Sentences with phrase «techniques used in this study»

New techniques used in this study allowed scientists to efficiently pick out these layers in radar data.

The techniques used in the study also open up ways of testing how quantum properties — such as the ability of photons to be in two places at the same time — affect biology, he adds.

«These samples were collected before I was born, and the techniques used in our study were not yet invented when the samples were collected; curation of the samples for future work allowed us to identify the origins of the amino acids detected in the samples, a question that the original investigators were unable to resolve,» said Elsila.

The ultraviolet technique used in this study also may spot the signature of oceans evaporating on smaller, more Earth - like planets.

Scientists say that the techniques used in this study could also be used to improve smartphone voices, loudspeaker announcements or sat - nav systems.

The technique used in the study — optical stimulation of brain cells, or «optogenetics» — involves the insertion of a gene into parts of a brain to make them sensitive to blue light and then stimulating them with the light.

The aerial survey techniques used in this study were employed consistently in all four bleaching events on the Great Barrier Reef: 1998, 2002, 2016 and 2017.

The techniques used in this study, or similar techniques may therefore be appropriate for use with these species.

The expert review panel recommended one practice guideline based on a 2005 randomized trial that provided data to support a memory retraining protocol.12, 13 The trial enrolled 29 subjects with MS - related learning deficits and randomized them to either the control group (n = 14) or the experimental group (n = 15).13 Both groups participated in 8 «treatment» sessions, which consisted of nontraining memory tasks for the control group and the Story Memory Technique (SMT), which taught the skills of visualization and context to improve learning, for the experimental group.13 In subjects with moderately severe impairment, 88 % in the experimental group showed significant improvement in learning abilities compared with 38 % in the control group (P <.01).13 Subjects with mild impairment showed little improvement.13 On this basis, the technique used in this study was recommended by the review panel as a practice guideline for the rehabilitation of learning and memory in persons with MS. 12

This new research helps us understand the importance of the landscape in shaping the seasonal climate and extreme weather that we experience where we live, and suggests that the modeling technique used in the study could help scientists and land managers predict the impact of future forest clearing or restoration efforts.

The scientists made on - the - spot measurements of 100,000 vehicles as they drove past air - sampling probes (including a for the first time a proton transfer reaction time - of - flight mass spectrometer; it provided the time resolution required for the plume capture technique used in the study) on College Street, one of Toronto's many major roadways.

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In a case study, subjects reported significantly higher feelings of respect and fondness for their colleagues who used this technique.

A 2014 study published in the Journal of Neurophysiology found that mental imagery training helped those with weakened wrist muscles gain back more of their strength compared to those who did not use the technique.

In this edited volume, McClosky has included a vast number of case studies written by teachers of their experiences using drama, simulation techniques, filmmaking, literature related to social values and ethnic issues, and so forth.

Similarly, New Testament literary study has included a strong interest in the comparative analysis of Greco - Roman literary genres and techniques and those used in the Gospels, Acts and early noncanonical Christian literature.

One side effect of the research I've done in writing the book, is that when somebody presents 10K verses to support their claim, I can write a short reply: «Thank you for providing so much scriptural support that conclusively proves my position, and demonstrates that your position has no basis in scripture», and, if challenged, go through each cited verse, and, using one or more specific techniques / methods of Bible study, show how the cited verse either refutes the position they present, or supports the position I present.

Opportunities for graduate study and research in the religions of Asia have expanded rapidly in the United States and Europe since the war, using the techniques of linguistics, history, literary criticism, sociology, anthropology, psychology, the arts, theology, and philosophy.

Studies show that employee engagement can be improved by 5 percent in a year by using these techniques (Grosvenor House JW Marriott Hotel, London).

Although this technique decreases operating room time and speeds recovery (since you are not having to obtain your own tissue), recent studies examining their use in young children have been disappointing.

In the first clip, one of the reasons why this play stood out to me in studying film is that he uses poor technique to receive the balIn the first clip, one of the reasons why this play stood out to me in studying film is that he uses poor technique to receive the balin studying film is that he uses poor technique to receive the ball.

This technique was used in the study mentioned above (Jay et al 1987).

Using DTI imaging technique, researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, found in a 2013 study [16] significant differences in brain white matter of varsity football and hockey players compared with a group of non-contact-sport athletes, with the number of times they were hit correlated with changes in the white matter.

In its most recent study, the lab used rigorous detection techniques to look for such signals in human breast milIn its most recent study, the lab used rigorous detection techniques to look for such signals in human breast milin human breast milk.

This study was designed to determine if hand expression of colostrum (the early milk) in the first few days, combined with pumping mature milk using hands - on - pumping techniques (massage and breast compression while pumping) could prevent low milk supply, which is common in pump dependant mothers of pre-term infants.

Published online in the Journal of Great Lakes Research, the study uses new techniques to investigate lake sturgeon life history.

