Sentences with phrase «led the study involving»

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We'll talk below about two studies involving school - age children, both led by Carol Dweck, a professor of psychology at Stanford University.

Biotech's Encouraging Phase 2 Gut Microbiome Data «Bodes Well» for Phase 3 Source: Streetwise Reports (3/14/18) H.C. Wainwright & Co. analyst Ram Selvaraju reported the latest study findings involving this biotherapeutic firm's lead asset.

Because I had been involved in Lambeth and knew all these people, I was invited to lead the Bible studies at that meeting.

Less prominent than the League of Nations, but issuing more clearly from Christianity, has been the Institute of Pacific Relations, an unofficial body for the study of the problems of the Pacific, with the purpose of bringing the leading minds of all the nations involved to bear upon their peaceful solution.

«Muscle enhancement was particularly high among boys and those involved in sports teams,» said lead author Marla E. Eisenberg, ScD, MPH,, an assistant professor in pediatrics in the division of Adolescent Health and Medicine at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, findings consistent with earlier studies.

Once every two months, Elm City teachers lead students on a two - week «expeditionary» project in which they deeply study a single subject, sometimes involving extensive time outside school visiting a farm, museum, or historical site.

Onstott became involved with the issue as part of a school colloquium called «What's In Your Stomach» led by social studies teacher Jackson Potter.

A study on the use of protective goggles, albeit in girl's field hockey and involving different protective equipment, for instance, found that their use did not increase concussion rates, despite fears that they would lead to more aggressive play and hence more concussions.

Directly involving parents in their premature babies» hospital care improves the infants» weight gain and breastfeeding rates, a new Canadian - led study has found.

Views are particularly polarised in the United States, with interventions and costs of hospital births escalating and midwives involved with home births being denied the ability to be lead professionals in hospital, with admitting and discharge privileges.5 Although several Canadian medical societies6 7 and the American Public Health Association8 have adopted policies promoting or acknowledging the viability of home births, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists continues to oppose it.9 Studies on home birth have been criticised if they have been too small to accurately assess perinatal mortality, unable to distinguish planned from unplanned home births accurately, or retrospective with the potential of bias from selective reporting.

Colon cancer test Non-invasive, virtual colonoscopies — which involve a CT scan of the lower body — are as effective as standard colonoscopies at detecting large and medium - size polyps that can lead to colon cancer, according to the largest and most definitive study to date on the controversial technology.

The Fragile Families and Child Well - Being Study, led by researchers from Princeton and Columbia Universities, found that most unwed fathers are involved with the mothers of their children and say they want to be involved in raising their offspring.

In fact, «not a single infant was harmed in the study,» explains lead author Blake Papsin, a pediatric otolaryngologist at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children — because no babies were involved in the study.

From the Department of Environmental Protection, documents and records being sought include studies showing whether New York City is aware that large construction projects that involve the replacement of lead service lines could lead to spikes in the presence of lead in tap water.

«I've been involved in clinical trials for 30 years,» says the study's lead author Bonnie Ramsey, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle.

Though this research focused on the form of the disease called Leber congenital amaurosis 2, or LCA2, the scientists and engineers involved in the study believe the technology holds promise for other forms of LCA as well as other inherited diseases that lead to severe vision loss or blindness.

«Northern California still has viable habitat for free - flying California Condors, and these results suggest it is possible to succeed in this region, particularly as a broader switch from lead to non-lead ammunition use is realized,» adds to Kelly Sorenson, Executive Director of the Ventana Wildlife Society and an expert on condor recovery who was not involved in the study.

Hatha yoga is an ancient spiritual practice that involves meditation and focused breathing while an individual moves through a series of stylized postures, said Neha Gothe, who led the study with University of Illinois kinesiology and community health professor Edward McAuley.

However, according to Alexander Soutschek, an economist at the University of Zurich and lead author on the study, previous research on self - control and delayed gratification has focused instead on the prefrontal brain regions involved in impulse control.

The study was led by Isaac Salazar - Ciudad and involved the UAB trainee researcher Miquel Marín Riera.

A leading expert in neural movement control, Jessell, a U.K. native who completed his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, conducted pioneering studies that identified mechanisms involved in the neural development and organization of the spinal cord.

Lead investigator Dr. Nicole Anderson, together with scientists from Canadian and American academic centres, examined 73 studies published over the last 45 years involving adults aged 50 - plus who were in formal volunteering roles.

«Mood disorders are so multifaceted in terms of the pathways and pathologies involved; it's really difficult to pin down a specific pathway,» said Mansi Shinde, a former graduate student in Klein's research group who led the new study.

That data, combined with new data mining and processing techniques, has led to an explosion in studies involving humans.

The disease model, described in a new study by a UC San Francisco - led team, involves taking skin cells from patients with the bone disease, reprogramming them in a lab dish to their embryonic state, and deriving stem cells from them.

The new six - year study, «Cognitive enhancement therapy for adult autism spectrum disorder: Results of an 18 - month randomized clinical trial,» involved 54 adults and was led by Shaun Eack, Ph.D., M.S.W., Pitt's David E. Epperson Professor of Social Work and Psychiatry, and Nancy Minshew, M.D., Pitt professor of psychiatry and neurology.

