Sentences with phrase «study testing a model»

Our studies test this model's predictions in both intergroup and interpersonal contexts, as well as at the extremes of objectification and dehumanization.

In a study testing a model of achievement in statistics, Bandalos, Finney, and Geske (2003) found that test anxiety had a meditational role in the relationship between self - efficacy and achievement.

Further, this study tests a model positing a more complete pathway by which family factors affect metabolic control via child adherence to diabetes regimen (Figure 1).

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The mixed - design ANOVA model (PROC MIXED) was used to test the differences in glucose and insulin AUCi, measured meal GI and GL, calculated meal GI and GL, and II values in food challenges in each individual study.

The aim of the present study was to test the extent to which products labelled as «Smart Choices» could be classified as healthy choices on the basis of the Nutrient Profile Model (NPM), a non-industry-developed, validated nutritional standard.

The study revealed that among the 41 tested seat models, only ten came out to be worth buying, while 13 were not even safe for young children.

In a statement NY - Presbyterian CEO Herbert Pardes argues that implementing successful reforms that took place in a test study at his hospital can't be the model for reform — which is being proposed in the Lancman bill.

Studies show that these models can accurately predict the ways that new drugs will react in the human body and replace the use of animals in exploratory research and many standard drug tests.

In the new study, scientists built and tested a mathematical model that simulated the complex chemical and physical interactions among water, oil, gas, and dispersant that occurred during Deepwater Horizon.

In October 2016, writing in Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, the team used a study of cancer in rats to test 13 leading tumor growth models to determine which could predict key quantities of interest relevant to survival, and the effects of various therModels and Methods in Applied Sciences, the team used a study of cancer in rats to test 13 leading tumor growth models to determine which could predict key quantities of interest relevant to survival, and the effects of various thermodels to determine which could predict key quantities of interest relevant to survival, and the effects of various therapies.

In medicine today, physician - scientists and basic scientists supplement support for their research by applying their expertise part time to develop and test commercial products.1 In my own field, vision science, university - based researchers obtain additional funding through clinical and electrophysiologic studies, pathology, imaging, biochemistry, and animal model development performed for pharmaceutical and instrument companies.

«This study is important, in part because we now have a new xenograft model that will for the first time allow us to apply new biomarkers to better predict disease progression and test new therapeutics.»

The researchers conducted the study by using time series modelling of data on the official unemployment rate and recorded property crime rate, testing how the relationship has varied from the 1940s to the present day.

Specifically, the Mount Sinai study was designed to test whether pharmacological compounds designed to block the function of XPO1 / CRM1 could stop disease progression in mouse models that exhibit some of the characteristics of MS. Researchers found that two chemical agents (called KPT - 276 and KPT - 350) prevented XPO1 / CRM1 from shuttling cargo out of the nucleus of nerve cells, which protected them from free radicals and structural damage.

In the current study, Frank Longo, MD, PhD, and others at Stanford University, tested LM22A - 4, a drug that specifically binds to and activates the BDNF receptor TrkB on nerve cells, in mice that model the disorder.

«The mouse is one of the most utilised models for studying human biology and we use it for creating models of human illnesses and testing new drugs and therapies.

Nath's team is currently developing an animal model of Nodding syndrome to further study the disease and test potential therapies.

Severance says they plan to take their studies of the gut - brain connection into mouse models to test for a cause - and effect - relationship with Candida and memory deficits.

In order to better understand how soil microbes respond to the changing atmosphere, the study's authors utilized statistical techniques that compare data to models and test for general patterns across studies.

«This is the first time a compound targeting Gaucher disease has been tested in a mouse model of Parkinson's disease and was shown to be effective,» said the study's senior author, Marie - Francoise Chesselet, the Charles H. Markham Professor of Neurology at UCLA and director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Parkinson's Disstudy's senior author, Marie - Francoise Chesselet, the Charles H. Markham Professor of Neurology at UCLA and director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Parkinson's DisStudy of Parkinson's Disease.

A generation of high - energy physicists came of age studying and testing the Standard Model of particle physics, a theory devised in the 1970s that has withstood all experimental challenges.

The team also conducted two clinical translation studies to test whether pharmacologically blocking miR -17-92 might have clinical relevance in the lupus - like condition and the scleroderma cGVHD model.

This estimate, while in line with suggestions from previous linguistic studies, is a more robust result because it was found consistently in the majority of the different statistical models of evolution tested in this study.

The authors caution that further study and replication of their results in different populations is needed to verify their model before it will be useful for individual genetic tests — or before longevity «cocktails» are created.

