Sentences with phrase «researchers studied populations»

Similarly, in 1981, researchers studied populations of two Polynesian atolls.

I met with a researcher studying the populations, who escorted me past white U.S. Border Patrol SUVs into the Coronado National Forest.

Researchers studied population attributable risk (PAR) changes for the five major modifiable cardiovascular risk factors — high cholesterol, smoking, high blood pressure, obesity, and diabetes.

Not exact matches

Latina - owned businesses explode: In the last decade, Hispanic Americans have been starting and growing new businesses at twice the rate of the general population, according to a new study by researcher Geoscape and the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

Researchers of the Canadian study says factors such as work, urban size, population density, economic opportunity or deprivation, and access to and quality of infrastructure, amenities and services may explain the community - level differences in life satisfaction.

A recent study from researchers at Oxford University published in the medical journal The Lancet looked at how changing weather patterns will affect the planet's ability to grow enough food to adequately feed the global population, and the results are terrifying: They predicted that because of large scale agricultural changes, 247,970 could die in China alone by the year 2050.

In a new study published on 19 February in the open access journal PLOS Biology, researchers show that similar — or even identical — mutations can occur during diversification in completely separate populations of E. coli evolving in different environments over more than 1000 generations.

In a new study published on 19 February in the open access journal PLOS Biology, researchers show that similar - or even identical - mutations can occur during diversification in completely separate populations of E. coli evolving in different environments over more than 1000 generations.

In a study of Korean - American parenting, researchers found that over 75 % of the sample population didn't fit into any of the standard categories (Kim and Rohner 2002).

Although the kids in the Australian study were selected from the general population (as opposed to a psychiatric practice or sleep clinic), researchers discovered that about 10 % of children complaining of nighttime fears fit the criteria for an anxiety disorder.

For the current study, a team of researchers investigated whether breast milk or formula contributed greater arsenic exposure during early infancy in a small United States population.

While there was some variation between the populations that were studied, such as between men and women, people living in different regions, or people with different risk factors, the researchers found that nut consumption was associated with a reduction in disease risk across most of them.

In the first study evaluating patient - reported cosmetic outcomes in a population - based cohort of older women with breast cancer, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center researchers found that less radiation was associated with improved cosmetic satisfaction long - term.

In the first population - based study of the disorder's prevalence, the researchers identified 35 cases from 1976 to 2010 reported in Minnesota's Olmsted County.

In this context, the team of researchers of UPM and UEM has conducted a study that reveals the existing relationship between physical activity and mental health in the population of Madrid.

NEW DELHI — Hot on the heels of a study that used feces to track penguin populations from space (ScienceNOW, 6 June), researchers in India are reporting that DNA from tiger poop can help them estimate the cat's numbers in the wild.

The study is one of the first to demonstrate the effectiveness of yoga specifically in military veterans, a population that faces more health challenges and may be harder to treat than non-VA populations, say the researchers.

Since 2010, more than 130,000 university graduates have left Greece to look for work, making up approximately 75 % of the total immigrant population, a 2015 study from researchers at the University of Macedonia reports.

The researchers studied indoor tanning dependence and the factors associated with it in young adult non-Hispanic white women because this group has the highest prevalence of indoor tanning in the U.S. adult population, according to Mays.

In a controlled study conducted in experimental ponds, researchers found dramatic differences in pond ecosystems depending on the ratio of males to females in the mosquitofish populations.

Researchers identified the unique feeding pattern by studying food availability and the whales» population over the past 120,000 years.

«Much of our historical data about species» population - level responses to climate change comes from observational studies, which can suggest but not confirm causation,» said Anne Marie Panetta, lead author of the study and a post-doctoral researcher in CU Boulder's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EBIO).

In this study, researchers analyzed ovarian tissue from populations of reproductively «young» (equivalent to women in their early twenties) and «old» mice (equivalent to women ages 38 - 45).

French researchers used clinical examinations and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies to determine whether retired professional rugby players experience more serious symptoms of cervical spine degeneration than people in the general population.

Through a variety of «high tech» approaches, including the isolation of monoclonal antibodies from single B cells and ultra-deep sequencing of shifting viral populations over more than three years of infection, the researchers studied one woman who developed potent broadly neutralizing antibodies.

