A recent US meta analysis of 20
individual studies conducted by Connecticut University found that regular meditation produced slower heart and breathing rates, improved blood flow and decreased the chance of suffering from depression and mental health issues.
Not exact matches
This was the largest
study of angel investment returns ever
conducted, analyzing results from 86 organized angel investor groups throughout the United States, involving 539
individual angel group investors who have experienced more than 1,130 exits in which investment - receiving companies were acquired, went public, or were closed.
Studies conducted during the 1950s and early 1960s often took an optimistic view of economic development and, in keeping with this outlook, showed how traditional religions were adapting to westernization and saw value in the accompanying cultural shifts toward rationalization and
individual piety.
Later he focused on one program, the 700 Club,
conducting extensive interviews with twenty
individuals or couples that the
study identified as heavy viewers.
A
study conducted at the Antioxidants Research Laboratory at Tufts University showed that pecan nuts can reduce cardiometabolic risk factors in older and overweight
individuals.
But I also find it useful, every once in a while, to think about the
individual people who
conducted these
studies: the doctors or psychologists or social workers who went in to an orphanage in Russia or an impoverished neighborhood in Jamaica or a high school in Chicago or a living room in Queens and said, in essence, I want to help.
In fact, several
studies conducted over the past several years have shown that
individuals that started taking insulin gained an average of 3.5 pounds.
In an editorial accompanying the
study, Russell Pate and Dr. Jennifer O'Neil of the Department of Exercise Science at the University of South Carolina said the
study showed the «need to learn ways in which the doses of physical activity provided during youth sports and activity programs can be most effectively increased by modifying the manner in which the practices and contests are
conducted... [such as] by changes in instructional practices that produce greater emphasis on keeping youth active while they learn
individual skills and team strategies.»
* And in the largest and possible most systematic
study to date,
conducted on five different ethnic groups from both Chicago and New York involving over 1,400 subjects Mosenkis (2000) found far more positive adult outcomes for
individuals who coslept as a child, among almost all ethnic groups i.e. African Americans and Puerto Ricans in New York, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and Mexicans in Chicago than there were negative findings.
A recent UK
study [8] covering a limited selection of these costs suggested that by age 28, costs for
individuals with a clinical diagnosis of
conduct disorder were 10.0 times higher than for those with no problems (CI: 3.6 to 20.9) and costs for those with
conduct problems not meeting diagnostic criteria were 3.5 times higher (CI: 1.7 to 6.2).
Therefore, future
studies should
conduct qualitative research among focus groups or
individuals from multiple practices to gain insight into other important aspects.
More than 1,000 delegates voted to adopt a resolution which noted that «
studies conducted by prominent researchers and renowned education experts show that
individual merit pay plans have not helped to significantly improve student achievement in any of the United States school districts where they have been implemented.»
For the
study and to quantify the socioeconomic burden of this disease, the researchers
conducted a web - based survey (674 out of 956
individuals completed the survey) to characterize the patient and caregiver experience with FTD - related resource use, health - related quality of life, and per - patient annual costs.
It should be noted that this
study was
conducted with healthy young
individuals, to reduce the confounding influence of insulin resistance, beta - cell dysfunction, and medications, so more research is required to know whether it will apply to people with prediabetes, type 2 diabetes and obesity.
The meta - analysis examined 394 non-cancer, phase I
studies comprising 11,028 healthy, compensated, voluntary participants (4,620 unique
individuals, some of whom participated in more than one
study)
conducted between September 2004 and March 2011 at Pfizer Inc.'s three worldwide dedicated phase I testing sites in Belgium, Singapore and the United States.
Building on the newly - published pilot
study, the team will
conduct experiments using a windtunnel which measures the behaviour of mosquitoes towards odours and electrodes which track the response of
individual odour - detecting cells from within the antenna of the mosquito in specially - designed secure laboratories at the School to measure the responses of malaria - infected Anopheles gambiae s.s. females to human odours.
Independent of these preclinical
studies, Clementia Pharmaceuticals is currently
conducting phase 2 clinical trials in
individuals with FOP, based on the 2011 preclinical results published by Pacifici and Iwamoto.
By only analysing DNA sequences that bind to cohesin, roughly one per cent of the genome, it would allow us to analyse an
individual's mutations and make it much easier to
conduct studies to identify novel harmful mutations,» Martin Enge concludes.
The work is a synthesis of data from 10
studies conducted by the ACT Consortium in five sub-Saharan countries and Afghanistan between 2007 and 2013, covering 562,368
individual patient visits — an «extraordinary» number, says Patricia Walker, president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, which published the paper online yesterday.
Brill and his research colleagues — Peter Bushnell of Indiana University South Bend; Timothy Elton of Bangor University, Wales; and Hamish Small of VIMS —
conducted their
studies using «automated intermittent - flow respirometry,» in which
individual crabs are placed in a closed container and their oxygen usage measured every second using fiberoptic and fluorescent sensors.
After receiving her PharmD degree at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, Yasuda became an instructor and eventually an assistant professor at the Georgetown University Medical Center, where she
conducted phenotypic
studies to determine how well
individuals metabolized certain compounds.
In order to explore the factors that hinder and help
individuals transition from long - term residential substance abuse treatment centers to the community, Dr. Manuel and her collaborators, Dr. Obie Nichols and Ms. Erin Palmer, from Services for the UnderServed, Inc., (SUS)
conducted a qualitative socio - ecological model - based
study, «Barriers and Facilitators to Successful Transition from Long - Term Residential Substance Abuse Treatment,» the findings of which were recently presented at the 2016 Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Providers of New York State conference.
