Sentences with phrase «larger numbers of participants»

Comprehensive was designed to be used with small groups of adolescents in an urban area but can be adapted to be used with larger numbers of participants in rural areas as well.

More clinical trials with larger numbers of participants are needed to tease out the most effective cannabis - based therapies.

That makes the mutual fund giant relatively expensive for very small businesses, but less costly for plans that have a large number of participants.

We have in the sociological literature a rich tradition of field work, including in recent years a large number of participant - observer studies conducted in new religious movements and an increasing number of congregational studies, many of which have paid close attention to the ways in which religious symbols (both verbal and behavioral) are patterned.

Issues are usually resolved in a public hearing which may attract a large number of participants and observers, particularly if the patent is of particular commercial or scientific interest.

«Our study has several distinct strengths compared to prior studies including the large number of participants, long - term follow - up, large number of cardiovascular events that were confirmed by medical record review, detailed information about diet and other cardiovascular disease risk factors, and repeated assessment of calcium supplement use over the 24 - year follow up period,» said Julie Paik, MD, MPH, BWH Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, lead study author.

Yale enrolled the largest number of participants at any one site (84 of 790) for these double - blind, placebo - controlled trials that investigated the efficacy of testosterone gel for multiple outcomes, including sexual function, physical function, and vitality.

The problems of building interactive rides, which respond to the choices and actions of a large number of participants, are considerable.

«The large numbers of participants gave us the power to learn things we couldn't have with traditional lab studies.»

I think the general assumption is that it's probably a bit below marathon distance — so it would be really interesting to see a study like this, with a very large number of participants, at a marathon.

As a rule, large dating sites boast a large number of participants.

A goal of the institute was to create both large and small learning environments for a large number of participants to have the opportunity to work in personalized ways with the faculty.

Simply described, it is an online course designed to have a large number of participants.

This year, approximately 7,800 students aged 16 to 19 — the largest number of participants ever — took part in the Olympiad from more than 630 schools.

According to the report, a large number of participants suggested that new selective schools «should be facilitated only where there is a local need and clear demand from parents».

A large number of participants praised Twitter as a medium that empowered them to grow in their craft.

But it doesn't have the largest number of participants now, and it won't for some time in the future, and as Wisconsin has removed the caps on enrollment in its voucher program and Ohio is trying to do the same — in terms of sheer numbers, Indiana's won't be the biggest.

Just as with last year's survey, a large number of the participants are also not yet published, or have not even completed a manuscript, which could cause the income discrepancy between successful, satisfied respondents and those who said they are dissatisfied with their level of success.

Crack open any Econ 101 textbook, and you'll likely find at least a chapter devoted to the Efficient Market Hypothesis, which posits that in markets with large numbers of participants, low transaction costs, and freely available information, it is virtually impossible to «beat the market.»

Public interest in the project is high, as evidenced by the more than 300 people who attended yesterday's forum, and the large number of participants who asked questions of the presenters.

Düsseldorf is the German city with the largest number of participants.

The largest numbers of participants in the Green Belt Movement (GBM) are women and they have made tree planting an income generating activity, where GBM gives a financial compensation (US 10 cents) to nursery groups for every tree seedling that is planted and survives.

The large number of participants ensured that a variety of stakeholders and opinions were represented aiming at accepting differences and finding a common way forward.

The interim report also says a large number of participants were in favour of requiring licensees to participate in continuing professional development courses on cultural competence and unconscious bias.

Seven Corners has loaded these providers in a database, and has sent them information on joining the Seven Corners Direct Pay Network, but they have not yet agreed to join the Direct Pay usually due to lack of large numbers of participants in their area.

It was designed to lower the rising costs associated with repairing damage to property and belongings caused by flood.Florida has the largest number of participants in the NFIP.

Where insurance is offered, the coverage is typically group coverage, which lowers the cost of insurance by spreading the cost of coverage over a larger number of participants.

It is alleged that by creating a new algorithm that makes it easier to extract bitcoins with graphics cards, the mining will be available to a larger number of participants, and the influence of large companies will be reduced accordingly.

Each local program is serving large numbers of participants, providing greater statistical power and the ability to examine the effects of these programs for different types of families.

Thus, it is suggested future replication (s) of this study employ (s) a larger number of participants so as to ascertain the generalisability of findings.

This is the first study to attempt a forgiveness intervention with a large number of participants and that recruited a large cohort of men.

«Not only did we have our largest number of participants and sponsors ever, we also raised a record amount of money.»

Not exact matches

In the past, recruiting these large numbers of people, not to mention screening and interviewing each potential participant, has been extremely expensive and labor - intensive.

Meanwhile, bond markets are concentrating as key participants, such as asset managers, shrink in number but expand in size.8 As a result, market liquidity may increasingly come to depend on the portfolio allocation decisions of only a few large institutions.

Nonetheless, the A-share market is becoming gradually institutionalized, with an increasing number of large market participants making large - scale trades.

To the extent that aggregate short exposure exceeds the number of Shares available for purchase (for example, in the event that large redemption requests by Authorized Participants dramatically affect Share liquidity), investors with short exposure may have to pay a premium to repurchase Shares for delivery to Share lenders.

Another friend who works for a large Christian missions organization told me that the number of participants they were sending into the mission field this summer was down by 60 percent, which translates into a few thousand missionaries for them.

It affords not only a shared place of imagined story, as in MUDs, but an ongoing real - time conversation with a large number of globally scattered participants (IRC — Interactive Relay Chat).

(5) It asks the participants to score themselves on a large number of traits generally thought of in our culture as being «feminine» or «masculine» or «neuter.»

Current competition between GrainCorp and ADM is focused mainly on grain trading and marketing in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, where GrainCorp competes with Toepfer (80 % owned by ADM) and a number of large market participants.

While some of the high school students joining the trap shooting team have experience with firearms through hunting with family members or shooting BB guns and air rifles for sport, Jenson says that a large number of interested participants have never handled a firearm or ever done trap shooting.

Because the Crystal Lake Park district is bringing the largest number of campers, it was given the honor of choosing one of their participants to throw the first pitch.

Although the number of participants in the study was relatively small, the researchers report that it was sufficiently large to detect clinically relevant effects.

Because of the limited number of participants, however, further larger studies will be needed before any firm conclusions can be drawn about the effects of ancient grains on heart health.

«We have shown that a large number of study participants are routinely exposed to the risks of trial participation without the benefits that sharing and publishing results would have for patients in the future.

While each participant was shown a large number of images of celebrities, animals, objects and landmark buildings, electrodes recorded the brain cells» firings.

However, they caution that because of the limited number of participants, further larger studies will be needed in general clinical settings to confirm the value of this audiovisual distraction tool.

Interestingly, a larger number of positive results appeared in the general population (36 %) compared to the at - risk participants (21.5 %).

The study was the first randomized - controlled trial to examine the potential benefits of the low fat diet on the management of MS.. The study found no significant differences between the two groups in brain lesions detected on MRI brain scans or on other measures of MS.. But while the number of trial participants was relatively small, study leaders believe the significantly improved fatigue symptoms merited further and larger studies of the diet.

In a collaborative research effort between Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Qi and colleagues analyzed the impact of tooth loss in large studies of adults, aged 45 to 69 years, in which participants had reported on the numbers of natural teeth they had, then in a follow - up questionnaire, reported recent tooth loss.