Sentences with phrase «study human abilities»

The Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation is a nonprofit scientific research and educational organization with two primary commitments: to study human abilities and to provide people with a knowledge of their aptitudes that will help them in making decisions about school and work.

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Because, as Belmonte rightly explains, the new «precisely targeted» tools can help us «study species evolution, biology and disease, and may lead ultimately to the ability to grow human organs for transplant.»

[31] Critics also point out that even the $ 6 million attributed to the reduction of mercury emissions is likely an exaggeration because the EPA has ignored clinical studies that demonstrate the human body's ability to protect itself against mercury.

This is also what we learn from studying the humanities: that the human things — our desires, emotions, habits, abilities, and inclinations — are diverse, complicated, mysterious.

2009 Oxford study shows New Caledonian crows are thought to employ advanced cognitive abilities previously only thought present in humans and apes.

Now a new study with a troop of zoo baboons and lots of peanuts shows that a less obvious trait - the ability to understand numbers - also is shared by humans and their primate cousins.

Previous studies of the effect of breastfeeding on morbidity among full - term infants have not always accounted for selection bias that may result if infants who are breastfed are inherently healthier than bottle - fed infants.22 In the current study, the VLBW infants» ability to breastfeed did not reflect better health status as both human milk and infant formula were provided via gavage feeding especially during early enteral feedings.

Waldorf teacher education at Sunbridge Institute includes a deep exploration of child and human development; development of a teacher's contemplative capacities; exploration of pedagogical approaches and skills; studies in the arts; courses that develop abilities for working in a group of colleagues; and practical learning or mentored teaching in the classroom with experienced teachers.

However, in malnourished populations motor development may be a useful predictor of subsequent human function.5 A study conducted in Denmark6 found a positive relationship between breastfeeding duration and an earlier ability to crawl and perform the «pincer grip» after adjusting for potential confounding variables.

The researchers hope the study will lead to a better understanding of how skilled livestock are in their aptitude to solve problems and interact with humans based on their cognitive abilities — and to an improvement in animal welfare in general.

Rising anthropogenic, or human - caused, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may have up to twice the impact on coastal estuaries as it does in the oceans because the human - caused CO2 lowers the ecosystem's ability to absorb natural fluctuations of the greenhouse gas, a new study suggests.

«We wanted to investigate whether human adults had the ability to transform some white fat deposits into beige fat when they were exposed to cold,» said one of the study's authors, Philip A. Kern, MD, of the University of Kentucky School of Medicine in Lexington, KY. «Browning fat tissue would be an excellent defense against obesity.

«This study suggests that humans have the ability to follow perceptual rhythms and make temporal predictions in any of our senses.»

Choi, Christine Lippard, an assistant professor of human development and family studies at Iowa State; and Shinyoung Jeon, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Oklahoma - Tulsa, analyzed data measuring inhibitory control (the ability to pay attention and control natural, but unnecessary thoughts or behaviors) and math achievement for low - income students in Head Start through kindergarten.

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.

Establishing links between genes, the brain and human behavior is a central issue in cognitive neuroscience research, but studying how genes influence cognitive abilities and behavior as the brain develops from childhood to adulthood has proven difficult.

The investigators plan to further study how these genetic differences may affect the bacterium's ability to evade the human immune system.

Past studies comparing the language - learning abilities of humans and other primates have looked at what monkeys can do with human language.

The study offered tantalizing evidence that a supposedly human ability had evolved in another animal.

Exposure to verbal and physical aggression between parents may hurt a child's ability to identify and control emotions, according to a longitudinal study led by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

The new study accounts for the combination of temperature and humidity, which reduces the human body's ability to cool itself through evaporation of sweat.

«We hope that the results from this study will enable investigators to test the relevance of the maresin pathway in human disease,» said Charles N. Serhan, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass. «Moreover, we hope to better understand resolution biology and its potential pharmacology so that we can enhance our ability to control unwanted inflammation and improve the quality of life.»

In earlier studies involving animal models and human cancer cell lines, researchers found that breast cancer spreads when three specific cells are in direct contact: an endothelial cell (a type of cell that lines the blood vessels), a perivascular macrophage (a type of immune cell found near blood vessels), and a tumor cell that produces high levels of Mena, a protein that enhances a cancer cell's ability to spread.

More studies are needed, but Krug believes new therapeutics could be designed to block the NS1 protein produced by the flu virus, hobbling its ability to evade the human immune system.

