Sentences with phrase «study the researchers did»

Study The researchers did an 8 - week long experiment with 39 people aged 45 - 91, all of whom cared for a family member with dementia.

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Twitter did not say when the study will conclude, but the researchers said they would publish their findings and post their methodology on a public research website so that others can try to replicate it to confirm their results.

RALEIGH, N.C. — A public water utility studied what it was serving to its 200,000 North Carolina customers and found it contained multiple unregulated industrial chemicals with uncertain health effects, including some substances that university researchers didn't know existed, legislators learned Thursday.

According to an independent study done by nonprofit researchers SRI International, students who used Dreambox for four months improved their test scores by about 5 percent.

In several animal studies, researchers have demonstrated that moderate alcohol consumption does not promote weight gain.

A recent study done by two business school researchers says that social media really can influence the amount of money you spend to the point that you can't control yourself.

The study doesn't provide a definitive answer, but the researchers speculate that the ability to rapidly assess a situation, call funny associations to mind, or course correct when a response falls flat may account for the association between a quick mind and exceptional charisma.

Most of the health benefits researchers have found have been in observational studies, meaning we don't know that drinking coffee is responsible for the reductions in disease risk.

For the study, the researchers split socially anxious volunteers into three groups — one was asked to perform random acts of kindness, one was told to follow the usual course of exposure therapy and force themselves to participate in more social situations, and another was a control group who did nothing special.

A study from researchers at McMaster University found that people over 40 who regularly did cardio tended to have healthier skin than their sedentary peers.

In a previous study, the same researchers found they help accelerate a toddler's motor development compared to infants who don't use them.

While the study does associate smartphones and tablets with potential sleep problems, researchers don't yet think it's necessary to ban them outright.

A new study, conducted by researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center, serves up the grim conclusion that calorie labels, on their own, do not reduce the overall number of calories ordered.

Besides randomized controlled clinical trials, there are a number of ways researchers can study how a particular cancer treatment is playing out in the real world: there are retrospective studies, observational studies, and even prospective research done using patient registries.

One study conducted at UC Riverside found that Anglo - Americans benefitted more from happiness - increasing activities; however, researchers did see a small trend that Asians gained more from activities directed toward benefitting others» happiness, like writing a letter of gratitude, than activities strictly intended to benefit the self.

In 2015, researchers from Harvard and the Boston Attention and Learning Laboratory published a joint study that found people in their mid-40s — specifically, age 43 — tended to do the best on tests of concentration.

In a study done last month in the journal Environment and Behavior, researchers at Cornell University manipulated the gaze of the cartoon rabbit on Trix cereal boxes and found that adult subjects were more likely to choose Trix over competing brands if the rabbit was looking at them rather than away.

In a recent study, researchers found that students who drank alcohol after studying were better at recalling what they had learned, compared to students who didn't.

For the January study focused on heart health, researchers split 53 adults into two groups, one of which did two years of supervised exercise four to five days a week, while the other simply did yoga and balance exercises.

Conveniently, that post links to studies, but not the IWPR's analysis, but rather to a brief commentary by a researcher from the Economic Policy Institute in 2011 that doesn't mention what a higher wage will do to poverty levels.

When researchers out of Russia examined the sleep and wakefulness rhythms of 130 study subjects (by keeping the obliging participants up for a full 24 hours and quizzing them periodically about how they were feeling), the scientists found that some folks really didn't prefer early or late hours.

In a study funded by NASA, David Dinges, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and a team of researchers found that letting astronauts sleep for as little as fifteen minutes markedly improved their cognitive performance, even when the nap didn't lead to an increase in alertness or the ability to pay more attention to a boring task.

They don't scare away other predators that prey on geladas — the researchers saw feral dogs kill numerous monkeys during the study.

Not long ago, researchers at the University of Manitoba's Human - Computer Interaction Lab conducted a study in which participants were asked to do 80 minutes of painfully dull drudge work under the supervision of a human, or that of a computer named Nao.

«People often make decisions that are influenced by emotions that have nothing to do with the decisions they are making,» says Stéphane Côté, a professor at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, who co-wrote the study with lead researcher Jeremy Yip of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

A new study by researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York suggests that bondholders still don't believe the government would ever let the firms collapse into bankruptcy — after a decade of efforts by regulators to convince them otherwise.

