Sentences with phrase «before studying that subject»

In other words, algebra teachers were being rewarded merely for getting students to learn 10 percent more about algebra than they knew before studying that subject at all.

Not exact matches

In Health Canada's 2001 National Work - Life Conflict Study — the widest - reaching survey on the subject, before or since — nearly half of respondents (47 %) considered their supervisor sympathetic to their need for work - life balance.

The study, which wasn't named in Hollauf's column, found that subjects spent an average of only 31 seconds on their schoolwork before getting distracted by another task.

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.

Before they actually took aim, half the study subjects were asked to listen to relaxing music and half were told to visualize missing the target.

Without a permanent legislative solution before next March, roughly 800,000 DACA recipients will lose their ability to work and study legally, will be forced from their jobs, and will be subject to immediate deportation.

I had only previously studied for a PGCert in theology, and completed my undergraduate degree (in a different subject) before iPhones were invented.

It isn't long before somebody is asked to organize activities for the children, snacks for the children, then somebody doesn't like the subject matter of the adult study, somebody says it's going on too long, too short, and where's the music, we need somebody to play guitar, and who's going to organize the prayer at the end, and why do the children interrupt us all the time when we're trying to talk to God?

I only stomached about 2 paragraphs of Matt Walsh's ignorant post before heading down to the comments to tell him to study the subject.

In fact, at the beginning of the study, subjects could not even tolerate one - sixth of a peanut, yet after six months, they were consuming 13 to 15 peanuts before any allergic reactions set in.

He added, «Since Mr. Ayo Fayose has not paid attention to the fact and circumstances of the case, I advise him to study my explanation that the house in question is a subject matter of a pending suit before the Federal High Court and that the house has been forfeited to AMCON in the interim.

In the days before university ethics committees became ascendant, studies sometimes included subjects who had more than a passing acquaintance with the researchers yet were still treated in a manner that seems a bit shocking today.

If the people likely to apply to the study are elderly or unemployed folks desperate for money, or if the community the center is in is poor, the going rates for research subjects» time go down, to a level where they'll actually have to weigh the costs and benefits before getting involved.

In part, before the study the participants were subjected to measures that are no longer common in healthy pregnant women and that could have influenced the treatment effect.

The subjects who'd had little exposure to the Internet before the study showed activity in brain regions involved in vision, language and reading.

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.

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.

By studying the athletes at baseline before the season began, Bartha, and PhD candidate Amy Schranz were able to compare the subjects to themselves instead of to a control group, allowing them to see very subtle changes.

In a previous study of civilians with insomnia, Taylor and his research team discovered that cognitive behavioral therapy led to significant improvements in sleep efficiency, with the research subjects» use of sleep medication declining from 87.5 percent before therapy to 54 percent afterward, although the subjects weren't required to stop taking their medication.

One 2014 study found sleep lab subjects who read from an iPad before bed saw nighttime melatonin levels plummet 55 percent after five days (paper book readers saw no reduction).

For one thing, there are typically far more subjects taking the drugs, so post-approval studies can turn up problems that were too rare to show up before.

The study is published in Cell Death Discovery, a new translational medical research journal from Nature Publishing Group, and comes at a time when more children than ever before are subjected to dental surgery — and local anaesthetic — because of tooth decay or the other orthodontic conditions.

As Rand says, «A much higher level of study with more subjects in the cohort would be required before concluding that a genotype [an individual's particular genetic variation] is a risk factor.»

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.»

2) Given that subject T6 has used an eye gaze speller before, it should be feasible to compare the spelling performance of that system vs. the one in the current study.

The study is one of two NIH - funded projects — the other strips previous applications of all identifying characteristics before subjecting them to a new round of reviews — now underway that were spawned by a 2011 finding that black scientists have a much lower chance of receiving an NIH grant than their white counterparts.

There is a finely graded inverse association between age and cognitive performance, 3 4 5 but the age at which cognitive decline becomes evident at the population level remains the subject of debate.5 6 7 A recent review of the literature concluded that there was little evidence of cognitive decline before the age of 60.8 This point of view, however, is not universally accepted.5 6 Clinicopathological studies show good correlation between neuropathology and the severity of cognitive decline, 9 10 11 and neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques, the hallmarks of pathology, are known to be present in the brains of young adults.12 13 Emerging consensus on the long gestation period of dementia14 15 also suggests that adults aged under 60 are likely to experience age related cognitive decline.

The majority of subjects (29 of 42) had not seen any of the video clips used in the fMRI study prior to participating, and the average number of clips subjects had seen before was low (M = 0.41 clips out of 14; SD = 0.70).

