Sentences with phrase «as research sample»

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Rock Lefebvre, CGA - Canada's vice president of research and standards, cautions that its sample is small and skewed, as seven of the companies were in the mining sector.

Companies such as MarketTools and other market research firms can develop random sample populations and help compile lists for specialized market segments, such as women between the ages of 25 and 40 who live in the San Francisco Bay area, or people who have children or pets.

McDonald counters that the Bernstein sample is so small as to be meaningless and says P&G's research shows that pride in the company is at 84 %.

The polling industry's professional body, the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association, says online surveys can not be assigned a margin of error as they are not a random sample and therefore are not necessarily representative of the whole population.

As the original creators of the methodology that Cambridge Analytica ultimately poached, Kosinski, Stillwell, and the rest of their research team failed to anticipate how the ability to harvest millions of samples of user data might be manipulated or exploited once their methodology was made public.

A cognitive dissonance occurs over sampling sizes in quantitative areas such as market research.

Should a subpopulation of the research sample with some common criterion be picked out and reanalyzed as if it were the totality?

As a nutritionist with an MS and BS in Clinical Nutrition, Eat Drink Shrink was founded on the belief that current nutrition information backed by scientific research, innovative plant based recipes, and product reviews / samples, should be accessible to all under one domain.

The sample size was small, and the researchers stated that the research findings indicate the need for a randomised control trial (RCT) as RCT's are widely recognised as the best study design.

Clear Opinions, November 2013 GPI partnered with EcoFocus Worldwide Research to conduct a sample of 4,046 nationally representative adults ages 18 - 65 to ask them very specifically what factors are considerations for them when thinking about the purchase of a food or beverage as it relates to packaging, particularly when it comes to concerns regarding the health or the environment.

New Horizon Scanning work from Leatherhead Food Research shows that a third of consumers sampled think that insects are a viable source of food and 4 in 10 accept insects as a good source of protein.

This presentation will use original research conducted in the community to provide evidence for babywearing practices as an effective intervention to improve mother - infant bonding in a sample of young mothers.

«In this sample, the rate of postpartum hemorrhage (defined as over 500cc in a vaginal birth and 1000 cc in a cesarean) was 15.4 %, higher than previous research has reported.

In terms of a research study itself, the sample size matters as does who is in the sample and how they were selected; random selection is desirable.

Research all aspects of «routine» newborn care, such as bathing, circumcision, eye drops, blood samples, collecting cord blood, etc..

Ten percent of the samples had a strain of S. aureus bacteria that can produce a toxin that can make you sick... One of the most significant findings of our research is that beef from conventionally raised cows was more likely to have bacteria overall, as well as bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics, than beef from sustainably raised cows.

Some items in the Index relate to rigour common to all research studies, addressing issues such as clarity of key terms, definitions of the «intervention» (i.e. place of birth), integrity of data, appropriateness of sample size and selection, transparency of methods and comparability of cohorts.

The voter register is the most important tool for making election outcomes credible, it is like a credible and reliable scientific research which relies on the «sample frame»; it is the touchstone that gives assurance to the fact that the ballot, as expressed in an election, arose from the physical presence of eligible voters at the polling unit who delegated part of their sovereignty temporarily to elected officials.

The survey, conducted by indigenous research and investigation company, FAKS Investigation Services, found that of the 3,702 respondents sampled, 90.1 percent of them scored Mr Adongo as the best performer among the -LRB--RRB- MPs on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

The Adirondack Council has viewed Stefanik, a sophomore Republican, as critical in efforts to preserve research grant funding for the Adirondack Lakes Survey Corporation (ALSC) in Ray Brook, a nonprofit laboratory that takes samples from local waterways annually to monitor acid rain recovery.

Researchers from several institutions, including, UCLA, Boston University, Stanford University and the Institute for Aging Research at Hebrew SeniorLife, analyzed blood samples from nearly 10,000 people to find that genetic markers in the gene responsible for keeping telomeres (tips of chromosomes) youthfully longer, did not translate into a younger biologic age as measured by changes in proteins coating the DNA.

The biobank of MedUni Vienna and Vienna General Hospital is a central service facility dedicated to the storage of human tissue, cell material and body fluids for more in - depth diagnosis, academic research projects and clinical tests, as well as working - up samples by way of a medical service.

Bry «has developed a highly innovative and nationally recognized system to use the biological samples obtained routinely in the course of clinical care as the basis of population - based discovery research,» Isaac «Zak» Kohane, director of the Children's Hospital Informatics Program and professor of pediatrics and health sciences and technology at Harvard Medical School, writes in an e-mail.

The sampling was done as part of the federally funded Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance.

As a result, the authors suggest reviewing dietary recommendations for adolescents, although they add that it would be useful to conduct similar research on a sample group with higher egg intake.

