Sentences with phrase «serve as a marker»

To make counting easier, I used 10 pennies to serve as markers for 100 pushups completed, and five quarters to denote each set of 1,000 pushups completed.

But this might at least serve as a marker of how far we have to go to establish the legislature as an effective and responsible scrutinizer of the nation's business and the affairs of the state.

These questions are themselves politically theatrical and are about political theater: What you think about them serves as a marker of your place on the political stage.

Although tau imaging is still in its earliest stages, Ryan hopes that such imaging will accelerate drug development and that finding a blood - based biomarker for Alzheimer's to reveal risk (much like cholesterol serves as a marker for cardiovascular risk) will change the field dramatically in terms of how doctors can diagnose the disease.

The pathologist of the Department of Pathology at the University Hospital of Bellvitge August Vidal explained that «this tumorigenic transformation depends on Dicer protein that could serve as a marker for the presence of tumor cells, or as a therapeutic target.»

«Aside from the direct association with cardiovascular risk factors, skipping breakfast might serve as a marker for a general unhealthy diet or lifestyle which in turn is associated with the development and progression of atherosclerosis,» said Jose L. Peñalvo, PhD, assistant professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University and the senior author of the study.

They confirmed that the new method did serve as a marker for synaptic density.

«But these results put us on track to discover molecular signatures in humans that may have the potential to serve as markers for certain types of depression.

The system is based on the observation that all landmines leak minute quantities of explosive vapors, which accumulate in the soil above them and serve as markers for their presence.

If expressed genes are identified in a fungus but not in another, they serve as markers that will allow to apply the appropriate treatment in these crops, says Dr. Elsa Gongora Castillo, plant biotechnologist who works at North Carolina State University.

Indeed, his team's work already indicates that molecular axis alignments can serve as markers to track molecular movements such the folding of proteins.

They merely serve as markers of dairy intake since their sole source is ruminant animals, such as cows.

«From a care standpoint, cognitive decline is not only a strong marker for neurological deterioration and physical health in older adults, but also serves as a marker for stroke in old age,» he said.

Now a new study from the Basser Center for BRCA at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania shows PTEN may serve as a marker for whether a patient with BRCA 1 - 2 deficient ovarian cancer is likely to respond to checkpoint inhibitor therapy.

One group of small, non-coding RNA molecules could serve as a marker to improve cancer staging and may also be able to convert some advanced tumors to more treatable stages, report a University of Chicago - based research team in the April 1, 2008, issue of the journal Genes & Development.

The enzyme «isn't just a random by - product of a tumor — it's something that can serve as a marker for growth and malignancy,» says Ester Kwon, a former postdoctoral researcher in Bhatia's lab.

Human geneticists and cardiologists studying families with heart disease may discover, said Stainier, that a mutated form of the gata5 homologue occurs in some cases of heart disease, in which case the mutated form of the gene could serve as a marker of predisposition to the disease.

Not only were selected «test» genes that served as markers turned off after being attached to the inner nuclear membrane, but also nearby «real» genes.

Glycolipids provide energy and serve as markers for cellular recognition.

Given that physician sex by itself does not determine patient outcomes, sex should serve as a marker of differences in practice patterns between male and female physicians that meaningfully affect patient outcomes.

This study design will establish whether (1) DAXX can serve as a marker for early tumor growth or later advanced / metastatic PCa, and (2) high DAXX expression associates with indolent versus lethal PCa.

All you need to do is eat some food that can serve as a marker when it appears in the stool.

The results were significant: Levels of several different thyroid antibodies that serve as markers for Hashimoto's dropped between 40 and almost 60 percent!

The advanced glycation end products and lipid peroxidation products are ubiquitous to diabetes and Alzheimer's disease and serve as markers of disease progression in both disorders.

Fiber intake also serves as a marker for fruit and vegetable consumption.

The current study extended our previous fMRI findings to include HVA concentrations which serve as another marker of central food motivation and reward.

-- Genetic differences in the immune system have been shown to serve as a marker for overall genetic diversity.

Depending on the experimental design, the florescent protein serves as a marker of function, structure or activity.

«We want to be an employer of choice,» Wright - Manning adds, «so things like the award, they only serve as markers for us to say: «look, we are an awesome company, come and work for us».»

To trust the artist, they served as markers for the Underground Railroad.

The work, included in the Marieluise Hessel Collection but not present in the exhibition, serves as a marker in absentia of the humor and futility of attempting to assemble six disparate exhibitions under a common theme.

The mural will be a platform for dialogue with neighbors experiencing homelessness, and serve as a marker that unhoused peoples are part of our community.

On each bed Kuitca has painted geographic maps of randomly selected locations from around the world, punctuated by irregularly placed buttons that serve as markers for cities.

The AM graphs serve as a marker and AM is not a driver in itself, the background forces are gravity, rotation, torque and velocity.

5 Antonia Baum and Elliot M. Goldner, «The Relationship between Stealing and Eating Disorders: A Review» (1995) 3 Harvard Review of Psychiatry 210 (noting that the presence of stealing behavior may serve as a marker of eating - disorder severity).

The first 5 years of life are critical for the development of language and cognitive skills.1 By kindergarten entry, steep social gradients in reading and math ability, with successively poorer outcomes for children in families of lower social class, are already apparent.2 — 4 Early cognitive ability is, in turn, predictive of later school performance, educational attainment, and health in adulthood5 — 7 and may serve as a marker for the quality of early brain development and a mechanism for the transmission of future health inequalities.8 Early life represents a time period of most equality and yet, beginning with in utero conditions and extending through early childhood, a wide range of socially stratified risk and protective factors may begin to place children on different trajectories of cognitive development.9, 10

Not exact matches

For a long time scientists thought the undertones in a person's voice served just as a marker, a vocal fingerprint of sorts that allowed others to distinguish between speakers.

His work indicates that this cell surface marker could serve as a target for a novel brain cancer vaccine or T - cell therapies engineered to recognize and kill tumors carrying that neoantigen.

Sociologically speaking, it is precisely the opposite: It serves as a linguistic boundary - marker.

The state's propensity to assign individuals identities through voter registration lists and social security numbers or more generally to reinforce conceptions of individual rights serves as an example; the roles of educational systems (through individualized test scores) and professional careers (organized around cumulative skills attached to the individual's biography) provide further examples.7 This work is important because it shows the dependence of self - constructs on markers in the culture at large: the self is understood not only in terms of internal development but also as a product of external reinforcement.

He could even guide his side to glory on French soil which would serve as a significant marker of his ability.

Each year, the ritual of «going to The Fair» serves as one of our family's favorite, most definitive markers of the autumn season.

I look up to locate Towers that served as my lower Manhattan markers, even though I know they are no longer standing.

«We want to also investigate whether these two enzymes can serve as an early warning system, a marker of pancreatic cancer risk, in patients with pancreatitis,» Dr. Storz says.

The eyes have served as a window into the brain, with disconjugate eye movements — eyes rotating in opposite directions — considered a principal marker for head trauma as early as 3,500 years ago.

«Recognition of human receptors can serve as molecular markers for the pandemic potential of the [isolated strains].»

This protein also serves as a docking site for diagnostic markers and different drugs, such as Valium.

Discovery improves understanding of the cause of allergic asthma and may serve as an early diagnostic marker.

Thus the intron in the non-coding region serves as one of the regulatory markers which ensure that mRNA is recognized by Stau2 and transported to synapses.

Other alterations and the presence of particular immune targets could serve as better markers to help pathologists accurately diagnose mesothelioma and predict which patients will have poor or better outcomes.