Sentences with phrase «researchers tracked the number»

In addition to pollution levels, the researchers tracked the number of asthma attacks that sent children under 6 to the hospital.

In addition to pollution levels, the researchers tracked the number of asthma attacks that sent children under 6 to the hospital.

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'' [The researchers»] conclusion was that the nature of action video game play was critical in «forcing players to simultaneously juggle a number of varied tasks (detect new enemies, track existing enemies and avoid getting hurt, among others)...»

Only 5 percent of the companies that received venture capital funding in 2004 had a female CEO, according to the Crain's Chicago Business article, a trend that has not changed since researchers started tracking these numbers in 1997.

She is part of a growing number who represent the highest percentage of minority women nursing their children since researchers began tracking such data.

«Certainly there's an effort to save money, reduce the number of elections, have an election at a time when maybe it will be more cost - effective than if you had it at another time,» said Richard Berg - Andersson, researcher for thegreenpapers.com, a website that tracks elections in all 50 states.

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.

Using records dating back to 1855, hurricane researchers say they have uncovered an ongoing rise in the number of Atlantic hurricanes that tracks the increase in sea surface temperature related to climate change.

To produce the numbers, researchers tracked the amount of money NIH awarded to grant recipients between 1985 and 2015, as well as publications and patents related to the awards.

They share an impressive track record of increasing the number of overseas researchers and students, improving international collaborations, introducing English language courses for students, training administration staff to produce bilingual documents, and introducing new salary scales to commensurate with institutes in Western countries.

By tracking colour - ringed gulls throughout the study area, the researchers were able to monitor numbers and behaviours during different breeding phases.

For 3154 of the researchers, the authors were also able to track down information about their children, including number and age, so that they could dig into questions of how personal factors such as family constraints play into scientists» mobility.

Such approaches make it easy to track the behavior of huge numbers of people, while third - party software applications, or apps, allow researchers to run virtual experiments on Facebook users, often for free.

The researchers then confirmed that the number of singly paired chromosomes — also called univalents — was higher in older mouse and even human egg cells, indicating that age - related segregation errors could be tracked back to increased numbers of prematurely separated chromosome pairs.

Researchers at the Cells - in - Motion Cluster of Excellence at the University of Münster (Germany) have now developed a method enabling them to better evaluate and study the activity of inflammatory cells in mice: they have succeeded in genetically modifying precursors of immune cells, then increasing their numbers in a test tube and finally tracking them spatially and temporally in living organisms.

The researchers also plan to use the system to track the number of hits players receive over time.

Following the blow out at BP's Macondo well five years ago, researchers have tracked a rising number of unusual deaths and health issues in Gulf dolphins, but have struggled to definitively pin the problems on the spill (SN: 4/18/15, p. 22).

This data produced a plot with a series of curves, each of which tracked how the organism changed in the size and number of units with age, enabling the researchers to produce a computer model to replicate growth in the organism and test previous hypotheses about where and how growth occurred.

When they plotted the number of tracks against the dose of radioactive Cesium experienced in different parts of the reserve, the researchers found that radiation levels aren't correlated with animal abundance.

The researchers examined people in their 60's about their exercise habits and preferences and then tracked them for the next 15 years — thus losing nearly a third of the original number of participants, who died in that period of time.

To crunch the numbers, researchers asked 21 couples, ages 18 to 35, to wear calorie - tracking armbands while they ran on a treadmill while they had sex once a week for a month.

The studies also kept track on the number of physical activities the subjects took part in over the course of a month, which let the researchers figure out the amount of activity they were getting.

Since then, due in large part to the availability of new data sources that link and track teachers and students over a number of years, researchers have been able to estimate the overall contribution of teachers to student learning.

As many researchers have noted, socio - economic differences among families — which often track with race — account for one of the main reasons some students start school knowing their ABCs and numbers, and others don't.

Researchers from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College, Columbia University and the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center crunched the numbers for this first - of - its - kind report, examining the 17 - year - olds who took a dual enrollment class in 2010 and tracking them for six years as they made their way through college.

That, at least, is the conclusion of a group of security researchers, who find that poorly vetted apps on Google Play are connecting to a massive number of ad and tracking sites — without users being any the wiser.

To determine the population impact of trap and remove (culling) efforts on two open population sites in Tasmania, researchers used wildlife cameras and cat counts to track the number of cats at each site.

During fieldwork conducted in 1999 and 2000, researchers fitted radio transmitters on a number of Choctawhatchee beach mice at Grayton Beach State Recreation Area in Walton County, and tracked the mice for several days.

Researchers have attached satellite tags to mantas to track migration, observed and counted their numbers from the sky in aerial surveys, and photographed their distinct skin patterns all in an effort to understand more about this graceful giant.

For research, however, this means that variables as simple as «number of sessions» or «average weekly minutes of therapeutic contact» are no longer simple variables a researcher can track and control.