Sentences with phrase «number of researchers began»

At that point, a small but growing number of researchers began attempting to understand, measure and map the shadow world.

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Before the study began, researchers asked 76 participants to rate the quality of a number of short films.

She is part of a growing number who represent the highest percentage of minority women nursing their children since researchers began tracking such data.

However, the N.Y.U. researchers knew that in recent years, trainers working with athletes in sports such as boxing and mixed martial arts, where concussions are common, had begun supplementing the Standardized Assessment with a simple vision exam, known as the King - Devick test, during which someone reads slightly jumbled lines of numbers printed on three cards as quickly as possible.

While a number of causes have been explored, it's difficult for researchers to account for all the important features, such as why it usually begins late in the first month of life, how it varies among infants, why it happens at certain times of day and why it resolves on its own in time.

Although researchers are still within the beginning stages in relation to biological factors, a number of social and psychological factors are well understood.

Spievack visited Badylak's lab and soon after joined the growing number of researchers who had begun pursuing their own research on ECM.

Researchers began by flashing, for 4 hundredths of a second, a number on a computer screen in front of 12 subjects.

By the time Perlmutter began his quest, a number of researchers — among them supernova guru Robert Kirshner of Harvard — had identified that a class of exploding stars could light a path through such difficulties.

But as the number of signatories grew, it began to include a wider range of researchers including biologists, ecologists, geoscientists, and even a real estate broker.

The researchers began by identifying the number of employees in each block working in different employment sectors.

The researchers began by making a number of liquid salts called «protic ionic liquids» or PILs.

Kristen Marhaver, who began this work while she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California at Merced, USA, said: «Now that we've successfully reared juvenile Pillar Corals in the lab, not only can we study them in more detail to find out what factors could be threatening their survival in the wild, but it also means that we can try to out - plant a small number back to the reef.

A growing number of researchers are taking steps to address this concern as AI begins to transform entire industries, including transportation, medicine, manufacturing and defense.

In the first years of his work as a minister, the number of publications by Russian researchers began to grow, but the rise stopped completely since 2009,» says Onishchenko.

Researchers also noted that they saw no improvement in the proportion of women receiving adequate prenatal care; adequate care was measured by the number of prenatal care appointments a woman received after taking into account when she began prenatal care and the age of the baby at birth.

Last year, researchers started 3.2 million experiments or «scientific procedures» on laboratory animals, an increase of 35 000 over the number begun in 1990 and the first increase since 1976.

The three other populations that the researchers studied are also losing genetic variation — and they didn't have much to begin with, because each was founded by a small number of Kapiti birds, the scientists report online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

But, by focusing on tissue obtained from mouse embryos, the Salk researchers were able for the first time to identify and isolate a sufficiently large number of fetal breast stem cells to begin to understand how their GPS works.

«Our research suggests that a number of health care providers already have voluntarily begun to change their prescribing and dispensing practices in ways that may be reducing the supply of scheduled prescriptions in communities,» the researchers said.

Researchers began developing a number of synthetic drugs for the treatment of depression way back in the 1950s - and they took off in a big way!

Researchers compared participants» incidence of falling during the six months prior to and the six months following the start of yoga classes and found that the number of falls in older adults dropped 48 percent in the six months after yoga classes began.

Wired — Over the last several years, a number of social media and dating platforms have begun emphasizing... But researchers say that anonymity alone doesn't...

Only more recently have researchers begun to surface the numbers of black girls who are subject to severe disciplinary measures in schools, including by school resource officers.

Richard Ingersoll, an education professor and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, says large - scale teacher recruitment campaigns that began in the 1980s succeeded in doubling the number of non-white teachers entering the profession.

Following the passage of the «Graduate Fellowship Program for the Preparation of Leadership Personnel in the Education of Mentally Retarded Children — PL 85 926 in 1958, the number of programs to prepare researchers and special education teacher educators began to expand.

Both the Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) satellite (analyzed by the University of Alabama in Huntsville by John Christy and Roy Spencer) and weather balloon data (trends reported by a number of researchers, notably Jim Angell at NOAA) have failed to show significant warming since the satellite record began in late 1978, even though the surface record has been rising at its fastest pace (~ 0.15 C / decade) since instrumental records began.

The change in strategy began when Richard Moss and Stephen Schneider — a pair of researchers dubbed the «uncertainty cops» by their peers — urged the U.N. panel of climate scientists to fortify their language with hard numbers.

Research related to optimal youth development has begun to delineate critical dimensions of important social contexts.8 — 11 For example, some researchers propose 3 basic experiences (ie, connection, regulation, and autonomy) to define youth's main associations with their environment that can be measured across multiple settings.8, 12,13 Others have articulated similar concepts and expanded the number of dimensions to include characteristics, such as adequate nutrition, health, and shelter; physical and psychological safety; adequate and appropriate supervision and motivation; supportive relationships; support for efficacy and opportunities for skill building; and integration of family, school, and community efforts.10, 11

A number of MBCT researchers have also begun to examine the potential for improvements in parent - child interactions (Bailie 2012), which has resulted in a significant rise in mindfulness - based parenting interventions, underpinned by a focus on increasing the capacity for self - regulation in parents (Dumas 2005; Harnett 2012).

«The paramount importance of early math skills — of beginning school with a knowledge of numbers, number order, and other rudimentary math concepts — is one of the puzzles coming out of the study,» coauthor and Northwestern University researcher Greg Duncan said in a press release.

Whether the credit markets, and the commercial mortgage - backed securities (CMBS) sector in particular, will begin to thaw in the near future and how much their behavior will affect the number of retail foreclosures remains a mystery for most researchers.

RCA researchers expect that total sales volume for the second quarter of 2012 will be lower than in the first quarter because of a number of large portfolio sales that took place at the beginning of the year, including Westfield's sale of seven U.S. malls to Starwood Capital Group and Blackstone / DDR's purchase of 46 shopping centers from EPN Group.