Sentences with phrase «few people in the study»

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One 2005 study found that those preferences can play out in how often people approach each other online: women who were 6» 3» tall received 40 % fewer messages than women who were a more average 5» 5», while men who were 6» 3» and 6» 4» got about 60 % more messages than men who were 5» 7» or 5» 8».

In Grant's documented studies, meeting the very people you help is the greatest motivator, even if limited to a few minutes.

He has co-authored published studies with titles such as «On wealth and the diversity of friendships: High social class people around the world have fewer international friends,» and «The Role of Positive Self - Evaluation on Cross-Cultural Differences in Well - Being.»

Few people actually studied the finances and underlying businesses of the companies that they invested in.

Titled «On wealth and the diversity of friendships: High social class people around the world have fewer international friends,» it studied the social ties between wealthy people around the world and was published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences in 2015.

Nevertheless, when I lived in Moscow and regularly attended the one weekly adult — education offering, a Bible study, fewer than thirty - five people were present, and the monk's instruction often seemed over their heads.

Actually at least in PA, studies have shown that hunting down the few cases of fraud (a very small percent) is actually more costly then ignoring it, and would hit the people who actually need it more then the 0.5 - 1 % who may be committing fraud.

Drawing on the large numbers of studies undertaken by people in the aid world and by independent researchers (few of these studies are cited in Lancaster's volume), he points out that the structural reforms have largely failed and the situation continues to deteriorate.

The argument that very few people are equipped to approach the sources is invalid; many people have studied the Himayana scriptures in translation to their deepest inward benefit and their greatest profit.

Actually, a recent study said that a few years ago, 1 in 3 young people believed in God, and now I believe it's 1 in 5 young people believe in god.

The extreme view that a person is «just a collection of atoms» is less persuasive in the light of tracer studies showing that the atoms in our bodies are replaced every few years; 6 the self that continues must be constituted by the relationships and patterns among atoms, rather than by the atoms in themselves.

An author of one of the studies, Jeane Twenge of San Diego State University, told NBC News, «It was interesting that fewer people participated in religion or prayed but more believed in an afterlife.»

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Because even though I write here in this space, daily baring my soul to a few thousand souls, the thought of getting on stage, in front of 200 people I see weekly, sometimes daily, at dance lessons and the park, at Bible study and the grocery store, to talk, oh, it made my knees knock.

Usually the officers of the churches involved in the process outlined above included few persons who had benefited by advanced studies or were intellectuals.

As a whole, fewer than one in five practitioners of non-Christian faiths personally know a Christian, while one in three non-religious people do, according to a study by Gordon - Conwell Theological Seminary's Center for the Study of Global Christianity (Cstudy by Gordon - Conwell Theological Seminary's Center for the Study of Global Christianity (CStudy of Global Christianity (CSGC).

Imagine in a few hundred years, children will study history of the 21st century in disbelief that so many people were victim of mass delusion.

Didn't a study just a few years ago, in Time Magazine, discover that Christians have more sex and better sex than single people who engage in sex?

Research shows that soups can help you lose weight: in one study, published in the journal Physiology & Behavior, people consumed the fewest calories on days when they ate soup rather than the same ingredients in solid form.

When the SCAT2 was issued, superseding the original SCAT published in 2005, the authors recommended continued reliance on the SAC until prospective studies could be conducted to assess the SCAT2's sensitivity (how good the test is in identifying athletes with concussion; for example, a test which is very sensitive will have few false negatives, rarely missing those later found to have concussion) and specificity (a test with high specificity will have few false positives, rarely mis - classifying people without concussion as having concussion).

Her study found that — rather than taking a breastfeeding class before the birth — having a lactation consultant sit with you in person during a few actual feedings increases confidence and your nursing ability.

A few studies in people have found a correlation between BPA and a higher incidence of certain health problems, but no direct evidence that BPA caused the problem.

«Without action to tackle youth unemployment, fewer young people will in future be persuaded to continue to participate in post-16 study and it will become increasingly difficult for teachers to motivate those who do.»

NYSUT, meanwhile, backed a study to determine whether any changes to the funding formula is necessary, which would also take into consideration the impact on a small school district when a resident receives a windfall through inheritance or winning the lottery — a factor that throw aid formulations out of whack in areas with few wealthy people.

The county executive pointed to a study by E.J. McMahon, founder and research director for the conservative Empire Center for Public Policy, who has said housing values in the state could decline by up to 20 percent if fewer people are unable to afford more expensive homes and instead put money toward taxes.

The birds have learned that «a few people clumped together in a field during the fall are dangerous and should be avoided because they may be hunters,» says Michael Conover, who studies wildland resources at Utah State University in Logan.

