Sentences with phrase «other large scale studies»

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Some small studies have suggested that synbiotics could provide benefits to a range of other conditions influenced by the gut microbiome as well, including obesity, diabetes, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, but larger - scale clinical trials focusing on each of those conditions are needed.

For example, while we have not seen any large - scale research studies in this regard, we would predict that crimini mushrooms grown on composted materials that had previously been contaminated with residues of pesticides, heavy metals, or other unwanted substances would end up absorbing some of these contaminants into the brown button mushroom that we eat.

However large scale studies which show significant correlations like this, and do not include other pieces of social support data to help interpret those correlations, can be misleading.

We plan on using it to study other large - scale evolutionary patterns such as how early placental mammals dispersed across the continents via land bridges that no longer exist today.»

Other longer - term studies, such as the 5 - year COcoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study (COSMOS) of 18,000 men and women, are now underway to investigate the health potential of flavanols on a much larger scale.

According to the first large - scale study of babies born before and after natural gas extraction began in Pennsylvania, those living near fracking sites had significantly lower birth weights — and worse health — than other babies.

Large - scale genetic study defines relationship between primary sclerosing cholangitis and other autoimmune diseases.

«It is unlikely that historically low rates of deforestation can persist in the face of growing pressures to clear land due to increases in population, demand for wood and charcoal, cropping with reduced fallow periods leading to soil degradation, and international interests in large scale land investments for oil, biofuel and other crops,» the study states.

«Our study shows that it would be relatively cheap to secure the future of the forest — and protect its plants, birds and other animals — by paying land owners on a large scale to set aside land for conservation.

Authors of the study hope future studies will investigate the effects of other documentary films and see why some films lead to large - scale mobilizations and others do not.

Although scaling up the system to accommodate whole organs will require further study, the authors are applying some of the insights gained from this study to other large medical problems.

While biofuels from crops, grasses, wood, agricultural residues and other materials emit less carbon than fossil fuels over a crop - to - vehicle life cycle, recent studies have questioned the availability of material to make fuels on a large scale.

«This study is part of a larger effort to improve our ability to model microclimates in urban areas and other climate phenomena at decision - relevant scales,» Jones said.

Moreover, the demography of the Ashkenazi population, the largest isolated population in the U.S., enables large - scale recruitment of study patients and hence more genetic discoveries than in other well - known isolated populations like the Amish and Hutterites locally, or the Icelanders overseas.

This analysis will provide help in creating study models with which to understand other large - scale phenomena.

Large - scale storage of low - pressure, gaseous hydrogen in salt caverns and other underground sites for transportation fuel and grid - scale energy applications offers several advantages over above - ground storage, says a recent Sandia National Laboratories study sponsored by the Department of Energy's Fuel Cell Technologies Office.

Forthcoming in the Journal of Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, the study offers the earliest known archaeological evidence for human construction of large - scale levees and other flood - control systems in China.

«Our future field studies will focus on voluntary commitment devices in other health behaviors, such as gym exercise and smoking cessation, which can work in large - scale incentive programs and help people maintain self - control on an ongoing basis.»

To help scientists take advantage of this untapped wealth of data from hospital scans, a team of MIT researchers, working with doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital and many other institutions, has devised a way to boost the quality of these scans so they can be used for large - scale studies of how strokes affect different people and how they respond to treatment.

The eagerly awaited results from the world's first large - scale trial of a malaria vaccine are in, and they confirm what other, smaller studies had shown: The vaccine, called RTS, S, offers partial protection, cutting episodes of malaria in babies and toddlers in half.

In future studies, extending this method to other kinds of substrates could enable the quick large scale processing of monolayers of graphene to make high - quality nanoribbons with zigzag edges.

The CCDG award, when viewed in the light of the recent NIH budget increase, also presents a unique opportunity to seek funding for other large - scale common disease sequencing studies that might be co-funded with other institutes.

Other studies have similarly described the decline of glaciers and snowfields in the Northern Rockies and Pacific Northwest (e.g., Mote et al. 2005; Moore et al. 2009; Nolin et al. 2010), suggesting that this pattern is much larger in scale than Glacier National Park.

For significant periods of time, the reconstructed large - scale changes in the North Pacific SLP field described here and by construction the long - term decline in Hawaiian winter rainfall are broadly consistent with long - term changes in tropical Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) based on ENSO reconstructions documented in several other studies, particularly over the last two centuries.

Large - scale and effective studies of biological molecules with a different structural basis such as proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, lipids and numerous metabolites (including e.g. fatty acids, amino acids, purines, pyrimidines or steroids) is currently highly attractive because of the availability of modern instruments and tools for both separation and analysis (2 - D chromatographs, capillary electrophoresis systems, microfluidics, mass spectrometers, powerful NMR spectrometers, DNA / RNA arrays and others).

A Clinical Core has capability to safely and efficiently distribute clinical studies of vaccine immunosafety for biomarker discovery from small intensive trials to large - scale studies of adult, paediatric and other populations.

Their work has inspired similar large - scale studies in other countries, including the UK Biobank and the United States» All of Us initiative.

