Sentences with phrase «researchers tested their group»

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In a German study, researchers gave two groups of subjects, one well - rested and one sleep - deprived, a math test.

By comparing the results of 65,000 personality tests with Facebook behavior, the researchers were able to identify certain interests and groups that were strongly linked with specific personality traits.

The researchers had two groups of participants complete two versions of attention - testing tasks: one simple and the other challenging.

The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Sydney and examined three groups of students, who were tasked with completing an «alternate uses» test — a common creativity drill wherein subjects are given an object and asked to come up with as many uses for it as they can.

In the published paper, the researchers said they tested the technology with small groups of friends who were in their mid-20s.

Researchers hope the new study «will establish large - scale test norms and expected ranges of pre-competition scores for this age group, and will further investigate the capacity for K - D scores to capture closed head injury and concussion.»

Researchers tested a total of 735 boys in three age groups (6 - 8, 8 - 10, 10 - 12) for body mass and height, muscular strength and strength endurance, flexibility, speed and agility, cardiovascular endurance, and gross motor coordination.

Recently, a group of researchers tested this hypothesis.

The researchers told a second group of parents whose babies had tested positive on these skin prick tests to avoid peanuts until age 5.

After eighteen months, the researchers found that people in the first group, those who had exercised choice and control, scored higher on tests measuring activity and happiness compared to individuals in the second group.

On reanalysing data from the group's past studies, such as on pain sensitivity to hot water, the researchers found that mice tested by men showed lower baseline pain sensitivity than mice tested by women.The work indirectly demonstrates potential effects on nearly any kind of medical research, says Joseph Garner, who studies mouse behavior and well - being at Stanford University in California.

Kaplitt and his group are working with researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Md., to test the p11 gene therapy in non-human primates.

After a group of 60 volunteers tested the fitness bands, researchers realized that while most of the devices measured heart rate well, they all failed to accurately gauge energy expenditure.

Two groups of prominent researchers have started companies to provide just such a test, which would measure the length of one's telomeres.

To test this, the researchers recruited individuals with schizophrenia and a comparison group of healthy individuals.

Researchers tested 24 people, split into two gender - equal groups of tall and short, by putting them in an unfamiliar, dark room with only dim red LED lights on the ground or the ceiling for reference.

To develop the test, the researchers targeted unique stretches of DNA or RNA from every known group of viruses that infects humans and animals.

The researchers tested OCA in three groups of patients: 10 with primary BAD, where the intestine is otherwise healthy; 10 with secondary BAD, where malabsorption can occur as a result of another disease such as Crohn's; and eight with other causes of chronic diarrhea, who served as a control group.

Then, based on the numbers of species known in each of these groups today, the researchers were able to calculate the rate of species diversification in each and test the many putative causes of the explosion in orchid species.

While the current study group was composed of men who were of 97 percent white European descent, the results should also apply to women and other ethnic groups, but this should be tested in additional studies, researchers said.

More importantly, within the afflicted groups, both the mice and humans had similarly poor performance in the hidden target trials, making the Morris Maze Test a useful tool for comparing our two species, the researchers say.

Some combinations killed 100 percent of the bacteria, including 94 of the 364 three - drug groupings the researchers tested.

The researchers were able to validate the test in an additional group of 80 patients at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.

Today, researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, in collaboration with Leggett and his group, committed to test this scenario.

Two groups of children (ages 8 to 12) participated in a series of tests in which researchers administered tactile stimulation (low - frequency vibrations) to the skin of their fingers.

So the researchers tested interoceptive awareness in a group of 46 female university students by asking them to count their heartbeats without taking their own pulses.

To test this idea, deception researchers led by psychologist Aldert Vrij of the University of Portsmouth in England asked one group to lie convincingly and another group to tell the truth about a staged theft scenario that only the truth - tellers had experienced.

