Sentences with phrase «as a control group of»

Considering that the practice is widespread an ethical dilemma would arise as the control group of mothers would not be educated about how to express and store their colostrum and if their infant became hypoglycaemic artificial infant milk based on cow's milk, with all its proven association with Type 1 diabetes, would need to be given.

In every test, the Maya chose the correct answer far more often than not, scoring almost as well as a control group of Italian adults (doi.org/wvt).

The mice administered MW108 found the resting platform in the water maze as quickly as a control group of mice.

The scientists found that these Amazonians were surprisingly adept at estimating the totals or differences in comparing sets of up to 80 objects, doing almost as well as a control group of French speakers.

To test our hypothesis, we generated heterochronic parabiotic pairs between 15 - month - old (Het - O) and 2 - month - old (Het - Y) male mice, as well as control groups of age - matched pairs, namely isochronic young (Iso - Y) and isochronic old (Iso - O) pairs (fig.

While they were able to reproduce four times as many whistles as a control group of killer whales, their whistles were at lower rates than their dolphin friends.

Not exact matches

In 2015, less than a year after retiring as CEO of convenience store giant Alimentation Couche - Tard, the executive chairman, along with his three co-founders, put forward a resolution to extend their time - limited voting control — the group holds 22 % of the company's equity — to ward off any future takeover attempts.

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.

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.

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.

The bill, announced by McConnell and supported by a bipartisan group of senators, would «legalize hemp as an agricultural commodity and remove it from the list of controlled substances.»

Adani Group, controlled by the billionaire Gautam Adani, said it will now plan to finance the vast Carmichael coal project on its own, but the company faces an uphill struggle as both governments and major banks adopt a harder line towards new coal projects, citing the impact of coal - fired power on climate change.

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.

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.

The idyllic Pacific coast town of Acapulco in Mexico's Guerrero state once welcomed Hollywood stars and honeymooners, but the city has suffered a wave of bloody violence in recent years, as cartels and criminal groups battle for control.

Groups including the Electronic Frontier Foundation have been making precisely that case for years, pointing out as early as 2005 that EULAs force users to give up not just control of their data, but many other legal rights.

Since then, part of the Islamic State group's core strategy has been to establish administration over lands that it controls to project an image of itself as a ruler and not just a fighting force.

Elliott owns 9 percent of the former state phone monopoly and is calling on other investors to help it wrest control away from French media group Vivendi, which effectively runs Telecom Italia as its top shareholder with a 24 percent stake.

Ma stepped down as the CEO of the Alibaba Group last year, but still retains significant control as Executive Chairman.

Ankara says Syrian Kurdish YPG fighters are an extension of a militant group waging an insurgency inside Turkey, and vowed to crush what it described as a «terror corridor» of YPG - controlled territory along Turkey's southern border with Syria.

The NEJM letter also analyzed the use of two drugs that remained stable in price over that time period, as a control group — nitroglycerin and dobutamine.

Electronic firearm tracking technology is defined as «a platform, system or device or a group of systems or devices that uses a shared ledger, distributed ledger or block chain technology or any other similar form of technology or electronic database for the purpose of storing information in a decentralized or centralized way, that is not owned or controlled by any single person or entity and that is used to locate or control the use of a firearm.»

In its lawsuit against ListHub, Zillow Group is claiming that its acquisition of Trulia was not technically a «change of control» because the acquisition was structured so that Trulia remained intact as a corporate entity, Walmsley said.

As manager of the firm's Corporate Governance Consulting Group with over 30 years of experience in the field, Bill has guided companies through a wide range of governance and takeover challenges, including contentious shareholder proposals and compensation - based initiatives, proxy contests, tender offers, and other corporate control matters.

His duties include oversight of Morrow Sodali's Proxy Solicitation Group, as well as special project work including bankruptcies, corporate control events, and strategic consulting.

Two weeks ago, the Antitrust Authority approved Levy as a partner with a 20 % holding in Cofix Group Ltd. (TASE: CFX), which runs a chain of discount cafes and discount supermarkets in partnership with Green Lantern, controlled by Richard Hunter.

As sensors become smaller and easier to use, Dexcom and its competitors are betting that the systems will be adopted by the much larger group of people with Type 2 diabetes, which is typically controlled with medications, diet and exercise.

Organizers at national gun control groups, who provided logistical support and public relations advice as the students planned the Washington rally, said they believed that the students would not become disillusioned by the lack of immediate action in Congress.

As well as acting as tribute to the early leadership of the program and the group of young people that formed around the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in HoustoAs well as acting as tribute to the early leadership of the program and the group of young people that formed around the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in Houstoas acting as tribute to the early leadership of the program and the group of young people that formed around the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in Houstoas tribute to the early leadership of the program and the group of young people that formed around the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in Houston.

