Sentences with phrase «find research participants»

Not exact matches

To find out the pair designed a series of studies that both asked research participants to identify what sort of experiences resulted in what levels of happiness and also looked at Facebook posts, examining what activities people post at what age and how they report those activities affecting their mood.

Research conducted at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, found that study participants asked to complete a survey were significantly more likely to do so if the survey included a Post-it note with a handwritten message asking for their help, akin to a favor.

«To the researchers» surprise they found there wasn't a statistically significant correlation between the ratings the participants received when they were aged 14 and the ratings they gave themselves at age 77, or the ratings they received at age 77 from a friend or relative,» reports the British Psychological Society Research Digest Blog.

«We found that a high mental load consistently diminished the originality and creativity of the response: Participants with seven digits to recall resorted to the most statistically common responses (e.g., white / black), whereas participants with two digits gave less typical, more varied pairings (e.g., white / cloud),» writes Bar in a New York Times article explaining tParticipants with seven digits to recall resorted to the most statistically common responses (e.g., white / black), whereas participants with two digits gave less typical, more varied pairings (e.g., white / cloud),» writes Bar in a New York Times article explaining tparticipants with two digits gave less typical, more varied pairings (e.g., white / cloud),» writes Bar in a New York Times article explaining the research.

«There was a clear pattern in the findings - the more literary fiction authors that participants recognized, the better they tended to perform on the emotional recognition test, and this association held even after statistically accounting for the influence of other factors that might be connected to both emotion skills and reading more literary fiction, such as past educational attainment, gender and age,» reports the British Psychological Society Research Digest blog, summing up the results.

Kilduff's research has found that participants who are asked to think about a personal rival before performing a task are far more likely to inflate their actual performance than participants who are simply asked to think about a competitor.

The key finding of the new research is that the intoxicated participants solved more items on the Remote Associates Test compared with the control participants (they solved 58 % of 15 items on average vs. 42 % average success achieved by controls), and they tended to solve the items more quickly (11.54 seconds per item vs. 15.24 seconds).

The research on over 1,000 participants found that in - person and video impressions were similarly accurate in judging various personality measures such as extraversion and likeability.

What we've found through our research is that trust is the missing ingredient (a mere 1 in 4 today trust their current record keeper).1 And we know that communication — when it's done right — is the key to building trust and ultimately driving participant engagement.

The goal of the Cooperative Congregational Studies Partnership was to bring together participants from Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Baha'i, and Orthodox churches to research and compare our findings.

The Lansinoh research found that 48 % of participants felt most uncomfortable seeing a mum feeding in a restaurant and people were most accepting of breastfeeding when it was done on a beach or park — no idea why people think breastfeeding is most acceptable when done outdoors, what is that all about?

Other difficulties when conducting or evaluating research in this area include ensuring the equivalency of the control and experimental groups in randomized controlled trials (RCTs), 10 controlling for participant attrition (which may affect the validity of findings by reducing group equivalence) and missed visits (which may affect validity by reducing program intensity), 11 documenting that the program was fully and accurately implemented, and determining whether the program's theory of change logically connects program activities with intended outcomes.

Meta - analyses of this expanded research base confirm the model's impacts on a range of risk and protective factors associated with child maltreatment.7, 8,9 In addition, all of the major home visitation models in the U.S. are currently engaged in a variety of research activities, many of which are resulting in better defined models and more rigorous attention to the key issue of participant enrolment and retention, staff training and quality assurance standards.10 For example, recent findings emerging from the initial two - year follow - up of the Early Head Start National Demonstration Project confirm the efficacy of home visitation programs with new parents.

Findings in the majority of research syntheses indicate capacity - building helpgiving practices are related to a host of positive parent, family, parent — child, and child outcomes.22, 27,5 Both relational and participatory helpgiving practices were found to be related to participant satisfaction with program and practitioner supports, program resources, informal and formal supports, parent and family well - being, family functioning, and child behaviour and development.

Formal interviews were then conducted with each participant using a photo - feedback technique, and parts of the findings were exhibited at the researched schools, school - based art exhibitions, community - based arts centres, and a local museum.

To find out if this therapy is effective among pregnant women with insomnia, and ultimately whether it may improve birth outcomes, Felder and colleagues are recruiting participants for the UCSF Research on Expecting Moms and Sleep Therapy (REST) Study.

«Unexpectedly, in elementary school - age participants we found that overall eating frequency and snacks positively contributed to diet quality,» wrote Evans and colleagues from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, where Evans did the research under the guidance of senior author Aviva Must, professor and chair of the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine..

He said because extreme sports participants found it hard to put their experiences into words, the research project had taken a new approach to understanding the data.

«We have now found a potential mechanism, and at this point in our research, we need to test human participants in a blinded, placebo controlled clinical study — the same technique we used to study the behavioral effects of acupuncture in rats,» says Eshkevari, a nurse anesthetist and licensed acupuncturist.

An exercise almost all participants found useful was reading the research abstract out loud to another participant, who would then explain what the research was about.

«If GRC didn't exactly resolve that particular paradox, participants believe the organization [has been] making a valuable contribution to research management» since its founding in 2012, Normile wrote.

Sugiura said that although the research focused on Japanese participants, the findings apply to Americans as well.

New research from the University of Missouri finds that for mental health courts to be successful, every professional engaged in the process should be aware of the relationship between psychiatric symptoms and participant engagement within the system and connect participants with comprehensive treatment and services as early as possible.

These findings were established after a research team videotaped a group of participants while watching the emotionally charged films La vita è bella and Hachi: A Dog's Tale.