In the new study, Professor Pisani and colleagues used cutting edge statistical techniques (Posterior Predictive Analyses) to test whether the evolutionary models routinely used in phylogenetics can adequately describe the genomic datasets used to study early animal evolution.

And by providing an animal model for the fetal damage, the studies should also ease the path for testing potential vaccines and treatments.

And Chambers encourages young scientists to try the new publication model «for studies where you want to test a clear hypothesis and are concerned that a negative result could be hard to publish.

The study is one of the first to test if the «landscape of fear» model, a scientific theory that has been used to explain how animals move and interact with the environment based on their fear of being attacked by their predators, is applicable to large open marine systems involving wide - ranging species, like sharks and turtles.

«Most pain medications that have been tested in the past decade have failed in phase II human trials despite performing well in animal models,» notes Clifford Woolf, MD, PhD, director of Boston Children's F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center and a co-senior investigator on the study with Michael Costigan, PhD.

To test its model and lay the foundation for modeling increasingly complex material interactions, the team decided to simulate silicon dioxide (SiO2), a common, well - studied material, most well - known as the compound that forms quartz.

While most research studies begin in test tubes, cells grown in the laboratory and animal models before moving to humans, the opposite is true here.

In further studies, the researchers tested the capacity of ANG to prevent and mitigate radiation - induced bone marrow failure, and in pre-clinical models, they found that survival following radiation exposure was increased after treatment with recombinant ANG protein.

Now, in a new $ 62 million, 5 - year program, the network of doomsday machines is expanding to simulate hurricanes and tornadoes and is joining forces with computer modeling to study how things too big for a physical test — such as nuclear reactors or even an entire city — will weather what Mother Nature throws at them.

Dr Leonardo Guasti added: «It represents an entirely new concept for the study of the adrenal gland as the ability to generate donor - specific and functional adrenal - like cells will facilitate the next generation of cell - based treatments for adrenal insufficiency, the modelling of adrenal specific diseases, and the testing of personalised interventions on cells derived from patients.»

Gerken spent months studying and optimizing each component of the setup they had envisioned before testing everything in a model system.

In a final set of studies, Bogyo and colleagues tested ebselen in a mouse model that more accurately mimics a clinical scenario in which high - risk individuals are treated prophylactically or at the first symptoms of recurrence.

Exploiting the same pre-clinical model used for their studies, the researchers are testing the efficacy of this kind of drug candidates against cancer stem cells, and the possibility of identifying combination regimens with standard chemotherapies with minimized toxic effects, with the perspective of their possible application for the treatment of human breast cancer.

The models were built and simulated using an open - source software package, EpiModel, that allowed the study authors to test different potential scenarios with varying levels of adherence to PrEP's recommended daily regimen and PrEP coverage among MSM.

To test their theory, Xiaoli Guo, a post-doctoral researcher in Mitchum's lab and first author of the study, synthesized the CLE - B nematode peptide and applied it to the vascular cells of Arabidopsis, a model plant system used in plant research.

This study suggests that plants are emerging as model objects to study general questions related to anesthetics, as well as to serve as a suitable alternative test system for human anesthesia.

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.

Our studies have improved our understanding of the basic biology underlying MMA, created a novel animal model for testing interventions and, now, led us to the promise of a new therapy.»

The model, described in a study published this week in Biomicrofluidics, from AIP Publishing, will enable researchers to study potential disease causes and test new drugs to treat IBD, said study author Amy Dawson, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of John Greenman at the University of Hull, U.K..

In the current study, researchers tested two different CRISPR gene drive constructs in the model fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, to investigate the rise of resistance.

«Given the key similarities to human infections, a marmoset model of Zika may be useful for testing of new drug and vaccines,» said Texas Biomedical Research Institute virologist Jean Patterson, Ph.D. «Having an animal model of Zika infection to study may help us identify places where we might be able to block transmission.»

Jeremy Lakey, Professor of Structural Biochemistry at Newcastle University who led the study explains: «Our model of the bacterial outer membrane can be used as a simulator to test how antibiotic molecules can be made to cross this critical barrier.

Ko is quick to note that these new findings do not warrant radical dietary changes in people with Crohn's: More studies, including more refined genetic analyses of fatty acids and Crohn's and testing in animal models, are needed.

Since cavefish aren't a well - studied model for human metabolism, the researchers had to figure out protocols as they went, including developing a fish version of a glucose tolerance test.

He and colleagues tested the concept in an animal model of apnea, publishing their findings in the journal SLEEP in 2002 and launched a subsequent pilot study in humans in 2007.

To test the model, based on mathematical rules to describe the way infants might respond to novel circumstances, the MIT team looked at a study of real - life babies conducted by colleagues at Central European University in Hungary.