Sentences with phrase «much the study participants»

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In another, the researchers asked study participants to quickly assess how much a person weighed by looking at faces on a computer screen.

In fact, a study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that participants who kept a food journal, with the goal of weight loss, lost twice as much weight as those who didn't.

It's also possible, however, that the guiltiest study participants were simply right in their estimation of the uselessness of doing nothing — for them, playing a videogame or indulging in a Simpsons marathon really might not help much with their stress levels, making them completely correct in telling themselves to stop wasting time.

Detailed instructions about participant observation are readily available, 4 and much can be learned about the method by reading the congregational studies of Melvin Williams and Samuel Heilman.

To demonstrate this, one study put participants on a high - protein diet and allowed them to eat as much as they wanted.

It's no surprise such money - driven competitions have surged in popularity, given that multiple highly credible studies have underscored the value of employing financial incentives and peer support to positively influence weight loss. HealthyWage.com's own diet - for - dollars program allows participants to make a wager upfront ranging anywhere from $ 20 a month to as much as $ 500.

Participants in a much - cited psychological study, for instance, were more likely to positively evaluate charismatic leaders after experiencing «mortality salience» than they were when this stimulus was not present.

For the research, 324 identical and 210 fraternal twins participated in a study task that asked them to decide how much money to send to another study participant — representing trust — and another task that asked them to decide how much money to take away from another participant — representing distrust.

But spending that much time off your feet causes significant muscle atrophy and bone loss, so participants must get checked six months after the study ends and again after a year.

For example, study participants remember trivia which they are told can not be easily found much better than trivia which can be Googled.

They reviewed CT scans to assess how much abdominal fat had accumulated, its location and it's density in 1,106 participants from the Framingham Heart Study who received this imaging as part of a larger study to measure coronary and abdominal aortic calcificaStudy who received this imaging as part of a larger study to measure coronary and abdominal aortic calcificastudy to measure coronary and abdominal aortic calcification.

Results of the eyetracking part of the study further showed that participants, irrespective of their gender, looked at the rear view of the models much longer than the side or front angles.

The study found no evidence of the too - much - choice effect even in the more plentiful option, except when participants were asked to justify their picks.

Previous research had documented a bias against faces perceived as untrustworthy, but much of the research had relied on study participants contemplating criminal verdicts hypothetically.

During the 10 - year follow - up, the bone density of all study participants weakened by an average of 4 %; however, the difference between the satisfied and the unsatisfied was as much as 52 %.

Study participants were then asked to rate how much they agree with a series of statements about killing animals, such as, «It is often necessary to control for animal overpopulation through different means, such as hunting or euthanasia,» or, «An experiment should never cause the killing of animals.»

Those who had attempted suicide before 24 were 2.5 times more likely to be convicted of a violent crime, consumed twice as much welfare support and were unemployed for twice as many months at the other study participants.

The study participants who guessed correctly that they were taking a placebo showed much less improvement, according to preliminary results presented at the Society for Endocrinology meeting in June.

Study participants were screened in South Korea, where video game playing is a major social activity, much more than in the United States.

Using the Canadian Work, Stress, and Health Study (CANWSH), a national sample of Canadian workers, the researchers measured proficiency, or mastery, by asking study participants how much they agree or disagree with statements such as: «You have little control over the things that happen to you» and «You often feel helpless in dealing with problems of life.&rStudy (CANWSH), a national sample of Canadian workers, the researchers measured proficiency, or mastery, by asking study participants how much they agree or disagree with statements such as: «You have little control over the things that happen to you» and «You often feel helpless in dealing with problems of life.&rstudy participants how much they agree or disagree with statements such as: «You have little control over the things that happen to you» and «You often feel helpless in dealing with problems of life.»

And at baseline, midway through the study, and at its end, participants used two devices for a week to measure how much they were sitting.

While study participants also were much less likely to use any formal sources of assistance or support in resolving problems with cannabis than those whose problems were with other substances, that finding was less common in those who resolved a cannabis problem more recently, which may reflect the increased availability and potency of cannabis in recent years.

The study participants overwhelmingly (79 percent) chose reduced pain over improved mobility - no matter how much the condition impaired their ability to stand and walk.

All study participants completed a food frequency questionnaire, detailing how much and how often they had eaten 187 food items over the preceding four weeks.

