Sentences with phrase «number of different study»

A number of different studies have revealed that the human mind does not have the capacity to truly multi-task.

There has been a debate on the trend estimates from a number of different studies based on the Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) instrument carried by a number of satellites, and different researchers have come up with different trend estimates depending on how they have carried out the analysis.

A number of different studies have tried to improve carbon budget estimates from ESMs by matching them more closely to observations of emissions and warming that have actually occurred up to the present day.

«Across a number of different studies, positive effects are found such as grade repetition and special education, as well as on health behaviors.»

Not exact matches

While we can try throwing different antibiotics at any number of strange and unfamiliar bacterial infections, we have no similar sledgehammer for mysterious viral diseases, which each have to be studied carefully before we can even begin to figure out how to fight or prevent them.

Nevertheless, across a significant number of studies using different methodologies and performed by different researchers, a consistent picture is emerging about the effects of patent litigation: it costs innovators money; many innovators and venture capitalists report that it significantly impacts their businesses; innovators respond by investing less in R&D and venture capitalists respond by investing less in startups.

Third, a number of studies have shown that Taylor Rules are robust in the sense that they generally perform quite well across a range of different assumptions about how the economy is structured and operates.

While case studies can be told in a number of different formats, it is one of the rare content formats that is almost exclusively designed for storytelling.

A number of different experts have studied this issue and the results are conclusive: longer articles get shared much more than shorter articles.

I think the point is you have to look at a number of studies that compile the data in different ways to see what is really going on.

In one study in the mid-1980s, the average number of different partners allegedly fell from 70 to 50 per year; in another study, the number was allegedly reduced from 76 to 47 per year.

In my studies of apologetics I have come across a number of «experts» who believe atmospheric conditions were quite different before the flood of Noah.

ISEAL member standards aim to improve smallholders» livelihoods and increase incomes by improving yield and quality — and studies have shown this to be the case for a number of different standards and context.

One fascinating study put volunteers on a number of different diets, including a high - protein diet.

A research article by Jiangman Guo, Virginia Polytchnic Institute, references a number of different academic studies as well as Consumer Reports research and comes to the conclusion that fabric softener increases the flammability rate of fabrics.

One study has found a correlation between the number of different fruits and vegetables that parents bring home and their preschoolers» willingness to eat fruits and vegetables (Busick et al 2008).

In addition, a number of randomized controlled studies in different countries are underway, examining the effects of the NBO on a range of outcomes.

In a study that looked at different types of sleeping training, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) calls this method of sleep training graduated extinction, which refers to a «graduation» in the number of times a parent lets their baby cry before going in to soothe them.

A number of research reviews and syntheses have been published that examined the relationship between family - centered helpgiving practices and parent, family, and child outcomes.26, 22,27,5,28,29,30,31 The studies in these reviews and syntheses used different measures of family - centered capacity - building helpgiving, many of which assessed either or both relational and participatory helpgiving practices.

In order to avoid «double counting» in studies involving one control group and two different interventions groups, we split the control group number of events and participants in half, so that we could include two independent comparisons, as per methods described the Handbook [section16.5.4].

Since then, a spate of similar studies have come out, with scientists writing code to infer keystrokes on number and letter keyboards on different kinds of phones.

In the latest study, the researchers hypothesize that the downregulation of these three genes reprograms the cells so that they return to an embryonic - like state, in which they have the potential to give rise to a number of different cell types.

Pre-clinical studies have shown it to be effective in eliminating a number of different kinds of cancers cells, including cancer stem cells from human breast cancer patient biopsies.

Co-Senior author, Dr Florence Raynaud, a group leader at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, said: «The study made accurate measurements of a large number of metabolites as they varied by time of day and under different sleep patterns.

Probably not: the brain regions identified in this new study, in particular right DLPFC, have previously been highlighted in a number of other studies addressing related but slightly different questions.

In the quantum world, physicists study the tiny particles that make up our classical world — neutrons, electrons, photons — either one at a time or in small numbers because the behaviour of the particles is completely different on such a small scale.

This study showed the two subtypes have different genetic origins and involve a dramatically different number of chromosomal rearrangements, mutations and other gene variations.

A new study by University of Arizona biologists helps explain why different groups of animals differ dramatically in their number of species, and how this is related to differences in their body forms and ways of life.

For this study, the team set out to investigate the timing of supernova dust formation by measuring isotopes — versions of elements with the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons — in rare presolar silicon carbide grains with compositions indicating that they formed in type II supernovae.

«Ph.D. students are funded in a number of different ways,» says Avril MacGregor, who advises international students studying at the University of Glasgow.

Today is the birthday of Frederick Soddy, an English chemist born in 1877 who pioneered the study of isotopes, elements with the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons.

The authors suggest that further studies should be conducted in larger numbers of players from different age groups to evaluate additional variations in biomechanical data across practice drills and assess risks of practice - related head injury.

The results had high statistical significance, and Baeten said both drugs worked «comparably» in uninfected men and women, although he would not specify the number of infections by gender in different arms of the study.

To carry out the study, the team visualised a number of motors from different species of bacteria using a variant of a method called cryo - election microscopy, whose pioneers were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year.

But whereas children recreating these vicious displays simply ram plastic models of the animals together in a straight line, a study now suggests that pachycephalosaurs may have bashed one another in a number of different ways.

«Wherever sexual harassment studies have been conducted across medicine, the military, [college] campuses, the numbers are coming back pretty high and consistent with the numbers in our study,» Hinde said, «and these are studies that use different kinds of methods to access this information.»

The study used the «Tower of Hanoi» puzzle, which involves moving discs between pegs so that they line up in order on a different peg, using the smallest possible number of moves.

«A number of studies have assessed the effects of binge drinking in young adults during different tasks involving cognitive processes such as attention or working memory,» says López - Caneda.

The studies that Laird analyzed included a number of different types of psychological therapies, including cognitive therapies, relaxation and hypnosis.

«A ballerina has a number of different moves,» Clark says, but «so far we've just studied individual moves.»

Bone marrow biopsies often produce limited numbers of tumor cells to test — as few as 50,000 tumor cells in this study — but for this technique that is enough to test many different drugs and drug combinations.

Apart from the number of participants, the strengths of this study include the use of three different methods to achieve acurate measurement results: cerebrospinal fluid samples, the use of a so - called PET scanner, and genetic analysis.

The review's sole author, Dr. Patricia Lopes from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich, says that animals from a number of different species will eat and drink less, reduce their activity and sleep more when they are sick in order to conserve energy for their recovery.

And an even fewer number of studies have explored the longitudinal effects of doing meditation or spiritual practices by evaluating subjects at two different time points.

«The results are profound, for a number of different reasons,» says Steven Kay, a geneticist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, who studies circadian clocks in plants.

The study randomly assigned preschoolers by classroom to different types and numbers of arts classes.

«Generally speaking, our studies show that a number of different parameters have to be considered when assessing the efficacy of possible anti-aging interventions.

This enabled them to greatly reduce the number of laboratory animals, because usually different groups of animals have to be used for such comparative studies.

«We found a consistent pattern of success across a number of different outcome measures,» says the study's principal investigator John Walkup, MD, an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a faculty member within the Center for American Indian Health.

Recent studies highlighted significant differences between these two types of stem cells, although only a limited number of cell lines of different origins were analyzed.