Sentences with phrase «looked at whether»

Both then introduced a pandemic virus and looked at whether it could be contained by giving a 10 - day prophylactic course of oseltamivir to the contacts of every suspected flu patient — either by treating everyone in their household, school, or workplace, or by simply giving it to anyone living within a certain radius.

The team also looked at whether students in the study agreed or disagreed with the scientific view of evolution.

The researchers also looked at whether the engineered vocal cord tissue would be rejected or accepted by mice that had been engineered to have humanlike immune systems.

Next they looked at whether the amount of time a person spent being sedentary (which was mainly sitting) was related to these markers of health.

To examine this finding, investigators looked at whether the hypothesis of cognitive reserve helps to explain this differential cognitive impairment following TBI.

They only looked at whether urinary tract stones increased the risk of osteoporosis, not the reverse.

In the new study, Makarenkova and her colleagues looked at whether they could kick start regeneration by injecting progenitor cells into the lobes that make up the lacrimal gland.

Dr. Ray also looked at whether birthweights were affected by where the parents lived.

They also looked at whether craters made by the comets hitting the surface could excavate enough nitrogen — but that would require a very deep layer of nitrogen ice at the surface, which is not proven.

No studies have looked at whether collective narcissism is going up or down, but further research in this area could help to predict societal flare - ups, says Golec de Zavala.

Finally, Dr. Vinet's team looked at whether medications taken during pregnancy potentially played a role in ASD diagnosis in this study.

For instance, they looked at whether certain genes related to immune responses or to detoxification were more active in afflicted bees, which might suggest that they were being threatened by toxins in their food or by pesticides.

Holton and co-author Joel Nigg, of Oregon Health & Science University, looked at whether or not children age 7 to 11 were following key health recommendations for this age range from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Sleep Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

In this study, Danny F. McAuley, Gerard F. Curley, Umar I. Hamid, John G. Laffey, Jason Abbott, David H. McKenna, Xiaohui Fang, Michael A. Matthay, and Jae W. Lee looked at whether lungs that were rejected for transplantation because of edema could be «reconditioned» to qualify for transplant.

The current study looked at whether one aspect of MSI — integrating audio and visual speech signals — continues to develop in high - functioning children with ASD as well.

The researchers also looked at whether acidification altered the «boldness» of the crabs, or how long it took them to withdraw into their shells when attacked by a toy octopus held by a scientist.

It was only a matter of time before scientists also looked at whether joint hypermobility was linked to mental disorders.

Brown and colleagues also looked at whether mRGCs might also send information to the LGN in mice with normal vision.

In their study, published in the June 2014 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the researchers looked at whether an Internet - based trial was a feasible way to evaluate whether omega - 3 fatty acids helped reduce hyperactivity in children with autism.

They also looked at whether the babies exhibited a horizontal repetitive eye movement called nystagmus.

We looked at whether inmates died reliably after the sodium thiopental, and it's not clear this is the case.

For the study, researchers looked at whether people with neurological symptoms at disease onset were still affected three years later.

«Our study suggests that if we had looked at whether or not Zika would be a problem using previous epidemiological evidence, we would not have wasted energy or effort worrying about tourists getting Zika,» said Robert Snyder, the study's lead author and program manager for the Center for Global Public Health.

«So we looked at whether those genes play exactly the same role in spiders or whether the roles changed.

«The review looked at seismicity caused by hydraulic fracturing and we created a model that looked at whether it could trigger movement of a pre-existing fault.»

The authors also looked at whether smile intensity in the pre-fight photos predicted dominance and outcomes in other future fights.

A second experiment looked at whether the EyeCane could help individuals navigate an unfamiliar corridor by measuring the number of contacts with the walls.

Researchers also looked at whether growth factors needed for retina development came from the mother or if they were produced by the pups.

None of them looked at whether the participants had to have high levels of cytokines before they'd see a benefit from anti-inflammatory drugs.

The researchers also looked at whether the molecules with scaffolding helped make existing antibiotics work better.

The study also looked at whether delaying school entry enabled children born prematurely to do better at school but found no evidence to support this.

The research, published in the journal Intelligence, looked at whether dog intelligence is structured in a similar way as in humans.

In a study published in the August issue of the American Journal of Physiology, Eric Plaisance, Ph.D., principal investigator of the study, and a team of researchers looked at whether high - intensity interval training, or HIIT, could have an even greater effect.

Rowntree looked at whether the dead calves had more gull - inflicted lesions than those that survived, but she found that all of the youngsters get harassed.

The study also looked at whether crime was displaced to surrounding areas after opening.»

The potential health effects of phyto - oestrogens are often studied, but no one has looked at whether humans are the only primates with a taste for plants containing the chemicals, says Michael Wasserman of McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Have you looked at whether normal men and women differ in social cognition?

Several studies have looked at whether putting nutritional labels on food and non-alcoholic drinks might have an impact on their purchasing or consumption, but their findings have been mixed.

The new study looked at whether a diamondoid coating could also improve emissions from electron guns.

«No one had looked at whether these kinds of processes could be manipulated in the real world and have long - term consequences,» says social psychologist Geoffrey Cohen of the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Haeffner looked at whether the ranchers migrated or stayed in place but had to change their farming practices or find different work because of the drought.

In a new study published in the journal Psychological Medicine, researchers looked at whether cognitive flexibility for learning tasks and goal - directed control was impaired early in the development of OCD.

It also looked at whether an association between heart attacks and changes in air pollution exists in clean air cities where concentrations of air pollution vary but do not exceed EU limits.

We've also looked at whether each sharpener has non-slip features.

The study also looked at whether students» acceptance of evolution increased following exposure to the topic in college classrooms.

The study also looked at whether people with high levels of cynicism were more likely to die sooner than people with low levels of cynicism.

Previous research has connected adverse childhood experiences to problems such as cancer, heart disease and mental illness in older people, but no one had looked at whether those stressful experiences are linked to health problems in adolescents.

For this study, researchers looked at whether BNP played a role in transmitting acute, inflammatory or neuropathic pain in mice.

When the researchers looked at whether alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use predicted suicidality, they found that for all racial groups, except Pacific Islanders, using alcohol in the past month was linked to 1.5 - 2.1 times greater odds for having attempted suicide in the past year.

The newspaper looked at whether Cuomo, who created the commission to expose weak campaign finance laws and shore up ethical behavior in Albany, had interfered with its investigations.