Sentences with phrase «author study the subject»

Not exact matches

«Short sleep was more important than any other factor in predicting subjects» likelihood of catching cold,» said Aric Prather, assistant professor of psychiatry at UC San Francisco and the study's lead author.

In one experiment, the study's authors divided 68 subjects into four groups.

Bob Reiss is the author of Bootstrapping 101: Tips to Build Your Business with Limited Cash and Free Outside Help, and has been involved in 16 start - ups and has been the subject of two Harvard case studies, in addition to speaking frequently at university entrepreneurial classes.

This time around, instead of having study subjects read a bit of Don DeLillo or Louise Erdrich, they asked more than 2,000 people how many of a long list of authors» names they recognized.

«We observed a 49 percent increased risk of lung cancer among subjects with the highest daily glycemic index,» author of new study says.

It is not new for internet firms to use algorithms to select content to show to users and Jacob Silverman, author of Terms of Service: Social Media, Surveillance, and the Price of Constant Connection, told Wire magazine on Sunday the internet was already «a vast collection of market research studies; we're the subjects».

This isn't the first study dedicated to this subject, but it is «one of the largest studies to date in living retired NFL players» and the «first to demonstrate significant objective evidence for traumatic brain injury in these former players,» study author Francis X. Conidi of the Florida Center for Headache and Sports Neurology and Florida State University College of Medicine said in a statement.

The authors of this study welcome the continued public and scientific debate on this important subject.

The authors conducted a systematic review of published studies from which estimates of a mean difference (standard error) in blood pressure between breastfed and bottle - fed subjects could be derived.

In total, we were able to extract mean differences in total cholesterol between those breastfed and formula - fed from all 17 eligible studies (representing 17 498 subjects); of these differences, 13 were based on the response of individual authors (11 703 subjects), whereas 4 were obtained from the published literature (Figure 1 and Table 1 for both).

Although data were obtained directly from the first author for one of these studies (10), the other smaller study (with 109 control subjects) was excluded from the meta - analysis (20).

Subjects who stopped smoking seem to partially recover their cortical thickness for each year without smoking,» says the study's lead author Dr. Sherif Karama, assistant professor of psychiatry at McGill University, psychiatrist at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute and an affiliate of the Montreal Neurological Institute.

In studying the subjects» reactions to this major change, the authors began to see concordance in three areas.

«Our study showed that enhanced accumulation of mobile N induced by excessive manure input could exceed the need of plant uptake but be subject to downward migration and leaching - dominated loss,» the authors wrote.

The authors note their study used observational data so, despite adjustment for possible confounding factors, it still could be subject to confounding by personality, impulsivity, feeling of hopelessness or other cognitive factors.

«In both clinical and non-clinical subjects, we see some of the same brain processes at work during conditioned hallucinations as those engaged when voice - hearers report hallucinations in the scanner,» said Corlett, senior author of the study.

«We found that less than half of children's exposure to ads for food and beverage products comes from children's programming, meaning that a significant portion of exposure is not subject to self - regulation,» said Lisa Powell, professor of health policy and administration in the UIC School of Public Health and lead author of the study.

The study's authors recommend that educators, administrators, and parents work to strengthen students» positive emotions and minimize negative emotions related to school subjects, for example, by helping students gain a greater sense of control over their performance.

In contrast to previous studies of access to care in Massachusetts that have relied on patient surveys, which the authors say may be subject to potential biases due to patient recall or other factors, the new study is one of the few to rely on objectively measured outcomes and was based on nearly every hospital admission occurring in Massachusetts and the comparison states for nearly two years before and two years after the reform was implemented.

The authors also emphasize that they would welcome further empirical studies of the subject.

Interval intensity important «When we compared VO2max before and after the training period, we found that the number of training sessions, the subject's age or baseline fitness levels had no impact,» says Trine Moholdt, a postdoctoral fellow at the center and lead author of the study.

While landslides triggered by earthquakes have caused damage and casualties worldwide, they have not often been the subject of extensive quantitative study or fully incorporated into seismic hazard assessments, say authors of this study that looks at just one scenario among potentially hundreds for a major earthquake in the Seattle area.

The authors of the current study hypothesize that these previous trials may have inadvertently selected subjects who would be nonresponsive to the medication and conclude that future efficacy trials may require the identification of subgroups of patient populations.

«It's become evident that women who request federally funded sterilization are subject to a set of policy barriers that impede their reproductive autonomy,» explained Sonya Borrero, M.D., M.S., assistant professor of medicine, Pitt School of Medicine, and lead author of the study.

«Our finding of a link between bipolar disorder and the striatum at the molecular level complements studies that implicate the same brain region in bipolar disorder at the anatomical level, including functional imaging studies that show altered activity in the striatum of bipolar subjects during tasks that involve balancing reward and risk,» said TRSI Research Associate Rodrigo Pacifico, who was first author of the new study.

Rice alumnus and lead author Di (Daniel) Du discovered the swimmers while studying how paramagnetic colloidal particles respond to a rotating magnetic field, the subject of several recent papers by the Biswal lab.

