Sentences with phrase «fairly small studies»

This review supports that approach with restricted data from fairly small studies.

«Also, this was a fairly small study, so there may be bigger peaks than the levels we saw,» he said.

Not exact matches

And while the study had a fairly small respondent pool — surveying 300 male and female Americans aged between 18 and 35 that snack regularly — it highlights that consumers are looking to increase the convenience of their eating habits.

With huge margins achieved by Australia's fairly concentrated meat processing heavyweights such as Teys and JBS as well as smaller players in the last few years, there has been concern that cattle producers were being ripped off, sparking a parliamentary inquiry and a market study by the competition regulator.

Although the study is fairly small — it is based on material from only 20 women - the results are striking.

Unfortunately, these previous studies have used fairly small datasets and have yielded fairly little information on the actual underlying mechanisms.

One of the toughest tasks is replicating these studies — an especially difficult proposition in diseases that are not overwhelmingly heritable, such as asthma, or ones that affect fairly small patient cohorts, such as certain childhood cancers.

«In fact, the miniature species are locally abundant and fairly common but they have probably been overlooked because of their extremely small size, secretive habitats and insect - like calls,» says Sonali Garg who undertook this study as part of her PhD research at University of Delhi.

Its small apparent size has made it almost impossible to study visually; even observatory data was fairly poor until the advent of adaptive optics.

A new study by astronomers at University of California at Berkeley shows when it comes to planets, smaller means more, a finding that has strong implications for the prospects of relatively puny planets like Earth appearing in other solar systems.like So far, the smallest extrasolar planets found to date are about two to three times Earth's mass, but a random survey of 166 nearby stars shows the extended family of planets is fairly robust.

«When we looked at gene expression, we found fairly small changes in 65 million years of the macaque, orangutan, and chimpanzee evolution,» said study author Yoav Gilad, PhD, assistant professor of human genetics at the University of Chicago, «followed by rapid change, along the five million years of the human lineage, that was concentrated on these specific groups of genes.

Also bear in mind that this study was done on a relatively small sample (175 obese but otherwise healthy Japanese subjects) and all things considered, the weight loss over the 3 month period was fairly minimal.

A study that I recently posted on another blog showed that small, dense LDL particles were much more susceptible to oxidation compared to large particles, and it is becoming fairly well known that oxidized LDL is the fraction that is particularly damaging.

The study area is fairly small, and it'd be interesting to see if a broader regional study would still produce a discernable signal.

If you study this diagram it is fairly clear that the fractures only affect a small part of the deepest rocks, and steel casing and cement in the well protects the aquifers.»

We are fairly certain how home studies are written will change, and many other small things as well.