Thus, this study sets the stage for large scale genome - wide RNA - protein maps that include other proteins, tissues, and species, which should yield an unprecedented new level of understanding of this complex regulatory process.

«Results of this study and others suggest that accelerated forest thinning at large scales could improve the water balance and resilience of forests and sustain the ecosystem services they provide.»

Large - scale genomic studies on other chlamydial species are giving insights into the biology of these organisms but have not yet been performed on C. abortus.

Current tools for visualization and integration of proteomics with other omics datasets are inadequate for large - scale studies and capture only basic sequence identity information.

Using individual - level data from 335,464 participants in the UK Biobank and summary association results from seven large - scale genome wide association studies, we examined the effect of this nitric oxide signaling score on cardiometabolic and other diseases.

These findings jibe with two other large - scale studies that have suggested acetaminophen may have an adverse effect on a baby's brain during pregnancy, said Dr. Andrew Adesman.

Two studies, done on a larger scale, looked at fish oil supplementation paired with other nutrients on AMD.

Properly planned vegetarian diets have been found to satisfy the nutritional needs for all stages of life, and large - scale studies have shown vegetarianism to significantly lower risks of cancer, ischaemic heart disease, and other diseases.

The Boston study of just over 2,000 students in the public school district's universal program for 4 - to -5-year-olds found greater gains in vocabulary and math for participating students compared with nonparticipants, after one year, than seen in any other study of other large - scale pre-K programs around the US.

The authors demonstrate how several path - breaking concepts such as those emerging from studies of the Holocaust can be applied to the interpretation of large - scale violence and massive trauma in other societies.

Although large - scale studies regarding the effectiveness of student - led conferences have not been conducted, small case studies find that student - led parent / teacher conferences increases a student's responsibility for learning and that student - led meetings can be especially helpful for those with disabilities or other special considerations.

While multiple meta - analyses and large - scale research studies have found that models following the bilingual approach can produce better outcomes than ESL models, as measured by general academic content assessments or measures of reading comprehension or skills, other studies indicate that the quality of instructional practices matter as well as the language of instruction.

Our response to Secretary Duncan expresses other concerns as well, stressing the importance of evidence - based policy making, and explaining why pilot evaluation studies are preferable to the large - scale adoption of unproven state - mandated evaluation systems based on untested assumptions.

Nine Keys to Student Achievement and Cost - Effectiveness The first large - scale national study to identify and prioritize the factors that make some technology implementations perform dramatically better than others, demonstrate that schools employing a 1:1 student computer ratio and the key implementation factors outperform other schools, and reveal significant opportunities for improving education return on investment (ROI) by transforming teaching and learning.

However, two careful, large - scale studies, reviewed in detail below, suggest that despite the lack of persistence of value - added on future test scores, one year of experience with a high - value - added teacher predicts higher rates of college attendance and adult earnings, as well as other important outcomes.

Therefore, making definitive claims about the outcomes of such programs remains a challenging task.83 Some studies find no link between financial incentives for student achievement and higher test scores, while others see higher achievement for students in systems with performance bonuses.84 A large - scale 2014 study on TIF presented findings on early implementation from 153 districts.

A comprehensive study of Michigan districts indicates that the most cost - effective size is about 2,900 students, suggesting that Texas» funding system overestimates the cost savings of its larger districts while providing additional funding to others based on non-existent or exaggerated disadvantages related to scale.

Plenty of other models perform well for such large - scale educational research studies.

The new information will be used to launch a larger - scale study into other potential genetic contributing factors to SCC in horses.

Institutions involved in large scale studies, provide follow up whole body MRI evaluations at discounted or no cost, as a means of assessing CSF dynamics, degree of syrinx resolution, and for the development of other conditions that may result in clinical signs that imitate CLM.

Playful in tone and less reliant upon the exploitative construct of the case - study scenario in such large scale video projects as Them, 2007, and Repetition, 2005, Artur Zmijewski's earlier videos stand in contrast to these somewhat over-determined provocations; while recent Zmijewski productions have adopted a nearly formulaic approach to positioning cultural difference and conflict, and thereby seem to codify the subject as «other» a priori — a risk that critic and art historian Hal Foster has insightfully called the «self - othering» of «the artist as ethnographer» — three earlier Zmijewski works engage a simpler, more agile approach.

But tremendous natural variability occurs in the large - scale atmospheric circulation during all seasons, and even in summer the links between Arctic warming and mid-latitude weather are not supported by other observational studies.

Other studies of the Amazon climate tipping point The existence of an Amazonian climate tipping point is confirmed by other model studies, including the above - mentioned Climatic Change publication from 2008 — that suggests a large - scale die - back (70 percent) from about 3 degrees onwards, starting in the South of the bOther studies of the Amazon climate tipping point The existence of an Amazonian climate tipping point is confirmed by other model studies, including the above - mentioned Climatic Change publication from 2008 — that suggests a large - scale die - back (70 percent) from about 3 degrees onwards, starting in the South of the bother model studies, including the above - mentioned Climatic Change publication from 2008 — that suggests a large - scale die - back (70 percent) from about 3 degrees onwards, starting in the South of the basin.