Sentences with phrase «year experimental study»

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Lilly faced a devastating clinical setback last year with a late - stage failure for its experimental Alzheimer's treatment, the studies for which cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars.

«A study published last year in Experimental Brain Research appeared to provide some partial scientific support for this idea,» notes BPS, explaining that brain scans of experienced long - distance runners revealed running really does seem to reduce activity in certain key brain areas.

In addition, most doctoral students - particularly those working in highly experimental areas - are expected to embark on the practical work of their thesis right from the first year of their PhD studies, even though in theory the preparation of the thesis starts after having obtained the Advanced Studies Degree (one year of courses plus one year of guided research — see sistudies, even though in theory the preparation of the thesis starts after having obtained the Advanced Studies Degree (one year of courses plus one year of guided research — see siStudies Degree (one year of courses plus one year of guided research — see sidebar).

In «Calibrating 30 Years of Experimental Research: A Meta - Analysis of the Atmospheric Effects of Music, Scent, and Color,» Professors Holger Roschk of Alpen - Adria - Universität, in Austria, Professor Sandra Maria Correia Loureiro, of the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, and Jan Breitsoh, lecturer at the UK's Aberystwyth University, analyzed 66 studies of 15,621 shoppers — mostly women — conducted between 1982 and 2016.

Because the subjects in these closely watched studies are at such a high risk, researchers should know within the next few years if the experimental drugs will halt or delay the onset of the disease.

One year into her Ph.D. in Blanke's Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Lenggenhager helped develop an experimental concept aimed at recreating out - of - body experiences in healthy subjects as a way to study distorted self - consciousness.

If verified, the finding would be one of the most unusual experimental proofs of quantum mechanics in recent years and «a significant milestone», says John Pendry, a theoretical physicist at Imperial College London who was not involved in the study.

The study was the result of 15 years» work cataloguing the factors that plague the interpretation of scientific results, such as the misuse of statistics or poor experimental design.

In a four - year study conducted on the mouse model in advanced breast cancer metastasis in the eye's anterior chamber, Petty and colleagues found that the new nanoparticle not only killed tumor cells in the eye, but also extended the survival of experimental mice bearing 4T1 tumors, a cell line that is extremely difficult to kill.

Cognitive neuroscientist Giorgio Vallortigara of the University of Trento in Italy, who has studied performance of chicks on the seed - pecking test, says, «The idea of a link between lateralization strength and cognitive abilities has been around... for many years, but little comparative and experimental work has been done with animals.»

P. fluorescens produces as many as ten generations a day under the reported experimental conditions, which allowed the Georgia Tech scientists to study how they evolved over 120 generations — changes that would have taken hundreds of years in finches.

A new, 20 - year study, led by University of Illinois at Urbana — Champaign ecologist David Philipp, «provides the first direct experimental evidence that vulnerability to angling is a heritable trait,» the authors wrote.

Now in the second year of her PhD in Silvio Parodi's experimental oncology group at the National Institute for Cancer Research in Genoa, Stefania Pasa (see photo) was a studious child who often «preferred to... study rather than go out to the cinema.»

Risk of overlooking harmful effects of chemicals A reason why detection of early reproductive aging is important is that most studies of endocrine disrupting effects end before the experimental animals are a year old.

These studies were based on experimental work published earlier that year by Lloyd Old and Ted Boyse on the treatment of lymphosarcoma in dogs with L - asparaginase.

He also served for many years on the editorial board of the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and on study sections on pharmacology and on biomedical sciences for the National Institutes of Health.

In an NIH - funded study, an experimental vaccine triggered a lasting immune attack in monkeys that eliminated all traces of SIV infection after a year or more.

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new paper regarding new technologies and the evolution of experimental methods in the first two years of the Southern California Behavioral Response Study (SOCAL - BRS).

Emily Holmes, professor of psychology at Karolinska Institutet's Department of Clinical Neuroscience, has spent many years studying the kind of preventative effects that behavioural interventions — such as a procedure including the computer game Tetris — can have on reducing intrusive memories after experimental trauma.

In recent years we have seen extensive studies of different aspects of coherence and superposition, e.g. their possible (debated) role in biological systems, their experimental verification in double slit experiments with large molecules and also in their quantification in the framework of resource theories.

The study subjects were divided into two experimental groups and fed two different experimental diets for between 3 1/2 and 4 1/2 years, depending on the hospital.

From James Coleman's early observational studies of high schools to the experimental voucher evaluations of the past 15 years, researchers have routinely found that similar students do at least as well and, at times, better academically in private schools than in public schools.

The experimental evaluation of the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program is continuing into its fourth and final year of studying the impacts on students and parents.

In comparison, an experimental study of class sizes in Tennessee finds that reducing class size by one - third increases test scores by 4 percentile points in the first year at a cost of $ 2,151 per student per year (in 1996 dollars).

Two recent experimental evaluations of the Louisiana Scholarship Program found negative effects of the program on student test scores but one study was limited to just a single year of outcome data and the second one (which I am leading) has only analyzed two years of outcome data so far.

Two experimental studies of the Charlotte privately - funded scholarship program, here and here, reported clear positive effects on student test scores but were limited to just a single year after random assignment.

