Sentences with phrase «screen larger populations»

Researchers have learned to work through schools, workplaces and other institutions to more efficiently screen larger populations of people and address their specific needs.

«Ultrasound enables you to screen a larger population, and that in turn means that life - threatening cardiovascular diseases can be detected at an earlier stage,» says Magnus Cinthio, senior lecturer in biomedical engineering and one of the researchers leading the work.

If successful, the test could screen large populations of people for HIV infection at the most valuable time for starting treatment.

Not exact matches

In addition, the LEAP study design excluded 9.1 % of the infants who were screened (76 of 834) because large wheals (greater than 4 mm in diameter) developed after the skin - prick test21 that were probably associated with peanut allergy; the safety and effectiveness of early peanut consumption in that population remain unknown.

In fact, the American Heart Association admits that screening by history - taking and physical examination alone (without non-invasive testing) is insufficient to guarantee detection of many critical cardiovascular abnormalities in large populations of young athletes.

Pressing to save lives, some scientists recommended large - scale screening of the Ashkenazi population.

Additional studies in larger cohorts will be needed to validate these findings, and more biomarkers will be needed to get the completely accurate set needed to screen the general population with the long term goal of identifying precursor lesions before they become malignant.

In contrast, our blood - based test is minimally invasive, inexpensive, and more sensitive, thus suitable for large population screening to detect early - stage tumors.»

First, because insomnia is a common problem and often chronic in duration, a large portion of the population would need long - term screening for the possible development of high blood pressure.

To better understand chikungunya infection rates in the blood supply, BSRI, in collaboration with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, Puerto Rico Blood Banks, Creative Testing Solutions and Hologic, a company that manufactures blood screening assays, recently completed a large study that documented very high rates of infected donations during the 2014 outbreak in Puerto Rico which infected nearly 25 % of the territory's population.

Such plants can be isolated using genome - wide association mapping of diverse populations or can be isolated from forward genetic screens, where a subset sample population with the desired traits is selected from a large pool of mutagenized individuals.

However, the identification of these select samples requires a well - constructed screening process that is both robust and, due to the large sample population, high - throughput.

Tu and colleagues compared these serologic biomarkers to traditional risk factors (age, sex, smoking, family history, symptoms) in a large Chinese population - based screening analysis.70 Pepsinogen I and II, as well as the pepsinogen I / II ratio, were assessed in combination with a gastrin subset gastrin - 17 and H pylori antibody (HP IgG).

However, with few exceptions, the stem cell and regenerative medicine industry has remained inadequately capitalized to carry out large - scale clinical trials independently, and major pharmaceutical firms have tended to show more interest in the use of hiPSCs as a source of large, pure populations of specific somatic cells for use in drug compound screening and toxicology tests, than they have in therapeutic uses of stem cells and their derivatives.

Large populations (21 — 24) around the world are being screened for colorectal cancer using FOBT cards.

«However, I think it will require the development of more sensitive techniques tested in larger populations of patients before it will be a plausible alternative to current screening approaches.»

As the assistant director / curriculum director of the Montana Digital Academy (MTDA), I'm pleased that a new study from REL Northwest looking at the population of students who take our courses and their rates of success confirms something we've known for a while: Online credit recovery programs bring many efficiencies — particularly to a state as large and demographically dispersed as Montana — but an extremely important element for student success is the personalized support students receive from caring adults on both sides of the computer screen.

And for a large portion of the reading population, that may be the case; browse for a book on your favorite retailer's site, click the Buy button, and wait for your book to appear on your small screen.

Well, I'm sure the larger - screen Kindle will rescue the concept of reading newspapers for some segment of the reading population (I'll get back to you as soon as I figure out which segment of the reading population that is, exactly).

The screening of the pure - bred dog population for new forms of PRA represents an important strategy to establish new large animal models.

Screening of the pure - bred dog population for new forms of PRA represents an important strategy to maintain breed health and to establish new large animal models.

Many lawyers just don't deal with it (maybe they should, but in mainstream legal America, especially in smaller firms who still do represent the largest base of legal population, it's just not in the center of people's radar screens).

While there was a pent - up demand for a larger screen smartphone, there still is a huge population that prefers the convenience of the smaller screen to a larger screen,» Schreiner told the E-Commerce Times.

Mental health problems were assessed using the self - report version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), a multi-informant wide - angle screening questionnaire.26, 27 The SDQ has been used in a large number of population - based studies in several countries.27 It is a 25 - item questionnaire with five subscales, each consisting of five items, generating scores for emotional symptoms, conduct problems, hyperactivity — inattention, peer problems and prosocial behaviour.