Sentences with phrase «role at these functions»

And business cards play an important role at these functions.

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His research, which looks at companies like Marriott, Harrah's, and Capital One among others, highlights the role of analytics in functions ranging from supply chain and R&D to customer selection, loyalty, and service.

Acknowledging the presumed benefits of separating the roles, reports sponsored between 1992 and 2004 by national governments, major stock exchanges, or both in at least 16 countries outside of the United States have recommended splitting the functions.

In that role, Mike focused on supporting Passive Equity products as a subject matter expert and a liaison between the portfolio management team and the client - facing functions at SSGA.

The analysis of a characteristic prophetic form of utterance (German: Gattung) defines both the subject of «ecstatic» concentration and at the same time the nature and significance of the unmistakably non-ecstatic; that is, the role of the prophet's normally functioning senses.

No doubt it is true, scientifically speaking, that no distinct center of superhuman consciousness has yet appeared on earth (at least in the living world) for which it may be claimed or predicted that one day it will exercise a centralizing function, in relation to associated human thought, similar to the role of the individual «I» in relation to the cells of the brain.

«Water plays a vital role in helping the body perform many essential functions, and making smart hydration choices is a key first step to maintaining a healthy lifestyle,» said Sarah Ladden, a registered dietitian and Director, Nutrition, Health & Wellness at Nestlé Waters North America.

Take Steven Gerrard for instance: he, too, doesn't have the physical power of a Yaya Toure or Nemanja Matic but, playing at No. 4 for the Scousers, the former England skipper still plays a key role in the functioning of Liverpool machine.

They are rarely world class at one role but exceptional in all 3 functions.

This stage represents the final effect of the event on the clinician, who may leave the clinical profession altogether, stay in her previous role but never function at her previous performance level, or thrive by taking lessons learned and working to ensure that deficits in the process led to the outcome are addressed in effort to decrease the likelihood that such an event will occur.

The term «birthmother» was invented to limit our role in our children's lives to 1) being production units («breeders» as social workers also called us) whose sole purpose was to serve a genital function, and 2) to having only been parents at the time of birth, but not afterwards.

Depressed mothers are often overwhelmed in the parenting role, have difficulty reading infant cues, struggle to meet the social and emotional needs of their children, and are less tolerant of child misbehaviour.7 Offspring of depressed mothers, particularly if they are exposed to depression in the first year of life, are more likely to be poorly attached to their caregivers, experience emotional and behavioural dysregulation, have difficulty with attention and memory, and are at greater risk for psychiatric disorders throughout childhood.8 Home visiting focuses on fostering healthy child development by improving parenting and maternal functioning.

Its role is also being looked at closely in the implantation of the placenta, how well the placenta functions, and therefore prevention of pre-eclampsia.

My new stay - at - home - mom career utilizes many of the talents / skills that made me a formidable force in my professional role: multitasking, attention to detail, working capably within deadlines, strong interpersonal and diplomacy skills, and the ability to function effectively amidst perceived chaos.

Disclosing that efforts are being made to enhance the operational capacity of officers of the Nigeria Police force through tailor made training programme that will give them the right civil orientation in their roles as guardians of the constitution, the President said his administration will encourage the development of state - level community policing under a model that will integrate members of the community to policing functions at the grassroots level.

The training, which began at 2 pm with registration procedures and a pre-test, also highlighted the polling day and time, functions of the polling team and the role of election personnel and stakeholders.

Dongsheng Cai at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York has been investigating the role of the brain in ageing, since it controls most of our bodily functions.

But though myocilin is common in many parts of our bodies, its normal, healthy role in the eye and, for that matter, what functions the protein has in the body at all are still a mystery.

In the second Cell paper, researchers collaborated with scientists at the University of Cambridge, McGill University in Canada and several UK and European institutions to explore the role that epigenetics plays in the development and function of three major human immune cell types: CD14 + monocytes, CD16 + neutrophils and naïve CD4 + T cells, from the genomes of 197 individuals.

At first it was thought that only functioned as cellular debris warehouses but in recent years has been that could have an important role as a messenger between cells of the body and now many groups focus their research on the role that could be played exosomes in various diseases, including cancer.

Since beginning a lab dedicated to understanding cancer metastasis at Rockefeller six years ago, Associate Professor Sohail Tavazoie has found that microRNAs — tiny strands of RNA that function as switches to inactivate specific genes — play an important role in controlling genes linked to metastasis.

Although the flagellum, along with the rest of the jaw, is thought to play an important role in the mating behavior of camel spiders, and was observed to transfer sperm to the female in at least one species, little is known about its precise function.

The neuron - packed brain region — it's tucked underneath the cerebral hemispheres and plays a role in motor control and cognitive functions, such as attention and language — seemed to stop aging at the 80 - year benchmark, which meant it remained fully functional but somehow impervious to deterioration of time for decades.

Fowler and her colleagues at Brookhaven National Laboratory found that cigarette smoke lowers levels of an enzyme called monoamine oxidase B, or MAO - B, that plays a role in the regulation of blood pressure and is critical to the functioning of multiple organs.

