Sentences with phrase «activity than their control»

IL - 15Rα — knockout (IL - 15Rα — KO) mice ran greater distances and had greater ambulatory activity than controls.

Intervention group members reported greater walking and moderate activity than their control group counterparts.

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«The participants who'd completed the gratitude task months earlier not only reported feeling more gratefulness two weeks after the task than members of the control group, but also, months later, showed more gratitude - related brain activity in the scanner.

She found little evidence to support the idea that owners participate in civic and community activities any more than renters, and after controlling for factors such as income, housing quality and health, she concluded that owners were no happier.

Huntington, for example, contends that «far more significant than the global issues of economics and demography are problems of moral decline», an «increase in antisocial behavior», decay of family structures, weakening of the «work ethic», and decreasing commitment to intellectual activity.12 Similarly Brzezinski refers to a current global crisis of spirit which has to be overcome if the human race is to regain some control over its destiny.

If there are greater and more inclusive goods than wealth, then we should move toward what Friedman does not want — either the recovery of control of the market by national governments, or the development of a global government capable of establishing the parameters of market activity.

1) Charities spend their income on necessities, such as food and utilities, which ever - so - slightly re-orients our economy toward recession - resistant products, rather than luxuries 2) Charities spend their money quickly, but on independent schedules, making for a smoother stimulus effect on the economy 3) Charities make purchases tax - free, meaning that $ 1 spent by a charity generates a full $ 1 of private economic activity; furthermore, much of those tax revenues are recovered as income tax on the grocery stores, utility companies, etc. that might not have received that income otherwise 4) Charitable giving is by far the most democratic way to improve society; from birth control to bombers, government assuredly spends money on something you don't like, and charitable giving restores your say - so 5) Charitable donations are tax deductible, meaning you keep those tax dollars in your local community 6) Charitable donations provide the funds necessary for volunteers to serve the needy, thus giving «the average citizen» a chance to meet and interact with the needy, breaking down stereotypes

«The good life can not be lived without self - control, but it is better to control a restrictive and hostile emotion such as jealousy, rather than a generous and expansive emotion such as love» (p. 239) Russell, unlike the authors of Human Sexuality, does not assume that empirical data could ever show that a particular form of sexual activity is good or bad or the development of personhood.

Children often do not have much control over the parenting plans and scheduling, so giving them control over the activities and traditions helps them look forward to the holidays rather than dread the changes.

So often adopted children are assaulted with the family tree exercise at school, and it becomes an activity that causes stress and feelings of isolation, rather than something they feel in control of.

Even if a scan shows abnormal activity in a brain region associated with impulse control or regulation of emotions, such imaging provides no more than probabilistic information, Hyman said.

In fact, though, study participants with disrupted activity in the brain's impulse control center were 50 percent more generous than members of the control group.

Ispa's study, which included more than 2,000 mothers and their children, measured maternal directiveness — or the extent to which mothers controlled activities — in play when children were 2 years old and then during a discussion about areas of disagreement when the children were in the fifth grade.

They found that after six months, prefrontal cortex activity during calculations peaked more quickly in volunteers who had received stimulation than in controls.

The researchers acknowledge some deterioration in S3's array, which was implanted more than 5 years ago — but it is still fully capable of recording her brain activity for control of the robotic arm.

They discovered that genetic variation influencing a person's risk for multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and type 1diabetes is more likely to control gene activity in T cells than in monocytes.

MRI scanning also showed that those who had had tDCS had more activity in the relevant brain areas for motor skills than the control group.

Accelerometers recorded three percent less sedentary time than control participants, equaling about 25 minutes of time spent engaged in activity rather than in sedentary behavior on any given day.

For more than a decade, the husband - and - wife team has been investigating how a large protein complex called SAGA, which helps control gene activity in organisms from yeast to humans, influences developmental processes.

They found that in control mice, activity in this region spikes higher when the mice interact with an unfamiliar mouse than with an object.

With the pandemic virus showing «widespread activity» in 47 states — six more than a week ago — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now concedes that many people will become infected before they have a chance to get the shot.

New evidence is confirming that the environment kids live in has a greater impact than factors such as genetics, insufficient physical activity or other elements in efforts to control child obesity.

I think most graduate students become accustomed to running their experiments their way and having more control over their day - to - day activities than they typically would in another job.

When compared to healthy controls, pathological gamblers show more activity in the striatum after a near - miss event, than after a complete - miss event.

Facebook, with more than 1.3 billion users of every emotive disposition, and its news feed feature — in which a constantly tweaked, Facebook - controlled ranking algorithm regularly filters posts, stories and activities enjoyed by friends — proved an ideal place to start.

