Sentences with phrase «larger test groups»
While the results were statistically valid, additional studies with larger test groups will be necessary to fully confirm the finding.
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When we apply stereotypes or biases to large groups, it's called «ultimate attribution error,» and to combat it, the authors suggest taking an «implicit association test» (there's one available free through implicit.harvard.edu) to measure your unconscious prejudices.
Usethics has experience in different types of user research, from usability testing and one - to - one interviews to focus groups, large online surveys, home visits, etc..
The reason for choosing the hotels market as the first place to offer large - scale commercialisation of its own smart speaker is because hotel guests are likely to have more demand for such services, according to Du Haitao, product director of Alibaba's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Labs... A «Westin» branded hotel in Sanya in China's southern island province Hainan — part of the Marriott Group — is already testing the voice - command service.
Rainforest Alliance partnered with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group; ECOM Agroindustrial Corp., the world's third largest coffee trading company; and coffee farmers in Mexico and Nicaragua to develop and test these methodologies.
In a large study on pesticides in produce by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), bananas ranked 22nd for most contaminated of the 49 tested fruits.
No one is saying that real clinical imaging, observations and test results are perfect, they are just vastly superior to large group averages.
Researchers hope the new study «will establish large - scale test norms and expected ranges of pre-competition scores for this age group, and will further investigate the capacity for K - D scores to capture closed head injury and concussion.»
Hingtgen's group is already testing how far their tumor - homing cells can migrate using larger animal models.
While the group that received the combined maternal and postnatal treatment showed the largest behavioral effects, electrophysiology tests easily distinguished the pathway effects in each of the four treatment groups.
Even if brain size accounts for just 10 to 20 percent of an IQ test score, it is possible to conjecture what kind of average scores would be made by a group of people with 30 percent larger brains.
But those results didn't hold up in a larger group of 139 patients randomized to take opioids or placebo, nor did they appear in a different pain test that applied a gradually heated probe to the forearm.
We now need to test this prognostic index in larger groups of men in the clinic.»
Wells has now tested it in a much larger group of women, 36 of whom have become pregnant.
As Dr. Nikiforov's group added more genetic sequences to the ThyroSeq test to create a larger and more sensitive version of the test, it is now also performing as a «rule - out» test that can tell doctors with a high degree of certainty that a patient does not have cancer.
Dr Selth's team is currently testing this idea using larger patient groups to validate their findings.
The group downloaded about 85 percent of the data from the 370 - hour experiment while Columbia was in orbit — enough to see that it was working as expected — but the test depended on the full data, which was locked in a nearly 400 - megabyte commercial hard drive ensconced in a metal «card cage» and housed with other electronics in a larger vessel in the shuttle's cargo bay.
Although many different malaria resistance loci have been postulated over the years, this is one of very few that have stood up to stringent testing in a large multi-centre study; the others include the genes for sickle cell and the O blood group.
«By and large, all the test and exam results from both the PTLDS patients and the healthy controls were not statistically significantly different by group, including their blood tests and physical exams.»
If animal tests go well, the next trials will be with humans, a process that involves three stages — one for safety, the next to see if the protein kills cancer in a limited number of people, and the last to turn it loose in a large group.
Today's catch phrase is «evidence - based medicine,» and that «evidence» typically takes the form of results from clinical trials, in which potential treatments are tested on large groups of people.
Khademhosseini's group is now moving into tests with large animals.
The results of the trial — a combined phase 1 and 2 study — strongly support testing of the drug in a larger group of patients in both phase 2 and 3 trials, the authors say.
«We do show that obstructive coronary artery disease and myocardial ischemia remain the strongest predictors of future cardiovascular events, but for the first time, in a randomized comparison we demonstrate the ability of CT angiography (CTA) to identify a large group of at - risk patients who would have been missed by functional stress testing,» says Hoffmann, who is director of the MGH Cardiac MR PET CT Program.
To test this hypothesis, the research team is now planning to explore the longer term behavioral impact of sleep - sacks in a larger group of preterm newborns.
To test whether this systems limits how the Pirahã perceive larger amounts, Gordon gave tribe members numerical tasks in which they were asked to match small groups of items based on how many objects were present.
Researchers now plan to test the nucleosome and methylation approaches in larger groups of people.
