Sentences with phrase «human study participants»

The researchers were also able to modify the parameters of their Concentration model to determine which set of variables resulted in gameplay that most closely matched the gameplay of the human study participants.

That decision bypassed U.S. government and other safety measures designed to protect human study participants.

Their study published last week in Science Translational Medicine demonstrated that the fasting - mimicking diet reduced risks for cancer, diabetes, heart disease and other age - related diseases in human study participants who followed the special diet for five days each month in a three - month span.

They found that blocking ANGPTL3 activity with an investigative injectable antibody, known as evinacumab, reduced triglycerides by up to 76 percent and lowered LDL cholesterol 23 percent in human study participants, and largely reversed signs of atherosclerosis in a mouse models.

Not exact matches

A recent study by human resource consulting firm Morneau Shepell has found that, when it comes to counselling services, 63.9 % of participants are women.

In a 1959 study published In Human Relations, for example, participants were told that certain members of a group discussion would probably like them.

«According to one study of 6,724 participants, published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior, people who score high in psychopathy personality tests often write posts relating to their own needs and satisfaction,» reports Business Insider.

Not long ago, researchers at the University of Manitoba's Human - Computer Interaction Lab conducted a study in which participants were asked to do 80 minutes of painfully dull drudge work under the supervision of a human, or that of a computer namedHuman - Computer Interaction Lab conducted a study in which participants were asked to do 80 minutes of painfully dull drudge work under the supervision of a human, or that of a computer namedhuman, or that of a computer named Nao.

For example, Hoyt and colleagues [21] conducted a study wherein participants were asked to perform a learned or novel task in front of virtual humans.

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.

All study participants gave written informed consent and the study was approved by the Monash University Human Research Ethics Committee (approval number CF12 / 0348 -2012000146), and the trial registered with the Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trial Registry (registration number 12611000468921).

When the researchers gave concentrated broccoli sprout extracts to 97 human type 2 diabetes patients in a 12 - week randomized placebo - controlled trial, obese participants who entered the study with dysregulated disease demonstrated significantly decreased fasting blood glucose levels compared to controls.

«We have now found a potential mechanism, and at this point in our research, we need to test human participants in a blinded, placebo controlled clinical study — the same technique we used to study the behavioral effects of acupuncture in rats,» says Eshkevari, a nurse anesthetist and licensed acupuncturist.

Treatment implications were examined in a series of human studies that demonstrated similar reductions in the microbiome in participants suffering from both major depression and bipolar disorder.

In the study, Dr. Barber and colleagues analyzed brain imaging data from the Human Connectome Project of 76 otherwise healthy participants reporting PLEs and 153 control participants.

In a study published by the psychologists Kurt Gray of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and Daniel Wegner (now deceased) in 2012, participants watched a brief video of a robot's head either from the front, where they could see its «human» face, or from behind, where they saw electrical components.

And scientists who conduct human challenge studies, which typically involve a few dozen participants, say they have critical benefits: In addition to saving time and money, they can reveal harm caused by a potential drug or vaccine before it enters large - scale human efficacy trials.

But Amedi and his colleagues found that the area of the visual cortex responsible for recognizing body shapes in sighted people — called the extrastriate body area — lit up with activity in the study participants when they were interpreting the human silhouettes.

«But by engaging a diverse participant population and accumulating rich datasets, the CPMC research study is pursuing the type of insights that will help us learn more about sleep duration and, ultimately, improve human health.»

Although brain - imaging studies of human participants watching funny cartoons or listening to jokes reveal the activation of evolutionarily ancient structures such as the amygdala and nucleus accumbens, more recently evolved, «higher - order» structures are also activated, including distributed regions of the frontal cortex.

What's more, in a neuroimaging study in which the participants were shown images depicting human suffering, those who gave most generously during the online game also showed greatest activation in brain areas involved in empathy, emotion regulation and positive emotion.

The researchers studied the AATD gene in relation to human health conditions in around 20,000 participants.

