Sentences with phrase «group than the control group»

ΔA0.5 is lower for the diabetic group than the control group, but this difference disappears because ΔA0.5 in cultures established from type 2 diabetic subjects significantly increased with increasing insulin concentration.

Results from the negative binomial regression model demonstrated that more abnormal sites were identified in the intervention group than the control group.

Limitations include more participants were randomized to treatment group than control group and small sample size.

Regarding GET, a systematic review illustrated that this form of therapy was potentially beneficial for people with ME / CFS, especially when combined with a patient education programme.5 However, drop - out rates were higher in the GET groups than control groups suggesting that individuals with ME / CFS are averse to this type of therapy.

Not exact matches

In 2015, less than a year after retiring as CEO of convenience store giant Alimentation Couche - Tard, the executive chairman, along with his three co-founders, put forward a resolution to extend their time - limited voting control — the group holds 22 % of the company's equity — to ward off any future takeover attempts.

While the project is massive, it's just one of the Aquilinis» many high - profile, highly profitable ventures: Through Aquilini Investment Group, now more than 50 years old, the family controls one of British Columbia's biggest development conglomerates, as well as its NHL team, the Rogers Arena, blueberry and cranberry farms, restaurants and some $ 80 - million worth of vineyard properties in Washington state.

«In a study of health care providers, we found that those who used WOOP were significantly more engaged with their work and less stressed than members of a control group,» Oettingen writes for HBR.org.

«The participants who'd completed the gratitude task months earlier not only reported feeling more gratefulness two weeks after the task than members of the control group, but also, months later, showed more gratitude - related brain activity in the scanner.

Some opposition lawmakers oppose the deal, saying Murdoch, the owner of The Times and The Sun newspapers, would wield too much power if he had full control of a pay - TV group present in more than 12 million British and Irish homes.

For the most part, they were still willing to help, but the supporting ideas they offered were judged significantly less creative than those advanced by a separate control group.

One of Canada's most dynastic companies, the Irving group got its start back in the 1920s, when K.C. opened a small service station in Bouctouche, N.B. Nearly 100 years on, the family controls more than 250 enterprises scattered across Canada and the northeastern United States.

«The children in the group who did a task in a way that made them laugh learned the target actions more than those in the control group who were not laughing during the learning period,» she reports.

Representatives of two gun control advocacy groups, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and Everytown for Gun Safety, plan to speak at more than 20 pride events around the country this weekend, according to a statement from the groups.

His holding company Libra Group now controls 30 subsidiaries across five continents, with solar assets, 80 ships, 90 helicopters and more than 40 hotels.

Delta, United Airlines, Hertz, and MetLife are among more than a dozen companies that have cut ties with the National Rifle Association after gun - control activists encouraged people to boycott brands that did business with the guns - rights group.

So the cyberloafers were 16 percent more productive than the resters, and 39 percent more productive than the stick - bundlers (a.k.a. the control group).

Those in the happiness control group were up to 12 percent more efficient in completing the tasks than their sad, stressed counterparts.

Gottlieb noted that the top three pharmacy benefit managers - CVS, UnitedHealth Group Inc and Express Scripts - control more than two - thirds of their market.

But Australia also had fewer barriers than the United States to enacting gun control: There is no constitutional right to bear arms, and there are no pro-gun lobbying groups with the influence of the National Rifle Association.

By 1992, the group controlled more than 80 companies.

Under these rules, a company of which more than 50 % of the voting power is held by an individual, a group or another company is a «controlled company» and may elect not to comply with certain corporate governance requirements of the, including (1) the requirement that a majority of the board of directors consist of independent directors, (2) the requirement that we have a nominating and corporate governance committee that is composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee's purpose and responsibilities and (3) the requirement that we have a compensation committee that is composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee's purpose and responsibilities.

Kashagan has huge amounts of oil in store, and according to Financial Times, «Opec, the 14 - member cartel that controls more than a third of all crude production, on Monday said Kashagan's ramp up is one reason it now thinks supplies outside the group will actually grow next year, despite two years of low prices.»

«If a group of miners controls more than 50 percent of the computational power on the network, it can always mine blocks faster than whoever has the other 49 percent.

In recent weeks, racial justice activists and civil rights groups have noted that gun violence in black communities, rather than inspiring reform legislation or prompting national outcry, is often framed as the result of black people being unable to control themselves.

