Sentences with phrase «specific study looking»

The second passed which called for a programmatic environmental impact statement to be conducted to study the potential impacts of building coal - exporting terminals throughout the Pacific Northwest, rather than one project - specific study looking at the Gateway Pacific Terminal project.

Not exact matches

A McKinsey study found that employees spend nearly 20 percent of their time looking for information or tracking down colleagues to help with specific tasks.

In a new study by Natalie Sest and Evita March of Federation University in Australia, researchers gave 415 internet users questionnaires that tested for various personality traits and for propensity to trolling behavior, looking for the specific traits that would make someone likely to become a troll.

In a recent qualitative study I was fortunate to be a part of for a Fortune 100 organization; four specific vertical markets were looked at.

«The benefits of probiotics are strain specific, which means formulators need to look at the clinical studies supporting the exact probiotic strain used to determine what benefits to claim, and ensure inclusion rates through the end of shelf life to support these amounts,» Bush says.

The study looked at a specific — though common — situation, when dads don't live with their children.

«Past studies have looked at the effects of differential parenting on the children who get more negative feedback, but our study focused on this as a dynamic operating at two levels of the family system: one that affects all children in the family as well as being specific to the child at the receiving end of the negativity,» explains Jennifer M. Jenkins, Atkinson Chair of Early Child Development and Education at the University of Toronto, who led the team.

A second study, «Arteriolosclerosis that affects multiple brain regions,» appears in a recent issue of the journal Brain, and looks at small blood vessels in patients with HS - Aging and describes a specific change, called «arteriolosclerosis,» which is present in patients with HS - Aging.

Moreover, getting a better picture of what the virus looks like and understanding its properties through animal testing and studying patients» blood might help vaccine developers pinpoint specific issues, says Pei - Yong Shi, a virologist at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

This study investigates this question by looking for «Social Dollars» — economic returns to firms from customers that can be attributed to the act of joining firm - specific online communities.

Future studies that follow dogs long term and look at specific lipid content in the blood may shed light on the mechanisms behind cholesterol's role in enhanced survival, Leeper said.

Urban looked at over 130 studies to identify the level of risk that climate change poses to species and the specific traits and characteristics that contribute to risk (see the Perspective by Hille Ris Lambers).

«Researchers have done metabolic studies in patients with adrenal cancer, but they have looked at larger molecules, and they have targeted their investigations at specific steroids or gene profiles.

«This is the first large prospective multicenter study that was specifically constructed to look at the relationship between sleep apnea and a specific cancer,» said lead author Miguel Ángel Martinez - Garcia, MD, PhD, from the Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe, Valencia, Spain.

Are you looking for a specific type of program or are you interested in studying abroad?

While other studies have focused on caregiving within the home or between specific groups, such as middle - aged parents and young children, most have not looked at caregiving by subgroups of people, or a range of caregiving scenarios both inside and outside the home — for example, babysitting a friend's children or taking a niece or nephew out on weekends.

«Certainly the concept of looking for genes that are involved in both in differentiation and in carcinogenesis is promising, and the novel list of breast - specific regulated genes we found may encourage further study in this direction.

Previous studies have looked for eggs belonging to a specific fish species.

«However, we need more studies on specific types of fruit and vegetables because relatively few of the studies in our analysis had looked at this issue,» said Aune.

While researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology don't have a specific application for the doughnut - shaped droplets yet, they believe the novel structures offer opportunities to study many interesting problems, from looking at the properties of ordered materials within these confined spaces to studying how geometry affects how cells behave.

Although specific microbial halogenation reactions have been recognized for decades and the link between the dehalogenation of anthropogenic halogenated contaminants in laboratory cultures and contaminated field sites has been well established, only a few studies specifically looked at pristine ecosystems and the genetic potential for microbial degradation of naturally occurring organohalogens, Kappler says.

The current study differs from previous reports in that intestinal swabs, which provided a direct method of looking at specific areas of the intestinal mucosa, were studied instead of only relying on stool samples.

The researchers have already started to follow up the study by looking at DNA samples from great tit populations across Europe and their initial evidence suggests that the longer beak genetic variants are specific to the UK.

