Sentences with phrase «who directs a study»

People appear to function normally, says Hans Van Dongen, a professor in the WSU Sleep and Performance Research Center who directed the study.

«This is the largest randomized trial of any behavioral intervention in children with autism spectrum disorder, and it shows that parent training works,» notes Lawrence Scahill, MSN, PhD, professor of pediatrics at Marcus and Emory School of Medicine, who directed the study.

«This makes the cost of solar energy — in this case — better and easier to understand,» said Case Western Reserve Professor Laura Bruckman, who directed the study with Abdulkerim Gok, a research associate at GTU formerly with Case Western Reserve.

«In this way these receptors regulate our senses of smell, taste and vision as well as a number of other conditions and feelings,» explains Professor Johan Åqvist, who directed the study, which is now being published in the journal PLoS Computational Biology.

Microbiologist David Mills, who directed the study, says that ultimately, these microbes help in the fermentation process, but they can also affect the wine's taste.

«This is the first real study of gene expression in the striatum for bipolar disorder,» said Ron Davis, chair of the Department of Neuroscience at TSRI, who directed the study.

, who directed the study that was funded by a grant from Dole Foods Inc..

«People need to drop the idea that the human brain is exceptional,» said Vanderbilt University neuroscientist Suzana Herculano - Houzel, who directed the study.

-- The symptoms result from an excess of the growth factor PDGF, which prevents the temporary blood vessels of the foetal stage from disappearing, which in turn prevents normal development of blood vessels in the retina, says Karin Forsberg Nilsson, professor at the Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology at the Rudbeck Laboratory, who directed the study.

Our analyses show deep divergences among the various African peoples, with the deepest divergence involving the Khoe and San peoples, says Mattias Jakobsson, Uppsala University, who directed the study.

Instead, a specific regulatory mutation can occur, allowing, for instance, the kidneys to adapt to a different salt concentration,» says Kerstin Lindblad - Toh, professor and director of SciLifeLab Uppsala and research at the Broad Institute, who directed the study together with Professor David Kingsley of Stanford University.

Professor Stephen O'Keefe at the University of Pittsburgh, who directed the study, said: «Studies on Japanese migrants to Hawaii have shown that it takes one generation of westernization to change their low incidence of colon cancer to the high rates observed in native Hawaiians.

Michelle Harvie, a research dietitian at England's Manchester Breast Centre who directed the study, says lots of people seem to be able to stick with the 5 - 2 strategy.

«A lot of people are unhappy with an overreliance on test scores, but I don't think it's an option to drop test scores and go to nothing,» said Thomas J. Kane, a professor of education at Harvard who directed that study.

While talking with Dr. Kelly Campbell, who directs a study with over a thousand catfish targets and perpetrators, she suggested you ask yourself: «How do I avoid this experience?»

Not exact matches

A new study from University College London and Oxford University diverges from the famous Yale University study from the 1970s by psychologist Stanley Milgram who found that most people would obey direct orders to send what appeared to be increasingly painful shocks to an unseen stranger.

While that will undoubtedly help students and scientists save tons of time sifting through articles on PubMed, Meta can also help organizations decide where to direct their research budgets by identifying trends in certain areas of study or finding authors who have shown promising work in the past.

Fernando Pagan, a GUMC associate professor of neurology who directs the Movement Disorders Program at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, said that to his knowledge, the study «represents the first time a therapy appears to reverse — to a greater or lesser degree depending on stage of disease — cognitive and motor decline in patients with these neurodegenerative disorders.»

Despite its advantages, active learning isn't likely to completely kill the lecture, says Noah Finkelstein, a physics professor who directs the Center for STEM Learning at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and was not involved in the study.

The author is a sociologist who directs American studies at Bayreuth University in Germany, and he here succeeds in bringing together an enormous range of data that he joins to astute social analysis.

However, direct mail, using computer technology, has great potential for allowing local churches to reach parishioners who have special interests in missions, or religious education, or evangelism, or a Bible - study course.

Are the gospels and the pastoral letters of Paul and the other apostles direct, hotly written, and clearly sincere expressions of a living master, or are they remote, carefully written up studies upon one who has long left the scene?

A study of the direct - mail follow up procedures used by the paid - time broadcasters in 1981 for persons who seek information on religious conversion indicates that church attendance is rarely mentioned or encouraged.

When communication is a one - way process, proceeding from an authoritative person to an immature learner who is not in direct relation to the object of the study, intellectual activity is at a minimum in both parties; such a school is not a community of students but a propaganda or indoctrination institution.

The lower levels of baseline sugar sweetened drink consumption in the UK compared with the US may in part explain why the effect on obesity that we estimate in the UK is much less than that estimated in the US.12 The differences with respect to other modelling studies may also be partly explained by their use of higher own price elasticity values for sugar sweetened drinks than we have calculated and used here.18 22 52 We can not make direct comparisons between the results of our study and the results of recent studies of the effect of reducing sugar sweetened drink consumption on body weight in children, 5 7 as the relation between energy balance and change in body mass index in children who are growing is different from that in adults.

