Sentences with phrase «studied human responses»

A handful of other teams are taking an immersive, multivariable approach to studying human responses to indoor conditions, using flexible facilities — from the Total Indoor Environmental Quality Lab at Syracuse University in New York, to the SenseLab at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, which should open in December.

Not exact matches

The main objectives of this Consultation were to analyze globalization and its impact on human rights; to study ethical and theological considerations with regard to globalization; to search for alternative development paradigms; to study the policies of developed nations on development and trade policies in the context of globalization; to gain inputs on the experiences of indigenous people, workers and farmers who are affected by globalization; to consider the response of the Churches to the challenges posed by globalization and to study and identify concerns that the Asian churches can take up in order to address the adverse impact of globalization in the Asian context.

(Here we return to Beauchamp's magnificent study, from which I must quote an especially illuminating and powerful passage: «God did not so much create the things I am talking about as he spoke them... before speaking to me about them, so that the human word might be declared a response to his.

Important as was Israel's attainment in her conviction of the unity of the human personality, it must yet be freely recognized that her psychological interests did not carry into a study of the responses of the organism.

Actually, if you study the words spoken by Jesus and His responses (with objectivity of course which seems to be impossible for you), He is quite brilliant and remarkably lving and logical over the selfish dumb humans.

Blood pressure responses to high and low salt intakes may share similar genetic control mechanisms, according to a new study published in the Journal of Human Hypertension.

In the new study, the researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to record brain responses in sleeping babies while they were presented with emotionally neutral, positive, or negative human vocalizations or nonvocal environmental sounds.

A recent study from the England's University of Portsmouth showed that young orangutans and chimps open their mouths and breathe faster when they're tickled, just like human babies, indicating it's a universal response to pleasure.

Studies from our group have demonstrated that TGF - β can attenuate the inflammatory response in fetal human enterocyte cell lines (13), a platform that recapitulates the infant gut response in vitro.

Other studies show that babies learn more quickly in response to human interaction than when presented with similar information through videos.

In less than a year we have implemented many of the action items in our health and human services plan, «Initiatives for a Strong Community,» as varied as bringing fresh foods and vegetables to inner city neighborhoods labeled «food deserts,» to completing a chronic neglect study and incorporating its findings into our child welfare response programs, to increasing participation in the SNAP program to reduce hunger.

A new study finds stress - response differences in the brains of foxes bred to be more or less aggressive toward humans.

The topic was stress and the fight - or - flight instinct, a subject she knew a thing or two about, having studied human stress response for 20 years.

In 2008, a study in Theriogenology (vol 69, p 2) concluded: «On average, the extrapolated results from studies using tens of millions of animals fail to accurately predict human responses.»

The ability to study such complex neurological responses in a simple animal like the worm helps scientists understand the more complex systems that exist in humans.

In response to the recent revelations, an international group of researchers has launched a project called the Human Dark Proteome Initiative to study how disordered proteins cause disease.

Building on the newly - published pilot study, the team will conduct experiments using a windtunnel which measures the behaviour of mosquitoes towards odours and electrodes which track the response of individual odour - detecting cells from within the antenna of the mosquito in specially - designed secure laboratories at the School to measure the responses of malaria - infected Anopheles gambiae s.s. females to human odours.

Two new studies reveal that administering a potent, broadly neutralizing antibody that binds to HIV evokes a strong immune response in humans, and can even accelerate the clearance of infected cells.

Ongoing studies by investigators across the country, including Drs. Abraham Palmer and James MacKillop, who also participated in the conference, involve analysis of DNA and questionnaire responses from as many as 25,000 human subjects in order to identify specific genes involved in delay discounting.

Studies in rodents and in human fetal beta cells have showed that the responses of very young beta cells to increases in blood glucose are blunted when compared to their more - mature counterparts.

«The imaging technique could shed light on the immune dysfunction that underpins a broad range of neuroinflammatory diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction,» said Christine Sandiego, PhD, lead author of the study and a researcher from the department of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn. «This is the first human study that accurately measures this immune response in the brain.

«If we study humans before, during, and after the plague, we should see how the human genome responded to these repeated outbreaks and the response in bacteria,» Poinar says.

«Our findings show that population differences in transcriptional responses to immune activation are widespread, and that they are mainly accounted for by genetic variants that differ in their frequencies between human populations,» said Lluis Quintana - Murci of Institut Pasteur and CNRS in Paris, France, who led one of the two studies.

«Our findings suggest that social interactions that stimulate oxytocin production will recruit this newly identified circuit to help coordinate the complex behavioral responses elicited by changing social situations in all mammals, including humans,» says senior study author Nathaniel Heintz of The Rockefeller University.

Dr Bill Bateman, Senior Lecturer at Curtin's Department of Environment & Agriculture, led the study that proved eastern grey squirrels were able to modify their behaviour in urban environments and prevent unnecessary responses when humans acted in a predictable manner, such as staying on the footpath.