It does not, however, specify when that activity should take place, and as the authors state: «The current study is the first controlled study conducted in free - living adults with T2D that has aimed to determine whether prescribed walking taken for short periods after meals confers longer - term benefits than walking on a single occasion at any time of the day.»

The Saarbrücken scientists were able to confirm that the hearts of these athletes, who have been engaged in elite level endurance activities for many years, were, as expected, significantly larger and stronger than those of members of the control group.

The scans revealed that when praised, 13 of the dogs showed equal or greater levels of brain activity in the region that controls decision - making and signals rewards than when they received food, the scientists will report in an upcoming issue of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

Johns Hopkins researchers report that people with chronic insomnia show more plasticity and activity than good sleepers in the part of the brain that controls movement.

More than 30,000 Americans live with ALS, a condition that destroys motor neuron cells that control essential muscle activity, such as speaking, walking, breathing and swallowing.

MRI scans of the patients» brains showed that those in the tDCS group had more activity in the relevant brain areas for motor skills than those in the control group.

Last, spontaneous cage activity was more than 6-fold greater in IL - 15Rα — KO mice compared with B6129 control mice, and this amount of cage running activity was greater than that noted in other mouse models, including the HIF - 1α — KO mouse (45) and mice treated with PPAR agonists (46).

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

The program also allows the patient and family member more control over when they perform the care activities rather than following a schedule when the nurse or patient care tech are available.

As was observed in W01A8.1 RNAi embryos, loss of W01A8.1 activity resulted in the formation of large LipidTox - positive structures (Figs. 4H and 4I) that were clearly bigger than droplets observed in control embryos using the same protocol (Figs. 4C and 4D).

Type 2 diabetic cells exposed to 1 μmol / l insulin expressed a basal glucose transport activity similar to corresponding control cultures and significantly greater than the basal glucose transport activity seen under the other insulin conditions (P < 0.05).

GS activity measured at 0.1 and 10 mmol / l G6P was significantly lower in diabetic cultures than in control cultures (P < 0.0001).

Ongoing T2D research activities at CRGGH include 1) whole - exome sequencing of African families with at least four affected members (data generation is complete and analysis is ongoing), 2) GWAS of 1,200 cases and 1,200 controls from West Africa using the new and more efficient African - centric Affymetrix Axiom genome - wide array with more than 2 million markers, and 3) whole genome expression analysis on skeletal muscle obtained from biopsy from 45 subjects (expression QTL (eQTL) studies on the dataset are complete).

Experts from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the American Cancer Society (ACS), the CDC and more than 35 of the nation's NCI - designated cancer centers met at MD Anderson over two days in November 2015 as they evaluated the current state of HPV vaccinations, identified barriers to prevention - based approaches, and located opportunities for cancer centers to collectively engage in cancer control activities related to HPV vaccination.

At the Shamatha Project, a three - month intensive meditation retreat, Blackburn and UC Davis researchers found telomerase activity in participants» white blood cells was one - third higher than in a control group's.

Researchers in 2002 reported that when the thumbs of fibromyalgia patients were pinched, their brain activity showed that they felt far more pain than a control group experiencing the same pressure.

When they controlled for factors such as age, body mass index, smoking status, and alcohol consumption, the researchers found that people in the low physical - activity group were 10 % less likely to have had an infection than those in the sedentary group.

This study on 32 acne patients and 34 healthy controls found that acne patients had significantly less catalase activity in their blood than average.

When examining the components that contribute to the metabolic syndrome, lifestyle modification involving disciplined dietary control and increased physical activity can become more critical than medical therapy.

Since the intensity levels are less easily controlled for Group III activities, they are more suitable for the maintenance stage, rather than the improvement stage, of cardiorespiratory fitness training.

Vitamin D would therefore more appropriately be classified as a hormone rather than a vitamin, because it is a chemical substance produced by the body which controls and regulates the activity of a variety of cells and organs.

A study from the University of Miami found that those who had a daily diet soda habit had a 61 percent increased risk of «cardiovascular event,» including heart attack and stroke, than those who drank no soda — even when factors such as smoking, physical activity, alcohol consumption and diet were controlled.

The authors utilized caffeine as a control, and found it to perform worse than Y. Mate extract in the two «genotoxic» assays of micro nuclear formation and aneugenic activity.

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It was also found that after a six - week period, significantly more pupils were able to identify a range of activities correctly as energy efficient after taking part in SMART Sward than a control group.