Sentences with phrase «scale study led»

A large - scale study led by the University of Exeter has found that boys are more likely to be stillborn than girls.

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That workaholic distinction was assessed in part by the seven point Bergen Work Addiction Scale that was developed in 2012 by the study's lead author, Dr. Cecilie Schou Andreassen.

Increased awareness of the nutritional and medical benefits of breastfeeding, including reduced incidence of infection and allergic reaction, 1 — 9 has led to its endorsement by medical and professional groups10 — 12 and to substantial increases in the number of women choosing to breastfeed.13, 14 A study of 300 British children showed that children who consumed breast milk in the early weeks of life also had significantly higher IQ scores at 7.5 to 8 years on an abbreviated version of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) than those who were not breastfed.15 The sample was made up of preterm infants fed breast milk or formula by tube.

«Recent studies found that scale insect populations increase on oak and maple trees in warmer urban areas, which raises the possibility that these pests may also increase with global warming,» says Dr. Elsa Youngsteadt, a research associate at NC State and lead author of a paper on the work.

Researchers began this work at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, which led to a large - scale, multi-year study in connection with the Plikus Laboratory for Developmental and Regenerative Biology at the University of California, Irvine.

A study led by scientists at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel shows that the ocean currents influence the heat exchange between ocean and atmosphere and thus can explain climate variability on decadal time scales.

Last spring a research team led by Michael Tippett, associate professor of applied physics and applied mathematics at Columbia Engineering, published a study showing that the average number of tornadoes during outbreaks — large - scale weather events that can last one to three days and span huge regions — has risen since 1954.

To study the snakes as they moved through sand, Sharpe — from Georgia Tech's Interdisciplinary Bioengineering Program — and undergraduate Robyn Kuckuk, from the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, glued tiny lead markers onto the scales of the snakes.

My colleagues (Tara Behrend, Erin Peters Burton and Barbara Means) and I are leading a study that will help illuminate the traits that make STEM high schools successful and provide insights into their potential for scale - up.

«It is unlikely that historically low rates of deforestation can persist in the face of growing pressures to clear land due to increases in population, demand for wood and charcoal, cropping with reduced fallow periods leading to soil degradation, and international interests in large scale land investments for oil, biofuel and other crops,» the study states.

His lifelong fascination with individuals who scale the supreme peaks of creativity, whether in science or the arts, led him to a detailed study of Newton's works, which culminated in a 600 - page exposition, published this summer, of Newton's Principia.

«We don't know what exposure is leading to this susceptibility to dietary glutamate, but this pilot study suggests the need for a large - scale clinical trial, since dietary change could be an effective low - cost treatment option for developing countries.»

Authors of the study hope future studies will investigate the effects of other documentary films and see why some films lead to large - scale mobilizations and others do not.

«Our study is the first long - term and large - scale assessment of the impacts of dams and diverting water from the rivers and wetlands of the Murray - Darling Basin,» says study lead author UNSW Professor Richard Kingsford.

The lab mounted the small - scale study with the knowledge that the industrial production of nanotubes will inevitably lead to their wider dispersal in the environment.

In the meantime, Lukanova — herself a leanie — points out that whatever benefits may trace to obesity here, this study should not lead heavy women to become complacent at how they tip the scales.

The study, Lifetime and size of shallow magma bodies controlled by crustal - scale magmatism, was led by researchers at ETH Zurich, and also included researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Led by Julie Demuth, a scientist from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the study, «Explicating experience: Development of a valid scale of past hazard experience for tornadoes,» characterized and measured people's past tornado experiences to determine their impact on the perceived risks of future tornadoes.

Large - scale conservation genetics studies on wild jaguars spanning across several range countries assessing these threats are rare and suffer from low sample sizes for this region,» said Claudia Wultsch, the lead author of the paper, a scientist in the Museum's Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, and a conservation research fellow at Panthera.

Those encouraging findings from the small - scale pilot study formed the basis for this multi-center clinical trial led by Carley and Zee.

The research led by Professor Helena Teede and Dr Anju Joham, from the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University analysed a large - scale epidemiological study, called the Australian Longitudinal Study of Women's Health, which revealed the findstudy, called the Australian Longitudinal Study of Women's Health, which revealed the findStudy of Women's Health, which revealed the findings.

It is one of the heaviest - known elements, yet it does not occur naturally because all of its isotopes are radioactive and decay rapidly on a geological time scale,» said the study's lead author, François Tissot, UChicago PhD» 15, now a W.O. Crosby Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Lead author Hilary Dugan, a limnologist at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and former Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, explains, «We compiled long - term data, and compared chloride concentrations in North American lakes and reservoirs to climate and land use patterns, with the goal of revealing whether, how, and why salinization is changing across broad geographic scales.

«Micro-scale 3D models are an important tool for many areas of science, but for most micro or nano - scale objects only a portion of the object can be seen in the field of view,» says Gopala Mulukutla, a research scientist in the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space at UNH and the study's lead auStudy of Earth, Oceans and Space at UNH and the study's lead austudy's lead author.

