Sentences with phrase «understand mechanisms behind»

These findings are potentially important when trying to understand the mechanisms behind the atypical social behaviour seen in psychopathy, i.e. the high levels of antisocial behaviour and low levels of affiliative, prosocial behaviour.

If we are to understand the mechanisms behind global climatic temperature variability then it is absolutely essential to look at clouds as being the primary direct controller of variability and therefore we must understand how and why clouds form and what controls them.

We also know that there have been periods in the past during which CO2 levels and temperatures have been comparable to what they are today, yet do not understand the mechanisms behind those warm periods with coincident high CO2.

Delve into the north of England's past as an industrial powerhouse and understand the mechanisms behind its emergence during the Industrial Revolution.

Rather, the focus appears to have shifted to trying to understand the mechanisms behind the oxidative stress and inflammation that takes out dopaminergic neurons (i.e., stuff like this: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/31/2/453.short), than attempting to buttress antioxidant defenses to fight it.»

«We don't really understand the mechanisms behind it, but we know it works.»

Although longitudinal health surveys and large databases are excellent ways to determine the relative health risks associated with different behaviors, it doesn't mean that scientists understand the mechanisms behind those risks.

For their research, the scientists developed a new mouse model that they say is uniquely capable of helping them to understand the mechanisms behind Zika transmission to the fetus.

The study also may have broader implications for how clinicians approach the development of such treatments and understand mechanisms behind resistance to treatment in other cancers.

Furthermore, unraveling the causes of sea ice retreat should help us understand the mechanisms behind climate change on a global level, which is interrelated to the ice reduction in the Arctic ocean.»

To understand the mechanisms behind the production of carbon dioxide in running waters is essential.

Objective To better understand the mechanisms behind breastfeeding and childhood obesity, we assessed the association of weight gain with the mode of milk delivery aside from the type of milk given to infants.

All of it can be traced to very definable, and very complex, root causes (or we simply don't understand the mechanisms behind the root cause yet).

We have a technology that works and now understand the mechanism behind it, how it accelerates wound healing.

THE saddest story I ever heard about astronomy was this one: a teacher decided not to tell his class about the total lunar eclipse occurring that night because he did not understand the mechanism behind the phenomenon and did not want to admit his lack of knowledge.

The researchers said that understanding the mechanism behind the observed secretor / non-secretor differences may prove critical to compensating for it in situations where the infants are vulnerable, such as by providing carefully chosen pre - or probiotics.

«Understanding the mechanism behind this difference may give us new insights into cancer,» he says.

«But now, armed with new and better data, more sophisticated numerical simulations, and highly integrated investigations in the lab and the field, Earth's oxygenation history seems much longer and more dynamic than envisioned before, and we are getting closer to understanding the mechanisms behind such change.»

Eric Kandel of Columbia University in New York and colleagues were interested in understanding the mechanisms behind normal age - related memory loss.

For years, attempts have been made to understand the mechanism behind the proliferation of cancer cells: they need metabolites to grow and proliferate as much as a vehicle needs gasoline or electricity to move.

To understand the mechanism behind this, the researchers measured how darkness affects levels of a protein, called NF - L, that helps stabilize the shape and structure of neurons in the brain.

The mutation dramatically increases tomato yields in bush tomatoes, and Lippman and his team, led by postdoctoral researcher Ke Jiang, set out to understand the mechanism behind this remarkable result.

By understanding the mechanisms behind maternal induced lacto - programming, we can neutralize maternal milk or supplement infants with milk formula to consequently prevent the progression of disease trajectories in the offspring that are related to early life adversities.

As Doris Lessing has demonstrated, understanding the mechanism behind cyberspace community building isn't the point.

Choosing the right doggie chow for a pooch with food allergies can be challenging if you don't understand the mechanism behind the development of such conditions.

Historically humans have learned to successfully predict Nature by first identifying the length of the cycles, long before we understood the mechanism behind the cycles.

They noted that more research is needed to further understand the mechanism behind the trees» methane emissions.

These shared and unique risk factors are important to understand the mechanism behind DSH and SA, and to allow for incorporation of these risk factors into future research on prevention programme for these two behaviours among vulnerable adolescents across different settings.

Through better understanding the mechanisms behind healthy relationships in complex families, Dr. Garneau - Rosner's program of research aims to identify effective strategies for professionals working with families in clinical and community settings to improve individual and family well - being.

Not exact matches

«It's possible the effect is simply due to relaxation,» speculates BPS, but given that boiling some water and sticking in a tea bag is dead simple and also pretty tasty, this is one tactic you can safely try even without an understanding of the mechanism behind its creativity - boosting effects.

As faithful readers of this blog will know, I make only very sporadic contributions to this blog but a substantial fraction of those contributions have made reference to modern monetary theory (MMT), the view (crudely put) that, based on a detailed understanding of the institutional mechanisms behind monetary operations, calls into question our obsession with -LSB-...]

No one is out to demonize parents, but what we keep hearing in our safe infant sleep group from parents who used to bedshare is that once the safe sleep message is adequately conveyed in detail and not just simply saying don't do this or that, but explaining the mechanism or risks behind infant sleeping in swings or using crib bumpers or bedsharing is the kind of understanding that in return results in family planning to be dedicated to safe infant sleep practices.

Its critics contend that some voters find the mechanisms behind STV difficult to understand, but this does not make it more difficult for voters to «rank the list of candidates in order of preference» on an STV ballot paper (see Voting).

The first stem cells capable of making placenta could enable researchers to better understand the biological mechanisms behind many failed early pregnancies

Altering blooming time often affects plant reproduction and survival, but the mechanisms behind these changes are not well understood.

The mechanisms behind seasonal influenza outbreaks are unclear, but understanding these patterns could help health officials wrangle with a notoriously mercurial medical specter caused by a rapidly mutating virus.

Understanding the mechanism of action behind the protective effect of IUDs is the next logical step, Cortessis says.

«We know so much about the sun, but we don't really understand the mechanism that is the powerhouse behind the corona and the solar wind,» Dantzler says.

The high prevalence of this phenomenon may make it easier for us to study and better understand the underlying mechanisms in the brain behind such synaesthetic effects.

«This kind of study allows us to start understanding the cellular mechanisms» behind the brain damage, she says.

A better understanding of the molecular mechanism behind diseases and reduced body function might lead to improved drugs and therapies in the future,» says Åsa Johansson.

Understanding the range of mechanisms behind the pathophysiology of preeclampsia will be even more crucial to developing an effective treatment.

Yet the mechanisms behind this storage are not completely understood.

Previously, he says, scientists studying human gaits simply observed and described them without making an effort to understand the possible mechanisms behind them.

To do this, they need to understand the underlying mechanisms behind sexual harassment.

The exact mechanism behind the L - dopa signal is still not completely understood, but one thing was clear: It was effective at getting the spinal cord to send chemical signals that stimulated the cats» otherwise immobile legs — and not just in a knee - jerk automatic response, but in more complicated steplike, rhythmic patterns.

But a complete understanding of the mechanism behind this improvement remains elusive.

Although we might now be confident that lightning is not a weapon wielded by the gods, the true mechanisms behind it are not well understood.

By employing a translational approach and utilizing cutting - edge molecular tools, his research group has made outstanding contributions to our understanding of the mechanisms behind the development of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), the most common adult leukemia.

With that comprehensive understanding of the structures and mechanisms behind bacterial resistance to antibiotics, Yu said his research group is beginning to look at how the pumps and transporters can be turned off.