Sentences with phrase «initiate studies»

Visited sites to assess the qualification of potential investigative sites, initiate studies, instruct site personnel on the proper conduct of studies, to review data and ensure data collected from start up to termination of studies and to terminate studies.

The full - energy, 12 GeV electrons are now being provided to the Experimental Hall D complex to initiate studies of the force that glues matter together.

The Party has also removed the cap on wind power to encourage the development of more non-renewable wind energy; initiated studies on the feasibility of carbon capture and storage as a means of disposing carbon dioxide emissions; and provided grants to promote the bio-energy industry.

«We have known for some time that breast milk can protect premature babies against intestinal damage but how and why it did so has been somewhat of a mystery,» says Hackam who initiated the study at the University of Pittsburgh and completed it at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.

The City of Albany is initiating a study to look into the challenges and opportunities of expanding broadband service.

Council Speaker Corey Johnson, who as the Health Committee chair in 2016 initiated the study, released a statement saying, «I don't know what the holdup is.

Goebert says she initiated the study because an internal, anonymous survey of medical students at the University of Hawaii had revealed high rates of depression and suicidal thoughts, as well as a reluctance to seek counseling, despite the availability of a student counseling service.

«We wanted to look at sleep in non-Western cultures firsthand, so we decided to initiate a study.»

«We found that healthy food stores within one mile of their home was the only significant factor that reduced or slowed the progression of calcium buildup in coronary arteries,» said Ella August, Ph.D., co-lead author who initiated the study and clinical assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Professor Gary Blissard of the Boyce Thompson Institute at Cornell University, and Professor Michael Kanost of Kansas State University, initiated the study and are co-senior authors on this large international project that included 114 researchers from 50 institutions and 11 countries.

To shed light on precisely how such learning occurs, Maye, along with Dan Weiss, a psychologist at Pennsylvania State University in State College, initiated a study funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to look at differences in learning patterns in infants, adults, and monkeys.

To probe this question, Clancy, McNally, and a Harvard colleague, psychologist Daniel Schacter, initiated a study of women who claimed to have recovered memories of sexual abuse.

He is now initiating studies to look for the same biomarkers in human infants infected with RSV.

Marjan Mashkour, an Iranian archaeozoologist who works at the CNRS in Paris and initiated the study with Burger and Fereidoun Biglari, a prehistoric archaeologist at the National Museum of Iran, added: «The Neolithic way of life originates in the Fertile Crescent, maybe also some Neolithic pioneers started moving from there.

He initiated studies on the impact of music alone or music coupled with an enriched environment (a space filled with toys) on the emotional responses of rats and associated changes in their brains.

«Rather than focusing on total numbers of published reports, reviews of academic performance should explicitly take into account the proportion of a researcher's initiated studies (e.g., those receiving ethics approval or funding) that have been reported, for which protocols have been shared, and that have had their dataset reused by other researchers.»

Controlling a prosthesis with thought is a big step in that direction, which is why our research team initiated this study.

Based on gene expression studies of fat tissue conducted at the USDA HNRCA, the Tufts University researchers initiated studies of the role of FAT10 in adipose tissue and metabolism.

People have been investigating the effects of nuclear weapons for decades, but Remo offered a novel twist, says R. Jeffery Lawrence, a physicist who recently retired from Sandia: «He initiated studies of how X-rays interact with the stuff that asteroids are made of.»

«Given the expanding prevalence of shift work worldwide and the heavy public burden of cancers, we initiated this study to draw public attention to this issue so that more large cohort studies will be conducted to confirm these associations,» he added.

Dr Lavinia Paternoster, Senior Lecturer in Genetic Epidemiology from Bristol Medical School: Population Health Sciences, who initiated the study, said: «This study brought together two European birth cohorts, PIAMA, from the Netherlands and ALSPAC (or «Children of the 90s») from Bristol.

Joe Costa, Executive Director of the Buzzards Bay National Estuary Program, who helped establish the Buzzards Bay monitoring program and a co-author of the paper, praised the WHOI team that initiated the study.

An international team led by Thijs Vandenbroucke (researcher at the French CNRS and invited professor at UGent) and Poul Emsbo (US Geological Survey) initiated a study to investigate a little known association between «teratological» or «malformed» fossil plankton assemblages coincident with the initial stages of these extinction events.

Additional authors of the paper include Luigi Petrone, Ph.D., former Senior Research Fellow at NTU who initiated the study in the Miserez lab and is currently a Scientist at Brookes Bell Group; Steffi Sunny, a graduate student in the Aizenberg lab; Clarinda Sutanto, a Research Assistant in the Miserez lab at NTU; Shawn Hoon, Ph.D., a Research Fellow in the Molecular Engineering Lab at A * STAR, Singapore; Lucas Cohen, Co-op Student in the Aizenberg lab, and James Weaver, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist at the Wyss Institute.

