Sentences with phrase «asked by participants»

Well, I listened to a conference call carefully, mainly the questions at the end of the conference and nothing has been mentioned or even asked by participants.

Questions asked by some participants early in the Bridges program included, «Do I have to go to nursing school before getting into medical school?»

Scientific American editor Clara Moskowitz has a nice post showcasing some of the big questions asked by participants at a recent particle physics conference.

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In another, the researchers asked study participants to quickly assess how much a person weighed by looking at faces on a computer screen.

Their Code - Foo program selects participants by setting hopefuls up with online coding challenges and asking for a statement of passion about the company.

Yale says participants in a formal Title IX adjudication are «asked to protect the fairness and integrity of the process by maintaining confidentiality.»

The series of studies led by Haas School of Business professor Laura Kay asked pairs of negotiators to rank the effectiveness of their partners, then quizzed female participants about the extent to which they employed social charm.

The more challenging task was an «additive cancellation» task where each row of digits was preceded by a target number that the participant was asked to circle and then proceed to cross of any two adjacent numbers that «added up» to their target number.

By asking this question, the researchers could compare participants» predictions about how many ideas they would generate with the actual number of ideas they ended up generating during the second interval.

The participants completed surveys about how they were feeling in the moment, measured by asking them how strongly they were currently feeling different types of emotions.

The series of studies tested the effects of power hierarchies on team productivity by creating teams with either a mixed propensity towards leadership — in one case some participants were primed to feel powerful by thinking of a time they wielded power over others while others subjects were asked to envision a time they were bossed around before joining the group — or teams made up entirely of hard charging leadership types or participants primed for a meeker, go along, get along approach.

The Golden Circle exercise asks participants to build out a mission for their brand by starting with why their company exists on a fundamental level, then answering how their company makes good on that purpose and then ending with what it is they actually do or make.

One's perception of a congregation's world view gained from participant observation and guided interviews can be verified by a relatively simple device, a questionnaire that poses questions similar to those asked in the interviews.

The study defined same - s3x parenting by asking participants if their parents had ever had same - s3x relationships, and whether they had lived with the parent at that time.

They may go quite far in pointing out how those purposes are not well served by current practices, but as participants they have no leverage for asking about fundamental purposes and assumptions.

These panel discussions opened the door for participants to ask very specific questions for their own business, as well as to get unique insights by talking one - on - one with the speakers after the end of the public panels.

Most comment noted: do nt want to be defined / consumed by / lose myself in a relationship, well ANY relationship will ask the participant to adapt to some degree in order to live in harmony.

Survey participants were contacted, randomly, by phone and asked a series of questions regarding TV exposure in the home during an average day / evening.

The participants and panelist engage in the conversation and provide answers to questions asked by the host.

Lazio was asked about Gingrich vs. Romney by a CPPAC participant.

At the end of the event, I overheard one participant excitedly tell a friend that she had the oddest day: she had been asked «by the government to tell them how to sort out their budget», and although she started the day «feeling like a moron», she finished it feeling like she had become «ten times more intelligent».

Using the Google Hangout's chat function, participants such as Joe Kerns, co-founder of the start - up Roundview.co and a volunteer with the New York City Code for America brigade betaNYC, and Chris Whong, a data solutions activist at Socrata who is co-captain of betaNY, asked questions about the degree to which information about constituent services prompted by social media and other avenues is available as public data for analysis.

Participants may be asked to verify that materials are generated by a household.

She started by asking one group of participants to write short essays explaining why they agreed or disagreed with three statements that most people would disagree with, such as «Learning about the past has no value for those of us living in the present.»

Past psychological autopsy studies implicate depression in the majority of late - life suicides; however, when study participants were asked by psychiatrists about thoughts of death and suicide using a standard depression screening tool, elderly adults blamed factors other than depression 75 % of the time.

The participants were asked to evaluate each juice again; their ratings of the «cockroached» juice plummeted, by 102 points on average.