All the major oilsands companies are seriously pushing technology to reduce emissions and costs, and have been doing so extremely seriously the past couple years since the price crash of late 2014 and the Paris Agreement,» says Vredenburg, who also led a team of researchers that studied open innovation among energy companies.

One of the authors, Berkeley researcher Emiliana Simon - Thomas, said that Kogan had invited her to join the study but that she did not remember many details about it.

In studies covering more than 1,200 major deals, researchers have consistently found that, at the time of announcement, shareholders of acquiring companies fare worse in stock transactions than they do in cash transactions.

DiscoverOrg partnered with sales researcher Steve W. Martin to do a comprehensive study of 230 business decision - makers and got their candid thoughts about how they made their decisions - and why they select the vendors they do.

A recent paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research studied what happens to scientific subfields when star researchers die suddenly and at the peak of their abilities, and finds that while there is considerable evidence that young researchers are reluctant to challenge scientific superstars, a sudden and unexpected death does not significantly improve the situation, particularly when «key collaborators of the star are in a position to channel resources (such as editorial goodwill or funding) to insiders.»

«A study in the United States, published in the Social Forces journal and conducted by Sociology researcher Lisa A. Keister while she was at the Ohio State University, found that adherents of Judaism attained the most wealth, believers of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were in the middle, while conservative Protestants accu - mulated the least wealth, while in general people who attend religious services achieved more wealth than those who do not (taking into account variations of education and other factors).

I note that the researcher in the article which you cited above was careful to choose Buddhist monks for his study and not just anyone as if he did the latter, there would be the possibility that he would encounter persons like myself whose minds dissociate during intense / deep meditation given that the biology of such persons predisposes them to this:

There have been studies done on long - term meditators, and researchers have found through FMRI's that there are distinct changes in areas of the brain that typically lead to greater levels of peace, well - being and better mental and emotional control.

In carrying out the study, researchers made sure to delineate the students who are food insecure — not eating at all or not eating enough because they can't afford to — from students who don't want to eat or want to use their money for other purposes.

Reflecting the results all the studies, the mainstream view among researchers and professionals who work in the area of child sexual abuse is that homosexual and bisexual men do not pose any special threat to children.

In fact, a recent study done by researchers at Harvard University reported that increased magnesium may slash heart disease by as much as 30 %.

Determined to do so, the researchers devised a study in which they utilized volunteers from introductory psychology classes at Clemson.

With researchers producing a seemingly constant stream of studies about alcohol's protective effects against dementia, heart disease and other serious health issues, it can be easy for wine lovers to believe their nightly glass of vino is doing -LSB-...]

Secret to terroir may lie in bacteria, say scientists: Researchers in the U.S. have published a study suggesting that the characteristics associated with terroir could have more to do with microbes found around the root system of a vine, than the soil that it grows in...

«Even after five years of study, the researchers don't know how much provitamin A is left when the rice is cooked.

A double blind study published in the June 2013 issue of the Nutrition Journal was done at the University of Tampa where sports nutrition researchers compared rice and whey protein with subjects who were building muscle and looking to reduce soreness quickly so they can return to training.

In 2011, a group of sleep researchers did a study at Stanford and discovered that varsity athletes there significantly increased their performance (regardless of sport) by sleeping 10 hours a day.

An interview with Sally M. Grantham - McGregor, one of the original researchers on the home - visiting study done in Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1980s

Researchers don't say why, but perhaps it's for the reasons researchers Caron, a professor of family relations and human sexuality at the University of Maine, and Proulx, a marriage and family therapist, of the 2006 study discovered — society just isn't ready to accept December - May marriages as easily as it does May - DecemberResearchers don't say why, but perhaps it's for the reasons researchers Caron, a professor of family relations and human sexuality at the University of Maine, and Proulx, a marriage and family therapist, of the 2006 study discovered — society just isn't ready to accept December - May marriages as easily as it does May - Decemberresearchers Caron, a professor of family relations and human sexuality at the University of Maine, and Proulx, a marriage and family therapist, of the 2006 study discovered — society just isn't ready to accept December - May marriages as easily as it does May - December marriages.

Researchers have shown that many teens are incorrect about what their peers are doing in the areas of sex, drugs and studying.

The researcher did not mention testosterone levels as a possible cause, but this larger testosterone study hadn't been published then.

And the researchers do call for more studies in this area.

The new study doesn't prove breastfeeding is responsible for better development, but it shows a strong association, researchers said.

The researchers did a previous study using the same audio equipment, however they only included preterm infants for this study.