Sentences with phrase «large scale study using»

«This is a very large scale study using a new, innovative statistical method,» said study co-senior author Kenneth S. Kendler, M.D., professor of psychiatry, and human and molecular genetics in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, and an internationally recognized psychiatric geneticist.

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Using data from a large - scale study that tracked participants» diet and health information for more than a decade, researchers found an association between moderate chocolate consumption and a lowered risk for atrial fibrillation.

And the giant that makes the platform he's building on, Apple, for example, is running large - scale medical studies using its software, and is said to be looking to handle clinical data as the first step to a real attempt to break into the medical market.

Interestingly, he and a colleague in November won $ 100,000 in grants from Microsoft (MSFT) to use that company's HoloLens headset to study «collaborative analysis of large - scale mixed reality data,» according to the Financial Times.

Most large scale studies looking at cancer rates don't show changes related to cell phone use.

If sugar substitutes are used, such as aspartame or saccharin, consumers can be assured they have gone though large scale studies to validate safety, and have gained approval from regulatory industries worldwide, including the Australian food regulator FSANZ.

(As I point out in the book, a recent study by the National Center for Education Research found that none of the many large - scale character - education programs in use in American schools produces any significant positive outcomes.)

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

Such highly sensitive in vitro techniques permit the use of picomole quantities of an antigen in partially purified preparations for the isolation of monoclonal antibodies, which can in turn be used in biological studies and in immunochemical procedures for large - scale purification and isolation of that antigen.

The study was a collaboration with IBM and offers a large - scale survey of the commonly used container management framework known as Docker, a platform that facilitates the deployment of microservices by providing a registry service that acts as a central repository for software components focusing on specific functionalities called images.

We plan on using it to study other large - scale evolutionary patterns such as how early placental mammals dispersed across the continents via land bridges that no longer exist today.»

While large - scale climate research models offer a systems view of what the transport sector, for example, could contribute to climate protection in comparison to the energy sector, the study presented in Science, however, examines transport - related issues within the sector by using more recent and more specific data on how people commute and travel.

«More broadly, seismic surveys for oilfield exploration or earthquake investigations tend to rely on length scales that are usually much larger than those used by our study,» she added.

Targeted biopsy using new fusion technology that combines magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with ultrasound is more effective than standard biopsy in detecting high - risk prostate cancer, according to a large - scale study published today in JAMA.

Many previous studies have focussed on the urban nesting grounds and the gulls» behaviour around landfill refuse sites, but this is one of the first large - scale studies to investigate the use of cities by gulls in traditional breeding colonies and their contribution to these «nuisance events».

The study uses data from the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and the Royal Ontario Museum, collected through long - term and large - scale monitoring of the province's approximately 250,000 lakes.

«Billions of juvenile fish under the Arctic sea ice: New under - ice net used in large - scale study on the prevalence of polar cod at the ice underside.»

Large - scale studies have shown that the link between moderate alcohol use and a lower risk of kidney cancer is real: 20 — 30 % lower, depending on gender, age and the amount of alcohol consumed.

In a study, reported in the January 21, 2016 issue of Nano Letters, the team demonstrated a new redox - responsive assembly method to synthesize hierarchically structured carbon - sheathed germanium nanowires (c - GeNWs) on a large scale by the use of self - catalytic growth process assisted by thermally decomposed natural gas.

The study was supported by, and conducted in collaboration with Synairgen, a University of Southampton spin - out company, and formed part of U-BIOPRED, a large - scale European project using information and samples from adults and children to learn more about different types of asthma.

«Recently, large - scale genetic studies have shown that certain genes contribute to adult substance use disorders.

Past studies showed that plants in nutrient - poor environments use animal - derived nutrients on a large - scale basis.

The advent of genomics and rapid sequencing techniques has seen HeLa cells used in numerous large - scale studies of gene function and expression.

A study conducted by the University of Kent's Dr Amy Hinsley and Dr David Roberts, and published by Conservation Biology, represents the first large - scale global survey of wildlife trade via a social - media site, using the orchid trade as a case study.

[Lyndsay R. Shipp et al, Further Investigation Into the Risk of Skin Cancer Associated With the Use of UV Nail Lamps] The small study needs to be replicated on a large scale to be confirmed.

«But until now, there has not been a large - scale study into whether using hydroxychloroquine works.

Using models and satellites The study authors» «cutting - edge methodology will allow observations to be used consistently to examine large - scale deforestation impacts on rainfall, and to refine and evaluate current models to support conservation planning in the tropics,» Aragao wrote.

