Sentences with phrase «earlier experiments found»

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Elan Morgan, mentioned earlier for her experiment in quitting likes for 2 weeks, found an additional benefit to prioritizing commenting over «Liking» — it effectively retrained the Facebook algorithm to give her more of the content she wanted.

I would say I was relatively flexible with her, because I was desperate to find what was best for her but still kept it pretty scheduled (for example: experimenting with changing wake times or bedtimes, tweaking the bedtime routine, adding / removing dream feeds and cluster feeds, etc.) She started sleeping longer stretches pretty early and at 3 months I could count on getting a 6 - 7 hour stretch, but every once in a while she'd go 8 - 10 hours without a feeding.

Mischel intended the experiment merely as a look into how children resist temptation, but when he began tracking down the marshmallow kids in the early 1980s, he found that those who'd waited for two marshmallows at age 4 had much higher SAT scores and better academic records as teenagers.

If you've already read the first part of this book you know that an earlier bedtime is often best for a child, and sometimes a bedtime change won't affect awakening time, but you certainly can experiment with this to see if you can find a happy medium that works for both of you.

An experiment by biochemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey over 60 years ago established that, if you take the wet, disorganized ingredients found on early Earth — water, ammonia, methane, hydrogen — and add an electric spark, you get amino acids, the building blocks of all known life.

If the stars» positions actually deviated from Einstein's predictions but to a lesser degree, those earlier experiments would not have been able to find a measurable difference in the stars» positions.

In the experiments, the researchers found that merely exposing 6 - month - old infants to nonhuman primate vocalizations permits them to preserve, rather than sever, their early link between these signals and categorization.

Experiments now suggest that earlier forms of life could have been based on a third kind of molecule found in today's organisms: RNA.

By replacing early and late eggs in field experiments, the team found that by biasing the sex of the eggs and laying them in a particular order, the mother increased chick survival by 10 % to 20 % over chicks from eggs laid in no particular order, they report in the 11 January issue of Science.

As probably happened when you performed this experiment earlier, the scientists found that the patient was more likely to see Clinton when previously exposed to four seconds of Bush, and vice versa.

In an earlier onshore experiment, Spotila tried to estimate the material going into and out of the St. Elias Mountains, and found it difficult to precisely bound the region.

Social psychologists from SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Poland replicated a modern version of the Milgram experiment and found results similar to studies conducted 50 years earlier.

Perusing the literature, he found earlier experiments that demonstrated a crucial part of the amygdala known as the central nucleus contained links to the key brain stem areas that control the autonomic functions involved in the fear response, like acceleration of breathing and heart rate.

However, even though an adolescent with good language and cognitive skills may experiment with drinking earlier than his / her less advanced peer, better verbal and intellectual abilities have [also] been found to be protective against developing severe problems with alcohol and other substances in adulthood.»

Yet an extraordinary «natural experiment» in a Kansas mental hospital early this century found that patients who were castrated (in the dubious hope of controlling their violent behaviour) lived far longer — on average to 69 years of age whereas intact males managed a mere 56.

In his early experiments with captive bats, he found animals willing to regurgitate on occasion for a hungry bat with no kinship connection.

Though scientists have not yet found a new particle tied to the force, they did see that the long - range spin - spin interaction had to be smaller by a factor of 1 million than earlier experiments showed.

In a Stony Brook University - led study that uses website - based experiments to uncover whether the age - old adage that «success breeds success» is a reality, researchers found that early success bestowed on individuals produced significant increases in subsequent rates of success, in comparison to non-recipients of success.

A court in 1987 concluded that the LD50 studies in animals were «grossly inadequate» according to the standards in the early 1950's: the Army found that all mice died at 100 mg / kg and no mice died at 12 mg / kg, but the Army performed no further animal experiments.

Early this century, approximately 10 experiments found hints of evidence for the pentaquark, a particle consisting of five quarks, when no other known particle had more than three.

Despite earlier reports of a possible detection, a joint analysis of data from ESA's Planck satellite and the ground - based BICEP2 and Keck Array experiments has found no conclusive evidence of primordial gravitational waves.

We integrate the latest findings with earlier pioneering work in this field, point out major questions and challenges, and suggest how new experiments could address them.

Finding new ways to take care of my teeth and prevent cavities was one of my earliest experiments on the road to healthy living and the results convinced me of the power of a real food diet.

The book also mentions similar results found a few years earlier in lab rat experiments at U of Valencia in Spain and U of Wisconsin, Madison.

Based on these early rat experiments the amino acid pattern found in animal products was declared to be the «gold standard» by which to compare the amino acid pattern of vegetable foods.

