Sentences with phrase «kind study led»

A first - of - its - kind study led by Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), published online in the journal, Circulation, found that infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) born far from a hospital providing neonatal cardiac surgery for HLHS have increased neonatal mortality, with most deaths occurring before surgery.

Children consume more low - nutrition, high - calorie food such as cookies and candy after observing seemingly overweight cartoon characters, according to a first - of - its - kind study led by the University of Colorado Boulder.

A first - of - its - kind study led by researchers at the University of Florida shows that the dramatic loss of elephants, which disperse seeds after eating vegetation, is leading to the local extinction of a dominant tree species, with likely cascading effects for other forest life.

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«Our work challenges the widespread assumption that true creativity requires a kind of anarchy in which people are permitted to speak their minds, whatever the consequence,» commented study lead author and Cornell organizational behavior professor Jack Goncalo.

Some studies show that people maintain a kind of moral equilibrium, meaning that giving money to charity may lead them to skimp on the tip at dinner, whereas partying too much may inspire a volunteer day at the soup kitchen.

The rest of this chapter will show briefly how historical study of the Bible proceeds and the kinds of questions it leads the Bible and its readers to ask one another.

Congregational studies, she thinks, could lead to both a deeper understanding of ministry in congregations and a better demonstration of the kind of ministry in which seminaries are engaged.

By then, his continual studies in theology, psychology, science and cosmology had led him to a more universal, inclusive kind of spiritual worldview and practice which he continues to develop, with particular interest in Christian views and spirituality.

Now another group of studies, led by Notre Dame psychology professor Darcia Narvaez, confirms earlier work suggesting that children who get more positive touch and affection during infancy turn out to be kinder, more intelligent and to care more about others.

«We are pleased with the results of this first - of - its - kind study,» adds Dr. Heere, who was also lead investigator.

«Certainly, medical school, residency, Ph.D. training, all those kinds of advanced degrees are set up with a lot of expectations, and by and large the people that are doing them are driven,» says Deborah Goebert, a psychiatrist at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and lead investigator of the study.

But a new study led by the University of Colorado shows that the two kinds of pain actually use distinct neural circuits, a finding that could lead to more targeted treatments and a better understanding of how the two kinds of pain interact.

In a groundbreaking study that provides scientists with a critical new understanding of stem cell development and its role in disease, UCLA researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research led by Dr. Kathrin Plath, professor of biological chemistry, have established a first - of - its - kind methodology that defines the unique stages by which specialized cells are reprogrammed into stem cells that resemble those found in the embryo.

At last, we would have a truly experimental way of studying macroevolution, the kind of changes that lead to the creation of new species.

In a first - of - its - kind - study led by Suskind, published today in the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, diet alone was shown to bring pediatric patients with active Crohn's and UC into clinical remission.

Just before the teenage years, «the rate of growth for many skills kind of slows down,» says Deborah Waber, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School's Children's Hospital Boston and the lead author of a paper that reports the results of the behavioral component of the NIH Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Study of Normal Brain Development.

If the association holds up in larger studies, Chatila says, doctors could use the information to sort out which mutation — or combination of mutations — leads to different kinds of allergic diseases.

In one of the largest studies of its kind, a team led by Allan Templeton of the University of Aberdeen, U.K., analyzed records of more than 26,000 women who underwent in vitro fertilization (IVF) in the United Kingdom from 1991 to 1994.

Sequence of causal and timing factors According to Hill, who has studied hunter - gatherers in South America for nearly 30 years, whether by shell beads, other kinds of gifts or through female transfer, the traits of cognition, culture and cooperation would eventually lead to specializations and government.

That trend is problematic considering that African - Americans — the most at - risk population for multiple myeloma — have different genetics that can affect how this type of cancer progresses and what kind of targeted therapies are most effective, said Zarko Manojlovic, lead author of the study.

This is also the first study of its kind to show that Alzheimer's disease can lead to diabetes, as opposed to diabetes occurring first as was previously thought.

Even short - term blockages of this kind can lead to remarkable changes in the auditory system, altering the behavior and structure of nerve cells that relay information from the ear to the brain, according to a new University at Buffalo study.

Before this study — the largest of its kind — conducted by a team led by Professor Dirk Inzé, scientists had little insight into the genes and genetic processes that drive some plants to limit their growth under drought conditions while others grow normally.

«Robotic spacecraft are usually radiation - hardened to protect against these kinds of events,» said Chris St. Cyr, a space scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author on the study.

A study of three remote lakes in Ecuador led by Queen's University researchers has revealed the vulnerability of tropical high mountain lakes to global climate change — the first study of its kind to show this.

And for some kinds of leading - edge studies, like those linking a disease to a specific gene, wrongness infects 90 percent or more.

