnostic tools based on gut microbiota in cancer patients, to predict response / resistance to ICIs and identify the key microbiota signatures for each tumor site,» the researchers wrote.

Recent studies identified one key player that can either keep the balance or wreak havoc: the gut microbiome.

The aim of this study is to identify potential key genes and pathways that are related to the calcification apparatus.

LA JOLLA — Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified a key genetic switch linked to the development, progression and outcome of cancer, a finding that may lead to new targets for cancer therapies.

12/8/2008 From Mother to Daughters: A Central Mystery in Cell Division Solved Researchers from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a key step required for cell division in a study that could help improve therapies to treat cancer.

Remarkably, recent studies from several laboratories including Dr. Kim's lab identified Nurr1 as a key modulator of (neuro) inflammation functioning as a transcriptional repressor for neurotoxic cytokine production.

Some studies have identified a number of regions of methylated DNA (one key way in which epigenetic changes occur) that are different in fat cells of mice fed high - fat diets than in cells of mice with normal diets.

Our study identified the key cellular and genetic players that shape optic nerve regeneration and navigation.