Sentences with phrase «investigated whether the individuals»

Thus, so far, it has never been investigated whether individuals in clinical trials experiencing side effects from antidepressant medication, and for this reason may have guessed that they have not received placebo, also respond more favorably to treatment than those without side effects.

«The participants in our sample didn't develop eating disorder diagnoses within the two year period that we studied them, but this study suggests that future research should investigate whether individuals with greater central fat stores are more likely to develop bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder.»

A group of researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at Illinois, led by psychology professor Aron Barbey and postdoctoral researcher Tanveer Talukdar, investigated whether individual differences in brain connectivity were associated with decision - making, using functional MRI and a comprehensive test of decision - making.

To investigate whether individuals treated with statins experienced a decreased risk of bloodstream infection by S. aureus, researchers from the University Hospitals in Aalborg and Aarhus, Denmark and the University Hospital in Seville, Spain analyzed records of close to 30,000 people using Danish medical registries over a 12 - year period.

This study investigated whether individuals living in areas with higher proportions of outdoor food advertising, compared to those in living in areas with lower amounts, have greater odds of obesity and a higher rate of soda consumption.

This paper investigates whether individuals feel worse off when others around them earn more.

The aim of the present study is to investigate whether individual schema therapy is an effective treatment for older adults with borderline personality disorder (BPD).

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«We investigate whether emotional shocks, experienced by a highly - educated group of individuals, have any impact on these individuals» professional behavior which, by law, should be free of personal feelings and biases,» says the report.

«The FBI, as part of our counterintelligence mission, is investigating the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government, and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia's efforts,» Comey said.

But whatever the individual circumstances of the cases being investigated, the common thread is determining whether or not there was any violation or pattern of violations of federal law.

Mr Cable continued: «We therefore believe that the police should investigate this matter fully and the crown prosecution service (CPS) should make an assessment as to whether charges should be brought against those individuals who are implicated in what looks like criminal behaviour.»

However, the Electoral Commission is investigating whether the two organisations were completely separate, with individual strategies and organisation.

The U.S. Attorney and Manhattan DA are investigating whether the office of New York City Mayor Bill deBlasio knowingly violated campaign contribution laws by funneling donations for some upstate Senate races through county committees, which can accept donations 10 times higher than the limits on an individual Senate candidate.

After a lengthy public discussion on the merits of cluing the public and press in on what exactly is being investigating and whether individual votes should be made known, the ethics watchdog emerged to say very little.

«Among other factors we will be investigating is whether an individual's microbiota affects the risk of contracting cholera, information that could help us better understand risk factors for the disease.»

While several studies in the intervening years have investigated whether particular genes were responsible for modifying HD onset, this is the first to employ genome - wide association (GWA) analysis, which scans an individual's whole genome to identify chromosomal regions containing variants that are associated with the disease traits that are being studied.

This study investigated whether children whose mothers had an alcohol - related disorder would be at risk of early - life contact with the justice system, which can lead to many negative outcomes across an individual's life span.

Glendon Parker and his team therefore investigated whether the protein found in human hair could offer another tool for identifying individuals in forensic or archaeology scenarios.

As such, the team has investigated a small cohort of individuals in this sector to see whether or not there are benefits to standing workstations.

The researchers plan to investigate what percentage of individuals individuals with intellectual disability and autism may carry CC2D1A mutations and to determine whether other genes affect neurons in a similar fashion.

In another mHealth study that highlighted the role that online social networks can have on wellness, Arriaga, Georgia Tech Regents Professor of Interactive Computing Gregory Abowd and graduate student Hwajung Hong investigated whether social networking could help individuals with autism improve their social connectedness.

In order to work out which is the chicken and which is the egg, i.e. whether the epigenetic changes are a consequence of the disease or if the disease is a result of the changes, the researchers also investigated whether healthy individuals had epigenetic changes caused by age, BMI and raised blood sugar levels.

OBJECTIVE To use functional MRI (fMRI) to investigate whether hippocampal activation during a memory task can predict cognitive decline in individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

Here, we investigate whether the contemporary HG strategy was already present in the Upper Paleolithic (UP), using complete genome sequences from Sunghir, a site dated to ~ 34 thousand years BP (kya) containing multiple anatomically modern human (AMH) individuals.

This report recommends further research to investigate the question of whether the certification process itself makes teachers more effective — as they become familiar with the standards and complete the assessment — or if high - quality teachers are attracted to the certification process, as well as to determine whether NBPTS certification is having broader effects on the educational system beyond individual classrooms.

In the present study, I investigate: 1) How children develop the ability to consider the nature of knowledge within the context of conversation; 2) Whether improved epistemological understanding supports children's critical thinking in informal social learning; 3) Whether cognitive self - control and verbal IQ moderate or mediate epistemological development; and 4) Whether individual differences in epistemological understanding relate to parent characteristics.

