Sentences with phrase «studies researchers look»

Although it disrupts some studies, in other studies researchers look to understand why and how it works.

For this study the researchers looked only at mitochondrial DNA, which represents only a small portion of the DNA in each animal's cells.

In this study researchers looked at how Salmonella colonized the bodies of mice that were genetically modified to be uniquely susceptible to the pathogen.

No, in this study researchers looked at the effect of N - 3 fatty acids (found in fish oil pills) taken with protein supplementation cancer patients.

In the study the researchers looked into the recent performance of three established cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ripple.

Not exact matches

In another, the researchers asked study participants to quickly assess how much a person weighed by looking at faces on a computer screen.

When the researchers looked at data from that particular study, they found that taller boys and girls performed significantly better at age 3 on a test in which they had to point to pictures of different words.

These researchers also looked at the National Childhood Development Study and found that, when they controlled for cognitive and non-cognitive skills, the relationship between height and wages disappeared.

Back in 2007, researchers pooled the results of 29 different studies looking at the effect of vitamin C on colds.

The study only looks at CEOs, but the marriage of status and risk - taking goes beyond the C - suite, the researchers say.

In a study commissioned by leadership consultant Green Peak Partners, and conducted by Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, researchers looked at 72 senior executives at public, venture - backed and private - equity sponsored companies and found that self - awareness was the biggest predictor of a CEO's overall success.

«In the early days of insurance, [companies] looked at height as an indication of survival,» said David Batty, an epidemiology and public health researcher at the University College London, who was not involved in the study.

«At almost any given age, most of us are getting better at some things and worse at others,» Joshua Hartshorne, an MIT cognitive science researcher and the lead author of a study looking at how intelligence changes as we age, told Business Insider.

For a small study published in March in the journal Aging Cell, researchers looked at 125 amateur cyclists aged 55 to 79, comparing them with 75 people of a similar age who rarely or never exercised.

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 five - year study of nearly 5,000 married couples ranging in age from 19 to 89, where approximately 75 % of couples composed of spouses who both worked, researchers assessed participants» personalities by looking at the Big Five personality traits — openness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism and conscientiousness.

In a study done last month in the journal Environment and Behavior, researchers at Cornell University manipulated the gaze of the cartoon rabbit on Trix cereal boxes and found that adult subjects were more likely to choose Trix over competing brands if the rabbit was looking at them rather than away.

But the machine - learning analysis these University of Colorado medical school researchers used found the opposite result when they looked at red meat consumption among the same Framingham study participants.

In a 2008 study, Michigan State University researchers asked college students to look at fictional Facebook profiles and decide how much they liked the profiles» owners.

To try to figure this out, the researchers looked at two massive data sets - one from an ongoing study that tracks teens» screen time usage in eighth, tenth and twelfth grade and another from the CDC on risky teen behaviors.

«This study showed us that looking at an image of nature for less than a minute was all it took to help people perform better on our task,» explained lead researcher Kate Lee.

In a study, a group of researchers found that by taking a 40 - second break and simply looking at a computerized image of a green roof, employees» focus on a particular task improved.

Researchers in parallel studies in Australia, New Zealand, and England looked at the same pooled data and recommended strongly to avoid the low oxygen levels because of this increased mortality.

In the study that established the difference, researchers looking at people two years after they first showed up at a hospital for care found that they scored significantly better on most outcome measures than a comparable group in the West....

Researchers at Baylor University have released the findings of a new study that looked at the number of «emergency shelter beds» for the homeless across 11 major U.S. cities, and...

One of the studies that I talk about in the book is where social science researchers look at black women who had experienced trauma, and they found these women were more likely to internalize the characteristics of the Strong Black Woman as a way of coping with trauma.

A recent study from researchers at Oxford University published in the medical journal The Lancet looked at how changing weather patterns will affect the planet's ability to grow enough food to adequately feed the global population, and the results are terrifying: They predicted that because of large scale agricultural changes, 247,970 could die in China alone by the year 2050.

The study team that seeks to identify a congregation by its character must, like the researcher looking for setting or world view, assume the role of observing participant, a posture that takes nothing for granted.

Researchers at the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University looked at the top 700 highest - grossing movies of 2014 — which make up almost all of the year's major theatrical releases — to see how many featured women in prominent production roles.

Trigg is co-director of the three - year Oxford - based project, which incorporated more than 40 different studies by dozens of researchers looking at countries from China to Poland and the United States to Micronesia.

In a study published in Clinical Biochemistry, 2004, researchers looked at coconut oil as a component of diet in laboratory animals.

Researchers looked at more than 47,000 men over 18 years as part of the Health Professionals Follow - up Study.

In a separate two - week study, researchers looked at how eating MCFAs affected appetite.

Since consumption of whole grain products and dietary fiber has been shown to reduce the risk of high blood pressure and heart attack, Harvard researchers decided to look at the effects of cereal consumption on heart failure risk and followed 21,376 participants in the Physicians Health Study over a period of 19.6 years.

The Washington State University researchers looked at 44 previous studies conducted on organic agriculture.

A double blind study published in the June 2013 issue of the Nutrition Journal was done at the University of Tampa where sports nutrition researchers compared rice and whey protein with subjects who were building muscle and looking to reduce soreness quickly so they can return to training.

A researcher at the University of Nottingham is studying «Men, Masculinity and Early Labour», and is looking for men to take part in research interviews and focus groups and to share their experiences of being with their partner in early labour.

Some researchers have looked into what role genes might have in our tendency to cheat, like last year's study on a certain variant of the dopamine gene DRD4 — and dopamine is the force behind our sexual drives, survival needs and pair - bonding behaviors.

Last week researchers at the University of British Columbia released a study that looked at parents, children and gender roles.

Tamesha Harewood, a researcher in MSU's Department of Human Development and Family Studies, was lead author on a paper published in the journal Infant and Child Development that looked at fathers» influence on their children.

A team of researchers from the University of Colorado recently performed a meta - study where they looked at all of the available research about screen time and sleep.

«Norwegian and Danish researchers looked at 345 children between 13 months and five years old and studied how long they were breastfed.

Because we already know that different types of delivery and feeding types change a baby's stomach and intestinal bacteria, this study wanted to look at something else, something that many other researchers have apparently overlooked: that many babies are fed a combination of breast milk and formula.

In an earlier study published in the Journal of Child Nutrition and Management, some of the same researchers looked at what types of fruits and vegetables children selected when they were free to choose.

The results of at least two recent studies, however, suggest that reductions in full - contact practices can be accompished safely without putting players at additional risk, while researchers continue looking for the head trauma «holy grail»: a threshold - whether it is number of hits per week, over the course of the season, of a certain force, or to a certain part of the helmet (e.g. facemask, top of the head) above which players are at an unacceptably high risk of permanent brain injury.

Often, researchers choose their cutoffs by «grading on a curve» — looking over the distribution of scores for the entire pool of study participants.

Researchers looked at a total of four case - control studies that examined the association between swaddling and SIDS.

«We find a child's health indicators improve when the child looks like the father,» explains the study's researchers.

But although researchers have suspected that microRNAs in breast milk have a role in infant health and development, no study has specifically looked at whether microRNAs differed between premature and term breast milk.

That intriguing question motivated a new study published last month in The British Journal of Sports Medicine, during which researchers looked at one family's propensity for shredding anterior cruciate ligaments during sports.