Sentences with phrase «research focused on the form»

Though this research focused on the form of the disease called Leber congenital amaurosis 2, or LCA2, the scientists and engineers involved in the study believe the technology holds promise for other forms of LCA as well as other inherited diseases that lead to severe vision loss or blindness.

Not exact matches

IBM and JDRF, an outfit focused on funding type 1 diabetes research, are teaming up to analyze the factors that may lead to that form of diabetes.

Research by the University of Southern California, which explores what happens when our brains are at rest, reveals that when our minds wander they engage in a form of neural processing «that is relatively suppressed when attention is focused on the outside world.»

Much of the research focused on the noted links between meat consumption and colorectal cancer — the third most common form worldwide, following bladder and breast.

And the focus of his research has been on politics or political things, which give «human life its form.»

One is that most teaching and learning theories are based on the research and theory of modern psychology, which has not been focused primarily on complex forms of communication and reception.

By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would focus our attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the cultural turn in our discipline to other studies of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods of research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we found ourselves.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

This is where much of the resistant - starch research has focused — on the effects of resistant starches to improve bowel health, promote good bacteria and ultimately prevent bowel cancers from forming.

The study of ideologies as serious forms of political thinking is a growth area within the discipline of politics as more and more research focuses on the «small print» of political thinking and on the comparative contexts in which it takes place.

Testimony and other evidence showed that Mr. Silver had arranged to have the State Health Department award two grants totaling $ 500,000 to Dr. Taub, whose research focused on mesothelioma, a deadly form of cancer related to asbestos exposure.

Even as these students were forming their new network, NSF was developing an initiative to fund projects that connect far - flung research departments focusing on the same problems, with a special emphasis on international collaboration.

Because scientists have had difficulty analyzing these interactions, most research has focused on rare familial forms of the disease.

In 1999, the Netherlands Forensic Institute was formed by merging the Netherlands Forensic Laboratory and the Laboratory for Forensic Pathology, and I became a research and development coordinator focusing on developments in digital evidence at the new NFI.

This focus on the hook - up culture also obscures two much bigger issues that our research suggests many young people are struggling with: forming and maintaining healthy and fulfilling romantic relationships and dealing with widespread misogyny and sexual harassment.

Rao and the team of investigators focused their research on the difference between MLL - rearranged and other forms of leukemia.

Mary Whiteside, interim chair of Information Systems and Operations Management within UTA's College of Business, emphasized that this research forms an integral part of UTA's strategic focus on data - driven discovery within the Strategic Plan 2020: Bold Solutions Global Impact.

In the past, he said, much research on Alzheimer's and similar disease focused on fibrils, large bundles of misfolded proteins that form in the brain.

Still the study is «an important first step to show that manipulating AMPK - nNOS signaling at least has the potential to help muscle function in muscular dystrophy,» says Michele whose lab at the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Research Center focuses on inherited forms of skeletal and cardiac diseases.

Twelve industrialized nations and six developing countries have formed a research alliance to focus on measuring and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, which accounts for 14 % of global emissions.

The research, focused on developing thermosensitive nano - hydrogels which, through a polymerization technique, mixes substances with different chemical and physical characteristics, achieving a chemical reaction and forming a set of small spheres called polymers.

Most of the research has focused on studying how dogs are capable to understand different forms of human communication, for example by displaying gestures and human voice recognition.

A large part of Gray's pioneering research has focused on tracing the evolutionary history of mitochondrial genomes in some of the most humble forms of life around: protozoans, slime molds, and certain types of algae.

Most of the studies have focused mainly on tumour cells, whilst the cells that form the stroma are the great unknown, in spite of different research groups proving that some components of stroma promote the tumour progression.

Most regeneration research focuses on the stub — or blastema — that forms over the wound of a severed limb.

Appel and Cocroft say future research will focus on how vibrations are sensed by the plants, what features of the complex vibrational signal are important, and how the mechanical vibrations interact with other forms of plant information to generate protective responses to pests.