According to a 2017 analysis of fatal and nonfatal childhood firearm injuries compiled by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black children face the highest rates of firearm mortality — a difference largely driven by black youth being more likely to be shooting victims than children from other racial groups.

The trial doesn't have a control group, but that seem's much longer than patients who relapse after treatment with Jakafi.

It is better to stay at home and bask in the Father's love than to join with a group of power - hungry, controlling Christians.

It has been my experience that those church leaders who are more into control and performance will get very uncomfortable and irritable when someone joins the group who actually want to talk with God in order to learn from Him, rather than talk (or yell) at Him in the hopes of sounding super-spiritual and maybe even manipulating something out of Him.

What I am calling the «core groups,» those actually trying to live a new vision, give hope in that they are actually working out a new balance of impulse and control, energy and discipline, rather than abandoning all control and discipline.

Clearly, the group of knights and peasants who sacked Muslim - controlled Jerusalem at the end of the First Crusade was better equipped to fight than to rule.

The plant is less coordinated as a subject than an animal and is more like a democracy of cells in which no particular group of cells has a central control.

Only 28 % of the women in the date eating group needed prostin / oxytocin (for inducing / augmenting labour), which was significantly lower than the 47 % who needed induction in the control group (p = 0.036).

Casella acquired a controlling stake in Peter Lehmann from Hess Group for US$ 49.5 million, significantly less than the $ 103m Hess paid for the brand in 2003.

After 12 weeks, the researchers observed a larger reduction in blood glucose levels than in the control group.

The group with the highest sodium - to - potassium ratio had a mortality risk about 50 % higher during the study than the group with the lowest, according to the report by Elena V. Kuklina, M.D., and colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Emory University, and the Harvard School of Public Health.

Those consuming olive oil and tomato paste saw 35 % less reddening of the skin than the control group.

Female consumers represent a driving economic powerhouse, controlling 65 %, or approximately $ 20 trillion annually, of global spending and more than 80 % of U.S. spending, according to the Harvard Business Review and the Continuum's Women and Children Research Group.

A 2008 study published in the British Society for Investigative Dermatology found that participants who consumed tomato paste for 12 weeks experienced over 30 % more protection from UV light than the control group.

The Orioles are not an easy group of heroes to control, though it is probably unfair to place any significance in the fact that they played better at night (60 - 41) than all the other teams in the American League.

This was not exactly a defensive masterclass from either side, as the 4 - 2 scoreline suggests, but at least it was Arsenal who scored more than the home side BATE Borisov to give the Gunners a second Europa League win and put us well in control of the group.

The crushing victory was more than enough to put Chelsea in early control of the group with Atletico slogging out a 0 - 0 score in Rome.

Cervical dilation of the date - eaters upon admission to the hospital was higher than that of the control group.

The results of a recent randomized trial of CSRP showed that children who spent their prekindergarten year in a CSRP Head Start classroom had, at the end of the school year, substantially higher attention skills, greater impulse control, and better performance on executive - function tasks than did children in a control group.

• A Randomised Controlled Trial in which depressed pregnant women received twice weekly massage therapy from their partners found those who received the massage reporting less depressed mood, anxiety and anger and better relationship quality than women in the control group (Field et al, 2008).

• A controlled trial of a brief (one postpartum session) group intervention with mothers and fathers, addressing infant behaviour and couple - relationship management, found dramatically lower instances of depression / anxiety among women who had attended the couples - group - session than among those who had met with a health visitor at home (Fisher et al, 2010).

The most recent findings of the Belarus study (an excellent, large scale, randomized, first world study) were recently published and show that 11 year - olds have a 17 % GREATER chance of being obese or overweight if they were in the breastfeeding group than in the control group.

While I agree that much of the research out there for PRP is less than desirable, I think it important to cite to some studies as a counterpoint which do have large numbers, platelet concentrations and control groups.

It would be a far more effective way to see if you're right than to use government to impose a top - down, one - size - fits - all orthodoxy and effectively outlaw what real scientists call a control group.

The results are encouraging, even many years down the road — at age 15, kids whose mothers went through the program are 59 percent less likely to have an arrest record than teens in a control group.

There is experimental evidence that this old standby really helps: In a study that randomly assigned fearful children to receive a toy «huggy puppy,» kids exhibited fewer nighttime fears and sleep problems than did children in a control group.