Sentences with phrase «control over trials»

Second, in a field that is moving rapidly from developer - led efficacy trials, to implementation trials in complex real - world services, we need to be sure that effect sizes are not declining over time, as developer control over trials is relaxed.

There are things that can be done to give us back more control over the trials, and that should enable us to see the blessings all the more clearly.

It penalizes those whose trials are long, not necessarily those whose trials are inefficient, and requires payment from a party who may not even have the control over the trial's length, a problem which the possibility of an eventual compensation by way of an award of costs does not really address.

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The trial was one of three scheduled for the first half of this year over claims that Volkswagen deceived customers with the deliberate rigging of emissions controls to perform differently when being tested than they do on the road.

Horizon Power will trial a new method of charging residents and businesses in Port Hedland for electricity, with the aim of giving customers more control over their power usage.

I think history's lessons tell us that public scrutiny and competition favors the harsh realities of the public spotlight with its trials and tribulations over the easy of autocracy, control and cloaked decision - making.

KRISTINA CHAMBERLAIN: Someone can a apply medication especially if that would be the last resort I mean the other thing is you have a little bit of control over with trial and error you know you try something, you see how it's working, if it's not doing what you wanted to do you stop or you know your body doesn't take too much of a ding from it but if you're doing medications then it takes longer for you to rebuild it.

A randomised controlled trial would help to resolve the controversy over the relative safety of home and hospital birth, 2 but conditions for a «fair» trial are difficult to achieve.

Her over 20 years of practice as an attorney includes serving as litigation coordinator for the Women Against Abuse Legal Center in Philadelphia, and on Planned Parenthood's trial team in its challenge to the constitutionality of the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act.

One of the cluster - randomised trials (McLachlan 2016) also contributed two intervention arms and splitting over the control group was included in the adjustment for clustering.

NEW YORK (AP)-- A prosecutor sought Monday to control the damage over the arrest of the government's star witness in the bribery trial of a former top aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood refused to order the state's Department of Financial Services to turn over files on Anthony Bonomo, the malpractice executive ousted from control of Physicians Reciprocal Insurers for mismanagement after testifying for the prosecution at Skelos» first trial.

The lab tested more common hydrogels but found that they were unable to provide the same controlled release and also failed to provide an additional benefit over CDN treatment seen in clinical trials.

Rather than create drastic salt policies based on conflicting data, Alderman and his colleague Hillel Cohen propose that the government sponsor a large, controlled clinical trial to see what happens to people who follow low - salt diets over time.

Writing in a linked Comment, Christopher Colvin from the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and Abigail Harrison from Brown University School of Public Health in the USA say, «Currently, the increasingly narrow and fierce debates over the HIV and depot medroxyprogesterone acetate link have focused on whether a large randomised controlled trial should be done to better understand this link.

Using only their thoughts to control the robotic arm, S3 and T2 were able to reach out and touch a series of 6 - centimeter foam ball targets 49 % to 95 % of the time in over 200 trials.

The U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board ruled today in favor of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the initial legal step of a high stakes battle over who will control the valuable intellectual property linked to CRISPR, the powerful genome - editing tool.

Researchers from the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth reported two studies from a randomized double - blind, sham - controlled trial to determine the effectiveness of six OMT sessions over an eight week period.

One group reduced fat consumption 8 to 10 percent over the duration of the trial compared with a control group.

Over a two - month trial, all six subjects in the control group showed a decline in the activation of the left hippocampus, which processes auditory memory, and on average deteriorated on tests of verbal recall.

Whatever your take on the healing power of prayer, you have to scratch your head over this: In 1999 a large, randomized controlled trial «proved» that heart surgery patients are more likely to survive if someone they have never met secretly prays for them — and then, seven years later, another randomized trial found that secret prayer very slightly raises the odds that a patient will suffer complications.

Over 11,000 men volunteered for the trials with one group receiving circumcision on enrollment and a control group delaying surgery until the end of the study.

Two standard medications for bipolar disorder were effective in controlling symptoms at doses tailored to older people in a clinical trial of treatment in adults over age 60.

Berlim MT, Van Den Eynde F. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex for treating posttraumatic stress disorder: An exploratory meta - analysis of randomized, double - blind and sham - controlled trials.

