Sentences with phrase «model process studies»

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1, 1977, and available from the Center for Process Studies, David Ray Griffin, Executive Director, School of Theology at Claremont, 1325 N. College Ave., Claremont, Calif. 91711 Valerie C. Salving, «Androgynous Life: A Feminist Appropriation of Process Thought»; Marjorie Suchocki, «Feminism in Process»; Penelope Washbourn, «The Dynamics of Female Experience: Process Models and Human Values»; and John Cobb, «Feminism and Process Thought: A Two - Way Relationship.»

Rites of passage analysis renders at least some claims about spiritual quests more empirically tractable, and reveals several ways in which process thought offers a corrective model for further work in anthropology of religion and ritual studies.

Instead of viewing one model of morality as superior and the other as inferior, Gilligan advocates valuing both in mutual conversation — thus, of course, embodying in her own conclusions the development she has traced in her studies of women.9 There is a remarkable accord between what Gilligan cites as women's experience and the ontology of process philosophy.

Together they designed a mixed - methods study to explore topics that have not previously been detailed — women's preferences for model of care; perceptions of reasons for intervention; access to midwifery care; and experiences of autonomy, respect, discrimination, or coercion, when participating in a shared decision making process.

While our work has used mouse models because we can study the process in detail this way, we do know that milk cells cross into human babies as well.»

Topics discussed included international best practices and case studies on renewable integration; energy planning processes to support long - term development; and emerging business models.

In a University of California, San Diego School of Medicine study published July 13 in the online journal Nature Neuroscience, a research team led by Takaki Komiyama, PhD, assistant professor of neurosciences and neurobiology, reports that in mouse models, the brain significantly changed its visual cortex operation modes by implementing top - down processes during learning.

This is demonstrated in the studies reviewed in the special issue, which use computational models to examine brain processes, such as learning, emotion, dopamine signaling and information processing, and how processes interact in deficits underlying psychiatric disease.

This process was studied, with both modeling and experimentation, for a single - phase tantalum - titanium alloy that was dealloyed by a copper liquid metal.

The study of these highly unusual but devastating prion diseases has to date been thwarted by a lack of animal models that faithfully mimic the disease processes in humans.

The study results were found using mouse embryonic stem cells, which are good cell models for the study of processes seen in human stem cells.

Stuart Hameroff, an anesthesiologist who has spent many years studying brain functions, has collaborated with renowned Oxford University polymath Roger Penrose on a model that explains consciousness as the result of quantum processes occurring in tiny structures called microtubules in brain cells.

To address the complexity of the biologic pathways that create and respond to pressure sore development, the researchers designed a computational, or «in silico,» model of the process based on serial photographs of developing ulcers from spinal cord - injured patients enrolled in studies at Pitt's Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Spinal Cord Injury.

I soon got a position in a company working on supply chain management models, where we elaborated algorithms and software to study the efficiency of industrial production processes and distribution phases.

The Akensons» research style is now being overshadowed by more abstract kinds of studies, which hinge on remote sensing and computer modeling of ecological and environmental processes.

By studying liquid plugs in simple glass tubes, he developed a mathematical model describing liquid transport process in each generation of the airway tree.

Researchers are using the sea hare model to learn about individual cells function, discover the chemical pathways controlling various brain activities and to study how memories are processed and stored.

The study, conducted using fruit fly populations bred to model natural variations in human sleep patterns, provides new clues to how genes for sleep duration are linked to a wide variety of biological processes.

Dr. Wang plans to continue studying the effects of TNF and IL - 17 on melanocytes, and would like to expand the research to 3D skin models — fabricated samples of tissue in vitro that behave like human skin — that would give a better visual of how the melanin production process is being disrupted by these two cytokines during skin inflammation or wound healing.

The journal's home page explains that translational medicine «builds on basic research advances — studies of biological processes using cell cultures, for example, or animal models — and uses them to develop new therapies or medical procedures.»

The study demonstrates that a combination of modern reconstruction techniques and models can provide new insights into seasonal processes.

Taras Gerya at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich reviewed studies that modelled Earth's early formation and found that the process changed as the mantle cooled.

Knowing these larvae respond to odors but not fully understanding the process by which they make decisions via olfactory cues, scientists at UC Santa Barbara are using this model organism to study brain function as it relates to behavior control.

