Sentences with phrase «control study which»

She currently leads a 5 - year controlled study which aims to build a comprehensive picture of the effects of naturally - acquired FIV infection in cats, so that practical guidelines can be developed for its management and prognosis.

Not exact matches

The study, which included 88 leaders and their subordinates, asked leaders to complete surveys at the beginning of each workday for two weeks, which asked about their sleep the night before and their self - control at that moment.

In terms of the methods, there are a number of smaller scale studies, many of which did not include active control groups.

The study compared the compound annual growth rate of a Family Index of 23 companies — in which at least 30 % of voting control belonged to a family with multi-generational involvement in the ownership or management — against 412 widely held firms over a 15 - year period (1998 to 2012).

First, the topline numbers: The study was an observational one rather than a randomized control trial, the latter of which is considered to be the «gold standard» of clinical studies.

What this newest study does, in addition to trying to discern which income levels are most affected, is to try to control for everything else that could affect how much a mom gets paid compared to a dad.

For example, the anxious group read sentences like «safety is not guaranteed in our neighborhoods nor in our own homes,» which was intended to highlight the «lack of control over negative circumstances that may happen in life and an uncertain future,» according to the study.

The study, which followed 10,000 Wisconsin residents who had graduated from high school in 1957, sought to explore how job demands, deadlines, job control, and decision making affected workers as a way of predicting early death.

Then you must practice the application of theory in a controlled environment — think case studies which this blog will introduce.

Thechief difficulty is with the idea of science as the study of that which is under our control and can be subjected to examination and experiment.

However that may be, the sustained labours of generations of early biblical scholars gradually established certain broad controlling principles of interpretation; and these ultimately crystallized into a general schema, by which the study of the Bible was henceforth to be directed.

Most influential was my study of that which I'd been a victim of, mind control tactics.

It may therefore be tested and controlled by a careful and critical study of the documents which caught and fixed it at the earliest accessible stage in its development.

Although billions of dollars are being expended annually on family planning services in less - developed countries, and such programs have been promoted by various governments at the national level for four decades, there are only a few studies that have attempted to measure the demographic and health impact of family planning against a «control group» — a similar area which lacks the service.

Studying about them seems to burden the already overtaxed memory and to imprison one in a bygone world over which he has no control.

Nature is usually seen as a system which can be studied, understood and controlled, whereas creation can only be understood as a gift from the outstretched hand of the Father of all, and as a reality illuminated by the love which calls us together into universal communion.

The objects of his study range from a class of molecules that have the basic self - duplicating property of living things, through cells which suggest purely physical systems, through animals which give increasing evidence of having minds, to human beings in whom streams of consciousness seem to involve continual choices of action, at the opposite pole from control by impersonal laws of nature.

A 2001 double - blind study at the Mayo Clinic randomized 799 discharged coronary surgery patients into a control group and an intercessory prayer group, which received prayers at least once a week from 5 intercessors per patient.

Another more recent study assessed the efficiency of collagen peptides in a randomized, double blind, controlled multicenter trial, in which 250 subjects with primary osteoarthritis of the knee were given 10g of collagen peptides daily.

Also, after slamming milk, you recommend people use honey??? Numerous studies have shown honey to be much more damaging than milk could ever hope to be, not only is it a sugar — which, surprise, is acidic in nature — it's partially broken Dow making absorption into the blood stream quicker, which causes hard to control and severe blood sugar spikes, and contains digestive enzymes from the bees... like cows milk being made for a calf, honey... is made for bees.

A 2012 study reveals that fish oil increases transmission of serotonin in the brain which controls emotion.

In this study, three rewetting agents will be used: virgin coconut oil (VCO) which is oil - based tears, Tears Naturale II which is readily available commercially which contains HMC (hydroxymethylcelluose), and saline for control.

While study results indicated that combining capsaicin with the chemicals «might promote cancer cell survival,» the report clearly stated that the control group of mice treated only with capsaicin ``... did not induce any skin tumors...» In addition, the study repeatedly cited other research studies in which the anti-cancer properties of capsaicin were solidly demonstrated.

The study, which used Growing Naturals» Organic Rice Protein made with Culver City, CA's Axiom Food's Oryzatein, followed a tightly controlled population of seasoned bodybuilders and examined how they built muscle and experienced repair and soreness.

4) Weight Control: As part of a calorie - conscious eating regime, almonds, which are high in monounsaturated fats, can help obese adults lose weight easier than a diet high in complex carbohydrates, according to a study in the International Journal of Obesity and Related Metabolic Disorders.

One of the most important and influential studies of the long - term effects of childhood stress and trauma is the Adverse Childhood Experiences study, which was conducted in the 1990s by Robert Anda, a physician at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Vincent Felitti, the founder of the department of preventive medicine at Kaiser Permanente, the giant health - maintenance organization based in California.