What's more, by asking the participants to rate their self - confidence, the researchers provided further insight into what specifically about the speed - dating setup led both men and women to be more selective when they were seated.

In one experiment, Critcher asked 186 undergraduates to evaluate 40 positive personality traits by rating them on two dimensions: 1) how much each trait reflected moral character, and 2) whether the participants would or would not be willing to have a social relationship with someone who lacked that quality.

Participants were then asked to respond to questions about the ad that ranked their perceptions of creepiness, threat, feelings about seeing the ad (for example: irritated, angry, happy, or upbeat), their attitude about seeing the ad, the likelihood they would purchase the advertised product, and whether they felt manipulated by having seen the ad they were shown.

Researchers then asked participants» co-workers to report how tired their colleagues appeared by the end of each work day.

When asked which of the two games they would like to play again, 69 percent of the participants actually chose to play the game they won by a slim margin.

Participants in the Day of Action — organized by the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), a national organization representing over 60 colleges and universities and 400,000 students — asked the federal government to boost aid to students already overburdened by debts.

Using the Canadian Work, Stress, and Health Study (CANWSH), a national sample of Canadian workers, the researchers measured proficiency, or mastery, by asking study participants how much they agree or disagree with statements such as: «You have little control over the things that happen to you» and «You often feel helpless in dealing with problems of life.»

Participants of the study were employed by the GOV and asked to participate in a gender - specific focus group, a gender - mixed focus group and an individual interview.

The researchers recruited 129 participants and asked them to either read two stories in a magazine, watch the stories using 360 - degree video, or use a cardboard virtual - reality reader provided by the newspaper company to view the stories.

The researchers then assessed the degree of belief participants had in free will by asking them to rate, on a 1 - 100 scale, their agreement with the statement, «I have free will.»

Researchers also analyzed participants» childhood socioeconomic status by asking them to recall their parents» education, home ownership and household amenities but they didn't find a link.

After a warm - up, participants were asked to judge the height and width of the goal by adjusting a handheld, scaled - down model of the goal made out of PVC pipes.

These included trials in which participants were randomly assigned to different diets, as well as observational studies in which participants» intake of fatty acids was determined by asking them about their diet or by measuring the fatty acids circulating in the bloodstream.

In a second test, participants were shown a highly distinctive photographic image, followed by a short delay, and asked to identify the first photo out of four or five others on the screen.

The survey then asked participants to estimate water used by 17 different activities such as using a carwash, taking a shower for 10 minutes, using a standard flush and so on.

Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London, led by PhD student Leslie van der Leer, assigned participants a computer task in which they observed the color of a black or white fish caught from one of two lakes and were then asked to choose to see further fish or decide on one of the lakes as the source of that sequence of fish.

In an experiment designed by Kurtis Gruters, a formal doctoral student in Groh's lab and co-first author on the paper, 16 participants were asked to sit in a dark room and follow shifting LED lights with their eyes.

In the Flanker task, participants were presented with rows of arrows and asked to indicate the direction of the central arrow by pressing a left or right button.

All participants were considered «non-susceptible» to initiating traditional cigarette smoking at the beginning of the study, because they had responded «definitely no» when asked if they would try a cigarette offered by a friend or believed they would smoke a cigarette within the next year.

The participants disclosed with whom of the two characters they had a closer identification and were asked a series of questions about that person — and themselves — as their brains were scanned by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

The team used crowdsourcing for data collection, asking participants to visit their website using two different browsers of their choice and incentivizing them to use a third browser by offering additional payment.

By asking participants to recall the items they delivered instead of the stores they visited, the researchers could test whether their spatial memory systems were being activated even when episodic memories were being accessed.

We tested memory both immediately after encoding and after a week delay; associative memory accuracy was determined by asking participants to indicate if object pairs were intact (a pair of objects studied together), rearranged (a pair of objects studied in different combinations), or new (at least one object was new).

In another recent study, Santa Barbara researchers measured creative cognition by asking participants to generate unusual uses for a common object (such as a brick).