Sentences with phrase «kind of controlled study»

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More research is needed to rule out this second scenario, but the idea of being kind to yourself about occasional lapses in productivity or self - control — especially if you're the type to beat yourself up for every dip in productivity — has been endorsed by previous studies.

The sobering implications of these controlled studies for pastoral care elicited a substantial shift of direction for me toward the kind of critique of pychotherapeutic assumptions that was already being developed by Thomas Szasz, O. H. Mowrer, Hans Eysenck, and William Schofield.5

At first, the studies originally done claimed some kind of statistical significance, however when the studies were re-done under more tighter controlled conditions, there was no apparent results that would indicate prayer to be any more effective than anything else.

In a first - of - its - kind study, Scott's twin brother, former astronaut Mark Kelly, remained on Earth to serve as a human control for the experiment.

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Studies suggest that kind of prolonged exposure to high temperatures increases the risk of death for vulnerable groups like the elderly, said Rebecca Noe, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In a study of 78 children whose doctors had recommended tonsillectomies to treat sleep - disordered breathing and 27 who were scheduled for other kinds of surgery, Chervin's group found that not only did the tonsil kids have a higher incidence of ADHD than the control group but that a year after the surgery their behavior and concentration had significantly improved.

«It's a random - assignment, placebo - controlled study, the best kind of study there is,» Seligman says.

That kind of analysis requires the direct study of the reactions in a controlled laboratory setting, and that kind of work is ongoing, in Kroll's MIT lab and elsewhere.

Another problem is that modeling studies, like this one, are inherently less powerful than other kinds of medical research: randomized clinical trials, the gold standard in medical research, in which patients are randomly assigned different treatments or no treatment; case - control studies, which compare patients who have a condition with those who do not; or cohort studies, which determine the risk of contracting a disease by studying a group of people with similar demographics.

The first of its kind, the study applies the method of field experiments, or randomized controlled trials, to the question of how effective PES is.

In the largest study of its kind, using Centers for Disease Control data on nearly 14 million linked infant birth and neonatal death data, term singleton U.S. births, researchers at New York - Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center found the absolute risk of neonatal mortality was 3.2 / 10,000 births in midwife hospital births, and 12.6 / 10,000 births in midwife home births, and it further increased in first - time mothers to 21.9 / 10,000 births in midwife home deliveries.

A new brain imaging study by Josh Greene and Joe Paxton at Harvard University published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that what separates the well - behaved from the poorly - behaved might not be the ability to control your temptations but rather what kind of temptations you have.

The UI study, which was the largest of its kind in the world to date, recruited and assessed 95 pathological gamblers and 91 control subjects, matched for age, sex, and level of education, from Iowa, as well as 1,075 first - degree adult relatives of the study participants (first - degree relatives include parents, siblings, and children.)

Studying these mechanisms provided the researchers with «a source of variation that we think is effectively random,» says Doyle, adding that it represents «hopefully a better apples - to - apples comparison» of patients than prior studies that did not try to control for differences in which kinds of patients visit which hospitals.

The study explains that if the elites of a city had control over a resource, they presumably had some kind of control over the populations that obtained and manually transported it.

The study is believed to be the first and largest, multicenter, double - blind, randomized controlled trial of its kind to investigate the use of sublingual immunotherapy against ragweed allergy.

«In a nutshell: Walnuts activate brain region involved in appetite control: First - of - its - kind study reveals mechanism of walnuts» documented ability to decrease hunger.»

In one of the largest, longest, and most controlled studies of its kind, researchers investigated whether the emotional state of cancer patients has any relationship to their survival.

«This is the first study of its kind to show that if patients enrolled in intensive lifestyle intervention treatments aren't successful in losing weight after the first two months of treatment, they aren't likely to be successful using this approach alone long - term,» said lead author Jessica L. Unick, PhD, of the Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center, The Miriam Hospital and Brown Medical School, Providence, RI.

More to the point, few of these studies have yet to be replicated, and most of them rely on a handful of unrepresentative people (US undergrads) who are asked to undertake the kind of lab - controlled tasks that usually share a questionable (at best) relationship with real world activities.

The study was based on a massive linkage of different kinds of records from the California Birth Master Files for 1997 through 2007, the California Department of Developmental Services autism caseload for 1997 through 2011, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National ART Surveillance System for live births in 1997 through 2007.