A study of low - income, urban US fathers, which controlled for age, ethnicity, education, cohabitation and quality of relationship with the child's mother, found that the hours fathers spent «hustling» for work were correlated with low involvement with their children (Cina, 2005).

The Nurse - Family Partnership has been studied in three separate randomized controlled trials, which have shown positive effects on the mothers, including reduced incidence of child abuse, arrest, and welfare enrollment.

In British Columbia, in a longitudinal study which partly controlled for fathers» mental health outcomes, multivariate analysis found adverse employment experiences among fathers strongly associated with their sons» attempted / completed suicide later, and with elevated odds for daughters» attempted suicide (Ostry et al, 2006).

A recent, substantial, UK / US study, which controlled for mothers» depression, found high levels of emotional and behavioural problems in children (particularly boys) aged 3.5 years associated with earlier depression in their fathers (Ramchandani et al, 2005).

• A substantial, UK / US study, which controlled for mothers» depression and for fathers» education levels, found severe postnatal depression in fathers associated with high levels of emotional and behavioural problems in their children (particularly boys) at age 3.5 years (Ramchandani et al, 2005) and at age 7 (Ramchandani & Stein, 2008).

The study's lead author, Elizabeth Hatch, said, «We found positive associations between intake of sugar - sweetened beverages and lower fertility, which were consistent after controlling for many other factors, including obesity, caffeine intake, alcohol, smoking and overall diet quality.»

With respect to the study on baseball pitchers, [1] Dr. Mall observes that it says absolutely nothing about the speed at which these players got back to playing sports, and that, because there was no control group, «we don't know if these kids would have gotten better by simply resting an additional six weeks and then starting a return to throwing program.»

• An important longitudinal study which controlled for socioeconomic factors found fathers» involvement in routine every day childcare, plus play / school liaison throughout a child's life to beyond adolescence, accounting for 21 % of the variance in fathers» marital happiness at midlife (Snarey, 1993).

While I agree that much of the research out there for PRP is less than desirable, I think it important to cite to some studies as a counterpoint which do have large numbers, platelet concentrations and control groups.

Tough summarizes key research, such as the Adverse Childhood Experience Study, a project of the Centers for Disease Control and Kaiser Permanente, which revealed a stunning correlation between traumatic childhood events and negative adult outcomes.

And researchers in Canada and Belarus also finished a comprehensive study, for the first time controlling for education and socio - economic factors by dividing mothers in Belarus into two groups: one in which mothers were encouraged to breastfeed by their care providers and one in which no additional encouragement was offered.

My plan was to graduate, do my post-grad study and then go on to counsel families who've suffered a traumatic birth experience, and raise awareness for post-natal PTSD and other mental health conditions which are exacerbated by the feeling of loss of control during labour.

The second most common style (13 parents from 7 families), the study found, was controlling, a parenting style in which parents:

The study was a multicentre, randomised control trial which involved six hospitals in Victoria, Australia.

The study, which was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), found lower rates of confirmed abuse cases, child out — of — home placements, and hospitalizations and emergency room visits for child injuries in counties where parenting support was implemented.

The authors of the study speculated that this phenomenon is related to parents using candy to control their children's behavior, which gets in the way of children learning to delay gratification.

But this doesn't make sense for everything we do in health care, and we know the information we get from randomized controlled trials doesn't always translate well to real life because 1) the restrictions we put on eligibility for studies rarely allows the results to be generalized to the population as a whole and 2) Adherence to the intervention tends to be higher in a randomized controlled trial than in real life which makes the effect seem «better» than it is.

And the study didn't control for breastfeeding, which differed between groups.

Note that the studies used to arrive at these conclusions are mostly randomized controlled trials in which the women who agree to participate are randomly assigned to either epidural or non-epidural pain relief.

To describe forms of breastfeeding support which have been evaluated in controlled studies, the timing of the interventions and the settings in which they have been used.

A prospective, controlled study of the effect of breast milk on infection among low birth weight infants was conducted in India in 1981.18 Although the sample size was small, 62 infants, the study design was a randomized block design in which feeding schedules for breast milk or formula were randomly allocated within groups of infants that were determined to be relatively homogeneous with respect to factors predisposing to infection.

In fact, Dr. McKenna states, «There is no controlled epidemiological study which shows that co-sleeping is dangerous, except where mothers smoke.»

In order to study all aspects related to the topic, we used a reference questionnaire prepared by nutrition and breastfeeding experts, which had been tested, modified and validated two months before our research team1 started the study (following a pilot study conducted on 20 women to determine whether the questions were clear and understandable), and then administered in a standardized fashion to women in both groups (intervention group and control group).

In controlled drug studies, some study participants receive the drug under testing; others get a placebo, which is like a sugar pill that has none of the drug being texted.