Sentences with phrase «tested by the researchers»

This tale was tested by researchers at Johns Hopkins University in the US in 2006 where 64 pregnant women were followed to see if those who suffered from heartburn had babe's born with lots of hair and guess what?

Ten helmets tested by researchers reduced the likelihood of traumatic brain injury by an average of 20 percent compared with no helmet in a simulation using crash test dummies.

A new way of using MRI scanners to look for evidence of multiple sclerosis in the brain has been successfully tested by researchers at The University of Nottingham and Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.

They also had it tested by researchers and students at their own university, as well as at GENE — Núcleo de Genética Médica, Brazil, and the Children's University Hospital in Dublin, Ireland.

The vaccine, developed and tested by researchers from the National Institutes of Health and other groups, was administered in multiple doses intravenously.

A «brain training» iPad game developed and tested by researchers at the University of Cambridge may improve the memory of patients with schizophrenia, helping them in their daily lives at work and living independently, according to research.

Developed and pilot tested by researchers at Mills College, the fractions resource kit provides support for teachers in ways that is similar to those available to Japanese teachers for conceptualizing and teaching fractions, and teachers use the lesson study process to learn about the subject matter and effective instructional practice.

A brief intervention in this vein tested by the researchers produced promising results.

Three of those devices were tested by researchers at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Vista performed notably slower than XP in testing by researchers at a Florida company, taking over 80 seconds to complete the test, compared to XP's 35 seconds.

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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.

When researchers tested participants» memory, the best results emerged when people saw a novel image followed by a familiar one.

By comparing the results of 65,000 personality tests with Facebook behavior, the researchers were able to identify certain interests and groups that were strongly linked with specific personality traits.

In a new study by Natalie Sest and Evita March of Federation University in Australia, researchers gave 415 internet users questionnaires that tested for various personality traits and for propensity to trolling behavior, looking for the specific traits that would make someone likely to become a troll.

By finding and vetting the researchers and providing safe, super-secret testing tools, Synack could provide an attractive alternative to enterprises struggling to find and patch their security risks — a broad and lucrative potential customer base.

Outlining classic research from the 1970s and 80s done by a team out of Yale on the subject, Konnikova explains that after months of interviews and a barrage of psychological tests, the researchers «found, unsurprisingly, that blocked writers were unhappy.»

Grail didn't invent the tests — they were first developed by researchers at Johns Hopkins and in Hong Kong, and controversial company Pathway Genomics offers a similar liquid biopsy.

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.

As tested by Harvard researchers in 2009, people who woke up later in the day showed a decline in leptin, a hormone responsible for curbing appetites, and an increase in the stress - related hormone cortisol.

In controlled tests, researchers discovered that when waiters gave customers a small gift (such as a mint), tipping was on average 23 % higher for customers who were surprised by the gesture (source).

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.

Yes, the path is rocky, they say, but peer review, competition between researchers, and the comforting fact that there is an objective reality out there whose test every theory must withstand or fail, all conspire to mean that sloppiness, bad luck, and even fraud are exposed and swept away by the advances of the field.

In fact, the researchers report that «if similar success could be achieved for all minority students nationwide, it could close the gap between white and minority test scores by at least a third, possibly by more than half.»

By drawing on these two sources of data, the researchers were able to produce an analysis that is better than that of the two other major quantitative researchers in the field, George Barna and George Gallup; it is the standard against which other research on teens should be tested.

Repeatable in science refers to the ability to test the same hypothesis, using the same methods (typically by independent researchers), to confirm or reject said hypothesis, e.g. the repeated observation by many, many different researchers of fossils in the correct temporal and morphological relationships within the fossil record (no rabbits in the pre-Cambrian, no humans alongside dinosaurs, etc).

University of Minnesota researchers unveil first artificial enzyme created by evolution in a test tube

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By analysing 599 samples of chimp droppings (P. T. troglodytes are a highly endangered and thus protected species that can not be killed or captured for testing), the researchers were able to obtain 34 specimens that reacted to a standard HIV DNA test, 12 of which gave results that were virtually indistinguishable from the reactions created by human HIBy analysing 599 samples of chimp droppings (P. T. troglodytes are a highly endangered and thus protected species that can not be killed or captured for testing), the researchers were able to obtain 34 specimens that reacted to a standard HIV DNA test, 12 of which gave results that were virtually indistinguishable from the reactions created by human HIby human HIV.

In a report published on February 26, 2017 by CBC Marketplace, Canada's «consumer watchdog,» CBC retained university researchers to test the chicken content of grilled chicken sold at certain quick - service food companies.

