Sentences with phrase «designed study showed»

One well - designed study showed that writing about testing worries prior to taking the exam boosts exam performance in the classroom.

Our small - scale but rigorously designed study showed a clear advantage for students who got to play with the program in addition to studying traditional word lists.

Results of the tailored test design studies show that the delivery of multistage branching tests for NAPLAN online is sound and feasible, and that these tests offer better measurements of student performance, particularly for high - and low - achieving students.

The UNIVERSE design study shown in Shanghai previews one direction that Volvo might take for a future large car.

A forward - looking exercise in how to make less be more, the innovative Honda Personal - Neo Urban Transport (P - NUT) design study shown at the 2009 Los...

Unfortunately, most well - designed studies show that only about one - third of the couples going through marital therapy are reporting significant post-treatment benefits after one year.

Not exact matches

Studies show consumers prefer the new design by a 2 — 1 margin, according to the firm.

Participants were asked to not only guess what their partner's reservation price (the lowest price they would accept), but also questions that were designed to show how they perceived their partner — the study's authors were curious as to whether certain negotiation tactics might lead to a likability cost, even if they resulted in a few more dollars for the partner.

«Simulations show that for most study designs and settings, it is more likely for a research claim to be false than true.»

And studies have shown that a friendly work environment helps encourage creativity and productivity, which should be reflected in your office design.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Volvo introduced its interior design study, dubbed Concept 26, which shows its idea of what an autonomous car's interior could look like a few years from now.

The concept of the supernatural is culturally derived from an innate cognitive schema...» The scientific evidence for his position comes from an analysis of studies done on children that show that their innate way of viewing the world is in terms of «design, function and purpose» - making them, in effect, «intuitive theists.»

The second sort of argument, designed to show that certain process doctrines are compatible with certain Biblical texts, was warranted by interpretations of certain Biblical texts that were hacked by exegetical studies.

Some studies show that our stomachs weren't actually designed to be able to digest such an endless variety of foods at all times.

Did you know that the studies that show phytic acid is an antinutrient were poorly designed and based on small sample sizes?

Studies consistently show that non-expert wine drinkers are far more likely to remember the design and color of a wine's packaging than the taste of the product itself.

Last week, we posted to the site a group of four articles about a peer - reviewed study in the Journal of Neurosurgery showing that football helmet design affected concussion risk among a large group (or what scientists call a «cohort») of college football players.

One way, I believe, to address the problem of under - reporting and increase the chances a concussion will be identified early on the sports sideline may be to rely less on athletes themselves to remove themselves from games or practices by reporting concussion symptoms (which the most recent study shows occurs at a shockingly low rate, [9] or on game officials and sideline observers to observe signs of concussion and call for a concussion assessment, but to employ technology to increase the chances that a concussion will be identified by employing impact sensors designed to monitor head impact exposure in terms of the force of hits (both linear and rotational), number, location, and cumulative impact, in real time at all levels of football, and in other helmeted and non-helmeted contact and collision sports, where practical, to help identify high - risk impacts and alert medical personnel on the sideline so they can consider performing a concussion assessment.

The few studies on meditation in school children are also hopeful — showing some improvement in social skills — but again contain too few children or too many design and measurement problems to be conclusive.

The study provides what the authors say is good clinical evidence that helmet design can lower the risk of concussion, not in a laboratory, but in games and practices, by showing that a helmet model introduced in 2000 provides better protection against concussion than an older helmet employing 20 - year - old design technology.

And if you could somehow design a study to show whether behavioral approaches are better than approaches related to attachment, one drug addict would not be enough to discount either approach.

Creative Nail Design disagreed and said an independent study showed UV nail lamps are safe.

In addition to the design flaws of previous bath seats, studies showed that parents who used the seats did not observe bath seat safety.

We believe that the effectiveness of this particular program was owing to a careful design incorporating elements shown to be most successful in previously published peer counseling studies.

However, given that the largest study on chiropractic treatment with the best scientific design showed NO DIFFERENCE in overall crying times, my suggestion would be to focus on some of the other more promising options instead.

Although the results of the meta - regression showed no evidence of significant heterogeneity between subgroups, summary association estimates were slightly different in subgroup analyses by study design and exposure assessment.

