Sentences with phrase «researchers from lower»

We have made every effort to minimize the registration fees to encourage participation of researchers from lower - income countries.

Research projects must also be led or co-led by researchers from low - income countries.

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Using data from a large - scale study that tracked participants» diet and health information for more than a decade, researchers found an association between moderate chocolate consumption and a lowered risk for atrial fibrillation.

But researchers looking at data from the Department of Homeland Security believe that the number of people entering the country illegally has fallen to historically low levels in recent years.

By staging hypothetical negotiation exercises where participants were split in to high - and low - ranking positions, researchers from San Diego University and Columbia University found that listeners could detect which individuals had the upper hand.

GMAC researchers conclude that a significant part of the wage gap comes from the fact that women enter b - school with lower salaries.

Researchers looked at aspects of previously agreed - upon standards for healthy eating, including high intakes of vegetables, fruit, nuts, whole grains; healthy fats like those from fish and olive oil; and low intakes of red and processed meats, sugary beverages like soda and juice, and trans fats and salt.

Researchers found that participation in the PepsiCo program was associated with lower health care costs, but only after the third year, and all from the disease management components of the program.

For example, 45 years ago here in Saskatchewan, pulses such as lentils and peas were a small part of the province's farm economy.9 In the 1970s, however, researchers at the University of Saskatchewan began searching for a protein crop to complement wheat, which was suffering from an oversupply and low prices.

Researcher from the University of South Australia, Dr Peter Clifton, said the cereal was the most innovative cholesterol lowering product he has seen in 15 years.

18 July 2017 MEDIA RELEASE LOW - kJ SWEETENERS DEEMED SAFE BY ALL LEADING GLOBAL HEALTH AUTHORITIES The CEO of the Australian Beverages Council, Geoff Parker, today dismissed claims by researchers from the University of Manitoba that low - kilojoule (low - kJ) sweeteners increased the risk of obesity, diabetes and heart diseaLOW - kJ SWEETENERS DEEMED SAFE BY ALL LEADING GLOBAL HEALTH AUTHORITIES The CEO of the Australian Beverages Council, Geoff Parker, today dismissed claims by researchers from the University of Manitoba that low - kilojoule (low - kJ) sweeteners increased the risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disealow - kilojoule (low - kJ) sweeteners increased the risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disealow - kJ) sweeteners increased the risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease.

In this study, and in opposition to findings elsewhere, higher levels of social support were associated with greater depressive symptomatology, leading researchers to speculate that for low - income men the perceived costs of reciprocity may have deterred them from utilizing available support; or that peer groups may have influenced their alcohol or drug use, or placed demands on their resources (Anderson et al, 2005).

As detailed in the top stoner zine, High Times, researchers from Washington University conducted a detailed analysis of more than 30 studies to determine if smoking grass while pregnant can cause low birth weight or premature delivery.

Involvement in sports, for example, was tied to a lower risk of obesity in boys but not girls and drinking milk was linked to lowered risk among girls but not boys, according to researchers from the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor.

As part of the study, researchers conducted interviews with mothers of infants from the Athens community, including 12 from the Athens branch of Women, Infants and Children, or WIC, which serves low - income mothers, and nine from Full Bloom Pregnancy and Early Parenting Center, which tends to serve middle income, highly educated mothers, Anderson said.

Maria Fitzpatrick, a professor of policy analysis and management at Cornell University, says pre-kindergarten is particularly effective with children from low - income families — a conclusion drawn by most researchers.

Because methane emissions from a cow's manure are typically lower than those released from its belching, future studies should look at the effect of antibiotics on that source of the greenhouse gas, too, the researchers suggest.

Until now, researchers had to extrapolate iron's behavior at high pressures from measurements made at low pressures, which introduced uncertainties.

The researchers assessed three primary outcomes: the incidence of laboratory confirmed infant influenza from 0 - 180 days post birth; the incidence of low birth weight; and the incidence of influenza - like illness in mothers 0 - 180 days following delivery.

And, say researchers, writing today in Functional Ecology, the low decibel sounds help keep would - be predators away from the «nursery.»

In an in - depth study of 11,216 pregnancies from 11 countries, researchers have concluded that low levels of vitamin B12 are associated with an increased risk of preterm birth.

ANCIENT MOUTHFUL Researchers who discovered and analyzed a nearly complete set of 2 - million - year - old fossil teeth from a lower jaw suspect that the East African find comes from an early member of the human genus, Homo habilis.

In a study including 150 military veterans with chronic low back pain, researcher Dr. Erik J. Groessl and his team from the VA San Diego Healthcare System found that veterans who completed a 12 - week yoga program had better scores on a disability questionnaire, improved pain intensity scores, and a decline in opioid use.

On reanalysing data from the group's past studies, such as on pain sensitivity to hot water, the researchers found that mice tested by men showed lower baseline pain sensitivity than mice tested by women.The work indirectly demonstrates potential effects on nearly any kind of medical research, says Joseph Garner, who studies mouse behavior and well - being at Stanford University in California.

