Sentences with phrase «control than participants»

But they report that seniors in Kaiser Permanente health plans in the West were more likely to have these three key risk factors under control than participants in other plans.

Not exact matches

«The participants who'd completed the gratitude task months earlier not only reported feeling more gratefulness two weeks after the task than members of the control group, but also, months later, showed more gratitude - related brain activity in the scanner.

From the abstract: «After viewing a few organic foods, comfort foods, or control foods, participants who were exposed to organic foods volunteered significantly less time to help a needy stranger, and they judged moral transgressions significantly harsher than those who viewed nonorganic foods.»

In subjects consuming muffins made with either whole pea flour or pea fiber, fasting insulin levels were 15 % lower than with participants consuming control muffins made with wheat flour.

The Functional Food Centre of Oxford Brookes University conducted a trial using Aduna Baobab Powder and found that human participants who consumed a milk containing baobab had a lower blood glucose response than those who had a control drink with no baobab.

A 2008 study published in the British Society for Investigative Dermatology found that participants who consumed tomato paste for 12 weeks experienced over 30 % more protection from UV light than the control group.

A series of randomized control trials of a nurse home visitation program show a range of positive effects on maternal health, including decreases in prenatal cigarette smoking, fewer hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, and fewer closely spaced subsequent pregnancies., A randomized control study of another program that works with a particularly high - risk population found that participant mothers showed significantly lower depressive symptoms than those in the control group and were less likely to report feeling stressed a year after participation.

A third party country that uses force in territory controlled by another sovereign state, without the express or implied consent of a sovereign state with a legitimate claim to that territory, is an illegal aggressor under international law, rather than a participant in a collective security effort which international law recognizes as a legitimate reason to use military force.

Interestingly, for a third group of participants who were given only a perfunctory summary of the policy and no information about the distribution of benefits, opinion became even more favourable toward the HMID and other regressive policies than for the control group who were given no information at all.

MoveOn also responded to electrical blackouts and skyrocketing energy costs in California by calling for cost controls on electricity utility companies, organizing a nationwide «roll your own energy blackout» - a voluntary, three - hour electricity - free evening on June 21, in which more than 10,000 participants turned out lights and unplugged TVs and other appliances to protest Bush's energy plan.

According to the results, published online October 12 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, participants who used hormonal contraceptives while choosing their partner were less attracted to him and less sexually satisfied during their relationship than were individuals who did not use hormonal birth control.

All five of the experimental interventions worked better than the control, in which the participant simply wrote down a different early childhood memory each night for a week.

In fact, though, study participants with disrupted activity in the brain's impulse control center were 50 percent more generous than members of the control group.

Participants who understood BRONCANTO's rules exhibited very different reactions to sentences containing an error in sentence structure or grammar than did members of the control group: initially, upon hearing a blunder, the electrical impulses to one region of the brain decreased.

High and low sugar levels were both better controlled using the device than when the participants managed on their own, he says (NEJM, doi.org/s7w).

«The shift in assertiveness is small — HEART participants were 5 percent more assertive than the control group — but one of the key findings here is that a short, one - time intervention can have a measureable impact on behavior,» Widman says.

Participants who had meditated missed 76 percent fewer days of work from September through May than did the control subjects.

The research looked at more than five million genetic variations, called single nucleotide polymorphisms or SNPs (pronounced «snips»), in each participant in the study and compared the frequency of these SNPs with that of the control subjects.

Results show that participants in the treatment group reported spending more time in the shade (average days staying in the shade, 41 percent vs. 33.7 percent) but less sunscreen use (average days, 28.6 percent vs. 34.5 percent) than those in the control group.

After one month, participants in the intervention group sat down for 71 minutes less in an 8 hour work day than the control group.

Accelerometers recorded three percent less sedentary time than control participants, equaling about 25 minutes of time spent engaged in activity rather than in sedentary behavior on any given day.

Over the seven - day study period, participants had significantly fewer minutes of daily sedentary time and more daily minutes of active time than controls.

But some of us are prone to set goals that conflict with one another, such as the study participant who hoped both «to appear more intelligent than I am» and «to always present myself in an honest light» or another participant who wanted both «to keep my relationships on a 50 — 50 basis» and «to dominate, control, and manipulate people and situations.»

