Sentences with phrase «ongoing studies involving»

Additionally, the use of human subjects in ongoing studies involving this methodology is ethically problematic.

Impetus to address methane leaks directly should come from an ongoing study involving the gas industry and the Environmental Defense Fund, which aims to put hard numbers on the amount of methane lost across the natural gas supply chain.

In a major ongoing study involving 3,734 elderly Japanese - American men, those who ate the most tofu during midlife had up to 2.4 times the risk of later developing Alzheimer's disease.

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These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

After 6 weeks of studying the over one year court proceedings on the ongoing trial involving four suspects; Osarfo Anthony, Ekow Micah, Sarah Kwablah, and Chris Handler, accused of allegedly conspiring to extort money from Asamoah Gyan, the new Attorney General headed by Madam Gloria Akuffo, is set to appear in court for trial to continue.

The review purportedly involves ongoing work by the state health commissioner as well as the D.E.C., studying environmental and health risks.

Following a letter from local elected officials last week urging NYC DOT to address the ongoing traffic problem in our neighborhood, Grand Street Democrats District Leaders and other community leaders involved in January's Traffic Town Hall have sent their own letter to DOT Commissioner Trottenberg asking for the release of traffic study data that was promised in 2017 and for the development of a strategy to address the traffic.

Ongoing studies by investigators across the country, including Drs. Abraham Palmer and James MacKillop, who also participated in the conference, involve analysis of DNA and questionnaire responses from as many as 25,000 human subjects in order to identify specific genes involved in delay discounting.

Determining the exact role of this previously unappreciated «dark energy» is an ongoing area of study, but it appears to be involved in how the brain prepares for future events that involve conscious processing.

These findings also suggest a mechanistic basis for potential treatments involving the painless electrical stimulation of the amygdala, which are currently being studied in ongoing clinical trials.

Rather than a static event involving investigator disclosure of a litany of potential risks and benefits culminating in the subjects» signature on paper, informed consent should be conceived of as an ongoing decision - making process, a conversation between investigator and subject that occurs at each study encounter or intervention.

These new findings laid the groundwork for a much larger, ongoing study funded by the Wellcome Trust and involving several UK Universities and Pharmaceutical companies that will seek to replicate the findings and refine the test.

«Evidence from Kipp and co-workers for substantial ongoing change in the chemical environment of the Arctic Ocean emphasizes the need for sustained study of these changes and of the processes involved,» said Bob Anderson, an Ewing - Lamont Research Professor at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University and the director of the U.S. GEOTRACES Program Office.

The study comes in the wake of an ongoing Zika epidemic and an explosion of cases involving fetal death, microcephaly (born with severely decreased head size), and other congenital birth defects.

The NYGC and its founding member institutions are conducting additional studies involving Watson to help accelerate the discovery of potentially actionable sequence variants in various types of cancer, including an ongoing study that involves DNA and RNA from a larger cohort of glioblastoma patients, and a study of 200 patients with different types of cancer.

In more recent years, Mark has been involved in an ongoing study of population genetics with box turtles, in collaboration with scientists at Princeton University, and has worked with the Princeton Neuroscience Institute to guide his students through the process of peer review for the online neuroscience journal Frontiers for Young Minds.

One of our ongoing research projects involves studying the relationship between brain structure and aptitudes.

Two large - scale trials, each involving upwards of 20,000 people, are still ongoing, said Manson, who is leading one of the studies.

She is involved in several research projects, including a study examining the relationship between national culture and student achievement, creativity, and productivity, and an ongoing international comparative study of effective teachers serving disadvantaged students in the United States and China.

His students are also involved in several ongoing research studies including a reproductive study on critically endangered Red Wolves, and a Muskrat survey.

Behavior cases with sheltered and / or your own personal or foster animals do not qualify as case studies unless there is ongoing interaction with clients / owners involved.

During the workshop I will be doing an insight into an ongoing research for the Content Aware Studies Project involving machine learning.

Through this case study, a continuous journey has led them from the crater - field to an ongoing program of widereaching fieldwork in various institutions in Argentina, Germany, England, the United States, and Spain, in which the artists» approach to these iron masses includes bibliographical inquiry, archival research, and interaction with people who have been involved in the history of the region.

A prize of $ 10,000 is given annually by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University to support documentary artists, working alone or in teams, who are involved in ongoing fieldwork projects that fully exploit the relationship of words and images in the powerful, persuasive representation of a subject.

The findings of V+S represent an important contribution to the ongoing scientific discourse on the issue of climate change impacts on tropical cyclones, and the study should spur additional work looking at the complicated issues involved in greater detail.

Even as negotiators meet in Marrakech, Morocco to take the next steps to avert dangerous human - caused climate change — and, even as the U.S. decides whether or not to elect a president who is skeptical it is happening — a new study has highlighted the sharp stakes involved, particularly when it comes to the ongoing rise in global sea level and the dramatic but uneven way in which it could affect the world's coastlines.

Such questions are the subject of an intense ongoing debate, involving socio - political and economic issues beyond the scope of this study.

While Facebook is the greatest ongoing social science experiment of all time, and that data is certainly valuable to academics in many ways, did the users involved truly and knowingly consent to participation in studies into whether they get more jealous after they change their Facebook status to «In a Relationship»?

In addition, they are involved in ongoing relationship research studies.

Post-doctoral fellows also might have the opportunity to be involved in ongoing treatment outcome studies conducted by Dr. Alex Chapman at the Personality and Emotion Research Laboratory.

Four studies were excluded because assignment to treatment was not random, 16 — 19 one because it was an interim analysis of an ongoing study, 20 and 11 because they involved children with depressive symptoms and not depressive disorder.21 — 31 This left six randomised trials of cognitive behaviour therapy for depressive disorder in young people.32 — 37 Two of the trials were conducted by the same research group 32 34 but it was clear from the trial descriptions that they were based on different samples.

Johnston et al. studied 100 low income families involved in ongoing custody disputes that included frequent verbal and physical aggression.