Sentences with phrase «comparison studies which»

In recent years, Macecraft Software has published a total of five registry cleaner product comparison studies which have attempted to answer questions about the quality of different registry cleaning products as well as what kind of effects they can have on your system.

Not exact matches

Japan, which raised its VAT by 3pp in 2014, provides a useful case study for comparison.

Comparison of these studies brings into relief subtle but historically influential shifts in the meaning of «professional» (as in «theological schools are professional schools»), in the sorts of research deemed important to «professional» ministry, and in the ways in which research functions in professional schooling.

There have been no studies yet which draw specific comparisons between the total amount of religious programming on television in different historical periods.

For the report, six different LCA case studies were developed using the EcoImpact - COMPASS ® LCA software, which allows for quick life cycle comparisons between different package formats.

The report refers to a study by Incomes Data Services (IDS), the purpose of which was to show that such comparisons are «far from straightforward».

«The comparison of the MRI images from the two mazes reveals which brain regions were specifically contributing to the formation of spatial memories,» says Svenja Brodt, a doctoral candidate at the Graduate Training Center of Neuroscience and lead author of the study.

By comparison, a 2009 study in the journal Pediatrics, which defined sufficient vitamin D levels as greater than 30 ng / mL, found that an estimated 70 percent of people ages 1 to 21 had deficient or insufficient vitamin D levels.

By comparison, Arizona State University, Tempe, which has the largest university - owned collection in the world, has about 2000, says Meenakshi Wadhwa, the director of Arizona State's Center for Meteorite Studies, who recently traded with Piatek for a 20 - gram cut of Black Beauty.

That study, which investigated birds only from the Andes, inspired the team to follow up with its comparison of Andean and Himalayan species.

The researchers also looked at the price of non-sugary beverages, which did not change more in Berkeley than in comparison cities during the study period.

In contrast to previous studies of access to care in Massachusetts that have relied on patient surveys, which the authors say may be subject to potential biases due to patient recall or other factors, the new study is one of the few to rely on objectively measured outcomes and was based on nearly every hospital admission occurring in Massachusetts and the comparison states for nearly two years before and two years after the reform was implemented.

As no relevant study is available for comparison with the appropriate comparator therapy, the benefit assessment of the drug manufacturer is based on its own deliberations and assumptions, for which, however, a valid data basis is lacking.

Studying these mechanisms provided the researchers with «a source of variation that we think is effectively random,» says Doyle, adding that it represents «hopefully a better apples - to - apples comparison» of patients than prior studies that did not try to control for differences in which kinds of patients visit which hospitals.

A group from the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) evaluated the live imaging system as a potential alternative to traditional methods of assessing investigative influenza vaccines and treatment in mice, which can be time consuming and require more study animals for valid statistical comparison.

For comparison, the study will also include healthy controls and people who have recovered from Lyme disease, which can cause similar symptoms.

They took mosquitoes from Pahou in Benin, which were resistant to DDT and pyrethroids, and mosquitoes from a laboratory fully susceptible strain and did a genome wide comparison study.

«More selective HIV screening is thought to miss more cases, but there have never been well - designed comparison studies on which targeting criteria are best,» he says, «so with this study, we hypothesized that by using very broad criteria and applying sufficient resources to test everyone who met those criteria, we could detect nearly as many cases as universal screening but still use many fewer tests.»

They made comparisons within the five sectors they studied — power plants, furnaces, exports for electricity generation overseas, buses and cars — and across sectors to see which use of natural gas pays the greatest dividend for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

This approach also has limitations as it impedes comparisons with findings in other studies and other species, which is essential if you want to use research on chimpanzees to better understand the evolution of human personality traits.»

The manufacturer presents a so - called network meta - analysis for the indirect comparison, which includes the results from a total of 14 studies.

The study is part of the MEDALZ cohort, which included 67,215 persons with Alzheimer's disease diagnosed during 2005 - 2011 and comparison persons with the same age, gender and region of residence without the disease.

Robinson and graduate student Zhengzheng Liang suspected that it might be possible to make comparisons between this behavior and novelty - seeking in humans and other vertebrates, which has been well studied.

Valentina Coia explains further: «The first hypothesis could not be ruled out given that the study considered only 85 modern comparison samples from the K1 lineage — the genetic lineage that also includes that of Ötzi — which comprised few samples from Europe and especially none from the eastern Alps, which are home to populations that presumably have a genetic continuity with the Iceman.

It also aims to establish a reference database of genetic variation in Sweden, which will be available for comparison in genetic disease studies.

In most years, comparison studies were done in which the same patient had multiple cultures established (e.g., whole blood vs. serum [23]-RRB-.

Comparisons of these emergent species and other pathogenic fungi will enable evolutionary studies, revealing, for instance, fungal genes that are conserved or under selection and which could be important for drug resistance and virulence.

From the studies which had both verum and sham acupuncture groups: 3a) greater activation of verum acupuncture points than baseline (verum > rest), 3b) greater deactivation of verum acupuncture points than baseline (rest > verum), 3c) greater activation of sham acupuncture points than baseline (sham > rest), 3d) greater deactivation of sham acupuncture points than baseline (rest > sham), 3e) comparison ALE map of greater activation of verum than sham acupuncture relative to rest («verum > rest» - «sham > rest»), 3f) comparison ALE map of greater deactivation of verum than sham acupuncture relative to rest («rest > verum» - «rest > sham»).

The researchers in the study were examining nineteen different sleep patterns and found that the men sleeping for four hours three nights in a row had their blood fatty acid levels increased between 5 a.m. and 10 a.m. which was actually a 15 to 30 percent increase in comparison to those sleeping eight and a half hours each night.

