Sentences with phrase «with samples for analysis»

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Along with the advice on etiquette, there's a list of 50 questions that Harvard has recently asked applicants and analysis on how to prepare and answer them (Click here for a sample).

In a later section, on demographic distribution analysis, the contract mentions the possibility for additional «targeted data collection procedures through multiple platforms» to be used — even including «brief phone scripts with single - trait questions» — in order to correct any skews that might be found once the Facebook data is matched with voter databases in each state, (and assuming any «data gaps» could not be «filled in from targeted online samples», as it also puts it).

However, with only 16 - 17 observations per calendar month, the sample is very short for this kind of analysis.

To test DR - CAPM on currencies, they rank a sample of 53 currencies by interest rates into six portfolios, excluding for some analyses those currencies in highest interest rate portfolio with annual inflation at least 10 % higher than contemporaneous U.S. inflation.

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I'm not concerned with the sample size — 324 per school is HUGE (30 is usually the minimum for analysis).

In media releases associated with the announcement, SCIEX states that traditional methods such as ELISA and PCR for allergen analysis come with several challenges, including detection accuracy in processed products and the cost of testing for several allergens in the same sample.

The strengths of the study include the ability to compare outcomes by the woman's planned place of birth at the start of care in labour, the high participation of midwifery units and trusts in England, the large sample size and statistical power to detect clinically important differences in adverse perinatal outcomes, the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias due to non-consent, the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical risk (according to current clinical guidelines) and to further increase the comparability of the groups by conducting an additional analysis restricted to women with no complicating conditions identified at the start of care in labour, and the ability to control for several important potential confounders.

In a convenience sample of 45 children during a 1 - week training workshop provided by child psychologists and psychiatrists, inter-paediatrician agreement was high, with Pearson correlation coefficients of 0.80 (95 % confidence interval: 0.67, 0.89) for vocabulary, 0.72 (0.54, 0.83) for similarities, 0.80 (0.67, 0.89) for block designs and 0.79 (0.66, 0.88) for matrices.16 Since we previously reported that the intervention resulted in significantly higher verbal IQ scores in intention - to - treat analysis, 16 we focused on results for verbal IQ scores in the present study.

Power analysis, based on detecting a significant difference in the combined frequency of non-optimal factors during and after childbirth, led us to aim for a sample size of 1600 women, with approximately half being multiparous and preferably half choosing hospital birth.

Analysis of Maternal and Fetal Outcomes by Birth Place — Members of the Research and Data task force are making plans for an analysis of maternal and fetal outcomes by birth place in the US, comparing existing MANAStats data on home and birth center births with a matched cohort of low risk women who planned a hospital delivery (total sample size ~ Analysis of Maternal and Fetal Outcomes by Birth Place — Members of the Research and Data task force are making plans for an analysis of maternal and fetal outcomes by birth place in the US, comparing existing MANAStats data on home and birth center births with a matched cohort of low risk women who planned a hospital delivery (total sample size ~ analysis of maternal and fetal outcomes by birth place in the US, comparing existing MANAStats data on home and birth center births with a matched cohort of low risk women who planned a hospital delivery (total sample size ~ 80,000).

In the meta - analysis for this outcome the previous version of this review we included 40 trials with 14,227 women (effective sample size).

«The minimum sample volume required is only 1 µL for analysis of 92 proteins, which has been proven to be a great advantage for applications with limited sample volumes, such as pediatric applications, fine - needle biopsies, and tumor microbiopsies,» he says.

Through their analysis the researchers detected damaged proteins in characteristic patterns in the samples of those patients with early and advanced OA and RA, but were found at markedly lower levels in the samples of those in the control group — providing the researchers with the identifiable biomarkers necessary for early detection and diagnosis.

Abcam is working with medical experts on developing specific guidelines to evaluate methods for CSF sample collection and processing prior to miRNA analysis, with the aim of maximizing detection.

«The prerequisite for this is that we are able to take the samples for proteome and metabolome analysis with spatial precision on the basis of the images,» explains Bernd Pichler.

What the rover can do is detect the building blocks for those cells with its portable chemistry lab, Sample Analysis at Mars.

Jamison finishes his sweep of the roadside site, then heads back to his van with a few beetles he'll keep as samples for genetic analysis.

With tumour diagnosis, for example, surgeons usually remove a sample for analysis while the patient waits on the operating table.

He and his colleagues also worked with Bantu research assistants, and decided to collect fecal samples from the two groups for analysis.

Overall, Govindarajan said the project met the primary objective, testing the feasibility of SUPR - REMUS for sampling in coastal waters: «We were thrilled with the first results for robotic sampling coupled with genetic analysis.

Building on this research in their latest study, the team analysed liver samples from 2000 patients with Hepatitis C, using state - of - the art genetic and functional analysis, to determine the specific IFNL protein responsible for liver fibrosis.

Information on health status, functional limitations and demographics was collected, along with blood samples for analysis.

«A retrospective analysis of the CHD1 gene in these samples may reveal the potential utility of CHD1 as a biomarker for improved prostate cancer patient stratification and targeted therapy with PARP inhibitors,» notes Johnsen.

To test whether Japanese encephalitis virus could be successfully identified from the samples, the researchers carried out a retrospective analysis on cerebrospinal fluid for patients tested for the virus between 2009 — 2015 in Laos, with a total of 132 samples containing sufficient fluid volume for testing.

