Sentences with phrase «researchers looked at the way»

Then the researchers looked at the way those strains behaved in mice, ferrets and monkeys compared with two other types of H7N9: a less infectious version that first emerged in 2013 and the one isolated from the patient in 2016.
Next, the researchers looked at the way these two traits vary across the bird family tree.

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By looking at pupil dilation, ear twitching, small head movements and other indicators of cat emotions, the feline - feeling researchers found cats do get really excited around their owners, yet they choose to express it in extremely subtle, essentially imperceptible ways.
Beyond the linguistic prerequisite, the researcher needs philosophical training to help him understand both the entire way of looking at things and the individual concepts.
One of the studies that I talk about in the book is where social science researchers look at black women who had experienced trauma, and they found these women were more likely to internalize the characteristics of the Strong Black Woman as a way of coping with trauma.
Third, acknowledging that some of the blame for the biased and one - sided media reporting on head injuries rests with some members of the scientific community who issue one - sided press releases and feed cherry - picked results about their findings to selected members of the media, the authors look to a day when the «harsh division and polarization» in the research community (an almost inevitable byproduct, unfortunately, of the intense competition for grant money in Concussion, Inc.), gives way to greater collaboration among researchers and a more «cordial discourse» between scientists via letters and responses to journal editors and back - and - forth debates at large academic conferences.
However, some researchers have attempted to count, or at least estimate the prevalence of, stillbirths and look at ways to reduce them.
The researchers looked at several potential ways fracking wastewater could end up in the drinking supply, including transportation and leaks or spills.
In addition to exploring what the structure and diffusion of tweets say about how a society functions, the researchers have also looked at ways to tell whether messages are coming from real people or from computer programs, called bots.
That way, researchers can at least look back and learn something from the data they collected, because their hypothesis (and the form of «life» they were looking for) was specific and clear.
At that time most researchers thought the way to look for other planets was through astrometry.
«What's appealing about the current growing body of evidence on right - to - carry laws is that different researchers using different methodologies and different data sets are coming to similar conclusions... We are all coalescing around the same message, and that's the best that science can do: Look at the imperfect data in different ways and see if a consistent story emerges.»
Here's a look at some of the ways the NSF works to advance America's competitive edge through chemistry researcher, education and literacy.
However researchers aren't just looking at converting the sun's light into electricity; some are also looking at ways to trap its heat.
In addition, David Spergel, a theoretical astrophysicist at Princeton University, says there is so much data — and so many ways of looking at it — that researchers are bound to find anomalies.
A new way of using MRI scanners to look for evidence of multiple sclerosis in the brain has been successfully tested by researchers at The University of Nottingham and Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Since reverse osmosis is energy - intensive, researchers are looking at cheaper ways to extract water from the sea as well.
The researchers are now looking at ways to stop the formation of the compounds that cause trouble, in the hopes of developing a peanut that doesn't bite back.
«Researchers chart a new way to look at concussion.»
In their study, published in the June 2014 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the researchers looked at whether an Internet - based trial was a feasible way to evaluate whether omega - 3 fatty acids helped reduce hyperactivity in children with autism.
«Looking at changes in the number of dry days per year is a new way of understanding how climate change will affect us that goes beyond just annual or seasonal mean precipitation changes, and allows us to better adapt to and mitigate the impacts of local hydrological changes,» said Polade, a postdoctoral researcher who works with Scripps climate scientists Dan Cayan, David Pierce, Alexander Gershunov, and Michael Dettinger, who are co-authors of the study.
In addition, researchers are looking at ways to heat (Science, 14 July 2000, p. 241) or filter ballast water.
A number of researchers, including Ohio State University astrophysicist David Weinberg, realized they might find some answers by looking at the way galaxies are distributed across the universe.
In the Lyme disease system, the researchers got around this confounding factor by looking at diversity in the unexpressed cassettes, which would not have been the object of direct selection because they have no known function on their own; they simply exist as a way of increasing the potential diversity of the VlsE protein.
The genome data give both cholera researchers and microbial ecologists a new way to look at the microbe.
Other advances that gave the researchers a clearer view of the signaling mechanisms reported in Science include CRISPR gene editing, live - cell imaging techniques, and more powerful ways to look at all components of a protein complex.
Researchers have shown that looking at movements of operators and vehicles between farms in the same way we look at contacts in social networks can help explain the spread of dangerous infectious diseases of livestock, such as foot - and - mouth disease and avian influenza.