We have also initiated studies of the regulation of cytokine gene expression in these cells.

The conduct of NCI - supported trials involves a complex system of designing, reviewing and initiating studies.

Her dissertation completed, she initiated studies in innate immunity, focusing on how the immune system senses the presence of pathogens.

In this effort, Dr. Zuniga made a major «hit» while a postdoctoral fellow at the Scripps Research Institute, when she initiated study into plasmacytoid dendritic cells, a subset of leukocytes that produce large quantities of the antiviral mediators type I interferons, and have significant developmental potential.

The International Civil Aviation Organization's (ICAO) Technical Advisory Group on Machine Readable Travel Documents (TAG / MRTD) initiated a study to determine the «compatibility of currently available biometric technologies with the issuance and inspection processes relevant to MRTDs; and quantifying these compatibilities to determine whether one or more technologies could / should be adopted as the international standard for application in MRTDs.»

«The ViaCyte team is very pleased to have received FDA acceptance for our clinical trial protocol and look forward to initiating this study shortly,» ViaCyte president and CEO Paul Laikind said in the statement.

My least favorite parts are the continued «bureaucratization» of Universities, and competing for research funds as the NIH reduces support, particularly for single investigator - initiated studies aimed at understanding pathophysiology in human beings.

Dr. Folkman's 1971 original hypothesis that solid tumors are angiogenesis - dependent initiated studies in tumor biology that extended to disciplines as diverse as ophthalmology, cardiology, dermatology and tissue engineering.

In 2012, our laboratory initiated a study of AAN structural connectivity in ex vivo human brain specimens and in a living human subject - a study made possible by high resolution MRI scanners and high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) sequences developed at the Massachusetts General Hospital Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging.

We have initiated studies regarding the hypothesis that the benzamides and nicotinamides could inhibit the production of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) and the inflammatory response as well as induce apoptosis via inhibition of NF - kappaB.

The student satisfaction survey asked about a student's activities during the semester, such as whether he or she had participated in a student - initiated study group or gone for tutoring (which was available to all students independent of the experiment), and about the student's satisfaction with those activities.

Students reported higher levels of engagement with the college - level statistics class, establishing more self - initiated study groups than students in the remedial algebra classes.

Commissioner Schneider has stated that his agency should not have initiated the study and NCES will in the future refrain from analyses of the raw data that it collects.

Robert M. Worthington, ed assistant secretary for vocational and adult education, recently met with the Academy's National Research Council to initiate a study of the nation's unemployment situation, paying special attention to minority groups in job - scarce areas.

A single - arm, investigator - initiated study of the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of intravitreal aflibercept injection in subjects with exudative age - related macular degeneration previously

One teacher initiated the study of the new reading series throughout the grade levels, examining the Literacy by Design «Sourcebook» (student textbook) and guided reading series for its alignment with character virtues, ethical decision - making, coping skills and authentic learning.

Previously, we have worked primarily on the congenital hypothyroidism of giant schnauzers originally reported by Greco DS, et al (JVIM 1991; 5:57 - 65), but when approached last year by TFT breeders and their veterinarians, we initiated study of the TFT disorder.

The researchers investigating this type of EIC became interested in collapsing Border Collies and initiated a study of BCC.

In addition, Rocky Mountain Power by 2020 will initiate a study regarding the costs and benefits of rooftop solar.

MSSRF has also initiated studies on the potential of mangroves to act as barriers to protect against rising sea levels.

These workers also have to help statisticians with various tasks, to determine and initiate study protocols, to plan, develop and implement a wide variety of sampling techniques.

As part of his role as a faculty member at the University of Minnesota's Department of Family Social Science, Bill Doherty initiated a study of American adults to get baseline data upon which to build the Marital First Responders training.

«Alarmed by media reports and politicians who claim that violence among young women is skyrocketing, we initiated a study conducted over the summer that looks at the myths and facts around young women's use of violence.

Back in the 1960s developmental psychologist Mary Ainsworth initiated studies that were to refine psychologist and psychiatrist John Bowlby's initial formulation of attachment theory.

Not exact matches

The first trial was supposed to have been completed this month, but the FDA website lists it as pending, which means the study has not been initiated (type in «flibanserin» in the product box here).

Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty first commissioned his own study, authored by University of Calgary tax - policy expert Jack Mintz, then in March initiated a public consultation process, by which time talk of a government - run supplemental pension plan, whether regional or national, began to fade.