Sentences with phrase «more direct study»

This conjecture on our part certainly warrants more direct study.

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His studies found a direct correlation between more time spent online and feelings of loneliness, where more time offline with family and close friends in face - to - face meetings correlated with feelings of safety, security and improved mental function.

One study conducted at UC Riverside found that Anglo - Americans benefitted more from happiness - increasing activities; however, researchers did see a small trend that Asians gained more from activities directed toward benefitting others» happiness, like writing a letter of gratitude, than activities strictly intended to benefit the self.

Although the book is best regarded more as a presentation of the Supreme Court's religious - freedom work than as a direct study of the questions underlying that work» the work of constitutional scholars, for example, is for the most part only referenced, not engaged» it is, nonetheless, recommended.

The Protestant objection is that we can in fact gain a more objective view of the Bible by direct study and can criticize the traditional interpretation from this point of view.

More recently, Werner Mendel, professor of psychiatry at the University of Southern California, directed a similar study.

Historical study in theology, when theology is directed toward its chief objects, is always more like a conversation with a large company of similarly concerned and experienced men than like the tracing of a life history, whatever values there are in the latter procedure.

* Preliminary results from an Oxford - based study suggest a higher proportion of infant - directed negativity in the way depressed fathers talk about, and to, their infants (Sethna et al, 2009) * Depressed fathers are less likely to read, sing songs and tell stories to their babies than other fathers — and than depressed mothers (Paulson et al, 2006), which may explain why fathers» depression has a more powerful negative impact than mothers» depression on their infants» language development in the first year.

Indeed, the study shows that homebirth with an American direct entry midwife has more than triple the death rate of homebirth with a Canadian midwife.

of Vermont («Sisters on a Journey: Portraits of North American Midwives»); Jess Fallon, Women's Studies, Wesleyan; Pamela Klassen, Religion, Drew University (spirituality in home birth); Maureen May, Syracuse University (midwifery politics and legislation in New York state); Christina Player (midwifery politics in Massachusetts); Melissa Denmark, University of Florida (the development of direct - entry midwifery legislation in Florida); Fern McGill, Antioch University (an investigation of feminist positions on childbirth), Kate Masley (the political economy of reproduction in Honduras and in Cleveland, Ohio), and others not listed here; and as an informal advisor to dozens more.

Another strength is that our results provide a more complete assessment of socioeconomic inequalities in breastfeeding rates, by estimating both relative and absolute inequalities, than common practice in inequality assessments.23 Finally, our study analysed effects of the intervention not only on an immediate, direct outcome (breastfeeding) but also on a long - term consequence of breastfeeding (child cognitive ability) that is associated with important health and behavioural outcomes in later life.27

Dr. Robert Cantu, one of the world's leading experts on head trauma in sport and a clinical professor of neurosurgery at Boston University School of Medicine, has pointed to studies showing at least 30 percent of concussions in soccer come from the act of heading the ball, sometimes through direct contact with the ball but more significantly when the head smashes into another player or the ground.

We divided the studies into four subgroups: unspecified or no direct contacts (for example in studies that involved staff training rather than direct contacts with women); less than four postnatal contacts; between four and eight contacts; and more than eight contacts.

The study also dispels a popularly held belief that we're getting ruder - and reveals that 400 years ago everyday language was far more plain and direct than it is today.

Research is systematic study directed toward more complete scientific knowledge or understanding of the subject studied.

«There have been experimental studies showing men are more competitive with one another, while women are more self - directed and motivated by internal factors,» Aral says.

A leading expert on sustainable buildings, Brown directs the University of Oregon's Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory, where researchers test ways to make structures, including hospitals, radically more energy efficient.

The study results build on genetic and epigenetic basics, including that the blueprint for the human body is encoded in genes that direct the building of one or more proteins.

Sibley, who studies the two malaria parasites, would like her work to have more direct relevance to public health.

Compared with the galaxy - laced, matter - filled regions where we've so far directed most of our study, voids should «feel» the enlarging effects of dark energy or modified gravity more, on account of having less gravity - generating matter acting as a counterbalance.

«With the availability of more and more data analytics in health care, it's the right time to use data to direct the investments of drug discovery and biomedical research for the common good,» said the study's first author, Lixia Yao, PhD, assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Despite the small numbers of enrolled families, this study shows that the more frequently a child views child - directed fast food TV ads, often involving a toy, the more likely the family visited the fast food restaurant that was featured in the advertising.

Now, direct evidence from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution (MESA Air), a 10 - year epidemiological study of more than 6,000 people from six U.S. states, shows that air pollution — even at levels below regulatory standards — accelerates the progression of atherosclerStudy of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution (MESA Air), a 10 - year epidemiological study of more than 6,000 people from six U.S. states, shows that air pollution — even at levels below regulatory standards — accelerates the progression of atherosclerstudy of more than 6,000 people from six U.S. states, shows that air pollution — even at levels below regulatory standards — accelerates the progression of atherosclerosis.

