Sentences with phrase «researchers ran tests»

The researchers ran tests to confirm that it wasn't the other way around — that lower life expectancy and increased mortality were causing an expansion of the pharmaceutical industry.

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The benefits continued years later; researchers ran cognitive tests in the older children and found «increased language performance, visual reception and motor control performance.»

I can see that you're a big fan of relative risk, but what you're not acknowledging is that there are tests of statistical significance that researchers run in order to determine whether any difference between two outcomes is real or not.

So unheard of was what researchers discovered in a protein associated with glaucoma that for over two years they ran it through a gauntlet of lab tests and published a new research paper on it.

The researchers created a prototype for the system and tested it on a simulated network that runs on a computer — a virtual local area network.

In October 2015, a team of researchers at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and Universidad de Sucre in Colombia ran the first tests confirming the presence of Zika virus transmission in the South American country.

The researchers tested five amputee athletes running at different heights on blade prosthetics made by three companies.

But a crucial upgrade of 16 superconducting magnets around the accelerator will likely prevent a full test run planned for this December, he says, meaning researchers will have to troubleshoot glitches on the fly.

SEALAB by Ben Hellwarth In the 1960s, as the underwater exploits of Jacques Cousteau dazzled the world, U.S. Navy aquanauts lived for weeks in pressurized capsules hundreds of feet under the sea — test runs, Navy researchers hoped, for long - term human habitats on the ocean floor.

The researchers ran physiological tests on 43 people with one mutated gene and compared them with others in the community with two normal versions.

In the past, researchers have examined herbal medicines by running assays for toxic compounds and using DNA tests to determine whether a specific plant or animal is present.

The paper is «a big step forward» because running such tests in the wild «is exceptionally challenging,» says Alex Thornton, an animal cognition researcher at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.

To test the algorithm, researchers ran iSAFE on regions of the genome that are home to known favored mutations.

The researchers ran each group through a battery of standard motor control tests before and after the training.

Instead of running tests on live kidneys, researchers at Binghamton, University State University of New York have developed a model kidney for working out the kinks in medicines and treatments.

Researchers at Rice University and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have refined and, for the first time, run in vivo tests of a method that may allow nanotube - based probes to locate specific tumors in the body.

The researchers plan to perform further tests on lab animals to assess the fake cells» long - term health effects before running clinical trials.

That's why a group of researchers at NASA's Langley Research Center — the «bug team» — recently ran several flight tests of coatings that may one day reduce the amount of bug contamination on the wings of commercial aircraft.

In order to test the unit features, the researchers did different tests in a controlled environment, causing the bus to brake when it detected the proximity of a person while the vehicle was running.

Researchers ran participants through a series of training sessions with a computerized test that was designed to become harder as the participants» scores rose and easier as their scores went down.

The essence of the test is the disarmingly simple fact that the mean value in a collection of N integers must be a fraction whose denominator is N. For example, it might seem plausible if a researcher running a study involving 12 children aged 11 to 17 reports a mean age of 15.7.

During this test run the researchers found that the neural networks had up to a 95 percent success rate in recognizing important features in a sampling of about 18,000 images.

Now, after running DNA tests on a gift of dried whale meat given to a scientist visiting islands in the Pacific, researchers have confirmed that there's a whole new species of beaked whale living in our oceans — and there may be others out there.

In test runs, the researchers have been able to get the chair to autonomously travel about one kilometer and arrive at its destination while tracking its position within an accuracy of 20 centimeters.

In the two - tiered testing strategy, the first - tier screening run returns results in about two minutes, according to the researchers.

Since the surgery, a team of researchers at ICORD have been following Darrel's case and running tests to determine how his cardiovascular function has changed.

The researchers also ran a test of working memory called a «sentence span task,» in which the women were each given a series and then asked whether each sentence made sense.

The researchers tested mice that were missing the DJ - 1 gene and discovered that their ability to run had severely declined, suggesting that the DJ - 1 protein is required for normal movement.

By enabling researchers to test these ideas through statistical analysis, computer modeling and simulation — which are faster and more cost - effective than experimental testing — the institute will accelerate the development of biomedical knowledge and, in the long run, transform the practice of medicine.

Buoyed by the success in testing the technique in mice, the researchers now plan to run tests in human cells in vitro.

From testing new treatments, to improving drug combinations, our researchers are running clinical trials to ensure more people survive cancer.

Just as prototypes for NASA's Mars rovers made their trial runs on Earth's deserts, researchers are testing both hypotheses and technology on our oceans and extreme environments.

Then, by running each altered fish through a battery of established behavioral tests — measuring such factors as social interactions, addictive tendencies, sleep and fear response — researchers can see which mutations correspond most strongly with actual behavioral changes.

«First author Yue Li, a postdoctoral researcher at Waisman, ran the test and sent the video to Michael Stockton, an undergraduate working on the project.»

In the 1990s, French researchers decided to run an experiment to test the effect of different diets on heart disease.

In another trial, researchers tested fecal samples of runners both before and after running the Boston Marathon and found that the post-race samples included particularly high amounts of a type of bacteria that break down lactic acid, which can lead to muscle soreness and fatigue.

Since these experiments were only performed on cancer cells in test tubes, the researchers took the next step and ran tests on breast cancer tumors in live mice.

The researchers also tested the eccentric muscle endurance of the knee and hip flexors and extensors of all their subjects, then looked for correlations with the running economy results.

September 21, 2017 • South Carolina researchers have drawn a connection between low - income students» poor performance on math tests and the time of month when their families run low on food stamps.

In the health education arena, for example, researchers have contributed substantially to understanding when and how to run randomized trials using schools as the units of allocation and analysis to test schoolwide risk - reduction programs.

Episode Info: Instead of just looking at the effect teachers have on the test scores of their students, researchers have expanded their focus to include the impact of teachers on student attendance and the long run outcomes of their students.

The researchers recommended that all dogs, large and small, have a titer test run two — three weeks after a vaccination.

Two, the dogs may have received various treatments prior to the referral, which might change results of tests run by the researchers.

Analytics & perceptual psychology researcher Derek Toker discusses how East Side Games ran A / B tests and how they analyzed their results.

International solar thermal energy researchers have successfully tested CONTISOL, a solar reactor that runs on air, able to make any solar fuel like hydrogen and to run day or night — because it uses concentrated solar power (CSP) and includes thermal energy storage.

Researchers conducted geochemical analysis of the samples to determine their makeup and also ran carbon dating tests to determine the age of the samples.

The researchers did test the pre-satellite data by comparing their results with model runs where it wasn't included, Wie says:

Each alternative model is run by different groups of researchers, so we also test for sensitivity to analyst attitude.

«Foiled by an octopus,» writes Lauren De Vos of Save our Seas Foundation about the latest test - run of a baited remote underwater video (BRUV) system being developed to provide researchers with a cheap, simple way to monitor sealife.

The researchers ran computer algorithms to come up with the best 3D designs and theoretically tested them in a range of latitudes, seasons and weather using analytical software.