The study of electricity in muscles probably began as early as the middle of the 1600s, with the discovery of the electric ray fish and experiments using frog legs (Clarys, 1994; Reaz et al. 2006), although it was not until 1792 that it was discovered that electricity could actually produce muscle contractions (Reaz et al. 2006), and 1849, when it was found that electric potential difference (also known as voltage) could be monitored in voluntary muscle actions (Reaz et al. 2006).

A test - tube experiment found that a relatively low dose of about 4 grams of borax can damage lymphocytes, just like an earlier test - tube study showed that vitamin C supplements are toxic.

In this moment, Campion finds one of her earliest platforms for experimenting with expressionistic conventions of cinema like the chiaroscuro - style lighting of Ingmar Bergman, the inky suburban subconscious of David Lynch and Peter Weir's haunting images of lost girls.3 With this scene, Campion also perfectly encapsulates the isolating, confusing and ultimately frightening mood around adolescent, female sexuality in pre-feminist Australian suburbia of the «60s.

In this moment, Campion finds one of her earliest platforms for experimenting with expressionistic conventions of cinema like the chiaroscuro - style lighting of Ingmar Bergman, the inky suburban subconscious of David Lynch and Peter Weir's haunting images of lost girls.

«Conclusive evidence has shown the benefits of class sizes of 1:15, especially in the primary grades,» says Charles M. Achilles, a professor of educational administration at Eastern Michigan University, in Small Classes, Big Possibilities, an article he penned for The School Administrator: «Since the early, 1980s, a large - scale project in Indiana, a major experiment in Tennessee, numerous smaller studies and evaluations of projects that use low adult - to - student ratios have found that youngsters in small classes (1:15 or so) as compared to youngsters in larger classes

As using mobile phones and other mobile computing devices in lessons has become more «socially acceptable» over the last year, the early adopters who have the mandate to experiment with social media and blogging have found them another good tool to support learning.

An ambitious experiment created by Harvard economist Roland Fryer to export and scale the practices of high - performing charter school chains to public schools in Houston appears to be bearing early fruit, according to Fryer's findings in a recent report.

He published his early findings in 1891 as Experiments in Aerodynamics, which at once illustrated his greatest strengths and most glaring weaknesses.

On PC, games like Assetto Corsa, Next Car Game, Project CARS, rFactor 2 et al are experimenting with early access and free - to - play models, and they're finding funders, buyers and gamers.

That instinct for finding common ground between old and new, rarefied and popular mediums is also much in evidence at the Whitney show, which tracks Stella's career from those early canvases into recent sculptural experiments with 3D printing.

A student of Hans Hofmann and Chaim Gross, Nevelson experimented with early conceptual art using found objects, and dabbled in painting and printing before dedicating her lifework to sculpture.

In the early 1890s, Monet painted numerous views of a stand of poplar trees along the bank of the river Epte and there found a rigid but satisfyingly contrapuntal compositional structure with which he experimented, in his epochal manner, with the optically dematerializing effects of variously filtered light.

An installation of Flavin's «icons,» his earliest experiments with artificial light, at the Dan Flavin Art Institute in Bridgehampton shows the artist finding his way to his more famous fluorescent sculptures.

He founded the not - for - profit production company Giorno Poetry Systems and organised a number of early multimedia poetry experiments and events, including Dial - A-Poem.

Edward Clark's abstract expressionist tondo The Big Egg (1968) establishes the artist among the earliest American painters to experiment with oval forms (later explored by artists like Jasper Johns), while works by the 1970s black artist collective AfriCOBRA — who operated loosely as the visual arts arm of the Black Arts Movement, and whose influence can be found in the work of Kerry James Marshall and David Hammons — are given prominence.

In the early galleries alongside we find the works of Tony Tuckson, an abstract expressionist experimenting with found objects, and the collaborative paintings of Mike Brown, Ross Crothall and Colin Lanceley, with their funky, colourful assemblages that echoed early pop but also French New Realism.

From early experiments with painting and performative events, many subsequently recycled into new works through unexpected arrangements of found materials and objects, to an innovative use of video and sound in pioneering multi-media installations, Hiller's work has retained an extraordinary consistency in its exploration of overlapping themes.

However, although this conclusion was found from the experiment, this has never been reported in earlier studies of adolescent depression.

PPND has experimented with various ways to help people find relevant content, from the image maps published early on to the three books bringing together articles around important themes: resilience, gratitude, and character strengths.

Early on in our homemaking, we started experimenting with making over cast - off furniture and hunting through thrift and vintage stores to find affordable, unique decorative accessories.