Sentences with phrase «study the processes involved»

«The main aim of this project is to study the processes involved in the development of chronic drug seeking behavior in alcohol dependence and pathological gambling.

The Kops group studies the processes involved in chromosome segregation during cell division, with a focus on molecular mechanisms, evolution and chromosomal instability.

In general, physicists prefer to study processes involving larger numbers of particles, since the added complexity assists in searches for physical effects that aren't described by today's best theories.

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Usually the officers of the churches involved in the process outlined above included few persons who had benefited by advanced studies or were intellectuals.

Applying for college is a difficult, emotional process that often involves a lot very grandiose attempts to prove yourself as being separated from the pack, several sleepless night of studying...

Such a study should prove valuable for anyone involved in the communication of Christian beliefs, especially teachers of religion in churches and schools but also those who participate In the educational process at every level.

The published study states that the processes and protocol were approved in China and the United States and conducted with the consent of those involved.

Microbiological studies of the fermentation process revealed that the predominant microorganisms involved are lactic acid bacteria and moulds.

Part of the process of becoming a certified birth doula involves reading a lot of books (see picture below) and doing a lot of studying and extensive research.

The reviewers found few studies evaluating the effectiveness in the ACL rehabilitation process of so - called «open chain» exercises (those which tend to isolate a single muscle group and a single joint, such as leg curls and leg extensions, with or without added weight) versus «closed chain» exercises (those which work multiple joints and multiple muscle groups at once, such as, for example, a squat involves the knee, hip and ankle joints, and multiple muscles groups, e.g. quads, hamstrings, hip flexors, calves and glutes, with body weight alone or with added weight).

Interviewers, who were not involved in the intervention process and who were blinded to the group to which the children belonged, conducted home visits at 6 and 12 months in order to collect data on the study variables.

A home study is more than just someone looking around your house; it also involves an interview process to determine that you are fit to adopt.

The latter study shows that the process of forming and changing opinions is intimately connected to the brain's neural hardware, where different parts of the brain are involved differently in shaping opinions, and the more beliefs are tied to community values, the more difficult it is to change them.

He says the process involves potentially dangerous materials, and there's just not enough information or study of it.

The state had a de facto ban in place as it studied the process, which involves extracting oil and gas from deep underground by pumping water, sand and chemicals at high pressures deep underground.

Results from a series of studies involving thousands of participants from birth to age 90 suggest that the brain's ability to process sound is influenced by everything from playing music and learning a new language to aging, language disorders and hearing loss.

Scientists have shifted from studying single molecules to investigating large complexes of interacting biological macromolecules involved in processes such as metabolic pathways, gene expression, and development of disease.

The proteins we identified seem to be involved in fundamental developmental processes and we hope that functional studies will show that some of them are ideal candidate targets for the design of new and selective inhibitors.»

«The superior temporal sulcus or the amygdala are implicated in humans and macaques, suggesting that the brain networks involved in processing social information in humans has evolved from a network that was already performing computations related to social cognition in rhesus macaques,» says Jerome Sallet, one of the University of Oxford researchers who performed the study.

Purdue University physicists are part of an international group using spinach to study the proteins involved in photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert the sun's energy into carbohydrates used to power cellular processes.

Their studies on mice revealed that the treatment did indeed reduce the swelling of the aorta and reduced levels of an enzyme that can break down the vascular wall and a protein involved in inflammatory processes.

Domesticating dogs from gray wolves more than 15,000 years ago involved artificial selection and inbreeding, but the effects of these processes on dog genomes have been little - studied.

Now, researchers believe «the whole atherosclerosis process begins as an inflammatory event,» explains Mark Creager, director of the heart and vascular center at Dartmouth - Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, who wasn't involved in the study.

«It is a very good paper which provides valuable new insights about the physical processes controlling the change in reflectivity of the Greenland ice sheet and specifically its darkening over time,» said Eric Rignot, a senior research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who studies ice sheets but was not involved with the new study.

A new study documents how heavy metal poisoning killed Nigerian children whose families were involved in processing gold ore

According to a study published on the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution, most genes involved in complex processes are present in sponges.