This collaborative study, involving 26 research institutions in eight different countries, was led by researchers from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia; BGI and the Kunming Institute of Zoology, China; Utah State University and Baylor College of Medicine in the US; and The Roslin Institute.

Lead researcher, Professor Bill Richardson, Director of the UCL Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, said: «From earlier studies of human white matter using advanced MRI technology, we thought OLs and myelin might be involved in some way in skill learning, so we decided to attack this idea experimentally.

Glasgow's Dr. Mafalda Viana, who led the multi-author study with colleague Dr. Tiziana Lembo, pointed out that «These results suggest that the virus may now be maintained by a broader carnivore community, potentially involving wildlife as well as domestic dogs beyond the immediate vicinity of the Serengeti National Park.

However, a new study from a team of researchers led by University of Wisconsin - Madison Space Science and Engineering Center scientist, Claire Pettersen, describes a unique method involving cloud characteristics that could help answer some big questions about the Greenland Ice Sheet and its snowfall.

The study, led by the Berlin - based think - tank Global Climate Forum (GCF) and involving the University of Southampton, presents, for the first time, comprehensive global simulation results on future flood damages to buildings and infrastructure in coastal flood plains.

University of Illinois anthropology professor Kate Clancy led a study of sexual harassment and assault on researchers involved in scientific field studies.

Dr Bachmann originally became involved in this area of research through his role as Rule of Law Subject Matter expert for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's (NATO) study on hybrid threats facing Europe — diverse issues such as terrorism, organized crime, failed states and how a mass influx of migrants might lead to political instability in certain countries.

«Our study reveals an explanation how nicotine contributes to induction of inflammation and in doing so shows new possibilities for future therapies to treat tobacco - related diseases which each year lead to premature deaths of several million people worldwide,» said Constantin Urban, a researcher involved in the work from the Umeå Centre for Microbial Research in Sweden.

«Given the risks involved with alcohol use, strengthening effective alcohol policies could help prevent homicides,» said Timothy Naimi, MD, the study's lead author who is a physician in general internal medicine at BMC and researcher at BMC's Grayken Center for Addiction Medicine.

The MSU - led team's study, «Explaining Alcohol Use and Suicide Risk: A Moderated Mediation Model Involving Insomnia Symptoms and Gender,» was published in the December 2014 edition of Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.

For instance, a 2014 analysis of 78 studies involving some 650,000 people found that «neither lower consumption of saturated fats nor higher consumption of polyunsaturated fats reduces the risk of developing cardiovascular disease,» said epidemiologist Dr. Rajiv Chowdhury of the University of Cambridge, the lead author.

Led by Bavari and Travis Warren, Ph.D., the USAMRIID team performed a series of studies involving a lethal challenge with Marburg virus in nonhuman primates to determine the efficacious dose and regimen of AVI - 7288, as well as to characterize the drug exposures in animals that produced efficacy.

In a study led by Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research member Dr. Julian Martinez - Agosto, UCLA scientists have shown that two genes not previously known to be involved with the immune system play a crucial role in how progenitor stem cells are activated to fight infection.

«The novel pheromone activates two different circuits: one is involved in courtship and mating of males and females, the other one in aggregation,» Markus Knaden, who led the studies, explains.

Autonomy support includes things such as teaching children problem solving skills and involves taking the child's perspective while ensuring he or she takes an active role in completing tasks,» said Célia Matte - Gagné, who led the study.

Dr. John D. Scott, professor and chair of pharmacology at the University of Washington School of Medicine and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, along with Dr. F. Donelson Smith of the UW and HHMI, led this study, which also involved Drs. Claire and Patrick Eyers and their group at the University of Liverpool.

If we take as the reference the values relating to men in order to compare both genders, as men are faster and have more stamina, we might be led to believe that women «don't give all they've got,» but «we are in no doubt that women do give the maximum; so if this is relativized to the actual values of the population being studied, the results would be different with respect to the physical demands involved in women's soccer,» points out Castellano.

For the study, Ho and Kosik, leading experts in Alzheimer's research, compiled a list of 64 conceivable approaches to drug discovery, addressing a range of biological mechanisms that may be involved in the disease.

«These medicines have been very effective at reducing the rate of transmission of HIV from mother to child,» added Dr. Lipshultz, the lead author of the study, «but the findings we've just published show clearly that further investigation of their long - term impact on the heart health of the children involved is needed.

One of the genes involved in telomere length was also associated with acne in a replication sample from the UK Acne Genetic study, also lead by King's scientists.

Barré - Sinoussi, who shared a Nobel prize in 2008 for the co-discovery of HIV as the virus that causes AIDS, says studying the men could lead to new treatments that do not involve transplants.

The latest findings open the prospect to identifying the whole pathway of genes involved in both homosexual and heterosexual orientation, says Dean Hamer at the US National Institutes of Health, who led the study that pinpointed chromosome X back in 1993.

The study, published today, was led by former University of Queensland School of Biological Sciences researcher Dr Christopher Doropoulos, now of CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, and involved collaboration with CSIRO, the University of Queensland, and Griffith University.

Although BRAF gene fusions were well known to be involved in PLGGs, the study team found important differences in a related gene, CRAF, in which mutations can also lead to this type of glioma.