Sentences with phrase «study tools such»

Of the survey respondents, «67 percent of students said that digital study tools such as adaptive learning programs save them time — up to five or more hours a week — when studying.»

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Start with the studies done by Jane Goodall, and then continue with a HUGE variety of other animal studies that PROVE animals have morals, they use tools, build societies and cultures, have their own languages (such as the prarie dogs... simple little rodents right?

As Dr. Leverenz told MomsTEAM after publication of the first Purdue study, the limitation of screening tools currently being used to assess neurocognitive function on the sports sideline, such as the Standardized Assessment of Concussion (SAC)[21] and the Sports Concussion Assessment Tool 3 (SCAT3)[22], is that they test verbal memory, not the visual memory which he and the Purdue researchers found impaired in the functionally, but not clinically impaired, players who experienced at least short - term neurologic trauma from RHI.

And they should be studied and understood as such — parts, tools, elements of larger settings and sets of practices.

The researcher team agreed that including extreme sea levels into coastal impact studies is imperative in helping vulnerable parts of the world effectively protect themselves by adapting through new or upgraded infrastructure such as dikes, pumping systems, barriers, or other tools like new building codes or flood zoning that prevents new infrastructure from being built in high - risk areas.

The study team suggests that tools such as decision aids and practice guidelines may help foster more effective communication between families and pediatricians.

The authors suggest that cataloguing the tools and actions involved in macaque tool use lays the foundation for future studies, such as understanding how macaque tool use develops, and comparing macaque tool use with that of other stone - tool - users in the primate lineage.

But cognitive studies suggest primates use tools mainly by trial and error, whereas humans understand the principles at work — such as gravity and force — and exploit them to make novel tools.

Molecular oncologist Ricardo Ribeiro at the University of Lisbon has been studying the fat around various organs by looking at its molecular characteristics and measuring its thickness using tools such as CT scanners.

Although the study looked at CRISPR - Cas9 gene editing, the researchers believe their findings extend to other gene - editing tools such as zinc - finger nucleases (ZFN) and TAL effector nucleases.

Other molecules that violate the octet rule have been observed before, but the UCLA study is among the first to observe such a molecule using tools from physics — namely lasers, ion traps and ultra-cold atom traps.

Bringing together observed and simulated measurements on ocean temperatures, atmospheric pressure, water soil and wildfire occurrences, the researchers have a powerful tool in their hands, which they are willing to test in other regions of the world: «Using the same climate model configuration, we will also study the soil water and fire risk predictability in other parts of our world, such as the Mediterranean, Australia or parts of Asia,» concludes Timmermann.

This achievement, reported in a paper published today in Nature Communications, will enable scientists to use traditional surface - science tools — such as x-ray photoelectron and infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy — to perform detailed studies of single gas atoms in confinement.

The second tool, SuperExactTest, establishes the very first theoretical framework for assessing the statistical significance of multi-set intersections and enables users to compare very large sets of data, such as gene sets produced from genome - wide association studies (GWAS) and differential expression analysis.

Geologists like Avouac and his colleagues, who are interested in tectonics — the study of the earth's surface and the way it changes — can use tools such as GPS and seismology to study crustal deformation that is taking place today.

In theory, the disease could be halted by limiting people's access to unaffected areas, but that would be a very unpopular policy and perhaps impossible to implement, he says.The rapid spread of sudden oak death is «such a dynamic system that a lot of our tools in ecology for understanding and predicting patterns are inadequate,» says Rick Ostfeld of the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York.

Fullagar predicts that the technique of examining the edges of tools for evidence of ancient food processing will allow study of other cases of early agriculture which do not leave archaeological clues such as mounds or seeds.

Still, Sheehan said neuroscience already is one of the leaders in data sharing and management, with such resources as the NIH - funded National Database for Autism Research; an NIH - Defense Department sponsored data base on traumatic brain injury; the NIH - funded Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC), which helps researchers to develop, share and collaborate on software tools for doing functional and structural imaging studies of the brain; and the Neuroscience Information Framework, an NIH initiative that makes neuroscience resources - data, materials, and tools - accessible via any computer connected to the InteTools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC), which helps researchers to develop, share and collaborate on software tools for doing functional and structural imaging studies of the brain; and the Neuroscience Information Framework, an NIH initiative that makes neuroscience resources - data, materials, and tools - accessible via any computer connected to the Intetools for doing functional and structural imaging studies of the brain; and the Neuroscience Information Framework, an NIH initiative that makes neuroscience resources - data, materials, and tools - accessible via any computer connected to the Intetools - accessible via any computer connected to the Internet.

In studying the functional behavior of the brain, from control of muscles to the formation of memories, scientists are using such tools such as electron microscopy, recordings of electrical signals from individual brain cells, and imaging of brain structures and processes using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), positron emission tomography (PET), and high - resolution optical imaging.

This empirical analysis of atmospheric pollutants, traffic congestion, consumer choice of fuel and meteorological conditions provides an important tool for studying other large cities, such as Chicago, New York, London and Beijing.

«This is some of the first evidence that electrons and holes could still interact like this across such a long distance,» commented Professor Adachi, «so this structure may also be a useful tool for studying and understanding the physics of excitons to design better OLEDs and organic solar cells in the future.»

The study found that when the online tool used short phrases, such as «Mm - hmm» and «Go on» to promote an informal conversational tone, users felt less susceptible to health risks, according to Bellur.

Lee and Moher suggest that large experimental studies are needed to judge the effectiveness of different web - based peer review templates to enforce reporting standards, and of ways one might train authors, reviewers and editors to use such tools and evaluate research.

