Sentences with phrase «called a control group»

It would be a far more effective way to see if you're right than to use government to impose a top - down, one - size - fits - all orthodoxy and effectively outlaw what real scientists call a control group.

One group — the so - called control group — receives the usual standard of care.

They paired each Parkinson's patient with a person in the database who did not have Parkinson's (called a control group).

Not exact matches

Mr Hyslop has also become non-executive chairman of Kwinana - based company Total Corrosion Control, a company that was once strongly linked to United Construction Group (now called United KG).

She repeated the phrase when a reporter asked for her thoughts about calls for her family to relinquish their influence over the group of companies they control.

Bloomberg has also become arguably the nation's leading gun - control advocate, spending millions of his own fortune to finance candidates and groups that call for the restriction of firearms.

Macmahon Holdings has called out CIMIC Group for what it says is a low - ball takeover bid, saying the Spanish - controlled company should be aware of the improving market for mining services.

Elliott owns 9 percent of the former state phone monopoly and is calling on other investors to help it wrest control away from French media group Vivendi, which effectively runs Telecom Italia as its top shareholder with a 24 percent stake.

Surrounded by small - business owners, a group the president has characterized as community stalwarts unfairly burdened by excessive rules, Trump called for «normalized control, where you can open your business and expand your business very easily.

The Mueller team obtained documentation of an «internal review» of an IRA - controlled Facebook group called «Secured Borders,» whose operator was dinged for creating a «low number of posts dedicated to criticizing Hillary Clinton».

Simpson noted that the site took action after a Russian - controlled Facebook group was caught running ads for a 2016 event called «Stop Islamification of Texas» but suggested that when the news cameras were not paying attention, similar content was ignored.

Imagine, for a moment, that you are the CEO and controlling shareholder of a fictional community bank called Phantom Financial Group (PFG).

Those calling attention to the disparity in reactions have also highlighted the work of the Dream Defenders, a Florida - based group founded after the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin in 2012, arguing that it helped pave the way for the current student movement for gun control.

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What I am calling the «core groups,» those actually trying to live a new vision, give hope in that they are actually working out a new balance of impulse and control, energy and discipline, rather than abandoning all control and discipline.

CNN: Religious leaders launch campaign for gun control With the bells of the Washington National Cathedral ringing 28 times — honoring all those killed in last week's Connecticut shooting — a broad group of religious leaders on Friday called on their congregations, the White House and Congress to do more to combat gun violence.

And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God - granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate.

The game was physical throughout, with numerous technical and flagarant fouls called by a group of referees that struggled to keep emotions under control at times.

gibbs played well and deserves a higher rating so does holding apart his mistake that cost us a goal also i'm delighted for perez i've noticed on a technical level he is not what you would called a typical arsenal player his first touch & control are not the best he tends to lose a ball a bit too much and needs at least 2 touches i could be wrong and may be it is because he is just back from injury or he was a bit nervous on his return, i know people will say that it doesn't really matter as long as he scores the reason why we bought him and they could be wright anyway great win, performance and topping the group great, COYG!

These experiments have their roots in a technique Cohen developed as an assistant professor at Yale in the late 1990s that he called wise intervention — brief, controlled interactions that served to counteract students» fears that their teachers were judging them not as individuals but as members of a stereotyped group.

It will improve wildlife habitats, help control flooding, improve streamwater quality, avoid added congestion and protect property values, said Kaaren Oldfield, a Glen Ellyn marketing and media consultant who headed an ad hoc advocacy group called Neighbors for Open Space, which supported the proposal.

Twins Intervention (TI group): take part in the Wechat [counselling intervention] of breastfeeding; Twins Control (TC group): follow up through telephone call

Control group: reactive calls only (n = 34).

Overall, 372 (178 from the control group, and 194 from the intervention group) of the 500 women surveyed could be followed and answered all of our telephone calls during the second stage of our survey (Table 3); that is, a participation rate of 74.4 % in the overall population and a rate of 71.2 % and 77 % in the control group and intervention group, respectively, and the rest of women were lost sight of.

Given the desirability of breastfeeding, it is possible that women in the intervention group felt more guilty about discontinuing breastfeeding than control women because of relationships developed with the peer counselor, and thus, they did not answer telephone calls when the research assistant called to ascertain feeding status.

Intervention: staff training; women (n = 93) received a «motivationally enhanced» version of control group care from staff who had been trained in a programme called «Designer Breastfeeding».

