Sentences with phrase «group study designs»

Two treatment conditions and two control groups were used in a variant of the Solomon four - group study design that included an attention - placebo manipulation instead of a posttest - only control group.

Not exact matches

The study was designed so that each participant won two out of the four contests, but half the group faced off against the same opponent each time and won or lost by a narrow margin; these slight victories and losses to the same opponent encouraged feelings of rivalry among participants, who subsequently reported higher scores on the Machiavellianism scale.

The authors of the study wrote of their findings that they had «obvious industrial applications where an objective assessment of audiovisual material is sought from groups of people, for example, in advertising, video game design or in filmmaking.»

A design study for the Seasteading Institute, a group co-founded by Thiel that proposes to build floating cities beyond the reach of existing governments.Anthony Ling — The Seasteading Institute

A design study for the Seasteading Institute, a group co-founded by Thiel that proposes to build floating cities beyond the reach of existing governments.

WorkSpace Futures, a research group within office design company Steelcase, conducted this study published in Steelcase's 360 Magazine.

The 2011 study, conducted by a team of psychologists at Columbia, Wisconsin - Madison and Harvard universities, put groups of students through four cognitive and computer - based experiments designed to test recall and word recognition.

For example, business professors Cristian Deszö of the University of Maryland and David Ross of Columbia University studied the effect of gender diversity on the top firms in Standard & Poor's Composite 1500 list, a group designed to reflect the overall U.S. equity market.

We will study and discuss the factors that impact a group's ability to act creatively, to innovate, and to produce practical and appealing designs.

Thankfully, it is not only the government realizing the extent of the porn epidemic but churches are starting to take action by providing small group studies and recovery programs, like the Conquer Series, that are designed to break the cycle of pornography and provide sexual discipleship.

A marital enrichment group, a family camp, a child - study group, a youth fellowship, a preparation for retirement group, a nursery program, a senior citizen club, premarital counseling, marriage counseling, pastoral care in bereavement, parent - child counseling, and the entire spiritual growth and educational thrust of the church — all these are examples of resources which are designed to stimulate the growth of personality toward the realization of each individual's potentialities.

The curriculum they suggest, along with participation in the community of faith, is designed to shape Christian identity by an intense study of how groups and individuals created themselves as Christians as they responded to felt needs and wrestled with issues of ultimate significance in their age just as we do in ours.

He believes it is dishonest to invite people to «seminars» which are designed not for study but for employment of peer - group pressure and mass psychology techniques to raise money.

The New Zealand Health Star Rating Advisory Group had no role in in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Last week, we posted to the site a group of four articles about a peer - reviewed study in the Journal of Neurosurgery showing that football helmet design affected concussion risk among a large group (or what scientists call a «cohort») of college football players.

Other strengths of the underpinning cohort study include high participation by midwifery units and trusts in England; the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias because of non-consent; and the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical risk.12 The economic evaluation was conducted according to nationally agreed design and reporting guidelines.15 26 Collection of primary unit cost data was thorough and accounted for regional differences in care patterns.

A prospective, controlled study of the effect of breast milk on infection among low birth weight infants was conducted in India in 1981.18 Although the sample size was small, 62 infants, the study design was a randomized block design in which feeding schedules for breast milk or formula were randomly allocated within groups of infants that were determined to be relatively homogeneous with respect to factors predisposing to infection.

When you design a study where you want to compare various groups, you have to have pretty strict rules for who belongs in which group.

ABA collaborators sat on the CASTLE study reference group which was involved in the design of the CASTLE study.

Firstly, we filled out the questionnaire designed for mothers who had delivered at the maternity, subject of the study, following a face - to - face interview with participants from both groups at the delivery place.

After studying the market, the Palo Alto Design Group decided to create a manual pump for under $ 30 that would stimulate the crucial let - down reflex.

One of the most compelling conclusions that the well - designed Dozier et al. study found was that «mothers receiving both epidural anesthesia and IV oxytocin represent the group most likely to cease breastfeeding within 1 month postpartum, while mothers receiving neither represent the lowest risk group» (Dozier et al., 2013, p. 694 - 695).

Group designation was given from a randomisation list, generated using a permuted randomized block design, with permutation block sizes of 3, 6, and 9 units, prior to study initiation by an external statistician.

