Sentences with phrase «human performance study»

(3) In small human performance studies, the performance results of high fat (ketogenic) diets are mixed.

Portuguese journal of human performance studies (Lisboa) 1993; 9 (1): 9 - 14.

Not exact matches

When it came time to reward top executives last year, more leading companies handed out performance - based awards instead of time - vesting stock options, according to a new study from human resources consulting firm Mercer.

Even if you have the willpower to ignore the constant tones and alert lights in the background, the sound can still impair your concentration, according to a study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

«The laws of economics and many studies of diversity tell us that if we tapped the entire pool of human resources and talent, our collective performance would improve.»

Studies show employees of businesses with best - of - class human resource services are more engaged, contributing to improved business performance.

By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would focus our attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the cultural turn in our discipline to other studies of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods of research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we found ourselves.

The «performance - as - communication» persepctive I represented was rooted in two complementary analogues in the study of human communication, aesthetic and cultural; the program at Candler was grounded in a «broadcast transmissions» or «mechanical» model.

Secondly, by linking «art» with «communication», performance studies helps homiletics resist those impulses in the church and / or seminary cultures to devalue the human imagination in favor of «practicalities» and overemphasis on affect and affectation.

Performance studies uses some of the raw materials of incarnational theology to imagine human speaking; preaching approaches the disciplinary terrain of performance theory by emphasizing relationships between orality and writing, between reading and speaking, and the evocative power of ritual speech aPerformance studies uses some of the raw materials of incarnational theology to imagine human speaking; preaching approaches the disciplinary terrain of performance theory by emphasizing relationships between orality and writing, between reading and speaking, and the evocative power of ritual speech aperformance theory by emphasizing relationships between orality and writing, between reading and speaking, and the evocative power of ritual speech and gesture.

Wallace Bacon has reflected on the value of performance - centered research in and for the study of human communication.

This new functional study demonstrates that supplementation with low - dose elevATP ® during a structured resistance training program can significantly increase human strength, power, and performance.

For the study, Dr. Jaeger and his co-author, Dr. Jacob Wilson (University of Tampa, Department of Health Sciences and Human Performance), surveyed 24 healthy, college - aged, resistance - trained participants.

The study was conducted by Ralf Jaeger, FISSN, CISSN, MBA, and Jacob Wilson from the department of health sciences and human performance at University of Tampa.

Preliminary studies of ampakines on healthy human subjects have shown small to moderate improvements in their performance on memory tests.

«Past research has found a link between violent crimes and performance on tests, but researchers haven't been able to say why crime affects academic performance,» explains Jennifer A. Heissel, a PhD graduate in human development and sociology at Northwestern University, who led the study.

asks Jason Kring, who studies human performance in extreme conditions at the Embry - Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Results of the study have just been released in the article, Motor - enriched Learning Activities can Improve Mathematical Performance in Preadolescent Children, published in the internationally renown scientific journal, Frontiers of Human Neuroscience.

A program aimed at reducing behavior problems in order to boost academic achievement has improved performance in math and reading among low - income kindergartners and first graders, according to a study by researchers at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

«This study is a great example of how our team can quickly leverage its experience and expertise in wearable technology and biomechanics to demonstrate how human performance can be improved in new application areas,» says Walsh.

«In many cases, school performance in kindergarten sets the pattern for later academic performance,» said James A. Griffin, Ph.D., deputy chief of the Child Development and Behavior Branch at the NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, which funded the study.

A well - studied example of a human gene is the ACE gene on chromosome 17, which seems to predict physical performance.

Story number 2: A new study shows that athletes taking human growth hormone (HGH) significantly improve performance.

This is also the first study to attempt to correlate performance on this test with variation in the human genome.

This phantom mimics the response of human breast tissue to test the performance of MRI systems, and it may be used to ensure quality control when comparing images within and between medical research studies.

In normal humans, relationships between cognitive test performance and cortical structure have received little study, in part, because of the paucity of tools for measuring cortical structure.

Inclusion Criteria: • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1 • Have histologically or cytologically confirmed advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)(Stage IIIb or greater) • Measurable disease, as defined by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1 • Known PD - L1 tumor status as determined by an immunohistochemistry (IHC) assay performed by the central laboratory on tissue obtained at Screening • A woman of childbearing potential must have a negative highly sensitive serum (beta - human chorionic gonadotropin [beta - hCG]-RRB- at Screening within 14 days prior to study drug administration Inclusion Criteria for Crossover: • Participants must have been randomized to Arm A of the study and had radiographic disease progression according to RECIST 1.1 • Participants must have a mandatory biopsy at the time of disease progression according to RECIST 1.1 prior to crossing over.