Control 1 (n = 128): the same contact schedule of classes and phone calls as the intervention group, with content concentrating on more general pregnancy and health issues

Trump told governors gathered in D.C. that he would take action to ban the sale of bump stocks without Congress, and said it's «OK» to push back against the NRA «every once as a while,» as the powerful gun lobbying group fights calls to enact stricter gun control laws after the shooting.

Lawmakers will return to Washington today facing intense public pressure to break their decades - long gridlock on gun control, a demand fortified by a bipartisan group of governors calling for Congress to take action to protect against mass shootings.

Drug - policy watchdog groups are calling Cuomo's announcement that he is adding fentanyl analogs to New York State's controlled substances schedule «a step in the wrong direction.»

A few weeks ago, a group calling itself Rise and Resist staged a rally in front of Cuomo's Manhattan office calling on the governor to push for a Democratic - controlled Senate.

McCain himself has begun to raise the specter of unified Democratic control of all levers of government; at a speech this morning in Cleveland, McCain condemned the «spending spree» that Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.)-- a group he called a «dangerous threesome» — would take the country on if elected.

Activists point to how Cuomo has enabled Republican control of the State Senate by failing to use the State Democratic Party to support Senate Democrats and actively supporting a group of breakaway Democrats called the Independent Democratic Conference that has empowered Senate Republicans in exchange for a say in policy and perks they wouldn't enjoy as part of the minority.

It ends with a call for state and federal lawmakers to reject campaign contributions from gun rights groups like the NRA, enact stricter licensing and registration requirements for guns, a ban on «all classes of weapons that do not serve the specific uses of personal protection and sport shooting» and other gun control measures.

Good government groups have for years complained that New York's campaign finance laws make it difficult for the public to determine the actual source of campaign dollars, whether due to the so - called «LLC loophole» — which allows business interests that control a network of subsidiaries to vastly multiply their political giving — or corporate formation laws that allow companies to obscure the individuals and other businesses behind them.

Parsons said he was planning on calling the governor personally to talk to him about mayoral control, and Wylde said members of her group had spoken with «all the officials in Albany about the importance of this issue.»

On one hand, he is calling for a strong rent control law — something tenant groups have cheered and the real estate industry bemoaned.

Despite calls for stricter nationwide gun control laws, pro-gun advocacy groups are making strides.

«There is motion now in Republican - controlled legislatures to support an amendment,» said Jonah Minkoff - Zern, co-director of the Democracy Is For People campaign at Public Citizen, a nonprofit group that led a coalition of advocates calling on state lawmakers to support an amendment.

A change.org petition called the gun - free zone inside the Quicken Loans Arena an «affront to the Second Amendment» and has been signed by over 55,000 people — although it was largely a satire by liberal groups to shed a spotlight on the issue of gun control.

Wiley Norvell, a spokesman for Mr. de Blasio, said, «When a group professing to support education reform opposes mayoral control of schools, it calls into question what exactly it stands for.»

When there were clashes between farmers and the herdsmen, we always put a call to the Miyetti Allah group, the farmers and the local government; and we were able to bring the situation under control.

Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group called it «an interesting approach where both parties have been at loggerheads for years» but said «there's definitely a possibility» that the proposal ended in another classic Albany impasse in which the Democrat - dominated Assembly and GOP - controlled Senate fail to agree on a bill that can make it to the governor's desk.

However, under pressure from activists after openDemocracy revealed how Brexit campaigners were funnelling dark money through Northern Ireland to fund «Take Back Control» adverts, the Democratic Unionist Party was forced last night to reveal its major donor to be a group calling itself the Constitutional Research Council.

The Senate is currently controlled by Republicans, thanks to the help of a group of rogue Democrats called the Independent Democratic Conference and Brooklyn Democrat Simcha Felder.

A group representing local governments in Erie County is supporting calls to repeal the state's new gun - control law.

Leibell doled out $ 6.5 million in so - called «member items,» funded by taxpayer dollars, to nonprofit groups that he himself controlled between 2005 and 2010, according to the New York Times.

Many good government groups had the expectation that the workgroup's proposals would help empower individual members while decreasing the speaker's ability to control all legislation, something they saw as playing into the charges against Silver, who had long resisted calls for basic technological changes to increase transparency.

The women were divided into four groups in which they received one of four interventions: clomiphene plus active acupuncture; clomiphene plus control acupuncture (also called placebo acupuncture or mock acupuncture); placebo medication plus active acupuncture; or placebo medication plus control acupuncture.