Sentences with phrase «past human studies»

To determine the most effective treatment options, the researchers systematically reviewed past human studies and guidelines to develop recommendations for the most appropriate joint treatment approaches for diabetes and osteoporosis.

Not exact matches

Numerous studies over the past decade have revealed the devastating long - term impact that football can have on the human brain.

For the past two decades, Keltner has been studying human emotions and how they influence behavior.

Based on his studies during the 1960s and his practical experience in the early 1970s, Milken was determined to focus, first, on future cash flow rather than the past as reflected in book value and reported earnings; and second, to consider human capital part of the balance sheet.

His other professional acknowledgments include: Institute for Management Studies — Lifetime Achievement Award (one of only two ever awarded), American Management Association - 50 great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past 80 years, BusinessWeek — 50 great leaders in America, Wall Street Journal — top ten executive educators, Forbes — five most - respected executive coaches, Leadership Excellence — top five thinkers on leadership, Economic Times (India)-- top CEO coaches of America, Economist (UK)-- most credible executive advisors in the new era of business, National Academy of Human Resources — Fellow of the Academy (America's top HR award), World HRD Congress — 2011 global leader in HR thinking, Fast Company — America's preeminent executive coach, and Leader to Leader Institute — 2010 Leader of the Future Award.

Well I'm not a Gold Bug; I'm a realist and an economist who studies not only the past but human nature as well.

The reports of Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the International Center for Transitional Justice (the world's leading non-governmental organization studying political transitions), as well as the U.N. documents on the justice of nations moving from tyranny to democracy, give prominence to judicial punishment among all possible measures for addressing past human - rights violatHuman Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the International Center for Transitional Justice (the world's leading non-governmental organization studying political transitions), as well as the U.N. documents on the justice of nations moving from tyranny to democracy, give prominence to judicial punishment among all possible measures for addressing past human - rights violathuman - rights violations.

«It has been predicted from a study of the pattern of church attendance over the past 100 years that if trends continue there will be virtually no Christian institutional presence in Britain by the year 2050 (David Hay, the Biology of the Human Spirit).

Because of this divergent process of actualization — the material past is dead, the mental past is alive — a distinction must be made between cosmology or pseudo-history and history proper (i.e., the study of human thought).

Messiah College history professor John Fea writes about human depravity and its implications for studying the past on The Anxious Bench:

The study of history thus provides opportunities for the practice of freedom, by participating imaginatively in the decisions of persons who have acted in the past, thereby transcending the narrow confines of one's own existence, and by engaging in the activity of constructing and reconstructing a picture of the past, in the search for an ever more adequate account of the human drama.

Such process includes human history but includes also the dim past studied by the paleontologist and the distant space of the astronomer.

Messiah College history professor John Fea writes about human depravity and its implications for studying the past on The Anxious Bench: The historian Herbert Butterfield informed us that «if there is any region in which the bright empire of the theologians and the more murky territory of....

In contrast, the social - science approach seeks structural and cultural contexts for personages in the past by studying the actual behavior of contemporary people with similar social structures, values and human types.

Neuroscientists have over the past decade uncovered evidence, both in rodent and human studies, that parental caregiving, especially in moments of stress, affects children's development not only on the level of hormones and brain chemicals, but even more deeply, on the level of gene expression.

Molecular biologist Christina Warinner studies calculus, or fossilized dental plaque, which contains a trove of genetic clues to past human diet and disease.

But in the past year or so studies have been published suggesting that human cannibalism was once much...

«Because certain geological events record everything, studying them helps to reconstruct the environmental past and to determine how human beings have influenced the environment.

«Past research has found a link between violent crimes and performance on tests, but researchers haven't been able to say why crime affects academic performance,» explains Jennifer A. Heissel, a PhD graduate in human development and sociology at Northwestern University, who led the study.

Past studies have shown that ET - 1 is the most potent, longest - lasting vasoconstrictor in humans, and it promotes the development of plaques inside the arteries.

He studies the interactions between humans and parasites during evolution, as well as parasites in past civilizations and how they have affected human health.

The findings, including the key role played by the prefrontal cortex in coordinating all the activated regions of the brain, are in line with what neuroscientists have pieced together over the past decades from studies in monkeys and humans.

