Sentences with phrase «several studies reviewed»

In several studies reviewed by the American Psychological Association (APA) it was found that playing video games not only improves children's problem - solving and reasoning skills but also strengthens cognitive skills like memory and spatial navigation.

Playing first person shooters is found to strengthen a range of cognitive skills such as spatial navigation, reasoning, memory and perception, according to several studies reviewed in the article.

However, teachers» growth remains insignificant unless video observation is accompanied by ongoing, supportive, and professional conversations with a colleague or supervisor, according to several studies reviewed in Joel K. Brame's 2004 dissertation on the topic.

Several studies reviewed indicated that using yoga as therapy combated insulin resistance by improving fasting glucose (with improvements ranging from a 5.4 % to a 33.4 % decrease in fasting glucose levels), postprandial glucose levels (blood sugar levels after meals), and glycohemoglobin levels (a measure of the long - term control of diabetes mellitus).

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Chew tells me that one of the main reasons he's drawn to Omada is that the company has several wide - ranging studies published in actual peer - reviewed medical journals suggesting its system really works.

A review of several such studies found that viewing fictional medical TV programs had a negative influence on viewers» health - related knowledge, perceptions or behaviour in 11 % of studies, a positive influence in 32 % of studies, and mixed influence in 58 %.

Several large, recent, peer - reviewed studies have suggested a fascinating but seemingly counterintuitive idea: That the amount of fat you eat may not be as directly linked with how fat you are as we once thought.

Research from several sources, including a study by the American Sociological Review, has found that people with flexible schedules report that their overall sense of well - being increases with flexible work options.

The purpose of the study is to show the size and nature of the UK's advice sector two years after the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) was implemented and commission - based sales were banned.The RDR had several aims — to improve the investment management service to clients, to increase the standards of professionalism for advisers, and to clarify the way advisers are paid for their services.

The past two years have seen the appearance of an informative Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (4 vols., edited by Leonard W. Levy [Macmillan]-RRB-, several outstanding studies on its intellectual background (including Forrest McDonald's Novus Ordo Seculorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution [University Press of Kansas] and Morton White's Philosophy, The Federalist, and the Constitution [Oxford University Press], at least one pathbreaking effort to trace the document's role through the years (Michael Kammen's A Machine That Would Go of Itself The Constitution in American Culture [Knopf]-RRB- and a gaggle of good books on its religious themes (see Martin Marty's review in The Century [«James Madison Revisited,» April 9.

Several recent studies by research organizations, among them Biblical Archaeology Review and Pew International, have revealed that atheists and agnostics have a more substantial knowledge and understanding of the Bible than True Believers.

Several churches I know of have a mid-week «Pastor's Study» which is taught by the pastor, and is devoted to reviewing the sermon that was preached the previous Sunday, and answering any questions that people might have.

In a recent careful review of several studies lately published about Charles Darwin and his influence, Professor Gillispie, of Princeton University, noted that with most of the Victorian «rationalists» and «agnostics,» the «decisive factor» in their turning from the Christian faith was «in no case the findings of science.»

There are several studies, published in peer reviewed journals that are really quite suggestive that consciousness is in some way unrelated to the biological functioning of the brain.

Several references for studies related to soup and weight management can be found in the Campbell's Research Review on Soup as a Weight Management Strategy at http://www.campbellwellness.com/pdf/SoupReportforWeb.pdf

The SEC announced last week that its working group had reviewed each member school's concussion management plans, NCAA studies, the NFL's health and safety report and sideline concussion assessment tool, along with several other studies.

Several reviews have concluded that home visiting can be an effective strategy to improve the health and developmental outcomes of children from socially disadvantaged families.2 - 4 However, effects have not been found consistently and some studies have reported no impact.

The group's Mary Anne Kowalski says after several months, they've received their first batch of documents, and have found that the health officials are actually doing a pretty thorough job of reviewing numerous studies.

The group's Mary Anne Kowalski says after several months, they've received their first batch of documents and have found that health officials are actually doing a pretty thorough job of reviewing numerous studies.

Two researchers from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health published a review in the November 20th issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, of several hundred smoking studies.

But several years later, another physician challenged that conclusion because 8 of 10 studies in a meta - analysis — a review of studies — that Jefferson relied on had never been published.

«In our review of research, we did find some support across several studies both for using English as the language of instruction and for incorporating the home language into strategies that focused on language and literacy,» said Buysse.

In a 2010 review article, University of Maryland psychologists Allan Wigfield and Jenna Cambria noted that several studies have found a positive correlation between valuing a subject in school and a student's willingness to investigate a question independently.

The review's authors note that most available studies are biased by several drawbacks; however, probiotics, synbiotics, psyllium, and some herbal medicinal products (primarily peppermint oil) seem to be effective in ameliorating IBS symptoms.

This year alone, several studies and review articles have posited tentative links between radiation produced by cellular phones and the development of brain tumors.

