Sentences with phrase «laboratory observations of»

Parents of children in the treatment group showed significant improvement over waitlisted parents on laboratory observations of critical / negative statements (reduced) and praise (increased).

The following aspects of the BIQ - SF were subjected to a psychometric evaluation: (a) the hypothesized six - correlated factors structure of the scale was tested by means of a confirmatory factor analysis, (b) various types of reliability were investigated including the internal consistency, test — retest reliability, and cross-informant agreement, and (c) several aspects of the validity were explored such as the relations with anxiety and internalizing (i.e., convergent validity) and externalizing (i.e., divergent validity) symptoms as well as the relations between BIQ - SF scores of parents and teachers and laboratory observations of an inhibited temperament (i.e., predictive validity).

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Birding activity was acquired from a citizen science database maintained by Cornell University's Laboratory of Ornithology, where birders upload their observations.

Cluster's observations provide «the first look at the future of auroral research,» says space physicist Patrick Newell of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.

Donald Hunten of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona at Tucson claims to know the answer: His observations of falling particles in Titan's atmosphere indicate that the putative ocean consists of a solid pile of «smust.»

By combining laboratory experiments, computer simulations and real - world observations, researchers discovered that the horizontal movement of sloped seafloor during an underwater earthquake can give tsunamis a critical boost.

Laboratory studies suggest that explosive development of ice crystals can occur in these conditions, at temperatures between -4 and -8 degrees Celsius, and this «rime - splintering» mechanism is often invoked to explain past observations of the rapid development of large numbers of ice crystals in cumuli.

And instead of surmising the animals» thinking from field observations or working with a single trained subject, she conducted repeatable laboratory experiments, carefully designed to rule out alternative interpretations, with multiple birds whose history was uncorrupted by previous work.

This acceleration in glacier flow may explain a recent observation by Eric Rignot and Isabella Velicogna of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

She believes that only experiments in the laboratory can escape the thicket of alternative interpretations that confound field observations.

When it originated, the NASA - instituted Near - Earth Object Observations Program provided support to search programs run by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory (LINEAR); the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NEAT); the University of Arizona (Spacewatch, and later Catalina Sky Survey) and the Lowell Observatory (LONEOS).

His theories were dismissed as «world - bluffing Jewish physics» by some prominent German physicists, who claimed to practice «true» German science based on observations of the natural world and hypotheses that could be tested in a laboratory.

Many of the genes identified by Dr. Papapanou and his team are implicated in immune and inflammatory pathways, confirming laboratory and clinical observations of the development of periodontal disease.

medical and scientific educations place them at an ideal intellectual vantage point to facilitate the transfer of clinical observation and insight to laboratory research and discovery, and to help return to the clinic a better understanding of human disease: the bedside to bench to bedside cycle that moves both medicine and science forward.

Using a variety of geophysics measurements and laboratory experiments, researchers are capable of gaining some degree of insight into material properties under certain pressure conditions without actually being able to make direct observations.

According to a study published in the journal Conservation Biology by a group of scientists from the University of Notre Dame, Resources for the Future, U.S. Forest Service, University of Michigan and the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Laboratory, if bighead and silver carp were to establish in Lake Erie, local fish biomass is not likely to change beyond observations recorded in the last 3 decades.

Using satellite observations of meteoric «flares» in the atmosphere («shooting stars») and acoustical data that record cosmic impacts on the surface of the earth, Peter Brown and his co-workers at the University of Western Ontario and Los Alamos National Laboratory estimated the rate of smaller impacts.

Evidence of X (4140) first appeared in 2009 at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, outside of Chicago, but the observation was not confirmed until three years later at CERN.

«Numerical models and observations go hand in hand in our research,» said Bart De Pontieu, an author of the study and IRIS science lead at Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, in Palo Alto, California.

Graduates of MD / PhD programs should be ideally trained to pursue patient - oriented research, i.e., to take observations made in the clinic to the laboratory to understand the molecular basis of diseases and to take discoveries in the laboratory to the clinic to improve patient care.

Using a combination of field observations and laboratory manipulations, Langkilde and Swierk designed experiments to determine whether male lizards preferred the more - masculine bearded ladies or their more - feminine sisters.

Based on direct observations of the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull plume, on the correlation with the associated fallout deposit, and on dedicated laboratory analogue experiments, Irene Manzella and colleagues show how fine ash in these particle - rich fingers settles faster than individual particles and that aggregation and gravitational instabilities are closely related.

Shown are the 1988 - 2014trends in springtime ozone levels on days that were very smoggy (top panel) and of average smogginess (bottom panel), from observations (left) and from a model built by the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (right).

As the summer progresses, field observations on water quality, algal biomass and toxicity will be collected by NOAA GLERL and CILER, the Ohio State University's Sea Grant Program and Stone Laboratory, Heidelberg University, the University of Toledo, Ohio EPA, and LimnoTech.

«We had previously shown that antiangiogenesis therapies were ineffective in animal models of lymphatic metastasis, but there was no data to explain the mechanism behind those observations,» says Timothy Padera, Ph.D., of the Steele Laboratory of Tumor Biology in the MGH Department of Radiation Oncology, senior author of the paper.

