Sentences with phrase «controlled study looked»

This double - blind, placebo - controlled study looked at the drug's effect on signs of stress in community cats trapped and held for spay / neuter.

The first article, published in the Sept. 2017 issue of Advances in Small Animal Medicine and Surgery, reported on a double - blind, placebo - controlled study looking at the ability of gabapentin to reduce the stress scores of trapped community cats.

* Self - control studies look at the finite ability of individuals to overcome urges and make decisions.

A small controlled study looking at a programme to prevent stress and poor health in correctional officers working in a youth detention facility in the USA, reported incremental cost savings of more than $ 1000 over 3 months, although the sample size was too small to be significant.

Not exact matches

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.

The study involved looking at verbal abuse and demeaning emails in a controlled lab setting.

That said, the study is a model — it's not a controlled study that looks at actual habits, so the findings are somewhat limited.

«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.

One study looked at the behavior of about 60,000 investors from 1991 to 2002 and found that people took greater market risks when their party controlled Washington.

This November study from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business looked at how stress and levels of control affected 2,363 employees.

after I learn to control my anger, started watching people to figuring out why they do what they do — then I started studying history, and when you stand back and look at humanity and its history, a pattern emerges... and it can make one very cynical.

Conversely, the study found «children can learn to be altruistic, friendly and self - controlled by looking at television programs depicting such behavior patterns.

This study looked at genetic (varieties) and management (row spacing and nitrogen) options to minimise the impact of climate change, using rain - out shelters to control rainfall; the results provided a platform to model wheat production in future climates.

I would love to see a study with a matched control group... that is, a group with equal risk factors (education level, socioeconomic background, etc.)... that looked at breastfeeding and its effect on neglect.

Look at credible websites like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and talk about the facts and studies.

Researchers looked at a total of four case - control studies that examined the association between swaddling and SIDS.

So let's look at the raw numbers instead: Among the 1,472 babies who died of SIDS, 22.2 % were bedsharing with parents; of the 4,679 control babies who did not die of SIDS, 9.6 % were sharing a bed with parents the day of the study interview.

This was a problem for studies that looked back at their medical records to select women who had a water birth, and then made a control group of «low risk women».

So instead of looking at trends and trying to parse out what studies did or didn't look at and control for, I'd like to hear from all of you whose parents split up.

An important potential limitation of this analysis was that it was based solely on case - control observational studies, as most studies looking at the effects of breastfeeding vs not breastfeeding are.

Saying that those studies are not about controlled crying would be like saying that studies that prove that eating too many calories will make you gain weight didn't look specifically at eating too many calories between midnight and 1:00 am.

But I will tell you this is timely, because another study came out in November 2015 that controls for the intensity of breastfeeding; which, other studies may have lacked that element in that they just looked at any breastfeeding.

They looked at a study by David Hemenway (director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center and the Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center), who reviewed commonly cited research from peer - reviewed journals.

A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looks at whether spraying yards with pesticides reduces the risk of contracting a tick - borne disease.

Although the new research looks «promising,» the newly identified compounds have not been tested outside of the lab, says James Logan, scientific director of the Arthropod Control Product Test Center at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who did not contribute to the study.

Imaging studies have shown that the brains of high - risk individuals look and behave differently from controls decades before the onset of Alzheimer's, and long before they start to accumulate amyloid - β or lose grey matter.

In a new study published in the journal Psychological Medicine, researchers looked at whether cognitive flexibility for learning tasks and goal - directed control was impaired early in the development of OCD.

One variety, a 2008 study says, has a hormone that controls when it changes from looking like bird droppings to looking like the leaf it lives on, which is the disguise it adopts in the last stage of caterpillar development.

The researchers read all of those studies, looking for things such as appropriate control groups and whether a sufficient number of animals had been used.

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.

«This study looked at more than 2.3 million ED visits among children with asthma, and we identified some interesting trends that give a baseline to find better ways to help children with asthma control this very treatable disease,» said Aparna Roy, MD, MPH, lead author of the study and resident at UH Rainbow and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

The researchers analyzed 37 unique studies of mobile health interventions, looking for statistical evidence of changes in health behavior or disease control in participants 18 years old or younger.

«As a result of the previous study, we reported that SUMO is probably important for controlling expression of active genes because we found it on every gene we looked at, but only when they were turned on,» notes Rosonina.

The UConn study is the first to use a randomized, controlled design to look at couples» progress in less structured and widely available weight loss programs.

First, looking at a study of 185 cases of childhood epilepsy, Wittkowski's team found that mutations in genes that control axonal guidance and calcium signaling — both of which are important early in the developing brain when neurons are forming the appropriate connections — led to increased chances of having the disorder.

We started studying interventions used to control the outbreak, most recently looking at the effect of media coverage.»

One current study looks at the pharmacogenomic profile of asthma patients and healthy controls, and these data will serve as a reference database for future studies.

Research will continue to look at classifying and studying the biology of the many mite species that could be used in pest management, the first step toward developing them as biological control agents, he said.

Studying these functions in nonhuman animals has given us the most detail about how neurons get put together to do complex functions because we can really look, neuron by neuron, at how vision gets put together, how motor control gets put together.

With grant support from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Wintemute had been conducting a retrospective cohort study looking at whether handgun buyers with prior misdemeanor convictions are more likely than those without a criminal history to be charged with new crimes, particularly those involving firearms and violence.

Prof. Jean - François Bosset of the CHRU de Besancon — Hopital Jean Minjoz in France and lead author of this study says, «When we looked at the results after five years median follow - up, we saw that chemotherapy, regardless of when it was administered, significantly improved local control.

«If we look at adult studies on dieting and weight loss, we know that the prospect of maintaining self - control in this environment is fairly grim,» Fisher says.

«We have to build a large enough study to be able to look at both genes and environment together,» says Newschaffer, who is a principal investigator on a study by the Centers for Disease Control that will look at 2,700 children over the next five years.

Though the study was not designed to test the effects of low glycemic index foods on weight control, its lead researchers looked at studies that did focus on weight and found no clear proof of a benefit.

The STAR trial was conducted under controlled conditions, while the Penn study takes the next step by looking at outcomes in post-approval clinical use of the device.

The Lancet paper is the first case - controlled study that looks carefully at how often infection with the Zika virus might lead to GBS.

Recent studies have expanded the search for genetic links from identifying genes toward epigenetics, the study of factors that control gene expression and looks at chemical modifications of DNA and the proteins associated with it.

If you only look at length of sleep, children in the ADHD group sleep for 45 minutes less than children in the control group,» says PhD from Aarhus University and medical doctor at the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Hospital, Risskov, Anne Virring Sørensen, who is behind the PhD study.

We are also looking for children to volunteer as healthy control subjects for this study.

In a study appearing online February 8 in advance of publication in the March issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Gallo and his colleagues look at how the innate immune system is controlled in the skin, and find that genes controlled by active vitamin D3 play an essential role in the process.