Sentences with phrase «what led the researchers»

The brain - size - altering effect of the gene is what led the researchers to study the impact on IQ.

That's what the lead researcher of a study of a breast cancer vaccine in mice would like you to think.

«The morning blahs, it turns out, is a real phenomenon, with positive moods — happiness, friendliness and warmth, for example — manifesting much later in the day,» That's what lead researcher Nancy Etcoff, Ph.D. from Harvard University has found to be true.

That's what led the researchers to focus on nuclear power.

That's what lead researcher Nancy Etcoff, Ph.D. from Harvard University has found to be true.

«The morning blahs, it turns out, is a real phenomenon, with positive moods — happiness, friendliness and warmth, for example — manifesting much later in the day,» That's what lead researcher Nancy Etcoff, Ph.D. from Harvard University has found to be true.

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Led by Canadian researchers under what's called the ALPHA Collaboration, the first detailed observation of «home made» anti-hydrogen's structure has shown its spectral lines are virtually identical to those of hydrogen.

When three researchers asked 12 breast cancer patients from central Mexico, for instance, what each did right after discovering a lump in her breast, the women's answers revealed a dozen different health care routes — paths that led, in some cases, to markedly different outcomes.

The researchers found that the mix of enzymes being made changed depending on what the mice were being fed, with even occasional fiber deprivation leading to more production of mucus - degrading enzymes.

Hear from two leading beverage market researchers, a beverage CEO and a leading retailer to find out which beverage categories are growing, what...

«If instead of doing 30 math problems, you just do 15, what that does is it creates stress for the parent that other kids are getting more instruction,» says Harris Cooper, a psychologist at Duke University and leading researcher in the area of homework.

Contrary to what many pediatric sleep researchers claim, or at least, lead parents to believe, the consolidation of human infant sleep is not what is important biologically for an infant especially in the first six months of life.

Dr. James McKenna is a leading researcher in the field of bed - sharing and has quite a few studies quoted on the Mother - Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory at University of Notre Dame website: http://www.nd.edu/~jmckenn1/lab/media.html The more important point here is that no professional should tell you what to do.

By analyzing the genome of a tiny fetal mummy known as Ata, researchers have learned more about what led to its strange - looking deformities — and that Ata was not an it, but a she.

The element is called californium — Cf if you're looking at the Periodic Table of Elements — and it's what Florida State Professor Thomas Albrecht - Schmitt, the lead researcher on the project, calls «wicked stuff.»

Professor Jose Valderas, one of the lead researchers from the University of Exeter Medical School, said: «When you're trying to diagnose cancer, other illnesses can be a distraction either because they also require attention or because they can mask what would otherwise be flagged as a possible sign of cancer.

«People around the world are aware that the ocean is threatened and what are the major threats to the ocean,» says Heike Lotze, a researcher at Dalhousie University in Canada, who led the study.

The team, led by doctoral student Adam R. Burns, now a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, compared what they found in the fish with predictions from computer modeling of microbial dynamics performed by co-author Elizabeth Miller of the META Center for Systems Biology.

A group of researchers at the University of California, Davis, surveyed 162 farmers in Yolo County, Calif., comparing what growers thought about climate change, their willingness to participate in government - led climate programs and their takes on four different environmental regulations passed in the last 25 years.

What's more, by asking the participants to rate their self - confidence, the researchers provided further insight into what specifically about the speed - dating setup led both men and women to be more selective when they were seaWhat's more, by asking the participants to rate their self - confidence, the researchers provided further insight into what specifically about the speed - dating setup led both men and women to be more selective when they were seawhat specifically about the speed - dating setup led both men and women to be more selective when they were seated.

«The practical implications are what drove the project, so they're quite broad,» says lead author Adeline Lo, a postdoctoral researcher in Princeton's Department of Politics.

Prior to 2007 scientists weren't sure what emissions reduction goal to shoot for, but new evidence led researchers to reach consensus on 350 ppm if we wished to have a planet, in the words of NASA climatologist James Hansen, «similar to the one on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted.»

Neutron scattering at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) helped a multi-institutional team led by Tulane University investigate a graphene - like strontium - manganese - antimony material (Sr1 - yMn1 - zSb2) that hosts what researchers suspect is a Weyl semimetal phase.

If you are taking the lead on a grant application in a highly collaborative field, I would recommend asking all the researchers involved what their planned budget is at the early stages of the proposal.

«The Dam Impact Analysis Model enables us to see what happens when you change one factor, like marine or freshwater survival,» said Julie Nieland, a researcher at NEFSC's laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. and lead author of the study.

Researchers did not understand what normally kept ras genes» protein production in check — and why certain ras mutations led to such chaotic, uncontrolled cellular activity — until the discovery of a snippet of genetic material called microRNA (miRNA).