«Our physical model is more sophisticated and realistic than previous studies, because we simultaneously consider many more relevant dynamic processes,» Liu said.

«This includes theorists studying dark matter and the formation of black holes, astrophysicists modelling the subsequent accretion process, and astronomers working on radio and X-ray observations.»

The current study, led by John Regan, a postdoctoral researcher at Ireland's Dublin City University, modeled the process using software developed by Columbia's Greg Bryan, and includes the effects of gravity, fluid dynamics, chemistry and radiation.

The current study, led by John Regan, a postdoctoral researcher at Ireland's Dublin City University, attempted to model the process.

For the new study, first author Dustin Winslow, a UCSC Ph.D. candidate who graduated this month, developed the first three - dimensional computer models showing how the process works.

Scientists use model organisms to study critical biological processes, but Egan said the study of nonmodel organisms is often the key to ecological questions, including those related to how the environment influences natural selection and speciation.

The other two shortlisted missions — which had been whittled down from an original list of over 20 possibilities — were CoReH2O, which sought to model the water balance in glaciers and snow - covered areas, and PREMIER, which aimed to study chemical processes in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere and the radiative effects of clouds.

In late 2012 he finally founded Neural Bytes, which models human brain processing using data from neurophysiological and neuroimaging studies.

«This model really helped us to reduce the complexity of the PS and the process to a few essential components,» says Björn Hegemann, lead author of a study published in the journal Developmental Cell.

The research approach is called multi-scale modeling or MSM, to reflect the ability to study disease processes at the molecular, cellular, and tissue levels as well as interactions occurring between the levels.

Since then, he has worked to bring plant combustion processes into the laboratory where they can be studied, better understood and modeled in smaller, controlled conditions.

In this study, researchers constructed a mathematical model, based on ordinary differential equations, linking the different molecular processes associated with spine expansion together.

«In the long term, we'd also like to establish a repository of process models and case studies from different manufacturing sectors so that users of the standard can compare and contrast against their production methods,» Lyons said.

The study, «Improving maize growth processes in the community land model: Implementation and evaluation,» is published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.

The study analyses data obtained from the simulation forest growth model GOTILWA + (Growth Of Trees Is Limited by WAter), based on ecophysiological processes.

In the study, the researchers use an ice - ocean model created in Bremerhaven to decode the oceanographic and physical processes that could lead to an irreversible inflow of warm water under the ice shelf — a development that has already been observed in the Amundsen Sea.

In the new study, Lee and his colleagues studied piRNAs produced by cells in the reproductive system of the nematode worm, C. elegans, a classic model organism studied by scientists to understand basic biological processes.

The scientists have identified priority areas for future study, including how to optimize linkage of HIV - positive infants into early treatment, improve models for retention and adherence of children receiving antiretrovirals, and prioritize locally driven research questions and processes that engage end users throughout.

The researchers applied a model known as a totally asymmetric simple exclusion process, commonly used to study interacting particles in physical, chemical and biological systems.

In this latest study, the team of researchers applied empirical and process - based models, to analyze local areas, as well as the global surface, and the effect of temperature and water availability variations on carbon exchange between the atmosphere and the terrestrial biosphere.

To study how and why DEB changes in volatility, the researchers measured properties such as vapor pressures and melting points, probed molecular structure, and ran quantum mechanical computer simulations to model the hydrogenation process.

Dr. Maria Iribarne, first author of this study, commented: «The gosh mutant is a good model for understanding the molecular and cellular mechanism of cone cell death and the pathological process of human LCA.

«This is the first study to demonstrate that functional muscle cells can be created in a laboratory and restore dystrophin in animal models of Duchenne using the human development process as a guide.»

However, the details of the process in ice aren't very well understood, and modeling studies that try to capture those dynamics on Europa had yielded some puzzling results, the researchers say.

This discovery provides a significant opportunity not only to enhance our understanding of how miRNAs regulate a variety of biological processes in an important model species for studying human diseases, but can lead to further, similar research into the role that miRNAs play in animal domestication.

The rarity of latently infected cells and the lack of a marker for latent HIV - 1 infection necessitate the use of in vitro model systems for detailed studies of this process.

Now, researchers who study the Earth's climate system have extended the state - of - the - art Earth system models for physical and biogeochemical oceanic processes, projecting conditions through 2300.