Sentences with phrase «wide studies involving»

Gonçalo Abecasis of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and his colleagues used data from 10 genome - wide studies involving 36,610 individuals to look for genetic variations that correlated with fasting glucose concentrations.

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Although professional lactation support can improve the duration of overall breast feeding, its effect in improving exclusive breast feeding is unclear.11 18 22 Thus far, studies that report improvement of rates of exclusive breastfeeding have involved mainly community based peer counselling strategies.23 24 25 Even then, a randomised trial in the UK recently cast doubt on the efficacy of this approach.26 There are current recommendations from NICE for the UK - wide implementation of the baby friendly initiative.4 5 6 The 2006 NICE costing report on routine postnatal care of women and their babies estimates that efforts to improve rates of breast feeding will result in substantial cost savings for the NHS.6

Revving up the immune system to combat a wide variety of tumor types may take cancer therapy in a new direction, says Khaled Barakat, a computational scientist at the University of Alberta in Canada, who was not involved in the study.

A brand new science for studying this networked phenomenon, and in effect it's kind of a reverse engineering the World Wide Web that we know and the kinds of networks that we see on that to try to figure out how they took shape and maybe from that we can learn what principles involve and how networks do grow and you might be able to use that sort of thing to be able to develop a better system s for example being able to create more efficient networks and that could be very valuable in industry, there may be a lot of practical applications, involving protecting privacy, for example, and stopping people from stealing identities; and you should, you know, should be of just an interesting phenomenon.

The study, involving researchers from UCL, Imperial College London and Dalian University of Technology (China) and published today in Science, shows how the new paint made from coated titanium dioxide nanoparticles can give a wide - range of materials self - cleaning properties, even during and after immersion in oil and following damage to the surface.

The study is one of the first to test if the «landscape of fear» model, a scientific theory that has been used to explain how animals move and interact with the environment based on their fear of being attacked by their predators, is applicable to large open marine systems involving wide - ranging species, like sharks and turtles.

Purushotham points out, «The feasibility of intraoperative CLI as shown in this study, in combination with the wide applicability of F -18-FDG across a range of solid cancers, provides a stepping stone for clinical evaluation of this technology in other solid cancer types that also experience incomplete tumor resection due to close or involved margins.»

The study involved extracting Ribonucleic acid or RNA — found in the cells of all living organisms — to develop a transcriptome — the gene readouts in a cell — to examine what occurs during the different developmental stages of the cockroach pregnancy and to explore if those changes hold wider applications for other mammals.

Ronggui Yang, a professor and S.P. Chip and Lori Johnson Faculty Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder, who was not involved in the study, noted that significant challenges exist in obtaining wide - angle high solar absorptance materials with low thermal emittance.

Called the HapMap, this catalog has made the use of SNPs to track down genes involved in complex diseases — so - called genome - wide association studies — a reality.

The researchers found that studies of people without sleep - related conditions who got consecutive nights of four to six hours of sleep revealed a wide range of negative effects involving appetite hormone signaling, physical activity, eating behavior and even fat - loss rates.

Michelson adds that the study highlights the importance of involving a wider community of scientists through public data releases and notes that the mission team is working on its own follow - up analysis.

«This is very important work with wide - ranging implications,» says M. Catherine Bushnell, a neuroscientist and the scientific director of the Division of Intramural Research at the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) in Bethesda, Maryland, who was not involved in the study.

Chaput's method of studying such sequences on a genome - wide scale involves first generating a DNA library of the entire human genome.

He is involved in the first genome - wide association study on bipolar I disorder in the Han - Chinese population.

Selected Fellows will utilize a wide variety of biological systems, approaches and technologies in the study and translation of basic cellular processes involved in the development of cancer.

Many genome - wide association (GWA) studies are currently underway for identifying genetic elements involved in complex disorders.

Altogether, our experts are involved in a wide range of stroke research projects — from studies of new medicines to prevent stroke to developing advanced surgical procedures to improve blood flow to the brain after stroke.

Genome - wide association studies are a critical tool in the detection of genes involved in complex diseases such as diabetes and cancer or traits such as height and obesity.

Another way of looking at genome - wide association study results is the so called pathway - based approach, which links SNPs considered mutually involved in a pathway.

Another interesting local network structure is centered around CLU, a gene shown to be involved in AD based on genome - wide association studies, with genes in the integrin family, involved in cell adhesion, clustered around CLU.

The branch serves as a focal point at the NIH campus for the analysis of a wide variety of large - scale genomic data generated in the course of laboratory and clinical studies, with branch members actively involved in efforts aimed at developing new bioinformatic approaches for the analysis and visualization of these data.

«The range of applications of these low cost and light weight artificial muscles is really wide and involves different fields such as robotics, prosthetics, orthotics, and human assistive devices,» says Caterina Lamuta, an author of the study.

Here my research will involve the investigation of prokaryotes, which live in similar anoxic environments to the protists that I studied during my PhD, but I will be trying to understand their biological processes on a wider community - scale.

Despite its tiny sample size of 12 and its speculative conclusions, the study was publicized far and wide — launching a global movement involving celebrities like Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey (and of course Trump) who warned parents to stop vaccinating their children.

He has been involved in a wide variety of research projects, including evaluating new educational programs, studies of employment discrimination, and several studies of early literacy programs.

The study involves more than 500 teachers in a wide variety of states and districts, and what it has found so far is promising.

All the participants in their case studies had been involved in some sort of school - wide language arts curriculum development projects aimed at helping teachers reconceptualize teaching.

Given that this study identified a random sample of districts across the United States as participants, and that we have data only for districts that chose to become involved, actual differences between elementary and secondary schools nationwide may be even wider than those we have discovered.

The SIG encourages both international and national studies involving qualitative and or quantitative methods in a wide variety of topics.

The assignment writing is one of the critical writings which involves extended research, wide study, and lengthy writing.

The SQL assignment writing is one of the critical writings which involves extended research, wide study, and extensive writing.

After distributed computing efforts such as SETI at home, and Climate Project came GLOBE, a world wide effort to involve students in gathering ground truth for environmental and climate studies and Weather Bug, a distributed set of weather stations available to classes, media, and on your Blackberry.

Findings from these studies have overwhelmingly shown that children with involved fathers fare better across a wide range of domains when compared to their counterparts without an active father.

These non-significant results are arguably due to the study's relatively small sample size for a genome - wide association study that requires multiple testing (ranging from N = 372 — 436 in the high and low trait comparison groups), making it unclear whether the same genetic variants are involved in these sub-domains.

To that end, Imago Relationship International supports research that involves the use of Imago Therapy and any aspect of Imago Therapy that is explicitly described by its founder, research that evaluates the impact Imago Therapy has on individuals, couples, and other systems over a wide range of impact variables including outcome studies of workshops and in - office treatment regimes, neuroscience and biological studies involving Imago Relationship Therapy; and the use of Imago Relationship Therapy with specific diagnostic categories and its effect on positive outcomes.

Primary studies covered wide range of outcomes involving mental health and emotional wellbeing