Sentences with phrase «several studies researchers»

W: In several studies researchers have found a gene associated with violence.

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In several animal studies, researchers have demonstrated that moderate alcohol consumption does not promote weight gain.

Dr. Laurie Helgoe cites several studies in which researchers compared the two and found that introverts generally have higher levels of electrical activity in the cerebral cortex, which may explain why they limit external stimulation so as to maintain an appropriate level of arousal.

This is far from a definitive study and there are several possible ways to interpret the data, as both the researchers themselves and the British Psychological Society Research Digest blog point out.

Some time ago, I read about a study performed at a prestigious university — MIT, I think — in which the researchers invented a toy that had several «functions» built into it.

In cross-cultural research by Ian St. James - Roberts, a child psychologist at the University of London, and several researchers in England and Denmark, studies of parenting techniques from around the world found no significant differences between the occurrence and persistence of colic and parenting styles.

Ole Olsen, a researcher from the University of Copenhagen, recently examined several studies of planned homebirth backed up by a modern hospital system compared with planned hospital birth.

Since publication of the first Purdue study, similar findings about the effects of RHI, both in the short - and medium - term, have been reported by researchers [8,9,16,19,21,22,26,27,28, 29 - 38], with several of the studies finding changes which persisted for weeks and even months after a football season ended.

A new study by a Stanford - affiliated researcher questions several assertions made by advocates for the Advanced Placement exam.

The importance of the umbilical cord not only for the fetus but for newborn infants too was shown by Swedish researchers several years ago, in a study that received great international acclaim.

«This study goes against everything that's been published for several years now from very reliable clinicians and researchers about the potential hazards of supplementing exclusively breast - feeding babies with formula,» says Dr. Kathleen Marinelli, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and the chair - elect of the U.S. Breastfeeding Committee.

Although these findings are based on observational studies and can not prove a direct cause and effect relationship between breastfeeding and SIDS prevention, researchers say there are several plausible biological reasons.

Researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Darrin Freshwater Institute in Bolton Landing have been studying the impact of water temperate and lake ice for several years, said Sandra Nierzicki - Bauer, executive director.

Clancy thought that quantitative data would give her work in this area more clout, so she and several other researchers collaborated to conduct a more formal survey and interview study, which they called the Survey of Academic Field Studies (SAFE).

In that study, the UChicago researchers matched genetic markers of the «input» and «output» neurons of the mammalian neocortex with genes expressed in several bird DVR nuclei.

Two researchers from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health published a review in the November 20th issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, of several hundred smoking studies.

In the new study, Duke University researchers overcame several of these obstacles by using a non-pathogenic carrier called adeno - associated virus, or AAV, to deliver the gene - editing system.

Several other UAF researchers, along with scientists from about two dozen other research institutions worldwide, contributed to the study.

In 1989, University of Wisconsin researchers launched a longitudinal study, called the Wisconsin Study of Families and Work, which collected medical and demographic data on several hundred children from birth to early adultstudy, called the Wisconsin Study of Families and Work, which collected medical and demographic data on several hundred children from birth to early adultStudy of Families and Work, which collected medical and demographic data on several hundred children from birth to early adulthood.

Despite this, the extensive breadth of the new study allowed the researchers to identify several genetic markers underlying the fruit size increases, which is great news for breeders who might want to further increase the apple's girth.

To determine the candidates with the best switching properties, researchers screened several orthoquinone - containing aromatic compounds in a computational study.

According to the researchers, the limits of spare capacity have been studied in very few other species, with most work focused on several varieties of snakes.

Using data from the INfancia y Medio Ambiente (INMA) Project — a population - based mother - child cohort study set up in several geographic areas in Spain — the researchers assessed lung function with spirometry (measuring of breath).

The release of several signals by skin cells that are dying contributes to the creation and spreading of the chronic immune response and hyper - proliferation and irregular differentiation of epidermis,» says Joan Manils, first author of the study and member of the mentioned department and post-doctorate researcher at the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute (Ireland).

The researchers recruited over 800 volunteers to participate in the study and asked each participant to guess the number of gumballs in a jar, which ranged over several orders of magnitude from 54 to more than 27,000.

A clue came from earlier studies by several researchers, which showed that seal whiskers are remarkably sensitive to even the slightest bending.

Several studies had already demonstrated the antioxidant capacity of strawberries, but now researchers from the Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM, Italy), together with colleagues from the Universities of Salamanca, Granada and Seville (Spain), conducted an analysis that revealed that these fruits also help to reduce cholesterol.