This new report, which was written by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), calls for military and intelligence personnel to have a prominent role in crafting climate policy, since that process involves a complex calculus of weighing uncertainties.

«Our work advances the study of perception by showing that sadness specifically impairs basic visual processes that are involved in perceiving color.»

A number of smallish studies have seen differences in the brains of habitual weed smokers, including altered connectivity between the hemispheres, inefficient cognitive processing in adolescent users, and a smaller amygdala and hippocampus — structures involved in emotional regulation and memory, respectively.

Further studies of processes in which GTPBP3 is involved will help towards the understanding of human diseases that are linked to mitochondrial DNA expression and to develop new therapies.

To see whether cancer stem cell renewal involves a chain of events similar to that used by embryonic stem cells, and whether the process was affected by oxygen levels, Semenza and graduate student Chuanzhao Zhang focused their studies on two human breast cancer cell lines that responded to low oxygen by ramping up production of the protein ALKBH5, which removes methyl groups from mRNAs.

That data, combined with new data mining and processing techniques, has led to an explosion in studies involving humans.

Fishel and Kolodner had been studying the bacteria and yeast genes involved in the repair process that operates when base pairs slip out of alignment during replication, producing mismatches of bases.

Studies of embryonic stem cells revealed that NANOG protein levels can be lowered by a chemical process known as methylation, which involves putting a methyl group chemical tag on a protein's messenger RNA (mRNA) precursor.

The method has allowed researchers to study key players involved in cell division — which include proteins that form much of the structure of chromosomes, and fragments of DNA that help to orchestrate the process.

A study conducted by researchers from the University of Zurich, Zurich University Hospital and the University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich now reveals that the successful treatment of an anxiety disorder alters key brain structures that are involved in processing and regulating emotions.

Studying breast and brain cancer cells in a hypoxia incubator, Uniacke and his team discovered that cadherin - 22 is involved in this process to enable the spread of cancer cells.

This approach parallels our study of «normal» illusions — by understanding misperceptions, whether for intact or damaged systems, we gain insight into brain processes involved in perception.

Axford is in the process of preparing to leave for a field study in Greenland next week and recently became responsible for field studies involving students.

«It really reinforces the idea that evolution of the code itself was a progressive process,» said Paul Schimmel, a professor of molecular and cell biology at the Scripps Research Institute, who was not involved in the study.

By studying the jets from pre-planetary and planetary nebulae, Blackman and Lucchini were able to connect the energy and momentum involved in the accretion process with that in the jets; the process of accretion is what in effect provides the fuel for these jets.

«A number of studies have assessed the effects of binge drinking in young adults during different tasks involving cognitive processes such as attention or working memory,» says López - Caneda.

The results build on previous studies that show dogs can process nonverbal cues like the tone of someone's voice, says Victoria Ratcliffe, an animal behavior researcher at the University of Sussex, who was not involved in thestudy.

The protein studied in the mold is part of a larger family of proteins also found in humans and involved in many essential biological processes including gene regulation and fatty acid metabolism.

«The pattern of activity in a brain region involved in spatial learning in the virtual world is completely different than when it processes activity in the real world,» said Mayank Mehta, a UCLA professor of physics, neurology and neurobiology in the UCLA College and the study's senior author.

Fernald's work suggests that epigenetic processes may cause, rather than simply reflect, changes in dominance status in hierarchically organized species, said Tom Boyce, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, who was not involved in the study.

Wolynes considers the new study a beachhead to launch others to determine the entire process of how memories form, as well as the implications for diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's that involve protein aggregation.

Her research involves the study of accretion flows and emission processes around neutron stars and black holes.

«This process may be making a lot of the stuff of life, without any help from things that are alive,» says John Rummel, senior scientist for astrobiology for NASA's Planetary Science Division, who was not involved in the study.

«There may be so much internal communication that the brain becomes preoccupied with itself, less able to process information coming in from the outside world,» he says, noting that studies have found that people with depression have heightened connectivity among brain networks involved in paying attention, monitoring internal and external cues, remembering the past, and controlling emotions.