Sentences with phrase «less than the participants»

But more than that, it was quite calorie restricted, about 500 KCal per day below maintenance needs and at least 1200 Kcal per day less than the participants had probably been consuming (the average American gets 3000 - 3600 Kcal daily).

Not exact matches

Whether it is stricter regulations, negative interest rates, or fragile confidence, banks and other market participants are less than keen these days to hold large piles of risky assets.

According to a co-author of the study, this shows that the poorly dressed participants would often defer to the suited ones, and these suited participants could sense this heightened respect, backing down less than they might have otherwise.

From the abstract: «After viewing a few organic foods, comfort foods, or control foods, participants who were exposed to organic foods volunteered significantly less time to help a needy stranger, and they judged moral transgressions significantly harsher than those who viewed nonorganic foods.»

In another survey question, the bank asked which brands the participants were more interested in purchasing than before, and which they were less interested in purchasing.

Less than a year after their Indiegogo campaign, Whirlscape has also nabbed $ 500,000 in seed funding from BDC Venture Capital (a Canadian venture capital fund), a U.S. - based fund, and California's renowned Y Combinator incubator, which took Whirlscape on as a participant in its accelerator program earlier this year.

To be eligible for Lifeline, participants must have an income less than 135 % of the federal poverty level or qualify for one of several other programs for the poor, such as Medicaid or food stamps.

The participants who took acetaminophen consistently rated pain — both emotional and physical, and both their own and someone else's — as less severe than those who took the placebo.

The study of 1,787 US adults ages 19 through 32 found that participants who visited social media services more than two hours a day had twice the odds for «social isolation» compared to their peers who spent less than half an hour on services like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat.

Researchers found that participants who visited social media services more than two hours a day had twice the odds for «social isolation» compared to peers who spent less than half an hour.

Consider this: In one recent study of more than 7,000 study participants, researchers found that those who ate high - protein diets had a 90 % greater risk of gaining more than 10 % of their body weight during the course of the study than those who ate less of the stuff.

Of the 3,000 - odd participants who had said they «almost never» sat, less than 7 % had died in the intervening 13 years.

Participants must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents with a household income of less than $ 150,000 and the purchase price can not exceed $ 750,000.

In another experiment, rather than prime participants for particular roles, testosterone levels were used as a marker of which study subjects were inclined towards dominating power structures and which less interested in leading.

The 2013 Form 5500 filings show nearly 595,000 ERISA covered retirement plans with less than 100 participants.

Data shows that while participants in larger plans clearly benefit from scale, some small plans managed to pay significantly less in costs than others: costs for plans in the $ 1 million to $ 10 million segment ranged widely, from 68 basis points to 153 basis points.

In addition, no participant will be permitted to purchase more than 2,500 shares of our Class A common stock during any one purchase period or a lesser amount determined by our compensation committee.

A narrow majority of defined - contribution - plan advisers and consultants say managed accounts provide less benefit to participants than target - date funds, according to a survey by Pacific Investment Management Co..

Currently, participants who have not taken a distribution receive interest credits at the rate equal to the 30 - year Treasury bond yield plus 0.5 % but not less than 5 %; the «interest credit» rate is adjusted annually.

Nonstatutory Stock Options, or NSOs, will provide for the right to purchase shares of our common stock at a specified price, which may not be less than fair market value on the date of grant, and usually will become exercisable (at the discretion of the administrator) in one or more installments after the grant date, subject to the participant's continued employment or service with us and / or subject to the satisfaction of corporate performance targets and individual performance targets established by the administrator.

Medium - term inflation expectations of financial market participants, as implied by the difference between nominal and indexed bond yields, have risen to around 3 per cent in October, from less than 2 per cent at the beginning of the year.

Based on Social Security Administration estimates, participants with career average earnings of roughly less than $ 21,000 are expected to receive benefits that will replace 59 % to 81 % of their pre-retirement income.

De-stabilised Middle East, rise of new power in Saudi Arabia, aggressive China, Russia - US tensions, Turkey - Russia escalation, rise of autocratic but nationalists leaders such as Modi in India, Trump in United States, bin - Salman in Middle East, the Geo - Political unease hasn't been this tense in decades, so as a market participant you can never care less than ever.