The three institutions are part of a first - of - its - kind study to research and test the concept of «transaction - based» energy management, which combines financial signals and dynamic control technologies to shift the timing and quantity of energy usage in devices, buildings and campuses to increase efficiency and reduce costs, while also providing flexibility for the power grid.

Family studies, case - control studies, and population cohorts are picking up this kind of signal everywhere.

The study done at PNNL — which is the first of its kind — provides fundamental knowledge that allows researchers to control the synthesis of gold particles or other nanosized clusters in a more rational manner.

1/28/2008 Researchers Map Signaling Networks that Control Neuron Function Relationship between Thousands of Proteins at Work in the Brain Could Impact Diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's Disease, and Spinal Cord Injury In the first large - scale proteomics study of its kind, researchers at the University of California... More...

ENCODE has laid a foundation for these kinds of studies by examining more than 140 of the hundreds of cell types found in the human body and identifying many of the cell type - specific control elements.

With the ability to integrate these data sets in a tightly linked, highly annotated manner, Labmatrix has the kind of flexibility, security and data access control today's scientists require for information management of biomarker discovery, next generation biobanking, pre-clinical and clinical studies and translational research efforts.

The Kind group uses these techniques to study the role of genome architecture and chromatin context in temporal and spatial control of gene expression in development and disease.

Technical introductions to advanced nanotechnology have emphasized theoretical studies of what our current knowledge of physics and chemistry tells us about the kinds of systems we will eventually be able to build as our ability to control the structure of matter at the nanometer scale increases.

May 2, 2011 Insomnia linked to high insulin resistance in diabetics In the largest study of its kind to establish a link between sleep and diabetes, researchers found that people with diabetes who sleep poorly have higher insulin resistance, and a harder time controlling the disease.

This is the largest study of its kind to date, according to Barr, who researched pesticides for more than 20 years in her previous job with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) but was not involved in the study.

hello mr lowfat now lot's of expert's disagree with the lipid hypothesis coz when the expert's did studys to prove saturated fat causes heart disease they found there is no link between sat fats and disease not only that u have to look at the kind of study coz almost all observational studys don't prove anything coz they don't find a link but a clinical study actually is well controlled and does find a link i'm done

It also makes me think of how the calorie theory has been proven by similar kinds of studies in which diet is totally controlled.

One fateful evening, some kind of humanoid aquatic creature arrives for study, hauled in by a nefarious government agent played with controlled gonzo by Michael Shannon.

Any movie like this made for the most part since the 1980s would talk the talk about showing the changes, but not show it, show it badly and / or be more sexually oppressed than not, but Russell has zero trouble from this first film he had control over himself dealing with all kinds of human sexuality, yet that freedom is incidental to character study, capturing the story and bringing it to life as he does so well here.

The heart of the initiative is the largest study of its kind, a randomized controlled trial that seeks to determine what works and what doesn't in implementing high - quality summer learning programs, as well as the impact the programs have on students.

The first of its kind, this teacher evaluation model is not only based on studies that correlate instructional strategies to student achievement, but is also grounded on experimental / control studies that establish a direct causal link between elements of the model and student results.

A press conference in Washington, D.C. in April provided the setting for an announcement by the Human - Animal Bond Research Initiative (HABRI) Foundation about a first - of - its - kind controlled scientific study that Dr. O'Haire is leading to measure the effects of service dogs on post 9 - 11 war veterans with PTSD and / or Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).

As Dr. Dodds points out, since the testing of vaccines is performed primarily in controlled laboratory situations and a very small number of field studies, it's impossible to reproduce the kinds of reactions we see in the real world.

According to the National Canine Research Council (NCRC), based on a study from the Center for Disease Control, there is no scientific evidence that one kind of dog is more likely than any other to cause harm to a human being.

Selected group exhibitions include; Cheap Seats, It's Kind of Hard to Explain, London (2017); Last Chance to Paradise, Collar, Manchester (2017); Worried Mother, Workplace, Newcastle, curated by Milk Collective (2016); Exchange Rates, Sluice art Fair, Brooklyn, New York, showing with 12o (2016); General Studies, Outpost, Norwich, curated by Ryan Gander and Jonathan P. Watts (2016); Blind Date, Royal Standard, Liverpool (2016); Rabble MC, Hutt Collective, Nottingham (2015); Tokyo Drift, Millington and Marriott, Art Licks Weekender, London (2015); Manchester Contemporary, Manchester, showing with Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (2015); The Octopus was Naked but the Crab was Dressed, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth (2015).

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