Sentences with phrase «in a larger sample using»

Future work by the group will focus on testing the effectiveness of CAST training in a larger sample using neurophysiological measures to examine how the training affects brain systems.

This finding needs replicating in a larger sample using more noise levels but if replicated has great practical applications by offering a non-invasive way to improve school results in children with attentional problems.

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Part of the problem, according to Kelley, is that many designers don't make samples of clothes used in cover shoots and advertisements in sizes larger than a two.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

It uses a sample of the population, but a very large one, so that members of small religious groups actually do show up (as they often do not in smaller national surveys).

That said, we prefer the larger sample size that was used in the article.

Most trials of prenatal home visiting have produced disappointing effects on pregnancy outcomes such as birth weight and gestational age, 9,16,17 although one program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses has reduced prenatal tobacco use in two trials18, 19 and has reduced pregnancy - induced hypertension in a large sample of African - Americans.20

The program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses described above produced treatment - control differences in 15 - year - olds» arrests and reductions in arrests and convictions among 19 - year - old females.32, 33 In a subsequent trial with a large sample of urban African - Americans the program produced treatment impacts on 12 - year - olds» use of substances and internalizing disorders.in 15 - year - olds» arrests and reductions in arrests and convictions among 19 - year - old females.32, 33 In a subsequent trial with a large sample of urban African - Americans the program produced treatment impacts on 12 - year - olds» use of substances and internalizing disorders.in arrests and convictions among 19 - year - old females.32, 33 In a subsequent trial with a large sample of urban African - Americans the program produced treatment impacts on 12 - year - olds» use of substances and internalizing disorders.In a subsequent trial with a large sample of urban African - Americans the program produced treatment impacts on 12 - year - olds» use of substances and internalizing disorders.34

With the use of national sampling weights, data from these 16 cities were designed to be nationally representative of families with children born in large cities in the United States from 1998 through 2000.22

Large countries like the UK should have no trouble with extending an open invitation to the public to participate in the process through crowd sourcing as long as appropriate sampling techniques are used to compile a representative collection of comments and suggestions offered by the citizenry.

A new peer - reviewed study discredits findings of controversial research claiming that higher concentrations of dissolved methane in domestic water wells can be associated with proximity to nearby gas - producing wells in northeastern Pennsylvania — and it does so using a much larger sampling size and pre-drill baselines.

They emphasize the research needs to be replicated using a larger sample and follow up should determine how representative the six proteins are of those that might be unique in association with bipolar I.

The authors note that while the sample size of the meta - analyses was large (123,132 to 260,861 participants in different studies), they used only GWAS summary statistics and can not estimate all genetic variance factors; some studies also used different methodologies.

Then in 1990, after 15 years» work refining sample preparation and electron detection, Henderson succeeded in using an electron microscope to create an image of a large bacterial cell membrane protein called bacteriorhodopsin, and do it at atomic resolution.

«We hope that our work will provide the basis for a larger study of patient samples that may ultimately identify biomarkers that can be used as surrogate markers to determine the benefit of therapeutic interventions in diagnosed but asymptomatic HD patients to prevent or delay disease onset.»

In his empirical analyses using a large sample of firms for the period 1992 to 2014, Javakhadze found that CSR reduces a firm's overall performance and investment efficiency.

Using statistical tests, Kamangar combined the results from studies in the U.S., Europe, Iran, China and Japan to evaluate if H. pylori helps prevent either form of esophageal cancer in such a large and geographically diverse sample pool.

In a just - published paper, astronomers used a sample of 40,000 galaxies in the COSMOS field, a large and contiguous patch of sky with deep enough data to look at galaxies very far away, and with accurate distance measurements to individual galaxieIn a just - published paper, astronomers used a sample of 40,000 galaxies in the COSMOS field, a large and contiguous patch of sky with deep enough data to look at galaxies very far away, and with accurate distance measurements to individual galaxiein the COSMOS field, a large and contiguous patch of sky with deep enough data to look at galaxies very far away, and with accurate distance measurements to individual galaxies.

They found that one in five of a large random sample of male prisoners serving sentences in England and Wales used «hard» drugs — heroin, amphetamines or cocaine.

In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers used mitochondrial DNA microsatellites from skin samples gathered from more than 3,000 individual humpback whales across the Southern Hemisphere and the Arabian Sea to examine how whale populations are related to one another, a question that is difficult to answer with direct observations of whales in their oceanic environmenIn the largest study of its kind to date, researchers used mitochondrial DNA microsatellites from skin samples gathered from more than 3,000 individual humpback whales across the Southern Hemisphere and the Arabian Sea to examine how whale populations are related to one another, a question that is difficult to answer with direct observations of whales in their oceanic environmenin their oceanic environment.

«Although such differences may be a function of the large sample size and thus not clinically relevant, our findings suggest that use of ICSI may improve fertilization rates but not implantation or pregnancy rates in the setting of unexplained infertility, advanced maternal age, and low oocyte [a cell from which an egg develops] yield,» the authors write.

The study was supported by, and conducted in collaboration with Synairgen, a University of Southampton spin - out company, and formed part of U-BIOPRED, a large - scale European project using information and samples from adults and children to learn more about different types of asthma.

The scientist tested their set - up using frozen human skin cells, segments of pig heart tissue, and sections of pig arteries in volumes almost 20 times larger than previously attempted samples.

