Sentences with phrase «of subjects of the study»

The melatonin levels (of subjects of the study) rose two hours earlier when camping than on regular nights around artificial light.

Not exact matches

In one study out of the University of Tennessee, researchers showed that eating three servings of dairy daily significantly reduced body fat in obese subjects.

Specifically, I chose to stay open to learning in prison, which I did, in terms of the specific subjects I studied and the stuff I learned about myself that I'd never known.

This second part of the competition is the subject of a new set of studies recently completed by the Lawrence Centre at Western University's Ivey Business School.

The shocking part is that we claim that women aren't studying STEM subjects at school and aren't entering tech careers in the U.S. because of discrimination and oppression, but in countries where women don't have a lot of rights (and granted, those rights vary drastically even within Middle Eastern countries), they manage to succeed in STEM in school.

In a case study, subjects reported significantly higher feelings of respect and fondness for their colleagues who used this technique.

Women's under - representation on boards and in top management positions has long been the subject of academic study and, more recently, public policy.

Recent research has looked into the health consequences of that mismatch, tracking a group of study subjects for more than six years.

One 2014 study by the University of Warwick in England asked subjects to perform skill - based math problems, which researchers used to mimic typical white - collar work.

The study subjects agreed to a fresh round of personality testing and the contemporary results were compared to the decades» old findings.

In the context of this study that simply meant more anxious subjects tended to feel more irrationally negative about the neutral word puzzles that accompanied stressful images, but in real life this effect could cause actual trouble.

Armed with reams of pseudo-scientific studies, they claimed that workers of all sorts were happier and more productive when subjected to 15 - minute sets of benign music that built gradually in tempo and intensity.

To figure this out, the research team asked the friends of 417 study subjects to rate their level of charisma.

In a German study, researchers gave two groups of subjects, one well - rested and one sleep - deprived, a math test.

In one study, subjects were shown a video — either of comedy routines or a «placebo» video that wasn't as funny.

The project is called the Grant Study, and the group of subjects included President John F. Kennedy and Ben Bradlee, who later became editor of The Washington Post during Watergate.

But Maria Loumioti, assistant professor of accounting at the University of California and co-author of two studies on the subject, says that's not strictly true.

With very specific training on charismatic speech content and the use of effective verbal and nonverbal strategies, subjects in this study dramatically grew their charismatic presence.

A study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that the more time subjects spent sitting during the day, the greater their chances of dying from all causes, including cancer and heart disease.

Thanks to technology, learners in every corner of the globe can now study nearly any subject online, often for free or next to free.

«Short sleep was more important than any other factor in predicting subjects» likelihood of catching cold,» said Aric Prather, assistant professor of psychiatry at UC San Francisco and the study's lead author.

Inovio's vaccine against HPV is currently in Phase II clinical studies, and Kim says «about 50 percent» of the subjects in that trial are defeating the disease.

A heap of evidence shows women are assessed differently when it comes to confidence, likability and self - promotion, so the researchers only recruited male study subjects, as they put it, «to control for potentially confounding effects of gender.»

Studies that involve divvying up money, for example, have shown that subjects would irrationally rather walk away empty - handed than feel they were cheated out of their fair share.

Levy reported that in a 2004 study of suburban rail commuters taking the train from New Jersey to Manhattan, «Wener and his coauthor Gary Evans found that the longer their test subjects» journey was, the higher the levels of cortisol (the primary stress hormone) in their saliva, and the more difficult they found to focus on the task of proofreading assigned them at the end of their commute.»

An April study of more than 3,300 people by the National Research Center for the Working Environment discovered that people subjected to bullying in the workplace were more likely to report sleeping difficulties.

«Listening to music and singing together has been shown in several studies to directly impact neuro - chemicals in the brain, many of which play a role in closeness and connection,» explains a recent Greater Good Science Center round - up of research on the subject.

In many of the 374 brain science papers, the reviewers found the subjects knew what was being studied.

These findings might be comforting for teens (and their worried parents) currently suffering through the trial by fire that ninth grade can be, but it also has lessons to teach those of us who are decades beyond graduation, researchers studying the subject note.

They've been studying deep sleep — the tier beyond light sleep and REM sleep — and found that using certain sounds to stimulate subjects» deep sleep can elevate the number of long - burst brain waves they experience.

He did not approach a new subject that interested him and say «Gee, if I pursue this new study, I will never be a true master in any of my other studies.

In Health Canada's 2001 National Work - Life Conflict Study — the widest - reaching survey on the subject, before or since — nearly half of respondents (47 %) considered their supervisor sympathetic to their need for work - life balance.

Bob Reiss is the author of Bootstrapping 101: Tips to Build Your Business with Limited Cash and Free Outside Help, and has been involved in 16 start - ups and has been the subject of two Harvard case studies, in addition to speaking frequently at university entrepreneurial classes.

In one of Kilduff's studies, he had subjects face - off against a simulated opponent to complete a typing contest.

The study, which wasn't named in Hollauf's column, found that subjects spent an average of only 31 seconds on their schoolwork before getting distracted by another task.

This time around, instead of having study subjects read a bit of Don DeLillo or Louise Erdrich, they asked more than 2,000 people how many of a long list of authors» names they recognized.

His findings feature in textbooks and management training courses, and his debut book, The Procrastination Equation, combines the first meta - analysis of the topic (encompassing some 800 studies) with original research, including some for which the professor served as his own subject.

This is a beginner's attitude of openness, eagerness and lack of preconceptions even when studying a subject at an advanced level.

That's in large part a byproduct of humanity's imperfection and what happens when, God forbid, young adults are allowed to study subjects in which they're interested.

The study subjects were then asked how many of the pairings they recalled 30 minutes after the memorization session, compared to after sleeping through the night with the distressing images still percolating in their brains.

The results showed that, after sleeping on the images, the study subjects were significantly less able to repress thoughts of the unsettling pictures.

Legendary physicist Feynman won the Nobel Prize for his work in one of the subjects that's the most difficult for the human mind to grasp — quantum mechanics — yet his top advice for accelerating learning is actually to make whatever you're studying as dead simple as possible.

Exactly how health and wellness impact a company's profits, particularly in Canada, may soon be better understood: the University of Western Ontario's Richard Ivey School of Business School has recently launched a five - year study of the subject, working in collaboration with the Sun Life Wellness Institute.

The classic study from Anthony Bastardi of Stanford and Eldar Shafir of Princeton presented research subjects with scenarios in which they needed to choose between two alternatives.

To examine the effect of strategic laziness on memory, the scientists asked a group of study subjects with brain injuries resulting in memory damage to try and memorize a list of words.

In a study done last month in the journal Environment and Behavior, researchers at Cornell University manipulated the gaze of the cartoon rabbit on Trix cereal boxes and found that adult subjects were more likely to choose Trix over competing brands if the rabbit was looking at them rather than away.

Millennials start companies in dorm rooms while studying the subject of starting companies in classrooms.

Today, Flocabulary has a library of more than 550 educational hip - hop videos that explore a wide range of subjects, including math, science, social studies, language arts, and current events, which are used by teachers in 20,000 schools across the country.

The researchers used something called Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) to stimulate an area of the brain associated with creativity while they asked study subjects to complete tests of verbal creativity, such as coming up with as many associations between a set of words as possible.

The series of studies led by New York University's Gabriele Oettingen tested the effects of positive thinking on subjects» moods, both in the moment and several months later.