Sentences with phrase «based study measuring»

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In a new study based on mice, scientists at Lancaster University found that a drug that goes after three diabetes - related targets «significantly reversed the memory deficit» in mice who got the drug, as measured by their performance in a maze test when compared to mice who didn't get the drug.

Fostering continuous selling means incentivizing your sales team to stay involved by basing part of their compensation on the amount of advocacy customers provide, as measured by references, referrals, case studies, testimonials, etc..

Studies show that 54 percent of marketers think «producing engaging content» is their biggest hurdle; 49 percent say the greatest obstacle is measuring effectiveness, and 50 percent struggle to generate fresh content on a consistent basis.

Martin Moore, director of the Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power at King's College, told the Guardian's Carole Cadwalladr that Trump's campaign «was using 40 - 50,000 variants of ads every day that were continuously measuring responses and then adapting and evolving based on that response.»

The J.D. Power 2017 North America Airline Satisfaction Study measures passenger satisfaction among both business and leisure travelers, and is based on responses from 34,695 passengers who traveled through at least one domestic airport with both departure and arrival experiences during the past three months.

The research team did a meta - analysis of 1472 studies, all of which were based on direct (not self - reported) measures of height.

The Best Employers in Canada study measures the level of employee engagement at participating organizations and is based on results from a national survey conducted by Aon Hewitt, in association with the Queen's Centre for Business Venturing at the Queen's University School of Business.

For the purposes of the study, a fund was considered «low cost» if its fees and expense ratios placed it in the lowest quartile of all U.S. funds, as measured by data from Morningstar, the Chicago - based fund research firm.

A criticism of Byrd's study, which also applies to most other studies, is based on the fact that he did not limit prayers by the friends and family of patients, hence it is unclear which prayers may have been measured, if any.

Here are some parts you left out: - A criticism of Byrd's study, which also applies to most other studies, is based on the fact that he did not limit prayers by the friends and family of patients, hence it is unclear which prayers may have been measured, if any

In their second study, the researchers concluded: «By every measure, vegetable - based recipes were significant less spicy than meat - based recipes.

Prior to the FWRA's efforts, most studies that attempted to measure waste were based on estimates and extrapolation.

The definition of low risk used in the cohort study was based on criteria contained in the NICE Intrapartum Care Guidelines.11 The primary clinical outcome was a composite measure of adverse perinatal outcomes encompassing perinatal mortality and specified neonatal morbidities (box).

Studies were included if: (a) they were RCTs, (b) the population comprised parents / carers of children up to the age of 18 where at least 50 % had a conduct problem (defined using objective clinical criteria, the clinical cut - off point on a well validated behaviour scale or informal diagnostic criteria), (c) the intervention was a structured, repeatable (manualised) parenting programme (any theoretical basis, setting or mode of delivery) and (d) there was at least one standardised outcome measuring child behaviour.

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The study was based on a new way to measure the «greenness» of plants and trees using satellites.

But there's much less information out there on what people actually think about the ocean and some of the protection measures,» says California Sea Grant Extension Specialist Jennifer O'Leary, a study coauthor who is based at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo.

The science program currently supports a wide area of research, including airborne measures of Alaska's interior forests, prototype methane monitors for California regulators, satellite - based assessments of farming emissions, and studies of forest fires in the Amazon basin.

Using data from the INfancia y Medio Ambiente (INMA) Project — a population - based mother - child cohort study set up in several geographic areas in Spain — the researchers assessed lung function with spirometry (measuring of breath).

Dr. Aron and colleagues based their study's conclusions on a neuroimaging study using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning that measures brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow.

Waber says the research group will have a better idea of the physiological bases behind some of the behaviors they measured in the current paper when its results are combined with those from the imaging studies.

For the new study, the researchers used an extremely precise laser - based method to measure oxygen isotopes in a range of Earth rocks, meteorites and three lunar samples gathered by the Apollo astronauts.

Protection measures seem to have had no impact on whale deaths, according to a new study that reinforces the need for science - based approaches to reducing large - whale mortality

While late - term gestation was associated with an increase in the rate of abnormal conditions at birth and with worse physical outcomes during childhood, it was also associated with better performance on all three measures of school - based cognitive functioning measures during childhood,» the study concludes.

«If nothing changed on the moon — if there were no lunar body tide or if its tide were completely static — then every time scientists measured the surface height at a particular location, they would get the same value,» said Mike Barker, a Sigma Space Corporation scientist based at Goddard and co-author of the new study, which is available online in Geophysical Research Letters.

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.

Researchers based in New York City can pursue a study that requires a highly sensitive device for measuring magnetic fields of the brain — despite the potentially disruptive effect of the subway system — by locating the device in another country.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), an imaging technique that measures brain activity, researchers examined all three groups at the beginning (baseline), middle, and end of the study while participants performed computer - based speed tasks in the scanner.

