Sentences with phrase «small study led»

Cats with overactive thyroids — which can lead to weight loss, increased appetite, hyperactivity and death — had higher blood levels of the chemicals, according to one small study led by Environmental Protection Agency scientists.

Not exact matches

There are smaller studies that suggest drinking coffee can lead to even bigger risk reductions for Alzheimer's.

«I think it provides proof of principle that diet could potentially reverse an aging process,» Scott Small, the study's lead researcher, told Time.

From my experience working with thousands of small and mid-market (SME) B2B companies, along with studying the reams of data on the B2B lead generation model, I've established a list of the three most common and damaging website mistakes made by SMEs.

The study also showed that organic search was the highest source of revenue for every industry except media and entertainment, where email, display, and referrals led by a small margin.

As a student, Lin led what the Harvard - Radcliffe Asian American Christian Fellowship calls a «family group,» a small group devoted to Bible study and praying for others.

Small but growing numbers of Christian theologians in Europe and North America have begun to meet regularly with Buddhists to foster mutual understanding and growth, one result of which is the recently established international Society for Buddhist - Christian Studies.4 In addition, following the lead of the late Trappist monk, Thomas Merton, many Roman Catholic monastics have begun to use meditative practices as an adjunct to their own spiritual disciplines (Walker).

The church bulletin described a large number of small group Bible studies, all led by men.

You can lead a small group at your church, or gather some dudes at Starbucks every Thursday morning and study the book of Daniel together.

As Wade Clark Roof points out in a recent study, this neglect will lead to «a crisis of plausibility» resulting in alienation of growing numbers of persons and finally in the church's representing a very small minority (Community and Commitment: Religious Plausibility in a Liberal Protestant Church [Elsevier, 1978], pp. 6 - 9).

A small group of sincere believers studying and discussing scripture together does not lead to heresy.

Lead Bible study, Sunday school class, small group: This brings into the question not only what you teach, but how you teach it.

The study, which was led by Dr Shridhar Sathe, pinpointed the three major allergens in cashew nuts and established that they are still present following common processing methods, such as blanching, pressure cooking and dry roasting, meaning that they could be used as markers to detect cross-contamination even in small quantities in processed foods.

Views are particularly polarised in the United States, with interventions and costs of hospital births escalating and midwives involved with home births being denied the ability to be lead professionals in hospital, with admitting and discharge privileges.5 Although several Canadian medical societies6 7 and the American Public Health Association8 have adopted policies promoting or acknowledging the viability of home births, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists continues to oppose it.9 Studies on home birth have been criticised if they have been too small to accurately assess perinatal mortality, unable to distinguish planned from unplanned home births accurately, or retrospective with the potential of bias from selective reporting.

The women in the study gained 4.2 pounds on average between their baseline weight and one year after giving birth, suggesting that even small differences in BMI can lead to pelvic floor laxity in normal - weight women, says Yale researcher Marsha K. Guess, M.D., lead author on the study.

Studies have shown that smaller class sizes lead to better academic results for students and efforts to reduce class sizes have enjoyed broad support from city educators.

The remains of turtle eggs that have been attacked by predators lead to a short pulse of life in what are normally deserts, boosting the abundance of small invertebrates fourfold, a study has found.

The latest study to bolster this argument was presented earlier in the meeting by lead author Courtney Dressing, another CfA astronomer, who measured the masses and sizes of a handful of small transiting planets to estimate the rocky - to - gaseous transition zone.

A Dartmouth College - led study shows that people find it increasingly difficult to distinguish between computer - generated images and real photos, but that a small amount of training greatly improves their accuracy.

According to a smaller study, running also reduces the risk of macular degeneration — the leading cause of blindness in developed countries.

In the study, led by post-doctoral fellow Long N. Nguyen of Duke - NUS, researchers found that mice without the Mfsd2a transporter had brains a third smaller than those with the transporter, and exhibited memory and learning deficits and high levels of anxiety.

Led by Stella K. Kang, a radiologist with the Department of Radiology at the New York School of Medicine, the study was designed to compare the effectiveness of a treatment algorithm for small renal tumors incorporating the nephrometry score, a renal tumor anatomy scoring system developed by urologists, with the current standard of uniformly recommended partial nephrectomy in patients with mild - to - moderate chronic kidney disease (CKD).

University of Melbourne Professor Mary Wlodek, Professor of Physiology and lead investigator of the study, said the findings highlight the long - term health implications for women born small or who endured a stressful pregnancy.

The small pilot study was led by Jeff Elias, MD, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and also was conducted at Swedish Neuroscience Institute in Seattle.

«The next step is to identify antibodies and small - molecule drugs that can successfully target Helios or genes in the Helios pathway,» says the study's lead author, Hye - Jung Kim, PhD, of Dana - Farber.

