Sentences with phrase «researchers were able»

By videotaping samples of children's and parents» speech and gestures during interactions at home, the researchers were able to examine in what way and how often gestures were used to communicate, and whether that might help predict the child's language acquisition.

From analyzing x-rays from the quasar, the researchers were able to figure out that the black hole was spinning very rapidly.

As a result, the researchers were able to prevent the growth and malignant spread of the cancer in the animal model and human melanoma cells.

The researchers were able to «replicate» the varying real - body conditions in a lab, and test the behaviour of nanoparticles in different blood and lymph flows.

From that analysis, the researchers were able to develop four hypotheses on language and cognitive development:

Using a new technique called S - wave receiver function, which can distinguish how long seismic waves take to travel through the lithosphere versus through the underlying semimolten layer called the asthenosphere, the researchers were able to compute plate thicknesses by comparing the travel times of the waves.

By collecting samples from three different groups of patients, the researchers were able to compare the health of the precursor fat cells of the three groups.

Then, comparing the environmental conditions such as climate, vegetation and human impact at these locations to sites across tropical Africa where there was an absence of apes, the researchers were able to more precisely calculate the «suitable environmental conditions» — or habitat — necessary for apes to live.

Based on the descriptor, the researchers were able to evaluate various carbon materials.

But with their program, researchers were able to watch the cells in root tips of plants (Arabidopsis thaliana) growing and splitting in 3D over the course of days, they report this month on the preprint server bioRxiv.

But the researchers were able to regiment the protons in a defect - riddled silicon dioxide wafer by putting it in an electric field, which got the stray protons to migrate to one side or the other — storing a 1 or 0.

The researchers were able to use the grippers to grab and deliver glass beads, tiny wires, and tubes.

The particular interest of this work lies in the fact that by exciting the system at a given frequency — that is, by playing a certain note — the researchers were able to control the behaviour of the membrane at a different frequency, amplifying or suppressing its vibrations depending on the specific excitation conditions.

Stressed areas propagate the polarized light differently, and by processing the light with techniques similar to those used for medical computerized tomography scans, the researchers were able to map out the different layers of stresses inside the drop.

The imperfections have unique electronic properties that the researchers were able to exploit to increase sensitivity to absorbed gas molecules by 300 times.

Using this switch, the researchers were able to generate about 0.8 grams of glucaric acid per liter of the bacterial mixture, while cells that were engineered to produce glucaric acid but did not have the metabolic switch produced hardly any.

In addition, because data on the participants has been collected throughout their lifetimes, the researchers were able to disentangle the effects of maltreatment that occurred in their early years from experiences of abuse and neglect during later childhood.

The researchers were able to use the size, spacing, and depth of the impressions to estimate the weight, stride length, and gait of the ancient walkers.

Using high - affinity anti-interferon - antibodies isolated from patients with a syndrome called APECED, the researchers were able to detect interferon - at attomolar concentrations, equivalent to just quadrillionths of a gram per milliliter of sample.

By combining data from the three modalities, the researchers were able to map the signatures of molecules and elements across the surface of the painting for each pixel of the image.

Seventeen test subjects participated in the study and researchers were able to successfully demonstrate that this device can in fact be used to diagnose inflamed joints.

The researchers were able to observe that babies receiving the new object usually held it for a longer time, compared to those who held the same object as before.

Using super computers at Australia's National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) Facility the researchers were able to examine the impacts of changing winds on currents down to 700m around the coastline in greater detail than ever before.

The researchers were able to demonstrate, for instance, that factors responsible for hypertrophy — enlargement of cardiac cells for instance in athletes and pregnant women — also led to a growth in volume in the cardiac cells that had been cultured on a film of eADF4 (κ16).

Using a combination of scanning techniques (positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT)-RRB-, the researchers were able to track the progress of the tracer as it moved around the body.

Remarkably, giving animals injections of lithium salts — which mimics WNT signaling by inhibiting the molecule GSK3 — or giving animals a more specific GSK inhibitor, the researchers were able to restore normal synapse and spine numbers and also improve some of the most significant psychiatric - like behavioral abnormalities in these mice.

Examining thin sections of the teeth under a microscope and using technology at the McMaster - based Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy, the researchers were able to show that anomalies formed in the dentin layers during years when victims failed to get enough Vitamin D to fully mineralize the structures that form dentin and bone.

Nonetheless, the researchers were able to identify that this protection declines with age.

Working with instruments and facilities in Columbia Engineering laboratory space and the Columbia Nano Initiative (CNI), the researchers were able to fabricate metal - based plasmonic SSAs using an inexpensive process that can tune the SSAs to suit different operating conditions, and is compatible with industrial manufacturing methods.

In open tanks filled with water and sediment, the researchers were able to mimic an annual cycle.

Using these historical records, University of Missouri researchers were able to shed new light on how the interaction of natural disturbances, such as wildfires, and human actions shape forest conditions and the ecosystem services that forests provide today.

In the report, the researchers were able to describe mortality from legal intervention in the U.S. from 1999 to 2013 by time, person and place.

Researchers were able to glean the most from the middle - aged woman.

The researchers were able to get their data thanks to a knowledge of ancient African practices — in this case, the ritualistic cleansing of villages in agricultural communities.

In all cases, the technique worked well, and the researchers were able to predict with high accuracy the probability that the systems would rearrange.

Using data from Global Positioning System (GPS) stations and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) images collected during successive satellite fly - overs, ASU researchers were able to measure changes in surface elevation during a time period spanning the main Gorkha event, and several major aftershocks, with centimeter accuracy.

Using a specially built microscope capable of imaging matter at the atomic scale, the researchers were able to visualize traps, which can adversely affect the flow of electrons and elementary energy packets called excitons.

Using astrometric calculations of the elevations of the Milky Way as it would have been viewed from Kyoto on 17 September 1770, the researchers were able to calculate the geometry of the red aurora and check the results against the details from the Seikai painting and the diary.

By adjusting the inputs of the model — such as the amount of R&D funding and the level of a carbon tax — the researchers were able to assess what changes in those levels make sense over time.

The researchers were able to take ultra-precise measurements using the NanoSIMS mass spectrometer.

Using Skype, researchers were able to receive incoming calls, dial out and place callers on hold with the battery - free phone.

An individual doctor may see only one case, but by collaborating with hundreds of NHS staff and researchers we were able to link children from clinics across the British Isles.

By applying this new technology to enzymes required for the production of ethanol — an important biofuel — the researchers were able to increase alcohol production by over 200 %.

In this way, the researchers were able to fine - tune the geometry of the nanofibrils so that they reflected the most light.

Using their algorithm for how various neurons would respond, the researchers were able to digitally re-create the visage that a monkey had viewed (2).

But also in these leaves, the researchers were able to trace the labeled nitrogen.

The researchers were able to show that the observed enlarged lattice spacing was due to strain which arises due to the lattice mismatch at the graphene edge and Fe membrane interface.

The researchers were able recreate an evolutionary timeline of the changes and build in the laboratory nine synthetic ancestors viruses.

By using a combination of nanofibrils of varying diameters, the researchers were able to tune the opacity, and therefore the whiteness, of the end material.

Because the IAN requires that parents complete a short questionnaire and verify that their child has been professionally diagnosed in order to participate in the online network, the researchers were able to confirm the participants met the diagnostic criteria for autism without a clinic visit.