There was no association between the delay in completing the
post-test laboratory visit and change in anxiety, with (r (48) = -.18, p =.22) or without (r (46) = -.018, p =.90) the outlier cases, which fell at 19 and 26 days of delay, suggesting that decreases in anxiety were stable regardless of the amount of time between the relationship - formation program and follow - up testing.
The researchers then monitored the respiratory health of the volunteers with biweekly telephone calls and
laboratory visits from September through May — but they did not attempt to find out whether the subjects continued meditating or exercising after the initial eight - week training period.
As Kenneth Nealson, a University of Southern California geobiologist and Jet
Propulsion Laboratory visiting scientist, recently told the journal Nature: «The field is haunted by thinking you've detected life on Mars and finding that it's Escherichia coli from Pasadena.»
In home and
laboratory visits, the researchers used eye - tracking technology and other approaches to assess whether the babies were able to recognize letter names, letter sounds, vocabulary, words identified on sight and reading comprehension.
Over the course of seven months, the researchers conducted a home visit, four
laboratory visits, and monthly assessments of language development.
During two
laboratory visits, the researchers used EEG to measure the mothers» neural responses to infant and adult faces.
There are no better ways to exchange scientific views and experimental data than at such international meetings, where experienced scientists and young PhD students meet each other not only during scientific sessions, but also at informal coffee breaks, meals, drinks and
laboratory visits.
«For purposes unrelated to the present report, a full - scale mock - up of the Apollo space capsule was constructed and astronaut space suits were made for the children for
their laboratory visit.
Also, there was considerable attrition between the online program and
laboratory visit, which decreased the sample size for analyses of the program's effect.