Sentences with phrase «total number of researchers»

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Participants» depression levels, the researchers found, increased alongside the total amount of time spent using social media and the number of weekly visits to social media platforms.

And yet the flight to physics rather gives the game away, since measured any way you like — volume of papers, number of working researchers, total amount of funding — deductive, theory - building physics in the mold of Newton and Lagrange, Maxwell and Einstein, is a tiny fraction of modern science as a whole.

A number of top concussion researchers also believe that real - time monitoring of impacts could help reduce the total amount of brain trauma from repeated subconcussive blows by identifying athletes sustaining a large number of such hits due to improper blocking or tackling technique.

While researchers continue to look for the concussion «holy grail» in the form of specific impact thresholds above which concussions are highly likely and / or the number of impacts or the magnitude of impacts per week or per season that substantially increase the risk of long term brain injury, impact sensor technology is available right now to do what we can to reduce total brain trauma by using impact data to identify kids who need more coaching so they can learn how to tackle and block without using their helmets.

For this study, the researchers focused on the total number of minutes the new fathers spent in positive engagement activities with their infants on the non-workday.

Across all 19 polar bear populations, the researchers found that the total number of ice - covered days declined at the rate of seven to 19 days per decade between 1979 and 2014.

The researchers calculated the rates by dividing the reported number of concussions by the total number of athlete exposures for each sport.

The researchers calculated the annual number of new HIV infections using data from nearly 18,000 of the almost 34,000 total participants.

This association held even after the researchers accounted for other potential factors, including total population, number of law enforcement employees, median age, gender distribution, race distribution, poverty rate, unemployment rate, unobserved heterogeneity among cities (e.g., city area, legal system), and unobserved time - varying effects (e.g., macroeconomic conditions).

The researchers conclude in today's Science that stability — as measured by total biomass — depends more on the ability of species in an ecosystem to withstand environmental stress, than on the sheer number of species.

The researchers found that total fishing efforts in the area expanded by more than 240 per cent between 1960 and 2010 because of an increase in damaging fishing practices and number of fishers.

Researchers examined 28,516 postmenopausal women without cardiovascular disease from the Women's Health Initiative to test associations between total number of live births, age at first pregnancy lasting at least six months, and total reproductive duration (time from first menstruation to menopause) with incident heart failure.

The researchers then collaborated with many groups in the U.S. and Europe — including the European Huntington Disease Network — to form the Genetic Modifiers of HD (GeM - HD) consortium, which ran a third GWA analysis of another 2,131 patients, bringing the total number of participants to 4,082.

Using these data, researchers identified four new markers of primary sclerosing cholangitis risk on the human genome, bringing the total number of known predisposing locations to 20.

The researchers were surprised to find that the diversity of invasive species — the total number of non-native species — and the total abundance (or land cover) of invasive plants stayed the same in areas where deer grazed and where they were excluded.

«Rather than focusing on total numbers of published reports, reviews of academic performance should explicitly take into account the proportion of a researcher's initiated studies (e.g., those receiving ethics approval or funding) that have been reported, for which protocols have been shared, and that have had their dataset reused by other researchers.»

However, the total number of tornadoes in those outbreaks jumped dramatically: In 1965, the worst outbreak included about 40 tornadoes, but in 2015 that number had statistically grown to include nearly 80 ground - scouring twisters, the researchers report online today in Science.

In total, the researchers operated on 230 tadpoles and compared their performance in a light reaction test with similar numbers of intact tadpoles and blinded tadpoles without transplants.

The researchers found that, after adjusting for potentially confounding factors, time spent with oxygen saturation < 90 %, sleep time, number of awakenings, periodic leg movements, heart rate, and daytime sleepiness were all associated with the composite outcome, with the total sleep time spent with oxygen saturation below 90 % being the strongest association (9 minutes vs. 0 minutes: hazard ratio = 1.5, 95 % confidence interval, 1.25 - 1.79).

A warming world has spurred these changes, researchers conclude, because the total number of flowers has declined in this region — and the shorter tongue enables the bees to suck nectar from more kinds of flowers.

The researchers point out, however, that the total number of leukaemia cases is still very low.

For this study, the researchers focused on the total number of minutes the new fathers spent in positive engagement activities with their infants on the non-workday.

So researchers turned to two different estimation methods — one whereby total mortalities were estimated from the actual number of dead birds recovered, and another in which information on the geographic extent of the oil slick and seabird densities were used to estimate potential mortalities.