Study authors and bioethicists reject concerns that research subjects were unable to truly give informed consent

«We managed to provoke an illusion: the illusion that the subject's legs were being lightly tapped, when in fact the subject was actually being tapped on the back, above the spinal cord lesion,» explains Blanke, lead author of the study and holder of the Foundation Bertarelli Chair in Cognitive Neuroprosthetics.

I wrote to the author of the study, Christine Yager, associate transportation researcher at Texas A&M Transportation Institute, who was kind enough to reply: «I don't have a data - driven explanation for why that may have been the result but, anecdotally, many subjects said something to the effect of, «If I were using this in real life, I would check to make sure it's accurate before sending.»

Vasilios (Bill) Moutzouros, M.D., a Henry Ford orthopedic surgeon and the study's senior author, says the study's findings should be viewed with perspective and caution, noting that only MLB pitchers were the subject of the research.

The authors wish to thank the thousands of patients and control subjects who participated in this study, and acknowledge the assistance of national cancer registries that worked to identify potential participants.

Title: Sensitivity of [11C] ORM - 13070 to increased extracellular noradrenaline in the CNS - a PET study in human subjects Author: J. Lehto et al..

«When we compared the change in their resting metabolic rate to that of subjects who lost weight by consuming 25 percent fewer calories overall, we didn't see any differences between the two groups,» says study author Krista Varady, PhD.

The researchers didn't study this in their paper, but study author Laura Germine of Massachusetts General Hospital says that based on previous literature on this subject, they have some theories.

10,11 The CDC failed to include the author's conclusion that the results that showed modest evidence of benefit «were strongly driven by the China Salt Substitution Study,» 10 in which the reduction in CVD risk was most likely due to increased potassium intake, which has been shown to reduce CVD risk among Chinese subjects.

The study authors concluded that the Mediterranean diet plus CoQ10 «improves oxidative DNA damage in elderly subjects and reduces processes of cellular oxidation.

Campbell advocates a low - fat, whole foods, plant - based diet, and is the author of two books on the subject, The China Study (2005, co-authored with his son), which became one of America's best - selling books about nutrition, and Whole (2013).

The authors also concluded that their study «provides strong evidence that a daily consumption of 40 g of dark chocolate during a period of 2 weeks is sufficient to modify the metabolism of... healthy human subjects.»

The authors also thank the subjects for donating their time to allow the study to be completed.

According to the study authors, tissue and fluid collected during a Pap test can detect endometrial and ovarian cancer in women when subjected to genetic testing.

This article does not contain any studies with human or animal subjects performed by any of the authors.

The issues are; plantar heel pain is a symptom not a diagnosis (therefore some of these studies may include multiple conditions); the studies are subject to potential bias (addresses by the authors); the studies do not compare like with like studies and seemed to have been shoe horned together to achieve a conclusion; and finally, foot orthoses do not logically conform to randomised control trials.

Of course this makes sense to me, and I am glad to see another author bringing this, and having a recent study to shed some more light on this subject.

Dating algorithms and scientific matching were a subject of a heated panel at the recent Internet Dating Conference in Miami, where Dr. Eli J. Finkel, the study's lead author and an associate professor of social psychology at Northwestern University, said there was no science behind the algorithms.

The authors found that PLCs have a positive effect on student learning: student scores increased in reading, writing, math, science, and social studies subject tests.

The authors of the replacement placed significant importance on making skills and complimentary knowledge, but they also better articulated the whole purpose for studying the subject, what it contributes to a broad and balanced curriculum for all and how it prepares young people for participating in an increasingly technological world.

In «The Logic of Interdisciplinary Studies,» a research report by Sandra Mathison and Melissa Freeman presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in 1997, the authors wrote, «Interdisciplinary, integrated, and integrative studies represent an opportunity to have more meaningful relations with students; teach cognitive skills associated with «real life» (e.g., cooperation, problem solving, ability to see connections); motivate students; increase student achievement; promote positive attitudes toward subject matter; create more curricular flexibility; diminish scheduling problems; and integrate new and rapidly changing information with increased time efficiency.Studies,» a research report by Sandra Mathison and Melissa Freeman presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in 1997, the authors wrote, «Interdisciplinary, integrated, and integrative studies represent an opportunity to have more meaningful relations with students; teach cognitive skills associated with «real life» (e.g., cooperation, problem solving, ability to see connections); motivate students; increase student achievement; promote positive attitudes toward subject matter; create more curricular flexibility; diminish scheduling problems; and integrate new and rapidly changing information with increased time efficiency.studies represent an opportunity to have more meaningful relations with students; teach cognitive skills associated with «real life» (e.g., cooperation, problem solving, ability to see connections); motivate students; increase student achievement; promote positive attitudes toward subject matter; create more curricular flexibility; diminish scheduling problems; and integrate new and rapidly changing information with increased time efficiency.»

This conclusion is subject to question, however, since the authors compared results from statistical models that relied on different underlying samples, owing to student attrition within the study.

The fact that many fifth - grade teachers teach multiple subjects to the same students may have been a reason for the positive impact of merit pay found in fifth grade, according to the study's authors.

While the study's authors bemoan the fact that none of the assessments for prospective teachers demanded subject knowledge at the college graduate level, they are quick to point out that a bachelor's degree alone may not certify that the prospective teacher's content knowledge is relevant to teaching a K - 12 curriculum.