Sentences with phrase «use of research techniques»

Thus, for writing a dissertation, you must make use of research techniques such as:

Not exact matches

Students «learn about the how the brain uses two very different learning modes and how it encapsulates («chunks») information,» as well as «illusions of learning, memory techniques, dealing with procrastination, and best practices shown by research to be most effective in helping you master tough subjects.»

«Nobody's using this kind of new technique in mass production,» says Paul Semenza, senior vice-president at DisplaySearch, an industry research consulting firm.

The CD Howe Business Cycle Council (of which I'm a member) is based on a collective consensus, which is also the technique used by the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research.

Card sorting is another research technique that many designers use to illuminate the mental models of their target users.

The group's guidance follows calls for various bans on use of the technology known as CRISPR - Cas9, which has quickly become the preferred method of gene editing in research labs because of its ease of use compared with older techniques.

Convolutional neural networks have become the basis for almost all of the computer vision research done today, after a team of researchers led by Geoffrey Hinton at the University of Toronto, used that technique to win a competition where image recognition algorithms vie to be most accurate.

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.

The increasing use of in - vitro - fertilisation techniques, and the emergence of new possibilities involving human cloning, mixing of human and animal genetic elements, and the use of embryonic stem cells for research, among other things, brought the need for further teaching.

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.

Research indicates that errors in inhaler technique are frequent, with more than 30 percent of patients failing to use the devices correctly.

CSIRO research programs use both conventional and genetic modification (GM) approaches, with careful consideration being given to the most appropriate technique, or combination of techniques, to achieve the desired goal.

Significant Evidence - Based Research Findings of Infant Massage: • Supports parent - infant interaction • Facilitates weight gain in preterm infants1 • Lowers levels of cortisol, the stress hormone • Increases muscle tone • Improves sleep and awake patterns • Shortens lengths of stay in hospitals • Improves cognitive and motor development at eight months of age • Infant massage is an inexpensive tool • Can be used as part of the developmental care plan of preterm infants • Recent research shows there are significant benefits to infant massage that out weigh over-stimulation • Properly applied techniques produce increased benefits, such as improved developmental scores and earlier diResearch Findings of Infant Massage: • Supports parent - infant interaction • Facilitates weight gain in preterm infants1 • Lowers levels of cortisol, the stress hormone • Increases muscle tone • Improves sleep and awake patterns • Shortens lengths of stay in hospitals • Improves cognitive and motor development at eight months of age • Infant massage is an inexpensive tool • Can be used as part of the developmental care plan of preterm infants • Recent research shows there are significant benefits to infant massage that out weigh over-stimulation • Properly applied techniques produce increased benefits, such as improved developmental scores and earlier diresearch shows there are significant benefits to infant massage that out weigh over-stimulation • Properly applied techniques produce increased benefits, such as improved developmental scores and earlier discharge2

• Helping mothers develop skills and techniques to ensure breastfeeding goes well • Providing expertise in the management of breastfeeding challenges • Training other healthcare workers using current evidence based knowledge • Collaborating with other healthcare workers to meet the family's needs • Investigating and participating in research • Educating policy makers on the economic and health benefits of breastfeeding • Advocating for services to support breastfeeding

«Based on research and experience, more and more local districts are rejecting the use of ineffective strategies like corporal punishment as an acceptable form of school discipline in favor of effective techniques, like the Positive Behavioral Support system favored by most educators,» said Vitaglione.

Using traditional anthropological and medical research techniques, the laboratory cuts through myths and controversies to provide scholars, parents, and the news media with accurate scientific information on a variety of sleeping arrangements, including safe co-sleeping practices.

Research demonstrates that NFP and PAT also have negative effects, such as program families having fewer appropriate play materials in the home than the comparison group families, using harsher discipline techniques and being less accepting of the child's behaviour.

They must also have an understanding of ethical and legal issues and the ability to interpret research as well as having knowledge of infant growth parameters, child development, and how to use breastfeeding equipment, technology and techniques.

Our research finds an emerging dichotomy in maternal «sleep narratives» that are reinforced by the use of phone apps to monitor and manage infant sleep, online discussions where mothers share their experiences and techniques, and websites promoting infant sleep products.

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

Extensive research using improved epidemiologic methods and modern laboratory techniques documents diverse and compelling advantages for infants, mothers, families, and society from breastfeeding and use of human milk for infant feeding.1 These advantages include health, nutritional, immunologic, developmental, psychologic, social, economic, and environmental benefits.

Formal interviews were then conducted with each participant using a photo - feedback technique, and parts of the findings were exhibited at the researched schools, school - based art exhibitions, community - based arts centres, and a local museum.

Dr Pettitt also has an interest in the uses and abuses of marketing techniques in politics and in research methodology.

The 50th anniversary of the launch of the 3Rs concept, published in the book «The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique» by William Russell and Rex Burch, was marked in 2009 with several organisations expressing concern about the number of animals still being used in research.

