Sentences with phrase «are in a control group»

(Proving that you should never sign up to be in the control group.)

Study participants were randomly assigned to one of two groups: those who were allowed to drink diet beverages, such as diet soft drinks, teas and flavoured waters, or those who were in a control group that drank water only.

Silva does not yet know his results, but he suspects he was in the control group that got a placebo because he didn't notice a reaction.

The other half were in the control group, and received no structured physical therapy beyond usual services.

Half of the participants were in the control group, in which they made no dietary changes and asked to continue their normal eating habits.

During the study they noticed that zinc in blood was a lot lower in patients with hair loss than it was in the control group.

The meta - analysis also found respiratory fitness improved to a greater level than it did in those who took part in continuous training, as well as those who were in the control group.

A total of 22 school groups attended one of the performances, and 27 were in the control group.

Furthermore, parents in the intervention group might have believed that the parenting programme is efficacious, and consequently feel and perform better than those who were in the control group, as they were aware of group allocation.

Results showed that the ICPS participants made significant gains in classroom adjustment as rated by teachers compared to the participants that were in the control group.

Not exact matches

Con artists are a crafty group of people who know exactly how to deceive and control their victims, but their methods are as obvious as a slap in the face if you know what to look for.

The data sets aren't huge — 232 participants in October before the election and 152 after, with a total of 772 negotiations recorded — and there may be some other difference that explains the later group's more aggressive behavior, though Low tried to control for factors, like party affiliation, that might offer alternate explanations for the shift.

ISIS is currently locked in battle against an array of forces for control of Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq and the largest city under the militant group's control.

State - owned ChemChina's US$ 43 billion purchase of Swiss pesticides and seeds group Syngenta, Beijing's biggest overseas sale to date, has deepened concerns in Europe that the bloc is ceding control of its advanced technology, EU diplomats said.

Through the deal, Discovery will have the option in two years time to acquire a controlling stake in Group Nine, which will be run by Thrillist CEO Ben Lerer, according to David Zaslav, CEO of Discovery.

While the project is massive, it's just one of the Aquilinis» many high - profile, highly profitable ventures: Through Aquilini Investment Group, now more than 50 years old, the family controls one of British Columbia's biggest development conglomerates, as well as its NHL team, the Rogers Arena, blueberry and cranberry farms, restaurants and some $ 80 - million worth of vineyard properties in Washington state.

To control for demographic effects, we take out groups that are often still in school (24 years and younger) or can potentially enter early retirement (55 and up).

«In a study of health care providers, we found that those who used WOOP were significantly more engaged with their work and less stressed than members of a control group,» Oettingen writes for HBR.org.

When the results of the folks who had recorded a positive memory — an intervention known as «self - affirmation» in psychology lingo — were compared with a control group from the same soup kitchen, they performed markedly better.

Given the lack of preparation, it's not surprising that only one - quarter of family businesses succeed in transferring ownership and control to the second generation, and only 11 % make it to the third, says Michelle Osry, Canadian leader of Deloitte's family enterprise consulting group.

Based on a comparison of the change in subjective well - being of these people and of people from the control group who had no change in their volunteer status, the hypothesis is supported that volunteering is rewarding in terms of higher life satisfaction.

In terms of the methods, there are a number of smaller scale studies, many of which did not include active control groups.

Boyle also elaborated on the reason he and Coleman were in Afghanistan in the first place: to aid» the most neglected minority group in the world» in the remote villages in Taliban - controlled territory where other aid workers won't go due to the danger.

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.

Nonetheless, when they tested both a control group who hadn't encountered these «pre-questions» and an experimental group who had, those who were exposed to questions actually ended up learning more in the end.

In July 2015, CASPERSEN opened a bank account under the name «PHG Operating LLC,» which was controlled by CASPERSEN for his own benefit and was unknown to Park Hill Group (the «Fake PHG Account»).

