Sentences with phrase «studies about eye»

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Last week, a study published by the Kauffman Foundation using census data from the past 50 years, revealed some eye - opening statistics about the number of immigrant - led companies in America.

As a matter of fact, I would like to thank Sister Catherine for rolling her eyes to the ceiling when we asked in 4th grade about how god made all the animals in one day and there were dinosaurs that were millions of years old while we studied fossils.

This helped keep the animals safe at night from wandering off, getting eaten by predators, or from getting stolen, and also helped keep the family in the upper room above (If memory serves me right, Kenneth Bailey writes about this in Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels).

Alarmed by DMSO's sudden popularity and worried about misuse of it, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned the substance for medical use in 1965, citing a study that suggested it caused eye damage in laboratory rats.

We'd gotten to talking about video games because Williams plans to study engineering at A&M, with an eye toward becoming a computer engineer.

In all my years studying human perception it was all about the eyes and ears, with touch coming in a distant third.

That caught my eye as I read the info about the study.

A couple of studies have stated that the eyes of a baby are about 75 % of their adult size.

By watching the DVD Delivery Self - Attachment - that was released about the study — you can clearly see that the unmedicated babies are much more active and make eye contact while the medicated babies are severely less able to bond or breastfeed effectively.

Initially keen to learn about asthma, she studied under Prof David Morley who opened her eyes to the far more urgent problems facing the underprivileged in her country - problems that were totally preventable.

This morning I'm reading a study about the demand for training in uterine balloon tamponade in the US.1 It caught my eye because I had conversations about uterine balloon tamponade with midwives from other countries at the ICM Congress.

The study also showed improved visual acuity equal to about one line on a standard eye chart in the one - year - old infants fed Enfamil LIPIL.

To introduce the study, Noudoost first gets his audience to think about eye movements at the most basic level.

«That is a real eye - opener from this study,» says Bill Chadwick, a volcanologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Newport, Ore. «What they found tells us a lot about how submarine eruptions behave differently than those on land.»

«We're hoping if we can understand better the basic dynamics of the tear film, then we can start to understand what goes wrong if you have dry eye and start to think about potential cures by studying simulations,» Maki said.

«This question about why do we see reduced eye contact in autism has been around for a long time,» says study leader Warren Jones, director of research at the Marcus Autism Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

The researchers studied eye gaze responses in young children with autism at the time of their initial diagnosis in order to have clearer evidence about the initial underlying reasons for reduced eye contact.

Although this study was relatively small and not designed to develop theories about disorder heritability risk and eye - movement abnormalities, Mosconi notes that potentially «there would be greater risk [of having a child with autism] if both parents are showing it.»

The NDSU study found, however, that when you're deciding if a face is real or artificial, the eyes and the skin both matter to about the same degree.

The study's lead investigator, Tom Reh, Ph.D., and his team at the UW Medicine in Seattle, looked to the zebrafish for clues about how to encourage regeneration in the mouse eye.

For example, people in one study thought eye health was a more important issue for them when they were told about an expensive but unfamiliar food ingredient that would protect their vision.

Drivers eat, reach for the phone, text, or otherwise take their eyes off the road about 10 percent of the time they are behind the wheel, according to a study using video technology and in - vehicle sensors.

It's really striking that in the blink of an eye, an expert can pick up on something about that mammogram that indicates abnormality,» said Jeremy Wolfe, PhD, senior author of the study and director of the Visual Attention Laboratory at BWH.

A team led by Steven Schwartz at UCLA administered about 50,000 cells Tuesday into one eye of a volunteer suffering from Stargardt Macular Dystrophy, a progressive form of blindness that usually begins in childhood, and another with Dry Age - Related Macular Degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the developed world, Advanced Cell Technology, which is sponsoring the study, announced Thursday.

Tiny structures about the size of a fly's eye provide a new futuristic opportunity to study pediatric brain cancers.

However, the study was small and not designed to determine if the eye harbored Ebola RNA at earlier time points, limitations that the authors say require further investigation before eye care providers can be assured about the safety of invasive ocular procedures.

Studies at Rice and Columbia Universities reported eye - opening findings about how many more words children who grow up in middle and upper - class homes hear on a daily basis as compared to lower - income children.

But a new study from NYU Langone Medical Center's a gross reminder about why it really is a bad idea to use unwashed fingers to pop them out or sleep in them (as tempting as that may be when you're sooo tired): It found people who wear contacts have different types of bacteria in their eyes than non-users — including one kind often connected with eye ulcers.

Quite a long read, but definitely an eye - opener for sure about nutrition studies and where the current food guidelines came from.

About 4,200 people ages 50 to 85 with the age - related eye problem macular degeneration participated in the study.

An eye - opening study by the dating service Elite Singles of 2667 Americans has revealed the sexual behaviors of the elderly - and it turns out their early bedtimes aren't just about getting more sleep.

