Sentences with phrase «within study populations»

Only the five haplogroups that reached a minimum 5 % frequency threshold within our study population were tested for associations.

We use the nationality of each mother at birth without any categorisation, which allows us to construct highly homogeneous groups within the study population.

Cut - points were chosen based on the spread of results to reflect three knowledge groupings that appeared in the data, to reflect knowledge levels within the study population.

Not exact matches

Next, study the spending characteristics of the population within this location.

Such studies, however, have not yet been produced.19 There is also, within liberation theology, a lack of more profound theological analyses of the culture of Brazilian populations, both black and indigenous.

Abstinence from Kona, tobacco, and alcohol by many Adventists has afforded a near - unique opportunity for studies to be conducted within that population group on the health effects of Kona drinking, free from confounding factors.

Ongoing projects include studies of gene - environment interactions and adverse pregnancy outcomes, as well as informed medical decision making demonstration projects in Medicaid maternity populations and within HealthWise, the nation's largest source of health information materials distributed through healthcare networks.

Previous attempts to evaluate the Baby Friendly Initiative within an observational study design have often been limited by small sample size or reliance upon ecological measures of confounding factors.16, 17 The advantage of the Millennium Cohort Study is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differestudy design have often been limited by small sample size or reliance upon ecological measures of confounding factors.16, 17 The advantage of the Millennium Cohort Study is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differeStudy is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differences.

To determine whether the presence and strength of the associations between individual risk factors and severe PPH vary among women undergoing prelabor CD or intrapartum CD, stratified analyses are needed according to CD subtype.To identify risk factors for severe PPH within 2 distinct CD populations, prelabor CD and intrapartum CD, we performed 2 case - control studies.

More comparative studies and impact evaluations are needed within countries to determine which strategies are most effective at promoting and supporting EBF with different populations.

Although our perinatal death rate lies well within the rates described in other population - based studies, it deserves ongoing monitoring in view of the small numbers of births it is based on to date.

Develop pilot projects to study effects of a collaborative model of care within vulnerable populations

The study looks at 35 factors within each county, including access to medical care, alcohol consumption, and the percentage of population that remains physically active.

Powers would study how large of a role acute - and early - stage HIV infection plays in transmission within a population in Lilongwe, Malawi.

These results indicate that the polymers studied have large cross sections for stimulated emission, that population inversion can be achieved at low pump energies, and that the emitted photons travel distances greater than the gain length within the gain medium.

The study, «Spectrophotometric analysis at the single - cell level: elucidating dispersity within melanic immortalized cell populations,» was supported in part by the Mizzou Advantage program, an initiative that fosters interdisciplinary collaboration among faculty, staff, students and external partners to solve real - world problems in four areas of strength identified at the University of Missouri, including Food for the Future, One Health / One Medicine, Sustainable Energy and Media of the Future.

During Kushlev's and his colleagues» study, 221 students at the University of British Columbia drawn from the general student population were assigned for one week to maximize phone interruptions by keeping notification alerts on, and their phones within easy reach.

He proposed an independent study project in 1998, during his last year of his undergraduate work: studying hantaviruses within the rodent population in Montreal.

Epidemiology research studies patterns of disease within specific populations.

Previous studies have examined cancer stem cells (CSCs)-- small populations of cells within a tumor that are resistant to chemotherapy.

The study has found that Darwin's frogs are infected with the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), and despite an absence of obvious mortality researchers have noted population declines, leading them to believe that these infected populations are at a serious risk of extinction within 15 years of contracting the disease.

The participants were asked to estimate the distribution of annual household income for their social contacts and also for the entire US population — in one study, they estimated what percentage of people fell into each one of 11 income bands; in the other study, they estimated the average income of people within each income quintile.

The study also shows that dispersing males connect the enigmatic brown bear population of the Alaskan ABC - islands to the North American mainland, and that the resulting movement of genes is substantial enough to maintain high genetic variability within this island population.

Differences in bower decoration within a single population of spotted bowerbirds come about because of local traditions, a new study finds, demonstrating a type of social learning rarely seen outside of primates.

