Sentences with phrase «recent years a body»

In recent years a body of evidence has accumulated to show that chronic inflammation can play an important role in the progression of some types of tumors from a premalignant state to full - blown disease.

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In recent years, a few fascinating studies at Harvard, Princeton and other top universities shed new light on body language and how to use it at work.

Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis has made waves with a drug pipeline that includes one of the most talked - about experimental cancer therapies in recent years — a treatment called Kymriah that reconfigures the body's own immune cells to become aggressive blood - cancer killers.

giant Novartis has made waves with a drug pipeline that includes one of the most talked - about experimental cancer therapies in recent years — a treatment called Kymriah that reconfigures the body's own immune cells to become aggressive blood - cancer killers.

But its most prominent project in recent years involved a water body of a different variety.

Like most supervisory bodies in Europe, the board of DB has proven remarkably inert in recent years, basically a reflection of the lax governance of banks more generally in the EU.

The February decision by the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Makane Yesus (EECMY) to terminate its 150 - year partnership with the Church of Sweden (CoS) and its 50 - year partnership with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) comes after the EECMY tried — and failed — to persuade the other two bodies to reverse recent decisions to ordain gay clergy and bless same - sex unions.

[15] In recent years, Padre Pio took up the same point, «Our body is like a donkey which we must beat, but not too much, because otherwise it will collapse and won't carry us any more.»

It has been common in recent years for scripture scholars to tell us that the idea of the separation of body and soul after death — indeed that any systematic distinction between body and soul — was alien to the Hebrew vision of the Old Testament.

Despite a mounting body of research showing that high rates of divorce and out - of - wedlock births pose serious threats to the well - being of children, mainline Protestantism has had remarkably little to say in recent years about the nature, health and prospects of the family.

I believe that the liberal churches and ecumenical bodies, faced with such choices, should maintain much the same kind of balance — or imbalance, if you like — that in recent years has brought them under criticism.

So far as I know, in recent years the only American church body to address this issue with any comparable integrity is the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod; this is astounding.

The benefits of omega - 3 fatty acids have been widely documented over recent years with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health stating that they are an essential contribution to the human body.

While the BCA has not yet made a submission to the Fair Work Commission's Annual Wage Review, which sets the country's minimum wage, Australia's peak employer body, the Australian Industry Group, wants the minimum wage increased 1.8 % this financial year, arguing inflation remains weak and that businesses are struggling with a recent rise in energy costs.

The recommendation is in keeping with peak body Fruit Juice Australia's (FJA) suggested portion size in recent years.

The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA), the industry trade body, said there has been a serious problem with fake «Scotch Whisky» being sold in Australia in recent years.

Average home football attendance for the last three years, plus recent student body size numbers:

Recent years have seen prominent campaigns against high ticket prices, while bodies like Kick It Out have become part of the national conversation.

However when I look at Football and see what are considered the most successful teams in world football in recent years (not Santos, or Boca Juniors): Barcelona, Madrid, ManU... can we honestly say that these beloved clubs world over create / encourage / influence a pattern of behavior that discourages the corruption at the level of the governing body?

With Bastian Schweinsteiger now ruled out for at least the rest of the current season, and potentially more given how unreliable his body has become in recent years both at Bayern Munich and now United, Louis van Gaal appears to have turned again to his captain as the next viable option to place at the heart of his side.

Instead, I voted to approve the draft standard because, without an established standard in place to regulate the headgear that has come on to the market in recent years (none of which, according to US Lacrosse, has been developed based on scientific testing, and none of which the organization - the governing body for both the men's and women's game - has endorsed), consumers are essentially «buying a pig in a poke»: in other words, without a clue as to whether the product they are buying has any safety value at all.

In recent years, medical science has learned a lot about the benefits of collagen for virtually every part of your body, but most especially to bones and tissue.

By Patricia Markland Cole, MPH, MotherToBaby Massachusetts November is Diabetes Awareness Month and both of my parents in recent years have been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes (a preventable form of diabetes where the body can no longer control the amount of sugar in the blood), so it's a particularly relatable month for me.

The guilt has been exacerbated in recent years by a growing body of evidence showing just how important involved fatherhood is.

Federal officials don't track how many people in the U.S. have been harmed, but a recent government study estimated 410,000 babies are born each year at risk for mercury poisoning because of high levels in their mothers» bodies.

In recent years, many scholars have turned to a classic body of work on the cost of participating in and organizing collective action to explain phenomena such as the Dean and Obama campaigns.

