Additional information
about the study design can be found in Hülür and colleagues (2016).
Detailed information
about the study design and procedures is available at http://www.nichd.nih.gov/research/supported/seccyd/overview.cfm/.
The best thing
about the study design was that the birds were radio - tracked.
When we asked researchers what they'd fix about science, many talked about the scientific process itself,
about study design or peer review.
The paper recommends that the label «statistically significant» be dropped altogether; instead, researchers should describe and justify their decisions
about study design and interpretation of the data, including the statistical threshold.
A new report on the ethics of Ebola, released today by the U.S. Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, takes a nuanced view of the questions
about study design; the committee doesn't rule out placebo - controlled studies but allows room for other designs as well.
By joining the branch at the start of the twin study, I was able to participate in discussions
about study design, offer my input about neuropsychological measures, and experience the incredible enthusiasm surrounding a fresh project.
Not exact matches
While
studying systems
design engineering at the University of Waterloo, Baker noticed something peculiar
about the dot - com boom then underway.
With a passion for fashion and
design, he thought
about being an architect, but ended up
studying business administration and accounting.
It doesn't take a carefully
designed scientific
study to prove that bland, repetitive conversations
about the weather or your local sports team can bore you silly.
«We are now talking significantly
about engagement issues from the
design perspective,» says Janice Barnes, who
studies organizational behavior in her role as a principal at the New York City office of architects Perkins + Will.
The landmark survey commissioned by the Broadbent Institute is the first
study of its kind and size to measure Canadians» attitudes
about voting system
design and preference for electoral reform.
In this chapter the author proposes courses of
study unified by
designing every course to address the overarching interest of a theological school and pluralistically adequate by
designing every course to focus on questions
about congregations.
On the unity side, the proposal here is, quite simply, that a theological course of
study would be unified if every course in it were deliberately and explicitly
designed to address centrally one of the three questions
about the Christian thing in and as Christian congregations (What is it?
Folks talk
about the soul as a religious item — that it synonymous with religion — But religions don't really explain what a soul is — because they don't know — only a possible destination — Before you get all huffy, please consider where my concept comes from — I am no longer religious — I
studied Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs for dozens of years, and determined a different
design, for what the glyphs could portend — and found some interesting thought processes hidden within — including what the soul is — for instance: The Ankh symbol represents Life — the charcters for An and kh, I translate as an = thought and kh = soul — Thus Life = the thought of the soul — The soul as described by the AE, is a continuity between 2 or more enti - ties — including the enti - ty Environment — Our environment creates us — some name their environment as god — some believe there is a continuity with their environment — that is soul --
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They told me
about their artistic backgrounds — Perez - Gallardo
studied studio art at Bard, and Black
studied painting at the Rhode Island School of
Design.
Last week, we posted to the site a group of four articles
about a peer - reviewed
study in the Journal of Neurosurgery showing that football helmet
design affected concussion risk among a large group (or what scientists call a «cohort») of college football players.
This
study was
designed to examine the effect of an educational intervention on pediatric residents» knowledge
about breastfeeding, their confidence in addressing lactation issues, and their management skills during clinical encounters with breastfeeding mothers.
What is really remarkable
about the combined findings of the 18
studies is that the
designs were biased in favor of making marriage look good.
Although some SIDS experts and policy - makers endorse pacifier use recommendations that are similar to those of the AAP, 272,273 concerns
about possible deleterious effects of pacifier use have prevented others from making a recommendation for pacifier use as a risk reduction strategy.274 Although several observational studies275, — , 277 have found a correlation between pacifiers and reduced breastfeeding duration, the results of well -
designed randomized clinical trials indicated that pacifiers do not seem to cause shortened breastfeeding duration for term and preterm infants.278, 279 The authors of 1
study reported a small deleterious effect of early pacifier introduction (2 — 5 days after birth) on exclusive breastfeeding at 1 month of age and on overall breastfeeding duration (defined as any breastfeeding), but early pacifier use did not adversely affect exclusive breastfeeding duration.
A recent meta - analysis of 11
studies that investigated the association of bed - sharing and SIDS revealed a summary OR of 2.88 (95 % confidence interval [CI]: 1.99 — 4.18) with bed - sharing.158 Furthermore, bed - sharing in an adult bed not
designed for infant safety exposes the infant to additional risks for accidental injury and death, such as suffocation, asphyxia, entrapment, falls, and strangulation.159, 160 Infants, particularly those in the first 3 months of life and those born prematurely and / or with low birth weight, are at highest risk, 161 possibly because immature motor skills and muscle strength make it difficult to escape potential threats.158 In recent years, the concern among public health officials
about bed - sharing has increased, because there have been increased reports of SUIDs occurring in high - risk sleep environments, particularly bed - sharing and / or sleeping on a couch or armchair.162, — , 165
Dr. Nkpah said: «After a
study of the approach, loud pronouncements and long delays adopted by the government on the globally celebrated implementation, the Ogoni people are not persuaded
about the sincerity of the President Muhammadu Buhari - led federal government whose earlier promises were
designed to score cheap political points.»
