Sentences with phrase «least eight»

Since a 2005 workshop in Paris, at least eight programmes have been established to study the human microbiome.

An oral drug used to treat an illness unrelated to HIV eradicated infectious HIV - producing cells in lab cultures while sparing uninfected cells — and suppressed the virus in patients during treatment and for at least eight weeks after the drug was stopped, according to results of a clinical pilot trial and researchers at Rutgers University and Dartmouth College.

When participants entered at least eight of their readings, the reduction was even greater: 13.9 mmHg in systolic and 5.0 mmHg in diastolic.

Student passwords must now be at least eight characters long, must contain letters, numbers and punctuation, and may not incorporate any recognizable English word.

In addition, officials say there are at least eight shops elsewhere in town, and some people probably process gold clandestinely in their homes.

That number is an approximation from the World Health Organization; despite its prevalence, most public health agencies do not track the infection, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the U.S., where the disease plagues at least eight million people.

Although some people do not get their children vaccinated, and such children are at least eight times more likely to get the disease than those who receive all five recommended doses they are not the driving force behind the large scale outbreaks or epidemics, says Pawloski.

Most of the senior members of the Chorora research team also belong to the Middle Awash project team that has recovered the fossil remains of at least eight hominid species, including some of the earliest hominids, spanning nearly 6 million years.

(At least eight states do, including Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, and South Dakota.)

Each reported using cocaine on at least eight of 30 days before screening.

The search turned up four circular patches, each spanning an area of sky equivalent to at least eight full moons (arxiv.org/abs/1012.1995 and arxiv.org/abs/1012.3667).

Couples who travel to the Olympics and want to get pregnant afterward should wait at least eight weeks, or six months if the male partner has a symptomatic Zika infection.

According to the trial's crossover design, patients with refractory chronic cough of at least eight weeks» duration were randomly assigned initially to either AF - 219 or placebo treatment twice daily for two weeks, followed by a washout period, and further followed by crossover to the alternative treatment arm (AF - 219 or placebo) for an additional two weeks.

Most of the children Ornstein sees are at least eight years of age; some won't swallow for fear of choking, while others have ongoing complaints of belly aches and not being hungry.

Astronomers have identified at least eight pint - sized galaxies that trail the Milky Way and consist almost entirely of dark matter.

While the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) offered a tolerable daily intake — TDI — of 50 micrograms of BPA per kilogram of body weight each day, new studies suggest that we are exposed to at least eight times that amount every day, said Vanamala, who is also a faculty member at the Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute.

But when government workers came to provide medical care, they heard disturbing news: The Korubo said they had survived an attack by members of the Matis in December 2014; at least eight Korubo were killed, apparently in revenge for the deaths of two Matis men.

What's more, detailed studies of the Southeast Asian coastline of 50,000 years ago showed that an 800 - mile - long stretch of islands and at least eight ocean straits separated the island continent from the Asian mainland.

According to the paper, the registration fees already adopted by at least eight states reflect concerns about how the growing number of electric vehicles may affect road infrastructure funding.

At least eight states have imposed a vehicle registration fee, ranging from $ 50 to $ 200, for alternative - fuel vehicles: Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Nebraska, North Carolina, Virginia, Washington and Wyoming.

And, remarkably, this so - called «convergent» evolution happened at least eight times across three different phyla, or animal groups, supporting the belief that necessity played a larger role than chance in developing this trait.

In at least eight instances last year, malfunctions at several major airports brought operations to a standstill, triggering a cascade of delays and flight cancellations across the country.

She recruited 20 students of classical music, who had each had at least eight years of formal training, and 20 people matched for age, gender and IQ.

About three days after the event we found our lawn occupied by at least eight other crows, who were mostly silent and stayed for over an hour.

What does this mean for organizations whose employees end up sitting for at least eight hours a day?

For instance, three states — New York, Connecticut and Oregon — have each adopted both of the top two most effective policies, along with at least eight others.

Although there is nothing illegal about international trade in tree sparrows, the size of the shipment — at least eight times the British breeding population of this species — is causing anxiety at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

Colorado's floods have killed at least eight people and damaged some 18,000 homes — will the region also suffer a lingering legacy of pollution from fracking operations that were inundated in the disaster?

First, researchers from Empa and ETH Zurich revealed that technical HBCD is in fact a mixture of at least eight different stereoisomers.

Kauai lost at least eight species of honeycreepers — as well as several other «marvelous species» of birds, James notes — before people began keeping good records of the island's fauna.

Between national space programmes and private initiatives, 2018 is the goal launch year for at least eight different missions to the moon, making it the most popular destination outside low Earth orbit.

Some 370 million years ago cladoxylopsid trees stood at least eight meters tall, capped by branches with twiggy appendages instead of leaves.

Today there are at least eight methods, all with their own pros and cons, and some are on the verge of becoming mainstream treatments for Parkinson's disease, epilepsy and depression.

The rare autoimmune disease can lead to paralysis, and recently it appears to be occurring more frequently than usual within at least eight countries and territories reporting Zika outbreaks.

Virtually every health - conscious person can quote the recommendation: Drink at least eight eight - ounce glasses of water per day.

Chronic migraine is defined as attacks that occur 15 or more days per month, with at least eight of those attacks having migraine features.

Wayne Baker [7] names at least eight different possible categories of social groups that you could be active in: professional, work, political party, religious institution, charity work, sports, arts, and personal development.

At least eight other epigenetic drugs are currently in different stages of development or human trials.

Others were triggered when a star at least eight times as massive as the sun blows itself apart.

These specs pretty much gives you at least eight trims on a full charge so you can feel secure bringing this product on a camping or other trip.

Applications earning at least eight points — in addition to a «pass» on the research - environment test — earned the right to be considered further in the evaluation meetings that took place in June and July.

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who called SAC «a veritable magnet for market cheaters,» said the hedge fund reaped hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit profits through separate insider - trading schemes by at least eight former SAC fund managers and analysts.

Soldiers in Cameroon shot dead at least eight people during independence protests in the English - speaking parts of the country.

Eight residents were killed; dozens, including at least eight children, were injured.

Candomblé, a religion brought to Brazil by enslaved Africans, has been under attack in Brazil with at least eight temples targeted in Rio last...

At least eight law enforcement and rescue agencies responded to aid the Buffalo police in its search operations the day of, or day after, Lehner's drowning.

Since taking office May 12, Parks Department Commissioner Mitchell Silver has visited at least eight cities on four continents to deliver speeches and teach classes — but his globe - trotting isn't flying with some colleagues and community members.

But this primary is one of the most crowded GOP primaries in the country, with at least eight Republicans vying for the nod.

At least eight of them are Central New Yorkers, half of whom have had their guns and permits taken away by authorities.

That's to say nothing of the practical problem Trump's plan would face in the Senate, where at least eight Democrats will be needed to overcome a filibuster and pass any spending bill.