To address this, researchers looked at hospital records — from 66 low, middle and high income countries — for more than 12,000 patients undergoing surgery on the digestive system.

While combining data from many studies improves statistical power, the researchers note that the associations between hormonal contraception and risk of becoming infected with HIV were attenuated for studies at lower risk of methodological bias compared to those at higher risk of bias, suggesting that some of the risk found to be associated with hormonal contraception may be due to bias in the original studies.

To the researchers» surprise, SGD actually enhanced coral growth when the nutrient enrichment and freshwater from the groundwater was at low levels.

Now researchers have observed narwhals» heart rate dropping precipitously low when diving to escape from humans.

In addition to historical records and ground observations, the researchers will use newly available Earth System Data Records from NASA — satellite images of the Amazon and its tributaries over the complete high - and low - water cycles.

The researchers recruited the participating mothers from a low - resource and high - stress urban setting, with many reporting high - levels of depression, anxiety, worry, and stress.

The researchers looked at data from cardiac and vascular surgery, as deliberately lowering the patient's body temperature during the surgery is a recognised technique.

Researchers from North Carolina State University have found that gallium indium (EGaIn), a liquid metal with one of the highest surface tensions, can be induced to spread and form patterns called fractals with the application of low voltage.

«Although the potential for any data privacy concerns from purely microbial DNA is very low, it's important for researchers to know that such issues are theoretically possible,» said senior author Curtis Huttenhower, associate professor of computational biology and bioinformatics at Harvard Chan School.

«This would be the first decline during a period of strong global economic growth,» the researchers said, noting that a portion of India's new energy consumption must be from «low - carbon» resources in order for global emissions to peak and then swiftly decline.

The researchers hypothesized this may be because the eyebrow and nose shield the upper and inner quadrants of the eye from the sun, lowering exposure and the risk of developing freckles.

In 2002, researchers reported that lowering a patient's body temperature protected tissues from injury.

Together with researchers from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom; Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California; and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Button and Munafò set to quantify the problem of low statistical power in neuroscience.

The researchers in Bayreuth have now found out that materials can be produced from such nanoparticles which exhibit a thermal conductivity that is even much lower.

Despite claims that helmets do not protect the cervical spine during a motorcycle crash and may even increase the risk of injury, researchers from the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics in Madison found that, during an accident, helmet use lowers the likelihood of cervical spine injury (CSI), particularly fractures of the cervical vertebrae.

A team of researchers led by Jeff Tza - Huei Wang, PhD, from the Johns Hopkins University BioMEMS Lab, Baltimore, Maryland have developed the first low - cost NAAT platform that can diagnose chlamydia at the point - of - care and that integrates sample preparation, DNA amplification, and data processing all in one coffee mug - sized instrument.

Researchers at MIT's Microsystems Technology Laboratory (MTL), together with physicians from Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI), have developed a new, low - power signal - processing chip that could lead to a cochlear implant that requires no external hardware.

Researchers used questionnaire data generated from almost 600 Maths and English teachers based in 82 UK secondary schools, alongside interviews with teachers, to understand how grouping students into sets influenced the independence of lower attaining students.

The second and third nights the researchers relentlessly bombarded each snoozing participant with recordings of common noises such as toilets flushing, phones ringing and people talking, starting each noise at a low volume and repeating it more and more loudly until the subject was aroused from sleep.

The researchers took direct emissions measurements of 230 randomly selected, representative leaks from underground pipelines as well as at 229 metering and regulating stations where natural gas is measured and regulated from higher pressure pipelines to lower pressure distribution pipelines.

BOSTON — Efforts to close the word gap — the vast difference in the number of words heard by children from low - income and higher - income homes — by working with the parents and caregivers of very young children have shown promising new results in the behavior of parents and children, according to three researchers at a Feb. 17 briefing at the 2017 AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston.

The researchers then compared the results from the brain imaging tests for the serotonin transporter to those two memory tests, and found that the lower serotonin transporters correlated with lower scores.

The researchers concluded from these findings that aberrant activation of cyclin E / Cdk2 oncogenic signaling is essential for maintaining and expanding the CD44 + / CD24 - / Low subpopulation in inflammatory breast cancer.

To their surprise, the researchers found that the samples from the thermokarst sites had lower levels of colored dissolved organic matter than did reference sites, suggesting that the carbon in the deeper soils exposed by thermokarst failure is significantly different from the carbon draining from the topmost, active layer of the permafrost, the team reports in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Researchers studied the response of the insulin production to a meal to prove that the low level insulin production was coming from working beta cells.

A new strategy — an injectable antibody — for lowering blood lipids and thereby potentially preventing coronary artery disease and other conditions caused by the build - up of fats, cholesterol, and other substances on the artery walls, is supported by findings from two new studies from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.