Sentences with phrase «researchers count the numbers»

The researchers counted the number of gamma - H2AX foci and found a significant positive link between BMI and the number of gamma - H2AX foci in the tissue.

The researchers counted the number of species of trees on parcels of land in the Indonesian Borneo rain forest that had been selectively logged for tall trees, either 1 or 8 years ago.

The researchers counted the numbers of a particular type of immune cell, known as microglia, in the samples and found that these were more numerous in the brains with Alzheimer's disease.

In this type of study, two researchers count the numbers of wild prey in a specific area at different times or from different places and compare their findings.

The researchers counted the number of damaged cells in the mice's lungs, and calculated a Pathology score based on this.

Some researchers count the number of principals who say they are experiencing hiring difficulties.

This was the conclusion reached in an oft - cited study at Columbia University, where researchers counted the number of verbal fillers used by professors during lectures given to undergraduate students in three separate academic divisions: the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities.27 The natural - sciences professors used the fewest verbal fillers, with a mean rate of 1.39 uhs per minute.28 The social - science professors had a mean rate of 3.84 uhs per minute, and the rate for humanities professors was 6.46 uhs per minute.

Following the history of transactions on the blockchain, the researchers counted the number of transactions and divided them into four main categories: mining, bitcoin exchanges, gambling services and black markets.

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To assess actual consumption, trained field researchers were assigned to every school to record how much of the apple was wasted by counting the number of slices thrown away by each student.

The researchers counted up the number of times each word appeared in the dataset during each year from 1800 to 2000, allowing them to follow changes in word use.

Using a molecule that attaches selectively to neurons in this slurry, researchers could count the number of neurons in each bit of brain real estate.

For technical reasons, the researchers didn't bother counting all candidate congruent numbers, just ones in a subclass consisting of «nontrivial» cases, as they explain in a preprint posted on the Web site of the American Institute of Mathematics.

To gauge how sexual conflict influenced the rate of speciation, the researchers simply counted the number of species within each group.

After an egg is laid, researchers can tell how much sperm the female has left by counting the number of sperm caught between the egg membrane and the shell.

In an attempt to shed some light, a group of researchers and journal editors today released a data set and analysis of the citation counts used to calculate this magical number.

In addition, Carbin said, because of population increases and better technology, researchers have gotten a lot better at seeing tornadoes, so weaker twisters that would have escaped a count 50 years ago can make for higher tornado numbers.

The researchers measured toxicity using a biological assay, by counting the number of dead Daphnia — tiny crustaceans — in water containing the different ladybird toxins.

If that seems like a small number of subjects for a major study, consider the fact that each acoustic transmitter costs approximately $ 300 to $ 550, not counting the investment of researchers» time and the expense of chartering a boat for the implantation phase.

When the researchers counted dead hair cells, the numbers suggested that the nine animals untreated with supplements experienced a 50 - dB loss in hearing.

The researchers counted the largest numbers of vultures in late afternoon, but location mattered: Power plants near areas where the vultures tended to roost had more visitors in the early morning and late afternoon, whereas power plants near feeding sites had more at midday.

In the newly published study, Mount Sinai researchers from The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute and the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute report that by counting the numbers of one type of immune cell activated by exposure to a food, a simple, safe blood test can accurately predict the severity of each person's allergic reaction to it.

In a classic study often dubbed the «Invisible Gorilla» test, researchers showed participants a film clip of several people passing a basketball back and forth and asked them to count the number of passes between players in white and to ignore the players in black.

By combining acoustic data from nine microphones placed around Corvo with information about nest density, the researchers developed an algorithm that took terabytes of audio recordings and automatically counted the number of individual calls.

The monkeys who were swabbed with the high dose of virus encountered nearly 80,000 times the number of Zika particles the researchers counted in the saliva from the infected monkeys.

The researchers then compared the number of neutrinos they counted with an experiment run at the Super-Kamiokande detector in Japan.

«You can count on the fingers of one hand» the number of researchers with topflight training in both fields, says geneticist David Botstein of Stanford University in California, a co-chair of the advisory panel.

To do that, all researchers need to do is to place a muon detector, such as tile - sized special photographic films, underneath, within, or near an object and count the number of muons coming through the thing in different directions.

To measure the differences in immune system function between the two groups of older mice, the researchers examined the lungs to assess damage, counted the number of bacteria in the lungs, and calculated the number of the white blood cells (neutrophils).

In 2009, however, one researcher decided to count neurons in adult brains and found that the number was just a bit off the mark.

To overcome this problem, the researchers utilized a method that involved dissolving the cell membranes in order to create a sort of «brain soup» so that they can then count the number of cell nuclei in a sample.

«Trusting the count» is one of six big ideas in number identified by researchers.

To determine the population impact of trap and remove (culling) efforts on two open population sites in Tasmania, researchers used wildlife cameras and cat counts to track the number of cats at each site.

Researchers have attached satellite tags to mantas to track migration, observed and counted their numbers from the sky in aerial surveys, and photographed their distinct skin patterns all in an effort to understand more about this graceful giant.

Researchers were then sent into the field at some of the blowdown areas to count the number of trees felled by the storm.

By counting the number of scales left behind at various levels of the sediment cores, the researchers determined how much sunlight reached the bottom of the pond in a given year, allowing them to estimate the pond's water depth, clarity and chemistry over time.