Using an experimental design, the study found no clear effects of using a voucher to enroll in a private school on students» test scores four years later.

The study examined the two - year experimental impacts of an integrated school - based intervention in social - emotional learning and literacy development on children's social - emotional, behavioral, and academic functioning.

Danish Shakeel, Kaitlin Anderson, and I conducted a meta - analysis of the 16 experimental studies, finding that the private - school - choice programs evaluated in the United States have increased student achievement by an average of.13 standard deviations in reading by the fourth year after the study started.

However, the most recent experimental evaluation of the D.C. voucher program showed negative test - score effects after one year, even though the study did not rely on a state - mandated test — and despite the fact that an earlier study of the program showed no effects.

A randomized trial involving 19 elementary schools (K — 5) was conducted to replicate and extend two previous experimental studies of the effects of a voluntary summer reading program that provided (a) books matched to students» reading levels and interests and (b) teacher scaffolding in the form of end - of - year comprehension lessons.

Based on 40 years of collected research and five years of real - classroom experimental / control studies

MCPER researchers and Central Texas teachers jointly developed the 18 - week STRIVE lessons based on several years of experimental pilot studies.

Jonathan Supovitz, The Linking Study — First Year Results: A Report of the First Year Effects of an Experimental Study of the Impact of Feedback to Teachers on Teaching and Learning (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2012).

For the experimental study, I randomized roughly 18,000 college - intending high school graduates into four experimental conditions in order to determine whether the behavioral framing of informational text messaging affects college enrollment, successful maintenance of TN Promise eligibility, and within - and between - year persistence.

Many of those evaluations — in New York City, Dayton, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., as well as in the states of Florida, Minnesota, and Louisiana — reported a modest increase or neutral impact on student achievement and graduation rates.9 The findings of some of these studies, however, have more recently been called into question as methodological flaws were discovered when adding additional years or replicating the study.10 As a result, recent voucher program evaluations employ more rigorous research methods such as experimental and quasi-experimental designs and refine their use of certain variables.

Maturing into painting coagulates a background in Cinema and Stage Art with a love for writing, combined with years of study and experimental research into territories of human thought and metaphysics, and on the overall an auto - didactic and Dadaist approach to life.

For more than forty years, Sally Mann (b. 1951, Lexington, Virginia) has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs — a broad body of work that includes figure studies, still lifes, and landscapes.

By chance, the mother of the child in the video was also present at Kent State in May of that year, studying experimental music.

Changing his focus to studio art he remained two more years in Boulder to study under experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage.

Fourth - year film studies student Tamm won for his 10 - minute experimental film «hour) or a fis...,» (pronounced «our orifice»), an intensely graphic mélange of medical training videos.

In 1995, he left that institution for one year in order to study at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas San Carlos, in Mexico, where he took classes in experimental printmaking with María Eugenia Quintanilla.

«I have a co-funded — US Department of Energy and Manitoba Hydro — experimental warming study where we are heating the soil and air inside large chambers to simulate the climate 50 years from now to better quantify the effects of climate warming on boreal forest carbon budgets.

Fifteen years of studying two experimental wetlands has convinced Bill Mitsch that turning the reins over to Mother Nature makes the most sense when it comes to this area of ecological restoration.

In the article «Global atmospheric particle formation from CERN CLOUD measurements,» sciencemag.org, 49 authors concluded «Atmospheric aerosol nucleation has been studied for over 20 years, but the difficulty of performing laboratory nucleation - rate measurements close to atmospheric conditions means that global model simulations have not been directly based on experimental data.....

The good news is (at least from the perspective of science) that the role of carbon dioxide in climate change is very well established — at the theoretical level in terms of quantum physics, at the experimental level in terms of the study of the absorbtion and re-emission of radiation by carbon dioxide, at the numerical level (when equations get a little too complicated — but a good approximation can result from intensive computation by means of our fairly advanced computers), in terms of historical trends going back more than 500,000 years — and countless studies.

Studies were identified by searching Medline, HealthSTAR, PsycINFO, ERIC, and Current Contents for the years 1993 — 9 using the content terms child abuse, child neglect, battered child syndrome, incest, prevention and control, and screening combined with the methodological terms statistics and numerical data, aetiology, epidemiology, experimental design, meta - analysis, and literature review.

Additionally, some studies with institutionalized children experiencing neglect and transitioning into nurturing homes through adoption show an initial normalization of diurnal cortisol slopes, 10 but other studies show that years later dysregulated cortisol patterns are present again when compared with nonadopted children.33 This raises the possibility that early adversity may have programming effects on the HPA axis that become apparent with time and development, similar to what has been observed in experimental studies in primates and rodents.34 The follow - up assessment in the present study is ideally suited for testing the possibility of long - lasting reversals in HPA functioning.

A randomized trial of Early Head Start found that a treatment group received more hours of care and had fewer behaviour problems in the preschool years.23 Other experimental preschool studies have found lower rates of behaviour problems, conduct disorder, delinquency, and crime into adulthood among subjects placed in child care earlier in life.9, 24

Differences between Hispanic and non-Hispanic families in social capital and child development: First - year findings from an experimental study.