Sentences with phrase «study this unit as»

You can also choose to study this unit as a stand - alone non-award professional development course.

Not exact matches

GOOGLE»S AI HELPS TO PREDICT CARDIOVASCULAR CONDITIONS BY ANALYZING EYE SCANS: Google and Verily — Google - parent Alphabet's life sciences unit — are exploring new ways that artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to identify patients» risk of suffering from a cardiovascular event, such as a heart attack or stroke, according to a newly published study by the two Alphabet subsidiaries.

«Our study focused only on ZIP codes that had more than 2,000 occupied housing units in the year 2000 as well as in 2016.»

In fact he so strongly feels the need to press his point that he has crossed over into the field of New Testament studies to wage his campaign there as well.1 And indeed Childs has performed a valuable and needed service in reminding us that what we have now is not just individual passages, nor is it just the «books» which as larger units give the individual pieces a place in the larger narrative.

We used 1 mg [13C10] vitamin A [in the present study: Mretinol = retinol — H2O = m / z (mass / charge, a unit for mass spectrometry) 268, M [13C10] retinol = m / z 268 + 10 = m / z 278] in an oil capsule as a reference dose given 1 wk before the Golden Rice meal.

As a result, we show the actual number of «units won or lost» over the period we studied.

The study was a prospective cohort study with planned place of birth at the start of care in labour as the exposure (home, freestanding midwifery unit, alongside midwifery unit, or obstetric unit).12 Women were included in the group in which they planned to give birth at the start of care in labour regardless of whether they were transferred during labour or immediately after birth.

The study — conducted by Hio Wa Mak, doctoral student of human development and family studies — examined how parental rejection, as well as the overall well - being of the family unit, were related to changes in adolescents» social anxiety, friendships and feelings of loneliness over time.

Public Speaking & Debate was requested by my social studies students a year ago as an extension of discussions we hold at the end of each year's History classes in a current events unit.

Ironically the Birthplace Study (National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit) found that labour takes nearly twice as long in obstetric units than it does in midwife - led units or at home.

Studies were excluded where the intervention (a) was aimed at prevention rather than treatment; (b) was aimed specifically at children, the whole family as a unit or at teachers; or (c) was non-structured, such as an informal support group or unstructured home visits.

A recent study comparing women's choices of pain relief in midwife - led and consultant - led units in Ireland showed that when women were offered other options such as hydrotherapy and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, fewer women chose epidural analgesia [9].

A previous study showed that in the Campania region, the prevalence of full breastfeeding at 6 months was 7 %.12 Assuming a 20 % loss to follow - up, we calculated that we would require ∼ 240 mother and father pairs to detect a statistically significant increase of 15 % (1 − α = 95 %, 1 − β = 80 %) in the rate of full breastfeeding at 6 months.13 To avoid communication between study groups, which would be likely if people who were admitted to the same hospital unit were exposed to different messages at the same time, we did not randomize the participants as it usually is done, 14 but we allocated the 2 study groups into 2 consecutive blocks of time, after having randomly paired the 2 study groups with the 2 blocks of time.

Clinical project coordinators of the unit regularly monitored sites to ensure accuracy of recruitment and data collection as well as strict compliance to the study protocol.

For example, a 2011 Australian study of almost 25,000 women concluded that babies born to mothers who used marijuana were twice as likely to end up in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) compared to other babies.

He has worked at the Treasury, the Number 10 Policy Unit, the Centre for Policy Studies and served as Paymaster General in the last Conservative Government.

The year 2016 study period and media workshop which is part of the training schedule of the Nigerian Army promises to be more interesting and beneficial as we have some Commanding Officers of units located in the North East and other parts of the country as participants.

I honoured my obligation, and in 1990, upon completion of my studies, I went back to work at the Malawi Ministry of Health, as Officer - in - charge of the Community Health Sciences Unit.

Oxford University's WildCRU (Wildlife Conservation Research Unit) had been following his every move for eight years as part of a study of his pride.

As Saaïd Safieddine, CNRS Director of Research at the Institut Pasteur and co-senior author of the study with Prof. Christine Petit (head of the Genetics & physiology hearing unit at the Institut Pasteur), explains, «we have just shown that it is possible to partially correct a specific form of hereditary hearing loss accompanied by balance problems using local gene therapy performed after the embryogenesis of the ear, which is primarily affected by the mutation responsible for the disorder.

Goss completed a 6 - month tour at the beginning of the war as part of a Marine reserve unit out of Little Rock, then returned to his studies at Harding.

«We wanted to know how these beetles recolonize within burn units as well as how the neighborhood in which a burn unit occurs affects recolonization rates,» said Jessie Mutz, an FSU graduate student in the Department of Biological Science and the study's lead author.

According to Professor Guy Rutty, study co-author, from the East Midlands Pathology Unit at the University of Leicester, «The most likely injuries to have caused the King's death are the two to the inferior aspect of the skull — a large sharp force trauma possibly from a sword or staff weapon, such as a halberd or bill, and a penetrating injury from the tip of an edged weapon.

MORE THAN SKIN DEEP Some chemicals in products ranging from cosmetics to plastics used in neonatal intensive care units can seep into a person's body as readily through the skin as via breathing, new studies show.

«Until now there has been no good answer as to how long children could be expected to live after liver transplantation,» said Josefina Martinelli, Paediatric Liver Unit, AP - HP and lead author of the study.

