Sentences with phrase «team of researchers set»

A team of researchers set out to determine if the social media echo chamber on Twitter was keeping Democrats and Republicans...

Therefore, a team of researchers set out to examine how meal timing affects TEF.

But this means that thousands of young people are not protected and can spread the disease to others, so a team of researchers set out to assess the safety of giving LAIV to those with egg allergy.

A team of researchers set up 16 underwater microphones to eavesdrop on narwhal click vocalizations at 11 ice pack sites in Greenland's Baffin Bay in 2013.

A team of researchers set out to determine if the social media echo chamber on Twitter was keeping Democrats and Republicans...

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The researchers chosen to participate will have access to privacy - protected sets of Facebook data, but only after being vetted by a review board, external privacy experts, and Facebook's privacy and research review teams.

According to Entrepreneur, after evaluating approximately 10,000 U.S. based firms, the team of editors and researchers behind the E360 Performance Index collected more than 250 pieces of data from the finalists, focusing on growth drivers and challenges, goal setting, resource allocations, and reward systems.

Which raises another set of disquieting questions: Why was the research team (led by a Methodist) in South Korea able to cross the scientific barrier while researchers in the U.S. were not?

The study team that seeks to identify a congregation by its character must, like the researcher looking for setting or world view, assume the role of observing participant, a posture that takes nothing for granted.

On a cognitive level, growing up in a chaotic and unstable environment — and experiencing the chronic elevated stress that such an environment produces — disrupts the development of a set of skills, controlled by the prefrontal cortex, known as executive functions: higher - order mental abilities that some researchers compare to a team of air - traffic controllers overseeing the working of the brain.

So, in 2013, he teamed up with Allison Mattheis, an education researcher whom he met when both were at the University of Minnesota, to set it into motion.

However, the MIT team adapted it to randomly turn on or off distinct gene sets across large populations of cells, allowing the researchers to identify genes that protect cells from a protein associated with Parkinson's disease.

A researcher from the University of Southampton will join an international team of scientists, setting sail from Southampton today (26 October 2015) for the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, to drill rocks that were once part of the Earth's mantle.

So a team of US researchers, led by Dr Stavros Memtsoudis at Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, and Dr Jashvant Poeran at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, both in New York, set out to determine the effectiveness and safety of tranexamic acid in a large sample of US patients undergoing total hip or knee replacement surgery.

It is possible to be a successful researcher in a cocoon of individualism, but collaborations require good management and team players, and these can be absent in academic settings.

The team of researchers began investigating responses to a set of Centers for Disease Control surveys about health - related risk behaviors, including sleep patterns.

To help inform these discussions, a team of researchers led by Kay Wang at the University of Oxford set out to find whether pertussis is still an important cause of persistent cough among school age children even after the introduction of the preschool booster.

So a team of researchers led by mechanical engineer Scott White of the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, set out to see if they could give plastic composites — materials composed of two or more components that are typically used for the most demanding applications — a bit more longevity.

The team created highly detailed data sets and visualizations relying on expertise from researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, after they tracked three highly iconic but threatened species: California condors, giant pandas, and dugongs, a large, marine animal somewhat similar to the manatee.

The researchers, as part of a larger team, are currently collecting data in an actual dining setting, observing diners» consumption of vegetables when spices or herbs have been added.

Igoshin said that when the researchers set out to find how sporulation decisions were timed to the cell cycle, several studies including prior work by team members, provided a significant clue: Under starvation conditions, the activity of the master regulator gene had been shown to spike once per cell cycle.

To understand how users interact with smart energy systems, a team of researchers from Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at Southampton and the University of Zurich produced three different smart thermostats that automated heating based on users» heating preferences and real - time price variations: a manual one through which participants explicitly specify how the heating should respond to price changes, and two learning - based ones that employed an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to automate the temperature settings based on learned households» preferences.

The team of researchers initially set out to uncover the origins of alluvium pebbles found in this area of the Sea of Galilee, which they believe were deposited by the ancient Yavniel Creek, a precursor to the Jordan River south of the Sea of Galilee.

A team of VIB and Ghent University researchers set out to shed more light on this vital topic through a research initiative led by Professor Dirk Inzé.

The award includes funds for the recipient's own salary and for the costs of setting up and operating an independent team of researchers in a field of the team's own choice.