«We are pleased with the results of this first - of - its - kind study,» adds Dr. Heere, who was also lead investigator.

The first - of - its kind study, led by a multi-disciplinary research team at BMC and the BU School of Public Health (BUSPH), reviewed data on 29 youth - specific and adult policies on drinking to establish scores characterizing each state's alcohol policy «environment.»

«In many ways, the atmospheric studies we're doing now on these gaseous «hot Jupiter» kinds of planets are test beds for how we're going to do atmospheric studies of terrestrial, Earth - like planets,» said Thomas Beatty, assistant research professor of astronomy at Penn State and the lead author of the study.

A new study in animal models, led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), suggests that the eye's lacrimal glands can be repaired by injecting a kind of regenerative «progenitor» cell.

«Creating images improved participants» memories and helped them commit fewer errors, regardless of what kind of list we gave them,» said Merrin Oliver, lead author of the study and a Ph.D. student in the educational psychology program in the College of Education & Human Development at Georgia State.

Led by Aarti Nair, a student in the SDSU / UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, the study is the first of its kind, combining functional and anatomical magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to examine connections between the cerebral cortex and the thalamus.

It's been demonstrated in some studies that this kind of dynamic can lead people into a false sense of security, he said.

A new study published in the academic journal Scientific Reports, led by Professor Mark Purnell from the University of Leicester's Department of Geology, has discovered the best kind of rubber for reproduction.

In the largest study of its kind, researchers led by the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing have investigated the caregivers of 186 mothers to childhood brain tumor survivors aged 14 - 40 whose care needs last long into adulthood.

The first - of - its - kind copper iridate metal oxide — Cu2IrO3 — is one where the natural magnetic order is disrupted, a state known as geometric frustration, said Boston College Assistant Professor of Physics Fazel Tafti, a lead author of the study, titled Cu2IrO3: a new magnetically frustrated honeycomb iridate.

«We showed that Zika virus can kill the kind of glioblastoma cells that tend to be resistant to current treatments and lead to death,» said Michael S. Diamond, MD, PhD, the Herbert S. Gasser Professor of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine and the study's co-senior author.

In one of the largest studies of its kind, Richards led a collaboration of 18 researchers working at three mental health centers in the U.K. who put BA and CBT head - to - head.

«That means the decision for whether for you going to college versus what kind of major you want to study, the latter decision is more important for your lifetime earnings,» said Kim, a KU associate professor of sociology and the study's lead author.

The study, led by a team in The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, is the first of its kind to show these results from an exon - skipping drug — a class of therapeutics that allows cells to skip over missing parts of the gene and produce protein naturally.

As you say, it's still a mystery and it may be that the answer in the end is that there is not just one single cause that's leading to this colony collapse disorder; as the authors of this article outline, people studying this problem have noticed that in fact we do seem to have an unusually large number of problems with certain kinds of parasitic mites that can attack the bees

«HS has been underappreciated and understudied, and this kind of research — showing not only that these studies can be done well but also that we can improve our patients» symptoms — can only lead to further advances.»

The situation would also represent a new type of climate dispute, one that offers a glimpse of the kinds of multigenerational and multinational challenges society can expect to encounter, says Liam Colgan, a glaciologist at York University in Toronto, Canada, and lead author of the study, published today in Geophysical Research Letters.

Duke scholars led by Pusey are now working on digitizing the entire collection of Gombe data in the Goodall archive to enable more longitudinal studies of this kind.

Researchers leading the largest genomic tumor profiling effort of its kind say such studies are technically feasible in a broad population of adult and pediatric patients with many different types of cancer, and that some patients can benefit by receiving precision drugs targeted to their tumors» mutations or being enrolled in clinical trials.

To overcome this, the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, an international team led by Jonathan Sebat, PhD, at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, analyzed the genomes of more than 41,000 people in the largest genome - wide study of its kind to date.

«There may be no direct application of this research unless you are identifying liverworts, but direct application is only one kind of benefit, and solid taxonomic studies have many, the least of which is that we learn what is out there in the world around us,» comments the lead author Dr Matt Renner.

In the largest study of its kind, an international team of experts led by Newcastle University, UK, has shown that both organic milk and meat contain around 50 % more beneficial omega - 3 fatty acids than conventionally produced products.

«We wanted to study this phenomenon to better understand the kinds of problems that guideline - makers encountered in making reliable guidelines and how processes might be improved in the future,» says lead author, Mark Neuman, MD, MSCE, assistant professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Senior Fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

«This is the first study of its kind to show that if patients enrolled in intensive lifestyle intervention treatments aren't successful in losing weight after the first two months of treatment, they aren't likely to be successful using this approach alone long - term,» said lead author Jessica L. Unick, PhD, of the Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center, The Miriam Hospital and Brown Medical School, Providence, RI.