Those processes and others now being used by researchers are more time consuming, less reliable and require a larger sample than the 100 microliters used in the UT Arlington experiments, Schug said.

By making the sample physically larger, it can be imaged with very high resolution using ordinary microscopes commonly found in research labs.

The assay was implemented in five countries and tested using a large number of clinical samples from travelers and patients living in areas with a high level of exposure to Zika virus and other flaviviruses.

The UT research team has demonstrated how, using their nanotweezers, light can be used at the nanoscale in the same way mechanical tweezers are used to handle larger samples.

The assay was developed using detailed patient samples from Harris's collaborative studies in Nicaragua, a large step forward over previous studies.

Matt Taylor and his team have now made the most detailed studies so far of a sample of 125 globular star clusters around Centaurus A using the FLAMES instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in northern Chile [1].

The research team used observations from three large samples of typically developing youth in Canada and Europe.

Produced using cutting - edge methodology and the largest sample of individual early hominin fossils available, analysis of their results shows that early hominins were generally smaller than previously thought and that the increase in body size occurred not between australopiths and the origins of Homo but later with H. erectus (the first species widely found outside of Africa).

While ACME was built to accommodate small samples — the specimen used in this study was a tiny weed known as thale cress — it can readily be adapted for use with larger samples and different imaging systems.

The replication crisis refers to a growing concern in experimental psychology — and the larger scientific community — about the drop in studies able to confirm previous work with experiments that achieve the same results using the same methods, as well as the increased risk of data manipulation in studies with small sample sizes.

Zeggini believes that collaborations will become increasingly important in her field as researchers use ever - larger sample sizes and generate ever - larger volumes of genetic data.

The study's strengths, the authors wrote, include «the large sample size for both early and late postmenopausal women, the examination of multiple sex hormones in the same population, and the use of a comprehensive neuropsychological battery that allowed for the assessment of different cognitive domains.»

We will need to carry out further studies with larger sample sizes to confirm the current findings, but we hope that, used in conjunction with medication and current psychological therapies, this could help people with schizophrenia minimise the impact of their illness on everyday life.»

«Because the data sample was so large, it forced us to use statistically powerful analysis that could, in turn, measure properties in an unambiguous manner.

In this study, researchers used blood samples collected several years before breast cancer development from two large UK cohorts of women — the MRC National Survey of Health and Development and the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening.

Lars Berglund, a professor at Wallenberg Wood Science Center at KTH, says that while optically transparent wood has been developed for microscopic samples in the study of wood anatomy, the KTH project introduces a way to use the material on a large scale.

The multi-year sample is one of the largest to date used to look at depression in college athletes.

In 1999, after the samples used in Alperson's study were collected, the local drainage authority destroyed a large chunk of the sitIn 1999, after the samples used in Alperson's study were collected, the local drainage authority destroyed a large chunk of the sitin Alperson's study were collected, the local drainage authority destroyed a large chunk of the site.

With the small sample size of volunteers used in this activity, however, the results may not have been as pronounced as they would be in a much larger study.

Thus, our results showing no differences in D2 / D3 receptor availability (except for a trend in ventral striatum), using a larger sample (24 marijuana abusers) than that used for studies that identified reductions in striatal D2 / D3 receptors in alcoholics and cocaine abusers, indicate that marijuana abusers, different from other drug abusers, do not show significant striatal D2 / D3 receptor reductions.

A new study by researchers affiliated with New York University's Center for Drug Use and HIV Research (CDUHR), is now online ahead of print in Drug and Alcohol Dependence and it is one of the first national studies to examine risk factors for use of synthetic marijuana among a large, nationally representative sample of teeUse and HIV Research (CDUHR), is now online ahead of print in Drug and Alcohol Dependence and it is one of the first national studies to examine risk factors for use of synthetic marijuana among a large, nationally representative sample of teeuse of synthetic marijuana among a large, nationally representative sample of teens.

The scientists then used statistical models to evaluate the distribution of cancer - linked DNA in the patients» blood samples over the seven - year study to find the largest degree of differences between patients with low and high levels of evidence of hypermethylation in their DNA.

Finally, some researchers worry that even though these registries are supposed to reduce the number of animals in biomedical research, their labs may end up using more animals because they feel they need larger sample sizes to conduct more robust research as part of these registries.

In the largest sample size of any methane study performed to date, researchers used infrared technology to conduct an aerial survey of over 8,000 well pads in seven geologic basins to characterize the prevalence of «super emitters»In the largest sample size of any methane study performed to date, researchers used infrared technology to conduct an aerial survey of over 8,000 well pads in seven geologic basins to characterize the prevalence of «super emitters»in seven geologic basins to characterize the prevalence of «super emitters».

Using a newly assembled sample population called the Simons Simplex Collection which included about 1000 families, consisting of both birth parents and in most cases two children, one with ASD and the other unaffected, Wigler and colleagues saw the earlier - observed effect, only «this time on a much larger scale.»

«We will be able to link all of our group's discoveries using blood samples and clinical data from the extensive NHLBI - sponsored Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) cohort, a large longitudinal cohort established in 2000 to study factors contributing to cardiovascular disease progression.

To increase their odds of detecting these weak genetic signals, the team of researchers from Harvard / Massachusetts General Hospital, Pfizer Inc. and 23andMe Inc. adopted a strategy of studying much larger samples than had been used in the earlier studies.