Sentences with phrase «on predispositions»

The selection committee faced the difficult task of choosing proposals based on the soundness of the underlying science and engineering and trying to avoid choosing winners based on predispositions or on the geography of congressional districts.

I don't, and in fact I think that research revealing the human habit of embracing or ignoring information based on predispositions and emotion, not the information, is vitally important to convey (and needs to be conveyed more creatively, too!).

Moreover, in transient neighborhoods, parents find it difficult to share reassuring information with one another about their good experiences with teachers; lacking such personal communication, parents who are new to a school community may fall back on predispositions to distrust, especially if many of their social encounters outside of the school tend to reinforce this worldview.

It's based on a predisposition or paradigm that the Bible can't be what it claims to be.

Not exact matches

According to an online experiment of 2,338 Americans supported by the National Science Foundation, «introducing name calling into commentary tacked onto an otherwise balanced newspaper blog post, the study showed, could elicit either lower or higher perceptions of risk, depending on one's predisposition to the science of nanotechnology.»

We also have this nasty predisposition to speak and do based on what we feel in the moment.

I will leave a fuller defense of Edmund Burke to Yuval Levin, who is an expert on the subject, but Marr badly mischaracterizes Burke as a kind of Deweyan pragmatist and experimentalist, when in fact Burke believed in the authority of tradition and precedent, in a predisposition toward reverence for the past, in the notion of God - given rights, and in the necessity of transcendental beliefs and institutions as a grounding for political society.

Believers should be understanding yet aware that their attacks on faith are the result of predispositions not facts.

Discovering the approximate location on the chromosome of the gene or genes responsible for a given disease will permit doctors to diagnose a genetic disease or predisposition before the onset of symptoms.

It is not having the predisposition that is sinful, but acting on it.

It must be based on their own Christian faith, hope and love, not the predispositions of liturgical experts.»

Just because a person has a genetic predisposition toward violence and / or addiction doesn't mean that behavior based on their innate tendencies should be acceptable to society!

On the contrary, he brings to it certain predispositions, or interests, and observes certain characteristics more than others.

The openness of the civic culture has depended on the fact that these groups and traditions have functioned as teachers of virtue and morality, sustaining by their various lights a general predisposition toward acting well.

«If someone is born with a predisposition towards risky behavior's (drugs, gambling, pick a poison) is it being born that way or a choice when they act on it?»

This genetic predisposition can be detected by a genetic test that is available on the market, although not usually in hospitals.

Besides, the results of Gijsbers et al. showed that the educational program based on written advice in booklets as well as data delivered orally about all the aspects of breastfeeding and milk storage and expression proved effective in improving EB rates up to 6 months for pregnant women of a child with an asthma predisposition, visited twice before the birth of their babies and once afterwards [20].

On the one hand, children may have a genetic predisposition to partial arousal, in turn affecting their sleep - wake consolidation.

Women are waiting two years or more on the NHS to find out if they have a genetic predisposition to breast cancer, a charity claims today.

The urgency to barricade oneself from «outsiders» or «intruders» is largely based on fear and ancestral predispositions, which regard belonging to a tribe, a group, or family as pivotal to survival and reproduction.

Contemporary neuroscientific research and an understanding of the predispositions of our neurochemistry challenge classical thought on human nature and inform us of fundamental elements that must accompany good governance.

«There's been a predisposition to find a place for staff,» said Gerald Benjamin, director of the Center for Research, Regional Education and Outreach at SUNY New Paltz and an expert on state government.

In a time of austerity, he said Labour's approach must be based on the desire for national «renewal and prosperity» not just an «ideological» predisposition towards reducing the size of the state.

Pandey explained that early life exposure to alcohol can have not only long - lasting effects on brain chemistry but also induce a predisposition to psychiatric problems such as alcohol abuse and anxiety disorders.

We also know that this occurs on the background of hundreds of genetic differences that influence predisposition.

The following Statement is a product of the Group's dialogue on genetic discrimination in health insurance in those instances where there is a predisposition to disease without a diagnosis of a specific illness.

The ANES collects data on Americans» social backgrounds, political predispositions, social and political values, perceptions and evaluations of groups and candidates, and other issues, according to the ICPSR, a data archive of research in the social and behavioral sciences where the studies are accessible.

«Metabolic health, in addition to genetic predisposition, is largely dependent on behavioral factors such as dietary habits and physical activity.

GINA Becomes Genuine By late May, President George W. Bush was expected to have signed into law the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), which will prohibit health insurers from canceling or denying coverage or hiking premiums based on a genetic predisposition to a specific disease.

In future, Bandyopadhyay says, better understanding how chemotherapy agents impact specific biological pathways should allow drug trials to focus on patients who are more likely to respond to the drugs being tested and enable clinicians to identify targeted or combination therapies for patients with a genetic predisposition to resistance.

