Sentences with phrase «studies activities so»

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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.

Though only 9 % or so of consenters (4,552 people) uploaded a full week of reports on their physical activity, that's still a big sample size for an objectively measured, data - driven research study.

Jurich's first reason to skip car ownership is perhaps the simplest — commuting by car is objectively awful (really, study after study ranks it as one of life's most misery - inducing activities), so given that she lives in a place that provides alternatives, it simply makes sense to take them.

You could use a digital device but studies show us that activities using the tactile senses excite the creative regions of the brain, so a notebook and pen is better.

So his team at IBM's Healthcare and Life Science division began studying chess players to see if they could find a correlation between their brain activity and their proficiency.

This could mean putting an end to the classic youth group model that so many of us grew up with, the model in which teenagers participate in their own worship, their own Bible studies, their own social events, their own outreach activities, their own missions trips, and so on.

So you consider yourself a scientist because of your «intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural...» of cutting paper?

Yet if they are to understand the arts significantly, they too must enter so fully into the works they study, by becoming familiar with the possibilities and limitations of the materials used and with the processes of transforming them, that they pass beyond passive receptivity to the practice of virtual recreation, through imaginative participation in the artist's constructive activity.

Intellectual activity motivated by such interests may indeed make Ultimate Being and man its objects of study and so seem to share in the thought of the Church; but insofar as it is directed by a love that is not love of Being and of man it can not see or understand what love understands.

I think that is probably correct, because any happiness worth having is derived from being engaged in worthwhile activities (like the study of theology) that are so engaging that you forget to ask if you are happy.

Hence theological study is hazardous; the involvement may become so personal and emotional that intellectual activity ceases and the work of abstraction, comparison and criticism stops.

So make sure your teen has plenty of time to do homework, study for tests, and be prepared for school before you allow him to continue with other extra-curricular activities.

One concise and readable analysis of the CNA (although it was written in April so may not reflect the most current legislative activity) is this article written for The Atlantic Monthly by Marion Nestle, the widely respected professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University.

Parents with kids that study in different schools and do extra curricular activities, retired / old people, tourists, businessmen have a lot of valid reasons to still need to use a private or at least massive transportation system, so we can not rely solely on bicycle transportation methods for those, still, we must provide those that can rely on them (young people, average commuters living not that far from the office, teenagers...)

Now, a new study probing so - called noncoding DNA has found that alterations in regions that regulate gene activity may also contribute to autism.

The process takes place by means of a mechanism — unveiled in this study — that inhibits the activity of the osteoblasts, the cells that produce the bone matrix so that bones can grow during childhood and youth, and remain in good condition in adulthood.

«The cells can only re-establish connections with their neighbours when they are «awake», so to speak, that is when they display a minimum level of activity,» explains Mark Hübener, head of the recently published study.

And long - term, people who've been in long - term relationships, through imaging studies and so on, we found that, you know, there is increased activity in pleasure centers of the brain; so love over time makes you feel better.

So subsequently people have been looking at this type of brain activity and this brain activity is very highly related to a person's genetic makeup, and they've looked at this through twin studies again, showing that identical twins had more similar patterns than non-identical twins.

Some recent studies have suggested that glial cells can secrete chemical messengers such as glutamate and ATP; if so, these «gliotransmitters» could influence neuron activity.

«The rural Native American children, who so often are described as less talkative than their peers, were actually more likely to talk and act out activities with the diorama than children from the other two communities,» said Karen Washinawatok, lead author of the study and former chair of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin.

The team's approach relied on methods developed in the past decade or so to study «functional connectivity» in the adult human brain — essentially using fMRI to determine which brain regions have synchronized activity when the subject is not engaged in any particular task.

But in an animal study published in Nature in 2012, Shenoy and his colleagues reported finding that much more is going on: Motor cortical neurons work as part of an interconnected circuit — a so - called dynamical system — to create rhythmic patterns of neural activity.

The study also suggests that AF267B reduces the activity of an enzyme known as GSK3beta, which in turn prevents so - called tau proteins from clumping together into the disease's signature tangles.

Even ordinary studies of human physiology, for example, suggest that humans are so adapted for intense physical activity that a sedentary lifestyle spawns modern - day scourges like diabetes and heart disease.