«This study provides a more direct measurement of the lunar body tide and much more comprehensive coverage than has been achieved before,» said John Keller, LRO project scientist at Goddard.

No astronaut has spent more than six months at a stretch on the ISS, so direct medical studies only cover relatively short - term effects.

In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers used mitochondrial DNA microsatellites from skin samples gathered from more than 3,000 individual humpback whales across the Southern Hemisphere and the Arabian Sea to examine how whale populations are related to one another, a question that is difficult to answer with direct observations of whales in their oceanic environment.

«These platforms will, hopefully, in the future, be used as an animal alternative during pre-clinical testing to more accurately direct these studies toward successful results in humans.»»

A study based on blood samples from more than 55,000 Danes conducted by the University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen University Hospital shows a direct correlation between smoking and mortality.

In the first part of their study, the Johns Hopkins team showed that exercise levels positively corresponded to vitamin D levels in a direct relationship, meaning that the more one exercised, the higher their vitamin D levels seemed.

This study found that the direct mutagenicity of the NPAHs with one nitrogen group can increase 6 to 432 times more than the parent compound.

More than two million deaths occur worldwide each year as a direct result of human - caused outdoor air pollution, a new study has found.

After more than a decade of study, Cirelli and her colleagues have finally found direct evidence that synapses reset at night.

The California Energy Commission, in turn, produced a report in 2008 directing both utilities to update their seismic studies using more advanced techniques than had been available before.

«In addition to the direct loss of forest, there was a widespread shift of the remaining global forest to a more fragmented condition,» explains Kurt Riitters, a research ecologist and team leader with the U.S. Forest Service Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center and the lead author of a study describing the phenomenon, published in the January 2016 issue of Landscape Ecology.

These findings may correlate with disrupted brain development, but direct evidence for a link between Zika virus and microcephaly is more likely to come from clinical studies, the researchers say.

The study was conducted through direct interviews and surveys with more than 300 working - and middle - class men and women in the U.S..

Previous studies led by the University have shown that more than 700 species of marine life have been found to have encountered plastic debris, with clear evidence that ingestion and entanglement causes direct harm to many individuals.

More than 20 years ago, in a study that triggered both scientific and cultural controversy, the molecular biologist offered the first direct evidence of a «gay gene,» by identifying a stretch on the X chromosome likely associated with homosexuality.

«We're teaching parents to become more than parents,» said the study's lead author, Antonio Hardan, MD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, who directs the hospital's Autism and Developmental Disabilities Clinic.

The results so far show only a correlation between fires and water cycle indicators, but the data gathered from the study is allowing scientists to improve climate models to be able to establish a more direct relationship between biomass burning and its impacts on drought.

But a study in tomorrow's issue of Nature shows that the drugs may play a more direct role: A common immune suppressant can stimulate tumor cells to divide and spread.

«More studies are needed to uncover the exact mechanisms involved, but we predict that direct treatment with D4A could prolong survival in some patients with metastatic prostate cancer,» said Dr. Sharifi, «Further studies will also help us develop a potential biomarker profile to predict which patients will respond to D4 — abiraterone.»

The study demonstrated that the participants» perceptions of how many teens in their direct friend group had consumed alcohol held more weight than the perceptions of how many of their peers overall were consuming.

More collaboration and direct dialogue between polar researchers at venues and conferences will facilitate joint studies in Arctic forests, tundra, and sea ice.

What's more, the approach they developed gives scientists a completely new and direct way to study a wide range of «emergent» materials whose surprising properties emerge from the collective behavior of fundamental particles, such as electrons.

The current study was designed to look for more direct evidence that age - related memory loss differs from Alzheimer's disease.

Highly turbocharged alcohol - fueled direct - injection spark - ignition (DISI) engines operated at a high compression ratio could be as or more efficient than diesel engines while also providing advantages of lower vehicle cost, lower emissions and higher power, according to a recent modeling study by Leslie Bromberg and Daniel Cohn at MIT.

Analyzing this woman's virus for their current study, the researchers found that it contained mutations in four amino acids in the envelope protein, two of which, when introduced into unrelated strains of HIV in the laboratory, rendered each virus sensitive to a number of antibodies produced in people infected with HIV, including those directed to more conserved regions.

Richie is now overseeing the first tightly controlled feeding study of dietary sulfur amino acid restriction in human subjects, which may provide more direct evidence of health benefits.

Since 1997, he has directed the investigation of neurodegenerative diseases in the Nurses» Health Study and other large cohorts comprising more than 400,000 men and women who have provided detailed information on their dietary habits and lifestyle in addition to blood or cheek cell samples for genetic and other laboratory analyses.