It's suspected the two cartels cooperated to some extent in the 1980s, organizing an armed group to fight kidnappers and working to stabilize the drug market and divide up territory in the US — the Medellin cartel took Miami and South Florida, while the Cali cartel controlled New York City and parts of the northeast.

BERLIN, May 2 - Volkswagen's labour leaders should focus on staff - related matters and not get involved in other aspects of management, the head of the carmaker's controlling shareholder group was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

«In general, businesses need to be thinking about digital strategies beyond content, and what platform or device will help create that experience for their customers,» says Charlie Miller, associate partner of New York - based design and development agency Control Group, which was tapped to execute the iPad project.

BERLIN, May 2 (Reuters)- Volkswagen's labour leaders should focus on staff - related matters and not get involved in other aspects of management, the head of the carmaker's controlling shareholder group was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

But when he was extradited to the United States in 2007, he could no longer control the Zetas and this is when the group started to break away from the Gulf Cartel.

«The children in the group who did a task in a way that made them laugh learned the target actions more than those in the control group who were not laughing during the learning period,» she reports.

Trump has also expressed admiration for Kim's leadership of North Korea, though human - rights groups have accused the government of numerous violations, including running prison camps that have been likened to Auschwitz in Nazi - controlled Europe.

«Broadly, China is making progress in controlling its debt in various parts of the economy,» said Christopher Lee, managing director in the corporate ratings group and chief ratings officer for Greater China at S&P Global Ratings.

Buffett said the company's interest in Kraft Heinz is not included on the list because Berkshire is part of a «control group» and must use a different method to account for its holding.

For example, the anxious group read sentences like «safety is not guaranteed in our neighborhoods nor in our own homes,» which was intended to highlight the «lack of control over negative circumstances that may happen in life and an uncertain future,» according to the study.

There was a small improvement in self - reported medication adherence by the test group — those who downloaded and used the app — compared to the control group — those who didn't get the app.

The group stressed concerns for safety should «airwaves and / or frequency spectrums generally used in the remote control of drones are too congested during the SXSW event to ensure operation safe from interference.»

Thailand's third - richest man is set to take control of Fraser and Neave (F&N) in Southeast Asia's biggest M&A deal after a group led by an Indonesian tycoon bowed out of a two - month bidding war for the $ 11.4 billion Singapore company.

Those right above and right below the cutoff make for ready - made test and control groups who are very similar in most ways except for one crucial difference — one bunch gets a helping hand from the government and one doesn't.

SCL Group, the entity which controlled Cambridge Analytica, appeared to once boast on its website that it had been a crucial player in Duterte's 2016 election victory, driving a campaign promising a violent crackdown on crime.

Y Combinator also has to study a control group, and gauge whether that group's happiness level is lower in the absence of income, if it truly wants scientific data.

John Eppig, a reproductive biologist at Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine raised the concern that no animal studies with a control group have been done — a standard practice with experimental medical procedures — yet somehow the procedure is being tried on humans.

It would be interesting to have a control group and see if there are things in that environment that alter their risk - taking behavior.

Then we had a control group of non-entrepreneurial businesspeople and another group that was not involved in business at all, like nuns and government workers.

A July 2015 Supreme Court decision in favor of anti-abortion groups issued a temporary restraining order halting the distribution of birth control implants after 400,000 of the devices had already been distributed.

Tinder, the hookup app whose corporate parent, Match Group, is controlled by billionaire Barry Diller, has cited as evidence an October 2015 story in The Post that interviewed 3nder's founder.

Those in the happiness control group were up to 12 percent more efficient in completing the tasks than their sad, stressed counterparts.

Vice's other shareholders include 21st Century Fox, which is currently trying to acquire full control of Sky, WPP Group, the marketing services giant, and Technology Crossover Ventures, a leading investor in digital businesses.

The new rule of thumb must be that once a company starts talking about its news — to any stakeholder group (customers, employees, suppliers) it must release its information to the media in order to maintain message control.