Based on the findings of this study, these preventive measures are not sufficient to protect all workers from kidney injury.

The idea of being able to pin down whether we are in a sixth mass extinction, based on extinction rates measured today, was absolutely astounding to me,» said Hull, who is lead author of the study and an assistant professor of geology and geophysics.

In Mexico, which the researchers used as a case study, they found that systemic risk levels are about four times higher today than before the financial crisis — yet these risks are not reflected in market - based measures.

In addition to illustrating the experimental role of a sucralose - maltodextrin based artificial sweetener in promoting intestinal dysbiosis [a microbial imbalance] and myeloperoxidase activity, the studies indicate that it might be possible to measure Proteobacteria and myeloperoxidase as simultaneous fecal biomarkers in patients to monitor their gut (disease / health) adjustment to their diets.

«We tend to measure the impact of human activity based on the area it affects on a map, but mountaintop mining is penetrating much more deeply into the earth than other land use in the region like forestry, agriculture or urbanization,» said Emily Bernhardt, a professor of biology at Duke and co-author on the study.

This study found the risk was even higher — nearly one in two — among those who were born with a low birth weight or prematurely, based on standard measures.

Undertaken by the Dutch research lab TNO Defence, based in The Hague, the water industry study examined the security measures taken by the 10 companies that control the Netherlands» drinking water.

Budimirovic says the current study updated the 2013 recommendations by using a more systematic approach that classified existing outcome measures as either being able to detect shorter - term changes (measures in FXS placebo - controlled trials lasting less than 12 months) or longer - term changes (lasting longer than 12 months) changes and by grading the measures» quantitative properties using the COnsensus - based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN) system, an initiative that aims to improve how health measurement tools are selected.

Wilkinson noted that her study — which included individuals from ages 51 to 96 — differs from many others on the Great Recession because «financial strain» is a subjective measure that was based on self - reporting rather than on economic indicators.

The results of this study provide measures associated with normal cognitive aging in Border collies, and thus could be used as a basis for breed comparisons as well as early recognition and treatment of certain cognitive deficits.

In a study published in the current online issue of JAMA Psychiatry, an international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, report finding a highly accurate blood - based measure that could lead to development of a clinical test for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) risk in males as young as one to two years old.

Previous laboratory findings as well as estimates of fitness based on genetic clustering of strains in the population suggested a lower relative fitness for MDRTB compared to drug - susceptible tuberculosis, but few studies have directly measured the incidence of second cases of tuberculosis among contacts of both MDRTB and drug - susceptible tuberculosis.

The measure aims to make chemical safety reviews more science - based, and includes provisions designed to reduce the use of animals in chemical testing and promote the study of so - called cancer clusters.

The FDA's accelerated approval regulatory option, for example, is specifically designed to allow FDA validation based on studies measuring «surrogate endpoints.»

Using the findings of the TRIO study [2] as the basis for their recommendations, the Working Group recommends measuring serum PINP (procollagen type 1 N - terminal propeptide) and CTX (collagen type 1 C - terminal telopeptide) levels at baseline and after 3 months of initiating treatment.

Study participants with higher blood sugar levels lost more weight on a high - fiber, low - glycemic diet than those on the same diet with lower blood sugar levels, suggesting that it might be possible to optimize weight loss approaches based on a simple clinical measure,» she continued.

«Based on this study, we're now conducting a larger trial to measure the impact of virtual reality on the use of pain medications, length of hospital stay and post-discharge satisfaction scores,» Spiegel said.

The research, which appears online Aug. 1 in the journal Annals of Neurology, is the first study from a double - blind controlled randomized trial of an exon - skipping agent to provide conclusive proof based on the standard six - minute walk test used to measure muscle function in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), the most common form of muscular dystrophy in children.

«Unless we take different protection measures, 5 million people will be exposed to coastal flooding on an annual basis,» said Michalis Vousdoukas, a coastal oceanographer at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission and the lead author of the new study published in Earth's Future, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

Michelle Montopoli, an NAU alumna and student at the time of the study, led the EEG testing phase which included measuring serving sizes of the samples based on participant weight and packaging them so the participants were blind to what they were tasting.

Studies have consistently shown that providing the primary care physician with a team - based infrastructure of specialized, non-physician caregivers whose role is to provide a continuous framework of monitoring and management, improves adherence to quality measures and yields superior outcomes, cost, and patient satisfaction.

The researchers use laser - based measuring techniques to quantify and visualize the AdBlue droplets in the flow of exhaust gas, and study their vaporization and chemical conversion.