Sentences with phrase «investigating determinants»

Research investigating determinants of obesity risk during early childhood highlights the role of children's eating behaviors as well as food - related parenting practices.

The women are part of the larger Women's Health Initiative (WHI), a national, longitudinal study investigating the determinants of chronic diseases in postmenopausal women.

Tzilos and Ruffin analyzed data from the Community Awareness, Resources, and Education (CARE) Project, which investigated determinants of abnormal cervical cytology.

A multidisciplinary team of scientists from K4DD partners Merck KGaA (Darmstadt), Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), and the Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (iBET)(Lisbon), applied state - of - the - art experimental and computational approaches to investigate the determinants of target residence times for a set of inhibitors of a widely studied cancer target, heat shock protein 90 (HSP90).

In one recent paper, she and laureate James Heckman investigate the determinants of inequality in human capital with an emphasis on the role of credit constraints.

This paper uses a nationally representative school and teacher survey from Indonesia to jointly investigate the determinants of a teacher's satisfaction level and its impacts on performance.

In partnership with researchers from related projects in Canada, the UK, South Australia, the Northern Territory and Western Australia, Aboriginal organisations and policymakers, we will analyse whole - of - population data for New South Wales (NSW) to investigate the determinants of positive early childhood development in Aboriginal children, and assess the impacts of two «real - world» programmes that were implemented under circumstances where evidence of their efficacy was unable to be derived from RCTs: the NSW Aboriginal and Maternal Infant Health Service (AMIHS) 45 and the NSW Department of Family and Community Services (FACS) Brighter Futures Program.46 Early evaluations of these programmes suggested some positive changes in proximal outcomes related to their objectives.45, 47, 48 However, each of these evaluations was limited by one or more of the following: use of single data sets, less than 2 years of outcome data and / or issues of confounding and selection bias.

Not exact matches

The document stresses both mothers» and fathers» importance as educators, making clear that when fathers and mothers talk, play, read, paint, investigate numbers and shapes or sing with their children it has a positive effect on children's later development — and that mums» and dads» involvement in reading is the most important determinant of their child's early language and literacy skills.

The study investigates the role of personal and food - related attitudinal determinants of consumers» readiness to adopt insects as a meat substitute.

«Metabolomics provides new opportunities and a powerful approach to investigate potential viral, host, pathogenic and immunological determinants of dengue infection and pathogenesis,» explains Dr. Barry Beaty, from the Colorado State University.

The research team investigated possible determinants of MCI, considering factors such as age, APOE - ɛ status, waist circumference, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, total and HDL - cholesterol levels, smoking, and stroke.

By integrating the sequence data and the associated metadata, we have established laboratory and bioinformatics - based methods that enable us to investigate scientific questions including: the tropism of ZIKV for dendritic cells and the antiviral response of the cells during infection (Bowen et al. 2017); investigating the phylogenetic diversity of strains obtained by Biodefense and Emerging Infections (BEI) Resources and distributed to virologists (manuscript in preparation); the genetic determinants of ZIKV host adaptation in C6 / 36 mosquito vs. Vero cells; and the diversity of ZIKV circulating in limited geographic regions, including Barbados, Colombia, and the state of Chiapas, Mexico.

The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) study investigates genetic and genetic - environmental interactions, including gestational infection or other gestational events, childhood infections or other environmental factors after birth, in relation to the development of prediabetic islet autoimmunity and T1D.

The Department of Microbiology of the Yonsei University College of Medicine, is investigating on identification and functional study of virulence determinants in Mycobacterium tuberculosis by comparative genome - based analysis.

Students investigate concepts of demand, determinants of demand, taste and preference, and substitutes and complements so they can learn to make informed spending decisions.

The determinants of school spending are investigated using a disaggregated demand model augmented to include political factors.

First, few have investigated these potential determinants of attitudes toward climate scientists in young adulthood.

The limited effectiveness of the existing interventions and the effective focus of ST work on the all the determinants of chronic depression support the idea to investigate the implementation of ST in chronic depression.

However, the more specific question of what are the determinants of particular forms of PA participation, such as the link between participation through a sports club, has not been investigated.

Environmental determinants such as presence of and proximity to facilities have been investigated, with some finding that the simple presence of public facilities including sports facilities, is positively correlated with PA level [14, 31].

Broader geographical differences between localities constitute another potential environmental determinant of PA which has not been extensively investigated.

National Longitudinal Surveys are used to investigate the patterns and determinants of marital dissolution for first marriages.

Thus, as romantic relationships acquire a space of prediction of health and life satisfaction, future studies should investigate elements involving the difference in quality determinants in participant groups with different relationship durations.