Sentences with phrase «colleagues designed an experiment»

Building on the knowledge that making older children laugh can enhance many aspects of cognition, Rana Esseily and her colleagues designed an experiment to see whether using humor could also have an effect on the ability of infants to learn.

Finn and her colleagues designed an experiment to test whether exerting more effort would help or hinder success.

Kraus and her colleagues designed experiments to assess three different filter bed substrates for their effectiveness in nutrient removal and supporting plant growth.

Not exact matches

Along with his colleague, the Indiana University sociology professor Stephen Bernard, they designed a series of lab experiments to find out.

As a matter of fact, E. R. John and his colleagues have been carrying out experiments of this type to test a model of consciousness that links consciousness to the activity of a particular type of neuron.15 It appears that John's model predicts different results than the present model does, and one can think of several feasible experimental designs that would test between the two models.

In a landmark experiment in 2006, Cohen and a colleague, Julio Garcia, tested a wise intervention designed to counteract this anxiety with a group of underachieving seventh - graders at a suburban middle school in New England.

Andy Martens from the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, and colleagues carried out experiments in which 184 participants were given feedback designed to raise or lower their self esteem.

Often, the report says, Stapel and a colleague or student came up with a hypothesis, and then designed an experiment to test it.

To further test the terror management connection, Lifshin and his colleagues designed one of their experiments to look at whether giving participants an alternative self - esteem boost would change the effect of the death prime.

There are two primary ways to achieve «environmental flows» of water necessary to sustain river ecosystems, write Mike Acreman, of the UK's Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, and colleagues in a review published this month in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment: controlled releases like the recent experiment on the Colorado that are designed with specific objectives for ecology and ecosystem services in mind and hands - off policies that minimize or reverse alterations to the natural flow of the river.

Professor Elizabeth Phelps and her colleagues designed and conducted similar experiments in both rats and healthy humans.

To provide an answer for how the geology of Yellowknife Bay has changed over time, Farley and his colleagues also designed an experiment using a method called surface exposure dating.

Choudhury and colleagues designed a series of experiments to find that DAZAP1 binds to a number of other proteins in the cell nucleus and promotes alternative splicing.

In the study, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Diehl and her colleagues outline a series of nine experiments involving over 2,000 participants in the field and the lab designed to examine the effect of taking photographs of an experience on people's enjoyment of an activity.

Together with her colleague Maria Mota, Rodríguez designed a series of experiments to find out what was happening.

Rivest and her colleagues found that incorporating variability into an experiment's design produced ambiguous and intriguing results.

Derenzo and his colleague wrote that despite overwhelming evidence for dark matter, recent large - scale experiments designed to detect nuclear recoils from dark matter particles with masses of WIMPs have not yet seen a definitive signal.

Though thousands of miles away from colleagues at NASA's Ames Research Center in California providing designs and advice, Peru was in many ways an apt location to experiment with growing potatoes on Mars.

Matt Springer and his colleagues at Vanderbilt released a study recently on a well - designed randomized trial of a merit pay experiment in Nashville.