Most studies look at very specific endpoints: how much a gene contributes to muscle strength or maximal aerobic capacity, because those endpoints are very easy to measure from a research standpoint.

«These studies, however, were limited by having small numbers of participants and / or by looking at the effects of single doses of oxytocin on specific behaviours or cognitive effects while the participants had the oxytocin in their system.

«Impacts of ride - hailing on crashes differ from city to city: Penn study is first to look at city - specific data to find how so called «ride - sharing» services influence crash rates.»

Ancestry tests performed by companies may examine the Y chromosome (when the submitter is a man) to study paternal heritage, the mitochondrial DNA for maternal heritage, and, in some cases, such as the Mountainview, California - based company 23andme, they look for specific patterns of variation on other chromosomes, too.

Because the Egyptians occupied Amarna for such a short time, the city provides archaeologists with an unprecedented insight into what people's lives looked like at a specific moment in history, said study co-author Anna Stevens, an archaeologist at the University of Cambridge.

Visvanathan says the current study did not look at the blood test's benefits with regard to specific anti-cancer therapies.

«When we looked at gene expression, we found fairly small changes in 65 million years of the macaque, orangutan, and chimpanzee evolution,» said study author Yoav Gilad, PhD, assistant professor of human genetics at the University of Chicago, «followed by rapid change, along the five million years of the human lineage, that was concentrated on these specific groups of genes.

While previous studies have looked at the connections between specific defects and the risk of any cancer, or specific cancers and birth defects generally, «what's missing [are] good, population - based estimates of the risk of specific cancers and associations with specific birth defects,» says coauthor Jeremy Schraw, a postdoctoral pediatric cancer researcher at Baylor College of Medicine, during a press conference at AACR.

In the genome - wide association study (GWAS) published in Nature, the authors looked at over 80,000 genetic samples from schizophrenia patients and healthy volunteers and found 108 specific locations in the human genome associated with risk for schizophrenia.

A study in the Journal of Lipid Research looks at the life stages of a microorganism that causes a blinding eye infection, aiming to find a target for a species - specific drug.

This study only looked at the phenolic compounds and enzymes in four specific foods, but Barringer notes that there are many others that have potential as odor neutralizers, too.

It's unclear from this study whether that's the case, however, because Swing and his colleagues didn't look at the specific games the kids were playing.

Here's where it gets more complicated: Specific species and strains — the species name comes after the genus, and the strain often looks like a little code of letters and / or numbers on the end — of probiotics have been studied in regards to certain health conditions.

And many of the studies that have looked at specific compounds in tea have been conducted in labs or on animals, not on people.

If you take another look at the crossover study from 2013, you can find that all subjects were placed on a specific diet for two weeks before starting trial.

In a study published in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Dr. Guyuron and colleagues looked for people who had migraines that started in a specific region on the front, side, or back of the head.

«This study adds to the research by looking at specific mood symptoms, so I think it's a great addition to what we already know.»

While the bulk of earlier studies looked primarily at the association between diabetes and increased risk of dying from cancer, research was lacking in regards to specific types of cancer that exhibited the strongest association with diabetes.

If you'd like to take a look at much more specific levels by age, check out the results of studies by the Mayo Clinic.

While prostate changes can occur with testosterone replacement, a study published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism in June of 2010, which looked closely at the adverse reactions reported in 51 other studies, found there to be no increased risk of the development of prostate cancer, prostate related urinary symptoms, or elevated PSA (prostate specific antigen).

There's one study I looked at where they give you specific bacteria in this fermented milk culture and they saw an 8.6 % reduction in the group that had the beneficial bacteria.

Another point to consider is this study looked at a specific population in rural India with an apparent metabolic mutation.

One study has looked at the specific effects of administering a ketone ester drink on appetite (14).

Several recent studies have looked at this specific concern.

After looking in - depth at one specific study that seemed to prove this characteristic of turmeric, however, the study authors found no actual benefits.

Another University of Pennsylvania study of the NHANES data looked at relationships between nutrients and specific sleep complaints.

For example, instead of looking at the effects of animal protein on an intermediate marker of bone health, like calcium, why not just look directly at studies that examine the relationship between animal protein intake and more specific markers of bone health, like bone mass or bone microarchitecture or bone strength?