Sentences with phrase «larger scale studies on»

However, in larger scale studies on humans and risk of human cancers, greater intake of flavonoids has not been consistently associated with decreased risk of cancer.

Dr. Schey said a larger scale study on the effects of dronabinol on non-cardiac chest pain will be initiated in the near future at Temple.

While there are no large scale studies on this, I am not too focussed on promoting Yacon syrup for its weight loss ability.

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While the new mid-stage study results from DNDi were impressive (they showed cure rates of 96 % to 97 % even for the sickest patients and those with liver scarring), more late - stage trials will be necessary before the drug is available on a large scale in the developing world.

Some small studies have suggested that synbiotics could provide benefits to a range of other conditions influenced by the gut microbiome as well, including obesity, diabetes, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, but larger - scale clinical trials focusing on each of those conditions are needed.

A large - scale international study on financial topics shows American teens have quite a bit of catching up to do.

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.

This happened on a large enough scale to have a positive impact on national productivity, according to the study.

Berries, olive oil, nuts, and dark, leafy greens are staples of the diet, based on large - scale studies of cognitive decline.

«Larger banks generally are more profitable and efficient than smaller banks, which may reflect increasing returns to scale,» according to a 2012 GAO study looking at the impact of Dodd - Frank on the banking industry.

LITHIUM Australia has advanced front - end engineering and design studies on its SiLeach large - scale pilot plant as it seeks to prove its SiLeach hydrometallurgical process can operate at a commercial scale.

Although large - scale studies on green pea intake and these chronic health problems remain unavailable, researchers have already begun to suggest connections in this area, particularly with respect to type 2 diabetes.

Finally, we have reviewed a large - scale study on high blood pressure showing an association between high levels of protein intake (in the vicinity of 100 grams per day) and significantly decreased risk of high blood pressure over an 11 - year period of time.

For example, while we have not seen any large - scale research studies in this regard, we would predict that crimini mushrooms grown on composted materials that had previously been contaminated with residues of pesticides, heavy metals, or other unwanted substances would end up absorbing some of these contaminants into the brown button mushroom that we eat.

In fact, it appears the sheer amount of time parents spend with their kids between the ages of 3 and 11 has virtually no relationship to how children turn out, and a minimal effect on adolescents, according to the first large - scale longitudinal study of parent time to be published in April in the Journal of Marriage and Family.

They also found that some of the athletes, none of whom suffered diagnosed concussions, didn't do as well as predicted on tests of learning and memory at the end of the season, although the study did not find «large - scale, systemic differences» in the brain scan measures, which the authors found «somewhat reassuring» and consistent with the fact that millions of athletes play contact sports for many years without developing progressive neurodegenerative disorders.

Based on this work, Professor Fleming of Bristol University and his team will work in collaboration with Dr Rubens in Seattle, to undertake this large - scale two - year study.

Furthermore, there has been no large - scale study of the impact of this intervention on breastfeeding initiation and duration, although a study based in Scotland has provided some evidence for an association between birth in a Baby Friendly facility and increased rates of breastfeeding at 1 week of age.16, 17

However, I say «virtually» because all we have to go on is one large - scale study out of the UK [2] which did examine long - term 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

These large - scale studies may disguise bigger effects on particular sectors.

The team employed proteomics, the large - scale study of proteins, to identify four on - the - market drugs that successfully quelled symptoms triggered by several of the overabundant proteins.

But the study, published today in Earth's Future, finds that scientists won't be able to determine, based on measurements of large - scale phenomena like global sea level and Antarctic mass changes, which scenario the planet faces until the 2060s.

Fisher, who is studying the nature of large - scale marches since Trump's inauguration, has posted her preliminary findings on a blog, American Resistance.

Yet, Sacks says, this is the first large - scale prospective study with healthy subjects to show that apoC - III on HDL may have similar effects.

«Previous studies looked for turbulence or eddies on the scale of the animals» size,» he says, instead of large downward jets.

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.

They show that large - scale alloys behave differently than found by previous studies, which focused on samples of the order of thousands of atoms.

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.

This variability from site to site and state to state inspired the research team to conduct this study on a much larger scale.

«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.

Researchers studied the large - scale impact of wildlife extinctions induced by over-hunting on carbon storage right across the Amazon.

Any larger scale study should start as soon as possible, vCJD experts say, because half of all tonsillectomies are on children under 10.

After having conducted a large - scale study performed on cells from the umbilical cords of 204 newborns, the researchers from UNIGE demonstrate that DNA methylation may play both a passive and active role in gene regulation.

Other longer - term studies, such as the 5 - year COcoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study (COSMOS) of 18,000 men and women, are now underway to investigate the health potential of flavanols on a much larger scale.

Fortunately, large - scale traumatic events such as terrorist attacks are relatively rare, but that means that their effects on mental health are tricky to study systematically.

Taken together, the studies provide the first detailed look at why large - scale geologic features within the mantle behave differently on either side of the megameter divide.

The snow algae specialist comments on the study: «For the first time ever, researchers have investigated the large - scale effect of microorganisms on the melting of snow and ice the Arctic.»

Based on these points, Dr. Canli suggests a major research step would be to conduct large - scale studies with depressed patients, controls, and infectious - disease related protocols to determine the association or causal nature of infectious disease and depression.

They were thus able to study the geographical variation in the percentage of large species that became extinct on a much finer scale than previously achieved.

The institute will combine under one roof the various kinds of expertise needed to perform studies of gene function on a large scale.

However, until now, this «leaf economics» approach has never been studied on large geographically continuous scales.

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».

Future studies should continue to reveal large - scale patterns of distribution and perhaps shed more light on the origins of mass extinctions and the effects of these catastrophes on the evolution of new species.

«The power of this study is that we looked at genes discovered to be over-expressed in patients» tumors and determined their function in kidney cancer, which has not been done on a large scale before,» he says.

The study analysed data from four large - scale longitudinal studies and found that the poorer reading and maths skills of children born prematurely were associated with lower educational qualifications on leaving school and lower income in middle age.

«Our study shows that it would be relatively cheap to secure the future of the forest — and protect its plants, birds and other animals — by paying land owners on a large scale to set aside land for conservation.

«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.