The researchers caution that follow - up studies must be done over a longer period and with additional subjects before they can definitively state that re-administering gene therapy for retinal disease is safe in humans.

Specifically, we will test samples from aged and, as a control, younger human subject before and after vaccination with the trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (TIV) in an exploratory / confirmatory study design to assess age - related responsiveness to the vaccine.

During Part 1 of the Study, certain dose levels of The Study Drug will be evaluated in small groups of subjects for a certain period of time before giving a higher dose to the next group of subjects.

Arizona State Uni academics found that study subjects who ate in front of the mirror were more aware of their bodies and consequently pulled themselves up before overeating.

A study published in the British Journal of Nutrition reports that the subjects who had been on a diet rich in monounsaturated fats reduced their body fat, although they were consuming the same amount of calories as before.

Several studies have confirmed that a dose of 5 grams of creatine taken every day for 12 weeks straight, both pre and after workout has led to a drastic increase in muscle tissue in comparison to the second group of subjects which took creatine only in the morning and in the evening, without using it relatively close to the time before starting training or after finishing.

For example, a study published by Japanese researchers in 2003 found that taking taurine supplements before working out for one week resulted in significant increases in VO2 max (which is the maximum capacity of the body to transport and use oxygen) in adult male subjects.

A lot of studies have confirmed that performing fasted cardio in the morning accelerates fat loss and a British study recently published in the «British Journal of Nutrition «found that when the subjects performed their morning cardio with an empty stomach, they burned around 20 percent more fat than when they ate before the session.

In the study, a group of nine male subjects performed high - velocity push - ups before attempting their 1RM bench press, while the control group performed only regular - speed push - ups.

The study, carried out by psychologist, Hendrik Mothes of the University of Freiburg (Sport Science Department) showed that test subjects who already know of the positive effects that exercise is having on them, before they take part in their chosen activity, enjoy greater psychological and neuropsychological benefits.

If you take another look at the crossover study from 2013, you can find that all subjects were placed on a specific diet for two weeks before starting trial.

By the way, You might begin to study a bit before you decide to talk about a subject that you know nothing about.

The study found that casein protein taken immediately before bed (or within a 30 minute window if you want to be specific) increased whole body protein synthesis rates and improved the subjects» net protein balance.

According to Dr. Stephanie Seneff of MIT who has studied the issue in depth and who I recently saw present on the subject at a nutritional Conference in Indianapolis, desiccating non-organic wheat crops with glyphosate just before harvest came into vogue late in the 1990's with the result that most of the non-organic wheat in the United States is now contaminated with it.

A 2014 study in Nutrition Research found that, when subjects downed whey protein before eating their biggest meal of the day, it promoted more favorable changes in appetite, body composition, body mass, and waist circumference versus soy protein.

Catherine Shanahan, MD, cites in her book Deep Nutrition a study from New Zealand that showed that subjects who ate french fries from a restaurant fryer displayed immediate harm to their endothelial function of their arteries, going from a normal 7 % dilation before eating the french fries to almost NO dilation at all (only 1 %) AFTER eating the french fries.

In the study, researchers removed the ovaries of female mice to mimic the effects of post-menopausal women before implanting estrogen - receptor positive cancer tumors into the test subjects.

The study gave subjects ten days of aGPC or placebo before inducing temporary amnesia with a potent drug called scopolamine [2].

All subjects were interviewed before the study began to determine their physical activity profile and their food likes and dislikes and to emphasize the commitment that they were about to undertake.

In our experience, even though we asked the volunteers not to change their diets or eating patterns before beginning the study, it is not uncommon for subjects to report for study with a fasting glucose concentration lower than when they were recruited (13, 21).

Although the researchers could therefore not attribute any clear and consistent toxicity to the sprouts, the fact that none of the three placebo subjects developed abnormal levels of liver enzymes suggested a causal relationship.19 Broccoli sprouts are ten to one hundred times as rich as broccoli in chemicals that can potentially release nitriles upon digestion.20 Prudent observers may wish to wait for the completion of long - term safety studies before offering themselves as guinea pigs for this newfangled food.

For this study, ten male and ten female athletes were assigned to creatine or placebo groups, where, before and after the three - day creatine supplementation period, they were assessed on repeated sprint performance and thigh muscle volume - the creatine group was given 0.35 grams of creatine per kilogram of fat free mass, and all subjects completed six maximal ten second cycle sprints with 60 seconds of recovery in between.