Sentences with phrase «by research participants»

Such approval must include informed, signed consent by all research participants.

The quality of Home Office bail summaries were universally lambasted by research participants and judges berated Home Office officials for giving misleading information to tribunals and for presenting them with «elliptical nonsense» when challenging bail applications.

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Today, that messaging is gone, replaced by a few caveats: «We need to do more research to determine the connection between improved assessment scores and everyday tasks in participants» lives,» the company's website reads.

Facebook's AI research team has created a free software toolkit that outsiders can download to help with their experiments by compiling data and viewing the research and results of other participants in the project.

The key finding of the new research is that the intoxicated participants solved more items on the Remote Associates Test compared with the control participants (they solved 58 % of 15 items on average vs. 42 % average success achieved by controls), and they tended to solve the items more quickly (11.54 seconds per item vs. 15.24 seconds).

«Looking at shale resources has typically been understated by outside market participants because the geology is new and the technology is growing rapidly,» said Edward Morse, head of commodities research at Citigroup.

The aggregated player statistics require research by the participants.

«The currency war is intensifying: the number of participants is rising, fresh policy tools are being used to fight, and the scale of influence on the wider foreign exchange market is increasing,» wrote HSBC strategists, led by David Bloom, in a research note on Tuesday which ranks global currencies» appetites for war.

According to a study (PDF) of 1,000 full - time office workers commissioned by Energy Focus and conducted by Wakefield Research, 69 percent of participants reported problems with office lights including glare, brightness, and excessive flicker.

However, research by the FBCG also shows that only two - thirds of large family businesses in the GCC have initiated building blocks for effective family business governance structures, and only one - third of those participants have fully implemented the structures effectively.

The type of research needed to uncover deep behavioral and cultural percepts are those closely associated with participant - observation methods aligned with anthropology and the ethnographic research techniques commonly utilized by this social science.

One of the participants at the research conference, an electronic church broadcaster, summed up all of the data by stating, «It looks like the research is saying that all that religious TV is doing is to make people feel good and to get them to keep on doing what they're doing!»

Research has proven that yoga lowers blood pressure, increases musculoskeletal health and circulation, and decreases stress (prison yoga programs have reduced recidivism by as much as 80 percent in their participants).

The participants watched as Institute staff weighed pigs for a research project followed by a walk through the hog pastures.

According to research by Nancy Kalish, a psychology professor at California State University in Sacramento, about 6 percent of the participants worldwide noted that they married, divorced, and then remarried their former spouse, and about 72 percent of those reunions were successful.

A Brown Medical School teaching hospital, Women & Infants is involved in a variety of important research programs, all of which is reviewed by an internal committee that considers the rights and safety of participants.

Other difficulties when conducting or evaluating research in this area include ensuring the equivalency of the control and experimental groups in randomized controlled trials (RCTs), 10 controlling for participant attrition (which may affect the validity of findings by reducing group equivalence) and missed visits (which may affect validity by reducing program intensity), 11 documenting that the program was fully and accurately implemented, and determining whether the program's theory of change logically connects program activities with intended outcomes.

All study participants gave written informed consent and the study was approved by the Monash University Human Research Ethics Committee (approval number CF12 / 0348 -2012000146), and the trial registered with the Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trial Registry (registration number 12611000468921).

Quote: «we sought to minimize bias by restricting access to allocation assignment, stripping group assignment from study databases to which research staff had access, and omitting group identifiers from participant interview form.»

In the pursuit of such an examination, he challenged participants to develop a research agenda «with teeth» by not only observing particular events but also linking contemporary and historical trends in order to identify overarching structural patterns and logics.

Researched and written in a style similar to that undertaken by Anthony Seldon in his studies of Blair, Brown and Cameron, «Shippers» carried out in - depth interviews at the time and immediately after the referendum with nearly all the senior participants as well as bystanders.

By bringing together growers, academics, processors and business owners, the forum will build connections among participants to enhance the studies being conducted and avoid duplicative research.

Recent research by London Councils states that participants in the programme with no disability secure approximately twice as many jobs as those who are disabled.

Participants heard how to get stories into the media, research the dodgy deals, follow the money and build a movement, with workshops led by experts from Focus E15 mums, UK Uncut, Spinwatch, World Development Movement and others.

She engages K - 12 students in her neuroscience research through lab visits and internships for students from low - performing schools, and compliments her research by meeting with each study participant to discuss their brain scans, as well as their college plans and potential interest in a science career.

«As part of this fellowship, I want my project to serve as a model for use - inspired, community - engaged research at Northern Kentucky University, by re-positioning community members from participants to collaborators.

Using data from a nationally representative sample of youth who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), a group of researchers led by Dr. Kathleen Merikangas of the National Institute of Health Intramural Research Program, evaluated symptoms of ADHD and its subtypes in 1,894 participants aged 12 - 15 years based on parent reports of symptomatology.

