Sentences with phrase «natural research experiment»

Launching a natural research experiment in Kathmandu, Nepal, this month using advanced monitoring methods to assess health risk from air pollution, environmental health scientist Rick Peltier at the University of Massachusetts Amherst hopes to demonstrate for the first time in a real - world setting that air pollution can and should be regulated based on toxicology variables rather than simply on the volume of particles in the air.

Not exact matches

But they did leave those of us who prefer to be guided by research with a natural experiment of what could be wrought by a sub-optimal policy mix.

After relocating to the Netherlands, Hiram spent several years researching and experimenting with natural fragrant materials.

There are lots of theories about different foods you can eat to increase your milk supply — natural food stores sell supplements, and I've heard that drinking atole (a thick, sweet Mexican drink made with corn starch or corn meal) can help — I don't know whether that's true, but you should talk with your OB / GYN and do some research and experimenting to see what works for you.

«Our future research includes further experiments to understand the natural conditions, beyond childbirth, under which oxytocin is released in the brain,» Dr. Froemke adds.

More human research and animal experiments are needed to understand which components are the most harmful and why, said Marie Lynn Miranda, dean of University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment and director of the Children's Environmental Health Initiative.

University officials first learned of the duplications in 2005, and they eventually led to an investigation by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), which funded some of Smith's work, including experiments on board the U.S. space shuttles.

Published in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution, the research was the rare «natural experiment» in which circumstances found in nature were similar to the controlled circumstances that they would have liked in a lab, said Kelley.

But the exchange at the annual meeting 2014 at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel also revealed some critical knowledge gaps: In laboratory experiments, a common phytoplankton species was able to adapt to ocean acidification, even when simultaneously exposed to other stress factors such as rising water temperatures — but will the adapted strains also successfully compete in their natural environment?

In an experiment with organisms from the Kiel Fjord, a team of biologists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel demonstrated for the first time, that ocean acidification and rising water temperatures harms the fatty acid composition of copepods in the natural plankton community.

I have experimented and researched a lot on possible causes and natural remedies, etc. but nothing I have found has really made any difference.

For half of the last century, various experiments (including our own 7 + years of dream food research) have proven that eating certain foods raises the bioavailability of precursor nutrients accessing corresponding neurons; and in fact, enhances the natural release of neurotransmitters in neurons that are actively firing at the time of consumption due to neural networks linking the gut biome to the brain.

A recent review of 22 studies of the effect of parental incarceration on child well - being concludes that, to date, no research in this area has been able to leverage a natural experiment to produce quasi-experimental estimates.

«This shift in the cat parent profile changes how cat food is bought,» says Chanda Leary - Coutu, senior marketing communications manager for WellPet, a natural pet food company based in Tewksbury, Mass. «Research has also shown Millennial pet parents have a keen interest in natural foods, which presents an opportunity for us to innovate in the category and experiment with treat flavors, forms and textures that cats will undoubtedly enjoy.»

2010 Research highlights Our meta - analysis based on data from 69 paired - experiments indicated that: ▶ Cultivation with conventional tillage (CT) and no - tillage (NT) resulted in comparable soil C loss comparing with adjacent natural soils.

For my PhD research, I am working in Dr. Gudrun Magnusdottir's Research Group to apply a series of GCM ensemble experiments to understand the dynamics and relative forcings of natural and anthropogenic climate change on this high latitude circulation and resultant teleconresearch, I am working in Dr. Gudrun Magnusdottir's Research Group to apply a series of GCM ensemble experiments to understand the dynamics and relative forcings of natural and anthropogenic climate change on this high latitude circulation and resultant teleconResearch Group to apply a series of GCM ensemble experiments to understand the dynamics and relative forcings of natural and anthropogenic climate change on this high latitude circulation and resultant teleconnection.

Future research may need to focus on longitudinal studies and natural experiments that provide more robust estimates of causal influences of the neighbourhood environment on depressive symptoms.