Sentences with phrase «researchers studied a series»

The researchers studied a series of brain scans of children from preschool through early adolescence, finding a sharper rise in the volume of the hippocampus in the kids whose mothers supported and nurtured them during the preschool years.

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Researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland recently published findings from a series of studies in which 480 people were shown portraits of faces manipulated to appear warm or cold and competent or incompetent.

In a series of experiments, researchers at Northwestern University used brain scanners and EEG sensors to study neural activity in a number of participants tasked with solving complex word puzzles.

From a business perspective, yes, according to a new series of studies out of Stanford that was recently written up by the university's GSB news under the hilarious headline: «Researchers: A Few Bad Hair Days Can Change Your Life.»

To find out the researchers rounded up a group of 500 Swiss and German study subjects and presented them with a series of questions about how much they worked, how exhausted they felt, and how much guilt they experienced after indulging in some couch potato time.

First, to determine if this effect was in fact true, the researchers conducted a series of lab experiments in which they asked study subjects to talk about products both face to face and through text messaging.

And, like all the other books in the Scientists in the Field series, it provides an intimate and realistic portrait of the researchers who have devoted their professional lives to studying nature.

For the study, researchers engaged 28 subjects, each around 26 years old, in a series of questions that challenged them to maximize their gains by providing the right answers.

The researchers conducted the study by using time series modelling of data on the official unemployment rate and recorded property crime rate, testing how the relationship has varied from the 1940s to the present day.

A New Diagnosis of Hope Now, researchers have further refined their understanding of the syndrome, and a series of powerful new studies published over the past couple of years have helped establish autoimmunity's role in neuropsychiatric disease.

Through a series of studies, lead researcher Aparna Sundar, a professor of marketing in the UO's Lundquist College of Business, and co-author James Kellaris of UC's marketing department uncovered evidence that color shapes opinion about eco-friendliness.

In this study, the researchers performed a series of electrophysiological and behavioral experiments on a mouse model of schizophrenia developed at CUMC.

Johnson, along with study co-author and post-doctoral researcher Jingyun Ye at the University of Pittsburgh, examined a series of eight different functional groups of Lewis acid and base pairs (Lewis pairs for short), which are highly reactive compounds often used as catalysts.

This study is the beginning of a series of studies that will be conducted by these researchers over the next few years.

The study, a collaboration between British researchers and the BBC Lab UK web site, recruited viewers of the BBC science program «Bang Goes the Theory» to practice a series of online tasks for a minimum of ten minutes a day, three times a week, for six weeks.

Working in the Atlantic oak woodlands of Argyll, Kintyre and Lochaber on Scotland's west coast, researchers from the James Hutton Institute, the University of Aberdeen and Scottish Natural Heritage studied plots that had never been invaded, others covered in dense rhododendron thickets, plus a time - series of sites cleared of rhododendron at different periods between 1984 and 2014.

In their study, the researchers had 60 human subjects view a series of digital photographs of female rhesus macaque monkeys, above, whose facial color changes to give social cues.

In a recent series of studies researchers identified a previously unknown critical role for a potential cancer causing gene, Bcl3, in metastatic breast cancer.

In the current study, the researchers took diaphragm tissue from donor rats and removed all the living cells from it using a series of chemical treatments.

In laboratory studies, the researchers conducted a series of experiments involving 3,5 di - tert - butylcatechol, or DTBC, a compound that is used as a model substance for tracking the chemistry of oxidation.

For this study, the researchers used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to scan human subjects as they viewed a series of overlapping images of faces and houses.

For the study, the researchers recruited 93 experienced police officers, 33 police recruits and 1,401 laypersons, who filled out an anonymous online survey that collected demographic information and asked them a series of questions about their attitudes towards race.

Speaking in the second in a series of AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award lectures this fall, Harris described the so - called «reproducibility crisis» in science, in which intriguing findings in pre-clinical cancer research and other areas often can not be replicated, even by the researchers who did the original studies.

Called «Primary care factors and unscheduled secondary care: a series of systematic reviews», the report has been compiled by researchers from the University's Centre for Academic Primary Care who looked at evidence from studies around the world.

To bolster the case that the gold came from soil beneath the trees, researchers conducted a series of field studies and lab tests.

To conduct the study — the second in a series — the researchers observed and interviewed 30 fifth - through eighth - grade teachers in public and private schools in New York.

