Sentences with phrase «colleagues tested a group»

To investigate, Chen and his colleagues tested a group of five - week - old mice, with two weeks of voluntary wheel running.

Gunstad and his colleagues tested the group again and found that patients who had lost weight scored higher on memory tests.

Not exact matches

During my thirty years of academic labor in the humanities, I have observed my colleagues across the country promote racial and sexual criteria in admissions and hiring, review curricula, textbooks, and tests for proper representation of groups, and elevate race and sexuality to essential research fields.

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.

Alexander Niculescu of Indiana University in Indianapolis and his colleagues have developed a questionnaire and blood test that together predicted with 92 per cent accuracy who among a group of 108 men receiving psychiatric treatment would develop suicidal feelings over the next year (Molecular Psychiatry, doi.org/6vk).

A separate review by Ducharme and a different group of colleagues looked at 22 studies that tested varying the dose of steroids, and found that lower doses had less of an effect on height.

In a recent test of those questions, Graybiel and colleagues trained a group of rats to turn either left or right in a T - shaped maze, based on different sound cues.

To test whether yawning requires empathy and thus get at the real purpose that yawning might serve, Anna Wilkinson of the University of Lincoln in England and her colleagues took a group of red - footed tortoises that lived together and trained one of them to yawn when exposed to a red square.

When economist Michael Kosfeld and his colleagues at the University of Zurich administered nasal sprays containing the hormone oxytocin to a group of test subjects, they became substantially more willing to trust strangers with their money.

To put the mindfulness training tool to the test, in 2011, Paulus and colleague Douglas C. Johnson performed a before - and - after study on a group of more than 200 Marine recruits going through pre-deployment training.

His research group has developed RT - QuIC over the past decade at RML, where he also has trained many international colleagues to use and advance the test.

Øyvind Holme, M.D., of the Sorlandet Hospital Kristiansand, Kristiansand, Norway and colleagues randomly assigned study participants in Norway to receive once - only flexible sigmoidoscopy (n = 10, 283); a combination of once - only flexible sigmoidoscopy and fecal occult blood testing (FOBT; n = 10,289), or no intervention (control group; n = 78,220).

To look for variation in honey bee social behavior, Hagai Shpigler, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois (UI) in Urbana, designed two tests where he and colleagues video recorded a group of bees and analyzed each individual's reaction to a social situation.

Schon, Seferos and colleagues happened upon the material while testing a variety of long - chain polymers — specifically pendant group polymers: the molecules attached to a «backbone» chain of a long molecule.

Julia Lewis, MD (Vanderbilt University School of Medicine) and her colleagues in the Collaborative Study Group conducted a 441 - patient randomized clinical trial to test the potential of a compound called ferric citrate to bind phosphorus, increase iron stores, and reduce the usage of IV iron and ESAs.

Studying older people over time can be challenging given their uncertain health, but Ritchie and his colleagues had an unusual resource in the Lothian Birth Cohort, a group of people born in 1936 whose mental function has been periodically tested by the Scottish government since 1947 — their first IQ test was at age 11.

To test that idea, he, Powers, and colleagues decided to apply a version of the 1890s experiment to four different groups: healthy people, people with psychosis who don't hear voices, people with schizophrenia (a subtype of psychosis) who do, and people — such as self - described psychics — who regularly hear voices but don't find them disturbing.

One group, Nat Gopalswamy of NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and his colleagues, will test a new version of an instrument called a polarimeter, built to measure the temperature and speed of electrons leaving the sun.

Stephen W. Scherer, Ph.D., of the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, and colleagues performed chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA) and whole - exome sequencing (WES) in a group of 258 unrelated children with ASD to determine the molecular diagnostic yield (the percentage of subjects with a genetic alteration [mutation] that may contribute to the features of autism spectrum disorder) of these tests.

And when they were tested after birth, these infants» brains recognized the word and its variations, while infants in a control group did not, Partanen and colleagues report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Professor Sahakian and colleagues found that the patients who had played the memory game made significantly fewer errors and needed significantly fewer attempts to remember the location of different patterns in the CANTAB PAL test relative to the control group.

In efforts to enhance pre-clinical drug testing, Thomas Gaddy of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and colleagues in the research group of Professor Stacey Finley investigated a potential predictive biomarker for a type of cancer drug known as anti-angiogenic therapy.

But the question of whether certain, more influential peers have more influence on social norms governing a group is what spurred Paluck and her colleagues to design their test program, the Roots program.

Abadir and colleagues first tested 5 percent topical losartan on mice in three different phases of wound healing: group 1 treatment, for up to three days post-wound infliction to target the inflammatory phase; group 2 treatment, starting on day seven after wound infliction to target the proliferative / remodeling (later) phase of tissue healing; and group 3 treatment, starting the first day of wound infliction until closure to treat all wound healing phases.

Snyder - Mackler and colleagues first placed monkeys into groups of five and observed the social hierarchy they established, while conducting tests on gene expression and immune system function.

Dr. Jenkins and his colleagues initially divided the diabetic patients recruiter for the investigation into three test groups.

Mindset Scholars David Paunesku, Greg Walton, Carissa Romero, David Yeager, Carol Dweck, and their colleague Eric Smith designed a study to test whether brief, online programs could improve academic outcomes for large groups of high school students.

By working together with my colleagues in PAA and other grassroots parent groups, including Save Duval Schools, 50th No More, the Florida state PTA, Fund Education Now, and Testing is Not Teaching, we managed to beat the richly - funded corporate reformers.»

• Analyzed a wide range of complex commercial contracts, predominantly Master Software License Agreements and SaaS agreements • Co-led group that spearheaded initial beta testing and provided substantive feedback regarding proprietary online contract analysis and management system • Trained and mentored less experienced colleagues on use of the system and overall contract analysis procedures and workflow processes; train new mentors on mentoring process and procedures • Provided actionable and substantive feedback regarding ways to improve workflow processes • Participated in and periodically lead weekly training «rounds» discussing substantive legal issues raised by contract analysis • Gained understanding and familiarity with a variety of contracting terminology, analyses, and structures

Track record of working with large groups of colleagues as well as of test takers while maintaining positive communication channels with all stakeholders.

The conditional indirect effect that we tested corresponds with Preacher and colleagues» [45] Model 3, in which the path from the intervening variable (Δ composite intrusiveness) to the DV (Δ composite anxiety) is moderated (by age group), but the path from the IV (treatment group) to the intervening variable is not moderated (i.e., is the same for both age groups).

«Meeting your colleagues in informal groups is one of the best ways to test ideas and grow your network.»