Sentences with phrase «previous studies testing»

The authors are submitting the paper, which builds on previous studies testing artificial intelligence, for further review at an upcoming AI conference.

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In previous editions of this guide, we spent a huge amount of time and resources testing cables: We looked at nearly 40 popular and highly rated cables for the prior edition, including sending a selection of those to a former NASA engineer to tear them down and study their physical construction.

Most previous studies have compared breast fed children with children who were exclusively formula fed, but some studies have found that the correlation between breast feeding and cognitive ability increases with a longer duration of breast feeding.3 13 30 A Finnish study of 1163 children found a mean difference of 2.4 points on a cognitive test at 6 months of age between children breast fed for less than five months, compared to children breast fed for at least five months.10

Since my university had a colony of balding stump - tailed male macaques that had been used in previous hair - restoration studies, the pharmaceutical company provided additional funds to test this product on the macaques.

She explains that the raccoons had fewer opportunities to interact with the puzzle than did many of the birds that were tested in previous studies.

Previous studies have suggested that various forms of meditation can improve attention and reduce stress, but there have been few randomised controlled trials — the best way of testing a treatment's effectiveness.

«The significance of previous studies performed in test tubes was unclear,» she said.

Previous research has tested how well radiation - exposed rats do with basic learning tasks and mazes, but this new Johns Hopkins study focused on tests that closely mimic the self - tests of fitness for duty currently used by astronauts on the International Space Station prior to mission - critical events such as space walks.

«Previous studies had tested the use of rosiglitazone for cancer treatment, but the outcome was not encouraging.

This estimate, while in line with suggestions from previous linguistic studies, is a more robust result because it was found consistently in the majority of the different statistical models of evolution tested in this study.

But the new cantilever experiment tests for wave function collapse occurring at different rate and length scales than those previous studies.

Shea notes that although he and his colleagues have yet to finalize their measurements on how well their nanoparticles bind to various PLA2 molecules, their test - tube results suggest that they could have a similar high affinity for PLA2s as their previous nanoparticles had for melittin, the bee venom protein that stopped the toxin in animal studies.

Based on a study of more than 30,000 elementary, middle, and high school students conducted in winter 2015 - 16, researchers found that elementary and middle school students scored lower on a computer - based test that did not allow them to return to previous items than on two comparable tests — paper - or computer - based — that allowed them to skip, review, and change previous responses.

The study showed that the vaccine being tested elicited more RSV antibodies in young children than a previous RSV vaccine candidate.

«Previous studies have shown inconsistent findings between sleep - disordered breathing and cognition, which may be due to the different tests used,» said lead study author Dayna A. Johnson, PhD, MPH, MS, MSW, instructor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

In a study published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Dr. Sean B. Rourke found that in 2011, 87.3 per cent of people in the Ontario study were receiving care (defined as having had one viral load test measuring amount of HIV virus in the blood in the previous year), 77 per cent were on antiretroviral treatment and 76 per cent had a suppressed viral load.

«You shouldn't be testing everybody, but if there are reasons to believe that a test for H. pylori may come back positive, and it does come back positive, you should go on to treat,» says Dr. Traci Murakami, previous gastroenterology fellow at the UA and graduate of the clinical and translational research graduate certificate at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman School of Public Health, now an assistant clinical professor of medicine at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and lead author of the study.

Like the previous study, the samples were tested using DNA barcoding.

«In contrast to most previous studies, in which the animals learned from peers, the present study tested piglets after they observed their mother or their aunt in the process of solving a manipulative task,» explains Ludwig Huber, the director of this Messerli Foundation - financed study.

They were able to use the data gathered to test previous hypotheses drawn from archaeological and historical data, and from studies of modern DNA.

This study expanded on previous research from 2016, which found that older adults who were sexually active scored higher on cognitive tests than those who were not sexually active.

Camels: Following a lead that some early MERS victims were in contact with camels, researchers tested 50 of the animals from nearby Oman: All had antibodies showing previous exposure to MERS, according to another study published in August.

The new research builds on two previous studies that found the two programs benefitted children in early elementary school, boosting third - grade reading and math - test scores and reducing third - grade special education placements.

«Unlike in previous tests that require invasive procedures to produce a trigger, our studies show that the EN2 test immediately shows up and that levels of the protein correlate strongly with how far the disease has spread.

Previous studies have subjected phytoplankton to oil in laboratories to test their sensitivity and found differences in the impact on oceanic vs. coastal phytoplankton and differences when phytoplankton were in nutrient - rich or nutrient - poor water, as well as damage to some phytoplankton cells at various concentrations of oil.