However, through a series of questionnaires, camera trap data and remote - sensed images the researchers, led by Nicolás Gálvez studying at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), found that the güiña is remarkably adaptable to forest loss.

The series started in 2009, when the U.S. government funded a team of researchers to recruit and study participants for the Testosterone Trial — a group of seven long - term studies of how testosterone therapy affects sexual activity, energy level, memory, heart and bone health, and the ability to walk a certain distance.

A series of satellite - image studies completed by the AAAS Geospatial Technologies Project may suggest new methods for civilian researchers to spot early - warning signs of cross-border war.

In their new Journal of Experimental Social Psychology study, the researchers conducted a series of experiments that included male and female university undergraduates as well as a set of subjects recruited using Amazon's «Mechanical Turk,» a tool in which individuals are compensated for completing small tasks and is frequently used in running behavioral science studies.

In a paper published in the journal Nanotechnology [«Static micro-array isolation, dynamic time series classification, capture and enumeration of spiked breast cancer cells in blood: the nanotube - CTC chip»], Panchapakesan's team, which includes graduate students Farhad Khosravi, the paper's lead author, and researchers at the University of Louisville and Thomas Jefferson University, describe a study in which antibodies specific for two markers of metastatic breast cancer, EpCam and Her2, were attached to the carbon nanotubes in the chip.

In the study, researchers analyzed a series of transient Coupled General Circulation Model simulations forced by changes in greenhouse gases, orbital forcing, meltwater discharge and the ice - sheet history throughout the past 21,000 years.

The researchers conducted a series of studies in which students were asked to give feedback to their university on how much of a $ 100,000 grant should be awarded to each applicant, based on merit.

For the current study, researchers at Bielefeld cooperated with a series of partners: the University of Cambridge (England), der University of Duisburg - Essen, the British Antarctic Survey research institute (Cambridge), and the Agri - Food and Biosciences Institute in Belfast (Northern Ireland).

Parents can learn to use a scientifically validated autism therapy with their own children by taking a short series of group classes, a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford has found.

This research by Virginia Institute of Marine Science and USGS researchers is the first in a series of studies worldwide on seagrass ecosystems.

In a series of studies published since 2009, researchers in Wells» laboratory used human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) to grow embryonic - stage small intestines with a functioning nervous system, and the antrum and fundus regions of the human stomach.

A series of studies were conducted by a team of researchers, led by Jennifer Phelan, Ph.D., a senior ecologist at RTI International, to understand the relationships between changes in streamflow and the diversity of fish and richness of aquatic insects.

In a series of studies that looked at people's intuitive moral judgments and empathic responses, the researchers found that certain situations could trigger instant moral and empathetic assessments, even when they were directed to counteract those feelings.

Over the past two decades, a series of new discoveries and studies allowed researchers to paint a clearer picture of those feats.

In a series of studies, the researchers found a split between the same words presidential candidates from the nation's two major political parties used and what those words mean.

In a series of studies led by Dr. Arun Sharma, associate professor of pharmacology and Dr. Shantu Amin, professor of pharmacology, both of Penn State College of Medicine, researchers designed and synthesized a compound called napthalamide - isoselenocyanate — NISC - 6 — to inhibit both the Akt1 pathway and human topoisomerase IIα — topo IIα — activity, which contribute to melanoma tumor growth.

After speaking to the researchers behind a series of recent studies, New Scientist has made the first...

In a series of experiments — described in a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature Communications — a team of researchers has now shown that quantum entanglement persists even at high accelerations.

In this study, the researchers demonstrated in a series of in vitro experiments that squalamine, a positively charged molecule with a high affinity for negatively charged membranes, could literally «kick off» α - synuclein from negatively charged membranes, where the protein binds, preventing the formation of the toxic clumps.

During this study — the first to use ICE to study how the brain interprets grammatical rules and produces word — researchers had the patients read a series of words and then reproduce them in different grammatical forms: for example, the inversion of a noun into a plural, or the conversion of a verb into the past tense.

Researchers gave people who did not regularly consume caffeine either a placebo, or 200 mg of caffeine five minutes after studying a series of images.

And in a series of studies last year, Duke University researchers showed that a by - product of cholesterol known as 27HC mimics estrogen and can drive the growth of ER + breast cancer.

In a recent study published in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation, researchers conducted a series of experiments on individuals between the ages of 45 and 64 who were healthy but otherwise sedentary.

The Finnish researcher Matti Virkkunen did a series of studies with violent male prisoners.