For the current study, Bearden, who is part of the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, conducted MRI scans of 143 study participants: 66 with 22q deletions, 21 with 22q duplications, and 56 without the genetic mutation.

«Creating images improved participants» memories and helped them commit fewer errors, regardless of what kind of list we gave them,» said Merrin Oliver, lead author of the study and a Ph.D. student in the educational psychology program in the College of Education & Human Development at Georgia State.

Read about the Johns Hopkins postdoctoral program that helped her transition from basic animal research into studies using human participants.

The Ethical, Legal and Social Implications Research Program at the U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute is now accepting applications for more than $ 7.5 million in studies on how to share genetic results with research participants.

Although, the participants in this study are unlikely to be as motivated or as skilled as a professional at spotting fraudulent photos, this study indicates that humans and smartphones may not naturally identify face morphs, a weakness that could be exploited by fraudsters.

The study, published in the journal Human Brain Mapping, is one of the largest and most comprehensive experiments of individual differences in decision - making conducted to date, the researchers said, with 304 healthy adult participants.

The study included data about human - animal interactions, physical activity, frequency of doctor visits and health outcomes of the participants.

Venter is now CEO of a company called Human Longevity Inc. that aims to sequence 1 million participants» genomes by 2020 — a new private competitor to Collins's federal cohort study, perhaps.

Lastly, the study participants preferred smooth, familiar movements — which resemble human movements — rather than sharp («robotic») or unfamiliar movements when the robot was leading the interaction.

As part of the study, 179 human participants played Concentration 20 times each — 10 times for accuracy and 10 times for speed — to give the researchers a point of comparison for their ACT - R model.

As Henrich points out, recruiting participants who had actually experienced war allowed the researchers to study human nature in the context of real - world conflicts.

«The study participants were deeply divided along partisan lines, with about 50 % saying they do believe in human - caused climate change and 50 % saying they don't,» said Dan Kahan, professor of law and of psychology at Yale Law School and the lead researcher on the study.

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.

All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and / or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

Ethical considerations in Controlled Human Malaria Infection studies in low resource settings: Experiences and perceptions of study participants in a malaria Challenge study in Kenya

This study of human genetic variation and its relationship to health and disease involves a large number of study participants and will capture not only common single nucleotide variations but also rare copy number and structural variants that are increasingly thought to play an important role in complex disease.

Diversity in Genomics Research Cohorts The lack of diversity within participant cohorts in genetics and genomics research limits our ability to study variation across the human genome and the genetic factors that influence health and disease, as well as our ability to ensure that every segment of the population is able to benefit from advances stemming from the research.

The study protocol was approved by the KPNC institutional review board and the California State Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects, which waived written consent for participants because our data - only study had no direct contact with patients.

The study protocol was approved by the University of Auckland Human Ethics Committee (reference 2006/462), and all participants provided written informed consent.

We believe that rapid data release, particularly for studies involving human subjects and valuable samples, better serves the scientific community as well as the participants in the study than does the standard practice of data release after publication.

Recently, a large - scale genetics study examined DNA from 215,000 participants to determine how and where the human genome might be...

This study additionally confirmed the biochemical deficiency in participants who were identified to be human knockouts.

This means potentially all impulsive behaviors could be treated by delivering electricity through a responsive neurostimulation device, though Halpern cautions that clinical studies to test the device on more than one human participant are needed.

study cohorts of 10,000 s - 100,000 s healthy participants from the UK population for 100s to 1000s of quantitative traits, relating these to cardiometabolic and other diseases; and identify thousands of homozygously null genes compatible with human life.

A 2005 study in humans found that supplementing with CLA improved participants» immune function and decreased inflammatory cytokines that impact the immune system.

These two findings were enough to propel HCA in the mainstream fitness world, but it seems its fame has quickly faded away after a study that was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1998 said that HCA had no effect whatsoever on human participants.

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.»

However, in human studies, freeze - dried nettle was found to reduce sneezing and itching in those with allergic rhinitis, with almost half of participants claiming the herb was more effective than allergy medications previously used.