Sentences with phrase «do controlled studies»

Somebody needs to do some controlled studies where temperature is varied and all other variables are held constant.
We don't know the efficacy of Red Rocks Biologicals Crotalus Atrox Toxoid (rattlesnake vaccine) because no one has, or ever is, going to do controlled studies, where they inject dogs with snake venom and compare vaccinated dogs to unvaccinated dogs, for obvious humane reasons.
Furthermore, we can't do controlled studies on humans because we can not lock them up in a lab.
Researchers first discovered the metabolic switch in 2005, when a team headed by Oklahoma State University's Michael Davis — who has been investigating the metabolic, gastrointestinal, respiratory and blood systems of sled dogs for 10 years — did a controlled study at a professional racing kennel in Alaska.

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A recent study done by two business school researchers says that social media really can influence the amount of money you spend to the point that you can't control yourself.
In terms of the methods, there are a number of smaller scale studies, many of which did not include active control groups.
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.
Besides randomized controlled clinical trials, there are a number of ways researchers can study how a particular cancer treatment is playing out in the real world: there are retrospective studies, observational studies, and even prospective research done using patient registries.
And yet the largest observational study — again we don't have controlled experiments — found that childhood swearing is largely innocuous.
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.
You can control a lot of aspects of your company, but you do not have a say on when and where a crisis will hit (see Buffer's case study).
«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.
John Eppig, a reproductive biologist at Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine raised the concern that no animal studies with a control group have been done — a standard practice with experimental medical procedures — yet somehow the procedure is being tried on humans.
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.
There have been studies done on long - term meditators, and researchers have found through FMRI's that there are distinct changes in areas of the brain that typically lead to greater levels of peace, well - being and better mental and emotional control.
I don't see where the minority of Christian extremists are in control of denying education of the study of our natural world.
If you want to bring science into it there appears to be a neurological brain study about it: http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/97 Generally speaking, at this time I'm not sure how much stock I put into the results of these various neurological studies since while they seem to show brain activity under certain controlled situations, I don't necessarily find the situations conducive to what I consider proof.
The idea of creation does not control experiments, but it summons the experimenter to understand himself as a creature studying other creatures.
At first, the studies originally done claimed some kind of statistical significance, however when the studies were re-done under more tighter controlled conditions, there was no apparent results that would indicate prayer to be any more effective than anything else.
Thus the Vestries in America soon gained effective control of the spirituals as well as the temporals of the churches, largely through assuming power to hire and set the salary of the clergyman, plus a studied neglect of presenting him to the Governor for permanent induction into the «living» until forced to do so.14 «In 1697 the Arch - bishop of Canterbury expressed surprise that the clergymen might «be removed like domestic servants by a vote of the Vestry,»»15 but obviously neither he nor anyone could do anything about it.
It is impossible to do a completely controlled study where you are adjusting for variables such as these because it would require round the clock constant monitoring of people over a long period of time.
There are also other studies showing that extra virgin coconut oil does everything from helping to control type 2 diabetes, to boosting metabolism, but like any saturated fat, it should be used in moderation.
While an increasing number of research studies point to the health benefits in controlling and reducing sugar consumption — the FDA now recommends sugar make up no more than ten percent of total calories consumed per day — there is a difference between sugars that occur naturally in foods and those that do not, like those in a piece of dried fruit, for example, versus the high fructose syrup commonly added to soft drinks, sodas, and many processed foods.
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.
Theres a old football saying that if you have the three best QBs in the entire country, you do nt really have 1 and if Urban Meyer is going to control his programs he better spend a summer studying Charlie Weisses playbook on how to manage large Eggos.
Students at Elm City (86 percent of whom qualify for free or reduced - price lunch) now control their schedule and follow their own personal interests in their learning much more than they used to, and they have more autonomy in the subjects they study, including daily «enrichment» courses in robotics, dance, and tae kwon do.
Actually there have been studies done on controlled crying.
Studies done on defrosting human milk in a microwave demonstrate that controlling the temperature in a microwave is difficult, causing the milk to heat unevenly.
For example, a correlational study of two American subgroups — one from La Leche League and one control group — found that frequent feedings reduced crying in babies who were two months old but did not make a difference for four - month - old babies.
In Iraq, a case - control study (Aldabran 2013) was conducted for one year with 215 pregnant women who breastfed during pregnancy and 288 pregnant women who did not.
The hospital birthing center where I had my baby offers it... My midwife was actually excited that I wanted to do water labor but no water birth... I was the only one of her patients who DID N'T intend to birth in the water and she needed people birthing out of the tub for a control group in a waterbirth infection study she was contributing to.
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.»
He cites to studies that have low numbers of patients, don't report platelet concentrations and lack control groups.
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.
Primarily because we do not find the same benefits in better - designed studies — sibling comparison studies and the PROBIT randomized controlled trial.
Although controlled cord traction is a recognised technique in active management of the third stage and at least one study has shown it has no impact either way on PPH, so it isn't like the student OB was doing something totally weird and crazy with a predictably horrible outcome.
To do this it needs to be done «a-priori», ie designed from the outset to be a case controlled study.
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.
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There is experimental evidence that this old standby really helps: In a study that randomly assigned fearful children to receive a toy «huggy puppy,» kids exhibited fewer nighttime fears and sleep problems than did children in a control group.
This was a systematic review of cohort and case - control studies that compared rates of any adverse pregnancy outcome (such as miscarriages, preterm delivery, intrauterine growth restriction, major congenital malformations and long - term developmental outcomes) between women who experienced NVP and women who did not.
Though we found some rigorous studies that after controlling for certain variables showed positive results of the AP program, especially in the sciences, we believe more research needs to be done before we can verify the broad claim that taking AP classes makes students more likely to succeed in college.
Studies have shown that children who don't get enough shut - eye are more likely to be heavy because sleep regulates the hormones that control appetite.
When a study is done showing that breastfeeding lowers the risk of a certain disease, breastfeeding is the experimental group and artificial feeding is the control group.
If however many MDs aren't practicing evidence - based medicine, then why not don't MDs * police their own * before going off on other professions for their lack of evidence - base... or attacking what evidence - base there is even if it isn't multiple double - blind placebo controlled studies funded by wealthy drug manufacturers?
A well - designed experimental study isolates those variables that concern us, and contrasts them with a control condition that doesn't include those variables.
In their recent meta - analysis of European case - control studies, Robert Carpenter and his colleagues (2013) note that risk factors don't just add up, they multiply.
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.
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