Previous studies have found similar patterns in birds, mice and other animals, but this is the first time the phenomenon has been tested in humans, Samson said.

«This study is unique in that we looked at long - term users of these desks whereas previous studies have examined employee's sitting / standing habits immediately after being provided a new sit - stand desk, which is not a true test of whether someone will use the desk over the course of their 20 - to 30 - year career,» Carr says.

«Also, in our previous studies, we inferred the presence of nuclear polarization indirectly through optical measurements because we weren't able to test if the bulk sample was polarized or just the nuclei that were very close to the NV centers.

As in their previous studies of limbs and eyes, Levin and his colleagues tested the strength of their bioelectrical blueprint elsewhere in the body to see whether it would spur neuronal growth in locations far from the brain.

As in previous studies, contamination rates were high: 66 percent of contact lens cases tested positive for bacterial or fungal contamination.

«Previous lab tests have been done on pure gluten, but for the first time we have simulated digestion using real bread and pasta bought from the supermarket to see if these molecules are produced,» said Dr. Milda Stuknytė, one of the authors of the study.

Miller, who serves as director of clinical research and executive vice-chair of Emergency Medicine at Wake Forest Baptist, said the study built on previous research findings that more complex patients managed in an observation unit with stress CMR testing experienced a reduction in care costs of about $ 2,100 per patient per year.

Previous studies have found that people with autism and anorexia tend to score lower on the Eyes Test.

The study, appearing March 9 in the journal Scientific Reports, directly tested the antibodies used in previous analyses and showed that they cross-reacted with proteins other than irisin, yielding a false positive result.

In a previous multi-institutional study, the researchers tested an earlier version of the tool involving 355 patients in pediatric intensive care units.

Previous research has tested the use of FLG with nano - sized silicon but this new study has found that FLG can also dramatically improve the performance of larger micron - sized silicon particles when used in an anode.

We note that this does not correct for multiple hypothesis testing, however, our cutoff (P < 0.0001) is higher than previous studies that have used this method (Green et al. 2010; Freedman et al. 2014; Li et al. 2016).

She noted that so far only few studies have explored IQ in ART children, and no previous studies have included ninth grade test scores in a complete national cohort of 15 -16-year-old adolescents all conceived by ART.

And while numerous previous studies of the phenomenon focused on a single hypothesis, the Larison - led study was the first to fully test a large set of hypotheses against one another.

In their previous study, the researchers found that drugs that inhibit FGFR3 kinase, an enzyme that helps the protein produced by this fusion gene do its work, increased survival when tested in mice with glioblastoma.

Cai, the senior author of the study and an associate professor of radiology, says that unlike previous methods for measuring the quantity of beta cells, the new test also measures how actively these cells are making insulin.

«Previous studies at a few sites had shown that large trees suffer more than small trees during and after droughts, and our theory suggested this should be a globally consistent pattern, but this project was the first to test this hypothesis globally.»

«Previous studies at a few sites had shown that large trees suffer more than small trees during and after droughts, and our theory suggested this should be a globally consistent pattern, but this project was the first to test this hypothesis globally,» said Los Alamos National Laboratory's Nate McDowell, a renowned forest ecologist and plant physiologist who coauthored a paper in the journal Nature Plants highlighting this research.

The study tested a lower dose of the oral multi-targeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor sunitinib than in previous trials, where toxicity proved too much of a problem.

A researcher handles a fragment and a test tube sample of the Murchison meteorite, which has been shown to contain a a variety of hydrocarbons and amino acids, in this photo from a previous, unrelated study at Argonne National Laboratory.

Based on those previous signals, Somaiah and colleagues conducted a phase II study testing the anti — PDL - 1 agent durvalumab in combination with the anti — CTLA - 4 agent tremelimumab in multiple sarcoma subtypes.

However, no previous studies were able to comprehensively investigate the connection because sufficiently sensitive tests, or assays, were not available to measure ATP (the energy unit of the cell that is generated by mitochondria) in individual neurons.

We finally tested whether we could replicate findings from a previous study (13) in which methylation was analyzed with the Illumina 27k array.

Previous studies have found similar patterns in birds, mice and other animals, but this is the first time the phenomenon has been tested in humans.

«Previous studies determined the maximal radiotherapy doses for single organs,» said Salama, lead author of the study, «but this technique has not been tested for simultaneous use on multiple organs.