Sentences with phrase «researchers limited the study»

The researchers limited the study to integrative therapies for breast cancer patients.

Not exact matches

Study researchers suspect that exhausted people's brains may be forced to «go offline» and take a period of local sleep in shifts to continue to function throughout the day, so a good night's slumber may be the key to limiting these episodes.

Dr. Laurie Helgoe cites several studies in which researchers compared the two and found that introverts generally have higher levels of electrical activity in the cerebral cortex, which may explain why they limit external stimulation so as to maintain an appropriate level of arousal.

For future studies, they suggested, researchers should test the performance of doped chess players given a much longer time limit, so the study could isolate the positive effects of brain drugs.

In light of this study, an acceptable Internet use policy would allow for periodic Web browsing while limiting the access to personal e-mails,» the researchers said.

Because there have been only limited studies specifically related to the effects of religious television, in order to answer the question thoroughly the researcher in religious television is forced to extrapolate from empirical studies in related mass - communication areas.

Mandating such a limit would dramatically reduce total head trauma, including the accumulation of sub-concussive hits that researchers at Purdue in a 2010 study found can lead to subtle cognitive deficits that evade detection via the usual signs or symptoms method.

Limiting contact practices in football to one session per week, or eliminating contact practices altogether, for example, would, according to a 2013 study [10] by researchers at the University of Michigan, result in an 18 % to 40 % reduction in head impacts respectively over the course of a high school football season.

In order to assess the efficiency and safety of domperidone, researchers Catherine Paul et al. analyzed both the limited studies available on maternal and infant exposure to the stimulant as well as larger studies focused on its use in gastrointestinal disorder treatment.

The limits of adaptation are the underlying focus of the studies, said Kees van der Geest, a co-author of the overview and senior researcher at the U.N. University's Institute for Environment and Human Security.

In February, the United Kingdom approved using the method on human embryos at the Francis Crick Institute in London, but only within a narrow capacity: Researchers can edit genes in non-viable human embryos for a limited period and only to study developmental biology related to in vitro fertilization.

Andrew Schiff, CEO, Rhode Island Community Food Bank, a researcher on the study, said, «Our goal is to provide those we serve with the most nutritious food possible and help them prepare healthy meals, understanding that the household budget is limited.»

The researchers caution that their study was limited by the relatively few locations nationwide that routinely monitor particulate matter.

A study, involving researchers from the University of Southampton, found that water - limited ecosystems in arid and semi-arid regions, such as The Great Plains and South - West United States and some in Australia and Mediterranean Europe, were particularly impacted by these indirect effects.

The global scope of the study could help researchers set upper and lower limits for black carbon deposition and better account for the effects of photodegradation, a process by which sunlight alters the molecular composition over time.

In the University College London study, the researchers found that many women struggled to articulate their sexual desires and limits.

According to the researchers, the limits of spare capacity have been studied in very few other species, with most work focused on several varieties of snakes.

«To date, conventional imaging is limited in detecting prostate cancer metastasis accurately and measurably,» said Neeta Pandit - Taskar, MD, co-author of the study and a researcher at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

«The study of this type of tumours has been problematic up to now due to the lack of cell models and the appropriate animal models,» says CNIC researcher Juan Carlos Ramírez, who adds that the difficulty of generating these chromosomal translocations had limited the availability of cells with this mark of the disease.

Until now, the ability of researchers to study the animals» brains while they socialize or look for food has been relatively limited.

NMR, meanwhile, allows researchers to study biological molecules in a solution, such as water — but its use has generally been limited to relatively small proteins.

Researchers found that in most cases the number of randomized studies involving medical cannabis is extremely limited or entirely absent.

The researchers noted that the cohort of 2,827 participants whose data were analyzed in this study were generally healthy, mostly Caucasian (92.2 %), elderly males (average age 76.4 years), therefore limiting the generalizability of the study results to other populations.

The researchers found in a study in colon cancer cells that AIM2 limits the activation of the signaling molecule Akt.

In this study, the NYU researchers used Burton and Kees» framework to better understand why menu calorie labeling policies have had a limited impact.

The researchers said they tried to include only men who had the intent and opportunity to reproduce by limiting their study to married or formerly married men.

