Sentences with phrase «study the researchers used»

In this new study the researchers used barcoding to examine the plant species found in a sample of herbal plant products.

In this study researchers used a genetically modified mouse with high levels of PGC - 1a1 in skeletal muscle that shows many characteristics of well - trained muscles (even without exercising).

For this study the researchers used images taken from Earth between 2008 and 2014; they used, among others, the astronomical cameras PlanetCam (developed by the Planetary Sciences Group itself) and Astralux, fitted to the telescopes of the Calar Alto Observatory in Almería (Spain); in addition, they used the very high resolution images obtained by t he Cassini spacecraft, which has been orbiting Saturn since 2004.

Study The researchers used data that had been gathered during the 1976 Nurses Health Study.

Not exact matches

Using longitudinal data from the nine - decade - long Terman life - cycle study, which has followed the lives and career outcomes of a group of gifted children since 1922, researchers Timothy A. Judge of Notre Dame and John D. Kammeyer - Mueller of the University of Florida analyzed the characteristics of the most ambitious among them.

According to an independent study done by nonprofit researchers SRI International, students who used Dreambox for four months improved their test scores by about 5 percent.

Here's what Ross's Commerce study says: the researchers, Anne Flatness and Chris Rasmussen, used a fairly new database compiled by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to see who was getting the most out of NAFTA.

One 2014 study by the University of Warwick in England asked subjects to perform skill - based math problems, which researchers used to mimic typical white - collar work.

Available epidemiologic studies in humans have «not shown clear evidence of a relationship between cell phone use and cancer,» according to the National Cancer Institute, although this remains a topic of debate among researchers.

Using data from a large - scale study that tracked participants» diet and health information for more than a decade, researchers found an association between moderate chocolate consumption and a lowered risk for atrial fibrillation.

In a study completed at Yale in 2014 that used 128 men between the ages of 18 and 32, researchers had participants partake in mock negotiations of buying and selling.

In a study at Tufts University, researchers using an electroencephalograph (EEG) detected the actual «Eureka!»

Researchers are keen to use Fitbit data in their studies.

«This is one of the first pieces of evidence that social media use really can impact your sleep,» commented lead author Jessica C. Levenson, though the researchers acknowledged further study is definitely needed.

In a previous study, the same researchers found they help accelerate a toddler's motor development compared to infants who don't use them.

In a pilot study, researchers will compare the skills, safety records, and performance of two groups of new drivers: those using virtual reality and those trained by traditional means.

In a study published in The European Journal of Social Psychology, students who wrote out self - advice using «you» not only completed more problems but said they would be happier to work on more in the future compared with students who used «I.» The researchers speculated this is because second - person self - talk may trigger memories of receiving support and encouragement from parents and teachers in childhood.

Besides randomized controlled clinical trials, there are a number of ways researchers can study how a particular cancer treatment is playing out in the real world: there are retrospective studies, observational studies, and even prospective research done using patient registries.

The attacks, which took place this year and have not been previously reported, jeopardized the communications of activists, journalists and other people in sensitive positions in Iran, where Telegram is used by some 20 million people, said independent cyber researcher Collin Anderson and Amnesty International technologist Claudio Guarnieri, who have been studying Iranian hacking groups for three years.

The researchers used something called Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) to stimulate an area of the brain associated with creativity while they asked study subjects to complete tests of verbal creativity, such as coming up with as many associations between a set of words as possible.

In a series of experiments, researchers at Northwestern University used brain scanners and EEG sensors to study neural activity in a number of participants tasked with solving complex word puzzles.

Researchers used data from the Framingham Heart Study, which we've written about here before.

We use this sort of decision making daily, but when we're anxious, we «often make poor decisions or no decision at all,» the researchers write in the study.

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.

For example, in a 2012 study conducted by two researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara, 145 undergraduates were asked to come up with as many uses for daily objects (clothes hangers, bricks, toothbrushes, etc.) as they could in two minutes — a standard exercise to measure creativity.

The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Sydney and examined three groups of students, who were tasked with completing an «alternate uses» test — a common creativity drill wherein subjects are given an object and asked to come up with as many uses for it as they can.

Many of the researchers who use the data are first - time grantees from small institutions who likely wouldn't have gotten their studies off the ground without TCGA as a resource.