Practical jokes and pranks serve to both test social bonds and bring groups together, researchers find

To conduct the study, researchers started with two groups of chimps: one with little exposure to social and cognitive testing and no trading experience, and one with extensive bartering practice and language training.

The researchers tested samples of brain cells from people with MS and healthy control subjects and found evidence of the virus in the olfactory bulb in both groups.

To test whether men can also choose the most fertile scents from a set of unknown women, a group of researchers conceived a study using smelly T - shirts.

Instead of gathering and testing patients in person, as in traditional studies, 23andMe researchers turned to online Parkinson's support groups to subscribe 3,426 patients, free of charge, to their service, which uses a mailed - in spit sample to identify genetic traits and disease risk factors.

In phase I trials, researchers test a new drug or treatment in a small group of people for the first time to evaluate its safety, determine a safe dosage range, and identify side effects.

The researchers performed a metabolomics analysis, testing blood samples from a group of mice with the disorder and from a control group.

University of Calgary researchers including Luchman, Weiss and Dr. Greg Cairncross — director of SACRI, and leader of the Terry Fox Research Institute (TFRI) «Therapeutic Targeting of Glioblastoma research program at the university — are now working with cancer researchers Dr. Warren Mason (Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto) and Dr. Lesley Seymour (Director of the NCIC Clinical Trials Group's Investigational New Drug Program), and drug manufacturer AstraZeneca, to plan a clinical trial testing a similar, but newer, drug related to AZD8055 (called AZD2014), in combination with TMZ, in patients with glioblastoma.

In some cases, the researchers say, it was also able to identify individuals within the same group in separate tests a week or more later.

Now, a research group at the University of Tokyo (Professor Takuya Ueda, Professor Yukihide Tomari, Researcher Chunyan Yao and Research Associate Hiroshi M Sasaki,) and at Kyoto University (Researcher Hisashi Tadakuma), has developed a single - molecule imaging assay for observing target RNA cleavage by RISC in a test tube in real time for the first time, showing how RISC accurately cleaves and releases targets.

When the researchers evaluated the estrogen treated groups separately versus no treatment, they found significantly greater improvement in certain cognitive tests only in the group that received transdermal estrogen.

The researchers ran each group through a battery of standard motor control tests before and after the training.

A group of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) researchers and engineers have developed and tested an innovative new system for sampling small planktonic larvae in coastal ocean waters and understanding their distribution.

Social work researchers from the University of Washington have found that among a group of active - duty Army personnel who use illicit drugs, the most abused substance is synthetic marijuana, which is harder to detect than other drugs through standard drug tests.

To test these predictions the researchers hope to look at changes in the fossil record and gather further evidence to first identify sexual selection in a fossil group.

The volunteers, a group that took no psychiatric medicine, underwent a battery of cognitive tests and a psychological interview, in which a researcher asked about their personal history, including drug and alcohol use and the stressful experiences of their lives.

To test whether fatty acid levels in the bloodstream was a cause or a consequence of disease, the researchers turned to a zebrafish model of Crohn's disease that had been developed by Stefan Oehlers, a post-doctoral fellow in David Tobin's group at Duke.

That's why a group of researchers at NASA's Langley Research Center — the «bug team» — recently ran several flight tests of coatings that may one day reduce the amount of bug contamination on the wings of commercial aircraft.

In another paper, published July 12 in Developmental Science, the same group of researchers tested whether having a reputation for smarts would have an effect on cheating.

To test these results, the researchers did the analysis over again «in a subset of individuals who had very similar (brain injuries) to the other group,» Barbey said.

To test this, the researchers recruited a diverse group of 171 seventh - and eighth - graders and followed them from ages 13 through 27 years old.

With the test scores the researchers could predict — three years in advance — who in the normal group would become impaired and which of the mildly impaired patients would later develop Alzheimer's.

The researchers exposed a test group of flies to a loud, 120 decibel tone that lies in the center of a fruit fly's range of sounds it can hear.