But even before all the data were in, the researchers began to suspect that their assumptions were wrong, says lead study author Kathryn Whetten, director of the Center for Public Health Policy at the Duke Global Health Institute in Durham, N.C. «The stereotype that many of us in the U.S. and Europe have of an institution is not what is being set up in less wealthy nations,» Whetten says.

Better yet, the researchers expect that the magnesium battery's energy density could be made considerably higher than what is possible in common lead - acid and nickel - cadmium batteries.

The researchers» aim is now to conduct a larger study to determine more precisely which types of soil and what quantities contribute to lead contamination.

Using a novel approach for imaging the movement of immune cells in living animals, researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases (CIID) have identified what appear to be the initial steps leading to joint inflammation in a model of inflammatory arthritis.

The researchers don't know exactly what is prompting the whales to eat otters, but Estes asserts that the chain of events leading to the otter's decline may have been triggered by a boom in commercial fishing in the Bering Sea — which could have sharply curtailed or altered the food supply for sea lions and seals.

A temperature increase greater than 3 °C (5.4 °F) could lead to what the researchers term «catastrophic» effects, and an increase greater than 5 °C (9 °F) could lead to «unknown» consequences which they describe as beyond catastrophic including potentially existential threats.

In an accompanying podcast, lead researcher Dr Paul Rutter emphasises that the risk of BCIS remains rare, but not so rare that orthopaedic surgeons don't need to know about it, or what steps they need to take to reduce it.

«There are many researchers and organizations that have developed this set of understandings of what is actually happening — for example, leading researchers at the Rand Corporation, Harvard University, National Bureau of Economic Research,... Georgia State University, Stanford University,» and others, Teitelbaum told the congressional committee.

«We've solved a mystery, revealing a new aspect of our innate immune system and what flu has to do to get around it,» says Nicholas Meyerson, a postdoctoral researcher in the BioFrontiers Institute and lead author of a paper published in the Nov. 8 issue of Cell Host and Microbe.

«We wanted to know what happens at the brainstem, in the cells coming from the ear,» says Matthew Xu - Friedman, PhD, the lead researcher and an associate professor of biological sciences in UB's College of Arts and Sciences.

Eye know what you're doing People behave less selfishly when they know others are watching them, which can lead to a complicated game of cat and mouse when the watched try to fool the observers they are acting naturally, researchers explain this week in Science.

In 2001 the editors of the 12 leading medical journals decried what they described as a «draconian» situation for academic researchers, but even that extraordinary joint statement went largely unheeded.

The behaviors have led to what researchers term an evolutionary arms race, with the birds evolving various strategies to outwit their rivals, such as hiding nuts in the shade or behind barriers, or moving their cache to new locations.

Although researchers do not fully understand what causes SIDS, the leading hypothesis describes it as a combination of environmental stressors occurring at a critical development period of an infant who has some underlying vulnerability, such as genetic condition or brain dysfunction.

Led by Dr Agnieszka Golec de Zavala, at the Goldsmiths, University of London, the researchers then tried to establish what kind of people believe that immigrants threaten the UK.

The lead researcher, paleoanthropologist Peter Brown of the University of New England in Australia, says his jaw dropped when he realized what he was looking at.

Here's what the researchers think is going on in those nests that were inundated with water, clay or silt: The environmental conditions for those eggs are not great, which likely impedes gas exchange through the shells of the eggs, leading to greater embryonic stress and possibly death.

In a pair of recently published papers, a team led by Berkeley Lab researcher Jonathan Ajo - Franklin announced they had successfully combined a technology called «distributed acoustic sensing,» which measures seismic waves using fiber - optic cables, with novel processing techniques to allow reliable seismic monitoring, achieving results comparable to what conventional seismometers can measure.

Researchers at Aarhus University, Denmark, have succeeded in identifying the mechanisms involved in what is known as the acid pump, which at the cellular level pumps acid into the stomach — in some cases leading to gastric ulcers and gastroesophageal reflux disease.

Wanting to understand what happens under chronic inflammation conditions, a team of researchers led by Freddy Radtke at EPFL's Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC) studied stem cells in the corneas of mice.

Three years ago, a Durham - led international team of researchers thought they had made a breakthrough in ultimately identifying what dark matter is.

A new study led by researcher Natalia Shakhova of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and the Russian Academy of Sciences» Far Eastern Branch reports that methane releases from one part of the Arctic Ocean are more than twice what scientists previously thought.

This is important, because when rating quality measures for nursing homes, patients and experts at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) usually don't agree on what is best, leading UCI researchers to conclude that patients may benefit from a more personalized approach to choosing a nursing home.

«Glass is a material we're all familiar with, but what many people probably don't know is that it is what we would call a chemically heterogenous surface,» said graduate student researcher Alex Schrader, lead author of the PNAS paper.