Sentences with phrase «laboratory studies of»

Laboratory studies of actual parent — child interactions could further elucidate which parenting behaviors specifically relate to adjustment and diabetes - specific outcomes.

Laboratory studies of animals have also identified a growing list of commonly used chemicals as suspected endocrine disruptors.

The present scope includes accurately monitoring column ozone with Dobson spectrophotometers globally, monitoring the ozone profile at key sites, monitoring all relevant chlorine - and bromine - containing compounds globally, improving and developing new instrumentation, conducting laboratory studies of newly proposed chemicals, and using statistical models to test the observations for signs of ozone layer recovery.

Uncritical public acceptance of wind industry spin began to change after the 2011 senate inquiry into the impacts of wind farms, chaired by Greens senator Rachel Siewert made the unequivocal recommendation that «the Commonwealth Government initiate as a matter of priority thorough, adequately resourced epidemiological and laboratory studies of possible effects of wind farms on human health.»

The «clear sky radiative forcing due to CO2» (3.7 W / m ^ 2 for a doubling per Myhre et al. 1998b and IPCC TAR) is not a measured entity based on empirical data from actual physical observations or reproducible experimentation, but rather an estimated value based on laboratory studies of spectroscopic data.

Some of the genes identified here in a natural system are similar in function to the hybrid male sterility genes identified in laboratory studies of speciation.

Genome - wide data from such populations promises to provide insight into the genetic basis of reproductive isolation in nature [15]--[19] and thereby provide a powerful counterpart to laboratory studies of speciation.

Today, nuclear cloning is one of the essential tools in Dr. Jaenischs laboratory studies of human diseases, including his groundbreaking work on the nature and potential treatment of cancer.

The MRX device produces laboratory studies of magnetic reconnection, the convergence and violent separation of magnetic field lines in plasma, the state of matter that consists of free electrons and atomic nuclei.

Researchers at RTI International, in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, have developed a new lung - on - chip microdevice for laboratory studies of respiratory challenges and therapeutics.

This finding contrasts with laboratory studies of rejection that emphasize rejection and ostracism by strangers rather than known others.

University of East Anglia environmental sciences professor Julian Andrews and his colleagues conducted laboratory studies of the chemical makeup of samples from the underwater labyrinth.

«While laboratory studies of the effect of temperature on the physiology and behavior have provided significant insights into thermal ecology of ectotherms, the time is ripe to take this knowledge outside the lab to further develop climate change models,» he said.

Laboratory studies of magnetic flux leakage turned out to be crucial for repairing broken gas pipelines (see «How to Fix Our Most Vexing Problems, From Mosquitoes to Potholes to Missing Corpses»).

The report in PNAS said laboratory studies of how the virus evolves in response to exposure to neutralizing antibodies suggest that the MERS virus won't easily shape - shift to evade antibody treatments, as some viruses do.

This carbonation process could be a way of «permanently and safely disposing of CO2, and making useful products in the process», says Klaus Lackner, director of the Center for Negative Carbon Emissions at Arizona State University, Tempe, who pioneered laboratory studies of mineral carbonation.

«This study suggests that laboratory studies of microbial metabolite processing can help understand the role of these microbes in carbon cycling in the environment.

The effect of these mechanisms was also apparent in the laboratory studies of Rockenstein and Klos.

A few years ago the New England fishing fleets were in despair because the fish were nowhere to be found; a biologist, who had been making a laboratory study of the temperature of fishes» stomachs, combined his data with some ocean temperature data and correctly suggested where the missing creatures might be found.

In our laboratory study of bedsharing compared to solitary sleeping mother - infant dyads bedsharing mothers received more sleep in minutes than did solitary sleeping mothers (Mosko et al 1997).

Results: A recently published Pacific Northwest National Laboratory study of a naturally bioreduced sediment sample from a former uranium mill tailings site reveals insights that enhance understanding of the long - term persistence of uranium in groundwater.

Nov. 28, 2016 — A laboratory study of four animal species and their microbiota finds that each species hosts a unique community of microbes that can significantly improve its health and fitness.

And research appears to bear this out — in a laboratory study of human intestinal cells published in Cell Biology and Toxicology, the team concluded that mercury can alter cell membrane permeability.

Stress may add bite to appetite in women: a laboratory study of stress - induced cortisol and eating behavior.

