Sentences with phrase «found test subjects»

City Republicans have pointed to a 2013 Department of Investigations probe that found test subjects were able to gain access to voting booths by misrepresenting their identities.

Not exact matches

Research by Paul Zak found that character driven storytelling led to the production of a hormone called oxytocin in test subjects.

The study subjects agreed to a fresh round of personality testing and the contemporary results were compared to the decades» old findings.

Levy reported that in a 2004 study of suburban rail commuters taking the train from New Jersey to Manhattan, «Wener and his coauthor Gary Evans found that the longer their test subjects» journey was, the higher the levels of cortisol (the primary stress hormone) in their saliva, and the more difficult they found to focus on the task of proofreading assigned them at the end of their commute.»

Outlining classic research from the 1970s and 80s done by a team out of Yale on the subject, Konnikova explains that after months of interviews and a barrage of psychological tests, the researchers «found, unsurprisingly, that blocked writers were unhappy.»

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

In Matthew one house is founded directly on rock and the other on sand; and the test to which they are subjected consists of rain, floods, and wind.

This thing, however, of becoming the Emperor's son - in - law might readily be subjected to the tests of reality, so that the laborer would he able to ascertain how far the Emperor was serious in this matter, or whether he merely wanted to make fun of the poor fellow, render him unhappy for the rest of his life, and help him to find his way to the mad - house; for the quid nimis is in evidence, which with such infinite ease can turn into its opposite.

Researchers tested 660 subjects and found a clear correlation between high smartphone use and lower cognitive skills, especially «the willingness to think in an analytical way.»

When I first tried the Carolina Reaper on video three years ago, I definitely found that it was among the hottest things I've ever put in my mouth, so the burn felt by these test subjects were no doubt real and funnily painful.

Find out all about the placenta, and learn about the various tests your baby will be subjected to in those first minutes of life outside of the womb.

The Obama 2012 campaign used the latter tactic extensively: at times, they tried dozens of message variants on test recipient universes, often finding that the subject lines they THOUGHT would do well, didn't.

Minister will be under renewed pressure today to scrap school testing for 11 - year - olds following a damning select committee report on the subject which found the tests undermined education standards and harmed children.

And even today, the team found that when test subjects in America and Fiji heard about people performing high - stakes physical feats, they assumed the daredevils to be large, unpredictable and possibly violent — not guys to mess with.

In their experiments, the Tübingen researchers placed test subjects at a computer screen and into a virtual maze, where they had to find hidden objects.

They found that L - theanine and caffeine together improved their subjects» performance on cognitive tests where they had to switch quickly between different tasks.

In studies of women with only one X chromosome, he found that test subjects who inherited their X chromosome from their fathers had better social skills than those who inherited their X chromosome from their mothers.

The researchers tested samples of brain cells from people with MS and healthy control subjects and found evidence of the virus in the olfactory bulb in both groups.

Zamboni himself concluded that his findings should be subjected to more rigorous testing.

The findings could mean that many otherwise healthy pregnant women are subjected to tests and procedures that they don't need.

«Our findings reveal that, across all grades and subjects, students in online charter schools perform worse on standardized assessments and are significantly less likely to pass Ohio's test for high school graduation than their peers in traditional charter and traditional public schools,» said McEachin.

«One of the surprising findings from this study was that even the subjects who had extreme exposure — two subjects who went to a music festival with 16 hours of exposure at 101 to 103 dBA (A-weighted decibels), which is around 1,000 percent of the daily occupational noise limit — had only temporary changes on some functional tests, with no evidence of permanent pathology,» Le Prell said.

«We've conducted tracking tests in laboratories in which subjects follow moving images across computer screens,» says psychologist McBeath, «and we've found that until the velocity of the target changes by as much as 60 to 70 percent, people don't notice that it's speeding up or slowing down at all.»

When this idea was tested on human blood samples, the researchers found that subjects who suffered from depression had unusually low miR135 levels in their blood.

To find out, he and his collaborators tested 300 subjects.