The transactions in this open - source payment network are always confirmed by the consensus of network participants, which is very different and less cumbersome than the mining work done in the Bitcoin network.

Were some participants more or less successful than others?

However, less than midway through the year and some market participants are already spotting cracks in the notion of so - called synchronized global growth, with some fearing that a whiff of stagflation is starting to permeate.

Most Participants believe the pace of work at Appetize is extremely fast.About 21 % of the employees at Appetize work 8 hours or less, while 47 % of them have an extremely long day - longer than twelve hours.

Only recently, in Martin Mosebach's The Heresy of Formlessness, did I discover the original, all - but - suppressed reason for giving the Eucharist on the tongue: «Communion in the hand is inappropriate, not because the hands are less worthy to receive the Host than the tongue... or because they might be dirty, but because it would be impossible to rinse every participant's hands after Communion (that is, to make sure no particles of the Host are lost).»

The participants in this conversational endeavor — this societas — are «persons whose paths through life have fallen together, united by civility rather than by a common goal, much less a common ground.»

Official endorsements make non-adherents feel like second - class citizens, the reasoning goes — like less than full participants in the political community.

They are meaningless because participants lack the objectivity to admit that our beliefs have less to do with facts than with our personal needs and cultural backgrounds.

The researchers found that nurses who consumed the most blueberries and strawberries showed less memory decline over 2.5 years than participants who did not eat berries.

The group was divided into participants who consumed onions less than once a month, twice a month to twice a week, three to six times a week, and once a day or more, based on self - reported dietary history.

DWI Court participants are up to nineteen times less likely to reoffend than those sentenced by a traditional court

Some frequently quoted studies have less than ten participants.

A series of randomized control trials of a nurse home visitation program show a range of positive effects on maternal health, including decreases in prenatal cigarette smoking, fewer hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, and fewer closely spaced subsequent pregnancies., A randomized control study of another program that works with a particularly high - risk population found that participant mothers showed significantly lower depressive symptoms than those in the control group and were less likely to report feeling stressed a year after participation.

Overindulged participants were less happy than those participants who were not overindulged.

For the secondary outcomes, women who had midwife - led continuity models of care were less likely to experience amniotomy (average RR 0.80, 95 % CI 0.66 to 0.98; participants = 3253; studies = four), episiotomy (average RR 0.84, 95 % CI 0.77 to 0.92; participants = 17,674; studies = 14) and fetal loss less than 24 weeks and neonatal death (average RR 0.81, 95 % CI 0.67 to 0.98; participants = 15,645; studies = 11).

In 2012 - 2014, 264 of the original participants who weighed less than 1800 grams at birth were re-enrolled (61 % of infants that qualified).

Participants were also less likely to smoke than mothers of infants born in 1998 — 2000 [27].

Participant characteristics: all enrolled in WIC program; mean age 23.1 years; 87 % African Americans; 26.5 % with less than high school education; 79.6 % single; 17.4 % not employed or in school; 26.6 % caesarean births; 50.6 % first time mothers; 32.3 % with previous breastfeeding experience

But Malliotakis is also a participant in the public funds program, meaning she will have to raise far less than Massey and still be able to be competitive.

The participants saw themselves as being potentially the worst affected by spending cuts, not least because they perceived politicians to take less notice of the views of young people than of those of older generations.

A flagship government scheme aiming to get the long - term unemployed into jobs managed to get less than a third of its latest participants into work, according to data highlighted in a new report.

Seventy - six percent of those participants reported that the recipes were easier to prepare and took less time than ones they typically used.

According to the results, published online October 12 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, participants who used hormonal contraceptives while choosing their partner were less attracted to him and less sexually satisfied during their relationship than were individuals who did not use hormonal birth control.

The less time they had to categorize the faces, the more likely the participants were to categorize the men according to whether they looked gay or straight rather than what they had been told about their sexuality.

Overall, the participants with the highest amount of protein in their diets were 20 percent less likely to develop a stroke than those with the lowest amount of protein in their diets.

For example, in the first study, people who were told that other participants included coffee experts — a more knowledgeable group — reported lower subjective knowledge than participants who believed that they were being compared to teenagers — a less knowledgeable group.

Particularly interesting is that participants who were introduced to Roboy in VR perceived the robot as less human - like than participants who watched a live HRI, whereas these two groups did not differentiate in regard of perceived realness.