Here we present data from studies profiling cytokines in human and rodent samples using our standard - throughput FirePlex immunoassays, and introduce the simplified workflow of our high - throughput FirePlex immunoassays, with data demonstrating the performance for quantifying key cytokines in multiplex.

Limitations of the present studies include their performance in mice only and uncertainty of the relevance of rodent models to SARS - CoV vaccines in humans.

Gail Forrest, PhD, Interim Director of Human Performance and Movement Analysis Research at Kessler Foundation, and Steven Kirshblum, MD, Medical Director and Director of Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation at Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, will lead a collaborative team for the investigational study.

WRAIR and collaborators will share data related to assays designed to measure antibody responses following vaccination with ZPIV, biologic samples generated during the performance of animal studies, and biologic samples generated during the performance of early human trials assessing the safety and immunogenicity of ZPIV.

The findings will be presented in an abstract of the study conducted by Wes D. Dudgeon, Larry A. Buchanan, Ashley E. Strickland, and Dena P. Garner, from the Department of Health, Exercise, and Sport Science at The Citadel; and Timothy P. Scheett, from the Department of Health and Human Performance from the College of Charleston, all in Charleston, South Carolina.

Previous studies have reported remarkable similarities in the performance of non-verbal numerical tasks among humans, apes and monkeys, suggesting the existence of the same basic numerical systems among primates [3], [29], [46], [47], [48].

Under the directorship of Guang Yue, PhD, Human Performance & Engineering Research conducts a variety of mobility rehabilitation and related biomechanical and neurophysiological research studies with funding from National Institutes of Health, NIDRR, New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Injury Research, Craig Neilsen Foundation, Department of Defense, and Kessler Foundation.

All the studies done on human and animal subjects have shown chia seeds» potential effectiveness in combating angina, allergies, enhancing athletic performance, preventing cancer, heart attacks, coronary heart disease, hyperlipidemia, hormonal or endocrine conditions, hypertension vasodilatation and strokes.

Another study conducted by University of Connecticut's Human Performance Laboratory found that even a 1.5 % water loss led to reduced cognitive function, headaches and fatigue in 25 women and 26 men.

The IF studies performed on humans in relation to body composition, muscle mass and athletic performance indicate that intermittent fasting produces the best results when done in conjunction with strength training.

However, once you get through the transition, your body can quickly adapt and learn to function just as well only eating a few times a day: This study explains that in participants after 48 - hours of fasting,» cognitive performance, activity, sleep, and mood are not adversely affected in healthy humans by two days of calorie - deprivation.»

That study is the basis for a lot of the claims that I can legally make about coffee for human performance.

While there are studies conducted on tribulus studying its effects on athletic performance using human subjects, there are none conducted on the sexual enhancing effects of Tribulus on human subjects - at least none that I was able to find.

[1] There have been numerous studies performed on human subjects demonstrating the positive effects Maca has on sexual well - being and improvement in perceived sexual performance.

Being in the fitness industry, for nearly 30 years, I've studied the effects of stress on human performance and it's really quite interesting.

«In the weight room, there were more chances to see themselves and feel like they're being evaluated by males,» explains study co-author Shawn Arent, PhD, director of the Human Performance Laboratory at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Years of study by top human performance researchers has confirmed that insulin is one of the body's most powerful musclebuilding hormones.

Shawn Wayland studied exercise science and human performance in an academic setting.

In another study conducted by the Agricultural Research Service at the Diet and Human Performance Laboratory in Beltsville, MD it was found that barley was much more effective in reducing both glucose and insulin responses than oats.

Two additional studies noted decreased performance with ubiquinone - 10 supplementation (a fat - soluble antioxidant) in humans after a high - intensity training program (10, 11).

In addition to the various cardiovascular and metabolic findings, animal research strongly suggests that human fasting studies of cognitive performance should be conducted.

Various studies on rats have demonstrated that tribulus increased testosterone and sexual activity 1, 2, while other studies found that tribulus had no effect on muscle strength, body composition, exercise performance in human subjects 3, 4.

In one study carried out by researchers at the University of Tampa Human Performance Research Lab and Increnovo, researchers measured baseline blood tests on 34 healthy, trained males, including blood markers of inflammation.