The latest study, funded by the Wellcome Trust and published in Current Biology, shows that the strength and reliability of «homing signals» in the human brain vary among people and can predict navigational ability.

To explore the function of the animals» trilling calls in the new study, the researchers tested the ability of human listeners to detect subtle differences in synthetic calls.

The ability to keep human embryos developing in the lab for almost 2 weeks — achieved for the first time this year — should provide new insights into very early human development, and generate debate on whether ethical limits on studying embryos in culture should be extended.

Moreover, he says, the study suggests that other creatures may possess the «foundational mechanisms» that enable humans to reason so well with numbers and that «perhaps even advanced mathematical abilities may be found in other animals.»

«Recent theories have suggested that humans» fluency in relational learning — our ability to make comparisons between objects, events or ideas — may be the key difference in mental ability between us and other animals,» said Dedre Gentner, professor of psychology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern and a senior author of the study.

However, all regions of the human brain have molecular signatures very similar to those of our primate relatives, yet some regions contain distinctly human patterns of gene activity that mark the brain's evolution and may contribute to our cognitive abilities, a new Yale - led study has found.

The goal of the study was to explore whether fecal microbiota from human IBS patients with diarrhea has the ability to influence gut and brain function in recipient mice.

In a new study published in Human Factors, researchers studied how the prolonged use of cockpit automation negatively impacts pilots» ability to remember how to perform these key tasks.

Dogs have the ability to distinguish words and the intonation of human speech through brain regions similar to those that humans use, a study in the 2 September issue of Science reports.

Second, the fact that children of high ability but from disadvantaged social backgrounds are unable to fully realise their academic potential indicates a substantial wastage of human resources, the study concludes.

The components of the Dunedin study's human capital measure — educational attainment, cognitive ability and self - control — each predicted higher credit scores and younger heart age.

Only birds of prey seem to have the ability to see in extremely sharp focus, while human visual acuity outshines that of all other bird species studied.

In a new study in this month's Cognition, scientists show that Alex correctly inferred the relationship between cardinal and ordinal numbers, an ability that has not previously been found in any species other than humans.

This sequence of events contrasts with the case of a S. aureus strain from pigs, Fitzgerald points out, since a study in 2012 revealed that MRSA ST398 strains evolved the ability to resist methicillin before they crossed over into humans.

The new Mount Sinai study reveals how loss of a protein called Sirtuin1 (SIRT1) affects the ability of blood stem cells to regenerate normally, at least in mouse models of human disease.

A new study may have been for (and about) the birds, but it also hints at how humans may have developed the ability to speak, potentially paving the way to one day to identifying the causes of speech deficiencies.

«This study demonstrates that human infrastructure development along coastal areas have long - term consequences on the ability of coastal wetlands to adapt to sea - level rise and other processes that reduce the size of coastal wetlands,» said Talib Oliver - Cabrera, the study's first author and a UM Rosenstiel School Ph.D. student.

Calling the study «fantastic,» psychologist Lisa Feigenson of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, says that because there is such a «drastic» difference in number sense between the Pirahã and most other human groups, it must be their language that limits their conceptual abilities.

By defining the sharks» use of particular areas, this study gives marine management and conservation officials the ability to limit the sharks» interaction with their greatest threat — humans.

Studying such species could provide clues about how human language evolved, and how language abilities are encoded in the human genome.

Unlike humans, planarian flatworms have the remarkable ability to regrow any missing body part, making them an ideal model with which to study the molecular basis of regeneration.

«The ability to identify nicotine and other plant - based drugs in ancient dental plaque could help us answer longstanding questions about the consumption of intoxicants by ancient humans,» said Shannon Tushingham, a WSU assistant professor of anthropology and co-author of a new study on the research in Journal of Archaeological Science Reports.

The scholars conducted the research in part because there had never been a comprehensive study to examine whether humans» «spatial localization» ability — that is, whether we can immediately and accurately perceive where an object is located — is as well - honed as we believe it to be.

This presentation will also address the ability to study species differences in toxicity by comparing data from rat, dog, and human Liver - Chip systems.

The ability to obtain neurons directly and non-invasively from human individuals of different age groups will offer opportunities to study intrinsic cellular properties... >> MORE

The researchers believe this study may have implications for women stressed during pregnancy or treated clinically with glucocorticoids, if the mechanisms are similar in humans, though it is unclear yet the extent to which changes in the ability of the placenta to transport nutrients to the foetus exacerbate or protect the child from the potential adverse effects of glucocorticoid overexposure during pregnancy.