The software and strategies are already being shared openly online by the contest participants, and the unique datasets developed for the competition are being made freely available to researchers worldwide by NINDS, University of Pennsylvania and Mayo Clinic to advance epilepsy research and treatment.

The research led by Fernando Genta and Hector Diaz at the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (IOC) in Rio, Brazil included Rod Dillon of Lancaster University as well as participants from the Laboratories of Molecular Biology of Insects; Epidemiology and Molecular Systematics; and Ecoepidemiology of Chagas disease at Oswaldo Cruz Institute.

Similarly, research on online dating performed by Alison Lenton and Barbara Fasolo indicated that participants presented with more potential partners did not experience any greater emotional satisfaction than participants presented with fewer options.

► This week's issue of Science also includes a brief recap of the 40th annual AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy, attended by «more than 400 elected officials, government and business leaders, researchers, educators, and others» on 30 April and 1 May in Washington, D.C. «The importance of basic research for the nation's scientific and economic future was a recurring theme,» and «participants delved into the factors driving the tight budget environment» scientists are currently facing.

The study involved participants of European descent exclusively, but co-author Roy Perlis, a researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital, notes it's standard method to focus on one group as a starting point, since previous research shows genetic markers can vary by ethnicity.

The top three general responsibilities for supervising postdocs identified by survey participants were discussing research project and direction (96 percent), reviewing data analysis and interpretation of results (91 percent), and assisting with writing manuscripts and seminar preparation (84 percent).

In half of the articles, participants were presented a negative message that read, in part: «However, most conservative leaders and Republican politicians believe that so - called climate change is vastly exaggerated by environmentalists, liberal scientists seeking government funding for their research and Democratic politicians who want to regulate business.»

«But by engaging a diverse participant population and accumulating rich datasets, the CPMC research study is pursuing the type of insights that will help us learn more about sleep duration and, ultimately, improve human health.»

A drug used to treat men with late - stage prostate cancer proved effective in stemming progression of the disease in research participants who had not yet received chemotherapy and extended their survival, according to results from a multi-national Phase III clinical trial led by the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).

Finally, the research team tested a drug already in clinical trials (IGF - 1) on a cohort of study participants, finding that it provoked a reversal of neural alterations, though the degree of response varied by ASD individual.

The research, funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), tracked the weight of 278,982 participants (129,194 men and 149,788) women using electronic health records from 2004 research, funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), tracked the weight of 278,982 participants (129,194 men and 149,788) women using electronic health records from 2004 Research (NIHR), tracked the weight of 278,982 participants (129,194 men and 149,788) women using electronic health records from 2004 to 2014.

For the Muscle Tendon Tissue Unit Repair and Reinforcement Reconstructive Surgery Research Study, which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense and is continuing to enroll new participants, five men who had at least six months earlier lost at least 25 percent of leg muscle volume and function compared to the uninjured limb underwent a customized regimen of physical therapy for 12 to 26 weeks until their function and strength plateaued for a minimum of two weeks.

The trio unveiled research Wednesday showing that participants in the alliance are on track to meet or exceed their share of the Obama - era nationally determined contribution to Paris, which called for a 26 to 28 percent cut in emissions by 2025 compared with 2005 levels.

«The Biotechnology YES scheme is becoming widely recognised by the UK biotechnology industry as giving participants essential experience of commercialising research.»

The participants were visited in their homes twice by the research team — once when the child was 15 months old, again at 3 years of age — and each visit lasted 60 to 90 minutes.

Sex matching of the included participants in the research overall was poor, with less than half of the studies matching the inclusion of both sexes by 50 percent (e.g., 100 males to 50 females, or vice versa).

However, new research by Kelli Canada, assistant professor in the University of Missouri School of Social Work, shows that although mental health court participants older than 50 adhere to treatment programs better than younger adults, they are just as likely to be reincarcerated or relapse into criminal behavior.

Participants were shown profiles of two potential job candidates that included photos, one attractive and one unattractive (the photos were vetted by previous research to test attractiveness).

The goal, which one early participant called the «widgetization of social science,» was perhaps best summed up in 2005 by Starnes Walker, then the Office of Naval Research's chief scientist, who said he wanted a Star Trek — like detector that could scan for evil intent.

The goal of the Hopkins Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program (HPREP) is to extend MSIP by providing experiences that will increase the likelihood of participants?

It turned out that most of them have a passion for doing basic and long - term research and they think this is only possible in academia, a perception that is largely in line with our own experience and was confirmed by those workshop participants who had experience working in industry.

The research found that participants with anxious attachment style not only believed in general notions of conspiracy but also specific established conspiracy theories, such as that Princess Diana was assassinated by the British Secret Service.

The new study, funded by the National Institute for Health Research, and published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, collated and analysed the individual data from 955 participants in seven randomised controlled trials, which tested the use of vitamin D supplements.