Sentences with phrase «large enough study»

This was a large enough study to allow individual fruits to be examined.

«We have to build a large enough study to be able to look at both genes and environment together,» says Newschaffer, who is a principal investigator on a study by the Centers for Disease Control that will look at 2,700 children over the next five years.

Not exact matches

This happened on a large enough scale to have a positive impact on national productivity, according to the study.

Finally, was the study's sample size large enough to have statistical significance?

On the other hand, if you make reference to a much larger issue, or a separate study, that your link provides access to, it's likely you'll pique your readers» curiosities enough for them to follow it.

Studies have shown a fairly large percentage of employees are stressed about their financial situation, and worried about not having enough money to retire, said Todd Saulnier, vice-chair of the national policy committee at the Association of Canadian Pension Management (ACPM) in Halifax.

A recent study from researchers at Oxford University published in the medical journal The Lancet looked at how changing weather patterns will affect the planet's ability to grow enough food to adequately feed the global population, and the results are terrifying: They predicted that because of large scale agricultural changes, 247,970 could die in China alone by the year 2050.

For once the community becomes large enough, and if consciousness keeps pace, that process is fulfilled whereby the study is no longer an objective inquiry carried on from the outside, but a human study carried on from within.

Thompson notes on her blog entry about the study that «sampling was not large enough to make any assessment on the overall percentage of contaminated product.

While we can infer from this study that some degree of contamination exists in naturally gluten - free grains, seeds, and flours sampling was not large enough to make any assessment on the overall percentage of contaminated product.

«We were surprised by the large number of concerns mothers had, and we were very concerned by how particular concerns were strongly related to giving up with breastfeeding» - such as worries about babies not getting enough nutrition, said Laurie A. Nommsen - Rivers, the study's senior author, from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

New studies should be large enough to include assessment and reporting of impacts by important subgroups to improve our understanding of what works for which populations.

A study large enough to compare perinatal death rates accurately, if the annual rate of home births with regulated midwives in BC were to remain the same as it is today, would require 7 — 8 years of data collection.

Any study that looks at only 11 people isn't large enough to draw any conclusions.

A large enough of a study to cause concern?

And reforms to the work and study tiers of the Points - Based System have been estimated by government impact assessments to yield reductions in net migration smaller than required if they are to bear a proportionate share of a reduction in net migration large enough to meet the numerical goal.

It turns out that large, nontsunami waves are enough to do the trick, according to a new study.

Studies including Wang's earlier work in Africa have shown that even small changes in soil moisture in drylands could be significant enough to cause large changes in vegetation productivity.

Most important, the study needs to be repeated with a larger patient group, he says, but adds that the researchers can't yet rule out the possibility that some patients may not make enough VEGF receptors.

«However, while promising, we didn't have a large enough sample size to draw firm conclusions about using bone mineral density to determine sex — that would require a larger study,» Ross says.

«With really challenging proteins like this you often need years to develop crystals that are large enough to study at synchrotron X-ray facilities.»

And the results of the P - curves suggested that about 95 percent of the recent studies and those from a decade earlier had a large enough effect size, or the size of the difference in the effect being studied.

In an accompanying editorial, Lawrence J. Schweinhart, Ph.D., of the HighScope Educational Research Foundation, Ann Arbor, Mich., writes that although the associations found in this study were statistically significant, «they may not be substantial enough to justify the larger expense of full - day preschool, essentially twice that of part - day preschool.»

«If we find that we are able to reduce the recurrence rate of autism within families substantially enough, others will want to study this in larger groups with larger controls.»

The challenge is to engineer a system where we get enough growth to have a productive microbial «chemical factory» but not so much that we can't channel enough of the sugars into a pathway to make large quantities of our target molecules,» says Kristala Prather, an associate professor of chemical engineering at MIT and the senior author of the study.

The results, which need to be confirmed in larger studies, suggest the vaccine may boost the immune system enough to allow infected people to drive down HIV levels without taking drugs — although it's not clear for how long.

The UChicago team's NBER study concludes, «The impact of the pilot intervention reported in this paper are large enough to raise the question of whether the field has given up prematurely on the possibility of improving academic outcomes for disadvantaged youth.»

«Our study is unique in that it is the first green housing study large enough to examine changes in some important outcomes such as children's asthma attacks and hospital visits.»

It shows that the problem of pollution from trash burning is big enough that it warrants further study to try and narrow down the large uncertainties inherent in the study's estimates.

After eliminating duplicate studies, those with nonstandard measures and those that failed to include control subjects or large enough sample sizes, the team ended up with a total of 67 studies, with 16 of them focused on traditional Chinese medicine.

This study shows that these random processes are not strong enough to explain the large differences between common and rare species.

Some argued that they could not afford to set up the large studies needed to meet the new standard or were unable to recruit enough study participants.

«Our study is the first example of how atmospheric measurements can help to check on fossil fuel CO2 emissions over an area large enough to encompass nations, provinces or states.»

And while a study of 200 to 300 arthritis patients is large enough to show whether a new drug relieves pain, just one such study isn't large enough to pick up less - common — but potentially deadly — side effects.

The study's primary limitation is that the sample was not large enough to detect differences in the components of the primary endpoint, only a composite of these outcomes.

The anticipated boost in fertility rates is not large enough to alter projections that the global population will level off by midcentury, says study coauthor Hans - Peter Kohler, a sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania.

Although the study was not large enough or long enough to analyze completed suicides among the subjects, CAST training appears to be effective in lowering suicide risk.

We now know that exoplanets exist and have discovered a large enough sample to study their occurrence rates; the next step is to gain a better understanding of the nature of these worlds, including their formation and composition.

The evidence for altered levels of sirtuins to produce benefits large enough to chase is very mixed, despite the occasional study showing marginal or gender - specific outcomes.

They're large enough and bright enough for the ensemble to be studied by ground - based and space - based telescopes.

These objects are the lighthouses of the population; bright enough to be studied with large ground - based and space - based telescopes.

The Pedal the Cause grants offer enough support for initial experiments, which will ideally lead to grants from federal sources and to large - scale studies.

Although the study had a large sample size, the number of exposed ASD cases was not large enough to provide a stable statistical estimate of the trimester - specific HR associated with influenza infection.

«It was different when people listened carefully enough to realize we were fooling them — that is, when they realized they liked the performance labeled «student» better,» said Edward Large, a theoretical neuroscientist at UConn who made the fMRI available for the study.

Although the previous study was able to roughly estimate the star's elemental composition, the measurements were not detailed enough to determine if the elements match stars in our galaxy, or are characteristic of stars from the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The study, though relatively large, may not have been quite big enough to detect subtle relationships between weight loss and heart risk.

Older people who do not get enough vitamin D face a much higher risk of dementia or Alzheimer's disease, the largest study of its kind on the topic...

In a large analysis of the link between sleep and fat loss, researchers looked at 36 studies, including 635,000 people around the world, and found that adults who didn't get enough sleep were 50 percent more likely to be obese, and children who didn't get enough sleep were 90 percent more likely to be obese, compared with those who got more sleep.

The outcomes, which resembled earlier research revealing improvement in skeletal and heart muscle function in animals following treatment with epicatechin, were encouraging enough to support a larger study.

Small studies don't find any benefit, but when you get a large enough sample size you can find a clear winner, which suggests there might have been some «hidden» benefits all along.