Sentences with phrase «in pilot studies»

The program has shown promising results in pilot studies and is now tested in controlled trials in settings such as schools and educational institutions, adults diagnosed with ADHD, and children in care.

We are also providing emergency care to save suffering strays beginning with our Pilot Pups.Pilot Pups are strays we rescue and who then go on to play an important role in our Pilot Studies, also known as clinical trials.The Pilot Pups eat one serving of a formula — and we then adopt the pups into loving homes.

In the pilot studies carried out under the last Labour government, which saw all primary school children given free school meals in the London Borough of Newham and in Durham, those children who took part were found to be two months ahead of their peers academically, compared to those who had not received the meals.

«The most promising outcome of this study was the absolute change in liver fat that we were able to measure using advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods previously developed and validated in pilot studies conducted at the UC San Diego NAFLD Research Center.

That implies, Musil said, that grandmothers might be open to resourcefulness training, which has helped to reduce depressive symptoms in grandmothers in pilot studies conducted with Jaclene Zauszniewski.

In pilot studies, the procedure diagnosed allergies with 95 percent accuracy in both children and adults, a rate similar to that of food - challenge tests.

Originally, Silverman and Baumann planned to use only male rats in their pilot studies because the cost of including both sexes would be substantial; housing and feeding a single adult rat runs to more than a dollar a day.

The FBI's Jerome Pender told the Senate in July that the searchable photo database used in the pilot studies only includes mugshots of known criminals.

In pilot studies in France and Greece, the tool pinpointed patients with confirmed mild cognitive impairment 80 percent of the time.

The company has shown in pilot studies that the technology works, and it is on track to begin filing for approval with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in July.

In a pilot study, researchers will compare the skills, safety records, and performance of two groups of new drivers: those using virtual reality and those trained by traditional means.

Willansky - Traynor, P. Manassis, K., Monga, S. et al. «Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Depressed Youth: Predictors of Attendance in a Pilot Study.»

In this pilot study, we used simulation as a methodology with 2 aims as follows: first, to explore the use of simulation incorporating a standardized pregnant patient as an investigative methodology and, second, to determine similarities and differences in content and style of prenatal counseling between American and Dutch neonatologists.We compared counseling practice between 11 American and 11 Dutch neonatologists, using a simulation - based investigative methodology.

On average, the 33 doctors in the pilot study lost 2 hours and 48 minutes of sleep a week after their residency training began, due to high work load and frequent changes in their schedule that wreaked havoc on their sleep patterns.

The articles in the pilot study focused on the 1996 discovery of possibly fossilized extraterrestrial Martian microbes; the 2015 discovery of periodic dimming around Tabby's Star, thought to indicate the presence of an artificially constructed «Dyson sphere;» and the 2017 discovery of Earth - like exoplanets in the habitable zone of a star.

In a pilot study, Varnum and his colleagues analyzed language in newspaper articles about past potential extraterrestrial life discoveries.

Etzioni said the next step is to develop an interface and test the nomogram in a pilot study tentatively planned for later this year.

In a pilot study, South Carolina psychiatrist Michael Mithoefer is targeting PTSD with a controversial drug: methylenedioxymethamphetamine, or MDMA, commonly known as Ecstasy.

In a pilot study, a man whose quadriplegia kept his hands clenched was elated when, during therapy, he learned to play «Happy Birthday» for his grandson.

In this pilot study to test the safety of putting iPS - derived cells into humans, the six are all receiving a graft of new retinal pigment epithelial cells, which serve to maintain the eye's light - sensing cells.

The number of babies in this pilot study was very small: Just four received the gauze treatment, while another seven born by C - section did not.

That's the question a team of researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), is asking in a pilot study highlighted by White House officials last week.

In the pilot study, half of the animals were given a vitamin D3 - enriched food while half were given no supplementation.

In this pilot study, these molecular signatures are outperforming survey tools.»