Limitations of the study acknowledged include the difficulty in isolating SSRI effects from those of their indications for use, lack of information on SSRI dosage precluded dose - response analyses, and the relatively small sample of DD children resulted in imprecise estimates of association, which should be viewed with caution.

The term «microreactor» sounds complicated, but basically it is just a small container with a stir bar for mixing chemical samples and a very thin needle for spraying and ionizing the sample for analysis witha mass spectrometer.

By avoiding delays that come with having to return samples to a laboratory for analysis, the methodology could also be used on Earth to detect and identify pathogens during epidemics in remote areas.

The next steps in the research, conducted with his co-authors on the Geology paper, will be to continue mapping the slide, collect samples from the base for structural analysis and date the pseudotachylytes.

Characterizing the genetic diversity in a population comes with many challenges, one of which is the sheer number of samples needed for an analysis to provide a clear reading of underlying genetic variation.

In the study, analysis of patient samples demonstrated that high LSC17 scores meant poor outcomes with current standard treatment, even for patients who had undergone allogeneic stem cell transplantation.

The role of rebiopsy and repeat analysis in the setting of post-treatment relapse, along with testing of blood samples for mutations in circulating tumor cells, cell free tumor DNA, or exosomes will be considered.

A random sample of infants with and without bacterial infections was selected for RNA biosignature analysis.

In the past few years has been an increase in the description of new endemic species of this biome along with the advance of molecular techniques and availability of samples for DNA analysis.

Analyses of their blood samples showed that, on average, just under two per cent of the children's total blood fatty acids were Omega - 3 DHA (Docosahexaenoic acid) and 0.5 per cent were Omega - 3 EPA (Eicosapentaenoic acid), with a total of 2.45 per cent for these long - chain Omega - 3 combined.

«I hope Japan will come back [to the scientific committee] with more analysis, reasoning, and justification» for lethal sampling, says Funahashi, who is a committee - invited participant.

The data for the current analysis compared the effect of selenium and vitamin E, taken either alone or combined, on prostate cancer risk among 1,739 men who were diagnosed with prostate cancer and, for comparison purposes, a random sample of 3,117 men without prostate cancer who were matched to the cases by race and age.

The TrueMethyl Whole Genome (TMWG) integrated workflow system for processing DNA samples includes all - in - one reagents for sample conversion, library creation, and indexing, combined with bioinformatics tools to enable accurate DNA modification analysis through next - generation sequencing methods.

The AAAS sample, therefore, is hopefully the first in a series of avenues for empirically documenting whether there are differences in views among subsets of the scientific community.2 To that end, this analysis compares views among the full sample of 3,748 AAAS members with those AAAS members who fall into three narrower definitions of the term «scientist.»

To ensure that the DV responses in the controls were consistent with prior findings, we performed a secondary analysis on the effects of MP on the cerebellar DV in an independent cohort of controls, which showed a 12 % reduction, and in a sample of adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), which also showed an 11 % reduction (for controls of the current cohort, the cerebellar DV decrease was 13 ± 11 %).

Weiqing Zheng, a research associate at the Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, and Liang Wang, an associate scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, examine a sample in a lab with focused ion beam analysis.

The study consisted of an analysis of 2011 Medicare claims data (Part A hospital and Part B physician) for a random, nationally representative sample of family medicine and internal medicine physicians completing residency between 1992 and 2010 with Medicare patient panels of 40 or more patients (2,851 physicians providing care to 491,948 Medicare beneficiaries).

We thank V. C. Smith at the University of Oxford for electron probe microanalysis; the coprincipal investigators of the Lake Malawi Drilling Project (C. A. Scholz, A. S. Cohen, and J. King) and other members of the drilling team; A. Noren and A. Myrbo (LacCore) for assistance with sampling; T. Shanahan for producing a thin section of the Toba interval; A. Lingwall and E. T. Brown for assistance with scanning XRF; J. Halbur for TEX86 analyses; and B. Bandli for SEM images.

The test, called ProsignaTM and manufactured by NanoString Technologies, comes with a machine and kit, so patients» tumor samples do not have to be sent to a single laboratory for analysis.

In order to contextualise the australopithecine and early Homo stature estimates and range of variability obtained from the footprints within a broader picture (Figure 12), and to compare them with a larger sample, we extended our analysis to consistent data based on skeletal elements, namely femurs (see Materials and methods for details).

Samples for histology were collected as for microbial analysis (see above), with the same sample number of samples however, they were preserved in 5 % paraformaldehyde made up with Phosphate Buffer SalineSamples for histology were collected as for microbial analysis (see above), with the same sample number of samples however, they were preserved in 5 % paraformaldehyde made up with Phosphate Buffer Salinesamples however, they were preserved in 5 % paraformaldehyde made up with Phosphate Buffer Saline (PBS).

The research ideas you develop at the workshop should: • Lead to the significant advancement of our understanding of sensor technologies suitable for liquid biopsy • Consider the practical challenges of low volume liquid usually taken for analysis and the inconsistency of sample preparation across point of care sites • Prioritise biomarkers with high specificity for cancer or even for multiple cancer types, including markers specific to cancers that will become aggressive as opposed to non-lethal disease

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The grasses grow from seedlings aboard the ISS, and are returned as frozen samples to Earth - based labs for detailed analysis and comparison with Earth - based control groups.

Our teams develop novel approaches as well as utilize routine routes to synthesize molecular, nanostructured, and solid - state systems; analyze the samples with multiple instruments; and model the results for detailed insight and to predict new systems for synthesis and analysis.