Professor Jeremy Pearson, Associate Medical Director at the BHF, which part - funded the study, said: «By using the power of very large scale genetic studies, this research is the first to show that the known association between increased height and a lower risk of coronary heart disease is at least in part due to genetics, rather than purely down to nutrition or lifestyle factors.

One possible explanation for the discrepancy with large - scale epidemiological studies is that the new study centers on saccharin, a sweetener not used in any of the major soft drinks.

Studies of human mobility usually focus on either the small scale — determining the origins, destinations and travel modes of individuals» daily commutes — or the very large scale, such as using air - travel patterns to track the spread of epidemics over time.

This technique will be used for a new, large - scale study of Parkinson's disease.

J. Michael Murphy, EdD, of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Department of Psychiatry, senior author of the JAACAP paper, notes that this is the first study to document the positive impact of a large - scale pediatric mental health intervention using validated mental health measures and real - world benchmarks like end - of - the - year promotion and school attendance.

The study, published in PLOS ONE, demonstrates the first time computational tools have been used to compare world music cultures at a large scale.

In a review of existing literature, Marteau did find descriptions of nudging being used to improve health behaviors — one study reports a 70 % increase in the amount of fruit bought by school children at lunchtime after fruit was placed by the cash register — but these interventions have not been evaluated on a large scale or assessed for cost - effectiveness.

Besides its potential for future disease prevention, the researchers think their mutation prevention system could more immediately be used to help the biotech industry protect large - scale cultures from acquiring mutations that render them unproductive or prone to contaminations, and to study microbial evolution.

To help scientists take advantage of this untapped wealth of data from hospital scans, a team of MIT researchers, working with doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital and many other institutions, has devised a way to boost the quality of these scans so they can be used for large - scale studies of how strokes affect different people and how they respond to treatment.

These historical milking grounds can also be used to study the effects of plant community changes on carbon storage over large time scales.

Lars Berglund, a professor at Wallenberg Wood Science Center at KTH, says that while optically transparent wood has been developed for microscopic samples in the study of wood anatomy, the KTH project introduces a way to use the material on a large scale.

Using the evolving science of proteomics — which is the large - scale, high - throughput study of proteins and their functions — researchers identified a plethora of proteins that reside in a space in the gonorrhea bacteria, an «envelope» and its small outpouchings, or membrane vesicles.

They use the results of these studies to instruct large - scale computers to mimic how these nerve cells work.

The study, which was led by Sven Nelander, Uppsala University / SciLifeLab, and published in the journal EBioMedicine, illustrated how researchers in the future will be able to use large - scale data to find new disease mechanisms and identify new treatment targets.

The Pilot Bioproduction Facility at WRAIR manufactured the ZPIV vaccine being used in Phase 1 clinical studies, and the Army recently signed a cooperative research and development agreement to transfer the ZPIV technology to Sanofi Pasteur to explore larger scale manufacturing and advanced development.

In fact, this study reports the largest scale use of massively parallel genomic sequencing (so called next generation sequencing) for medical diagnostics to date and shows that it is practically feasible on a large scale.

We use the zebrafish model to study β - cell development due to the small size and optical transparency of its embryos / larvae, as well as the ease of the genetic and chemical - genetic manipulations, including the ability to conduct large - scale small molecule screens.

As a Wallenberg Clinical Scholar, Richard Rosenquist Brandell will use the infrastructure for large - scale investigation of cells and their genetic material at SciLifeLab to systematically study blood cancer cells from different groups of patients and stages of the disease.

In closing, I think it would be worthwhile to conduct large - scale studies of carefully characterized depressed patients and healthy controls, using gold - standard clinical and infectious disease - related study protocols, as have already been developed for bacteria [68, 69] and viruses [70 — 76].

Along with postdoctoral researchers Federico Marinacci and Paul Torrey, Vogelsberger has been using IllustrisTNG to study the observable signatures from large - scale magnetic fields that pervade the universe.

There is a shortage of high - quality evidence demonstrating the safety and effectiveness of long - term opioid therapy for the management of chronic pain, and to date, no large - scale studies have assessed strategies for managing and reducing chronic opioid use in real - world clinical settings.

The upper tail is particularly long in studies using diagnostics based on large - scale mean data because separation of the greenhouse gas response from that to aerosols or climate variability is more difficult with such diagnostics (Andronova and Schlesinger, 2001; Gregory et al., 2002a; Knutti et al., 2002, 2003).

Using individual - level data from 335,464 participants in the UK Biobank and summary association results from seven large - scale genome wide association studies, we examined the effect of this nitric oxide signaling score on cardiometabolic and other diseases.