In a pilot study that included children at high risk for type 1 diabetes, daily high - dose oral insulin, compared with placebo, resulted in an immune response to insulin without hypoglycemia, findings that support the need for a phase 3 trial to determine whether oral insulin can prevent islet autoimmunity and diabetes in high - risk children, according to a study in the April 21 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on child health.

But in a pilot study conducted on heavy smokers, 24 percent of those who received the NicVAX vaccine were smoke free for the last two months of the six - month study — double the quit rate of those who received placebo shots.

In this pilot study, 16 overweight and obese participants will be housed throughout the experiment in research facilities to ensure accurate assessments of calorie consumption and energy expenditure.

In a pilot study involving 13 patients with non-cardiac chest pain, Dr. Schey and his research team found that patients who were given 5 mg of dronabinol twice daily for four weeks fared better than patients who took a placebo, or dummy pill.

In the pilot study, published in today's Journal of Neural Engineering, participants» short - term memory performance showed a 35 to 37 percent improvement over baseline measurements.

In a pilot study reported last year in Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, the researchers assigned participants to either a control group or to six sessions of mindfulness - based therapy over three weeks.

He noted that most workers responded favorably to the new arrangement in the pilot study, especially younger employees, who don't see the corner office as a status symbol.

Participants in the pilot study were 20 patients with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), a complex painful illness, which often follows fractures or other injuries to the extremities.

In a pilot study conducted by scientists at the Ruhr - University Bochum, high frequency repetitive stimulation was investigated as a therapeutic approach for these patients.

- A simple checklist helped surgical teams cut death rates by nearly half and reduce major complications of surgery by more than a third in a pilot study at eight hospitals worldwide.

In the pilot study, recently published in the journal World Journal of Urology, this method has now been applied successfully at the Department of Urology at the Medical University of Vienna for the first time to the surgical treatment of complex renal tumors.

High concentrations of muconic acid — a degradation product of benzene (a volatile, toxic and carcinogenic compound)-- were detected in the urine of 29 pregnant women who participated in the pilot study.

Caron - Beaudoin and Verner have applied for funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to conduct a major study of 100 pregnant women, using the same research methodology as in their pilot study.

It will be performed for the first time in a pilot study on the International Space Station (ISS) on November 28.

In a pilot study, two quadriplegic patients underwent a 3 - hour surgery.

In a pilot study in 59 patients, it picked up early - stage pancreatic cancer in more than 90 per cent of cases (Nature Biomedical Engineering, doi.org/bzch).

These spectra were used in a pilot study to model cell wall sugar composition (Smith - Moritz AM, et al., 2011).

In this pilot study, we present an automated bioinformatics approach for the integration of WES with UM data from seven neurometabolic patients with known IEMs and 15 controls; our goal was to identify concordance between genetic and metabolomic dysregulation and illustrate the challenges and successes of combining such large datasets.

In a pilot study, these investigators examined the safety and feasibility of the protocol in a large number of patients from different institutions, and identified predictors of the clinical response to the treatment.

In a pilot study, the «PapGene» test accurately detected 100 percent (24 of 24) of endometrial cancers and 41 percent (9 of 22) ovarian cancers.

In this pilot study, recipients and donors will be asked whether they would consider participation in this research protocol before any work - up as a direct donor has begun.

In a pilot study conducted at BWH that helped inform the design of the BabySeq Project, parents of healthy newborns were asked on the BWH post-partum unit how interested they would be in genome screening of their newborn if available through a research study.

The program began at Children's in 2008, in a pilot study sponsored by CRICO.

The baseline that was observed in the original study eight days after inoculation (~ 2 × 106 bioluminescence) was not observed until day 27 post-inoculation in the pilot study.

In a pilot study involving 36 patients with type 2 diabetes, researchers found that three months of treatment with berberine had a similar hypoglycemic effect as the popular diabetes drug metformin.

Maca Reduces Blood Pressure and Depression, in a Pilot Study in Postmenopausal Women.