Lately, researchers have begun studying interactions between such factors, and now one team has identified several links.

The researchers noted that the students in the study were kindergartners in 2009, several years before the de Blasio administration introduced universal pre-K in 2014, expanding access to public pre-K for the city's four - year - olds.

For example, several of the studies reviewed by the IUPUI researchers found that ignoring strategies are associated with less pain, whereas praying and hoping and catastrophizing are associated with higher pain levels.

Like researchers studying other logged forests, she found evidence of an «edge effect»: the density of shade - tolerant seedlings decreased within several hundred meters of the fragment edge, where young trees are more exposed to sun, wind, and competition from invading species.

In the January issue of Environmental Science & Technology the researchers described their efforts mapping nearly 5,900 natural gas leaks of varying severity across 1,500 road miles of Washington, D.C. To learn more about the state of the gas pipelines running through several major U.S. cities — in particular those serving New York City — Scientific American interviewed Robert Jackson, professor of environmental sciences at Stanford and Duke universities and the study's lead author.

Together with researchers from ETH Zurich, Eawag and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), he published several studies that show how HBCD is structured, which forms tend to accumulate in the environment and count as persistent organic pollutants (POPs).

For the new study, reported in the 20 April issue of Science, animal communication researcher Karen McComb of the University of Sussex in Brighton, United Kingdom, and Sarah Durant of the Institute of Zoology in London studied 20 small family groups of elephants, each typically containing several females and their calves, in Kenya.

Igoshin said that when the researchers set out to find how sporulation decisions were timed to the cell cycle, several studies including prior work by team members, provided a significant clue: Under starvation conditions, the activity of the master regulator gene had been shown to spike once per cell cycle.

The study also allowed the researchers to make several critical comparisons in order to estimate the yield value of each technology factor when it was a component of a traditional system of lower inputs and when it was a component of an advanced system of higher - level inputs.

A companion study by several of the same researchers is now available online in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, which suggests that children with neurologic conditions are at higher risk for infections caused by ESBL - producing bacteria.

The Zika virus reproduces in the vaginal tissue of pregnant mice several days after infection, according to a study by Yale researchers.

Researchers point to several possible explanations for the increase in the proportion of minorities cared for at minority - serving hospitals in Massachusetts over the study period.

To account for this, the researchers conducted their study in several distinct strains of genetically bred mice.

The three Ras genes found in humans — H - Ras, K - Ras and N - Ras — were among the first to be linked to cancer development, and a new study led by VCU Massey Cancer Center researcher Paul Dent, Ph.D., has shown the recently approved breast cancer drug neratinib can block the function of Ras as well as several other oncogenes through an unexpected process.

The heterotrophs receive the organic carbon they need to grow from the anammox bacteria in the form of several specific molecules, the researchers discovered in the study.

Researchers are interested in their therapeutic potential for several reasons: Large population studies have shown a correlation between rates of seafood consumption and depression.

Based on past studies from several animal researchers, the Johns Hopkins team knew that extinguishing fearful memories requires receptors for the neurotransmitter glutamate.

«When we look forward several decades, climate models predict such profound loss of Arctic sea ice that there's little doubt this will negatively affect polar bears throughout much of their range, because of their critical dependence on sea ice,» said Kristin Laidre, a researcher at the University of Washington's Polar Science Center in Seattle and co-author of a study on projections of the global polar bear population.

«Our study reveals an explanation how nicotine contributes to induction of inflammation and in doing so shows new possibilities for future therapies to treat tobacco - related diseases which each year lead to premature deaths of several million people worldwide,» said Constantin Urban, a researcher involved in the work from the Umeå Centre for Microbial Research in Sweden.

In the 2015 study, the researchers tested several alternative hypotheses to explain why some disciplines have so few practitioners who are female or African - American.

In a study published in Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, the researchers say they saw the red supergiant star N6946 - BH1 flare a million times brighter than our sun for several months in 2009 before fading out of visible wavelengths, a likely sign of a brand - new black hole.

For the study, the researchers classified all 2500 mammalian species for which information exists as either solitary, socially monogamous or group - living (several breeding females share a common range and either eat or sleep together).

The study has been a cooperative project between researchers at Karolinska Institutet, Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab), Uppsala University, Linköping University and Stockholm University, in addition to several affiliated institutes in Italy.