DICKINSON, N.Y. — The Agency has selected a consulting group led by Elan Planning Design and Landscape Architecture to conduct a redevelopment study on 600 Main St., the former site of defense contractor BAE Systems in the town of Union.

Autism is complicated, and if you try this on five patients, perhaps it might help two — so if you aren't thoughtful in your [study] design and don't do a fairly substantial group of patients, it's not going to be very useful information.»

The researchers analyzed genomic data with computational tool, based on cutting - edge computational methods, and designed by the Gabaldón group, to study the yeast family tree.

Promising results from the new trial would be a major step forward for a field that has long been criticized for studies that are poorly designed, incomplete or lack control - group comparisons, as well as for the peddling of unproved therapies in many clinics worldwide.

After just three days, 14 bowerbirds — nearly half the study group — had returned their courts to the original design.

«Because most of these products have been developed for a pretty well - resourced group of people in pharma and the chemical industry, the prices tend to be pretty big,» says Alan Wolf, who helped coordinate a recent pilot study designed to find an ELN suitable for university - wide adoption at the University of Wisconsin (UW), Madison.

And the study uses neither blinding nor a placebo group, design elements considered essential for rigorous medical research.

The findings might have departed from prior studies because of the difference in size and study design, he said, explaining that much of the previous work in this area has been conducted in groups of 100 or fewer and mostly involved student subjects.

The study's experimental design required that the group stop the experiment at 3 months, though the baboon was still «in very good condition,» University of Munich cardiac surgeon Paolo Brenner said after the presentation.

He points out that the results are contradictory and disparate, while showing that this is mainly due to shortcomings in the design and reporting of the studies — since the choice of methodology, purpose and target group are not clearly presented.

In a new study published in Science Advances, a group of University of Wisconsin - Madison researchers show that individual cells in the human body have an armament designed to prevent HCMV from achieving and maintaining this latency, to shine a spotlight on the virus so the immune system knows to fight.

This study highlights the importance of designing post-operative care models to address the unique challenges different genders and ethnic / racial groups face following bariatric surgery.»

«We, therefore, chose a study design, in the context of which we also investigated rapamycin's effects on different age groups.

Gilles Laurent and his group study the reptilian brain because of its simpler, ancestral design, to understand cortical function, dynamics and computation.

«There is now a large group of under - represented people expressing themselves through games,» says Mike Treanor, who studies video game design at the University of California in Santa Cruz.

Writing in a linked Comment, Dr Alexander C McFarlane, University of Adelaide, Australia, notes that «a potential confounding issue with this study design is the fact that by filling in the self - report measures, both groups had the opportunity to reflect on their obvious levels of symptomatic distress... which might have minimised the ability to find differences between groups.»

The study design, Cowan notes, reduces the likelihood that the results merely reflect association differences among groups — that is, pro-life Americans are less likely to say they know someone who has had an abortion because they tend to associate with those who are less likely to undergo this procedure.

So, thanks to a Catalan government ICREA (Catalan Institution of Research and Advanced Studies) award, designed to lure senior scientists working abroad to the region, this up - and - coming Italian researcher will shortly move to CRG to lead a group studying epigenetic events in cancer.

Dr. Disney and his group studied the structure of the RNA that resulted from the C9ORF72 mutation, and then designed the lead small - molecules.

Although the study was designed to shed light on group performance in the context of army combat teams, the researchers believe these findings are relevant across various settings, including restaurants and retail stores, which employ a relatively high proportion of adolescents.

The study (known as E3805) was designed by the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) in 2005.

The August study is the third published by the group and details how a new statistical model designed specifically for children can be used to reliably discriminate performance among hospitals.

A dietitian designed a diet that met each study participant's daily energy need and 750 calories in fats and carbohydrates were trimmed per day while maintaining the protein amount based on whether they were in the higher - or normal - protein group.

In a similarly designed pilot study of the device conducted at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, researchers found striking improvements in motor function among people receiving the targeted stimulation compared with those in the simulation group.

Power analyses for group differences and treatment effects are presented for different sample sizes to guide preclinical and clinical study design.

(in study design) To assign people in one group or another based on no particular reason; indeed, researchers often use a computer to make the decision without knowing anything about the individual.

The Diagnostics group is responsible for the detailed study, conception, design, development, procurement, installation, commissioning and maintenance of the instruments for measuring the ESRF electron beam and light beam parameters with the ultimate precision and resolution.