«While the number of cycles is relatively small, it is definitely growing,» said Georgia Tech's Aaron Levine, the associate professor in the School of Public Policy who led the study.

For instance, one small study found that people who ate healthier diets, did yoga or meditation, and exercised daily increased the activity of telomerase, which could lead to longer telomeres.

«In the United States, only about 10 percent of physicians practice in rural areas, and less than 3 percent of entering medical students nationally plan to practice in a rural community or small town,» said Kevin Kane, MD, a professor of family and community medicine at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the study.

By studying core samples taken from the river delta, the research team, led by Zhen Li of East China Normal University in Shanghai and colleagues, detected patterns and sizes of charcoal to indicate fire distance (small particles can travel farther than 100 meters, whereas larger ones stay put) as well as pollen to deduce the presence of either crops or nonagricultural flora.

In a proof - of - concept study, a team led by a Johns Hopkins researcher reports that the vast majority of edible cannabis products sold in a small sample of medical marijuana dispensaries carried labels that overstated or understated the amount of delta -9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).

«This is a really very small trial and the results should not be over-interpreted,» says Tony Wyss - Coray, a neurologist at Stanford University in California who led the study.

Current standards for ultrasound evaluation of fetal growth may lead to misclassification of up to 15 percent of fetuses of minority mothers as being too small, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other institutions.

«In a small percentage of cases, however, these symptoms may be indicators of an increased risk of developing an obsessive - compulsive disorder that requires treatment, during childhood or in adulthood,» says Dr. Carles Soriano - Mas, lead author of the study.

«The discovery of so many satellites in such a small area of the sky was completely unexpected,» said Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy's Sergey Koposov, the Cambridge study's lead author.

«Two percent sounds small,» says Krishnan Bhaskaran, a researcher at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and lead author on the new study, «but the reason it's important is the whole population is exposed to the weather, and heart attacks are common in the first place.»

In 2011, Science's editors will be watching a smaller detector at the Large Hadron Collider called LHCb, which will study B mesons in great detail; new techniques that should lead to the discovery of many more genes contributing to adaptation; an ignited fusion burn at the National Ignition Facility; broadly neutralizing antibodies, which are capable of disabling a wide range of viral variants; the first plug - in hybrid electric cars whose batteries are charged from a wall socket go on the market; and the results of the first phase III trial of a malaria vaccine.

«Burrows created by small mammals represent critical components of desert tortoise ecology,» said Melia Nafus, Ph.D., a researcher for San Diego Zoo Global and lead author of the study.

«It's difficult to capture ancient fishing because of the nature of fish bones — they're small, fragile bones,» says Carrin Halffman, a biological anthropologist at the University of Alaska (UA), Fairbanks, and the lead author of the new study.

«It's important they've found this gene, but it took a sample of 20,000 people to find it, precisely because the effect is so small,» says Robert Plomin at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, and lead author of a groundbreaking study in 2007 which failed to find any single genes of disproportionate importance in intelligence.

The other study in Nature — led by Joerg Schaefer of Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory and Columbia University, and colleagues — looked at a small sample of bedrock from one location beneath the middle of the existing ice sheet and came to what appears to be a different conclusion: Greenland was nearly ice - free for at least 280,000 years during the middle Pleistocene — about 1.1 million years ago.

Exposure to fumes released during the firing of military small arms can lead to a decline in lung function, according to a new study.

The multicenter study, led by Scripps Clinic orthopedic surgeon Clifford Colwell, MD evaluated the efficacy of a mobile compression device that is small and portable enough for patients to use at home for 10 days or longer after joint replacement surgery.

The researchers hope that this proof - of - concept study could lead to smaller devices that wirelessly transmit brain signals to wearable, muscle - stimulating garments.

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.

«The smaller the structures to be imaged, the larger the proportion of incoherently scattered light,» explains the lead author of the study, Raimund Schneider from FAU.

A certain cytokine, or small protein that helps cells communicate during immune responses, can control whether immune cells promote or suppress inflammatory bowel disease, a finding that could lead to new treatments, according to a study led by Georgia State University.

Making small, consistent changes to the types of protein - and carbohydrate - rich foods we eat may have a big impact on long - term weight gain, according to a new study led by researchers at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy at Tufts University.

«Republicans want small government and low taxes, the narrative goes, and Democrats want more government services and will accept higher taxes,» said Geoffrey Godbey, lead investigator from the 1991 study and collaborator on the 2015 study and professor emeritus at Penn State.

(For the general population of women in the study, the researchers found that long - term exposure to air pollution led to small, but not statistically significant, increases in risk of cardiovascular events.)

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