Sentences with phrase «for research participants»

Phenotypes as measures for research participants.

Each visit was free of charge for the research participants.

Not exact matches

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.

The team behind the research taught two groups of participants two differing strategies for saying no when something threatened to tempt them away from their stated goals.

The loans are the least damaging problem, said Eschtruth at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, as participants generally do return the money to the plan to avoid the penalties.

«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.

So far, the Capital Connections Series has attracted five capital market participants: BMO Capital Markets, Cormark Securities Inc., Mackie Research Capital Corporation, Versant Partners Inc., and The Equicom Group Inc. «It's sometimes hard [for technology companies] to be heard, appreciated and actually funded through the more obvious venture channels,» says Reid.

The study participants who walked for five minutes each hour of sitting saw their arterial function stay the same — it did not drop throughout the three - hour period,» the research released explained.

According to research conducted at the University of Toronto, study participants who read short - story fiction experienced far less need for «cognitive closure» compared with counterparts who read nonfiction essays.

«The currency war is intensifying: the number of participants is rising, fresh policy tools are being used to fight, and the scale of influence on the wider foreign exchange market is increasing,» wrote HSBC strategists, led by David Bloom, in a research note on Tuesday which ranks global currencies» appetites for war.

However, research by the FBCG also shows that only two - thirds of large family businesses in the GCC have initiated building blocks for effective family business governance structures, and only one - third of those participants have fully implemented the structures effectively.

The candidate will be responsible for researching, analyzing and writing about the cryptocurrency market to a dedicated community of traders and market participants.

The NIH offers three internal (meaning that participants will do research for the NIH) loan repayment programs to scientist holding medical degrees.

It is expected the research and analysis around this data will provide the foundation for a number of leading conferences and high level industry roundtables to identify and promote appropriate market structures for the benefit of all participants.

The participants watched as Institute staff weighed pigs for a research project followed by a walk through the hog pastures.

Dialogue and cooperation between stakeholders are necessary for implementation of research and we welcome participants working in different parts of our food systems.

The API forums were created to be a safe environment for support and education of forum participants and API does not condone use of any information on the website for research, commercial or media purposes.

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.

While with Mathematica Policy Research, he wrote or contributed programming for U.S. Department of Agriculture reports on the participation trends and household characteristics of SNAP participants, and also worked on national evaluations of SNAP demonstration pilots and the Summer Food Service Program.

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.

Make sure you check out their blogs everyday between April 12 - 18 for links to other participants» posts as well as product reviews, a giveaway, and some links to research, information and resources pertaining to body image.

To prevent the exploitation or coercion of research participants, universities and other organizations conducting or sponsoring research require that all researchers who intend to use data collected from human subjects be familiar with national and state - level guidelines for working with human subjects data.

The research participants identified some of the advantages of breastfeeding; in particular, a general recognition that breastfeeding offers some protection from illness and disease, both for themselves and for their babies.

In - depth unstructured interviewing was used to generate «rich» descriptions of women's lived experiences and perceptions of infant feeding; this allowed each participant to establish her own agenda for discussion, within broadly defined research themes.

The Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMw) approved the study protocol and all participants provided written informed consent.

For the control and telephone support group, a research nurse not involved with delivering the intervention, recruited the participants.

Current participants in the Industrial Hemp Agricultural Research Pilot Program rely heavily on imported hemp seeds, which are expensive and often poorly adapted for New York's agricultural environment.

For the research, 324 identical and 210 fraternal twins participated in a study task that asked them to decide how much money to send to another study participant — representing trust — and another task that asked them to decide how much money to take away from another participant — representing distrust.

Participants will discuss career management, science education and strategies for cultivating women as leaders; young scientists will make presentations about their research.

Only after completing 3 years of research training do participants in Chicago's research - residency program become eligible for board certification in, say, internal medicine and their specialty area.

She engages K - 12 students in her neuroscience research through lab visits and internships for students from low - performing schools, and compliments her research by meeting with each study participant to discuss their brain scans, as well as their college plans and potential interest in a science career.

Beyond the university - based experts who also came from Harvard and the University of Pittsburgh, U.S. symposium participants in Havana were from Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center, the Roswell Park Cancer Center, both in New York State, the Moffitt Cancer Center in Florida and the Ponce Research Institute in Puerto Rico, as well as the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, the National Cancer Institute, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention..

More than 70 participants from 17 African countries, as well as a delegation from the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), attended the one - day workshop, which also coincided with the annual conference of the Southern African Research and Innovation Managers Association (SARIMA).

«As part of this fellowship, I want my project to serve as a model for use - inspired, community - engaged research at Northern Kentucky University, by re-positioning community members from participants to collaborators.

These challenges will make it more difficult to guarantee anonymity for participants, provide information to satisfy the requirements of informed consent, and ensure complete withdrawal from research when requested.

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.

This research has led to publication of a guide for end users and disseminated via a three day workshop in Germany involving 150 participants from 26 countries.

Mentoring, monitoring and diversity workshops will be provided for faculty, graduate students and staff who serve as advisors, research mentors and tutors, etc., for HAMP student participants.

Twenty - seven participants with tremor - dominant Parkinson's disease were enrolled in the study; the research team randomly assigned 20 to be treated with focused ultrasound waves on their brains, while the others received a fake procedure, to account for any potential placebo effect.

In addition to publicizing the facts about MS, participants will raise money for research into the cause of the disease, which remains a mystery.

The software and strategies are already being shared openly online by the contest participants, and the unique datasets developed for the competition are being made freely available to researchers worldwide by NINDS, University of Pennsylvania and Mayo Clinic to advance epilepsy research and treatment.

For instance, clinical trial participants can avoid the inconvenience of visiting research facilities, writing down their daily activities or wearing clunky monitors.

«As an extraordinary participant in this research, he's teaching us how to design a new generation of neurotechnologies that we all hope will one day restore mobility and independence for people with paralysis.»

In preparation for the summit, the participants, who represent a wide range of expertise, divided into working groups focusing on workforce structure, training, and research funding.

After undergoing the complex process, nine of the 10 participants, who suffered from cognitive impairment or memory loss associated with Alzheimer's, displayed improvement in memory three to six months into the program — a joint venture between the Mary S. Easton Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research at UCLA and the Buck Institute for Research on Aging.

One participant, for example, wondered aloud why any researcher would want a staff scientist position, which does not permit full research independence.

«For instance, the research team asked participants to define how many cookies would be moderation, how many would be indulgence and how many would be considered what you should eat.

Data used for the study came from research participants who were granted anonymity.

«During the research, there were a number of participants who had been unable to independently move their arms for between three and five years and they were able to complete the tests set out in the tasks.

► This week's issue of Science also includes a brief recap of the 40th annual AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy, attended by «more than 400 elected officials, government and business leaders, researchers, educators, and others» on 30 April and 1 May in Washington, D.C. «The importance of basic research for the nation's scientific and economic future was a recurring theme,» and «participants delved into the factors driving the tight budget environment» scientists are currently facing.