In order to see if presenting the nutrition information graphically would change diners» purchasing behavior, Nakamura, along with doctoral student, Nathan Pratt, and a team of other researchers set up two experiments using a visual, 2 - dimensional plot showing the values of fiber and protein per calorie for each menu item.

An international team including researchers from the Laboratoire de Planétologie Géodynamique de Nantes (CNRS / Université de Nantes / Université d'Angers), Charles University in Prague, and the Royal Observatory of Belgium [1] recently proposed a new model that reconciles different data sets and shows that the ice shell at Enceladus's south pole may be only a few kilometers thick.

The endocrinologists then enlisted the help of Rush researchers who specialize in the issues of the aging brain, and the expanded team set to work with data from three long - term group studies done at Rush from 1993 to 2012 — the Chicago Health and Aging Project (CHAP), the Religious Orders Study (ROS), and the Rush Memory and Aging Project (MAP).

A French research team based at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense are looking to develop booster sessions for the FACETS programme, which will be particularly useful given the unpredictable and progressive nature of MS.. Other researchers in Norway and Germany are also undertaking work to adapt the FACETS programme for different clinical settings and healthcare systems.

In this study, a team of researchers from the National Institute on Drug Abuse led by Marilyn A. Huestis, PhD, set out to fill this critical gap in roadside marijuana testing knowledge.

Now a team of British and American researchers has used genetic engineering to equip these biological production lines with the sets of tools they need to produce a range of tailor - made compounds.

In January, cognitive scientist Aude Oliva's team set up a refined reworking of a 1970s experiment: Over four hours researchers showed 14 people nearly 3,000 images (at three seconds per image) and then immediately asked the subjects to point out what they had seen.

Researchers led by Daniel MacArthur, a geneticist at the Broad Institute of the Massachussetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, achieved this feat by reaching out to teams around the world who had collected their own sets of exomes.

Kristen Copeland, MD, a researcher in the Division of General and Community Pediatrics and senior author of the study, and her team were interested in what children consume outside of child - care settings.

Researcher Alison Starr, a member of Jeffrey Moore's team, sets up a seismometer on Surprise Arch to discover its vibrational signature.

One of the largest sets of geophysical data in the NGDS was collected and digitized by Southern Methodist University geophysicist David Blackwell and a team of researchers in 2011.

Thus, this international team of researchers has set itself the objective of resolving the problem of how to estimate the trajectory of a submerged source that emits acoustic signals without using any anchor nodes or a receiving array.

Australia's AIDS epidemic is over, and the country could virtually eliminate HIV infections by 2020, according to an announcement released today by a team of researchers and community experts ahead of the 21st International AIDS Conference, set to begin next Sunday in Durban, South Africa.

So a team of US researchers set out to determine the mortality attributable to smoking and years of potential life lost from smoking among people in prison — and whether bans on smoking in prison are associated with reductions in smoking related deaths.

A team of researchers in Italy from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and the University of Naples Federico II, both in Naples, set out to develop a simple, ultrasensitive fluorescence detection system of in - flow microRNAs that uses spectrally encoded microgels.

So a team of international researchers set out to assess the risk of cancer in patients with childhood onset inflammatory bowel disease in childhood and adulthood.

The team mined data from a platform of more than 1.8 billion users worldwide, drawing on an innovative statistical model that researchers set up to adjust for the data's typical shortcoming: Facebook users are not representative of the entire underlying population.

Although the study was designed to shed light on group performance in the context of army combat teams, the researchers believe these findings are relevant across various settings, including restaurants and retail stores, which employ a relatively high proportion of adolescents.

Because the clarity of emotional memories varies from person to person, a team of European and African researchers set out to determine whether a common deletion in a specific norepinephrine receptor gene called ADRA2B might be responsible.

In another study, using four data sets with sample sizes in the thousands, a team of researchers led by the University of Minnesota psychologist Paul Sackett investigated the relationship between cognitive ability and both academic and work performance.

The company teamed up with researchers at several universities to build robot mannequins that can adjust their proportions to match just about any set of human measurements.

An international team of researchers led by Dr. Brent Richards at McGill University set out to examine the role of rare genetic variants in bone mineral density and fracture risk.

A team of researchers based partly in South Africa has identified a key set of immune system molecules that helps determine how effectively a person resists infection with human immunodeficiency...

Dr. White and his team of researchers have set up a miniature version of the warp drive in their labs, attempting to create small warps in space and time.

Many companies set teams of their researchers to work creating one.