When he co-founded Twine in 2013, Moore was a researcher at MIT studying how technology could be used to help patients improve their health.

In light of this study, an acceptable Internet use policy would allow for periodic Web browsing while limiting the access to personal e-mails,» the researchers said.

The study's authors say they used the same methods researchers developed in a 2009 report titled «State and Local Government Sales Tax Revenue Losses from Electronic Commerce,» compiled by business professors at the University of Tennessee.

In a groundbreaking new study, researchers at the University of Minnesota used a customized, low - cost 3D printer to print electronics on a real hand for the first time.

In future studies, researchers should examine potential mediators to better understand possible mechanisms that account for the observed directionality of the association between e-cigarette use and future cigarette use.

Nevertheless, across a significant number of studies using different methodologies and performed by different researchers, a consistent picture is emerging about the effects of patent litigation: it costs innovators money; many innovators and venture capitalists report that it significantly impacts their businesses; innovators respond by investing less in R&D and venture capitalists respond by investing less in startups.

A study by researchers from the universities of Texas, Harvard and Yale published in June found that flextime requests were most likely to be granted to senior male employees who were using the time to take professional development courses.

Chicago, GenomeWeb — A new study by researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has demonstrated the predictive power of an AR - V7 protein expression test using Epic Sciences» non-EPCAM-based circulating tumor cell detection platform, which could help guide treatment decisions for men with metastatic castration - resistant prostate cancer.

The idea failed to gain traction then, but now a number of prestigious researchers are studying the potential therapeutic uses of LSD, psilocybin and MDMA.

Levin cites one study (originally published inScience) in which researchers were able to identify specific people in anonymized data sets by using «a receipt, an Instagram post, and a Tweet about a new purchase or a Facebook post that included the location of a favorite bar or a restaurant.»

In carrying out the study, researchers made sure to delineate the students who are food insecure — not eating at all or not eating enough because they can't afford to — from students who don't want to eat or want to use their money for other purposes.

In the study, published Friday in the journal Science, researchers from Canada's University of British Columbia used subtle stimuli to encourage analytical thinking.

Texas A&M researchers used the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from the University of Michigan to find that while charitable giving in America understandably fell during the Great Recession, it has actually continued to decline, even as the economy has stabilized.

In a study at the University of the Philippines, researchers used a randomized cross-over design to compare the effects on blood glucose of brown rice and white rice on 10 healthy and nine Type 2 diabetic volunteers.

It's remained in regular use in its native countries, but was largely unknown in North America until researcher Wayne Coates began studying chia as an alternative crop for farmers in northern Argentina about 29 years ago.

However, curcumin has been shown to reduce inflammation, per a study conducted by cancer researchers at the University of Texas in Houston; so much so that athletes use it to aid muscle and broken bone recovery.

A 2009 study by Italian researchers, for instance, concluded that two food chemicals — the widely used preservative propyl gallate and an additive used to prevent shellfish from discolouring - both had estrogren - mimicking properties.

In this study, and in opposition to findings elsewhere, higher levels of social support were associated with greater depressive symptomatology, leading researchers to speculate that for low - income men the perceived costs of reciprocity may have deterred them from utilizing available support; or that peer groups may have influenced their alcohol or drug use, or placed demands on their resources (Anderson et al, 2005).

As co-founder of Simbex, LLC, the Lebanon, New Hampshire company that makes the HITS (Head Impact Telemetry System)- a peer - reviewed, scientifically - validated technology used by researchers in biomechanical studies to measure head impacts on the playing field, and a version of which has been incorporated into Riddell's new InSite Impact Sensing System - Greenwald knows a thing or two about the technology of head impact exposure monitoring.

Because ACOG has created its position on home births based on much of the data from Wax's meta analysis, the researchers warn that physicians and women who are considering home births and using this study as a reference for their decisions are not getting reliable information and may not be making a well informed decision.

In a study, Patterns of child - rearing, researchers found that children were the least likely to internalize their parents» values and ideals when «power assertion» was used.

The researchers did a previous study using the same audio equipment, however they only included preterm infants for this study.

The researchers also found that many of the studies showed that children who had restrictive parents were less likely to get involved in negative behaviors such as cyberbullying, drug use, vandalism, and theft, and were less likely to have poor body image — factors the study authors called «negative consumer socialization outcomes.»