Sentences with phrase «controlled studies for»

Based on the logical assumption that chronic stress might underlie these fatigue syndromes, researchers have been conducting well - controlled studies for over two decades to try to find a link between cortisol levels and fatigue syndromes.

The sobering implications of these controlled studies for pastoral care elicited a substantial shift of direction for me toward the kind of critique of pychotherapeutic assumptions that was already being developed by Thomas Szasz, O. H. Mowrer, Hans Eysenck, and William Schofield.5

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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.

These researchers also looked at the National Childhood Development Study and found that, when they controlled for cognitive and non-cognitive skills, the relationship between height and wages disappeared.

«In a study of health care providers, we found that those who used WOOP were significantly more engaged with their work and less stressed than members of a control group,» Oettingen writes for HBR.org.

Cases of tick - and mosquito - borne diseases more than triple since 2004, according to a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Page said that even in a best case scenario, a male birth control pill for consumers is still between five and 10 years away, since much larger - scale studies need to be done before the FDA would give a seal of approval.

For the study, the researchers split socially anxious volunteers into three groups — one was asked to perform random acts of kindness, one was told to follow the usual course of exposure therapy and force themselves to participate in more social situations, and another was a control group who did nothing special.

A heap of evidence shows women are assessed differently when it comes to confidence, likability and self - promotion, so the researchers only recruited male study subjects, as they put it, «to control for potentially confounding effects of gender.»

There are no controls for gender in the study, although the sample is representative of the real world, with fewer women on the list.

The author of this study, Joni Hersch, finds that after controlling for other factors that determine wages, women employed in jobs with an average probability of being sexual harassed are paid a compensating differential of 25 cents per hour relative to women employed in jobs with no risk of sexual harassment.

Previous studies have controlled for the fact that lesbians are better educated, more likely to be white, have fewer children and live in cities, but a 6 % wage premium still exists.

Studies have revealed that when a person feels appreciated and recognized, the brain releases dopamine, the hormone that is responsible for controlling the reward and pleasure center of the brain.

Those health factors were not controlled for in this study.

After controlling for all other factors, the study found that commuting has a detrimental psychological effect on women, but not on men.

For years, Dweck has studied the self - conceptions people use to guide their behavior, to motivate themselves, and to build self - control.

When I Will Teach You to Be Rich author Ramit Sethi interviewed his old mentor, Stanford University persuasion expert BJ Fogg, for a podcast, Fogg noted that studies show «our context controls us in a huge way.»

The study ascribed this dearth of research to restrictions — namely a 21 - year - old congressional appropriations bill called the «Dickey Amendment» that stipulated «none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun control.control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun control.Control and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun control.control.»

«A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study found that from 1998 to 2008, leafy greens were associated with more incidents of food poisoning than any other single food category (though contaminated poultry led to more deaths),» Harrington reports.

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.

Sitting on his patio at his summer house in Boulder, he pulls out his iPad to forward me an article on a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that found that only about one in 10 Americans eats the recommended minimum five servings a day of fruit and vegetables.

«They're not just responsible for quality and controlling cost but looking for new business and thinking of new things the plant could do,» says Ivey's Boothe, who has studied Linamar's management practices.

The participants then followed one of three protocols — the first control group did nothing in particular, the second exercised for 35 minutes 40 minutes after studying, while the third group exercised for the same amount of time four hours later.

As the many studies Ricard has participated in have proven, the mind reacts to this type of meditation, and the brain actually develops a stronger capability for emotional control.

Sandberg peppers the book with studies, reports and personal anecdotes to back up her premise — that for reasons both in and out of their control, there are fewer woman leaders than men in the business world and beyond.

More research is needed to rule out this second scenario, but the idea of being kind to yourself about occasional lapses in productivity or self - control — especially if you're the type to beat yourself up for every dip in productivity — has been endorsed by previous studies.

Final patient visits will be followed by completing data entry for the more than 35,000 patient years of study in REDUCE - IT, and typical database quality control measures, known as cleaning.

He found that homeowners have higher self - esteem than renters, but pointed out that the original studies may not have adequately controlled for other contributing factors.

Unlike a similar study last year that found that women chiefs make more than men, this one had a far larger sample and controlled for «chief executives» tenure, characteristics of the firms (size, performance and risk), and the size and independence of the boards.»

An unpublished Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study confirms Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck's findings of more than two million defensive handgun uses (DGUs) per year.

Take serious control over generating reviews for your business by creating case studies.

Finance majors prepare for this career by studying topics about «planning, raising funds, making wise investments and controlling costs,» according to the College Board.

Kleck just learned that almost immediately after the publication of his study, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a federal agency that receives more than $ 11 billion of taxpayer money every year, conducted its own study of the matter.

Finally, lawmakers took a small but potentially important step toward allowing Centers for Disease Control (CDC) study gun violence.

After controlling for other factors, the study found that CEO pay tends to jump 10 times as much as the pay of the other top executives after a rise in passive ownership.

The study emphasizes controlling for any self - selection bias associated with the type of investors who seek advice, and focuses on common stock holdings to avoid any conflicts associated with mutual fund incentives.

Conclusions: There is no scientifically discernable effect for IP (distant intercessory prayer) as assessed in controlled studies.

There are many additional «color of authority» situations, where the person, under the «color» of their position in the church (be it pastor, elder, staff member, Bible study teacher, the «I've been a Christian for X years» people, the «I've studied the Bible for X years and know what it says» people, or whatever), attempts to impose their opinions and wishes on those over whom they somehow attempt to assume «authority» and control.

In upholding the prohibition against artificial methods of birth control, the encyclical dashed the hopes of many believers for a change in church teaching — hopes that had been raised when the National Catholic Reporter leaked the news that the lay and clerical members of the hand - picked papal commission studying the matter had voted decisively to support the limited use of artificial contraception within the context of marriage.

There is a big study by the University of Arkansas, and another by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, and yet another by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Though most Americans believe employers should be required to supply birth control in their health insurance plans, they are split down the middle on whether businesses should be required to provide wedding services for same - sex couples, as well as on whether transgender people should be allowed to use the restroom of their choice, says a study released this week by the Pew Research Center.

I have a case study for you: There is a trolly heading down a track, its out of control and the only person who can stop it is daisy at a swtiching station.

If I am wrong you can provide where in the study this was controlled for «Christians» and what the definition is.

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.

In rhetorical theory (the study of how to persuade), there's a term for what we need in the gun control debate: stasis.

In rhetorical theory (the study of how to persuade), there's a term for what we need in the gun control debate:

As a result of this all too typical pattern of unjust land distribution, for example, 77 percent of the land in El Salvador, where fourteen families control the wealth, is suffering from erosion, according to a recent study.25 A more just distribution of land would greatly reduce the negative impact on the environment.

The method identifies gene sets that show evidence for positive selection in comparison with matched controls, and thus highlights genes for further functional studies.

Richard Cranium Impossible to establish a control group so I doubt any study could site cause for increased crime.