The Guided Care model was developed in 2002 by a team of researchers at Johns Hopkins and was tested at eight primary care sites in the Baltimore / Washington, D.C., area in a 32 - month randomized controlled trial involving over 900 patients, 300 caregivers, and 48 primary care physicians.

In one study, the researchers conducted a review of randomized controlled trials looking at how extra calcium intake in women and men over age 50 affected bone mineral density.

It wasn't a single clinical trial, but rather, a review article that looked at the results of over 140 randomized, controlled, human clinical trials — the research gold - standard — published between 1950 and 2007.

Systematic review of randomised controlled trials of over the counter cough medicines for acute cough in adults.

Over 20 randomized controlled trials have now shown that low - carb diets lead to 2 - 3 times more weight loss than low - fat diets (20, 21, 22).

In another study by Eskelinin et al (1992) demonstrated in a double blind placebo controlled trial with female subjects aged from 40 — 60 years that epidermal thickening from 0.11 mm to 0.29 mm and dermal thickening from 0.74 mm to 1.39 mm could be achieved after a treatment of 500 mg / day of marine protein over 90 days.

All of these were Double Blind, Randomized Controlled Trials, with subjects given Garcinia Cambogia or Placebo over 8 - 12 weeks.

Ten years ago, there was not much scientific evidence behind the low - carbohydrate diet, however since 2003, there have been over 27 randomized, controlled, scientific human trials.

Three separate trials were conducted over 10 hours for fasted, postprandial and control feedback.

There are countless examples of «expert physicians» who have given extremely bad recommendations over the years — from insistence in the 1950s - 60s that cigarette smoking is not harmful, to cardiologists in the 1970s recommending potent (and toxic) anti-arrhythmic drugs for the treatment of benign PVCs — until randomized controlled trials documented increased mortality in the treatment group, to numerous unnecessary surgeries that used to be commonplace (such as tonsillectomies, elective C - sections, spinal fusion for back pain, etc., etc..

In a 2015 double - blinded randomized placebo controlled trial (the gold standard for clinical trials) of over fifty pregnant women, with one group taking 1 mg of FA daily for four weeks, Lisa Houghton and her research team found that with supplementation the red blood cell levels increased but the levels of folate in breast milk did not change.

Controlled trials produce weight loss by lowering caloric intake, over and over again, regardless of what kind of food is eaten.

Furthermore, Asensia ®'s formula has been used safely for more than 12 years with over a million bottles sold and studied in a double - blind placebo controlled clinical trial.

Voucher Effects Researchers over the past decade have focused on evaluating voucher programs using experimental research designs called randomized control trials (RCTs).

This past summer, the Institute for Education Sciences (IES) released a summary of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) funded over the past decade.

A controlled trial of approximately 1,000 students across three courses over a six - month period confirmed that these changes led to statistically significant differences in student success: whether students mastered critical objectives and passed the course and stayed on for their next course (see Figure 1).

The researchers developed a hands - on curriculum and professional development lessons teaching basic physics using the popular toys, then conducted a randomized controlled trial in about 60 fourth - grade classrooms in a California school district comparing student learning under the project - based and traditional textbook based instruction over three weeks.

The trial and appellate courts had held that the Lobato was not appropriate for judicial resolution, since Colorado's constitution clearly commits control over the issue to the legislature, and because there are no judicially manageable standards that the courts could apply.

This study (the first with the 2011 edition of the Second Step program) conducted a randomized controlled trial over a 1 - year period with 7300 students and 321 teachers in 61 schools across six school districts, from kindergarten to second grade.

The U. S. Department of Education maintains that the only way to determine whether a program is effective is to subject it to rigorous testing using randomized controlled trials that can be replicated and that are conducted over time.

Through a randomized controlled trial of 886 students in three high schools (one predominantly Black, one predominantly Hispanic, and one mixed race school), we administered self - affirmation exercises over the course of an academic year.

Though only one year of data is available for analysis at this point, the study has involved a randomized field trial of over 400 teachers and administrators broken into test and control groups.

Why not establish a limited controlled study, a series of trials over several years in order to determine whether the standardized test truly measures what the developer claims it measures?

TEEP was evaluated using a randomised controlled trial with over 10,000 students in 45 low - performing secondary schools across England.

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