Sentences with phrase «on parallel studies»

UNC researchers have been working with GlaxoSmithKline on parallel studies at the UNC Cure Center for 18 months to advance this new method of combating the global epidemic of HIV.

«Based on a parallel study of the same eight middle schools, 90 percent of à la carte foods were compliant with the standards after implementation, an increase from 36 percent compliance before the standards,» Serrano stated.

Not exact matches

Loss = $ 1.4 million Note: There's no way to know how many advertisers disqualified Performark on sight, but Performark's findings parallel other studies.

To believe or disbelieve the historical accuracy of the Gospels, you must study them on the strength of their own historical evidence, not because of their real (or supposed) parallels to pagan myths.

Form criticism, building on the foundations of the immense comparative studies of the religionsgeschichtliche Schule, dismissed the stories as typical products of the legend - making propensities of ancient religious movements, to be paralleled in both Jewish and Hellenistic religious literature.

In this essay a good deal of the emphasis upon the encounter with the historical Jesus by means of an existentialist historiography was quietly dropped, and attention was more sharply focused on the basic parallel between the message of Jesus and the kerygma of the early Church, and on the significance of scholarly study of the message of Jesus for the Church.

The study comes on the heels of a 2013 clinical trial that showed rice protein paralleled whey protein in its ability to build muscle and improve strength and power for the first time.

In a second, parallel study in which all students were required to revise their paper, the black students who received the «high expectations» Post-it were graded more than two points higher, on a 15 - point scale, on the revised essay than the ones who got the plain - vanilla «feedback» Post-it.

The research completed by colleagues in Germany that provided the material for this study on early childhood can be seen in parallel to the recent study in North America concerning Waldorf graduates.

Depending on results from further behavioural studies in mice and humans, the abnormalities could then be treated in parallel with seizures.

AAU's approval of this report meant that our work on postdoctoral education at Berkeley, which was going on in parallel with the AAU study, also had the highly visible, official blessing from our chancellor.

The strangest version of all parallel universe proposals is one that emerged gradually over 30 years of theoretical studies on the quantum properties of black holes.

Next to the mathematical modeling as in the recent study Markus Diesmann and his team therefore work in parallel on the creation of simulation software for the new generation of computers.

While information on patients» actual postsurgical weight loss was not available in the analyzed data, the drop in exacerbations paralleled the weight loss reported in previous studies of bariatric surgery results.

In the meantime, Schmidt and other Europa experts are doing all they can to prepare for a return to Europa by studying parallel environments here on Earth.

The design and findings of the current study parallel a similar study by Dr. Sennett and James L. Carey, MD, MPH, director of the Penn Center for Cartilage Repair and Osteochondritis Dissecans Treatment, on ACL injuries in NFL running backs and wide receivers, which was published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine in 2006.

In previous studies, they have shown that in flies, similar to vertebrates, motion is detected in two parallel pathways, one for moving bright edges (ON - pathway) and one for moving dark edges (OFF - pathway).

According to a new study, published in Lab on a Chip, enzyme properties in various conditions can now be studied in multiple parallel reactions using droplet microfluidic technology.

In fact, this study reports the largest scale use of massively parallel genomic sequencing (so called next generation sequencing) for medical diagnostics to date and shows that it is practically feasible on a large scale.

Monckton's father - in - law is Lord Lawson of Blaby (Nigel Lawson, former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer), who has contributed many times to the public debate on climate change, most recently in a speech to the Centre for Policy Studies, in which he drew parallels between climate researchers and Islamic fundamentalists.

A parallel study was performed focusing on the exploration of amino acid residues of cyclic pentapeptides by systematic substitutions of various aromatic amino acid residues [62].

«The parallel development that occurred on a number of different island clusters makes anole lizards an excellent model for studying evolution and adaptation,» says Kerstin Lindblad - Toh.

Pilar Mur and colleagues report a study on the coding region and exon - intron boundaries of UNC5C gene in 544 familial colorectal cancer (CRC) or polyposis patients, using and massively parallel sequencing.

By all means, we need to keep studying the problem, but we need to be working on mitigation in parallel with those efforts.

Multiple studies, such as a 2001 one by Salem and Powers, have shown that there is no discernible difference between partial, parallel and deep squats in terms of the impact on the knee joint.

Inspired by an extensive study of martial arts, Nardini drew from the parallels that have long existed between yoga and Zen, with emphasis on the «deep core line» of the inner body.

This was a 12 week double blind placebo controlled, randomized, parallel trial to study the effect of Maca treatment on subjective report of sexual desire.

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 57 (2)(2007): 247 — 56; Smith R, Mann N, Mäkeläinen H, et al. «A pilot study to determine the short - term effects of a low glycemic load diet on hormonal markers of acne: a nonrandomized, parallel, controlled feeding trial.»

