Sentences with phrase «individual study using»

There is renewed interest in cooperative learning, classroom discussions and individual study using books and magazines, so I believe we shall see some kind of educational renaissance soon in Finland.

Not exact matches

Regarding intensity, a study published in PLOS ONE found that workout intensity was not affected for individuals talking on the phone, compared to those not using a cell phone, but when it came to texting, workout intensity was significantly lower.

One reason we used individual - level data in our peer - reviewed studies was to avoid the problem of the ecologic fallacy.

Among the existing programs are the HealthKit framework for developing apps, ResearchKit for using mobile devices in medical studies, and CareKit for helping individuals improve their own medical care.

Any Canadian — whether an individual flying in their backyard or an employee of a company using it for business purposes — would do well to study up on the do's and don'ts first.

One of the group's studies showed that «individuals who were clinically obese according to their medical records were significantly more likely to use words related to being stationary: «sitting, being still, planted, at rest; these sorts of things,»» according the the Lab's director Raina Merchant.

Or, as cognitive scientist Stephanie Braccini and colleagues put it in a Journal of Human Evolution study, «a strengthening of individual asymmetry [may have] started as soon as early hominins assumed a habitual upright posture during tool use or foraging».

The purpose of using these opposing studies is to state that optimal productivity hours depend on each individual.

It is accessible to individual labour activists who wish to deepen their understanding of the role of unions — both inside and outside the workplace — and should be widely adopted for use in post-secondary labour studies courses and union educational programs.

As a result, I revised Article 4.1 to cite instead a review by Vanguard using a Morningstar study for the differences between individual investor returns and the returns of the funds themselves.

On February 24th, the New York - based drug giant announced that Prevenar 13, a drug widely used to prevent infection in children, met its primary endpoint in a post-approval study consisting of 85,000 individuals aged 65 and older.

Study of how individuals, businesses and governments use their limited resources to satisfy unlimited wants.

The social science that studies how individuals, firms, governments, and other organizations make choices, and how those choices determine the way the resources of society are used.

The study of how individuals and societies choose to allocate scarce productive resources among competing alternative uses and to distribute the products from these uses among the members of the society.

Using Biblical software can be a tremendous help for both individual Bible study, and preparing for sermons, Small Groups, Sunday School, and the like.

Resources they currently use: If the individual has some books that they constantly use, as part of their Bible study, then I write them down, and match them to the packages offered for the various programs.

The evangelists are genuinely authors, authors using traditional material but nonetheless authors: they write for a definite purpose, they give their work a distinct and individual structure, they have thematic concerns which they pursue, the characters in the story they each tell function as protagonists in a plot, and so on... If the evangelists are authors, then they must be studied as authors, and they must be studied as other authors are studied.

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The mixed - design ANOVA model (PROC MIXED) was used to test the differences in glucose and insulin AUCi, measured meal GI and GL, calculated meal GI and GL, and II values in food challenges in each individual study.

With absolutely no indication about the quality of the studies (and methods used) in each individual study, readers have no way of assessing the quality of the larger systematic review.

For example, one study found that using a blanket that was at least 10 percent of the individual's body weight produces calming, beneficial benefits and helped improve sleep in individuals with insomnia.

To estimate additional resource use not captured on an individual level in the cohort study, we developed supplemental data collection forms after five focus groups held with midwives from all parts of England early in the project.

The workbook has been very helpful to individuals and used by local facilitators to guide parent study groups.»

One of the study's shortcomings, the FDA said, was that it used a mixture of color additives and the preservative sodium benzoate, making it impossible to know which individual additive was responsible for the effect.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

We have therefore updated our review in an attempt to address these issues, using, insofar as possible, data provided by the authors of individual studies, to establish with greater precision the strength of the relation between infant feeding and blood cholesterol.

«With Tasers, from looking at research and articles and studies, there have been many individuals who have died through the use of Tasers.

The study (by Morning Consult, a polling and media company) found that, when randomly choosing which method to use to poll individuals:

And recently, the group has begun a clinical study to predict, after one treatment, how an individual's cancer will progress, and use that prediction to plan the future course of treatment.

But neuroscientists, using animal studies, have been making substantial progress in understanding how individual memories are encoded in the brain.

The researchers reached these conclusions by performing a meta - analysis combining individual participant data from 18 prospective studies that measured hormonal contraceptive use and incident HIV infection among women aged 15 - 49 years living in sub-Saharan Africa.

«All of you can be individual opinion - leaders,» with the use of social media, said Matthew Nisbet, associate professor of communication studies at Northeastern University and a science communication researcher at AAAS.

«This analysis is different because it allowed us to use each individual subject as his or her own comparison — we retrospectively studied how patients behaved when on Tamiflu and compared it to their behavior when they were not taking the drug.»

Richard Jones, M.D., professor and director of the Bone Marrow Transplant Program at Johns Hopkins, developed a now commonly used assay to study ALDH levels in individual cells.

University of Vermont hematologist Mary Cushman and her colleagues used data from a national study called REGARDS, which has been following 30,239 African - American and Caucasian individuals older than 45 since 2007.

The researchers said the main goals of their study were to better understand generational differences related to tablet use and to predict individuals» behavioral intention to use the devices.

The study found that, on average, an individual microwave appliance uses 573 kilowatt hour (kWh) of electricity over its lifetime of eight years.

The authors write that their study «provides reassurance that the individual risk of long - term opioid use in opioid - naive surgical patients is low.

Using his new technique to study wild animals, Amos has found that inbreeding could be more important in determining an individual's chances of survival than random factors such as environmental change.

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.

Using an approach called a genome - wide association study, researchers scanned complete sets of DNA in thousands of participants, looking for small variations that appear more often in people with the disease than in healthy individuals.

If future similar studies can further expand and eventually provide a brain - based predictive best - therapy option for individual patients, it would dramatically decrease unnecessary exposure of patients to ineffective therapies and decrease the duration and magnitude of pain suffering and opioid use, Baliki and Apkarian said.

Researchers say further study is needed using individual patient - level data among men with high risk prostate cancer to assess the benefit of HRT and whether treatment toxicity, particularly those to the bladder and urinary system are also low with HRT.

«Previous studies of the impacts of drought on flowers and bees have looked at individual species, often in the laboratory, but we used an experiment with rain shelters to examine the effects on real communities of plant species living in chalk grassland,» said Dr Ellen Fry from the University of Manchester, who set up the experiment.

«Using imaging tests to detect disease in carotid or coronary arteries before it causes symptoms can better identify healthy individuals at increased risk than our current, traditional risk assessment methods,» says the study's principal investigator Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, Director of Mount Sinai Heart and Physician - in - Chief of The Mount Sinai Hospital.

The study found that an estimated two - thirds of individuals with self - reported diabetes receive an annual dilated eye examination, and those annual use estimates are even lower among African - Americans.

Pooling massive amounts of data allows patterns and trends to emerge that aren't apparent in small, individual studies, and the applications are virtually infinite — think Moneyball, the 2003 best - selling book about how the perennially cash - strapped Oakland A's used analytics and baseball stats to scout overlooked talent.

For the study, researchers used a sample of 1,502 individuals in 884 families in the United Kingdom.

A study in the Journal of Neuroscience in February bolsters this idea using rare individuals with «mirror - touch synesthesia.»

Two study aims were to use novel whole - genome sequence data to (1) study possible correlations between language groups and genetic clustering, and (2) investigate the ancestral compositions of these individuals, including maternal and paternal lineages.