Sentences with phrase «like similar studies»

The study, like some similar studies, relied on the C - BARQ questionaire for people to report different factors in their dog's aggressive behavior.

Like similar studies in other areas of educational controversy, however, these results are indicative but not uniformly regarded as conclusive.

Not exact matches

In line with the study about stressful jobs, other research demonstrates that similar forms of expressive writing (writing out your thoughts and feelings like in a diary) helps those coping with stressful situations such as unemployment.

Follow - up studies that targeted other «Big 5» personality traits, like openness, found similar results.

That view is likely biased — studies have shown interviewers tend to prefer candidates similar to them, judge candidates on fewer criteria than they think they're judging them on, and tend to let biases about matters like race and gender get in the way.

Similar essays include Ben Avery's study of the ramifications of the Fall as they play out in Jackie Brown and Russell Hemati's «Like A Man,» which illuminates the important role of group dynamics in the nature of sin.

My theology continued do diverge from that of mainline protestantism, but there was room in our church for that, and the best «bible» study I ever took introduced me not only to the likes of Marcus Borg, John Shelby Spong, and Dominic Crossan, but also to a few fellow church members I'd known for years, but had no idea they held beliefs similar to mine.

And then there are the studies he'd like to do on breast milk and cord blood in Australia to compare with similar overseas studies.

And it looks like that number has fallen since a similar study was done in 1990.

JonaRose Feinberg: And I have heard again I don't have studied about this but anecdotally it seems like identical twins are more likely to put themselves on a similar schedule both in terms of the sleep week and then later on in terms of their developmental milestones and things like that.

Other studies have reported similar results, even after controlling for additional risk factors, like child neglect, abuse, or having a mother with mental health problems (Lansford et al 2009; Coley et al 2014; Taylor et al 2010; MacKenzie et al 2015).

Other council members pointed to studies showing plastic bag use is on the rise in cities that have instituted similar punitive fees, like San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

In the future, a similar technique could help astronomers study clouds on Earth - like exoplanets.

NOT LIKE HOME Rocky super-Earth 55 Cancri e, seen in this artist's illustration, is about Earth's size, but a new study suggests it and other similar hot exoplanets probably formed in a completely different way than Earth did.

In a similar study Gratch co-authored with ICT senior research associate Gale Lucas and colleagues in 2016, participants were shown to often misread honesty when negotiating with each other because reassuring cues like head movement, positive language and even smiling signal honesty, but actually more frequently represent dishonest action and behaviors.

The researchers estimate that a fully populated 20 x 20 foot mussel raft similar to the one used in this study would clean an average of three million gallons of water and remove about 350 pounds of particulate matter, like dust and soot, daily.

Another problem is that modeling studies, like this one, are inherently less powerful than other kinds of medical research: randomized clinical trials, the gold standard in medical research, in which patients are randomly assigned different treatments or no treatment; case - control studies, which compare patients who have a condition with those who do not; or cohort studies, which determine the risk of contracting a disease by studying a group of people with similar demographics.

Many CS traits, including a very happy disposition, appear similar to those of another autism - like condition, Angelman Syndrome, but the study defines important differences.

The new study suggests that a similar technique could be used to attract local anesthetic - containing nanoparticles to specific areas, as an alternative to local anesthetic block — like that used for foot and ankle surgery, for example.

Dr Burgess is now appealing for people who know of someone who might have suffered similar symptoms of memory loss, or medical or allied health professionals working with someone like this, to contact him in order to build up knowledge and evidence in this field of study.

«I think the reduction of habitat definitely decreased their population size,» Hung says, noting something similar may explain the extinction of other outbreak species in North America, like the Rocky Mountain grasshopper in the western U.S. «Our study suggests that the combination of natural population size changes and human disturbances drove the rapid extinction of this bird.»

Unlike the particles in a coffee drop, the liquid crystal drop they studied was a solution of Sunset Yellow molecules that spontaneously combine to form rod - like macromolecular assemblies, similar to how rod - like molecules order to form the liquid crystals used in LCDs.

It also has similar side effects — like excitability, nervousness, and good mood.THE FINDINGS 36 healthy, well - educated, psychologically stable middle - aged adults who had never used hallucinogens volunteered for the study.

On parent - reporting measures, girls with autism seem to struggle more than boys with performing routine tasks like getting up and dressed or making small talk, even when the study group is normalized to meet similar basic clinical diagnostic criteria across sexes.

Studying animals that show similar hemispheric biases for their own vocalization — like primates, sea lions and horses — could reveal important clues about how ancient language - processing mechanisms are, she adds: «Evolutionarily, this could go far beyond primates to a common ancestor for all mammals.

«This study shows that the solutions that the brain finds for dealing with imperfect information often match optimal solutions that engineers have come up with for similar problems, like your phone's GPS.»

