Sentences with phrase «by study volunteers»

A cord then connected the camera with a mobile phone carried by study volunteers.

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In - depth psychology analysis shows a large part of the studied volunteers actually become more motivated by personal experiences and relationships.

The research out of Beijing Normal University studied the effects of anger by asking 73 male volunteers to memorize pairs of faces and unsettling images, like injuries or crying children.

The study was based on 166 volunteers who were recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk, where you can make money by completing «Human Intelligence Tasks,» and it looked at their entire Instagram histories, which came out to about 43,950 photos.

As explained on the TED Ideas blog by economist and author Tim Harford, the study compared volunteers» productivity on a routine task in a variety of spaces.

A study by Statistics Canada saw a spike in volunteering from workers with flexibility and from those with part - time schedules.

But this 1990 study was actually based on a sample that was apparently distorted by volunteer bias and hence not representative of homosexual persons in general.

I have a case study that we often provide to churches in which a pastor is informed one night by a congregation member that his son has just disclosed being sexually abused by the interim youth volunteer, who happens to be a well - known, respected elder in the church.

The one - quarter - acre Franklin Permaculture garden — which was planted on a former campus lawn — is maintained for free by student volunteers, some of whom are studying horticulture and agriculture.

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Another study by the University of Birmingham found that volunteers who took vitamin C exhibited 75 % more post exercise recovery than those who consumed vitamin E or a placebo.

When eight volunteers were confined to darkness for 14 hours a day, they began the study by sleeping about 11 hours at a stretch, as if they were catching up on their sleep.

We have been studying participation by small donors and volunteers in all state and federal elections, as well as in New York City.

This clinical study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, tested the possibility of imaging inflammation in the pancreas of human volunteers using ferumoxytol, a coated iron nanoparticle approved by the FDA as an iron replacement therapy, and MRI.

The study involved 10,000 civilian volunteers in Stockholm County who were alerted by mobile phone text message to the cardiac arrest in order to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation if they were within a range of 500 metres.

One bright spot is that the proposal includes funding mandated by the 21st Century Cures Act for the Obama administration's cancer moonshot, Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies neuroscience initiative, and Precision Medicine Initiative's planned 1 - million - volunteer health study.

The new rules state that stem cells can be used if they are part of a study approved by the federal government, or if the protocol has been approved by an Institutional Review Board (IRB) that provides ethical review for research involving human volunteers.

These techniques include: human tissue created by reprogramming cells from people with the relevant disease (dubbed «patient in a dish»); «body on a chip» devices, where human tissue samples on a silicon chip are linked by a circulating blood substitute; many computer modelling approaches, such as virtual organs, virtual patients and virtual clinical trials; and microdosing studies, where tiny doses of drugs given to volunteers allow scientists to study their metabolism in humans, safely and with unsurpassed accuracy.

Shipp invested time and money to excavate and prepare the bones, aided by volunteers and palaeontologists including the PLOS ONE study co-authors Chris Ott and Peter Larson.

Led by neurologist Bradley Schlaggar, the group studied 238 healthy volunteers, 7 to 30 years old, using functional MRI, a technique that identifies active neural circuits based on blood flow and blood oxygen levels.

Mitchell's study focused on Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS), a national, low - cost, weight loss program led by peer - volunteers and costing just $ 92 a year (a $ 32 annual fee plus nominal local chapter dues averaging about $ 5 per month.)

Furthermore, garnering results — particularly from younger volunteers, who may be likeliest to benefit because they've aged the least — will take so long that by the time results are in, those who began the study will be dead.

This latest smell prediction effort began with a recent study by olfactory researcher Leslie Vosshall and colleagues at The Rockefeller University in New York City, in which 49 volunteers rated the smell of 476 vials of pure odorants.

People who give up their time for online volunteering are mainly motivated by a desire to learn, a new study has found.

In the largest study of its kind, researchers found only 34 (0.31 %) healthy volunteers with serious adverse events, which are defined by the FDA as those that result in death; are life - threatening; require or prolong in - patient hospitalization; or cause a disability, congenital anomaly or birth defect.

In the second phase, half of the study volunteers participated in a 20 - week behavioral intervention aimed at reducing their sodium intake to 1,500 mg / day by using spices and herbs.

«Census data gathered by volunteer bird watchers is invaluable for the comprehensively study of long - term changes in bird populations.