In a laboratory study of older dogs over a 2 - year period, environmental enrichment (e.g., housing with another dog, playing daily with toys) was shown to be effective tool for task learning.

In a laboratory study of older dogs over a two - year period, environmental enrichment (e.g., housing with another dog, playing daily with toys, increased game playing) was shown to be an effective tool for task learning.

A year - long laboratory study of coccolithophores — an important type of phytoplankton — found they remained capable of forming their calcium carbonate skeletons even in warmer, more acidic water.

Not exact matches

The Chinese government financed nationwide studies into cockroaches» medical value that, after more than two decades of laboratory investigation and clinical trials, had discovered or confirmed dozens of disease - fighting proteins and biochemical compounds with huge potential value in medicine.

Michael Dillon, a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researcher, crunched the numbers and helped figure out just that in a 2014 study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences.

Being able to study things like black hole mergers through gravity will shed light on some of the «darkest yet most energetic events in our universe,» said Albert Lazzarini, deputy director of the LIGO Laboratory, in an American Physical Society press release.

«This is evidence of a big shakeup early on in the solar system's formation,» Glenn Orton, a co-author of the new study and a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told Business Insider.

In 2015, researchers from Harvard and the Boston Attention and Learning Laboratory published a joint study that found people in their mid-40s — specifically, age 43 — tended to do the best on tests of concentration.

Mark graduated from Princeton University with a Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) in Chemical Engineering, performed post-doctoral research in the Center for Non-Linear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

A study of African - Americans conducted in 2005 by the Rand Corporation and Oregon State University showed that about 25 percent believed AIDS was produced in a government laboratory, and 12 percent believed the CIA created the virus.

Apr. 25, 2013 — A strange stellar pair nearly 7,000 light - years from Earth has provided physicists with a unique cosmic laboratory for studying the nature of gravity.

Worcester had a Ph.D. from Leipzig where he studied under Wilhelm Wundt, founder of the first psychological laboratory, and physicist - psychologist - philosopher Gustav Fechner.

Many laboratory tests were performed and chemotherapy — requiring intravenous punctures — was resumed, even though studies had shown that this type of cancer does not respond significantly, if at all, to drug treatment, and even though complications and side effects from the drugs were expected.

An analysis of hundreds of laboratory studies shows conclusively that there is a causal relationship between viewing violence on television and subsequent aggressive behavior.

«Our laboratory and clinical studies of alcoholics during the past several years have convinced us that alcoholism is a metabolic disease.»

This fact of our experience is not always given the attention it deserves, and many times descriptions of humankind are produced that suggest a quasi-morphological portrayal, as if human existence were like counting the spots on some insect or were like a diagram of a dead cat as it is studied in a biological laboratory.

In so far as the orderly aspects of perception are essentially participatory - negotiary semiotic transactions, the laboratory where perception can be most fruitfully studied will be neither private nor public — it will lie, mysteriously, somewhere in between.

There is the silo argument, for maintaining the existence of all those organisms useful to us; the laboratory argument for maintaining those organisms needed for experimental studies; the gymnasium argument of nature for leisure; and the cathedral argument of nature for aesthetic pleasure.

Yet on the doors of the Cavendish laboratory in Cambridge is written: Great are the works of the Lord, studied by all who delight in them.

Rockenstein in 1966 and Klos in 1978 studied the effects of selected Christian children's programs on informational and attitudinal tests administered to selected groups of children in controlled laboratory situations before and after viewing.

(The first of only two known studies of religious television to employ an experi - mental laboratory setting.)

I have done a little work on developing model behavioral assay procedures for studying the experiences of laboratory rats.

A member of the University of Virginia's research team that discovered alpha - gal allergy about ten years ago, Commins now heads the laboratory that studies the allergy at the University of North Carolina.

In a study published in Clinical Biochemistry, 2004, researchers looked at coconut oil as a component of diet in laboratory animals.

Rick Carr, Compost Production Specialist Rick Carr has been studying the science and utilization of compost, vermicompost and liquid extracts in both the laboratory and field since 2008.

Rick became a Master Composter of Tompkins County, NY in 2008 and spent a year after his graduate studies working and studying on a large certified organic farm in Argentina where he developed a new perspective on how laboratory studies translate to on - farm research and application.