If researchers can realize that ambition, then someday your kitchen may have counters that fold away and you may even be able to fold up your television, he says: «That's a long way off, but looking at rigid shopping bags is a good step toward that.»
The council looked at several ways to help researchers «stay in the game» at a time when the NIH success rate (the portion of reviewed research proposals receiving funding) is stuck at a historical low of 18 %.
In one project, Sandia researcher Diane Callow created a factory logic model of the manufacturing plant, allowing researchers to look at process flows and ways to improve product velocity.
Professor Byrne said while researchers in the past had shown that as dieting continued weight loss became more difficult, this latest MATADOR (Minimising Adaptive Thermogenesis And Deactivating Obesity Rebound) study looked more closely at ways to lessen the famine response and improve weight loss success.
Sloan and Wolfendale also discussed the results from an experiment at CERN in Switzerland called CLOUD, where researchers are looking at ways in which cosmic rays can ionize, or charge, aerosols in the atmosphere, influencing how clouds are formed.
Researchers are looking at ways to break the pattern
Looking for a simpler way, the researchers realized that they could custom - design waveguides to mimic the properties of metamaterials, specifically the gradient of the material's refractive index, a measure of the speed at which light passes through.
In this virtual space, the researchers hope to track patterns of movement of the astronauts and objects over time, which might allow them to understand patterns of life on the station in the same way that they might when looking at an archaeological site on Earth.
A realistic tree of life can also change the way researchers look at more theoretical questions, such as how in the world such a supposedly wasteful and irrational process as sex evolved.
«This has the potential to be a major breakthrough in the way we look at how stem cells are developed,» said Elena Gonzalez - Munoz, a former MSU post-doctoral researcher and first author of the paper.
The researchers in Jonathan Claussen's lab at Iowa State University (who like to call themselves nanoengineers) have been looking for ways to use graphene and its amazing properties in their sensors and other technologies.
Similar increases in CVD risk were seen when the researchers looked at waist - to - hip and waist - to - height ratios and percentage body fat mass — all of which are considered reliable ways to accurately gauge the amount of fat a person carries, also known as adiposity.
But although GANs can produce images that are «realistic - looking at a glance,» they still have a long way to go before achieving true photo - realism, says Alec Radford, a researcher now at AI research company OpenAI and lead author of a study (presented at the international AI conference in 2016) that Facebook's work is based on.
Other researchers can look at the data from other angles, to mine it in different ways and use this valuable resource to test new computational methods.»
At the same time that missions such as Kepler are hard at work using proved detection methods, researchers are looking to expand the exoplanetary tool kit by demonstrating new ways of locating distant worldAt the same time that missions such as Kepler are hard at work using proved detection methods, researchers are looking to expand the exoplanetary tool kit by demonstrating new ways of locating distant worldat work using proved detection methods, researchers are looking to expand the exoplanetary tool kit by demonstrating new ways of locating distant worlds.
As hydraulic fracturing operations expand in Canada and in some parts of the United States, researchers at the 2017 Seismological Society of America's (SSA) Annual Meeting are taking a closer look at ways to minimize hazards from the earthquakes triggered by those operations.
Researchers looked at different ways Enceladus could be generating the heat to maintain the liquid ocean, producing models to find one that fits with Cassini observations.
Researchers there are looking at ECT, or electroconvulsive therapy, for dementia patients who have severely disturbed behavior and haven't been able to find help any other way.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]-- By looking at the molecular aftermath of concussion in an unusual way, a team of researchers at Brown University and the Lifespan health system has developed a candidate panel of blood biomarkers that can accurately signal mild traumatic brain injury within hours using standard, widely available lab arrays.
The discovery of this new metallic form was made when researchers looked for a way to prevent liquid metals from returning to their solid state, even at temperatures below the point at which they normally solidify.
Besides the attempt to avoid the bioethical tug - of - war that is human stem - cell research, the scientists have a very logical reason for turning to cow eggs: In order to really study stem - cell development in a way that could lead to tangible benefits in medicine, researchers need to look at thousands and thousands of specimens, and human eggs are in short supply.
Recently, researchers figured out a way to modify a popular electron microscopy technique to look at a mix of materials, even those that would appear invisible to standard imaging techniques.
He's one of the world's leading researchers in neurobiology, which looks at the brain and nervous system of animals and humans in terms of its anatomy and physiology (i.e., its cells and tissues, and the way they function and are organized).
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