Sentences with phrase «few small studies»

There's a few studies like a few small studies that have found that compression garments increase performance when you wear them during exercise but they're typically with not a lot of subjects and they're really not the best studies on the face of the planet when it comes to for example the fact that none of the studies used the placebo group or a control group so it was hard to tell if the increases were really from sale like compression gear or from the athletes say like perception of the compression gear like the fact the athlete knew that they were wearing the gear vs. a control group that wasn't wearing the gear at all.

A few small studies have looked at whether the keto diet can affect ASD.

There have actually been a few small studies that support the concept.

A few small studies have looked at the effect weighted blankets have on anxiety and insomnia in adults.

A few small studies suggest honey can ease coughing and help children sleep better overnight.

Still, some researchers held out hope that the drug would at least improve cognitive function, as suggested by a few smaller studies.

A few smaller studies that showed great results have skewed the opinions of therapists, leading them to think the therapy was more successful.

Not exact matches

A few of these include a too - small sample size and the simple fact that the participants knew what was being studied and were aware of the hypothesis.

A study of S corporations (small firms with 100 or fewer shareholders who are taxed as a partnership) found that those with ESOPs had higher average employment growth in the 2006 - 2008 pre-recession period than did the economy as a whole, and they also had faster growth following the recession from 2009 to 2011.

Actually at least in PA, studies have shown that hunting down the few cases of fraud (a very small percent) is actually more costly then ignoring it, and would hit the people who actually need it more then the 0.5 - 1 % who may be committing fraud.

The seven - year study was designed to «fill the gap» left by the United States census (no questions on religion), the self - reporting of denominations («widely differing criteria»), and smaller surveys (too few questions or people).

I considered hiring someone to teach me how to do this without crying, someone to show me how to speak, I contemplated asking for a few small - scale Bible study speaking things at church to practice with my own community and friends first.

So thinks the Pew Research Center, which today released the second wave of a massive study designed to «fill the gap» left by the United States census (no questions on religion), the self - reporting of denominations («widely differing criteria»), and smaller surveys (too few questions or people).

The adult and / or youth choirs, small groups, Bible study groups, worship committees, or Sunday school classes are just a few «seedbeds» for this type of ministry.

According to our study, leaders from small churches (100 or fewer) tend to be more comfortable with evangelical than those from large churches (1,000 or more).

The American pattern of a religion department in a state university is totally different from the German model, though a few small departments for the study of comparative religions and the sociology and philosophy of religion exist in various German universities.

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.

Of the few studies that have been done, they have been small and inconclusive.

Personally, I find it rather ironic that you're lecturing the blog author on the rigor of language, when, faced with the need to support the claims made by a documentary that has faced absolutely no real standards of intellectual rigor or merit (the kind of evidence you apparently find convincing), you have so far managed to produce a study with a sample size too small to conclude anything, a review paper that basically summarized well known connections between vaginal and amniotic flora and poor outcomes in labor and birth before attempting to rescue what would have been just another OB review article with a few attention grabbing sentences about long term health implications, and a review article published in a trash journal.

Studies of the Nurse Family Partnership model followed children to 6 years and found significant program effects on language and cognitive functioning as well as fewer behaviour problems in a randomized controlled trial study.24 In addition, more recent evaluations of Healthy Families America have shown small, but favourable effects on young children's development.25, 26

The differences were small, though — in the latter study, the babies spent eight minutes less in REM sleep, on average, in those first few hours than babies in the control group did.

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.

Independent observations of change were on the whole smaller than parent - report (SMD of 0.4 compared with 0.7), and very few (7/25) of the included studies had provided an independent assessment of outcome.

A few recent studies have concluded that under some circumstances there is a small increased risk to the baby if the mother plans a home birth [1, 2].

Another study by some of the same authors found that babies — particularly those with a family history of allergies — who were fed a larger variety of solid foods at 4 months developed fewer skin allergies than those fed a smaller variety at 4 months.

A few studies have supported the utility of test weights in preterm infants: these include a Swedish study favorably comparing babies cared for in NICUs using test weights vs NICUs that did not (earlier attainment of exclusive breastfeeding and earlier discharge) as well as a small study from the illustrious LCs at my own institution describing the development of a technique for accurately performing test weights.

Few studies regarding twins have been completed, but in two small studies with only 45 women, the rates of successful VBAC and uterine rupture did not differ significantly between study subjects and women with singleton gestations also attempting VBAC (ACOG, 2004).

13:34 - Even in the last few minutes studying the small print, Balls says, they've noticed Osborne giving with one hand and taking with another.

NYSUT, meanwhile, backed a study to determine whether any changes to the funding formula is necessary, which would also take into consideration the impact on a small school district when a resident receives a windfall through inheritance or winning the lottery — a factor that throw aid formulations out of whack in areas with few wealthy people.

The sample sizes of both studies were small — fewer than 20 experimental subjects each.

Unbiased evidence is hard to come by, but the few peer - reviewed studies carried out indicate that the risks fracking poses to human health and the environment are small.

Due to the small number of postpartum psychosis cases available to study, there are very few experts.

When Hinz studied the disk of dust around the young star HD 100546, he discerned a small gap, probably swept out by a planet a few times the mass of Jupiter.

The few studies that have incorporated other training modalities, such as physical fitness training or noninvasive brain stimulation, have been small in sample size, short in time or narrow in scope, he said.

The authors are especially concerned about the risks of posting data from small studies or series of patients from a few hospitals — a type of data commonly used for research in anesthesiology and surgery.

A study by UK - based Critical Limited, a consulting company, shows that while the number of biotech companies in Europe and the United States is almost equal, European companies are much smaller and have very few products in later stages.

The current small study did not measure whether or not women with the implant had fewer bone breaks than people who were in charge of their injections.

As streams, rivers and watersheds absorb more small dams, however, surprisingly few scientific studies have considered their environmental impact, and policies or regulations are lacking or largely inconsistent.

Our initial studies revealed maternal nanomaterial exposures during gestation results in fewer and smaller offspring.»

«There is currently an imbalance, with most research initiated by individuals and small groups, and few resources devoted towards larger - scale synthetic thinking and study.»

Those results were encouraging enough that within a few months Kaplan started a small clinical study of 11 bipolar patients who had not been able to control their illness with conventional medications.

«We showed with this technique that we can detect very tiny tumors of just a few hundred cells,» Lu said, adding that the study pushed imaging boundaries, revealing smaller cancers than can be detected with current clinical imaging modalities.

A few epidemiological studies have even found a small correlation between SSRI use during pregnancy and ASD, but that can largely be explained by other factors, such as the severity of a mother's depression, says Lars Henning Pedersen, at Aarhus University in Denmark, who has no affiliations with any antidepressant manufacturers.

A few structures, such as breakwaters built of rock, can be studied using miniature versions, but materials such as sand, clay, and grass behave differently in small - scale models than in the real world, van Gent says.

Tornado environment In the grand scheme of the atmosphere, tornadoes are small - scale, transient features, which makes them very difficult to predict, even within just a few hours, and to study within a larger climate context.

Varki studies siglecs, small groups of receptors that thickly stud the immune T cells of monkeys and apes but are few and far between in humans.

However, the researchers believe that the studies are too few and too small, and that new clinical trials are needed to take this research to the next level.

«People with the three gene versions believed to encourage depression had a smaller hippocampus than those with fewer or none of these gene versions, even though they had the same number of stressful life events,» says study leader Lukas Pezawas, describing the results.

Dr Andersen said the study was important because, although there have been other studies looking at the effects of endurance exercise on various cardiovascular problems such as ischemic heart disease and stroke, there have been only a few, smaller studies of its effect on heart rhythm disturbances, and they have tended to look at people who are less physically active, or compared very sedentary people with those who were very active.

A previous study estimated that the R2 of most ecological research ranges was between 0.02 and 0.05, but few researchers will publish results with such small explanatory power.