When William Langbauer, a biologist who was among the first to study elephant rumbles, look at the data, he was impressed: «The sonograms that they show in the paper — the pictures of what the sound looks like — look so incredibly similar to a vocalization of a live elephant.»

He adds that he would like to see similar studies in adoptive parents and in mothers who give up their children for adoption.

In topological insulators and the new class of materials the Princeton researchers studied, the unique properties of the atoms combine to create quantum effects that coax electrons into acting similar to a light wave instead of like individual particles.

«Upon hearing the bird vocalize, Mark was stunned that its call sounded nothing like Neotropical Dryocopus, and immediately knew we needed to examine its taxonomic status in the context of our recent Celeus study given that the Helmeted Woodpecker calls were most similar to several other Celeus species.

Ross studies chimp cognition at his zoo using a touchscreen that the animals can interact with whenever they feel like, and he says he doesn't see why similar experiments couldn't be conducted in sanctuaries.

«Brown dwarfs are strikingly similar to Jupiter so we study their atmospheres in order to look at what weather on other worlds might look like,» said Jonathan Gagné, a Backyard Worlds team member from the Carnegie Institution for Science.

That result led to the current study, a collaboration between the Shiloh and Levine laboratories to determine if Smurf1 plays a similar role in the autophagy of bacteria like M. tuberculosis inside cells.

It may be possible in future studies, he suggests, to determine whether children with developmental disorders like autism have brain structures that differ from the norm in a similar way.

Further research on how serotonin works in the human brain is needed, according to study author Dr. Toru Takumi, a senior team leader at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan, to determine whether drugs like fluoxetine could offer similar potential to treat humans with ASD.

«Although we didn't study other sports, it's reasonable to suppose that weight - bearing, high - impact, high - intensity exercise like tennis, badminton, basketball and handball will have similar effects to soccer.»

In response to similar concerns about human studies, the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2007 mandated that researchers conducting human clinical trials preregister the details in an online database like ClinicalTrials.gov.

In one study of 214 same - sex twins, identical twins were more likely to enjoy the same protein foods, but when it came to fruit and vegetables, their likes were only marginally more similar than with the pairs of non-identical twins.

«I respect the multimodal approach taken in this paper and would like to see it generate similar studies, either with different focal pollinators or with multiple pollinator classes sharing the same floral market place,» he adds.

Conversely, hawks tend to be strongly territorial, intolerant of human disturbance, and prefer prey like jackrabbits that occupy similar habitats,» said coauthor and USGS ecologist Kristy Howe, whose masters thesis research with WCS formed the foundation of this study.

In the course of this work, he has pioneered several new approaches in the fruit fly that have had important implications for mammalian neurobiology, including: the demonstration that the fruit fly has a sleep - like behavior similar to that of mammals, studies of physiological and behavioral consequences of mutations in a neurotransmitter system affecting one of the brain's principal chemical signals, studies making highly localized genetic alterations in the nervous system to alter behavior, and molecular identification of genes causing naturally occurring variation in behavior.

(21) Moreover, while the link between excessive visceral adipose tissue and age - independent diabetes and metabolic syndrome widely known, recent studies suggest instead that it is the accumulation of senescent subcutaneous adipocyte progenitors — and their abnormal metabolic function — that drives similar diabetes - like phenotypes during the «normal» aging process.

There are tradeoffs in using X-rays vs. electrons to study ultrafast processes at ultrasmall scales, he noted, though «even if the capabilities are similar, it's worth pursuing» because of the smaller size and lesser cost of machines like APEX and HiRES compared to X-ray free - electron lasers.

Although this limitation is present in other studies using similar artificial grammar - like nested sequences64, 104, the effects of length were typically not observed, possibly because the differences in duration in those studies were around 1 s compared to 3 s in the current experiment.

Studies like PREDICT - HD have shown similar findings in young people at risk for HD who have no obvious symptoms.

The self - tracking group used a computer program set up specifically for the study, but Jakicic says it's similar to commercially available apps and websites like MyFitnessPal.

«If you showed in a similar study with a gold standard outcome [like spirometry], among smokers and nonsmokers, that you could affect the incidence of COPD, I would imagine the committees that meet on this would take a serious look at increasing daily recommended intake [of vitamin E] for the general population,» he says.

A similar study published in «Food and Chemical Toxicology» in July 2013 also found that purified, decolorized whole leaf aloe juice didn't cause adverse effects like those sometimes experienced with untreated juice.

In studies, activities like coloring are able to produce a similar effect to meditation in the brain.

One study estimates that replacing all the refined sugar in the average diet with «alternative» sweeteners like maple syrup will increase the total antioxidant load of the diet similar to eating a single serving of nuts or berries (9).