«There hasn't been a large - scale assessment of just the simple full topographic impact of mountaintop mining, which occupies more than 10 percent of the land in the region we studied,» said Matthew Ross, an ecology PhD student and lead author on the study.

Large - scale studies of healthy women indicate that the menopause - related thinking deficiencies are modest, limited to the time leading up to menopause («perimenopause»), and rebound after menopause.

The European consortium for this larger scale study, which will be led from Spain by the CNIC, is already being formed, and includes researchers from Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Denmark, Serbia, Poland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

«But in these previous models, there was simply not enough time for any black hole to reach a supermassive scale so soon after the birth of the universe,» says Christian Reisswig, NASA Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow in Astrophysics at Caltech and the lead author of the study.

To conduct the new study, the Hawaiian team, led by astronomer Istvan Szapudi, combined two large - scale observations of the cosmos that already had been completed: the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which represents the last, dying embers of the big bang, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which comprises images of millions of galaxies.

«The scale of human impact is astonishing,» says Thomas Crowther, an ecologist now at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology in Wageningen who led the study while at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

«The supercomputing power of Titan allowed us to perform large - scale simulations of the drug targets and to screen many potential compounds quickly,» said Helen Zgurskaya, head of OU's Antibiotic Discovery and Resistance Group, who led the study.

A new study has mapped food specialization in hummingbird communities across the Americas, leading to a rare documentation of a large scale ecological pattern.

Now, a study led by Professor Harry Wang of William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science demonstrates the ability to predict a hurricane's storm tide at the level of individual neighborhoods and streets — a much finer scale than current operational methods.

Promising outcomes of preliminary studies in patients in Southeast Asia and parts of Western and Central Africa led the World Health Organization to make the recommendation, but safety and efficacy have not yet been proven in large - scale clinical trials.

In 2002, the research team for TRIGR (Trial to Reduce IDDM in the Genetically at Risk), led in the U.S. by principal investigator Dorothy Becker, M.D., professor of pediatrics at Children's Hospital and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, embarked on a large - scale study of 2,159 infants with a family member affected by type 1 diabetes and with genetic risk for type 1 diabetes to find out whether delaying the exposure to complex foreign proteins such as cow's milk proteins would decrease the risk of diabetes.

Lead author Maria Panteli, from Queen Mary's School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, said: «This is the first study to investigate outliers in world music with such a large scale and tracing the geographic origin of these recordings could help identify areas of the world that have developed a unique musical character.»

Thus, these waters have naturally occurring high CO2 and low pH» [an acidity / alkalinity scale; the lower the number the greater the acidity], says Derek Manzello, a biologist from the University of Miami and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, lead author of the study appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

A full - scale HDST would likely cost $ 10 billion or more, says Alan Dressler, an astronomer at the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, who led the 1996 study that led to JWST.

«First large scale study of cocaine users leads to breakthrough in drug testing.»

Lead author of the study, Professor Cun - Zheng Ning, said: «Semiconductors are traditionally «grown'together layer - by - layer, on an atom - scale, using the so - called epitaxial growth of crystals.

«We wanted to see whether very - large - scale screening across a diverse collection of cancer cell lines and a large number of drugs could yield new combinations for patients with cancer,» says Adam Friedman, MD, PhD, of the CBRC and the MGH Cancer Center, who led the study.

An international team of researchers led by physicists at the University of Basel have been studying the lubricity of this material on the nanometer scale.

Matthew Hickman, Professor in Public Health and Epidemiology at the University of Bristol's School of Social and Community Medicine and lead author of the study, said: «Scaling up HCV treatment is critical to the prevention of HCV in the population to support and enhance traditional harm reduction measures — opiate substitution treatment and needle exchange.

The study, which was led by Sven Nelander, Uppsala University / SciLifeLab, and published in the journal EBioMedicine, illustrated how researchers in the future will be able to use large - scale data to find new disease mechanisms and identify new treatment targets.

«While the results of this study are preliminary, they hold promise for enhancing and maintaining brain reserve in later life, particularly among sedentary individuals who may benefit most urgently from behavioral interventions like Experience Corps,» said Carlson, who is now leading a larger fMRI trial as part of a large - scale randomized trial of the Baltimore Experience Corps Program.

«With the new MMS spacecraft we can, for the first time, resolve the structure of the bow shock at these small scales,» says Andreas Johlander, PhD student at IRF, who led the study.

A large - scale genomic study uncovered novel genetic variants and led researchers to an unexpected gene that affects bone density and fracture risk.

Building on this research, the Union of Concerned Scientists is now collaborating with leading scientists who study climate change consequences at a regional scale and beyond.

«The assumption has been that surface ice on Mercury exists predominantly in large craters, but we show evidence for these smaller - scale deposits as well,» said Ariel Deutsch, the study's lead author and a Ph.D. candidate at Brown.

Professor Colin Waters, who led the study, said: «Of the 65 «golden spikes» of the Geological Time Scale currently ratified, all but one are located in strata that accumulated on the sea floor, the one exception being the ice core used to define the base of the Holocene Epoch.