Sentences with phrase «experimental studies with»

To assume a causal influence of responsive parenting on child outcomes would require data from experimental studies with random assignment.

The 18 - week lesson sequence is research - based and has been tested for efficacy in multiple experimental studies with more than 50 teachers and 900 students.

His 2012 book Missing Data: Analysis and Design, has quickly become the handbook for prevention scientists designing and analyzing descriptive and experimental studies with missing data, whether the missingness is planned or unplanned.

An experimental study with size - selectively harvested zebrafish that began in 2006 at the Leibniz - Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries in Berlin, Germany reveals that size - selective harvesting causes changes in key life - history traits, leading to low maximum body size and poor reproductive output.

In contrast, ESSA defines four levels of «evidence - based» practices: «strong,» with at least one well - designed and well - implemented experimental study with a statistically significant, positive effect; «moderate,» with at least one well - designed and well - implemented quasi-experimental study such as a matched - comparison group; «promising,» with at least one well - designed and well - implemented correlational study with statistical controls for selection bias.

Not exact matches

Lilly faced a devastating clinical setback last year with a late - stage failure for its experimental Alzheimer's treatment, the studies for which cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars.

The company is chasing an at least $ 80 million IPO to help fund the phase 3 studies that would be necessary for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to clear the treatment (the company has made modifications to the experimental, once - a-day pill that fights brain plaque buildup associated with Alzheimer's).

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.

This work with experimental groups extended into a more chastened critical study of transactional analysis in relation to Pauline - Augustinian understandings of human bondage and freedom.4

Is someone with a PhD in experimental physics less stupid than one with a PhD in religious studies?

In response to «Effects of Energy Drinks Mixed with Alcohol on Behavioral Control: Risks for College Students Consuming Trendy Cocktails,» a study to be published in the July issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, Dr. Maureen Storey, senior vice president of science policy for the American Beverage Association, issued the following statement:

I studied for a term at Morley College in South London on their experimental machine knitting course with a fantastic tutor called Jo Thompson.

A well - designed experimental study isolates those variables that concern us, and contrasts them with a control condition that doesn't include those variables.

A few longitudinal studies, along with a small number of experimental studies, have recently emerged allowing an improved estimate of the causal impact of parenting behaviour on emotional health.

Experimental studies suggest that increased carrying doesn't reduce crying in babies who've been diagnosed with colic — frequent, prolonged bouts of inconsolable crying (Barr 1991; St James - Roberts et al 1995).

A number of experimental studies have reported that unpopular kids improve their status with peers after they've been trained in «active listening» (e.g., Bierman 1986).

One of the possible confounding factors noted in their study was that the experimental group had more of the adolescents living with their parents, whereas adolescents in the control group were more likely to live with their significant other.

Teasing apart these influences will require creative stimulus and experimental design combined with integration of converging evidence across lots of different studies.

«Nonetheless, the proof of concept studies we have obtained thus far are extremely encouraging, and we are confident that with proper support and efforts we could translate our findings into experimental therapeutics for a variety of solid tumors that are driven by EphA2 overexpression, including breast, lung, prostate, pancreatic, and ovarian cancers,» said Pellecchia, who serves as the founding director of the Center for Molecular and Translational Medicine at UCR.

«There have been experimental studies showing men are more competitive with one another, while women are more self - directed and motivated by internal factors,» Aral says.

Early experimental studies from Harvard in patients with schizophrenia suggest that cerebellar stimulation is safe and appears to improve some of the patients» cognitive abnormalities.

The handful of labs that continued to pursue ApoE did so in the face of indifference from funding agencies and the neuroscience community, and without the resources needed to validate experimental findings with larger studies.

People with an uncommon form of cystic fibrosis started gaining weight and were better able to breathe than their untreated counterparts after just two weeks on an experimental drug, according to a study published November 2 in The New England Journal of Medicine.

«Experimental drug combined with standard chemo may shrink treatment - resistant ovarian cancers, animal study shows.»

In the future, we plan to coordinate these experimental efforts with related experiments on LLNL's National Ignition Facility that study plasticity at even higher pressures.»

The study consisted of 30 children ages 8 - 14, with 17 randomized to an experimental group and 13 in the control group.

Additionally, I predict that at the completion of our study, despite the higher doses given per treatment in the experimental accelerated, hypofractionated RT arm, there will be no increased toxicity with this regimen.

With the help of students from a University of Denver work - study program, his company was able to complete two experimental net - zero homes — the second of which recently sold for under $ 190,000.