The researchers determined that nearly 20 percent of strokes in the study population were due to pre-high blood pressure.

The study publishing January 9 in the open access journal PLOS Biology led by researchers from Uppsala University with an international team of collaborators, also indicates that the resulting mixed population genetically adapted to the extreme environmental conditions.

Take a look at the animals that researchers have sighted or captured while in the field to study a contagious cancer that is destroying Tasmanian devil populations

The researchers did a small study of existing genetic data from the human skin microbiome and estimate that 20 percent of the human population have S. epidermidis strains that make 6 - HAP on their skin, Gallo says.

Deaf people who sign have poorer health than the general population, according to a study led by researchers from the School for Social and Community Medicine at the University of Bristol.

But in a study in the December 14th issue of the journal Science, researchers say these farms could drive wild salmon populations to extinction.

For more than half a century, the La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica has provided researchers with the data needed to study everything from local amphibian and reptile populations to global warming.

The study by researchers in Italy and Switzerland predicts that although the actual number of deaths from all cancers in the European Union will continue to rise due to growing populations and numbers of elderly people, the rate of cancer deaths will continue to decline overall, with some notable exceptions: lung cancer in women and pancreatic cancer in both sexes.

CATCHING COD Researchers in the Gulf of Maine catch Atlantic cod to study how the fish populations have been affected by temperature.

Researchers were examining the genomes of these mammoths for a separate study into mammoth population genetics when they noticed that their dead remains skewed male: About 70 % of those caught in natural traps carried a Y chromosome.

The largest urban health systems, which serve as safety nets for large patient populations with lower socioeconomic status and greater likelihood to speak English as a second language, do worse on government patient satisfaction scores than smaller, non-urban hospitals likely to serve white customers with higher education levels, according to a new study by Mount Sinai researchers published this month in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

Using data from the INfancia y Medio Ambiente (INMA) Project — a population - based mother - child cohort study set up in several geographic areas in Spain — the researchers assessed lung function with spirometry (measuring of breath).

Oral immunotherapy for peanut allergy induces early, distinct changes in immune T - cell populations that potentially may help researchers determine which people will respond well to the therapy and which immune mechanisms are involved in the response, a new study suggests.

This is the conclusion of an investigation conducted by researchers at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, as part of the population - based KORA - Age study in the region of Augsburg.

The study has found that Darwin's frogs are infected with the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), and despite an absence of obvious mortality researchers have noted population declines, leading them to believe that these infected populations are at a serious risk of extinction within 15 years of contracting the disease.

In this study, the researchers found that a specific population of immune cells called macrophages have the ability to secrete or produce a protective or healing factor known as Interleukin - 10 (IL - 10), which can interact with receptors on intestinal epithelial cells to promote wound healing.

The researchers found 38 studies published between June 2011 and April 2016 that measured the effectiveness of the inactivated pandemic influenza vaccines, covering a population of more than 7.6 m people.

The results have implications both for researchers trying to understand the rapid decline in frog populations across the globe and for conservationists looking to save the animals, said Vance Vredenburg, associate professor of biology at San Francisco State University and co-author of the study.

College students make a convenient study population when you're a researcher at a university.

When researchers like Barzilai have looked for genes that might account for the extreme longevity of the centenarians they study, they have typically found that the genes that stand out in one long - lived population do not do so in others.

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.

When they analyzed the results of the experiment, the LMU researchers discovered that their study population found articles actually or putatively written by humans to be more readable than computer - generated texts.

«Two percent sounds small,» says Krishnan Bhaskaran, a researcher at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and lead author on the new study, «but the reason it's important is the whole population is exposed to the weather, and heart attacks are common in the first place.»

Although the reason why these conditions would spur early technological developments will require further study, the researchers theorize that higher, more concentrated human populations are more likely to develop new ideas.

Now, a team of scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed the Just EGFP Death - Inducing T - cell, or JEDI T - cells, which enable the visualization of T - cell antigens, allowing researchers to study T - cell interactions with different cell types, model disease states, and finally determine the functions of otherwise poorly characterized cell populations.