A 2012 brain - imaging
study conducted by Eccles and her colleagues found that
individuals with joint hypermobility had a bigger amygdala, a part of the brain that is essential to processing emotion, especially fear.
Researchers of the
study - published in the latest issue of Journal of General Management -
conducted extensive interviews with senior
individuals at ten major London - based national and international executive search firms to find out how they identify suitable candidates for CEO posts.
The
study,
conducted at 19 German tertiary care centers (2006 - 2012), included 1,176
individuals for analysis of long - term functional outcome, 853 for analysis of hematoma enlargement, and 719 for analysis of OAC resumption.
Cognitive symptoms, including deficits in long - term memory, are known to affect approximately half of
individuals with MS.. This
study was
conducted in 70 patients with MS, who were evaluated for intellectual enrichment, verbal long - term memory, and working memory capacity.
To
conduct the
study, Clark and Berdanier analyzed data dating back to 1993 on the annual growth rates of 28,879
individual trees from 35 species growing at the Duke University Forest in North Carolina's Piedmont, and at the Coweeta Long Term Ecological Research site in the state's western mountains.
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.
After that, using a methodology known as multilevel analysis, they
conducted an analysis of group and
individual variables, simultaneously
studying peer attachment and group emotional intelligence.
It draws on data from the Fast Track Project, a longitudinal
study of the development of
conduct problems that has followed 891
individuals in four different locales from kindergarten into adulthood.
In their new Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
study, the researchers
conducted a series of experiments that included male and female university undergraduates as well as a set of subjects recruited using Amazon's «Mechanical Turk,» a tool in which
individuals are compensated for completing small tasks and is frequently used in running behavioral science
studies.
«This kind of
study has not been
conducted before because it requires long - term data from a large number of
individuals,» says Logan.
«Fingerprinting on computers is invisible to most people but there are companies out there who are already using these techniques to learn more information about
individuals, about their interests and their habits,» says Lachlan Kang, a Computer Science PhD student who is
conducting this
study as part of a wider project on privacy, within the University's Schools of Computer Science and Mathematical Sciences.
«However, previous
studies have been
conducted in selected samples of
individuals.
Previous genetic
studies have examined the association of aspirin, NSAIDs, or both with colorectal cancer according to a limited number of candidate genes or pathways.6 - 10 Thus, to comprehensively identify common genetic markers that characterize
individuals who may obtain differential benefit from aspirin and NSAIDs, we
conducted a discovery - based, genome - wide analysis of gene × environment interactions between regular use of aspirin, NSAIDs, or both and single - nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in relation to risk of colorectal cancer.
Through crowdsourcing — an open call for voluntary assistance from a large group of
individuals — Americans can
study and tackle complex challenges by
conducting research at large geographic scales and over long periods of time in ways that professional scientists working alone can not easily duplicate.
Generational
studies of the offspring of the flies that traveled to space will be
conducted, which will help reveal the impact space travel could have for
individuals considering having children.
The
study, «A Multi-Center Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Intermittent Hypoxia Therapy in
Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI),» is being
conducted by an experienced team of scientists and clinicians at three leading SCI rehabilitation institutions: Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (lead investigator, William Zev Rymer, MD, PhD), Kessler Foundation (Gail Forrest, PhD; Steven Kirshblum, MD), and the University of Miami (Monica A. Perez, PT, PhD).
As expected, the
study conducted by the Department of Sport, Exercise and Health at the University of Basel, the Institute of Stress Medicine, and Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg illustrates that stressed
individuals exhibit higher values of most cardiovascular risk factors.
A new
study conducted by researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology suggests that a specific type of cell known as a speed cell allow
individuals to moderate how fast or how slow they move.
Very little is known about the large - scale brain networks that may underlie the cognitive and behavioral symptoms of FXS.To identify large - scale, resting - state networks in FXS that differ from control
individuals matched on age, IQ, and severity of behavioral and cognitive symptoms.Cross - sectional, in vivo neuroimaging
study conducted in an academic medical center.
Armed with this knowledge, and the results of an initial feasibility
study, the Dream Team will
conduct a clinical trial to evaluate if personalized therapy, based on the genetic profile of each
individual patient's cancer, improves outcomes.
Expression
studies were
conducted using complementary DNA (cDNA) obtained from the parietal lobes of 82 AD cases and 39 cognitively normal
individuals (CDR score = 0) obtained through the WU - ADRC Neuropathology Core.
We
conducted a
study of 960 melanoma patients (cases) and 687
individuals without melanoma (controls) in Northern England, a region with low sun exposure, to investigate this.
Methods: We used
individual level cross-sectional data on 24181 participants aged ⩾ 15 years from 17
studies conducted between 1990 and 2014 in eight countries in SSA.
In a recent
study published in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation, researchers
conducted a series of experiments on
individuals between the ages of 45 and 64 who were healthy but otherwise sedentary.
Throughout the
study, the researchers also
conducted an eating frequency sub
study in which the 27
individuals on both normal protein and high protein diets ate either 3 or 6 meals each day.
If a women carries both genes that reduce this conversion, she can have a one - third to two - third reduction in the ratio of retinyl palmitate (active vitamin A) to beta - carotene circulating in her blood.27
Studies conducted by scientists with the USDA Agricultural Research Service confirm that 45 percent of
individuals can not achieve adequate vitamin A status from beta - carotene alone.28, 29
A 2005
study conducted by Sweden's Karolinska Institute showed that in
individuals who had a waist size larger than 39 inches, half of the participants had insulin resistance.
For example, in a recent
study conducted at Baylor University, resistance trained
individuals who utilized a whey / casein combination gained five pounds (5 lbs) more muscle after 10wks versus subjects using whey alone.