Sentences with phrase «like studying populations»

«I like studying populations that we don't know a lot about,» she said.

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Some studies suggest that for specific populations, like people who have been diagnosed with heart disease or are obese, fitness trackers can motivate them to move more, at least for several months.

something like 75 - 80 % (depending on study) of American's are Christian, yet they make up over 95 % of the prison population.

Countries like the US with a high religious population are 5X more likely to commit violent crimes according to that study.

Some studies have found early evidence of fish farming in China as far back as 3500 B.C.. But, looking at today's worldwide population trends, it is easy to see why a company like InnovaSea Systems could have a very bright future.

In fact the authors point out that there are no studies of meditationamong children in a general school population that are designed well enough to meet the standards of the gatekeeping organizations — like CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning), the Department of Education, or the Society for Prevention Research — that would endorse program changes in schools.

And in a, I don't remember this study group is maybe 40, 80 women something like that and they found a 5 % insufficient milk rate and that has, that's the basis of the number that continues to be recorded today but it was a very small population.

In 2015, he came to the University for Development Studies, Navrongo Campus for NPP TESCON programme when I was NDC TEIN president and preached a very terrible message by asking Ghanaians to make sacrifices like the people of Ivory Coast did some years ago and that «a country smaller in size and population compared to Ghana, which had endured bloody dispute in their last election, resulting in the loss and displacing of thousands of lives, had, in a short period, turned around their fortunes.

The early warning report will use nine financial indicators, including the amount of cash on hand, the size of operating deficits, as well as demographic trends like population size and tax growth that the Comptroller's office has recently studied.

Large observational studies like the Framingham Heart Study have shown that in the general population, those with lower HDL are more likely to have heart attacks than those with higher HDL.

«There are many studies in humans, and at least one in chimpanzees, showing that from an immunological perspective, juveniles and children are really important for maintaining diseases in populations through play and things like that,» she said.

Society's increasingly pervasive use of digital technology may be causing ADHD - like symptoms even among the general population, according to a new study of college students presented this week in San Jose, California at the Human - Computer Interaction conference of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Dr Louise McDowell, Dr Deborah Wells and Professor Peter Hepper from the School of Psychology at Queen's, recruited 44 cats for the study and found that while there was no overall population preference like the human preference for right handedness, there was a gender preference.

So LeWinn and her colleagues set out to make the data in the PING study look more like the data from the U.S. population as a whole.

One of the challenges to drawing conclusions from a study like this one is the lack of exact data on the U.S. postdoc population, which means that the precision of the quoted numbers is probably misleading.

When researchers like Barzilai have looked for genes that might account for the extreme longevity of the centenarians they study, they have typically found that the genes that stand out in one long - lived population do not do so in others.

A new study of twins suggests that attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is strongly linked to genes, and that it is less a clear - cut disorder than an extreme form of a trait, like blood pressure, that varies throughout the population.

«I think the reduction of habitat definitely decreased their population size,» Hung says, noting something similar may explain the extinction of other outbreak species in North America, like the Rocky Mountain grasshopper in the western U.S. «Our study suggests that the combination of natural population size changes and human disturbances drove the rapid extinction of this bird.»

«A study covering a large number of subjects, like the one in 2015, makes it possible to identify the relevant genes across the entire population; but their variations have only a limited impact on individuals.

«Studies like this one are extremely important to better understand scientific career [s],» notes Geuna, who recently edited a book on the global mobility of research scientists, although the study's results «might not be generalized to the population as the sample includes only «stars»» and excludes postdocs.

Until, like France, Britain has a baccalaureate system, with all students studying six subjects up to the age of 19, with science students also studying a foreign language and some humanities and arts students also studying maths and some science, we will continue to have a divided and partially educated population.

«Our increased understanding of how whale populations are structured can help governments and inter-governmental organizations like the International Whaling Commission improve management decisions in the future,» said Dr. C. Scott Baker of Oregon State University's Marine Mammal Institute and a member of the South Pacific Whale Research Consortium that contributed to the study.

«Our analysis demonstrates the need to assess multiple variables simultaneously when studying ecogeographical rules in a broadly distributed species like the common treeshrew, as multiple factors may have influenced how populations evolved.»

Moreover, the demography of the Ashkenazi population, the largest isolated population in the U.S., enables large - scale recruitment of study patients and hence more genetic discoveries than in other well - known isolated populations like the Amish and Hutterites locally, or the Icelanders overseas.

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, and legislation like it in other countries with large indigenous populations, is changing the relationship between archaeologists and the people whose ancestors we study.

The microbiome study found an abundant population of bacteria that the researchers believe are novel «Mycobacterium - like» species not described previously, closely related to Mycobacterium rhodesiae and Mycobacterium tusciae.