By studying core samples taken from the river delta, the research team, led by Zhen Li of East China Normal University in Shanghai and colleagues, detected patterns and sizes of charcoal to indicate fire distance (small particles can travel farther than 100 meters, whereas larger ones stay put) as well as pollen to deduce the presence of either crops or nonagricultural flora.

First, the research demonstrates that RB status can be tracked using cell - free DNA samples, an approach referred to as «liquid biopsy,» in prostate cancer patient samples.

«Further genetic research on these rare and elusive animals may help illuminate the environmental history of the region, as well as bear evolutionary history worldwide — and additional «Yeti» samples could contribute to this work,» Lindqvist says.

As tissue and DNA samples are shared more widely than ever, scientists and federal agencies are looking more closely at their responsibilities to the research subjects.

«Our research is exciting as it represents the only double - blind, randomized clinical trial with this large of a sample size, and a mid-term follow - up rate of five years,» noted Mohtadi.

Lu and Hu's research on cocoa beans is in its early stages as they test hundreds of samples.

They used data involving approximately 200,000 patients from three HMO Research Network sites as well as data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample and the National Health Interview Survey linked to the National Death Index.

«Studies like this one are extremely important to better understand scientific career [s],» notes Geuna, who recently edited a book on the global mobility of research scientists, although the study's results «might not be generalized to the population as the sample includes only «stars»» and excludes postdocs.

So the team used the same procedure as that used to analyse the samples produced for the research.

In research funded by Sparks charity, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity and Cancer Research UK, researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a test for blood and cerebrospinal fluid samples that looks for a specific panel of four pieces of short genetic code known as microRNAs, which are found in greater quantities in malignant germ cell research funded by Sparks charity, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity and Cancer Research UK, researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a test for blood and cerebrospinal fluid samples that looks for a specific panel of four pieces of short genetic code known as microRNAs, which are found in greater quantities in malignant germ cell Research UK, researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a test for blood and cerebrospinal fluid samples that looks for a specific panel of four pieces of short genetic code known as microRNAs, which are found in greater quantities in malignant germ cell tumours.

The team's next avenue of research will be focused on identifying a «biomarker» that can identify this distinct suppressive cell elsewhere in the body — for example, in blood or other samples — as a potential predictive clinical tool to determine when these cells are present in patients, which currently can not be done.

In the world's largest study to investigate how common lifestyle factors influence the size and shape of sperm (referred to as sperm morphology), a research team from the Universities of Sheffield and Manchester also found that sperm size and shape was worse in samples ejaculated in the summer months but was better in men who had abstained from sexual activity for more than six days.

Using the U.S. citizen and permanent resident sample, we explored the impact of NIH pre - and postdoctoral fellowships (F), NIH pre - or postdoctoral traineeships (T), and NIH career development awards (K), which are largely awarded to early career investigators as grant funding for research.

Thanks to this sample, the research team was able to calculate the amount of curium present in the early solar system and to compare it to the amount of other heavy radioactive elements such as iodine - 129 and plutonium - 244.

By analyzing genetic samples for over half a million individuals as part of the GIANT research project, which aims to identify genes that regulate human body and size, researchers found more than 100 locations across the genome that play roles in various obesity traits.

«But we quickly realized that this technique could also be adapted to other research regimes, most notably imaging for biological and cellular samples, wet samples, samples with rough surfaces, as well as organic photovoltaics.

A microreactor developed as part of an EU - funded collaborative research project enables cultured liver cells to be used as test samples.

Unlike other solid tumors, there has been limited progress in understanding the contribution of genetic risk factors to the development of uveal melanoma, researchers say, primarily due to the absence of comprehensive genetic data from patients as the large sample cohorts for this rare cancer type have not been available for research.

In this case, 800 blood samples were to be part of a new, national mitochondrial DNA database intended as a reference databank for the forensic community and for research into mitochondrial DNA variation — DNA we inherit from our mother.

Additional research in large samples is necessary to confirm these findings and to further develop remote eye tracking as a clinical tool.

Hawkings and his collaborators spent three months in 2012 and 2013 gathering water samples and measuring the flow of water from the 600 - square - kilometer (230 - square - mile) Leverett Glacier and the smaller, 36 - square - kilometer (14 - square - mile) Kiattuut Sermiat Glacier in Greenland as part of a Natural Environment Research Council - funded project to understand how much phosphorus, in various forms, was escaping from the ice sheet over time and draining into the sea.

As research vessels sensibly steer clear of thicker ice that may trap them, there is a clear risk of sampling bias toward thinner ice.

This led to the collection of bone marrow samples from larger cohorts of patients with the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, as well as those from Western University and Hamilton Health Sciences, for the next steps of investigation.