Sentences with phrase «prior studies involving»

Prior studies involving loss aversion have found that the technique is more effective when people feel the threat of periodic and regular losses.

Not exact matches

The multi-center study involved the examination of 86 pairs of full - term, opioid - exposed newborns and their mothers who were taking prescribed methadone or buprenorphine for at least 30 days prior to delivery.

The new study involved 72 patients, all of whom had received at least two prior lines of therapy and whose disease had relapsed and no longer responded to treatment.

But the researchers found no significant changes in the expression of genes known to be involved in calcification from prior studies comparing strains with dramatically different calcification levels.

«Rissman's prior work demonstrated that CRF and its receptors are integrally involved in changes in another AD hallmark, tau phosphorylation,» said William Mobley, MD, PhD, chair of the Department of Neurosciences and interim co-director of the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study at UC San Diego.

The findings might have departed from prior studies because of the difference in size and study design, he said, explaining that much of the previous work in this area has been conducted in groups of 100 or fewer and mostly involved student subjects.

With grant support from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Wintemute had been conducting a retrospective cohort study looking at whether handgun buyers with prior misdemeanor convictions are more likely than those without a criminal history to be charged with new crimes, particularly those involving firearms and violence.

Prior to the Argo initiative, very few measurements were taken in the south, said John Abraham, a professor at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., who was not involved in the study.

The study involved a nationally representative survey of 3,760 men and women in Finland who had been working at any time in the prior year.

The complexity of the new study «had a big impact on how certain we were» that «we would be able to do a sensible analysis,» said Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, a Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute climate scientist who was involved with this and prior rapid attribution studies.

Prior to Joining IDRI, Matthew worked at the Institut de Biologie Integrative de la Cellule, France with Dr. Frederic Boccard applying super resolution microscopy to study the temporal and spatial localization of proteins involved in bacterial chromosome organization.

The physiatrists and occupational therapists involved in this study received training prior to the study to standardize the therapeutic protocol.

Prior to joining IDRI in 2013, Shilah worked at Portland State University as a Postdoctoral Scientist studying the metabolic pathways and enzymes involved in the generation of natural products (drug discovery) and olefins (biofuels development).

One study involved 9 days of probiotic supplementation (Lactobacillus reuteri vs. control) prior to experimental colorectal distension in rats.

I studied horticulture and prior to my back becoming a problem was involved in many years of hard physical work.

We selected the particular classrooms involved in the study based on our prior work with the classroom teacher.

Today's older drivers are not only less likely to be involved in crashes than prior generations, they are less likely to be killed or seriously injured if they do crash, a new Institute study shows.

The study involved 46 dogs with no prior obedience training.

I have concentrated on the Bayesian inference involved in such studies, since they seem to me in many cases to use inappropriate prior distributions that heavily fatten the upper tail of the estimated PDF for S. I may write a future post concerning that issue, but in this post I want to deal with more basic statistical issues arising in what is, probably, the most important of the Bayesian studies whose PDFs for climate sensitivity were featured in AR4.

While Mass was not involved with the new study, his prior research reached similar conclusions regarding a strong influence of Pacific Ocean cycles on changes in annual snowpack levels in the Cascade mountains.

The quality of the analysis prior to 1979 is simply nowhere near as good,» said Trenberth, who also was not involved in the study.

John Whitman says: November 3, 2011 at 4:54 pm «Prior to the posing of the null hypothesis is a process step involving observation of the aspect of nature you want to study.

Prior to the posing of the null hypothesis is a process step involving observation of the aspect of nature you want to study.

Severe and permanent alteration of prior structure and function involving one or both legs as a result of which the insured person's score on the Spinal Cord Independence Measure, Version III, item 12 (Mobility Indoors), as published in Catz, A., Itzkovich, M., Tesio L. et al, A multicentre international study on the Spinal Cord Independence Measure, version III: Rasch psychometric validation, Spinal Cord (2007) 45, 275 - 291 and applied over a distance of up to 10 metres on an even indoor surface is 0 to 5.

This can involve facilitating cash payments (known as «Crisis Payment») to be provided to people released from prison outside business hours, assistance with issues relating to proof of identity and study expenses while in custody, prevention of debts upon entry to prison and better access to Centrelink services prior to release.

These changes, designed to make the interventions more suitable for the primary care setting and clientele, did not seem to be significant changes from prior research since the «dose» findings in this study are similar to the «completer» findings of prior research, and because prior studies of less intensive interventions involving therapist contact also show similar effects for less intensive treatments.

These families will not be involved in the main cohort study, and their data will be used to provide age 1, 2 and 3 baseline measures of the levels of parent and child well - being in the sites prior to implementation of ABS.

In the realm of trait variables, in a longitudinal study of stable outpatients involving an initial assessment and a 9 - mo follow - up session, 24 those who scored high on a self - report measure of trait anxiety at the initial assessment and who experienced one or more «independent» stressful life events (ie, events not caused by patient behavior) during the month prior to the follow - up session showed significant increases in psychotic symptoms compared with those who either were low in trait anxiety or had no independent stressful life events.