An examination of millions of studies of molecules that play a role in biological function reveals that «scientists in this field were about 10-fold less efficient [at making new discoveries] than they could have been,» one of the paper's co-authors, computational biologist Andrey Rzhetsky of the University of Chicago (UC) in Illinois, told our colleague John Bohannon on publication day.

Robert Pringle, an assistant professor in ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton and co-author of the Science paper, said that the unexpected function of termites in savannas and grasslands suggests that ants, prairie dogs, gophers and other mound - building creatures could also have important roles in ecosystem health.

Dr Siddharth Banka, Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, who led the study, explained: «Our team has identified that this new syndrome is caused by a small deletion on chromosome 6 that affects the function of hypothalamus, a region of the brain that plays a number of important roles in the body.»

«Our goal in the project was to close the gap in knowledge that exists on role of serotonin in the brain cortex, particularly as it concerns brain circuitry, its electrical activity and function,» said Roberto Fernández Galán, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

«Three - dimensional structural information derived from the data obtained at the ESRF was essential for the interpretation of the work, as it led to a high - resolution structure of the new active site and provided conclusive evidence of the role of protein re-organisation in the emergence of the new function» explains Jose A. Gavira, corresponding author, from the University of Granada.

Manuel Graeber, a neuropathologist at the University of Sydney who did not take part in the study but has worked extensively with microglia, believes these findings will also play an important role in focusing scientists» attention on these cells» function.

«We know dysregulation of a protein enzyme called multifunctional CaM kinase II plays a role in disrupting sodium channel function in cardiac disease, but it was a matter of determining how this occurred and whether we could we prevent it for therapeutic benefit,» said Hund, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at The Ohio State University.

At a press conference there today, researchers reported that there was evidence of moderately advanced CTE in several regions of Duerson's brain, including the frontal cortex, amygdala, and hippocampus, which play roles in impulse control, mood, memory, and other cognitive functions.

Almost 100 trillion microbes — some beneficial and some harmful — live in the human gastrointestinal tract at any time, helping to regulate immune function and inflammation, two factors hypothesized to play a role in neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.

«Once identified, we further tested their role as cancer drivers, for example by looking at molecules with and without mutations and comparing their structure and function,» he adds.

The study is the first, say its authors, to provide evidence that adenosine, a biochemical at the heart of human cellular function, plays another crucial role — keeping on hand a steady number of healthy chondrocytes, the cells that make and sustain cartilage.

Other researchers are looking at the role played by leptin, a hormone that suppresses appetite and may improve respiratory function.

«The real story here is that we probably need sea otters more than they need us, as they play key roles in the functioning and resiliency of kelp forest and estuarine ecosystems that provide a wide range of services to human societies,» said Dr. M Tim Tinker, a research scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey who is presenting an overview of the latest research on southern sea otters and is coauthor of several other new studies presented at the conference.

Because the RNAi wasn't used to dampen FOXP2 activity until 23 days after the birds hatched, the new study shows that the gene has a role beyond embryonic development, says neurogeneticist Simon Fisher of the University of Oxford in the U.K. «The gene, at least in songbirds, may have important active functions in [neural] circuits,» he says.

NIH and NSF in the United States could at least in part be considered as role models for how such an ERC should function.

Decomposition is a fundamental microbial function that plays a major role in how ecosystems work,» said study co-author Sasha Reed at the U.S. Geological Survey in Moab, Utah.

Professor Ukena proposes that NPGL plays a vital role in these mechanisms — increasing appetite when energy levels fall and reducing appetite when an energy overload is detected — together, helping to keep us at a healthy and functioning weight, and more importantly alive!

Basic research aimed at elucidating the role of enzymes and other proteins in biological processes, regulation of these processes at the molecular level, the structure - function relationship of proteins.

Interests: Physiological ecology of plants, role of plant species in Arctic ecosystem function, climate change; lead principal investigator at Arctic LTER.

When the researchers looked at the role of genes that were methylated by genes with code differences related to ASD, including additional genes beyond those with direct code changes, they found that the majority were involved in biological pathways that were important in immune function.

In new research being presented at the meeting, scientists suggest that the blood - brain barrier in the brainstem — the primitive brain area responsible for many of the body's basic functions, such as breathing, heart rate, sleeping, and eating — could play a key role salt - induced baroreflexin regulating blood pressure.

For example, Sima Smadja Storz and her colleagues at this lab investigated the role of casein kinase 1 (CK1), which are enzymes that function as regulators of circadian rhythmicity (research published in PLoS ONE, 2013).

We analyzed the role of DNM2 and several actin binding proteins on clathrin plaque function at costameres in vitro by using either siRNA depletion combined to high resolution electron microscopy or in vivo by intravital microscopy.

«85 % of these genes are required for nephrocyte function, suggesting that a majority of human genes known to be associated with NS play conserved roles in renal function from flies to humans,» said Zhe Han, Ph.D., senior author of the paper and Associate Professor at the Centre for Cancer and Immunology Research at Children's National.

These findings hinted at a functional role of pericyte - expressed Tie2 in regulating vascular function.

March 6, 2013 One region, two functions: Brain cells» multitasking may be a key to understanding overall brain function A region of the brain known to play a key role in visual and spatial processing has a parallel function: sorting visual information into categories, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Chicago.