Sometimes a meme about a work, that wasn't in the work before, catches the eye of the people Memetics is the study of information and culture based on an analogy with Darwinian evolution.

Synopsis: A molecular biologist's study of the human eye has far - reaching implications about humanity's scientific and spiritual beliefs.

Summary: I ORIGINS follows a molecular biologist whose study of the human eye points to evidence with far reaching implications about our scientific and spiritual beliefs.

Written and directed by Mike Cahill, and starring Michael Pitt, Brit Marling, and Astrid Bergès - Frisbey, I ORIGINS follows a molecular biologist whose study of the human eye points to evidence with far reaching implications about our scientific and spiritual beliefs.

I Origins (R for sexuality, nudity and profanity) Sci - fi thriller about a molecular biologist (Michael Pitt) studying the evolution of the eye who makes a stunning scientific discovery with spiritual implications with the help of his lab partner (Brit Marling).

A news story in the Jan. 4, 2006, issue of Education Week about recommendations for the Charlotte - Mecklenburg, N.C., school system («Major Change Eyed for Charlotte, N.C., Schools») should have said that the study containing the proposals was conducted jointly by the American Institutes for Research and the consulting firm Cross & Joftus LLC.

«Through Our Eyes: Perspectives and Reflections From Black Teachers,» the new qualitative study from Ashley Griffin and Hilary Tackie, gets to the heart of the growing discussion about the need for teacher diversity while the crises of low retention rates among Black teachers continues.

University study confirms what dog trainers have always known; dogs love happy faces and fear frowns but did you know about eyes???

That study was published in 1965, so basically we know that humans have a hard time giving up their beliefs that we can believe our eyes and that our ideas about what we see are right.

At the end of the study you will receive information about what was found when your dog's eyes were examined.»

* has spent a number of years studying and learning about their breed * is active in one or more breed clubs or similar groups and thus is in regular contact with other people in the breed * knows their breeding stock inside and out for several generations back * has an «eye for a dog» and has developed a detailed picture of the type of dog they're breeding toward * almost always compete in some in some sort of activity with their dogs (conformation, working activities, obedience etc.) so as to have a realistic idea of how their dogs compare to others of the same the breed * is knowledgable about the hereditary problems that occur in their breed and has the appropriate tests done prior to breeding in order to decrease the likelihood of their occurance in their pups * considers temperament important * is knowledgable about the mating and whelping of dogs in general, so as to minimize the chances of injury or death to the breeding dogs * is extremely concerned with the quality of the homes that their puppies are destinied for, to the point of not performing a breeding if they don't feel good homes will be available for the pups * never has more dogs of their own than they are properly able to care for * is willing and able to educate and build a relationship with their puppy buyers * is honest * uses spay / neuter contracts and / or limited registration to prevent the casual breeding of their puppies * is ALWAYS willing to take back a dog of their breeding if a puppy buyer can not keep it for any reason.

While the vagaries (i.e. AMO) of climate change study may glaze the eyes of all but dedicated scientists who are paid to examine these climate change causative permutations, the consequences of being WRONG about the facts and acting on those wrong beliefs prematurely, are hardly vague.

Because they're skeptics, scientists know to tread carefully when they come across stories that begin with the words «According to a new study...» But, a new study published last week about the impact of global warming on precipitation patterns in the lower and middle latitudes has caught the eye of John Walsh and other researchers.

Delusionals like Frobsham and Monckton must believe that it's possible for scientists to spend decades studying a subject without knowing anything about it, having only the intention of pulling the wool over Jon's doe - like eyes.

Looking to fields of study such as composition and rhetoric theory, legal writing scholars including Anne Ruggles Gere, 2 Laurel Oates, 3 and Linda Berger4 helped us to learn more about the ways we write and read as lawyers and teachers.5 Other scholars like Kristen Tiscione began to do empirical work, surveying practicing lawyers and judges to learn more about their preferences, which writing techniques worked, and which didn't.6 Both in the Legal Writing Journal and in other publications, legal writing scholars turned their eye towards the question of how we read and how we write, and developed a strong body of scholarship that has enriched the discipline and supported how we teach legal writing in the classroom.

Still, what I find most interesting about The Ladders» study, which used a technique called «eye tracking» to examine recruiter's eyes as they viewed resumes, is where recruiters looked during those 6 seconds.

A few years back, two researchers at the University of Massachusetts published the results of an eye - opening study about the incidence of lying during job interviews.

The kid discussion is an essential one to have because couples who don't see eye to eye about kids are twice as likely to divorce, according to studies, and childfree couples divorce more often than couples who have at least one child.

Sometimes people's eyes get wide when I tell them that I'm a psychologist who studies dreams, and they immediately start confiding in me about their «weird / crazy / strange / vivid» dreams that often include similar themes (like their teeth falling out).