The securities mentioned above comprise the following percentages of the Oakmark Equity and Income Fund's total net assets as of 12/31/17: Bank of America Corp. 5.3 %, TE Connectivity, Ltd. 3.9 %, UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 2.6 %, Ally Financial, Inc. 1.8 %, Dover Corp. 2.6 %, CVS Health Corp. 2.2 %, Baker Hughes a GE Co. 1.2 %, General Electric Co. 0 %, Philip Morris International, Inc. 2.0 %, Oracle Corp. 2.3 %, MasterCard, Inc., Class A 2.6 %, General Motors Co. 5.1 %, Foot Locker, Inc. 1.2 %, Flowserve 0 %, Johnson Controls International PLC 0.6 %, PDC Energy Inc. 0.4 %, TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. 0 %, Herman Miller, Inc. 0 %, Oshkosh Corp. 0 %, VWR Corp. 0 %, Blockchain 0 %, Long Blockchain 0 %, LongFin Corp 0 %, Riot Blockchain 0 %, Intercontinental Technology 0 %, Nodechain 0 %, The Crypto Company 0 % and New York Times Co. 0 %.

Ad Age's E.J. Schultz reports that Volkswagen Group «launched a global creative agency review for its namesake brand as executives at the German auto giant look to centralize marketing control and improve VW's image in wake of the 2015 emissions scandal.»

In recent weeks, racial justice activists and civil rights groups have noted that gun violence in black communities, rather than inspiring reform legislation or prompting national outcry, is often framed as the result of black people being unable to control themselves.

As part of the acquisition, start employees will be a part of Uber's group however the bike - share company will keep on as an independent, thoroughly controlled subsidiary, Rzepecki mentioneAs part of the acquisition, start employees will be a part of Uber's group however the bike - share company will keep on as an independent, thoroughly controlled subsidiary, Rzepecki mentioneas an independent, thoroughly controlled subsidiary, Rzepecki mentioned.

Fundamentalism uses the culture, rituals, sacraments, texts, language, and metaphors and allusions and symbols (verbal, visual, musical, etc.) of religion in blind adherence to a dogma as defined and interpreted by a person or group who is self - aggregating and self - justifying raw personal power for the sole purpose of controlling the lives of others.

Many of the states affected by human - caused earthquakes have acknowledged the phenomenon, but, as The New York Times notes, «state regulators around the country have not gone as far in controlling industry practices as environmental groups have asked, and there is little sign that the new federal findings will goad them to go farther.»

Thousands of Christians have fled Iraq's second - largest city as an Islamist terror group solidifies its control over Christianity's main remaining stronghold in the struggling nation.

They at least had the minimal decency to provide a group of controls (women to whom only misoprostol was given) but their experiment was otherwise every bit as ethically shabby as the Hausknecht fiasco.

We controlled for a variety of other factors that may also have influenced STI rates in particular areas and we also used older age groups, unaffected by the schemes, as a further control.

The common people accepted as a matter of course the control of these political and religious groups, save for chronic grumblings against those who touched their pocketbooks most directly, the hated publicans or tax - collectors.

They are not really against birth control, as they are against using tax - payer dollars to pay for birth control, or the government requiring churches and religious organizations to offer birth control as part of their group medical insurance plans.

Generally defined as «dominating, restraining, or controlling another forcibly,» coercion involves interference with freedom, where «interference» means that the freedom in question is lessened in comparison with what it would have been had the interfering individual or group not acted at all, and this broad designation leaves open to dispute what kinds of interference are immoral.

It bothers us because politicians and special religious interest groups don't believe as your alleged Jesus man believed and want to control the population based on their book of fantasies.

The fundamental notion of dividing society into saints and sinners, separating the saints from the sinners as much as possible, and then instituting a system of external controls to bring the sinners into at least outer conformity with the moral expectations of the saints, originally had nothing to do with the relations between ethnic and racial groups.

Police and governmental controls on such groups — and they have in America always included a significant proportion of the common people as well as the upper classes — have been minimal compared to most European or Asian societies.

Despotic capitalism, on the other hand, is characterized by control of the government by an individual or a relatively small group such as military junta, an aristocracy or elite class, or a minority political party.

Of course, as such immigrant groups became acculturated their position with respect to such inter-group violence and control changed.

In elite capitalism, where a small group of families may control the vast majority of land, capital, or other resources, this openness to competition is seen as a threat and is not present.

It's estimated that the militant group makes at least # 23m from the artefacts it is taking from churches as it takes control of large parts of the Middle East.

If one asks, what are the possible roads to a world without war, that essential way - station on the way to freedom of information in anecologically organized world, Arthur Waskow answers that there are five: (a) Control of the nation - state system through stabilizing the balance of power and reducing international tensions but keeping the weapons; (b) Reform of the system through total disarmament without abandoning national sovereignty or the pursuit of national interest; (c) Extension of the system through the creation of a federal world government; (d) Fragmentation of the system through increases in the power of extra-national associations and Institutions across national boundaries, and corresponding decreases in state power as these occupational, industrial, scientific, and other groups gradually expropriate from the national governments the power to make decisions within their own fields; and (e) Abolition of the system through substituting love f or coercion.20.»

Assumption of control by any one member of the group can have as a consequence the denial to others of the proper exercise of their capacity for free decision.