Sentences with phrase «study tested an approach»

With this context, the new study tested an approach based on the idea that if prostate cancer cells were flooded with testosterone, the cells might be killed by the hormone shock.

Not exact matches

The series of studies tested the effects of power hierarchies on team productivity by creating teams with either a mixed propensity towards leadership — in one case some participants were primed to feel powerful by thinking of a time they wielded power over others while others subjects were asked to envision a time they were bossed around before joining the group — or teams made up entirely of hard charging leadership types or participants primed for a meeker, go along, get along approach.

Drawing on real - life case studies and tried - and - tested, evidence - based approaches, we show you how to:

One could surmise that those «forward thinking» operators would also be the early adopters and they also likely utilize cycle menus, taste testings, and the other positive approaches outlined in the study — all contributing to a net zero or positive participation bump.

As a former scientist, I appreciated Dr. Shreffler's critical approach to allergy studies (not surprising given his research background... he has a Ph.D. + M.D.): «Testing for allergies is tricky.

The new study provides a simple and reliable approach to testing twilight vision, and shows that the light level itself is the major factor explaining the decrease in visual acuity.

«Our test is one of the first approaches that targets a specific fish species and detects it successfully in flowing freshwater» says the study's lead author, Dr. Irene Adrian - Kalchhauser.

Drugs that disrupt the enzyme, his animal studies suggest, could prevent Alzheimer's with less risk of unwanted side effects — an approach that he expects to begin testing in human trials within three years.

The study, in cell cultures and mice, tested a new approach of targeting stromal cells and cancer cells simultaneously.

The study details a promising approach for pinpointing more athletes who play «impaired» on the Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing, or ImPACT, a computerized tool consisting of eight subtests that gauge neurocognitive performance.

«Our study is the first to develop and test this important new methodology, and to demonstrate the validity and reliability of the CAM - S, a novel approach to measure delirium severity.»

In May 2015, the Moffitt Cancer Center launched a pilot study to test whether this kind of adaptive - therapy approach might help people with prostate cancer.

Conducting HIV testing among the social and risk networks of those recently diagnosed with HIV helps identify undiagnosed cases of HIV at significantly higher rates and at a lower cost than other testing approaches, finds a new study conducted in Ukraine by an international research team.

«Using social and risk networks helps identify people undiagnosed with HIV: Study in Ukraine identifies targeted, cost - effective approach to HIV testing.»

The new study is the first demonstration of an approach combining ancestral sequence reconstruction with the making of transgenic organisms to directly test hypotheses at multiple biological levels, Siddiq said.

«This paper takes advantage of modern molecular biology and genetic approaches to test some of those hypotheses,» said University of Nebraska - Lincoln biologist Kristi L. Montooth, a fruit fly expert who co-authored the new study.

Such cell - tracing techniques are the right approach to test the cancer stem cell model, says Sean Morrison, who studies stem cells and cancer at UTSMC and who was not involved in any of the studies.

Whereas both groups completed their tests more quickly when pairing «white» and «pleasant» words, study participants who had been exposed to the multicultural approach showed less of a difference than those who had been given the color - blind material.

In the new study, the researchers compared this standard of care to a screening approach where pregnant women are tested approximately monthly for malaria using rapid diagnostic tests and treated with a different drug, dihydroartemisinin - piperaquine (DP) only if they test positive for the parasite.

«But now, instead of taking a shotgun approach, we can test the initial interventions on a computer and see which ones make the most sense to then study in the classroom.»

Rice graduate student Lifeng Yang, lead author of the study, designed a preclinical experiment to test the feasibility of a multidrug approach.

Epidemiologist Felicia Rabito says the study is the first to test whether asthma symptom days could be reduced with a simpler approach to cockroach control.

«Bait knocks out cockroaches, and asthma symptom days: Study is the first to test whether asthma symptoms reduced via single approach to cockroach control.»

«We used biopsied tumor samples from DIPG patients to create models in the lab, which we studied and then used to test a novel, targeted approach to treating the tumor.