To find out why kirigami cuts enhance a material's adhesive properties, the researchers first bonded a kirigami film to a polymer surface, then subjected the material to stretch tests.

Yes, using mice in early drug studies can spare human test subjects from harm, which most people would argue justifies the frequently misleading findings.

The British equivalent of the F.D.A. investigated but found «no critical or major deficiencies» in the manufacture and handling of TGN1412, or in the testing and handling of the subjects.

Previous studies have subjected phytoplankton to oil in laboratories to test their sensitivity and found differences in the impact on oceanic vs. coastal phytoplankton and differences when phytoplankton were in nutrient - rich or nutrient - poor water, as well as damage to some phytoplankton cells at various concentrations of oil.

The team also tested the students» understanding of genetics and found that the genetics - first effect either increased genetics understanding as well or made no difference, meaning that teaching genetics first doesn't harm students» appreciation of this subject.

11 subjects tested positive in PCR tests for the uterine cervical secretions, and 6 of them had no ultrasound findings were all asymptomatic.

The researchers then subjected the device to a variety of tests, finding first that it had a strong energy efficiency of 7.9 percent, producing a current of 7.86 milliwatts per square centimeter, as the current density was 13.8 milliamperes per square centimeter at 0.57 volts, based on a simulated sunlight of 100 milliwatts per square centimeter.

When he scanned their brains, Blanke found that the test subjects produced the signature brain patterns seen in others reporting an out - of - body state.

And to test the durability, they subjected it to compression, and found that after compressing by nearly half for twenty cycles while placing drops of water on it, it still had 80 percent of the original efficiency.

Finally, in the geocentric testing condition, if the block was hidden under the northwestern cup facing the researcher, then its counterpart could be found under the northwestern cup facing the subject.

They tested for the presence of C - reactive protein in the maternal blood of 777 offspring with schizophrenia and compared the findings with those from 777 control subjects.

Chamie said the study did find a small but statistically significant increase in follow - up intensity with time, meaning that the more time passed, the more likely subjects were to receive the recommended tests.

They found that subjects» ability to decipher tiny details in test patterns decreased by nearly 20 percent.

One of the journal's studies, conducted by researchers at the University of Paris 13, found that among test subjects, higher numbers on the Literature - based Adherence Score to the Mediterranean Diet were associated with higher odds of meeting certain healthy aging criteria.

By tickling 15 giddy test subjects, they found that a happy rat's ears become «significantly pinker».

A census of extrasolar planets The analysis subjected Petigura's planet - finding algorithms to a battery of tests in order to measure how many habitable zone, Earth - size planets they missed.

Geneticists at the University of Utah found that test subjects with shorter telomeres were eight times more likely to die from disease and three times more likely to die from a heart attack [source: Biever].

These 36 students who did not participate in the earlier test then had pick letters and numbers out of an array within a designated amount of time, finding that the subjects who viewed the baby animals were able to concentrate more and perform better, increasing accuracy by 16 percent and speed by 13 percent, while performance.

By comparing long - term results with each subject's original response to alcohol in the laboratory tests, the researchers found that an individual's initial response could predict later drinking behavior.

Test subjects, on the other hand, took a placebo and reported that they found it hard to limit their food consumption and lost only a couple of pounds.

The same group of Canadian researchers found BPA in the sweat of 80 % of subjects tested.

Study subjects in a room scented with rosemary were found to have enhanced levels of 1,8 - cineole, an organic compound the researchers had previously linked with cognitive performance, and they performed better on word puzzles and memory tests than subjects in an unscented room.

A 2015 study found that after drinking sulfophane - rich juice, protective changes were detectable in the lining of the test subjects» mouths.

Hall et al (2005) found that Australian Sweet Lupin kernel flour inclusion into white bread significantly reduced the blood glucose response and the insulin response of the 11 male test subjects.

1 In a 10 - day study conducted at Ohio State University on 31 weight - trained test subjects randomly assigned to one of three groups, subjects consuming the same form of creatine found in Six Star ® CreatineX3 ™ with a training program increased their strength capacity on the bench press by 18.6 % compared to baseline (6,658 vs. 5,613 joules).