It can be difficult to find non-gamers among college students these days, but from among a pool of subjects participating in a much larger study in Stephen Mitroff's Visual Cognition Lab at Duke, the researchers found 125 participants who were either non-gamers or very intensive gamers.

Similarly, studies of oral PrEP have found much higher efficacy in highly adherent participants.

This was an uncontrolled and open study, and so it is difficult to know how much significance we should place on the small improvements in neuropsychological test scores observed in the mild cognitive impairment participants who underwent the training.

«This well - conducted study was able to take advantage of comprehensive health and address records for hundreds of thousands of people in Denmark to determine how much lithium each participant was exposed to through the water supply.

«As expected, the subjects stated that the wine with the higher price tasted better than an apparently cheaper one,» said INSEAD business school professor Hilke Plassmann, a study co-author, noting that they also gave some study participants $ 50 in credit that limited how much they could try.

The study produced results which were very similar to the previous study where participants that took creatine right after exercising had a much bigger increase in muscle tissue in comparison to those who were exercising and taking creatine beforehand, or those in the control group that were exercising but weren't using any creatine.

But a 2011 study showed that participants who played a computer game called Double Decision for six years improved their concentration so much that they had a 50 percent lower rate of car accidents.

The study also found that during the workout portion of the trampoline routine (not including the warm - up and cool - down), participants averaged 79 percent of their maximum heart rate and 59 percent of their VO2 max, a measure of how much oxygen the body can utilize during exercise.

The study participants also had much fewer asthma attacks.

Not to go into too much detail here but there was a well formulated, monitored study (I think in the 60's) where they put the folks on starvation diets and then they gave the participants insulin to lower their blood sugars.

Participants in a Tufts University study who drank the equivalent of three cups of green tea each day lost twice as much weight as those who did not drink the tea.

When participants in a study published in the Archives of Ophthalmology ate this much fruit they were 36 percent less likely to suffer from the disease compared to those who consumed 1.5 servings or less of fruit daily.

However, the majority of these participants were in the obese body mass index range at the beginning of the study, so they had much more than 18 pounds to lose.

In 2005, researchers studied data from the famous Nurses Health Study II, and found that participants who drank more milk as teens had much higher rates of severe acne than those who had little or no milk as teens.

When researchers looked at how much fiber 35,972 participants in the UK Women's Cohort Study ate, they found a diet rich in fiber from whole grains, such as whole wheat, and fruit offered significant protection against breast cancer for pre-menopausal women.

When researchers looked at how much fiber 35,972 participants in the UK Women's Cohort Study ate, they found a diet rich in fiber from whole grains, such as brown rice, and fruit offered significant protection against breast cancer for pre-menopausal women.

Participants in that study felt infrared sauna use was similar to moderate exercise but «much more relaxing.»

The study shows that the MIND diet lowered the risk of AD by as much as 53 percent in participants who adhered to the diet rigorously, and by about 35 percent in those who followed it moderately well.

When researchers looked at how much fiber 35,972 participants in the UK Women's Cohort Study ate, they found a diet rich in fiber from whole grains, such as buckwheat, and fruit offered significant protection against breast cancer for pre-menopausal women.

One 2002 study found that participants who consumed 7 or more cups of coffee per day cut their risk of developing type II diabetes in half, compared to those who consumed 2 or fewer cups per day.2 If the thought of drinking 7 cups of coffee sounds nauseating, the good news is that you don't have to drink that much (and shouldn't, due to the negative side effects of that much caffeine) to receive a benefit.

Another study of 16,057 women found that participants with the highest intake of vitamin K2 had a much lower risk of heart disease.

During phase 4 of the study, the participants were allowed to eat as much as they wanted, but were given instructions to follow their diets from phase 2.

Furthermore, these studies are irrelevant to our discussion that ought to be comparing, as much as possible, a very low carb, high (healthy, not corn) fat and moderate protein diet in which the participants had enough time to become adapted, to a higher carb diet.

Now, a study of 14 participants from the «Biggest Loser» television show provides an answer: physical activity — and much more of it than public health guidelines suggest.

When researchers looked at how much fiber 35,972 participants in the UK Women's Cohort Study ate, they found a diet rich in fiber from whole grains, such as barley, and fruit offered significant protection against breast cancer for pre-menopausal women.

When researchers looked at how much fiber 35,972 participants in the UK Women's Cohort Study ate, they found a diet rich in fiber from whole grains, such as rye, and fruit offered significant protection against breast cancer for pre-menopausal women.