If dozens of human and animal studies published over the past six years are borne out by large clinical trials, nicotine — freed at last of its noxious host, tobacco, and delivered instead by chewing gum or transdermal patch — may prove to be a weirdly, improbably effective drug for relieving or preventing a variety of neurological disorders, including Parkinson's disease, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Tourette's and schizophrenia.

The team's approach relied on methods developed in the past decade or so to study «functional connectivity» in the adult human brain — essentially using fMRI to determine which brain regions have synchronized activity when the subject is not engaged in any particular task.

Studies over the past decade have revealed that the complexity of the genome, and indeed almost every aspect of human biology, is far greater than was previously thought.

Human herpesvirus - 6 (HHV - 6), in particular, has been linked to MS in past studies.

The study «tells us something that we may have been missing in the past,» says Jan - Fang Cheng of the Human Genome Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.

Past studies comparing the language - learning abilities of humans and other primates have looked at what monkeys can do with human language.

«Most pain medications that have been tested in the past decade have failed in phase II human trials despite performing well in animal models,» notes Clifford Woolf, MD, PhD, director of Boston Children's F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center and a co-senior investigator on the study with Michael Costigan, PhD.

They then compared these two sets of data to each other and to past studies of humans and pets.

In the past, nutritional scientists have largely relied on studies of animals, small groups of people, and / or petri - dish biochemistry that may not reflect the vagaries of human metabolism, although Willett uses such studies when he deems it appropriate.

Paleontology studies such as this can «establish an ecosystem's long - term past before humans altered it,» says invertebrate paleontologist Sally Walker of the University of Georgia, Athens.

Since 2013, exploration and survey of around 70 cave systems — part of an interdisciplinary study of past human activity on Mona Island — has revealed that Mona's caves include the greatest diversity of preserved indigenous iconography in the Caribbean, with thousands of motifs recorded in darkzone chambers far from cave entrances.

The study reflects a significant advance in the integration of research among scientists and historians, and points to the need for more interdisciplinary scholarship to better document and analyze how humans have related and responded to past environmental changes, says Marlon.

«It offers a new window onto past human genetic variation, and is truly an important development in the history of our science and in the study of the past.»

In a study published last year in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Hopkins and other scientists measured the stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen in the hair and bone of Yosemite bears over the past century and found that since 1999, the proportion of human - derived food in bear diets has dramatically declined.

Wouldn't it be neat to know when human ancestors first started making stone tools or to study past pandemics and their sources with crystal - clear clarity?

«Yosemite bears and human food: Study reveals changing diets over past century.»

The study revealed important natural fluctuations in climate have occurred over past millennia, which would have naturally led to climatic cooling today in the absence of human activity.

This prediction emerges from a new study by Richard Zeebe at the University of Hawai'i who includes insights from episodes of climate change in the geologic past to inform projections of human - made future climate change.

«Along with archaeology and nomadic forager research, this [study] shoots holes in the view that the human past and human nature are shockingly violent,» Fry says.

I have exclusively studied the effects of light on humans for the past 30 years.

Within so - called epigenetic research, several studies have suggested that human precursor cells have a memory of past environmental exposures.

Over the past few years, researchers have increasingly turned to stem cells to study various diseases in humans.

An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, successfully recovered and analyzed ancient DNA from Egyptian mummies dating from approximately 1400 BCE to 400 CE, including the first genome - wide nuclear data from three individuals, establishing ancient Egyptian mummies as a reliable source for genetic material to study the ancient past.

The idea builds on the work of renowned neuroscientist Endel Tulving, who pioneered the study of human episodic memory — the recall of our autobiographical past.

Rather than assign blame to humans for particular extremes, scientists could study a class of events, such as heavy rainfall in a certain geography, and say whether past human actions have increased their risk.

Exploration and surveys of around 70 cave systems — part of an interdisciplinary study of past human activity on Puerto Rico's Mona Island — revealed that Mona's caves include the greatest diversity of preserved indigenous iconography in the Caribbean, with thousands of motifs recorded in dark zone chambers far from cave entrances.

Two studies published this past spring pin the blame squarely on humans.

Thanks to the study of past mistakes, and of the results of natural and human - induced processes, we can better anticipate and understand the consequences of our actions, and exert more control.