The results, though not surprising, offer a reminder that, with so many people vying for so few tenure - track faculty positions, «trainees need to do more self - analysis of where they are and what the realities are for them to potentially become a faculty member,» says study author Nathan Vanderford, an assistant professor of toxicology and cancer biology and assistant dean for academic development at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.

«Interestingly, previous studies have shown megakaryocytes and platelets in people with essential thrombocythemia have fewer Mpl receptors, which fits our model for excessive platelet production.

«In the last few months, we've diagnosed several people with the disease years before the diagnosis is typically made, which has changed how we do medicine in our nerve clinic,» says Michael Polydefkis, M.D., professor of neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and senior author on the studIn the last few months, we've diagnosed several people with the disease years before the diagnosis is typically made, which has changed how we do medicine in our nerve clinic,» says Michael Polydefkis, M.D., professor of neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and senior author on the studin our nerve clinic,» says Michael Polydefkis, M.D., professor of neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and senior author on the study.

I suspect there is a big skew in this data as well, with a few people studying a lot and most people not studying at all.

The peculiar nature of the earthquake was one reason it killed fewer than 9000 people, and it could have been far worse, says Jean - Philippe Avouac, a seismologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and leader of the studies, published today in Science and in Nature Geoscience.

A few people have studied this over the years, but there is certainly a lot to be learned and it is pretty clear though that what we eat in many ways can influence different hormones in the body and that probably does translate into our risk of various diseases, and in this case infertility.

The current small study did not measure whether or not women with the implant had fewer bone breaks than people who were in charge of their injections.

«Some clinical models suggest that saturated fat might interfere with activity in the the part of the brain that lets us know we're full, in addition to a few studies in people that suggest a diet high in saturated fat interferes with satiety.

In a 2016 study, Kalra and a colleague showed that self - driving cars would have to trek hundreds of millions or perhaps billions of miles to demonstrate with comfortable certainty that they caused fewer fatalities than the average person (about 1.1 per 100 million miles driven).

Based on findings from other studies, VanEpps says there is a potential concern that people who cut calories in one meal might «make up» for the calorie reductions later, whether at dinner or via snacking, though there is little evidence that participants in these studies were aware that lunches ordered in advance had fewer calories.

Trainees who come to study in a foreign country are more vulnerable than people who come to take a high - level job or to reunite with families because they often are less experienced, have fewer economic means, and lack local social support.

Your graduate studies in science have brought you a degree of book smarts that few people attain during their lifetimes.

She notes that this study looked at only static body postures, but together with subsequent experiments — including one in which people watched videos of gymnasts — it offers a possible mechanism for how the brain predicts what will happen a few seconds ahead of what we experience.

The results of the study suggest that «people's performance on various cognitive tasks is better the fewer changes they have to their brain connectivity,» said John Dylan Haynes, a neuroscientist at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin who studies cognition and was not involved in the study.

Surprisingly perhaps, the study also found that significantly fewer conflicts arise in large open office plans, where 25 more people work.

Milgram's original study design was simple: He gave 60 people in Wichita, Kansas, envelopes and the name of a target person — a stranger — along with a few details of that person's life.

Kuller and others are also concerned that if the proportion of black people included in studies is the same as that in the overall population — about 12 per cent — there will be too few in any one study to allow separate conclusions to be drawn about them.

Few reliable tools exist for detecting neural signals of awareness in people who appear unresponsive, says Lorina Naci, a neuroscientist at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, and lead author of the new study.

Many people know about the threatened polar bear and extinct passenger pigeon, but few have heard of endangered and extinct languages such as Eyak in Alaska, whose last speaker died in 2008, or Ubykh in Turkey, whose last fluent speaker died in 1992, says Tatsuya Amano, a zoologist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and lead author of the new study.

The results offer promise for using such incentives in a targeted manner, for example in those sites where fewer people have their HIV under control,» said Dr. Wafaa El - Sadr, HPTN Principal Investigator and study chair.

When comparing testing sites that dispensed coupons with those that did not, study results show there was no significant improvement in the percentage of people who were successfully linked to medical care after HIV diagnosis, possibly due to the fact that there were fewer than anticipated HIV - positive individuals identified at the HIV test sites.

Previous studies found that people with schizophrenia have fewer synapses in certain brain areas than people without the condition.

Very few people can tolerate a 30 percent reduction in calories, yet Weindruch insists the Wisconsin study carries an optimistic message.

«We were surprised to find that few randomized trials have successfully changed what people think and feel about vaccines, and those few that succeeded were minimally effective in increasing uptake,» the study said.