Produced by the UK Small Area Health Statistics Unit (SAHSU), part of the MRC - PHE Centre for Environment & Health based at Imperial College London, the open - access atlas allows researchers, policy makers and members of the public to study the geographical pattern of 14 diseases and conditions such as lung cancer, breast cancer, heart disease, leukemia and low birth weight.

For this reason, we recommend that when designing an experiment, the initial screening step should consider the biological units (i.e., species, subspecies, populations) that are as close as possible to the target units to be studied.»

The study also found that babies in the treatment group were significantly less likely to require a long - term stay in the hospital's neonatal intensive or intermediate care unit or need respiratory treatments such as surfactant.

The days of a battery - powered exosuit for high - performance runners are still beyond the horizon, as the actuator unit (including motors, electronics, and power supply) in this study was off - board, but the authors say technology is moving toward making an untethered assistive exosuit possible in the near future.

A unit on the Philosophy of Science and the History of Science (taught by the professor or a visiting colleague) could benefit all inferences made of scientific studies as well as expose students to alternative ways of assessing particular problems.

Given our limited resources (our unit has 18 staff), our activities concentrate on the so - called «information relays», such as the media, professional organisations, etc, although we do enjoy some direct contact with the public and in particular the young (whose declining interest to science studies and careers is worrying) through presentations, visits, open days, etc..

For this study high volume neonatal units were defined as those that provide more than 3,480 care days to preterm babies per year.

Miller, who serves as director of clinical research and executive vice-chair of Emergency Medicine at Wake Forest Baptist, said the study built on previous research findings that more complex patients managed in an observation unit with stress CMR testing experienced a reduction in care costs of about $ 2,100 per patient per year.

(Some planners — such as Space Syntax in London and the University of Strathclyde's Urban Design Studies Unit, of which Strano is a member — are already measuring connectivity to optimize urban designs.)

The four key findings of the study, which was carried out by researchers at the Hull York Medical School in collaboration with the Hull IVF Unit, were as follows:

Most studies consider the green roofs as a single unit made of plants and substrates studied as if they had the maximum density of vegetation without considering that, unless it is a pre-vegetated green roof system, vegetation needs time to grow after being installed and the roof might not have vegetation for a certain period of time.

Published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, the study attributed the discrepancies to an «egocentric bias» through which parents rely too heavily on their own feelings in assessing the happiness of the family unit as a whole.

The unit study macromolecules that are central in basic processes of cellular life, as well as for specific human pathologies.

Cell biology is the study of cell structure and function focusing on the cell as the fundamental unit of life.

Polymers (POL): The study and development of polymers; materials that have a molecular structure consisting chiefly or entirely of a large number of similar units bonded together, e.g., many synthetic organic materials used as plastics and resins.

This unit was integral in precisely measuring antineutrino energies, as detailed in a new study.

The Unit's scientific mission covers the design, synthesis, molecular modeling, as well as biophysical, biochemical and cellular studies of small - molecule probes and drug candidates targeting nucleic acids or proteins involved in cancer.

The aim of this study was to assess behavioural responses (in juvenile meagre (Argyrosomus regius) exposed to VFX via water -LRB-[VFX] ~ 20 μg L − 1) and via dietary sources -LRB-[VFX] ~ 160 μg kg − 1 dry weight), as well as to increased temperature (ΔT °C = +5 °C) and high CO2 levels (ΔpCO2 ~ 1000 μatm; equivalent to ΔpH = − 0.4 units).

But we need to be vigilant as cure rates have fallen in areas where artemisinin resistance is established,» said Dr Elizabeth Ashley, lead scientist of the TRAC study and Clinical Researcher at the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), University of Oxford.

The study looked at the effect of dietary supplementation using 2,000 international units of nonprescription vitamin E daily in a large group of elderly Alzheimer's patients and compared their results over an average of around two years to similar patients who received a placebo, a pharmaceutical marketed as a «treatment» for Alzheimer's disease (memantine), or a combination of memantine along with vitamin E.

The finding also suggests that using a humidifier may be a good idea in places where the spread of influenza poses a serious threat, like intensive care units or even a home with a sick child — as long as sensitivity to moisture - loving mold and spores isn't a problem, according to Jeffrey Shaman, PhD, of Oregon State University in Corvallis, a coauthor of the new study.

In contrast, the same researchers studied leg muscles (tibialis anterior) in a similar group of volunteers last year (as I blogged about here)-- in that case, the older runners did preserve the number of motor units.

As for daily antioxidant units, along with the ayurvedic herbs I take, some of which are covered in the study, I estimate mine to be somewhere in the tens of thousands.

This notion is supported by many previous studies showing that certain commonly consumed foodstuffs can contain a high bacterial load before cooking, such as fresh beef mince which has often been shown to contain approximately 105 — 107 colony forming units / g» It appears as though that the food itself contains the endotoxins, and any food exposed to bacteria, such as with fermentation, will have endotoxins.

Many attendees of the Weston A. Price Foundation's recent Wise Traditions 2005 conference were surprised and confused to hear Dr. Noel Solomons, director of the Guatemala - based CeSSIAM International Nutrition Foundation, a heroic program to improve vitamin A nutrition in third world countries, recommend a mere 800 international units (IU) per day of preformed vitamin A from animal foods — scientifically called «retinol» — and warn that, based on recent findings from the Nurses» Health Study, intakes as low as 1500 IU per day are harmful to skeletal health.3