Effects of a parallel arm randomized controlled weight loss pilot study on biological and psychosocial parameters of overweight and obese breast cancer survivors.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Mickey Rourke Resuscitates Career as Comeback Kid in Search of Redemption Rarely does the trajectory of an actor's life parallel that of a person he's portraying on screen as closely as Mickey Rourke's does in this intriguing character study highlighting how easily self - abuse can lead to lost opportunities and overwhelming regret.

Consistent with the Wisconsin evidence, parallel studies in Colorado and Maryland found that weather - related differences in the number of days students had spent in school when they were tested had noticeable effects on their achievement.

On a more positive note, exploring the parallels between lesson study and research honors the knowledge and work of teachers.

For instance, in the Salk polio vaccine studies of the 1950s, randomized trials that were mounted in some states produced estimates of the vaccine's effect on polio that were appreciably greater than estimates from a parallel series of nonrandomized trials.

Responses from the 100 teachers Mr. Rogers surveyed parallel those of the 800 social - studies teachers who make up the adviser - responder schools network of the National Commission on Social Studies in the Sstudies teachers who make up the adviser - responder schools network of the National Commission on Social Studies in the SStudies in the Schools.

[From findings on the Transfer of Skills from Spanish to English: A Study of Young Learners, Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, D.C.] The results indicated that Spanish phonemic awareness, Spanish letter identification, and Spanish word reading were reliable predictors of performance on parallel tasks in English at the end of third and fourth grades.

Following Facing History's unique methodology, the book also takes students on a parallel journey through an exploration of the universal themes inherent in a study of the Holocaust that raise profound and disturbing questions about human behavior.

In my studies, I focused mostly on computer architectures, embedded systems, image processing, and parallel processing / GPGPU.

In October, Nielsen for the first time presented a parallel study to cover the US market, and make a presentation on this at Frankfurt Book Fair.

His process of working ideas out first on paper parallels my practice of using watercolor studies as a springboard into painting.

Her initial studies of these walls of stone suggest a parallel relationship between the rock faults naturally found on site and those that appear to have been constructed long ago.

Monckton's father - in - law is Lord Lawson of Blaby (Nigel Lawson, former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer), who has contributed many times to the public debate on climate change, most recently in a speech to the Centre for Policy Studies, in which he drew parallels between climate researchers and Islamic fundamentalists.

Northwestern University's Steven J. Harper drew a parallel to another study published on the HBR blog: Why Law Firm Pedigree May be a Thing of the Past.

According to the study, the top 10 companies in terms of filing patent applica - tions were Bosch (958), followed by Audi (516), Continental (439), Electric cars are considered the automobile future — their devel - opment and parallel patenting is heavily incentivized by gov - ernments already pushing for quotas on electric cars: China, for instance, envisions as of 2019 a 10 % quota from car manufac - turers selling cars in China.

The main findings of the study, based on the 2006 Census, are that the number and average age of justice workers has grown in parallel with the labour force as a whole; the median age is now 41.

The summary of parallel findings is illustrated below with verbatim quotes from a group of SRLs — one from each of the four states in the study — who spoke at a meeting of the IAALS Honoring Families Initiative Advisory Board in Denver on August 21st where the preliminary findings were presented by the US research team (Natalie Knowlton, Corina Gerety and Logan Cornett).

The trial findings on parents» mental health contrast with those obtained in a parallel qualitative study in which participants in this trial reported feeling more in control, with greater ability to cope with their children and a better relationship with them as a result of the intervention.28 It is possible that such changes were not detected in the trial because the instruments used are not particularly sensitive to improvement in positive mental health.

One final example is the prefrontal cortex, which is thought to play an important role in regulating behavior by suppressing impulses and emotions arising from the amygdala and other parts of the limbic system.50 — 52 In animal studies, exposure to chronic stress or glucocorticoids alters the synaptic connectivity within the prefrontal cortex, 52,53 and this may limit the ability of the prefrontal cortex to (1) suppress the impulsivity and aggression of the limbic system, and (2) execute adaptive responses (rather than maladaptive responses) to stress.54 — 56 Stress - induced changes in brain structure parallel the well - described impact of significant childhood adversity on a variety of brain functions, including the modulation of physiologic responses (hyper - responsive or chronically active stress response), learning (impaired memory), and the regulation of behavior (the ability to execute adaptive vs maladaptive responses to stress).3, 39,57

Studies in English language were selected if they were controlled trials (crossover or parallel groups) comparing stimulants with placebo, were published in peer reviewed scientific journals, reported quantitative data on independent effects for aggression related behaviours, used a rating scale or method of observation to assess aggression related behaviours, and included children or youth (mean age < 18 y) with ADHD.

In a parallel fashion, longitudinal studies that document the long - term consequences of childhood adversity indicate that alterations in a child's ecology can have measurable effects on his or her developmental trajectory, with lifelong consequences for educational achievement, economic productivity, health status, and longevity.23 — 27

Because our sample differed from those used in these previous studies (e.g., majority of children in our sample had a DBD and all were aged 7 years and over), rather than use the a priori scales, we computed parallel analysis and exploratory factor analysis (described below) and scored the measure based on these results.