According to An Martel, head of the study and professor at the University of Ghent in Belgium, it is therefore not surprising that an afflicted population shrinks by more than 90 percent within just a few weeks and then disappears.

The lack of genetic diversity within populations was confirmed in a second study presented by Schal that homed in on two big apartment buildings that were heavily hit with infestations, one in Raleigh and the other in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Lehigh University is located within the «hybrid zone,» a narrow band from northern New Jersey to Kansas where this population of hybridized chickadees reside, which presents a unique opportunity to study them.

Another interesting finding of this study is that mammal populations have also been reduced by hunting even within protected areas.

«This study highlights the need for better and more sustainable management of cactus populations within range countries.

They estimated that the population of oystercatchers within the survey area was 1,048 individuals, and comparisons with more exhaustive surveys in a subset of the study area show that this number is likely accurate.

In previous studies, Knight and other researchers have found distinct populations of neurons within a region of the brain called the hypothalamus that can trigger thirst and signal when an animal should start and stop drinking.

«These unique data showing a wide range of animals thriving within miles of a major nuclear accident illustrate the resilience of wildlife populations when freed from the pressures of human habitation,» says Jim Beasley, a study co-author at the University of Georgia.

When looking for the rare genetic variants involved, geneticists can be thrown off track by the existence of subgroups within the populations they are studying.

A new study finds a significant racial disparity within a doubly troubled population of patients: those with HIV and Hodgkin lymphoma.

«The 32 percent of CTE we found in our brain bank is surprisingly high for the frequency of neurodegenerative pathology within the general population,» says the study's lead author, Kevin Bieniek, a predoctoral student in Mayo Graduate School's Neurobiology of Disease program.

«We established a means to study viral populations within more complex communities and found that surface ocean viruses were passively transported on currents and that population abundances were structured by local environmental conditions,» said Sullivan, associate professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and member of the BIO5 Institute.

Health effects of acute and chronic marijuana use remain controversial and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not officially approved marijuana as a medicine, nor has it been extensively studied within the general population.

They found that 16 per 10,000 of patients studied experienced heart attacks or strokes within 30 days of their partner's death compared with 8 per 10,000 the normal population.

This study adds to other analyses linking parasite activity to sexual and asexual female populations within a small mountain lake, Lake Grasmere.

We find parallel evolution across three scales: within individual patients, in different patients in our study, and in the global influenza population.

The authors recommend using sequencing to characterize variation within laboratory animal populations before designing studies, allowing the results to be properly interpreted.

The SciLifeLab platform NGI Uppsala (SNP&SEQ Technology Platform) has contributed to a large collaborative study which shows that type 2 diabetes is predominantly driven by common risk variants that are widely shared both within and between populations.

Today, many ecological and evolutionary studies depend on a wide range of molecular tools to infer phylogenetic relationships, uncover population structure within species, and track quantitative traits.

While embryonic stem cells are widely studied, a lesser known, but still significant, population of stem cells also resides within the early developing embryo: trophoblast stem cells (TSCs).

Together, this translational program is developed within the National Cancer and Cognition Platform (CNO / Ligue Nationale contre le cancer), with the aim to collaborate in a structured way with French oncology groups, research teams as well as pharmaceutical industry, by providing preclinical models and guidance on standard operating procedures for ancillary or future studies in identified population at risk.

«The study provides conclusive evidence that fish populations in areas open to fishing can be replenished from populations within marine reserves.»

The study suggests that if sea levels continue to rise at the present rate, the islands will be lost within 100 years, and will have to be abandoned by the local population in approximately 50 years.

Diversity in Genomics Research Cohorts The lack of diversity within participant cohorts in genetics and genomics research limits our ability to study variation across the human genome and the genetic factors that influence health and disease, as well as our ability to ensure that every segment of the population is able to benefit from advances stemming from the research.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]-- A new study finds a significant racial disparity within a doubly troubled population of patients: those with HIV and Hodgkin lymphoma.

«We established a means to study viral populations within more complex communities and found that surface ocean viruses were passively transported on currents and that population abundances were structured by local environmental conditions,» said Sullivan, associate professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and a member of the BIO5 Institute.