Traditional molecular systematic studies have progressed by sequencing genes one by one, a time - and cost - intensive task that has limited the amount of data a researcher could feasibly obtain.

What's more, the researchers found that blocking this mechanism with HCQ — a drug used to treat malaria that has been shown in previous studies to block autophagy — limited BRAF inhibitor - induced autophagy and enhanced cancer cell death in mouse models.

«There's limited dollars and opportunities for conserving land and water, so we want to make sure we're getting the most bang for our buck,» said Strecker, who co-led the study with a researcher from Bryn Mawr College.

Although data on how the trails are used are limited, it is known that they inspire some exercise: in a January 2007 study by PATH foundation staff and Emory University researchers, sponsored by Georgia Healthcare Foundation, a third of 315 trail users surveyed at Davidson - Arabia Mountain Nature Preserve said that most of their weekly physical activity has involved the trails.

«While large percentages of employers report that they have at least some workplace flexibility, the number of options is usually limited and they are typically not available to the entire workforce,» says Marcie Pitt - Catsouphes, Ph.D., Director of the Sloan Center on Aging and Work at Boston College and one of the researchers of the study.

According to the new study, the main reasons for the limited information on the effect of habitat loss and fragmentation for felid conservation are «the lack of both financing for research and communication between managers and researchers,» highlights Palomares.

In a study published in the Journal of NeuroOncology, TGen researchers report that PPF works to limit the spread of glioblastoma multiforme, or GBM — the most common primary tumor of the brain and central nervous system — by targeting a protein called TROY.

«As long as there are sufficient nucleic acids preserved in the specimen, there is really no limit,» says Alison Devault, a researcher at McMaster University studying ancient cholera.

Now researchers have developed guidelines that address how to limit risk in these gardens — and a pilot study shows that the guidelines make a difference.

Researchers are training artificial intelligence models to identify tuberculosis (TB) on chest X-rays, which may help screening and evaluation efforts in TB - prevalent areas with limited access to radiologists, according to a new study appearing online in the journal Radiology.

Because they can't ethically subject youth to alcohol to study its effects, researchers use the developing brains of rats to understand the effects of «intermittent alcohol exposure» — the equivalent of drinking to a blood - alcohol level of.08 (the legal limit for driving while impaired) three or four nights a week.

It permits flexibility in selecting studies and researchers and the opportunity for rapid changes in direction because the grants are for specific purposes and last only a limited number of years.

The researchers note that this study of digestion in the test tube is limited by not including the roles of gut cells, which absorb and secrete metabolites as well.

In a study published online today in Genome Research, researchers used genome sequencing to understand the spread of MRSA in a resource - limited hospital with high transmission rates.

Cullen Blake, a University of Pennsylvania researcher who studies low mass - stars and their planets, says, in visible light, «you definitely have a pretty severe limit to the distance to which you can see these measurements.»

Researchers thought culturally transmitted behavior was limited to humans and chimpanzees, but the new study suggests that all great apes share a common ancestor that was multicultural.

The study, led by Dr Julie Jones from the University of Sheffield's Department of Geography, has revealed that limited data on Antarctica's climate is making it difficult for researchers to disentangle changes caused by human activity from natural climate fluctuations.

Known as the Abbe diffraction limit, it meant that a researcher using visible light — the best method for studying biological samples — couldn't hope to see things smaller than about 0.2 micrometers, or millionths of a meter.

Researchers found working out in a group lowers stress by 26 percent and significantly improves quality of life, while those who exercise individually put in more effort but experienced no significant changes in their stress level and a limited improvement to quality of life, according to a study published in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association.

But while researchers have previously been able to infect cultures of human hepatocytes with HBV, the cells» limited lifespan has made it difficult to study the virus, says Bhatia, who is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science.

The researchers caution that the study was limited in size for subgroup analyses, and less common cancers.

«We are bad judges of friendship, new study shows: Researchers find inability to determine who our real friends are limits our powers of persuasion.»

Researchers have sequenced full genomes of three species — the golden orb - weaver, the African social velvet spider, and the common house spider — and have done more limited genetic and protein studies on many others.

Furthermore, the researchers studied a line of mice that can be programmed to induce the NANOG factor over a limited period of time.