By way of clarification, a push poll is not a poll at all but rather, as detailed by the American Association of Public Opinion Research, a political telemarketing technique where telephone calls are used to canvass the electorate, providing them with inaccurate information in the guise of a poll.

Investigators engage his core facility with a research project in mind and a need to use equipment that is under his supervision, but «most of the time they want to compose the research with us and then have us do it, because we are experts in the assay development and automation - assisted techniques,» notes Garippa.

In the new research, which was conducted in collaboration with Duke - NUS Medical School in Singapore, scientists used computational techniques to scan thousands of genes and mutations associated with epilepsy.

The research team simplified this data using voxel - based morphometry, or VBM — a technique that breaks the brain into 3 - D pixels and permits rigorous statistical comparison of brain tissue density among people.

«It would be really nice to derive and compare iPS cells and cells made using the Dolly technique from the same individual to see which were most normal,» says Robin Lovell - Badge of the National Institute for Medical Research in London.

A home - brewing technique used to extract morphine from unwashed poppy seeds can produce lethal doses of the drug, according to research at Sam Houston State University.

«The goal of our research is to use novel techniques for social good and to improve the health of many people,» he says.

«Only about five percent of the first degree family members of a person with diabetes will develop occult disease,» Gaglia, who is firm that for the moment this imaging technique should only be used in the context of research.

This is a highly limiting factor for research, because it complicates the annotation of data obtained by molecular techniques, and because it has been shown that gut microbiomes are to some extent specific to their host, and researchers have been using strains of other origin in mouse models.

«Having high resolution three - dimensional images allowed us to estimate the strength of the bone, called failure load, using a technique called micro-finite element analysis,» said Dr. Douglas Kiel, senior author of the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research study.

«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.

In its 2007 report, Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century: A Vision and a Strategy, the US National Research Council called for the replacement of animal tests: «The vision for toxicity testing in the 21st century articulated here represents a paradigm shift from the use of experimental animals... toward the use of more efficient in vitro tests and computational techniques.»

«Social research has a history of using both small - scale experiments and computer models to explore questions about human behavior — but there are very few examples of how to use these two techniques in concert,» says William Rand, a computer scientist and assistant professor of business management in NC State's Poole College of Management who is co-lead author of a paper describing the work.

Such research could lead to smaller and more efficient electronic gadgets that use electrons» spins to store and transmit information instead of electric charge, a technique known as «spintronics.»

In this study, the research team used a new technique developed at the University of North Carolina to study a type of glial cell known as an astrocyte.

Her research concentration is in marine geophysics, where she has used a variety of remote sensing techniques from ships and space to probe the dynamics of the mantle and overlying plates far from plate boundaries on geologic time scales.

The team of Marc Walton, research associate professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern University, used techniques like hyperspectral imaging and photometric stereo, which reveals the surface shape of objects.

Their research technique of measuring electrical brain activity using an electroencephalogram (EEG) in these brain regions also predicted mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a condition that is likely to develop into Alzheimer's, with 80 per cent accuracy.

Using a biomolecular technique developed at York's BioArCh laboratory, the research team studied bone / antler objects and fragments of manufacturing waste from the archaeological remains of Ribe's old marketplace.

UC Santa Barbara geophysicist Zachary Eilon and his co-author Geoff Abers at Cornell University have conducted new research — using a novel measurement technique — that has revealed a strong signal of seismic attenuation or energy loss at the mid-ocean ridge where the Juan de Fuca Plate is created.

Amrita Cheema, PhD, one of the main investigators on Federoff's team, will give an in - depth lecture on the test's significance, the science behind it, and the research techniques used to develop it in the July 28 AACC session, «Lipidomics: A Powerful Approach to Identify Pre-clinical Memory Impairment in Older Adults.»

Based on complementary metal - oxide - semiconductor (COMS) technology — a standard low - cost, high - volume chip manufacturing technique used for most processors and chips today — a group of researchers from IBM Research in Zurich, Switzerland, together with a consortium working under the EU - funded project «ADDAPT,» have demonstrated a novel optical receiver (RX) that can achieve an aggregate bandwidth of 160 Gb / s through four optical fibers.

A technique using anesthesia - containing nanoparticles — drawn to the targeted area of the body by magnets — could one day provide a useful alternative to nerve block for local anesthesia in patients, suggests an experimental study in the April issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS).

«In this review, we aimed to highlight a blend of new studies using cutting edge research techniques to investigate brain damage, but also to relate these new studies to original studies, some of which were published more than a century ago,» said lead author Dr. Sara Szczepanski, of the University of California, Berkeley.

Hughes's winning research proposed using microarray techniques to compare the genomes of a variety of vertebrate animals to test for common regulatory elements that determine gene expression.

The most common surgical techniques used to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) offer patients improved quality of life five years after injury, according to research presented today at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Annual Meeting in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.