«In recent years we've seen public bodies bending over backwards to translate documents up to and including their annual report into a variety of foreign languages.

The research on PFOA is stronger than on most chemicals and the documented connections between the chemical and cancers has grown exponentially in recent years, building a uniquely large of body of research, compared to most chemicals, said Phil Brown, director of the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute at Northeastern University.

«Furthermore, awarding bodies have indicated that any fall in top grades, if one does occur, is likely to be very small and that, overall, A-level results are likely to be broadly in line with recent years.

This follows a special supplement in the latest edition of Private Eye containing all sorts of allegations and revelations about the CDC's work in recent years, including huge personal expense claims which seem out of place for a body which is meant to assist development in the third world.

Assembly members who spoke with Gotham Gazette acknowledged the body's embarrassing history of dismissing sexual misconduct claims internally, which has led to a slew of unflattering headlines in 2012 and 2013, but noted that an influx of female legislators to the Assembly in recent years has also helped to reshape the culture.

The City Council opened its stated meeting Thursday with parallel protests over recent police killings of African - Americans, protests that sharply illustrated the different styles of a pair of black lawmakers from Brooklyn, both of whom insiders say aspire to lead the body after next year.

A recent Finnish study shows that high body adiposity, low physical activity, and particularly their combination are related to poorer physical fitness among 6 - 8 year old children.

At first it was thought that only functioned as cellular debris warehouses but in recent years has been that could have an important role as a messenger between cells of the body and now many groups focus their research on the role that could be played exosomes in various diseases, including cancer.

Data from identical twins going back as far as the 1930s suggest that body weight is at least partly inherited, but only in recent years have scientists begun to appreciate the complexity of the genetic factors underlying obesity.

A recent study by my doctoral student Allison Tripp and her colleague Naomi Schmidt demonstrated that the body shapes of female figurines from around 25,000 years ago correspond to women at many different stages of life; they're a variety of shapes and sizes.

A recent study by Allison Tripp of the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, and Naomi Schmidt of New Mexico State University in Las Cruces demonstrated that female figurines from around 25,000 years ago have bodies of all shapes and sizes, not just the exaggerated anatomical features of the famous «Venuses» (Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia, vol 41, in press).

However, in recent years scientists have discovered that a small amount of brown fat is found in adults, and that the body retains the ability to form more under certain conditions.

In the past few years, molecular biologists have come to a stunning realization: Some of their most critical reagents are so inconsistent that a large body of recent work may in fact be wrong.

In recent years, research has shown that what people commonly think of as «their» bodies contain roughly 10 microbial cells for each genetically human one.

All manner of high - ranking advisory bodies have weighed in on the subject in recent years, and Obama has mentioned it in his last two State of the Union addresses as well as on several other occasions.

Researchers have found in recent years that single - celled organisms and viruses harbored in the human body outnumber the body's own cells.

Their analysis concluded that whale body length had varied randomly for about 30 million years before making a leap to more than 10 meters between 4.5 million and hundreds of thousands of years ago — a stretch of time that straddles the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, commonly referred to as the Plio - Pleistocene — which was more recent than previous research suggested.

Ubik works with international bodies like the United Nations or the European Union, in developing tools and services based in geospatial technologies, a field that is experiencing exponential growth in recent years.

In recent years, however, Professor Manos Tsakiris of the Royal Holloway University of London and Professor Mel Slater of University College London and the University of Barcelona have developed ways to expose participants to bodily illusions that induce ownership over a body different from their own with respect to race, age, or gender.

In recent years, multi-drug therapy has made it possible to suppress HIV multiplication in the body when taken properly.

Based on these ratings, Bozsik's team established that recent winners no longer only exemplify the body ideal of thinness, but have also become increasingly muscular over the past 15 years.

To find out, Leifer and his collaborators genetically engineered the one - millimeter - long nematode worm to make particular cells in its body sensitive to light, a technique called optogenetics, developed in recent years by Stanford University psychiatrist and bioengineer Karl Deisseroth [see Deisseroth's «Controlling the Brain with Light,» Scientific American, November 2010].

Evolution In recent years, athletes including cyclists have used drugs called HIF stabilizers (hypoxia inducible factor), an emerging class of kidney - disease drugs that stimulate the body's own production of EPO by activating genes to express EPO.

Those inhabiting the human body have received increased attention in recent years, owing to a greater appreciation of the interrelated nature of humans and their microbiome, an improved understanding of microbial ecology, and an unprecedented ability to detect fine - scale microbial community changes with high - throughput sequencing technology (Human Microbiome Project Consortium, 2012).