The artificial neural networks serve as «mini-brains that can be studied, changed, evaluated, compared against responses given by human neural networks, so the cognitive neuroscientists have some sort of sketch of how a real brain may function.»

Animal behaviour researchers in the UK and Brazil have found that dogs lick their mouths as a response to angry human faces, according to new study.

«The whole purpose is to study the responses of human and animal bodies to infection from influenza, Ebola, SARS and MERS, and to understand how they occur,» Kawaoka explains.

Discuss how mouse models can be used to study human immune responses against leukemia (using primary or genetically modified leukemia cells) and melanoma

In a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Sangeeta Bhatia of MIT and Charles Rice of Rockefeller University describe using microfabricated cell cultures to sustain hepatitis B virus in human liver cells, allowing them to study immune responses and drug treatments.

A new report, published online October 24 in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, reviews 18 carefully controlled laboratory studies that tested human subjects» physiological and behavioral responses to sleep deprivation as they relate to metabolic health.

A new study by researchers from Brown and Tufts universities suggests that researchers have been overlooking how two key human responses to climate — how much land people choose to farm, and the number of crops they plant — will impact food production in the future.

While the majority of climate change scientists focus on the «direct» threats of changing temperatures and precipitation after 2031, far fewer researchers are studying how short - term human adaptation responses to seasonal changes and extreme weather events may threaten the survival of wildlife and ecosystems much sooner.

A new study suggests that human intelligence may have evolved in response to the demands of caring for infants.

What's more, he says, the hamsters in the study may have produced a stronger immune response than humans would.

She ultimately chose to study leukemia patients» immune responses to bone marrow transplants, an area conducive to translational research in part because the work involves treating patients with human cells, which can be prepared at academic health centers.

«Team studies immune response of Asian elephants infected with a human disease.»

When the team injected the vaccine into the skin of macaque monkeys, the reaction was similar to that in humans, but when injected into the bloodstream, the vaccine provided a strong and long - lasting CD8 + response in all three animals studied.

The three - year study conducted by McLean researchers points to specific neuroanatomical changes in human subjects with these illnesses, and specifically to neurons that regulate anxiety and stress response, according to Harry Pantazopoulos, PhD, assistant neuroscientist at McLean's Translational Neuroscience Laboratory and instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Although this human Gut Chip recreated the villus epithelium of normal intestine and enabled new insights into how flow and cyclic peristalsis affects intestinal differentiation and function, it could not be used to study processes that relied on normal intestinal cells from individual donors, which, for example, is crucial for studying patient - specific responses for personalized medicine.

The study didn't test humans, and it doesn't solve all of motherhood's mysteries, Way acknowledges, but he hopes his team's future studies will determine how long the regulatory T cells» memory lasts and how to extend or boost the response.

The study marks the first time that human influence on the climate has been demonstrated in the water cycle, and outside the bounds of typical physical responses such as warming deep ocean and sea surface temperatures or diminishing sea ice and snow cover extent.

The study also measured the antibody immune response to the bacteria both pre - and post - treatment, as this is how current diagnostics typically evaluate Lyme disease in humans.

«Mouse models don't represent the full diversity of the human response,» said Joel W. Blanchard, a PhD candidate in the Baldwin laboratory who was co-lead author of the study with Research Associate Kevin T. Eade.

The feat means that scientists now can relatively easily study DRG sensory neurons derived from many different people, to better understand the diversity of human sensory responses and sensory disorders and advance a «personalized medicine» approach.

To study this barrier and determine why a lack of blood flow causes it to leak, the researchers built a blood - vessel - on - a-chip model consisting of a channel lined with a layer of human endothelial cells surrounded by extracellular matrix within a microfluidic device, which allowed them to easily simulate and control the flow of blood through a vessel and evaluate the cells» responses.

The complete list is: the Food Research Center; the Center for Research, Teaching, and Innovation in Glass; the Center for Research and Development of Functional Materials; the Brazilian Research Institute for Neuroscience and Neurotechnology; the Center for Research on Inflammatory Diseases; the Center for Research and Innovation in Biodiversity and Drug Discovery; the Center for Research on Toxins, Immune Response, and Cell Signaling; the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics; the Center for Research in Mathematical Sciences Applied to Industry; the Obesity and Co-Morbidities Research Center; the Center for Cell - Based Therapy; the Center for Metropolitan Studies; the Human Genome and Stem - Cell Research Center; the Center for Computational Science and Engineering; the Center for Research on Redox Processes in Biomedicine; the Center for the Study of Violence; and the Optics and Photonics Research Center.

«Today the Earth is still adjusting to the recent rapid rise of CO2 caused by human activities, whereas the longer - term Pliocene records document the full response of CO2 - related warming,» says Southampton's Dr Gavin Foster, co-author of the study.

Though they seem discouraging, results from the study will help Forest Service managers classify watersheds in response to human - produced stressors and develop regional climate adaptation plans.

Unlike other mice used to study the virus, the Hopkins mice have completely intact immune systems more similar to humans, which enable researchers to see all that is involved in mounting an immune response.