In «Explaining Judiciary Governance in Central and Eastern Europe» (forthcoming in Europe - Asia Studies) I show that, once the judicializing institutional design template is in place, CEE politicians do tinker with them at the margins in self - interested ways, as by packing the courts with loyalists.

«This well - designed set of experiments shows that chronic THC pretreatment appears to restore a significant level of diminished cognitive performance in older mice, while corroborating the opposite effect among young mice,» wrote Susan Weiss, director of the Division of Extramural Research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, who was not involved in the study, in an e-mail.

The researchers designed a two - week experimental study and showed that when students kept their phones on ring or vibrate, they reported more symptoms of inattention and hyperactivity than when they kept their phones on silent.

Dr Albert Prieto - Marquez, Research Associate in the School of Earth Sciences who co-led the research, said: «Some of the immensely successful duck - billed hadrosaurs of the Late Cretaceous might have been eating flowering plants, but their tooth wear patterns, and especially close study of their coprolites — that's fossil poops — shows they were conifer specialists, designed to crush and digest the oily, tough needles and cones.»

De Waal says that previous studies showing chimps to be selfish may have been poorly designed.

The proteins we identified seem to be involved in fundamental developmental processes and we hope that functional studies will show that some of them are ideal candidate targets for the design of new and selective inhibitors.»

A diet designed to imitate the effects of fasting appears to reverse diabetes by reprogramming cells, a new USC - led study shows.

The Johns Hopkins researchers designed their study to identify firefighters at risk long before they show symptoms or have a heart attack.

Other experimental options include: — AVI - 7537, a drug designed to block viral protein from being made, has shown human tolerability in early studies and could have 100 courses available by early 2015.

And a new study in Journal of Medical Entomology shows an improved design has made such bait boxes an increasingly viable addition to integrated tick management practices.

The study, published in the October 28 Early Online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), is the first to demonstrate the application of this methodology to the design of self - assembled nanostructures, and shows the potential of machine learning and «big data» approaches embodied in the new Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering at Columbia.

An experimental drug designed to help regulate the blood's iron supply shows promise as a viable first treatment for anemia of inflammation, according to results from the first human study of the treatment published online today in Blood, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology

«Our analysis shows that having access to firearms is a significant risk factor for men committing suicide and for women being victims of homicide,» said Andrew Anglemyer, PhD, MPH, an expert in study design and data analytics in Clinical Pharmacy and Global Health Sciences at UCSF, who is also a U.S. Army veteran.

University of Utah chemists Matt Sigman and Anat Milo conducted a study in the journal Nature showing how vibrations in chemical bonds can be used to improve predictions of how chemicals will react — a method that can be used to design better catalysts used to hasten reactions used to make new materials, medicines and industrial products.

A new study shows that workplace wellness programs can be effective in helping people lose weight by providing healthier food choices and increasing opportunities for physical activity, particularly if these efforts are designed with the input and active participation of employees.

Now a newly published study with a distinctive design, led by an MIT health care scholar, shows that increased spending on emergency care does, in fact, produce better outcomes for patients.

Both exercise and adequate vitamin D have long been implicated in reducing heart disease risks, but in a new study — one not designed to show cause and effect — the researchers investigated the relationship between these two health factors and their joint role in heart health.

The study shows that the twin design remains a key tool for genetic discovery.»

In what began as Boyer's mathematical modeling class project, he and three other University of Utah mathematicians have published a study showing the mathematical possibility of designing a climbing rope that would apply a constant force to a falling climber, bringing the climber to a gradual stop rather than hitting the end of the rope with sudden jerk.

According to a first clinical study published in the scientific journal Photoacoustics, the University of Twente and various European partners have designed a device that shows the difference between healthy fingers and arthritic fingers.

He points out that the results are contradictory and disparate, while showing that this is mainly due to shortcomings in the design and reporting of the studies — since the choice of methodology, purpose and target group are not clearly presented.

In a new study published in Science Advances, a group of University of Wisconsin - Madison researchers show that individual cells in the human body have an armament designed to prevent HCMV from achieving and maintaining this latency, to shine a spotlight on the virus so the immune system knows to fight.

«In contrast to previous research, which has shown that consumers prefer a more prototypical car, our study highlights the advantage of introducing some level of freshness into a new model, particularly if those unique design elements mimic those of a luxury car,» Balachander said.