«Killer whales have been thought of by some as something like the poster child» for the process, «because there are multiple genetically distinct populations [which have not yet been formally described as separate species] with different prey preferences in the North Pacific and Antarctic,» says Phillip Morin, a cetacean biologist at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center in San Diego, California, who was not involved in the new study.

Our hope is to find more objects like this, possibly even more distant ones, to better understand this population of extreme dusty galaxies and especially their relation to the bulk population of galaxies at this epoch,» said Joaquin Vieira, an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Campaign and member of the SPT team whose study of SPT - discovered galaxies is funded through NSF's Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Grants program.

A new study in Nature Genetics identifies a specific population of pluripotent embryonic stem cells that can reprogram to totipotent - like cells in culture.

Scientists studying Antarctic penguin populations have recently noticed a trend in their numbers: While Ross Sea colonies like this one have grown, colonies on the Antarctic peninsula have shrunk.

Studies like this one could enable us to predict which species will be most vulnerable to population declines due to habitat changes, as the inflexible specialist species are more likely to suffer when they can't find enough of their preferred food.

That range reflects differences in diagnostic criteria and potential factors like the timing of the assessment, says Nicholas Tritos, a neuroendocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who is studying such disorders among both civilian and military populations.

The researchers say their work may have implications for the civilian population as well, but that it's harder to study individuals outside the VA in the same way because records aren't centralized like they are at the VA..

The findings may influence the way wildlife managers look after small populations, says Hogg, whose team reported its findings online 28 February in Proceedings of the Royal Society: B. Managers often like to keep animals away from other populations to minimize the spread of disease, he says, but the study shows «it makes sense to manage with both disease and genetics in mind.»

Yet, how much to invest in policies — like setting an appropriate carbon tax — to protect future generations from environmental destruction depends on how society chooses to value human population, according to a new study published Oct. 30 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

His study found population growth will likely play a small role in climate change, because the areas with the highest growth — like Africa — have a small carbon footprint.

The study of mice suggests that a high - fat diet drives a population boom of intestinal stem cells and also generates a pool of other cells that behave like stem cells — that is, they can reproduce themselves indefinitely and differentiate into other cell types.

Large population - based studies like this are extremely useful for identifying factors linked with dementia risk, but they can't tell us what the root cause of an association might be.

That obligation, combined with the education and training he received by participating in the Health Board's environmental health program, convinced Carlisle that Church Rock Chapter needed to conduct its own environmental monitoring to generate new data that would be used to estimate population exposures, plan future health studies, and most important, determine if lands currently occupied and those slated for residential development - like Springstead - are safe for human habitation.

Since very few studies have demonstrated the formation of macro-metastasis from low numbers of sorted CSCs and currently proposed CSC markers might not be sufficient to identify all stem cell populations [13], we believe that our study presents a promising approach to isolate stem - like and metastatic breast CSCs as opposed to the cell - sorting strategy based on putative stem cell surface markers.

A study published earlier this year and led by Prestemon used both climate models and projections of societal changes, like population growth and development, to look at how they might impact wildfire projections.

Moreover, all of these studies compare the pluripotent potential of the marked ICM - like population to mixed fractions that are considered a single further differentiated intermediate cell type.

Palaeontologists don't know what the Denisovans looked like, but studies of DNA recovered from their teeth and bones indicate that this ancient population contributed to the genomes of modern humans, especially Australian Aborigines, Papua New Guineans and Polynesians — suggesting that Denisovans might have roamed Asia.

«However,» he commented, «results from rigorously controlled collaborative studies like this one provide the necessary evidence to support the usage of interventions in persons with SCI and provide the foundation for clinical guidelines in this population.»

«Much like physicists who study trace signatures left behind by particles that are difficult to observe directly, we study the genetic signatures left behind by important moments in population history,» Novembre said.

«If you showed in a similar study with a gold standard outcome [like spirometry], among smokers and nonsmokers, that you could affect the incidence of COPD, I would imagine the committees that meet on this would take a serious look at increasing daily recommended intake [of vitamin E] for the general population,» he says.

Additionally, this study has shown that strength training can reduce the risk of death by 19 % even among a population of subjects with common health risk factors like drinking and smoking, and suffering from chronic conditions such as hypertension.

That being said, our primary problem in America with regard to diet is doctors like Rosedale aren't funded to do large population studies with healthful diets that could in turn reduce taxpayers contribution to the medical industries, American's are bombarded with unhealthy propagandistic marketing from food corporations, Americans have been taught that it's not our fault that we eat bad food because «were hungry» (with pouty lips) and a healthy diet is aberrant and only for people who are overweight.

Recent studies emphasize that adiposity, like stature, is a polygenic trait, and that population genetic variability primarily comprises different frequencies of particular alleles, rather than major systematic differences [14, 60].

Hi Dr. Rosedale: I agree with your comments on population studies, but what about the issues of thyroid function, dry skin and other maladies that many who follow a low carb diet like you suggest seem to experience?