«My clinical colleagues are attuned to asking patients about their family history and letting patients know that we have an active research program investigating the inherited form of this disease,» said Dr. Garcia, whose lab focuses on defining the genetic underpinnings of adult - onset lung disease.

Kail said future research should focus on the distinctions between different forms of insurance and the generosity of coverage, as well as how these factors are associated with diverse health outcomes.

For the past 20 years, Zlotnick's lab has conducted research to stop viral infections by studying the physics of viruses, focusing on how capsids are formed.

Much of McClelland's research focuses on the important role of self - regulation skills — the social and emotional skills that help children pay attention, follow directions, stay on task, form healthy friendships and persist through difficulty.

My most recent research has focussed on advanced forms of distributed information management.

My present and past research have been heavily focused on understanding how planets form and planetary systems assemble.

My research focuses on understanding how planetary systems form.

Matthews» laboratory research, with long - term support from the National Institutes of Health, focuses on the fundamental mechanisms used by epithelial tissues to regulate salt secretion — which goes awry in several diseases, including cystic fibrosis and many forms of diarrhea.

Professor Martin's research focuses on the cell biology of transcription - dependent forms of synaptic plasticity, particularly those underlying learning and memory.

Dr. Walter Wilczynski in the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience at Georgia State University has received a five - year $ 499,209 National Science Foundation grant to form a Research Coordination Network focused on advancing the field of sociogenomics.

The research described in this essay focused on understanding this pathway by identifying protein factors that form a lysosome - based signaling platform that positively and negatively regulates the function of the Rags.

For the most part, the research has focused on the discovery of a complex cascade of genes that combine to form molecular pathways needed to help youthful cells, tissues and organs decide in which direction to take their first fateful steps — whether to go left or right.

Sixteen projects have been formed under this agenda, with a focus on upstream research for crop improvement, future intensive rice systems, and others.

MATISSE will contribute to several fundamental research areas in astronomy, focusing in particular on the inner regions of discs around young stars where planets are forming, the study of stars at different stages of their lives, and the surroundings of supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies.

will focus on the newly emergent, but already mature, science of planetary research and aim to bring together solar system and exoplanet researchers for a truly synergistic view of how planetary systems form and evolve.

Warner Greene, MD, PhD, director and senior investigator of GIVI, co-director with Volberding of the UCSF - GIVI Center For AIDS Research (CFAR), and one of the amfAR Institute's four project directors, said the team's strategy would focus on stimulating the less specialized, «innate» immune system that forms the first line of defense against infections.

Research in the Rose lab is focused on understanding the biological importance of the structural polymers that form plant cell walls, as well as the water resistant barrier, called the cuticle (the plant «skin»), which covers the above ground surfaces of land plants.

The study, which forms part of a larger research focus on Arctic charr and their adaptations to the harsh environment of the North, also contributes to increased understanding of how new species may arise.

Currently, the main focus for malaria research is on the species that causes the deadliest form of malaria, Plasmodium falciparum.

DR. CORSON: That is a little bit outside of my focus area, since we focus on the wet form of the disease, but I know there are some very exciting research projects coming out of a number of different centers in terms of understanding the underlying biology of the dry form of the disease, which has been a little bit harder to figure out than with the wet form.

Dr. Charron's research focuses on understanding how medulloblastoma forms, in particular which genes may promote or inhibit medulloblastoma tumorigenesis.

Recent research has focused on gamma - tocotrienol, one of the four forms of tocotrienols.

While much of the debate has focused on inorganic, or «bad,» arsenic, research has shown that organic arsenic, while generally considered less harmful than the inorganic form, may not be as harmless as once thought.

This focus on the hook - up culture also obscures two much bigger issues that our research suggests many young people are struggling with: forming and maintaining healthy and fulfilling romantic relationships and dealing with widespread misogyny and sexual harassment.