Sentences with phrase «of subjects were studied»

The correlation of B12 deficiency with hyperhomocysteinemia could well reach statistical significance if a larger group of subjects were studied.»

Make sure the centre is allowed to offer the exam board of the subject you are studying (for example, AQA is not offered at any examination centre outside of the UK).

This way, not only do you earn side income to pay your tuition but you also improve your overall knowledge of the subject you're studying and increase your chances of success.

Students must be able to construct a solid paragraph in which their ideas and opinions are supported, and they can demonstrate understanding of the subjects they are studying.

It contrasts with the method, known as longitudinal study, where the same group of subjects is studied over time.

Not exact matches

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.

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

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

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

It's a subject most of us could benefit from studying up on, but in an interview Vanderkam explained that when it comes to thinking about personal finances in a constructive way, entrepreneurs generally have a leg up over salaried workers.

The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Sydney and examined three groups of students, who were tasked with completing an «alternate uses» test — a common creativity drill wherein subjects are given an object and asked to come up with as many uses for it as they can.

As another school year begins, artistic - minded students (and their parents) are once again wrestling with the age - old question of whether one should indulge an enthusiasm for music, literature or other fine - arts subjects at school, or instead study something more... shall we say... employable?

Choosing to photograph on the street as her way of studying the fashion world, Jeng focuses her time in NYC — and the city is as much a character as the stylish subjects on her blog «The NYC Streets.»

When researchers out of Russia examined the sleep and wakefulness rhythms of 130 study subjects (by keeping the obliging participants up for a full 24 hours and quizzing them periodically about how they were feeling), the scientists found that some folks really didn't prefer early or late hours.

PsyBlog explains the research on the subject: «In the study, one group of participants were allowed to get a full nights» sleep, while another had to stay up all night.

PsyBlog recently rounded up a long list of them culled from a journal article on the subject (though the post notes that some of these ideas are only supported by preliminary studies and require more research).

The results suggest that the novelty of being research subjects can prompt people to change their behaviour while they're being studied.

First, to determine if this effect was in fact true, the researchers conducted a series of lab experiments in which they asked study subjects to talk about products both face to face and through text messaging.

The series of studies tested the effects of power hierarchies on team productivity by creating teams with either a mixed propensity towards leadership — in one case some participants were primed to feel powerful by thinking of a time they wielded power over others while others subjects were asked to envision a time they were bossed around before joining the group — or teams made up entirely of hard charging leadership types or participants primed for a meeker, go along, get along approach.

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.

To figure out what can relieve our sense of time pressure, Norton conducted a series of experiments that gave some study subjects an unexpected block of free time, by sending them home 15 minutes early from an experiment they were told would take an hour for example.

In the two years I've been writing about open - plan offices, I've read dozens of scientific studies on the subject, all of which point out that they're a productivity disaster.

Then the team retrieved the devices, crunched the stored data, and determined how often the study subjects actually got off of their butts during that period and for how long — whether they were at home, at work, or someplace else.

Take a much - trumpeted 2014 study out of MIT, in which research subjects underwent work trials with both human and robots in charge and found they preferred being managed by the machines.

Studies in behavioral finance, which look into the effects of investor psychology on stock prices, also reveal investors are subject to many biases such as confirmation, loss aversion and overconfidence biases.