Together with study co-author Silke Paschen, an experimental physicist at Vienna University of Technology who was spending six months at RCQM as a visiting professor when the discovery was made, Si, Lai and Grefe sought to identify the unique experimental signatures of the Weyl - Kondo semimetal.

An early - stage clinical study by another institution, published in the Lancet Oncology in May 2016, combined chemotherapy with an experimental drug that blocks CCR2, a receptor on monocytes and macrophages whose activation stimulates these cells to infiltrate tumors.

In a new study due this week in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Rice University theoretical physicist Qimiao Si and colleagues at the Rice Center for Quantum Materials in Houston and the Vienna University of Technology in Austria make predictions that could help experimental physicists create what the authors have coined a «Weyl - Kondo semimetal,» a quantum material with an assorted collection of properties seen in disparate materials like topological insulators, heavy fermion metals and high - temperature superconductors.

To verify their idea, they teamed with experimental biologists Anna Kuchina, co-lead author of the study, and Gürol Süel, co-lead investigator, both of the University of California at San Diego.

In a combined experimental and theoretical study on ultrafast excitation of atoms in intense short pulse laser fields scientists of the Max Born Institute succeeded to show that the prevailing and seemingly disparate intuitive pictures usually used to describe interaction of atoms with intense laser fields can be ascribed to a single nonlinear process.

Before beginning CBT, the participants in the study affected with TS completed an experimental task typically designed to elicit brain activity in the supplementary motor area.

«We were surprised to find so many similarities between these two diseases, but most striking was that some of these common signatures are shared with other conditions like diabetic retinopathy and age - related macular degeneration,» said William A. Beltran, senior author on the study, an associate professor of ophthalmology in Penn Vet's Department of Clinical Sciences and Advanced Medicine and director of the Division of Experimental Retinal Therapies.

To further identify the role of TAZ, the research team studied breast tissue at different stages of development using two groups of mice: a control group with the TAZ gene and an experimental group of knock - out mice with the TAZ gene deleted.

During a conversation this month in his office at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, Fine rattled off more dismal stats, like the many failed clinical trials of experimental drugs for glioblastoma; like the paltry increase in life expectancy for people with glioblastoma from 12 months in 1990 to 15 today; like the stupid (in hindsight) assumptions about how glioblastomas grow and how to study them in mice.

In a recent study published in the scientific journal Nature Nanotechnology, physicists and chemists of the University of Münster (Germany) describe an experimental approach to visualising structures of organic molecules with exceptional resolution.

With this complex experimental setup the physicists in Zurich could now study in detail how strongly the material absorbs light under different conditions.

Dr Kristensen recommends that an inter-disciplinary approach be taken to address this, «by combining epidemiological data from human studies with more experimental research on models, such as rodents, it may be possible to firmly establish this link and determine how it happens, so that pregnant women in pain can be successfully treated, without risk to their unborn children.»

The study used experimental stock markets with some 140 male participants (called traders) taking part.

The study included 124 newly diagnosed patients at 25 clinical trial sites in the U.S. Two - thirds of the patients were treated with ICT - 107, an experimental vaccine based on immune system cells called dendritic cells that were exposed to six synthetic proteins, or antigens, known to be involved in GBM development.

The results of a study recently published by the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology show that bilingual children are better than monolinguals at a certain type of mental control, and that those children with more practice switching between languages have even greater skills.

To follow up this correlational data with experimental evidence, the researchers conducted a second study in which they presented participants with the same pictures used in Study 1, but this time one of the pictures was manipulated to have either a smile or a neutral expresstudy in which they presented participants with the same pictures used in Study 1, but this time one of the pictures was manipulated to have either a smile or a neutral expresStudy 1, but this time one of the pictures was manipulated to have either a smile or a neutral expression.

It will provide researchers with a level of detail not typically found in academic research papers, including 3D models, bills of materials, raw experimental data, multimedia step - by - step tutorials, and case studies of various soft robot designs.

Dr Eleni Papadopoulou, lead author from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, said: «The concern for harm to the fetus caused by radio frequency electromagnetic fields, such as those emitted by mobile phones, is mainly driven by reports from experimental animal studies with inconsistent results.

A new study, to be presented at the meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology on the 5th of July, shows that fish can not smell a danger odor signal emitted by other fish in waters contaminated with copper.

Experimental studies have revealed dozens of regulatory genes, signaling proteins and other genetic tools that cells use to gather information and communicate with one another.

In Heinrichs» and Dawans» study, male participants were assigned to either an experimental group, with a stress procedure (a public speaking exercise followed by a complicated mental arithmetics), or a control group with no stress.

In the new study, published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, the scientists found that it is also involved in how cells in the immune system develop with age.