While the first day was dedicated to updates by HIA national and chapter leadership, the next day entailed a bus field trip first to the University of Kentucky's nearby hemp test plots, where researchers gave poster presentations followed by lunch, and then to visit two companies heavily engaged in growing the hemp industry in KY, Atalo Holdings and GenCanna.

The mark assures that the product contains less than 10 - ppm gluten (5 - ppm gliadin) and similar proteins from rye and barley as measured by using testing methods that are accepted for gluten testing by analytical associations such as the Association of Analytical Communities (AOAC), testing researchers and other such agencies.

The summit will also mark the launch of pilot programs in six communities around the country — each coordinated by a university - based athletic training educator, clinician and researcher — designed to test MomsTEAM's innovative SmartTeam ™ program.

But the only way we will know the answer to that question is to make sure that whatever helmets female lacrosse players wear meet standards that are based on science, and have been developed after a deliberative and collaborative process by an independent organization, like ASTM, which is not funded by helmet manufacturers (unlike NOCSAE), and which does not just invite, but requires input from equipment manufacturers, product testing laboratories, researchers and governing bodies, in this case US Lacrosse.

The sling was first designed in 1981 by Dr. Rayner Garner, a British researcher into child development, followed with years of testing, adapting, and refining by Dr. Garner and California Diversified Manufacturing.

This gel has been safety - tested and approved by hundreds of researchers and medical professionals.

Researchers are actively at work creating less invasive tests to screen for chromosome disorders in developing babies, such as by isolating the baby's genetic material from samples of the mother's blood.

In a March 11, 2015 «Well» blog New York Times health reporter, Gretchen Reynolds, reported on a new study by NYU researchers, including Laura Balcer, a member of MomsTEAM Institute's Board of Advisors, about the use of a simple, rapid, and inexpensive visual test called King - Devick as a sideline screen to help identify athletes as young as five wit

Although scientists have long suspected that RHI caused brain damage, especially in boxers, a 2010 study of high school football players by researchers at Purdue University [1,13] was the first to identify a completely unexpected and previously unknown category of players who, though they displayed no clinically - observable signs of concussion, were found to have measurable impairment of neurocognitive function (primarily visual working memory) on computerized neurocognitive tests, as well as altered activation in neurophysiologic function on sophisticated brain imaging tests (fMRI).

To test this hypothesis, WHO is coordinating a randomised controlled trial, implemented in seven countries in Asia and Africa, by researchers from 11 collaborating institutions.

Researchers in Cincinnati tested this plan in one city school's lunchroom by posting green smiley faces alongside the most nutritious foods: fruits, vegetables, fat - free milk (white, not chocolate), and entrees featuring whole grains.

«Unraveling how a brain works, block by high - tech block: Researchers modernizing cognitive skills testing to detect deficits, problem - solving strategies and more.»

Researchers at the NYU Langone Concussion Center reviewed studies that involved athletes who sustained a concussion during sporting activities and found the vision test, known as the King - Devick test, was 86 percent sensitive in detecting whether a concussion had occurred, as confirmed by clinical diagnosis.

Thus it is important to understand how these individual and contextual barriers to breastfeeding can be addressed.1 Furthermore, from a research perspective, it is important that these pre-existing differences between breast and formula feeding mothers and infant be taken into account by researchers when testing associations between breast milk feeding exposure and child psychosocial outcomes.

HAWC researchers tested how positrons travel through space by measuring gamma rays, or high - energy light, from two nearby pulsars — Geminga and Monogem — around 900 light - years away.

The researchers are excited by the results and their next step is to test the structures in larger animals.

Now, a University of Huddersfield researcher has made a breakthrough by designing a new system and constructing a prototype that is ready for real - world testing.

On reanalysing data from the group's past studies, such as on pain sensitivity to hot water, the researchers found that mice tested by men showed lower baseline pain sensitivity than mice tested by women.The work indirectly demonstrates potential effects on nearly any kind of medical research, says Joseph Garner, who studies mouse behavior and well - being at Stanford University in California.

In medicine today, physician - scientists and basic scientists supplement support for their research by applying their expertise part time to develop and test commercial products.1 In my own field, vision science, university - based researchers obtain additional funding through clinical and electrophysiologic studies, pathology, imaging, biochemistry, and animal model development performed for pharmaceutical and instrument companies.

The researchers then tested a drug FDA - approved for treatment of multiple sclerosis, which acts by preventing certain immune cells from leaving lymph nodes for sites of inflammation.

This self - assessment test, created in 1998 by psychiatrist Kimberly Young of Saint Bonaventure University in New York State, is an unofficial standard among Internet addiction researchers, and it consists of eight yes - or - no questions designed to separate online addicts from those who can manage their Internet use.