The researchers then confirmed with a controlled experiment that environmental cues were likely to have caused the effect: participants who were primed with images of churches proved less likely to support a stem cell initiative than were subjects who were shown more neutral images, such as office buildings.

In the study, MBSR participants reported significantly greater improvement in the ability to pay attention, and also made fewer mistakes on difficult cognitive tasks than those in the control group, which received patient education materials and supportive counseling.

Eye tracking revealed that the participants with either condition were less likely than controls to look to the actors» facial expressions for clues about their feelings.

In another experiment, participants tasked with hiding their sexual orientation exhibited reduced physical stamina, only able to squeeze an exercise handgrip for 20 % less time than those in a control condition.

Further, 59 percent of participants in the second study said they were significantly more likely than a control group that wasn't screened to take legal action against the company for invasion of privacy.

The previous studies, however, were retrospective (relying on participants» recall), did not focus exclusively on ADHD (included other conduct disorders) or compared only men suffering from adult ADHD with those having remitted childhood ADHD, rather than to controls without ADHD.

However, after eight training sessions they realised the tasks better than the participants in the control group.»

Among the Japanese participants, the risk gene variant had a similar frequency in centenarians (46.4 %) and in healthy controls (47.3 %), but it was less frequent than in controls performed with cardiovascular disease (57.2 %).

The ASD participants took longer than the control group to learn the task, demonstrating altered implicit learning in ASD.

Scheibehenne says that he and his colleagues tried to control for this unintended peer pressure by having participants eat dessert with a different group of participants than they lunched with.

The researchers found that participants in the control group with two copies of the variant were 80 % more likely to develop the disease than those without the variant.

Women with epilepsy and healthy control participants who were between the ages of 18 and 41 seeking pregnancy and less than six months removed from contraception were followed throughout the duration of their pregnancy.

At the Shamatha Project, a three - month intensive meditation retreat, Blackburn and UC Davis researchers found telomerase activity in participants» white blood cells was one - third higher than in a control group's.

In a small experimental study, participants in an eight - week mindfulness - based stress reduction (MBSR) program — focusing on the breath, mental content and bodily sensations while walking, sitting or practising yoga — experienced notably smaller post-stress inflammatory responses than control subjects.

Would it not have made more sense to control the diet of the participants, rather than the training load?

Individuals in the yoga group demonstrated better overall balance control than non-yoga participants when faced with a cognitive challenge.

Yoga participants also performed better on tests of cognitive abilities during the balance challenge than non-yoga controls.

«Approximately 40 % of the protein controlled meal replacement diet participants lost greater than 5 % of their initial weight compared with 12 % of those on a standard diet.

After the study concluded, participants in Group 1 showed BMI, waist circumference, and fat percentage significantly lower than the control group.

Depressive symptoms in the yoga group were significantly lower than symptoms reported by control participants, who demonstrated little change in either dimension.

In addition, plasma cortisol levels, a biomarker of stress, were significantly lower in yoga group participants than controls.

One study found that participants who were given a mixture of probiotics containing Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium species showed significantly less psychological distress than matched controls (15).

In a clinical trial, the study controls the dietary intake, which is more complicated than in observational studies where the participants control their own diet.

By the end of the eight - week trial, 70 percent of participants eating the combination diet had a systolic BP less than 140 mm Hg and diastolic BP less than 90 mm Hg, compared with 45 percent on the diet rich in fruits and vegetables and 23 percent on the control diet.

We excluded trials concerning calcium and vitamin D given together with a placebo comparator (trials were only eligible if vitamin D was given to both intervention and control groups, because vitamin D supplementation has been associated with decreased mortality17); trials in which calcium was administered in the form of dietary modification or a complex nutritional supplement; and trials in which most participants had a major systemic disease other than osteoporosis.

(8) In a six - month study, participants who engaged in regular sauna baths had significantly fewer colds than the control group over the same time period.

Twenty years after students participated in the program, John Holbein, a researcher at Princeton and the new study's author, matched Fast Track participants — now adults — to state voter files and found that those in the intervention group voted at a rate 11 to 14 percentage points higher than their peers in the control group, a significant boost considering that get - out - the - vote programs typically boost turnout by only 1 to 4 percentage points.