Finally, the research team tested a drug already in clinical trials (IGF - 1) on a cohort of study participants, finding that it provoked a reversal of neural alterations, though the degree of response varied by ASD individual.

«With continued clinical research, we will learn how our findings extend to more participants.

The research team found a 24 percent increase in the risk of developing cancer among participants with severe periodontitis, compared to those with mild to no periodontitis at baseline.

The research found that participants with anxious attachment style not only believed in general notions of conspiracy but also specific established conspiracy theories, such as that Princess Diana was assassinated by the British Secret Service.

In addition to effects on the brain, Brody's research with the SAAF participants has found they have lower levels of stress hormones circulating in their bodies, they have lower levels of inflammation, and they are less likely to show biological markers of premature aging.

«What I find most intriguing about this research is that learning was significantly impacted even though we did nothing more than alter participants» expectations prior to learning,» Nestojko said.

The research found that after an average of eight years, 1,090 participants died.

The USDA's Economic Research Service recently found that a targeted 20 percent price reduction for fruits and vegetables would raise the average SNAP participant's daily consumption of these foods by about a quarter of a cup.

The work, directed by researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., found that some study participants who reported receiving flu vaccines had a strong immune response not only against the seasonal H3N2 flu strain from 2010, when blood samples were collected for analysis, but also against flu subtypes never included in any vaccine formulation.

But research by BU's Dr Sarah Bate and Anna Bobak has found that super-recognizers significantly outperformed control participants in two face - matching tasks designed to mimic the challenges border control officers face daily.

Dr Rona Antoni, Research Fellow in Nutritional Metabolism at the University of Surrey, said: «As seen in this study, some of our participants struggled to tolerate the 5:2 diet, which suggests that this approach is not suited to everybody; ultimately the key to dieting success is finding an approach you can sustain long term.

It reduced hot flashes by as much as 80 percent, and research findings by clinically trained therapists show it also improved participants» quality of life and lessened anxiety and depression.

«We found that among the more salient themes that emerged from our research was that participants» perceived relationships with Gaga affected how close they felt to her,» Click said.

A new study carried out at D'Or Institute for Research and Education used a Magnetic Resonance (MR) machine to read participants» minds and find out what song they were listening to.

Working with human research participants, Hirsch and researchers at the Kentucky Spinal Cord injury Research Center (KSCIRC) at UofL, have found that spinal cord epidural stimulation can safely and effectively elevate blood pressure in individuals with SCI along with chronic hyporesearch participants, Hirsch and researchers at the Kentucky Spinal Cord injury Research Center (KSCIRC) at UofL, have found that spinal cord epidural stimulation can safely and effectively elevate blood pressure in individuals with SCI along with chronic hypoResearch Center (KSCIRC) at UofL, have found that spinal cord epidural stimulation can safely and effectively elevate blood pressure in individuals with SCI along with chronic hypotension.

Working with human research participants, Hirsch and researchers at the Kentucky Spinal Cord injury Research Center at UofL, have found that spinal cord epidural stimulation can safely and effectively elevate blood pressure in individuals with SCI along with chronic hyporesearch participants, Hirsch and researchers at the Kentucky Spinal Cord injury Research Center at UofL, have found that spinal cord epidural stimulation can safely and effectively elevate blood pressure in individuals with SCI along with chronic hypoResearch Center at UofL, have found that spinal cord epidural stimulation can safely and effectively elevate blood pressure in individuals with SCI along with chronic hypotension.

The researchers caution that as all participants in this study were university students, further research is needed to be able to generalize the findings to individuals with high levels of psychopathic traits in other populations.

«What we found in this study reinforces findings from previous research where scientists have asked participants to report how they think and feel in response to graphic warnings on cigarettes,» says Mays.

The research team, led by Sarah Markt and Lorelei Mucci at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, found that of the 6,909 study participants (both men and women, all of European - American descent) about 40 percent of them could smell these metabolites in their urine after eating asparagus, and 60 percent could not — these people they termed «asparagus anosmic.»

July 7, 2016 UChicago to support NIH million - person precision medicine study The University of Chicago is one of three Illinois academic institutions that will work together to help launch President Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) Cohort Program to enroll 1 million or more participants in a national research effort designed to find better ways to prevent and treat disease based on lifestyle, environment and genetics.

Dancing may be the key to happier and healthier old age, joint QUT and Queensland Ballet research has found.The three - month project, incorporating 10 Ballet for Seniors classes, found participants experienced higher energy levels, greater flexibility Read more about Dance aids healthier ageing - Scimex

The University of Chicago is one of three Illinois academic institutions that will work together to help launch President Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) Cohort Program to enroll 1 million or more participants in a national research effort designed to find better ways to prevent and treat disease based on lifestyle, environment and genetics.

This study, published in the July 27, 2011 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association and led by Charis Eng, MD, PhD, Hardis / ACS Professor and Founding Chair of the Genomic Medicine Institute of Lerner Research Institute at Cleveland Clinic, was conducted from 2005 to 2010 at 16 different institutions across the United States and involved 298 white participants with BE, EAC, or both.

«Although WSU is not conducting research on wheat with the same properties as the variety found in Oregon, any unusual or unauthorized plant quality in the supply chain warrants a thorough assessment by all participants to maintain the confidence of Washington trading partners and consumers,» he said.

ResearchMatch is a free recruitment tool for Cleveland Clinic researchers to find research study participants.

Inside a functional magnetic imaging, or fMRI, machine in the newly founded Brain Imaging Research Center at the University of Connecticut, the participants listened to eight pairs of 70 - second musical excerpts, presented in a random order.