Although each of the teams using the PEP exercise program had a dedicated athletic training staff, the success reported in the earlier study in reducing ACL injuries among 14 - to 18 - year - old competitive female club soccer players - who ordinarily do not benefit from direct oversight from certified athletic trainers (ATCs) or physical therapists - suggest that the program may benefit other age groups and levels of play where direct oversight by medical professionals is far less common.

Very little is known about the direct effects of drinking on breastfeeding; a 2017 study showed that over half of Australian women who breastfeed drink at low levels, and use strategies, such as timing when they drink and breastfeed, which does not seem to be harmful to babies at 12 months.

Studies show a lower incidence of SIDS among infants who usepacifiers, although experts don't know whether there's a direct cause and effect.

On the other side of the argument, there are specialists who are maintaining recent direct studies have been done that show once babies are born they have the innate ability to recognize their mothers» voices and may respond to familiar music that was played during the time they were in the womb.

Increasing amounts of research have shown that infants and toddlers have a critical need for direct interactions with parents and other regular caregivers for healthy brain growth.82, — , 84 In addition, the results of 7 studies have shown that infants younger than 18 months who are exposed to TV may suffer from a delay in language development, and 1 study revealed that infant videos may delay language development.85, — , 91 No studies have documented a benefit of early viewing.92

40 % reduction in the number of children under - 5 who are stunted Direct evidence for a link between exclusive breastfeeding and stunting is not currently available at the systematic review level, though a 2015 systematic review and meta - analysis of intervention studies assessing the effect of breastfeeding promotion interventions on child growth found no significant effect on length or height z scores.

The sixth case study is political and many people are / were willing to overlook this particular one, in the national interest - the fact that it appears that persons who are members of the ruling party have a de facto immunity against prosecution for corruption, while the arrests and trials appear directed against members of the opposition PDP.

Sibley, who studies the two malaria parasites, would like her work to have more direct relevance to public health.

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UCLA psychologist Martin Monti, an expert on consciousness who has used ultrasound directed at the thalamus to awaken a coma patient, said the French study seemed solid but somewhat vague on how much the patient improved.

The problem is that smallholder farmers in developing countries often have low productivity and little likelihood of generating the profits needed to rise above poverty level, says Prof. Johns, who directs the McGill Canadian Field Studies in Africa program.

I asked physiologist Joel Stager, who studies oxygen transport during exercise and directs the Counsilman Center for the Science of Swimming at Indiana University at Bloomington.

According to study co-author Philip Robertson, who directs the Kellogg Biological Station, there are a number of proven ways to reduce farmers» nitrogen use.

«It could conceivably have removed up to one sixth of the monarchs in the overwintering colonies,» says Orley Taylor, a professor in the department of systematics and ecology at the University of Kansas, who has been studying monarch butterflies since the early 1990s and directs the MonarchWatch organization.

This study of 37 patients (24 men and 13 women, ages 51 to 80) who have never been treated with chemotherapy found direct correlation of the amount of cfDNA with tumor metabolism (based on PET - derived parameters), but not with metabolic tumor volume.

Herr, who directs the Biomechatronics group at the MIT Media Lab, spent the last eight years studying and refining computer models of the human leg to develop the PowerFoot.

Now a long - term study carried out in Nicaragua has eliminated these factors by showing that teaching reading to poor adult women, who would otherwise have remained illiterate, has a direct effect on their children's health and survival.

«In normal itching, there's a fixed pathway that transmits the itch signal,» said senior investigator Zhou - Feng Chen, PhD, who directs Washington University's Center for the Study of Itch.

«This stands in direct contrast to studies of religious Christian teenagers who reported feeling less depressed than their secular peers.

And that could exacerbate vector - control efforts in Malawi, says study co-author Maureen Coetzee, who directs the medical entomology research unit at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

In cases of severe to profound hearing loss where there is no benefit from conventional amplification (i.e. hearing aids), cochlear implantation that uses direct electrical stimulation of the auditory nerve has proven successful and selected older patients are among those who can benefit, according to the study background.

«This study provides one of the most direct demonstrations to date that first - hand pain and pain empathy are functionally related,» says neurobiologist Bernadette Fitzgibbon of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, who was not involved in the new research.

«Animals interact with their environment based on stereotypical movement patterns, such as those performed during running, breathing or feeding,» explains Prof. Lohmann, who directs the Developmental Biology research group at the Centre for Organismal Studies.

But this is the first time, to my knowledge, that the direct link is established from a novel gene to a novel structure to the invasion of a completely new ecological opportunity,» said Abderrahman Khila, an evolutionary and developmental genomicist at the Institute of Functional Genomics of Lyon, who led the study on the delicate insects called water striders.

Dale Jamieson, who directs the New York University Environmental Studies program and was not affiliated with the study, says Hallegatte's findings should be a wake - up call for wealthier nations with at - risk coastal areas who have not taken precautions to prepare for the results of climate change.