«Our review of the literature showed several positive trial results, but we also found important research limitations in the studies, indicating a need for higher quality, more definitive trials on antidepressant use for postsurgical pain.»

For example, several of the studies reviewed by the IUPUI researchers found that ignoring strategies are associated with less pain, whereas praying and hoping and catastrophizing are associated with higher pain levels.

Since Lockley left Britain for the «Wild West» of America, where dinosaurs once roamed in abundance, he has fostered the study of dinosaur footprints, writing several technical books such as Dinosaur Tracks (Columbia University Press, 1995; reviewed in New Scientist, 7 October 1995, p 65).

Since this past February, experts have been reviewing alternative sites, including several that were studied when the TMT began serious planning in the mid-2000s.

«By reviewing studies that collectively examined vitamin D levels in 17,332 cancer patients, our analysis demonstrated that vitamin D levels are linked to better outcomes in several types of cancer,» said one of the study's authors, Hui Wang, MD, PhD, Professor of the Institute for Nutritional Sciences at the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai, China.

«Our study has several distinct strengths compared to prior studies including the large number of participants, long - term follow - up, large number of cardiovascular events that were confirmed by medical record review, detailed information about diet and other cardiovascular disease risk factors, and repeated assessment of calcium supplement use over the 24 - year follow up period,» said Julie Paik, MD, MPH, BWH Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, lead study author.

The new study published in the peer - reviewed journal Global Change Biology says such increased flow variability has the most negative effect on salmon populations of several climate factors considered.

Professor Paul Upchurch (UCL Earth Sciences), co-author of the Biological Reviews study, added: «Several previous methodological studies have shown that it is important to include as many species in an evolutionary tree as possible: this generally improves the accuracy of the tree.

According to a review of several studies, up to 30 percent of medical errors are errors of diagnosis.

I've done some research and found several sociological, peer - reviewed studies that describe this process.

Social support was negatively associated with distress by several studies; the review found that several different measures of social support (the tendency to use a partner, friends and / or family when experiencing difficulties and distress), were associated with far better emotional outcomes, both for the women who got pregnant and those who didn't.

Ask several colleagues who have study section experience to review your grant.

Forgas reviewed several of his studies in which researchers induced either a good or bad mood in volunteers.

Both studies were based on the review of medical records of all HIV - infected women delivering babies in Philadelphia over several years (2005 - 2011 and 2005 - 2013, respectively).

Based on the data from several influential studies, which are reviewed in the article, Dalen and Devries concluded that emphasizing certain food groups, while encouraging people to decrease others, is more cardioprotective and overall better at preventing heart disease than a blanket low - fat diet.

In October, members of JCVI, the Center for Strategic & International Studies and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology released a report offering policy options for oversight, and several leading synthetic biologists have published papers on the matter in peer - reviewed journals.

The two new systematic literature reviews also describe recently published results from several mother and child cohort studies linking organic milk and dairy product consumption to a reduced risk of certain diseases.

She is the principal investigator on several large research projects funded by the National Institutes of Health to study the end - stages of dementia and has been a lead author on many articles in top peer - reviewed journals related to this topic.

In fact, several studies have demonstrated that infant immunization in the presence of maternal Abs leads to poor Ab responses (reviewed in Ref.

Dr. Kizhatil has been an extremely productive scientist and has published several high - quality papers in peer - reviewed journals during both his graduate work as well as postdoctoral studies.

He has served on several scientific review study sections of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Several LRD steering committee members already had informally spoken with study - section scientific review officers to see if they were receptive to getting suggestions for lipid - centric reviewers.

In one eye - opening review of recent research, Charles Drake, M.D., Ph.D., of Johns Hopkins, who is also a member of CRI's clinical trials network, discussed several cancer vaccines that are making progress, including coxsackievirus A21, an oncolytic virus vaccine being studied in late stage melanoma, and NewLink's algenpantucel - L in pancreatic cancer (HyperAcute ® pancreas).

In 1996, in response to these concerns, Varmus, then director of NIH, impaneled a group of experienced clinical investigators and academic health center administrators to make recommendations that might guide the NIH toward policy changes to alleviate the concerns in the clinical research community.14 Several of the panel's recommendations have been implemented, including increased support of the General Clinical Research Center budget, expanded support of training in clinical research, and the establishment of NIH - sponsored educational debt relief programs for clinical investigators.15 - 18 The panel also recommended restructuring of NIH peer review groups so that patient - oriented grant applications would be evaluated by study sections in which at least half the grant applications involve patient - oriented research.

A recent review of studies conducted mainly in adults highlights several methodological variables including concatenation of specific task blocks, the use of low - pass filtering, regression of main effects of task, and methods for selecting regions - of - interest that result in considerable heterogeneity between studies with respect to how functional connectivity is conceptualized and analyzed.