Higher pollution levels were linked to a higher total number of strokes, and researchers said it reaffirmed the growing evidence that climate change and overall air quality contributes to cardiovascular disease, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2016.

Researchers can look at the total number and the types of guns traced in a state.

The researchers found that this not only increases the absolute insect total, but also the number of species.

Researchers used the data to calculate the number of years lost due to ill health, disability, or early death — a proxy for estimating total disease burden — and found that 320,000 disability - adjusted life years are lost annually in West Africa as a result of snake bites.

Using a novel method — design - based stereology — which enabled researchers to estimate the volume of the liver and the total numbers and sizes of its cells in 3D, it was found that the liver of mice on a low protein diet had decreased by 65 %.

Using the latest data from the American Community Survey, NCCP researchers found that while the total number of children in the U.S. has remained about the same since 2008, more children today are likely to live in families barely able to afford their most basic needs.

Under one approach, the researchers assumed that society aims to increase the total number of people who are «happy / well - off.»

UNC - Chapel Hill researcher Jessica Y. Islam, in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reported findings Wednesday at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting that the total number of HIV - positive cancer patients in the United States is projected to decrease through 2030.

UNC researcher Jessica Y. Islam, in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reported findings today at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting that the total number of HIV - positive cancer patients in the United States is projected to decrease through 2030.

Stem cell researchers from UCLA used a high resolution technique to examine the genome, or total DNA content, of a pair of human embryonic stem cell lines and found that while both lines could form neurons, the lines had differences in the numbers of certain genes that could control such things as individual traits and disease susceptibility.

DENVER (March 21, 2014)- To commemorate World Down Syndrome Day, the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome announced $ 1.26 million in Crnic Institute Grand Challenge Grants to 13 researchers, raising the number of labs at the University of Colorado working on Down syndrome research to 24, and the total labs supported by Crnic to 29.

The link held even after the researchers adjusted for a girl's height, weight and the total number of calories she consumed each day.

Researchers recently projected that by 2040, the total number of U.S. adults with arthritis will increase by 49 % to a whopping 78.4 million people — many of whom will be limited in their activities as a result of joint pain.

The researchers found that the number of moles on a person's right arm was most predictive of their total number of moles on their body.

When researchers evaluate the total number of calories you burn, they refer to the number as your total energy expenditure or TEE or total daily energy expenditure (TDEE).

The researchers found that «1) ingestion of a large number of calories at one time (binge eating) impacts metabolic parameters even when total calories and macronutrients are appropriate for weight; 2) the timing of energy intake is an independent determinant of the diurnal rhythm of leptin secretion, indicating a relatively acute affect of energy balance on leptin dynamics; 3) the mechanism of exaggerated insulin secretion after a binge meal remains to be determined, but may be related to the altered diurnal pattern of leptin secretion; and 4) as most binge eating episodes in the population are associated with the ingestion of excess calories, it is hypothesized that binge eating behavior is associated with even greater metabolic dysfunction than that described herein.»

In addition to measuring the amount of time it took each partner to fall asleep, the researchers also looked at their total sleep time and the number of times they woke up during the night.

Note to all Researchers: Please include your name on all records, along with date and total number of items refined.

Charter school researcher Alison Consoletti (2011) reports that 1,036 charter schools (15 percent of the total number opened since the first school in 1992) have been closed for cause, including 42 percent for financial deficiencies often related to low student enrollment, 24 percent for mismanagement such as administrators» misuse of funds, and 19 percent for failure to meet student academic performance standards.

Essentially, these researchers measured how far 27 cats traveled across the island — to get a sense of their range — and also estimated the total number of cats living on Catalina.

The Texas researchers noted, «It can not be stated definitively that the total number of cats on campus has decreased because the study was not designed to determine this.»

Requests from researchers to access the museum's holdings and documentation answered within eight days, divided by the total number of requests.

I would interested to know the trends in (1) the total amount of grant money over the years for climate research, (2) the number of climate researchers and (3) the ratio of funding from government / academic to private sources.

Figure 3: Distribution of the number of researchers convinced by the evidence of anthropogenic climate change (green) and unconvinced by the evidence (red) with a given number of total climate publications (Anderegg 2010).

In any case, if they want to say there are more top researchers in total in the CE group, they have to argue that they have got right the relative numbers of the two groups.

RCA researchers expect that total sales volume for the second quarter of 2012 will be lower than in the first quarter because of a number of large portfolio sales that took place at the beginning of the year, including Westfield's sale of seven U.S. malls to Starwood Capital Group and Blackstone / DDR's purchase of 46 shopping centers from EPN Group.