Sentences with phrase «long study involved»

The year - long study involved 800 full - time workers from 13 employers in Singapore.

A long study involving 68,000 women shows those who sleep 7 hours or more at night is less likely to gain weight than those sleep for 5 hours or less (59).

Not exact matches

Since then, a long list of studies involving many thousands of children have shown that this alleged link does not exist.

Each can use it to study pretty much whatever he or she wants, so long as it fits PICI's strategic road map — and so long as it involves cancer immunotherapy.

Admittedly, these studies address only one item on a long list of concerns and caveats involved in trade with China.

Mega said Verily is also taking a long view, but expects that its Project Baseline, which involves collecting detailed health - related data from 10,000 study volunteers will produce some «new biology» — that is new insights into biology — in the next five years.

A study done in 2011 by The American Marketing Association, involving over 10,000 customers at a well - known German bank, discovered that referred customers spend more on their first visit, stay customers longer, and have an overall 16 percent higher lifetime value than non-referred customers.

A study involving two groups of women demonstrated that long - term consumption of dark chocolate helped protect their skin from the sun's rays, improve blood - flow to the skin, and aided hydration.

The big study discussed above did confirm that the testosterone levels remained low for a long time, so I find it reasonable to believe that they may be involved in the weight gain too.

Long - term studies show that the more involved fathers are after separation and divorce, the better.

Finally, neurodevelopmental research has suggested that the factors in breast milk that may be responsible for the improved cognitive abilities of breastfed children may involve long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids and, particularly, docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), 10 with some clinical studies in which infant formula was supplemented with DHA suggesting possible improvements in visual acuity and cognitive ability in preterm infants given the DHA - supplemented formula.13

MTA chairman Joe Lhota said he's «concerned» about the complications involved with expanding Long Island Railroad service to the Islanders» new arena at Belmont Park and added that a study is currently underway.

Gibbs, whose advocacy drew national attention to Love Canal, said government responses in the future should involve long - term monitoring of residents» health conditions rather than releasing inconclusive studies.

Editor's note (01/05/18): This article has been updated to clarify that the study by Stephen Long and others published in Science in 2016 involved improving the efficiency of photosynthesis in tobacco plants.

In their years - long quest to understand the cellular and genetic mechanisms that may trigger SUDEP, Noebels and his colleagues have studied the genes that are involved in the heart beat.

Archaeological data indicate modern herring management needs to take a longer look into the past to manage fisheries for the future says a new study involving Simon Fraser University researchers.

«This study demonstrates that the road to a mitochondrial disease diagnosis is typically long and hard, involving visits to numerous clinical specialists, conflicting diagnoses, and repeated and sometimes painful and invasive testing,» says Michio Hirano, MD, the paper's senior clinical author and chief of the Neuromuscular Division at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

«The result is very encouraging, but we need longer - term follow - up,» says Françoise Barré - Sinoussi of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France, who shared the 2008 Nobel prize in medicine for co-discovering HIV, and who was not involved in the Boston study.

«As someone who's studied evolutionary biology for a long time, I think it has a real wow factor,» says Sam Brown, a microbiologist at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta who wasn't involved in the study.

Cluster headaches have long puzzled researchers, too, although studies are slowly revealing the parts of the brain involved when those punctuated bursts of pain occur.

The study authors are scanning several thousand other stars for exoplanets, but most of them haven't been scrutinized for as long as 55 Cancri, suggesting that more systems with five or more planets are lurking in plain sight of telescopes, says David Charbonneau, professor of astronomy at Harvard University, who was not involved in the study.

Shamita Das, a seismologist at the University of Oxford who was not involved in the study, has long suspected that such zigzag ruptures occur.

Victoria Arbour, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Royal Ontario Museum and the University of Toronto in Canada who was not involved in the research, says that the study «reasonably seals the deal» on the long - standing mystery.

Along with behavioural studies, imaging has helped to build the view that pain involves many brain areas and that chronic pain may cause long - term changes to the morphology or function of some of these regions.

«I think this is a step towards making sense out of a lot of data — genetic data, environmental data, epidemiological data — to help us understand factors that contribute to long and healthy life,» says Winifred Rossi, deputy director of the Division of Geriatrics and Clinical Gerontology at the National Institute on Aging, who wasn't involved in the study.