In this study, 50 patients and six healthy volunteers at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh underwent digital image scanning, and the results were processed by clinical and imaging specialists.

A training manual — Protecting Study Volunteers in Research — co-written by Rochester's Cynthia Dunn, director of the Clinical Research Institute, and Gary Chadwick, executive director of the Research Subjects Review Board, was released last September.

About five years ago, prodded by the memory of his nephew's misfortune, Bookstein studied the brain scans of 14 schizophrenics and 14 non-schizophrenic volunteers, or «controls,» that had been gathered together by his colleague John DeQuardo.

Cholesterol levels of the volunteers in the Cambridge study fell on average by 9.6 per cent — which the researchers say is «impressive given the relatively short duration of soy protein intake».

A 2009 study by Harvard University researchers showed that in just 10 days, three of eight healthy volunteers developed prediabetic blood - sugar levels when their sleep - wake schedule was gradually shifted out of alignment.

Each of the volunteers was then administered an intranasal dose (1 milliliter) of 2009 H1N1 influenza virus; the volunteers were required to stay in the study unit for nine days where they were monitored by medical staff 24 hours daily.

Accompanied by the monitors, volunteers entered «an aesthetic living - room - like environment designed specifically for the study» with a couch, Persian rug, abstract art on the walls, classical music, and eyeshades and took an unidentified blue capsule that contained either psilocybin or Ritalin.

A study led by Dr Ben Nicholas, of the University of Southampton, and published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, assessed lung samples from asthmatics and healthy volunteers.

Widowed older adults can reduce the loneliness that results from the death of a spouse by volunteering 100 hours per year, which is about two hours per week, according to a recent study.

Dr Jason Chapman, Co-author at Rothamsted Research, said: «This study utilises large amounts of long - running data collected by volunteers through schemes such as the Rothamsted Insect Survey, run by Rothamsted Research, and the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, run by Butterfly Conservation.

Markus Zeitlinger from the Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Werner Dolak from the Department of Medicine III studied sixty healthy volunteers over a period of fourteen days, monitoring the drug - related reaction in the intestinal tract by means of capsule endoscopy imaging.

This summer, LeBourgeois launched a five - year, $ 2.5 million study funded by the National Institutes of Health, in which her research team goes into the homes of volunteer families, exposes children to varying intensities of light and collects saliva samples to measure changes in melatonin levels and the timing of the biological clock.

In ongoing studies, the researchers spray influenza virus into the noses of volunteers via a mist, created by an atomizer that only produces particles larger than 10 microns.

To conduct their study, researchers enrolled hundreds of volunteers from families with one child affected by ASD and sequenced the complete genomes of every family member, including the parents and typically developing siblings.

Women made up 51 percent of the study's volunteers, and African - Americans made up 52 percent, so the results have broad relevance, says Appel, who offers simple advice for anyone overwhelmed by conflicting messages about diet and health.

The researchers studied volunteers» brains by using magnetic resonance imaging.

In a new study titled «Mating strategy flexibility in the laboratory: Preferences for long - and short - term mating change in response to evolutionarily relevant variables», the research team captured the relationship preferences of 151 heterosexual male and female volunteers (75 men and 76 women) by asking them to look at pictures of 50 potential partners, and to indicate whether they would prefer a long or short - term relationship with each.

«These results enable us to determine whether potential treatments will be effective against patients» symptoms by testing them first in healthy volunteers and defining the best doses based on objective physiological data before conducting costly clinical trials,» said Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, the Lawrence C. Kolb Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at CUMC, and Principal Investigator of this study.

As reported in a Researcher Letter, the study included 14 healthy, unacclimatized volunteers (7 male and 7 female participants, average age, 35 years) who were studied at baseline (1,119 feet), after ascent to 14,957 feet within 24 hours, and more than 14 days after return by fluorescein angiography.

The Precision Medicine Initiative includes $ 130 million spread across NIH's institutes to create a 1 - million - volunteer study to explore links between genes and health; another $ 70 million would expand National Cancer Institute efforts to treat cancer by targeting genes that drive tumor growth.

By the end of this year, study leaders aim to sharply increase that number and ensure that at least 50 % of volunteers are from groups underrepresented in biomedical research.

Different enough that computers were able to uniquely identify the study volunteers by their brainwaves 94 percent of the time.

The database relies upon studies by scientists and conservationists, as well as data from tens of thousands of volunteer and professional naturalists.