The plan will affect a larger number of state employees —
about 28,000, most of whom are upstate — and is
designed to include students who use work -
study jobs to pay tuition and bills while attending classes.
It's extremely difficult to
design a field
study that addresses these questions
about the role of various environmental variables, given all of the uncontrolled factors in an urban environment.
At its core, the debate is
about how
studies are
designed, carried out, evaluated and sliced and diced after the fact.
The researchers are now using what they learned
about the most successful lipidoids identified in this
study to try to
design even better possibilities.
The
study wasn't
about designing a new way of testing animal behavior, either; the same test has been used in rodents.
«Understanding changes in prevalence according to population subgroups is important to inform clinicians
about care that will be needed for the pediatric population living with diabetes and may provide direction for other
studies designed to determine the causes of the observed changes,» the authors write.
The samples in Elsila's
study came from four squares of aluminium foil, each
about 1 centimetre across, that sat next to a lightweight sponge - like «aerogel» that was
designed to capture dust from the comet's atmosphere, or coma.
The paper did not assess the reasons behind such a decision, but it may indicate that parents are either concerned
about having another affected child or don't have the ability to care for another child after having one with ASD, according to Lisa Croen, PhD, an epidemiologist and director of the Autism Research Program at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, who helped
design the
study and was a co-author of the paper.
«In addition, we believe our
study design sets an important precedent for other genetic diseases and will help inform discussions of how clinical research can coexist with deep concerns
about genetic privacy and patient autonomy.»
However, its request for
about $ 120 million over 5 years for conceptual
design work on the CEPC failed to win approval earlier this year from China's National Development and Reform Commission; instead, the project received some $ 5 million for preliminary
study.
A research team from the Institute for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente, Colorado,
designed a
study to learn more
about food insecurity and older adults.
My point is that you can neither reason nor
design experiments to
study core beliefs
about the self or consciousness.
«For instance, a paper talking
about protein - folding patterns is a great example of the practice of making models to understand phenomena, while preliminary results from a
study of black holes might be a great way to ask students to examine what the next steps would be for the researchers, allowing them to develop hypotheses and
design possible experiments,» Lake said.
In a way, it is like answering questions
about airplane
design by
studying a model airplane in a wind tunnel — solving problems with a physical simulation rather than a digital computer.
At STAT's request, eight independent experts reviewed informational handouts
about the clinical trial, and all sharply criticized the
study's marketing,
design, and scientific rationale.
The committee strongly recommends that any
studies be
designed so that results from multiple
studies can be combined to learn as much as possible
about the safety of the techniques.
In a
study of 74 Android mobile apps
designed to promote adolescent online safety, the researchers said that 89 percent of security features on the apps are focused on parental control, while
about 11 percent supported teen self - regulation.
Near the end of their interviews, participants in the NIST
study were informed
about the
design features of an OEE and then asked for their comments.
The largest
study ever conducted of a microbicide
designed to prevent HIV infection has resulted in yet another case of high hopes being dashed
about a promising product.
As part of the
study design, surveyors recruited participants traditionally underrepresented in other surveys
about mobile phone use, including minorities, and people with low incomes.
In one
study, Nyhan and his colleagues had volunteers participate in an exercise
designed to bolster their feelings of self - worth, such as remembering a time they felt good
about themselves or recalling a value that was important to them, before presenting them with information that contradicted their beliefs
about political events.
An academic integrity - focused approach to addressing plagiarism emphasises the promotion of positive values alongside education of staff and students
about good, and bad, practice in writing,
studying and assessment
design.
The cross-sectional observational
design of this
study does not allow for conclusions
about cause and effect.
TIDE, currently taking place worldwide, was
designed to provide rigorous evidence
about the drug's safety, and the designers of the
study had plans to enroll up to 15,000 more diabetes patients.
They argue that «universal conclusions
about its benefits can not be drawn» and say further
studies and better
designed trials are needed.
Although this
study was relatively small and not
designed to develop theories
about disorder heritability risk and eye - movement abnormalities, Mosconi notes that potentially «there would be greater risk [of having a child with autism] if both parents are showing it.»
«This
study's findings make a significant contribution to the [field] by using a discordant twin
design to address issues
about the association between childhood verbal ability and subsequent alcohol use in adolescence and young adulthood,» said Windle.