Claims included: «Personalize your training based on your sports genetics,» «Gives parents and coaches early information on their child's genetic predisposition for success in team or individual speed / power or endurance sports,» and «We use your DNA results to help you lose fat, get lean, build muscle, get fitter.»

In fact, it may be the gateway model for cancer is the good way to think about it; like, first of all, maybe you're born with a genetic predisposition, then you have exposure 1, then you have exposure 2, and then bam — exposure 3, the cancer starts, or the offspring are going to have a lower circumference of the skull and so on.

«A history of mental illness plays a role on how trauma is received if the person shares the same genetic predisposition as the family member suffering a mental illness,» McLaughlin said.

He says the goal is not to make parents worry, but rather to make people aware of their genetic predispositions and encourage them to stay on top of their health.

«There was an enormous emphasis on the relationship between lifestyle and chronic disease, between lifestyle and predisposition to acute infectious diseases,» Rosenberg explained.

The results indicate that the highest number of new hippocampal neurons was observed in rats that ran long distances and that also had a genetic predisposition to benefit from aerobic exercise: Compared to sedentary animals, HRT rats that ran voluntarily on a running wheel had 2 - 3 times more new hippocampal neurons at the end of the experiment.

The House today passed a measure by a whopping 414 - to - 1 margin that would prohibit health insurers from canceling or denying coverage or hiking premiums based on a genetic predisposition to a specific disease.

M.B.: No, I have no predisposition on which direction to head.

On the other hand, it is also true that mothers with a genetic predisposition to ADHD have a propensity to smoke and drink during pregnancy.

As José Luis Quiles Morales, Full Professor of Physiology at the UGR explains:» [the research] demonstrates that fat accumulates in the liver with age, but the most striking finding is that the type of fat accumulated differs depending on the oils consumed and this means that, regardless of this accumulation, some livers age in a healthier way than others and with a greater or lesser predisposition to certain diseases.»

I moved on from studying genetic differences in the metabolism of environmental toxins to studying genetic predisposition to diseases.

People on a healthy diet reduced their chances of developing type 2 diabetes, even if they had a genetic predisposition for the disease.

Breeding of GSDs over recent years has focused on cosmetic traits which may be linked to the breed's current predisposition to certain health conditions.

The theory on how the genetic susceptibility for schizophrenia combines with environmental stressors to result in a person developing schizophrenia is known as the predisposition / stress model, or diathesis - stress model).

CS and TTD, on the other hand, are segmental progeroid disorders characterised by progressive post-natal growth failure and primary demyelination resulting in severe neurodysfunction, but without a clear cancer predisposition [12 — 15].

But the question of what percentage of the brain's structure and function is based on genetic predisposition or on experience doesn't have a clear - cut answer.

These associations suggest that in people with a genetic predisposition to get narcolepsy, a molecular pattern on this virus can trigger the disease, but only when there is significant inflammation.

Presentations included: Genetics Primer & Clinical Updates by Linford Williams, MS, LGC; Genetics and Women's Health: Seeing and Foreseeing the Ethical Challenges Ahead by Ruth Farrell, MD, MA; Preimplantation Genetic Screening and Diagnosis: What You Need to Know by Marissa Coleridge, MS, LGC; Evolution of Prenatal Genetic Screening and Testing: NIPT and Beyond by Jeff Chapa, MD, MBA; Promises and Pitfalls of Prenatal Whole Exome Sequencing by Amanda Kalan, MD; Fertility Preservation and Cancer: Survivors, Previvors, and the Newly Diagnosed by Rebecca Flyckt, MD; Improving Access to Cancer Genetics via Telegenetics by Ryan Noss, MS, LGC; Breast Cancer: Management of Moderate Penetrance Predisposition Genes by Holly Pederson, MD; Use of Hormonal and Non-hormonal Therapies in Breast Cancer Survivors and Women at High Risk for Breast / Gyn Cancers by Holly Thacker, MD; Addressing Commonly Asked Patient Questions about Genetics by Rebekah Moore, MS, LGC, Christina Rigelsky, MS, LGC and Allison Schreiber, MS, LGC; and a panel discussion on Genetic Testing Reimbursement featuring Bruce Rogen, MD, MPH and John Yao, MD, MBA, MPH, which was moderated by Daniel Sullivan, MD..

In a new study, researchers have uncovered fresh evidence of a genetic predisposition to eating disorders that is passed on...

The Workshop on Inherited Hematopoietic Malignancies will discuss the scientific advances in understanding the pathogenesis of cancer development in individuals and families with germline mutations and predisposition to bone marrow derived malignancies.