If we validate this study in similar, but larger groups of patients, we can develop a test based for CFS breaks; the results would allow us to place patients in one of two categories: those whose tumors do not have CFS breaks and who would likely do well with local treatment alone (e.g. radiotherapy or surgery); and, those patients whose tumors do have CFS breaks and would need a more complex treatment protocol, in addition to RT or surgery, to combat distant spread.»
To precisely test how these devices transmitted distant light, the group will use adaptive optics — the technology behind today's large telescopes.
The authors of the study say that more experiments need to be run in order to determine the effectiveness of the vibrations in helping with everyday activities such as picking up objects, and on a test group larger than six people.
The next goal of van Zijl, with his collaborators in Sweden, is to test a larger group of patients to compare gadolinium enhancement to glucose enhancement.
Dr Dickie added: «Through a unique collaboration between the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, which is funded by the Stroke Association in the UK, the next step is to test the brain health index approach in newly - developed brain scanners, such as the ultra-high resolution 7 Tesla scanner at the University of Glasgow's Imaging Centre of Excellence, and in larger groups of patients.
There is a large group of patients for whom some of these imaging tests may be unnecessary,» Banerjee says.
In fact, on the three tests, the money offered by subjects from the largest societies ranged from 25 % to 51 % higher than the offers by subjects from the smallest subsistence - based groups.
For cerebellum, the drug (F = 15, P = 0.0004) and drug × group interaction (F = 8.2, P = 0.007) were significant; post hoc t tests showed larger decreases in controls (13 ± 11 %) than abusers (1.4 ± 16 %)(P = 0.01).
Future work by the group will focus on testing the effectiveness of CAST training in a larger sample using neurophysiological measures to examine how the training affects brain systems.
In addition to Gruen, who led the weak lensing working group, and Wechsler, whose group provided realistic simulations of the survey critical to testing several aspects of the cosmological analysis, a large number of KIPAC scientists, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and alumni have made crucial contributions to DES — from building the instrument to developing theory and simulations and analyzing the data.
«Birds are ideally suited for such a test, as they are one of the only groups of animals for which the relationship between large brains and enhanced behavioural response to ecological challenges is best understood.
In experiments, the group tested the membrane with water containing several different molecules, including salt, and found that the membrane rejected up to 90 percent of larger molecules.
For meaningful scientific interpretation of histopathological data through analysis of large cohorts of mice, we recommend, 24 mice per age group (i.e., number used in systematic clinical tests).
«This is the first study of its kind designed to test the effects of a diet on the decline of cognitive abilities among a large group of individuals 65 to 84 years old who currently do not have cognitive impairment,» says Martha Clare Morris, ScD, a nutritional epidemiologist at Rush and principal investigator of the study.
Since the research has repeatedly discovered that almost everyone will eat more when served larger portions from a larger plate or container, and there is obviously a serious issue of «portion distortion» occurring, another group of scientists and psychologists decided to test this even further by providing larger plates or containers of low energy density, high nutrient density foods before the main course and or in between meals.
In one large study published in 1996, German researchers tested Ginkgo extract on a group of 222 patients, aged fifty - five or older, who were diagnosed with mild to moderate dementia caused by either Alzheimer's disease or multi-infarct dementia.
The reference ranges created for labs are not that scientific — for TSH they took a large group of people and tested TSH and created a bell curve with the results.
We also conducted preliminary analyses to determine whether age was associated with participant sex, residence (rural vs. urban), or relationship status (i.e., those demographic variables with large enough cell sizes across categories to permit tests of differences in age between groups).
The Stanford Prison Experiment is a reasonably engaging dramatic recreation of the experiment, featuring large group of talented young actors playing the test subjects.
Just because a film fails the test, doesn't mean it's a bad film, it doesn't mean it would be improved if it followed the formula — it doesn't even mean a film can't be feminist if it doesn't «pass the test», but it's about a larger trend that is problematic when you look at a group of movies.
The Center on the Developing Child is pleased to participate in the collaborative effort to refine, test, and produce professionally crafted sets of the Brain Architecture game, ready to be played in large - or small - group settings.
Using this rapid cycle of design - test - iterate, an idea is developed by a group of experts and key stakeholders, piloted in a real world setting, refined, and tested again with a larger group, thereby creating an accelerated method to prepare for scale up at a population level.
Assessment tests might show the overall effectiveness of the ninth - grade curriculum, for instance, or indicate trends within large demographic groups in that grade.