A few studies have supported the utility of test weights in preterm infants: these include a Swedish study favorably comparing babies cared for in NICUs using test weights vs NICUs that did not (earlier attainment of exclusive breastfeeding and earlier discharge) as well as a small study from the illustrious LCs at my own institution describing the development of a technique for accurately performing test weights.

A review of 52 sleep studies using various methods published in the journal Sleep found almost all the techniques were effective if applied consistently.

This powerful new facility for finding and studying exoplanets uses multiple advanced techniques in combination.

The team was studying the warm gas in this disk using a technique called spectro - astrometry, which allows astronomers to detect small changes in the position of moving gas.

Using such a broad range of approaches «enabled me to get a very good overview of different techniques and different organisms that can be used to study complex problems in biology,» Outeiro says.

For more than a decade, scientists at Haystack Observatory have studied plasma plume phenomena using a ground - based technique called GPS - TEC, in which scientists analyze radio signals transmitted from GPS satellites to more than 1,000 receivers on the ground.

For the study, published in the journal Nature Communications, the researchers used a technique recently borrowed from the computer science field by neuroscientists — multivariate pattern analysis — to examine brain scans that were taken while people looked at a picture of someone who had rejected them.

«There was this initial thought that [circulating tumor cells] are only present at late stage,» says Sollier - Christen, but she notes that in the past year, several studies using more sensitive techniques have found such cells much earlier in tumor development, even before the tumor becomes visible by conventional imaging techniques.

Tabin used elegant techniques for studying development in the chick that involve slicing off the top of an eggshell so researchers can surgically or genetically interfere with the embryo and observe the effects on development.

Yet Friston says the techniques used to analyze brain tissue density in the new study are extremely strict.

Although my background and training was in environmental microbiology, I contacted a lab at the medical school at Washington University that was just starting to use techniques developed by environmental microbiologists to study microbes inhabiting the human intestinal tract.

Professor Jianfeng Feng commented that new technology has made it possible to conduct this trail - blazing study: «human intelligence is a widely and hotly debated topic and only recently have advanced brain imaging techniques, such as those used in our current study, given us the opportunity to gain sufficient insights to resolve this and inform developments in artificial intelligence, as well as help establish the basis for understanding and diagnosis of debilitating human mental disorders such as schizophrenia and depression.»

Schopf, 70, stands by his fossils as «the most thoroughly studied — by the most workers, using the largest array of analytical techniques that have provided the greatest assemblage of relevant data in the history of science.»

In a new study, published today in the journal Advanced Functional Materials, researchers used a combination of 3D imaging and 3D printing techniques to create a custom silicone guide implanted with biochemical cues to help nerve regeneratioIn a new study, published today in the journal Advanced Functional Materials, researchers used a combination of 3D imaging and 3D printing techniques to create a custom silicone guide implanted with biochemical cues to help nerve regeneratioin the journal Advanced Functional Materials, researchers used a combination of 3D imaging and 3D printing techniques to create a custom silicone guide implanted with biochemical cues to help nerve regeneration.

Focusing on the neural pathway from the brain's prefrontal cortex to the amygdala, they combined optogenetics — a technique that uses light to control the activity of neurons in living tissue — with behavioral testing, a methodology that allows researchers to study functional connections between different regions of the brain.

Scientists use cell reprogramming techniques to produce cells in the lab so that they can study diseases.

They studied the bone metabolism at the cellular level using advanced imaging and computational techniques, which allowed them to identify 142 metabolites that were significantly altered by more than 1.5 times in the diabetic mice.

Such highly sensitive in vitro techniques permit the use of picomole quantities of an antigen in partially purified preparations for the isolation of monoclonal antibodies, which can in turn be used in biological studies and in immunochemical procedures for large - scale purification and isolation of that antigen.

Since then, Pereira - Smith's team has moved into using genetic techniques in mice to study whether and how senescence is regulated by MORF4 and related genes.

In a 2013 study, for example, researchers removed bits of residue from stone points up to 130,000 years old and used a destructive technique to identify the substance as bitumen.

Dr Loch says the study showed how using techniques and methods commonly employed in dentistry can answer questions with broader implications in the biology and evolution of animal species.

Using his new technique to study wild animals, Amos has found that inbreeding could be more important in determining an individual's chances of survival than random factors such as environmental change.

«We have now found a potential mechanism, and at this point in our research, we need to test human participants in a blinded, placebo controlled clinical study — the same technique we used to study the behavioral effects of acupuncture in rats,» says Eshkevari, a nurse anesthetist and licensed acupuncturist.

Diagnostic techniques common in human medicine, such as CT and MRI scanning and molecular studies, are now being used to improve insight into the causes.

«People use different techniques to hydrate working dogs,» says Cynthia Otto of the University of Pennsylvania, who was involved in the study.