«It's impressive enough that Vinther et al. managed to recreate the color pattern of a long - extinct dinosaur,» says zoologist Hannah Rowland of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, who was not involved in the study.

«It takes repetitive studies and consistent findings to change long - held beliefs,» says Aaron Caughey, a maternal - fetal specialist at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, who was not involved in the study.

«As long as the older trees are not so stressed that they do not produce many viable seeds, [and] the dispersal mechanism — for example, wind, birds, mammals — is present, and the habitat where the seed lands has the appropriate soil, nutrients and temperature,» says biologist Terry Root of Stanford University, who was not involved in the study, «then the trees will be able to shift.»

The study provides concrete data for something scientists had theorized for a long time, says Michael Keller, a forest ecologist and research scientist for the U.S. Forest Service based in Pasadena, California, who was not involved with the work.

«It's an exciting finding because those patients are the ones we have very few treatment options for,» says Jennifer Long, a voice doctor and scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, head and neck surgery department, who wasn't involved in the study.

The study is «long overdue,» says Dawn Kitchen, a physical anthropologist at Ohio State University, Columbus, who was not involved with the work.

«These are data that you can't get any longer,» says anthropologist Lynne Isbell of the University of California, Davis, who was not involved in the study.

«This kind of long - term time series is really essential to understanding global environmental change,» says Carrie Masiello, an Earth systems scientist at Rice University in Houston, Texas, who was not involved in the study.

The new study involved 72 patients, all of whom had received at least two prior lines of therapy and whose disease had relapsed and no longer responded to treatment.

Diamond acknowledges that many other factors are involved in the long history of this island but that the comparative method, he writes, consists of comparing — preferably quantitatively and aided by statistical analyses — different systems that are similar in many respects but that differ with respect to the factors whose influence one wishes to study.

Scientists had long suspected that some local animals might not be able to outrun climate change, but researchers haven't yet been able to prove the hypothesis, says Loarie, who was not involved in this study: «It's just wonderful to see empirical evidence that backs this up.»

The study, published in the June issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, reaffirms numerous small - scale studies in the United States, Western Europe and Japan, but it does so using data compiled across six middle - income nations and involving more than 30,000 subjects for a long - term project that began in 2007.

It is an excellent example of the value of long - term demographic studies for long - lived species such as albatrosses,» according to Oregon State University's Robert Suryan, a seabird ecologist who was not involved in the study.

«It's very intriguing, and offers a new explanation for why cicadas wait so long to emerge,» says Richard Karban, an ecologist at the University of California, Davis, who is not involved with the study.

Observational data for the study was collected at the Mpala Research Centre in Kenya, a multi-institutional research preserve with which Princeton has been long involved.

«It's long been believed that sleep apnea increases the rate of death,» says David Schulman, an assistant professor of medicine at Emory University in Atlanta who wasn't involved in the study, noting that those with apnea are more likely to have high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol.

«The study represents our best understanding of how long the trees need to recover after drought disturbances at a broad range,» says Yongguang Zhang, an ecosystems ecologist at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, who was not involved with the work.

«What happens in early development really has a long - term impact,» says Meghan Azad, an epidemiologist at the University of Manitoba in Canada, who was not involved in the study.

After reviewing self - reported hearing loss in 80,972 women involved in the Nurses» Health Study II, researchers found that the use of oral HT in postmenopausal women, and for longer durations, was associated with an even higher risk of hearing loss.

«This study is important because it identifies common cognitive foundations long before financial and physical health problems emerge,» said Pierce, who was not involved in this study.

«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.

Independent means of transportation contributes to other long - term opportunities, such as post-high school education or employment and being socially involved and connected within their community,» says Benjamin Yerys, PhD, study co-author and a scientist at the Center for Autism Research (CAR) at CHOP.

The United States's move came amid long - running concerns about GOF studies involving highly pathogenic avian flu strains such as H5N1.

Munroe studies how land is used in a global context, using concepts such as «telecoupling,» which involves how humans and natural systems interact over long distances.

That may be true in the long run, but natural gas does appear to be helping the United States reduce emissions today, points out John Quigley, an alternative energy consultant in Harrisburg and former secretary of Pennsylvania's Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, who was not involved in the study.