Then a scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) Ecosystems Center, Johnson recently published his observations in the Journal of Crustacean Biology.

His seminal paper, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research in 1952, is also famous for its tongue - in - cheek lecture on the uncertainties inherent in extrapolating laboratory and proxy observations to the high pressure and high temperature interiors of planets.

Researchers from the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), jointly run by Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, shed light on this important era by analyzing 84 sets of X-ray telescope observations from the Japanese - US Suzaku satellite.

Douglas Morrison of CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics, says the latest models of the way in which the Sun works predict solar neutrino fluxes which are almost consistent with the latest observations.

Then they will compare those observations with their field and laboratory results regarding the impacts of climate variability on sap flow and quality, Ahmed said.

«Our observation of gravitational waves accomplishes an ambitious goal set out over 5 decades ago to directly detect this elusive phenomenon and better understand the universe, and, fittingly, fulfills Einstein's legacy on the 100th anniversary of his general theory of relativity,» says Caltech's David H. Reitze, executive director of the LIGO Laboratory.

In fact, they produced what he calls «a solid body of repeated and repeatable observations of laboratory results.»

But that's just an estimate: The first observation of the new lineage comes from a laboratory in El Tor, Egypt, in 1897.

If bighead and silver carp were to establish in Lake Erie, local fish biomass is not likely to change beyond observations recorded in the last three decades, according to a study published in the journal Conservation Biology on Thursday (Aug. 6) by a group of scientists from the University of Notre Dame, Resources for the Future, U.S. Forest Service, University of Michigan and the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Laboratory.

· Kayla Kroll of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and colleagues report their observations of water level changes in two monitoring wells in response to the Pawnee quake and to the November 2016 magnitude 5.0 Cushing earthquake.

«This observation gives us a good picture of part of the composition of ISON and, by extension, of the proto - planetary disk from which the planets were formed,» said Carey Lisse, leader of NASA's Comet ISON Observation Campaign and a senior research scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory have put out press releases about observations of WASP - 18b with the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope.

«This field site exhibits a typical North Atlantic biofouling community, most notably a population of blue mussels (Mytilus edulis), which allowed to compare the findings obtained in the laboratory with observations in real - world conditions,» says Stefan Kolle, a Research Associate in the Aizenberg lab at the Wyss Institute and SEAS who is also a co-first author of the paper.

In 2012, the world of physics was rocked by the first observation of the exotic Majorana quasiparticle, in Leo Kouwenhoven's laboratory.

Field observations of microbes recovered from deep drill cores, deep mines, and the ocean floor, coupled with laboratory investigations, reveal that microbial life can exist at conditions of extreme temperatures (to above 110ºC) and pressures (to > 10,000 atmospheres) previous thought impossible.

Swollen lymph nodes (or swollen «glands») are very common in children, of all ages, and the treatment is often observation after initial screening, laboratory and radiologic imaging studies.

Laboratory experiments play a critical role in the analysis of the observations.

The effects of disrupting the «silent» genes revealed in these studies may be masked by the activity of related genes, or because their mutations produce defects that are not readily apparent in casual observation under normal laboratory conditions.

Despite the absence of a high - order high - bandwidth closed - loop AO system, observations conducted with SCExAO show that even in poor - to - moderate observing conditions, speckle nulling can be used to suppress static and slow speckles even in the presence of a brighter dynamic speckle halo, suggesting that more advanced high - contrast imaging algorithms developed in the laboratory can be applied to ground - based systems.

Biomedical research technicians are responsible for: following laboratory protocols; making detailed observations; collecting, analyzing, and recording data; and reporting experimental results to the head of the laboratory.

The Solar and Heliospheric Research Group at the University of Arizona in the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory is seeking a postdoctoral researcher who will work with Professor Kristopher Klein on combining theory with the analysis of in situ solar wind observations as a means of characterizing the plasma processes that occur in the heliosphere and in space and astrophysical plasmas more generally.

«It's a very insightful paper that has a very good explanation for some of the curious observations Phoenix had made,» said Michael Mischna, a planetary scientist from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA in Pasadena, California, who was not involved in the study.

The UmweltBühne (EnvironmentStage) presented the puppet show «The Secret Laboratory» which is designed especially for children of primary school age and is intended to encourage a conscious observation and understanding of nature and the environment.

«Our observation of gravitational waves accomplishes an ambitious goal set out over five decades ago to directly detect this elusive phenomenon and better understand the universe, and, fittingly, fulfills Einstein's legacy on the 100th anniversary of his general theory of relativity,» says Caltech's David H. Reitze, executive director of the LIGO Laboratory.

A joint session dedicated to DOE ARM measurements: Observations of Aerosol / Trace Gases, Clouds, Precipitation, and Radiation from DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility Part 1, Tuesday, January 24, 8:30 — 10:00 am, 4C - 4, led by Jian Wang, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Jim Mather and Jiwen Fan, both from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory