The randomized
field trial model, in which drugs or therapies are administered to individual patients under explicit protocols, is enormously helpful when recommending interventions for particular medical conditions.
Not exact matches
Much of my team's work focuses on transgene technology from early - stage experiments in
model plants all the way to
field trials with crop plants such as corn.
The next step is for grouse managers and conservationists to use the results of the
model to agree on an acceptable number of harriers and then test the idea in a
field trial.
In a unique study set - up, the scientists first compared simulation results from a large ensemble of wheat crop growth
models with experimental data, including artificial heating experiments and multi-locational
field trials.
Clinicians and investigators in the
fields of veterinary and human endocrine oncology, clinical
trials, pathology, and drug development will be joined in this consortium, in order to improve knowledge, development of, and access to naturally occurring canine endocrine tumours, as a
model for human disease.
Simulated
field trials will generate data on select mouse types, enabling mathematical
models to be generated to predict outcomes and identify optimum release numbers and the most appropriate mouse type.
Randomized
field trials were used to examine the impact of the Teacher Study Group (TSG), a professional development
model, on first grade teachers» reading comprehension and vocabulary instruction, their knowledge of these areas, and on the comprehension and vocabulary achievement of their students.
I'm no climate scientist, but I know
models in all
fields are based on clusters of formulae, and these formulae are often derived from real world data partly by
trial and error, and adjusting terms until they can reliably predict past and future data.
His
model predicted, in different
fields of medical research, rates of wrongness roughly corresponding to the observed rates at which findings were later convincingly refuted: 80 percent of non-randomized studies (by far the most common type) turn out to be wrong, as do 25 percent of supposedly gold - standard randomized
trials, and as much as 10 percent of the platinum - standard large randomized
trials.»
That's why the
modeling work and
field trials are required.
I must emphasize that I was never in favor of doing
field trials without first exhausting what we could learn from
modeling and other implementation related studies.
Preliminary evidence from descriptive studies within programs and meta - analyses of randomized
trials (comparing programs with different characteristics) suggest that it will be important to adhere to established program
models until there is sufficient evidence to support revisions.14 Although the scientific literature provides some comparison of effects for programs with different constellations of characteristics, the
field of home visits is still in its infancy as far as determining the relative importance of any specific characteristic is concerned.
There are also a series of
model gardens (in all conditions and circumstances) and
trials fields, where the RHS conduct their research of new species.