«So we have a way to study how the activity of supermassive black holes varies on superhuman time scales.»

Study limitations included: Since no women were studied the results may not apply to them; results were self - reported, which could mean physical activity was over reported; results were based only on time outside of work and can't be applied to overall sedentary activity; and participants were members of comprehensive health plans, so results may not apply to men lacking health insurance.

To conduct the study, the researchers used the so - called «differences in differences» methodology to analyze the changing rates of patent activity in the 34 states with constituency statutes, versus activity rates in the 16 states lacking them.

«It is difficult to use climate models to study hurricane activity, and so studies such as ours, which produced a record of storms under different climate conditions, are important for our understanding of future storm activity,» Denniston said.

«Caring for a loved one is a demanding and difficult task, often doubly so for caregivers who juggle these activities with caring for a family and the demands of a job,» said Rajeev Ramchand, the study's co-leader and a RAND senior behavioral scientist.

«Mercury is the perfect test object for these experiments because it is so sensitive to the gravitational effect and activity of the Sun,» said Antonio Genova, the lead author of the study published in Nature Communications and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher working at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

University of Leicester researcher Kishan Bakrania, who also worked on the study, added: «This research is significant because it demonstrates yet again why physical activity and exercise is so important.

Given our limited resources (our unit has 18 staff), our activities concentrate on the so - called «information relays», such as the media, professional organisations, etc, although we do enjoy some direct contact with the public and in particular the young (whose declining interest to science studies and careers is worrying) through presentations, visits, open days, etc..

The study might disappoint anyone who thinks the loss of TV would impel people to engage in more so - called real activities, such as socializing.

Though this study doesn't yet identify the mechanism that controls gene activity for generations after a famine, the findings build a foundation to do so, Baugh said.

Data flow from the electrodes down rainbow - colored wires to an electroencephalography (eeg) machine, which records the activity so a scientist can study it later on.

Limitations to the study included unknown information surrounding the frequency of sexual activity, so researchers could not determine relative risk compared to rest and physical activity.

The GPS collars delivered highly accurate locations of the study animals (via satellites or cell towers) so the researchers were able to visit these locations during winter to investigate their activities and document predation patterns.

Functional imaging studies have also shown that autistic minds show decreased activity and connectivity in areas of the so - called «social brain» — regions important for language, face recognition and emotion.

«The findings of this study are exciting because they support the idea that combining these two targeted oral therapies results in significant activity in ovarian cancer, more so than olaparib alone,» said Joyce Liu, M.D., MPH, the lead investigator and medical oncologist at the Susan F. Smith Center for Women's Cancers at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute, Boston.

The study participants had to give a similar speech at the end of the treatment period, so researchers could assess whether their patterns of brain activity had changed.

Some studies in mice have shown that elevated telomerase activity leaves the animals more susceptible to skin tumors and breast cancer, so maybe there is no free lunch.

Procedures for top - level sports students have been developed in dialogue with and according to wishes from students, departments at the university and sports organisations at local, regional and national level so that Uppsala University can to a greater extent facilitate the combining of academic studies and with top - level sports activities.

Following on from the work of Pim van Lommel in the Netherlands, the study aims to examine near - death experiences in 1,500 cardiac arrest survivors and so determine whether people without a heartbeat or brain activity can have documentable out - of - body experiences.

Behavioural studies have demonstrated that viewing patterns differ measurably between static and dynamic images, so it is important to determine how neural activity relates to eye movements in more naturalistic settings.

So, using ALMA, I would like to make observations of much fainter galaxies, and also study star formation activities and the amount of dust in those galaxies in detail.»

This year, the Sun is approaching a low point in its activity, so scientists will use this total eclipse to study how flares differ from when the Sun is more active.

«That's why it's so important for us to talk to patients about this, and tell them this is not the end of [their] sex life,» says Kopecky, who has studied sexual activity in heart patients but did not participate in writing the new guidelines.

Fun fact: One 2012 study showed that the sweat we let out during strenuous activity has more sodium than potassium, so coconut water is therefore recommended for people who participate in less - strenuous activity.