Sentences with phrase «known group of participants»

The company's technology enables financial institutions to create multiple private blockchains across a known group of participants.

Not exact matches

The team behind the research taught two groups of participants two differing strategies for saying no when something threatened to tempt them away from their stated goals.

If you have a group of people who want to do that, who want to be a participant in that, who themselves want and know what it's like, then, what they're like, that you can do that in partnership with this radical transparency so they can know their strengths and weaknesses, and that you can put together teams of people better.

Linares and Duane were members of the same NYC Council class, (elected in 1992), and grew close during their years there as participants in a small, yet vocal, group that consistently voted «no» on the budget deals reached by then - NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Council Speaker Peter Vallone Sr..

The participants were asked how much they thought most people they know would like the hypothetical group, how willing these friends would be to engage in activities on behalf of the group and to what extent their friends would sympathize with the group should it engage in extreme behaviors, such as participating in illegal or violent demonstrations or damaging people's property.

The group used a combination of monitoring methods collectively known as polysomnography to check whether the participants were in the rapid eye movement (REM) state of sleep, in which we tend to have most of our dreams.

Study participants were randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups for six months: (1) oral estradiol and progesterone at a dose similar to that in many birth control pills (16 participants); (2) transdermal estradiol, better known as the estrogen patch, at a physiological replacement dose with cyclic progesterone (13 athletes); or (3) no estrogen (19 subjects).

The last group, «injurious victim - perpetrators,» made up only 7 percent of survey respondents and were distinguished as being injured almost monthly - but were no more likely to carry or threaten people with weapons than other participants.

A total of 438 participants were split into two groups; one group was assessed using the app and the other was assessed using a gold - standard traditional physical examination (known as the Allen test).

In the lifestyle modification group, however, even individuals with two copies of the variant were no more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than participants without the variant, the team reports 20 July in the New England Journal of Medicine.

For more information regarding Bristol - Myers Squibb Clinical Trial participation, please visit www.BMSStudyConnect.com Inclusion Criteria: • Early stage IB - IIIA, operable non-small cell lung cancer, confirmed in tissue • Lung function capacity capable of tolerating the proposed lung surgery • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status of 0 - 1 • Available tissue of primary lung tumor Exclusion Criteria: • Presence of locally advanced, inoperable or metastatic disease • Participants with active, known or suspected autoimmune disease • Prior treatment with any drug that targets T cell co-stimulations pathways (such as checkpoint inhibitors) Other protocol defined inclusion / exclusion criteria could apply

Inclusion Criteria: • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1 • Have histologically or cytologically confirmed advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)(Stage IIIb or greater) • Measurable disease, as defined by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1 • Known PD - L1 tumor status as determined by an immunohistochemistry (IHC) assay performed by the central laboratory on tissue obtained at Screening • A woman of childbearing potential must have a negative highly sensitive serum (beta - human chorionic gonadotropin [beta - hCG]-RRB- at Screening within 14 days prior to study drug administration Inclusion Criteria for Crossover: • Participants must have been randomized to Arm A of the study and had radiographic disease progression according to RECIST 1.1 • Participants must have a mandatory biopsy at the time of disease progression according to RECIST 1.1 prior to crossing over.

And a year after the study began, only 11 % of participants in the mindfulness group had developed clinical depression (also known as major depressive disorder), compared to 27 % in the control group.

A comparable percentage of people in each group believed they had received the real device both before and after the treatment, which suggests that the participants did not know which device they had.

Whenever I'm leading a group through a program and I encounter a participant that has hit this plateau — no matter what their age or weight — I know (at least if they're working within the dietary and lifestyle parameters that I've constructed), that their hormones have shifted out of balance, tipped the scale, and are creating an internal environment that makes weight management an uphill battle.

A study by the Environmental Working Group found a total of 167 chemicals (the average was 91) in the blood and urine of the study's participants, including 76 carcinogens, 94 chemicals known to be toxic to the brain and nervous system, and 79 that can cause birth defects or abnormal fetal development.

What we see is that the blue line is higher than the red line in all the groups no matter how you divide up the study participants (but especially in women over the age of 65), and that means the diet high in polyunsaturated fat caused more deaths than the diet high in saturated fats.

For those in smaller communities where the resources may not be as comprehensive, try talking to the owners of local shops you frequent to buy hobby - related materials and ask if they know of others to speak with regarding starting a group, or if you can post notices looking for other interested participants.

Contact small groups of students and also the whole class routinely, but know when it's time to do a behind - the - scenes intervention and email a participant directly (or even call).

The level of skill of the participants isn't as important as knowing whether the members are working toward publication or if attending the group is an end in itself: either for therapy, company, or an audience.

There may be local jurisdictions that have addressed this, but I don't know that they'd stand a court challenge, because the burden of not only gaining consent, but also checking the ages for all the group's participants would certainly fall under the legal definition of «onerous» (obligations usually have to match advantages, unless clearly agreed by both parties, usually in writing), especially if the topics discussed aren't outlawed or otherwise age - regulated by the community.

Conversely, a «private» blockchain network is where the participants are known and trusted: for example, an industry group, or a group of companies owned by an umbrella company.

I should also make it known that these were not unanimous results across the surveyed group of participants, not by any means.

English language studies published from 1970 — 98 were selected if they tested the efficacy of group psychotherapy for depressive spectrum disorders in adults, used well known self report or interviewer based measures of depression, and reported pre-treatment and post-treatment scores on depression measures for participants assigned to group therapy.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) Participants were randomized, by pairs, into the Individual Family Psychoeducation (IFP, otherwise known as Individual Family - Psychoeducational Psychotherapy (PEP)-RRB- plus treatment as usual (IFP + TAU, n = 10) condition, or into a waitlist - control condition plus TAU (WLC + TAU, n = 10) Measures included the Children's Interview for Psychiatric Syndromes — Child and Parent Forms; the Children's Depression Rating Scale — Revised (CDRS - R) and Mania Rating Scale (MRS) in order to assess severity of mood impairment; and Mood Severity Index (MSI), which measured overall mood severity.

«A lot of the market participants think this is no longer a seller's market, that it has moved to a neutral position,» says John Feeney, a vice president at The Boulder Group.