In - depth psychology analysis shows a large part of
the studied volunteers actually become more motivated by personal experiences and relationships.
Mega said Verily is also taking a long view, but expects that its Project Baseline, which involves collecting detailed health - related data from 10,000
study volunteers will produce some «new biology» — that is new insights into biology — in the next five years.
To figure out how best to handle life's shoulda - coulda - wouldas, the research team asked
study volunteers to try one of three interventions.
Persons who had not taken vitamin A or β - carotene supplements within the past month and who were not disqualified based on several exclusion criteria were eligible to become
study volunteers.
Five healthy nonsmokers (2 men and 3 women; age: 41 — 70 y; BMI: 22 — 29) were recruited as
study volunteers.
However, it has also been shown to induce symptoms of psychosis among healthy
study volunteers and is thought to be a risk factor in developing psychosis.
Of
the study volunteers, 46 had been diagnosed with bipolar I (history of mania) depression, 49 with bipolar II (history of hypomania) depression, and 52 with unipolar depression.
To measure the brain's response to sound, researchers play speech or music directly into the ears of
study volunteers.
But it can be difficult to get
study volunteers who represent a particular population.
In the second phase, half of
the study volunteers participated in a 20 - week behavioral intervention aimed at reducing their sodium intake to 1,500 mg / day by using spices and herbs.
Study volunteers underwent an MRI to visualize the prostate and any lesions.
Study volunteer Jan said: «The training was exhausting — like being in the gym every day, but it was huge fun.
Among the 19
study volunteers who lost 5 percent of their body weight, the function of insulin - secreting beta cells improved, as did insulin sensitivity in fat tissue, liver and skeletal muscle tissue.
A training manual — Protecting
Study Volunteers in Research — co-written by Rochester's Cynthia Dunn, director of the Clinical Research Institute, and Gary Chadwick, executive director of the Research Subjects Review Board, was released last September.
As the group solved the problems together, the research assistants allowed plenty of time for
the study volunteers to speak up.
A cord then connected the camera with a mobile phone carried by
study volunteers.
The researchers
studied volunteers» brains by using magnetic resonance imaging.
Different enough that computers were able to uniquely identify
the study volunteers by their brainwaves 94 percent of the time.
Follow - up experiments revealed evolutionary similarities between the virus in PC64 and another infecting a CAPRISA
study volunteer who developed the same type of bnAbs.
Study volunteers, with blindfolds and headsets to block their vision and hearing, used their sense of smell to find a location on the grid.
Study volunteers were screened carefully to confirm they were healthy and did not have symptoms of acute infection.
Research activities are supported by an active Community Advisory Board (CAB), which was created in 2005 as part of an effort to facilitate dialogue between community members,
study volunteers and the research team.
In all cases,
study volunteers play a crucial role.
The result: Sleep - deprived
study volunteers reported a 24 percent boost in appetite.
All of
the study volunteers had blood tests and a liver ultrasound.
The study volunteers participated in weekly sessions and practiced at home as well.
Half of
the study volunteers were told they were getting an «open - label» placebo and the others got nothing at all.
About half of
the study volunteers were regular coffee drinkers, so they might have been less prone to the effects of caffeine.
The study volunteers didn't have serious memory problems.
The study volunteers also answered a survey that measured signs of posttraumatic growth, with questions that centered on five factors: their response to new possibilities, their relationships to others, their personal strength, the amount of spiritual change, and their appreciation for life.
Not exact matches
(One is working as a teaching assistant while
studying for a master's degree in math; the other
volunteers at an animal shelter.)
Follow - up
studies that asked
volunteers to find time for 15 minutes of device - free solitude each day for a week and keep a journal of their experiences showed the same thing - fewer intense emotions and a greater awareness of subtle ones.
To test the effects of moderate anxiety on memory, the research team behind the
study gathered 80 undergrad
volunteers and used a standard personality questionnaire to determine their tendency towards anxiety.
An earlier
study found that people who
volunteered had higher levels of self - esteem and happiness compared to people who don't.
(
Volunteers with any sort of clinical anxiety issue were excluded from the
study.)
A
study of
volunteering in Germany explored how
volunteers were affected when their opportunities to help others were taken away:
Being affiliated with a university - sponsored space brings a certain cachet to your business, says Tucker Hutchinson, 27, cofounder of GoOverseas.com, a website for people looking to
study, teach,
volunteer or intern abroad.
Another fascinating
study recorded physiological reactions like pupil dilation in
volunteers as they looked at their Facebook accounts to find that browsing Facebook can evoke what they call flow state, the feeling you get when you're totally and happily engrossed in a project or new skill.
For the
study, the researchers split socially anxious
volunteers into three groups — one was asked to perform random acts of kindness, one was told to follow the usual course of exposure therapy and force themselves to participate in more social situations, and another was a control group who did nothing special.
As the International Buiness Times points out, recent
studies «found that disrupted sleep schedules of six - hour bouts decreased metabolism in
volunteers, which could translate to annual weight gain of 10 pounds.»
The research out of Beijing Normal University
studied the effects of anger by asking 73 male
volunteers to memorize pairs of faces and unsettling images, like injuries or crying children.
While one aspect of Stanford
study involved self - reporting (some participating
volunteers filled out a questionnaire on their perceptions of their own heart health), the most significant finding of the
study didn't come from that.
The researchers behind the
study that disrupted
volunteers» sleep suggested there may be a nasty cycle at work in the relationship between bad sleep and increased Alzheimer's risk.
The
study was based on 166
volunteers who were recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk, where you can make money by completing «Human Intelligence Tasks,» and it looked at their entire Instagram histories, which came out to about 43,950 photos.
As explained on the TED Ideas blog by economist and author Tim Harford, the
study compared
volunteers» productivity on a routine task in a variety of spaces.
And in the recent randomized
study — which was designed to assess the safety and tolerability of various doses in
volunteers from Canada, Germany, and the UK — IONIS - HTTRx appeared to substantially block the gene's pernicious message from getting through.
He recruited 500
volunteers from his company's call center in Shanghai for the
study, half of whom were accepted.
Also, many of the employees who
volunteered for the
study were among the youngest in the company.
In the
study, over 58,000
volunteers consensually provided their Facebook likes, detailed demographic profiles and the results of several psychometric tests.
Numerous
studies also show that homeowners participate more in
volunteer organizations and political activities.