In the July 2010 version of their paper entitled «Hedge Fund Predictability Under the Magnifying Glass: The Economic Value of Forecasting Individual Fund Returns», Doron Avramov, Laurent Barras and Robert Kosowski investigate whether investors can exploit the predictability of individual hedge funIndividual Fund Returns», Doron Avramov, Laurent Barras and Robert Kosowski investigate whether investors can exploit the predictability of individual hedge funindividual hedge fund returns.

With this project, we investigate whether there are any links between the artists» individual practices and these valued objects, which have been entrusted to us for the exhibition.

As you acknowledge: «it would be worth investigating whether some of the individual realisations preserve [the cycle in d2T / dt2].»

In multiple U.S. states and territories — including New York, California, Massachusetts and the Virgin Islands — state Attorneys General are investigating Exxon's depth of knowledge regarding the climate impacts of burning fossil fuels, and whether the company broke the law by fueling anti-science campaigns through corporate contributions to organizations and individuals working to sow doubt and confusion about global warming.

This study investigates whether providing locally - focused vs. globally - focused information about the effects of climate change influences the personal perceived risk (PPR) of individual people.

A new triage step must be added to the analysis of the investigation process to determine whether there is any potential individual wrongdoing that should be investigated and disclosed.

If a client has already been interviewed by company counsel, individual counsel should seek to obtain the substance of that interview and investigate whether a proper warning under Upjohn was given and whether the warning was adequately documented.

Yet, regulatory bodies, especially in Canada, would at minimum seek to investigate whether that was in fact the unauthorized practice of law — meaning work that should be completed either by a law firm or individual lawyer.

This appeal considered whether there is an obligation under the Human Rights Act 1998, s 6, read with ECHR, art 3, to investigate ill - treatment which has been perpetrated by a private individual without any complicity of a public authority, and / or whether in the case of such ill - treatment any positive obligation is confined to a requirement to put in place the necessary structure to enable such investigation to be conducted but does not extend to the conduct of an individual investigation into a particular alleged crime.

Europe Our European practice has recently focused on representing (i) the Fédération Internationale de Football Association («FIFA») in connection with U.S. and Swiss criminal investigations into allegations of bribery and corruption in the international soccer world («Investigation»), including conducting an internal investigation on behalf of the organization; (ii) two major European banks, including by investigating whether the banks knew or should have known that accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes; (iii) a multinational logistics and transportation company based in Switzerland in a DOJ investigation of alleged violations of the FCPA; (iv) a Switzerland - based, international private bank, in connection with the global criminal investigations involving 1MDB, Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund; (v) several major European banks in connection with the «Panama Papers» investigation focused on whether accounts at the bank held under the names of companies created by the Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, were used to evade taxes, conduct business with sanctioned individuals or companies, or otherwise engage in criminal activity; (vi) ENRC, a large mining conglomerate formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange, in a high - profile investigation by the UK's Serious Fraud Office of alleged bribery in the company's operations in Africa and Kazikhstan; and (vii) several European banks in connection with the Petrobras and PdVSA investigations focused on whether accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes to Petrobras or PdVSA officials in return for contracts.

«The government is investigating into cryptocurrency exchanges to examine whether trading platforms have violated their own terms and conditions by establishing a limit on withdrawals of individual investors.»

Furthermore, it would be important to investigate whether naturally occurring individual differences in maternal care are associated with offspring individual differences across diverse psychological functional domains.

Unwanted pursuit behaviors — which include relatively innocuous behaviors, such as gift - giving or exaggerated displays of affection, as well as more serious types of intrusions, such as stalking or threats of physical violence — occur relatively frequently following relationship breakups.1 Recently, researchers at Ghent University examined the circumstances under which unwanted pursuit behaviors are especially likely to occur.2 Using a sample of 396 divorced individuals, they investigated whether certain breakup characteristics (most notably, who initiated the separation) predict the frequency of post-divorce unwanted pursuit behaviors.

This study investigates whether depressive symptoms are associated with reduced physical activity (PA) in individuals at high risk of developing CVD.

Objective: To investigate whether long - term use of an ergonomic keyboard was effective in reducing symptom severity and improving functional status for individuals who experience symptoms of work related upper extremity disorders (WRUED).

Specifically, the present study investigated whether exposure to acute psychosocial stress influences general emotion recognition, and further investigated whether this enhancement pattern is unified across emotions, or differentiated to facial expressions associated with potential threat signals to the individual.

Recent attention also has been devoted to investigating whether there are morphologic differences between the brain structures of individuals with ADHD relative to their normally developing peers.

The causal pathway, whether secure - preoccupied attachment is an important feature of individuals who choose to remain in their country of birth, or whether the attachment is formed subsequent to prolonged residence in one's community, and thus nation of origin, is an intriguing one, which is yet to be investigated.

The aim of the current study was to investigate potential risk factors for the development of comorbid ODD in individuals with ADHD (ADHD + ODD), and to identify whether risk factors differed for individuals with ADHD - only and individuals with ADHD + ODD.

Remind buyers to investigate whether borrowing from their Individual Retirement Accounts can help generate cash for a down payment.