In a separate study, Discher and colleagues tested whether their approach could improve the delivery of drugs.

The report stressed that key elements of that discipline should include methods, approaches and techniques that researchers can use to create reproducible studies that the community can test, reuse and build upon.

In this study, Rotem Ben - Shachar, Scott Schmidler, and Katia Koelle at Duke University use statistical approaches to test if proposed mechanisms can explain variation in dengue viral load patterns.

In their study, the group directed by Russell Gray has tested the performance of different automated approaches varying in sophistication and complexity.

The best of the tested methods was a new approach which the team had developed specifically for their study.

To study that approach, Pardo is collaborating on a pilot study funded by the NIH to test minocycline, an anti-inflammatory antibiotic drug, on autistic children.

One avenue being studied by the CDC aims to create a Lyme «signature» of small molecules in the blood — an approach that, in early testing, catches a dramatically higher share of early infections.

The figure ranged widely between studies, depending on such things as how people were approached to join studies and how the test was explained.

They tested their approach on older adults using a motion - analysis system that studied 39 joint regions.

BAT is still in the research phase and requires more studies with a larger, more varied population, but another approach — allergen - component testing — has already been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for peanut allergies.

«We've known for several years that activating the Tie2 pathway that indirectly suppresses the effects of VEGF had great potential, and the new approach we tested in this study provides a great way to take advantage of that,» says Peter Campochiaro, M.D., the George S. and Dolores D. Eccles Professor of Ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a faculty member at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins.

«While most past studies only demonstrate the applicability of similar solutions for small programs and «artificial bugs» [bugs that are intentionally inserted into a program for testing purposes], our approach can automate the debugging process for many real bugs that impact large programs,» Dr Lo explains.

Now, a study in the journal Brain describes what could be considered a direct «aquarium - to - bedside» approach, taking a drug discovered in a genetic zebrafish model of epilepsy and testing it, with promising results, in a small number of children with the disease.

Speaking about the importance of the Honeycomb Maze, Professor O'Keefe said «we see the maze as a general - purpose behavioural testing apparatus, which will enable us to study other spatial behaviours such as direction - following as well as non-spatial tasks such as approaching a moving object.»

In what's believed to be the first study to examine the issue, the IUPUI researchers focused on the public's reaction to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut, to test their approach.

In future studies, Sulchek and his team plan to test this approach and scale up the technology with clinical applications in mind.

«The drugs that we used in this study would be too toxic for long term use in the bloodstream, so we are now hoping to test more localised approaches such as eye drops to treat uveitis.»

The testing approach, known as «test - blind,» keeps fingerprint examiners walled off from police reports, rap sheets and other material that can unconsciously influence an examiner's perceptions before forming an opinion about the fingerprints being studied.

Countless studies test such approaches in mice, and dozens of «nanopharmaceuticals» are approved for use in humans.

The hypothesis was tested using an integrative approach at the isolated organ, cellular and molecular levels, in a longitudinal study in rats.

The rational use of adjuvants will be studied in detail, as very often researchers use a «shotgun» approach with adjuvants, testing entire panels with their antigens in the search for improved immune responses.

Each webinar in the series will illustrate NIMH's Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) approach to studying and understanding psychopathology and NIMH's experimental therapeutics approach to developing and testing interventions, as applied to psychosocial interventions.

Dr Aldred's study will be the first to test if trying to «stop the stops» is an effective therapeutic approach in HHT.

Standardized exploration of physiological functions, scientific and ethical considerations, study design, analysis and data management, alternative imaging method tests / Preclinical approaches with mouse models, a first step toward the man, interest and limits

Finally, the scientific approaches to the analysis of samples is changing all the time: that is that options are increasing all the time and the treatment options are changing all the time so large scale studies set up to recruit sufficient patients and test them in a particular way must be «future proofed» so that the results stand the test of time.

Although this approach has yet to be tested in humans, this study suggests that combining two existing cancer immunotherapies can significantly boost their efficacy, resulting in better outcomes for patients.