«Our findings will provide a significant new tool for tissue engineering, bioprocessing of stem cells and also for better studying early development processes such as axis formation in embryos,» said Bratt - Leal.

The community health workers in the study felt their Hispanic patients had only a limited understanding for how to use glucometers, prompting Dr. Kenya to state, «Glucometers, which add a costly expense to many patients, were not used effectively by the low - income Hispanics we were studying, suggesting that tools such as these are futile if users are not equipped with the knowledge to use them to their full capacity.»

While such longitudinal studies are important, it's important to remember that the field is still young, with no consensus on the best tools to look for early signs of damage, said Michael Hutchison, a neuroscientist who directs a concussion program at the University of Toronto and consults for the National Hockey League Players» Association.

Several aspects of metastability are well understood, but in particular studying the switching dynamics from one state to another remains a challenge, as few tools are available to directly monitor such processes.

Autoradiography is a very suitable tool to study pigments such as bone black, umber, copper - based greens and blues, smalt and vermilion, but not for calcium, iron and lead.

The tool allows researchers to identify quickly the connections between seemingly disparate groups such as theoretical physicists who study intermolecular forces and astrophysicists researching black holes.

The researchers studied the Truven Health Analytics Treatment Cost Calculator, an online price transparency tool, which tells users how much they would pay out of pocket for services such as X-rays, lab tests, outpatient surgeries or physician office visits.

Using time series and correlation analyses, she studies how factors such as the glass quality, the age of the tools and their coatings, and the oxygen partial pressure in the machine affect the quality of the finished lens.

It gives developmental psychologists a tool for studying non-verbal children and adults, such as those with autism, researchers said.

Scientists for years have looked for the biological roots of the problem using tools such as genome - wide association studies and gene - linkage analysis, which crunch genetic and health data from thousands of people in an effort to pinpoint disease - causing genetic variants.

When coupled with neurons generated from induced pluripotent stem cells collected from patients with neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, and ALS, this microscope becomes a powerful tool to study the cells and their responses to disease and treatments.

Previous large - scale genetics studies have implicated 14 of the 110 genes as playing a role in breast cancer risk, such as the oestrogen receptor gene ESR1, showing that Capture Hi - C is an effective tool for picking up risk genes.

The conference will also include a panel of Penn researchers, discussing ongoing studies for future therapies, such as the use of advanced MRI neuroimaging as a potential diagnostic tool.

«Now that powerful gene - editing tools, such as TALENs, are readily available, the next step is to streamline their implementation into stem cell research,» said Dirk Hockemeyer, PhD, assistant professor of molecular and cellular biology at the University of California, Berkeley, who was not involved in this study.

Ontologies and ontology - based bioinformatics tools, such as those introduced above, can be used to integratively represent and study such OneNet theory and OneNet knowledge of different organisms.

Genome - wide association studies are a critical tool in the detection of genes involved in complex diseases such as diabetes and cancer or traits such as height and obesity.

With the availability of this remarkable tool, it's hard to understand why so many researchers continue to use grain - based chow diets in nutrition studies and even, as we shall see, in studies that are not necessarily nutrition - oriented, such as drug and compound efficacy studies, or behavioral studies.

Large - scale and effective studies of biological molecules with a different structural basis such as proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, lipids and numerous metabolites (including e.g. fatty acids, amino acids, purines, pyrimidines or steroids) is currently highly attractive because of the availability of modern instruments and tools for both separation and analysis (2 - D chromatographs, capillary electrophoresis systems, microfluidics, mass spectrometers, powerful NMR spectrometers, DNA / RNA arrays and others).

Such studies integrate several research tools including classic animal dissections, histocytochemistry, immunohistochemistry, electron microscopy, kinematics & motion analysis, electromyography, and other electrophysiological techniques.

And this is just the stone tools: other parts of the archaeological record, such as animal bones preserved in caves, are studied by other project members.

ChIP - Seq is a powerful tool to study genetic regulation, because it enables one to accurately identify regions of DNA bound by specific proteins, such as transcription factors or RNA Polymerase II components.

The SKIP - e bioinformatics system has been developed to assist researchers in selecting antisense oligonucleotides that can be used as therapeutic agents to restore the production of a functional deleted protein such as for DMD or as tools to study gene function through the inactivation of a protein through nonsense mediated decay.

The tool help studying intronic and exonic mutations affecting pre-mRNA splicing signals acceptor / donor splice sites as well as branch points or auxiliary splicing signals such as Exonic Splicing Enhancers (ESE) and Exonic Splicing Silencers (ESS).

If such subpopulations exist and can be identified and isolated, they provide a method to significantly increase the efficiency of reprogramming, enhancing the feasibility of the potential applications based on this technology [1], and a tool for basic research studies to understand the underlying reprogramming mechanisms.

To improve fuel production titer, rate, and yield (TRY), we study the producing host and fuel biosynthesis pathway intensively using various functional genomics tools such as targeted proteomics, metabolomics, and transcriptomics, and engineer the metabolic pathway in the producing host using synthetic biology tools and systems biology.

Genome sequencing has become a powerful tool for studying emerging infectious diseases; however, genome sequencing directly from clinical samples without isolation remains challenging for viruses such as Zika, where metagenomic sequencing methods may generate insufficient numbers of viral reads.

Morgridge computational biologist John Steill, another co-author of the KinderMining study, is using the KinderMiner tool to improve gene marker lists, which have numerous uses such as classifying cells or samples by cell type and identifying samples that may produce tumors.