A study made in 1999 showed that ZMA intake increased muscle strength and testosterone levels in comparison to a placebo group which showed decreased testosterone levels.

The study produced results which were very similar to the previous study where participants that took creatine right after exercising had a much bigger increase in muscle tissue in comparison to those who were exercising and taking creatine beforehand, or those in the control group that were exercising but weren't using any creatine.

The study produced an interesting result in which researchers noticed an increased gain in muscle tissue and strength in the participants» group which took creatine immediately after exercising in comparison to the second group which took creatine immediately before exercising.

Several studies have confirmed that a dose of 5 grams of creatine taken every day for 12 weeks straight, both pre and after workout has led to a drastic increase in muscle tissue in comparison to the second group of subjects which took creatine only in the morning and in the evening, without using it relatively close to the time before starting training or after finishing.

Suitable studies were the ones which made a comparison with the benefits of outdoor exercise initiatives with those performed indoors and that reported one or more physical or mental wellbeing results.

That's in comparison to an antibiotic called metronidazole, which is predicted to be 70 - 80 % effective — with a recurrence rate of 33 % at the three - month mark and 49 - 66 % after one year, according to the study.

The studies on the stem cells derived from fat suggest that additional fat accumulation within cells is promoted by exposure to low - calorie sweeteners in comparison to cells not exposed to them, in a dose - dependent manner, which means that fat droplet accumulation increased in the cells as the sucralose dosage is increased.

A comparison wa made between their behavior change from the beginning to the finish of the research with neural activity in a specific brain region which a previous study had indicated is predictive of behavior change.

Stress resistance has not been assessed however and so the biological relevance of this finding is currently unknown.32 Several IER trials (75 - 85 % ER on restricted days) in overweight / obese populations have reported reductions in various markers of oxidative stress 37, 41, which in one study was accompanied by a complementary increase in the anti-oxidant uric acid.37 In a direct comparison of IER (75 % ER for two days / week) and CER, both ER strategies displayed equal efficacy in reducing levels of fast - acting advanced oxidation protein products (AOPP) after six months, which displayed a tendency to occur earlier (i.e. at three months) in the IER group.41 Levels of slow - acting (i.e. long term) AOPP tended to decrease in the IER group and increase in the CER group which the authors proposed may have resulted from IER - induced activation of autophagy, a key homeostatic cellular process in which dysfunctional or unnecessary cellular proteins are degraded and recycled.41 On the other hand, a follow - up study using similar IER / CER protocols demonstrated comparable reductions in AOPP in both groups after three months.48 Summary and Future Research Directions

Studies in rodents have additionally described post-treatment elevations in the rate of fatty acid oxidation within both the liver and skeletal muscle of mice maintained on IER (100 % ER / alternate days).13 In a comparison of CER (40 % ER / day) and IER (100 % ER / alternate days), the authors of this 20 - week study noted a doubling in the Î ² - hydroxybutyrate levels (a marker of mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation) in IER - fed mice which was not present in the CER group.15 Both IER and CER interventions led to comparable reductions in fasting levels of glucose and insulin.

According to a study done by Duke University Medical researchers on calorie burning comparison between aerobic exercise (cardio) and resistance training, cardio exercise burned 67 percent more calories in the study than resistance training which included weight lifting and bodyweight exercises.

To make a long study short, they say that past comparisons of food costs were flawed because they only looked at price per calorie; whereas, comparing cost per average portion is a better measure in their opinion, and one which, incidentally, shows fruit and vegetables to be cheaper than most moderation (e.g. junk) foods.

Our first study on guggul gum was a simple comparison test between the standardised extract, gugulipid, and tetracycline, which is one of the most common oral antibiotics against acne (which I recommend that you avoid).

Purpose The purpose of this study was to evaluate data generated by the ROBOCAT II (Alcat Test by Cell Science Systems), by comparison to another particle counter, the FACSCalibur (Becton - Dickinson), which in addition to particle size also measures 4 other parameters for each particle.

For those reading who, while respecting anecdotal examples, are more keen on evidence - based data, I'd point you towards the renowned Gullet, et al study — A Biomechanical Comparison of Back and Front Squats in Healthy Training Individuals — which compared EMG activity between the two variations.

Is there a well - developed body of studies conducted that focus on a comparison between a vegan and non-vegan diet in which the latter living mostly on a whole food plant based diet but with a very small intake of meat and / or fish (less than twice a week for example and after controlling for age, weight, alcohol, exercise, smoking, family history for disease, etc.)?

There are dozens, or even hundreds of complications with these types of studies, which is why you can't always make direct comparisons.

The China Study has serious flaws as detailed in various critiques, and the others you present are observational studies that can not and do not adjust for all confounding factors, the most glaring of which is the comparison of plant - based diets against average (i.e. poorly planned) omnivorous diets.

The most recent study published in Virology Journal in September of 2012, Camel IgGs showed ability to recognize Hepatitis C virus peptides with a significant titer in comparison with human IgGs — which failed to do it.

The only research on strength athletes following ketogenic diets for longer periods is a study of gymnasts in which they were observed to maintain strength performance and lose more body fat after 30 days on a ketogenic diet in comparison to 30 days on a traditional western diet [64].

This study evaluated a new set of cardiac patients for the primary outcome of diabetes, which was not significantly associated with fasting (after multiple - comparisons correction) in the first study (37) and, thus, required additional evaluation as the primary hypothesis test (38).