Sentences with phrase «of subjects were tested»

The religious attitudes of subjects were tested by Alport religious orientation inventory and their attachment style by Shiver and Hezen's adult attachment test and were tested according to the results of descriptive and inferential statistics methods.

When most of the subjects were tested again after six months, their processing times were the same as in their last training session.

There is no value in asking questions on a test paper which don't require any knowledge of the subject being tested.

Not exact matches

Scientists and educators have long noted that kids who have a positive attitude towards math do better in the subject, but is that just because acing tests naturally makes you enjoy something, or does the arrow of causation point the other way?

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

As of Jan. 1, home buyers with a down payment larger than 20 per cent seeking a mortgage from a federally regulated lender are now subject to a financial stress test.

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.»

The treatment was approved for the devastating rare disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy but created major divisions within the FDA because it simply hadn't demonstrated a whole lot of efficacy, meaning the pricey therapy is essentially being subjected to a real - world clinical test.

Another test to measure confidence involves standing up in front of a panel of VonChurch employees and speaking for two minutes on a subject an applicant is passionate about, and one that also demonstrates he or she has technical knowledge.

Preventable disparities in health outcomes continue for black, brown and Native people, communities of people who not that long ago may have also been unwitting medical test subjects.

Finally, all the subjects were tested on their recall of the words.

Outlining classic research from the 1970s and 80s done by a team out of Yale on the subject, Konnikova explains that after months of interviews and a barrage of psychological tests, the researchers «found, unsurprisingly, that blocked writers were unhappy.»

While star Ryan Reynolds has remained somewhat mum on the subject, what is known is that someone leaked test footage of the movie online.

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.

In addition, Lithium Australia will be issued with up to a further 4m MetalsTech shares and 3m options subject to a number of milestones being met including bench scale testing, pilot plant testing, feasibility, offtake, plant construction and production performance.

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.

This lack of collaboration had gone unnoticed because the system was tested in conditions that were highly controlled, rather than being subjected to an open beta test.

Older subjects with greater intakes of fruits and vegetables, and the corresponding nutrients vitamin C and folate, have been shown to perform better on cognitive tests (Ortega et al., 1997).

The provision of the bill that has garnered the most attention is one that would raise the threshold at which banks are subject to certain federal oversight, including stress tests that measure a bank's ability to withstand an economic downturn.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration gave a perfect five - star crash rating on the Tesla Model X after the electric SUV was subjected to a series of crash tests.

In addition to being ambiguous, we also share the perspective that the Alice / Mayo test unduly restricts the scope of eligible subject matter.

These individual - level accuracy maps were then smoothed with a 3 - mm FWHM kernel, warped to Talairach space, and the group of subjects» maps was submitted to a directional one - sample t test against 0.25 to determine whether any regions reliably encoded information about the identity of the agent or patient across subjects.

The USPTO Diverges in Use of the Markedly Different Test The «markedly different» test focuses on whether claimed subject matter is structurally or functionally different relative to a naturally occurring counterpart or set of counterpaTest The «markedly different» test focuses on whether claimed subject matter is structurally or functionally different relative to a naturally occurring counterpart or set of counterpatest focuses on whether claimed subject matter is structurally or functionally different relative to a naturally occurring counterpart or set of counterparts.

Reduced affordability, while challenging for first - timers, may prove to be more of a surprise for move - up clients who anticipated greater leverage on their home equity; should those clients break existing mortgages upon their move, they will also be subjected to stress testing.

Although approximately 30 % of 401k plans subject to ADP / ACP testing fail, it's an outcome most small businesses want to avoid.

«Drug testing,» as Elliott notes, «has always involved a kind of moral trade - off in which subjects are asked to take risks for the good of other people.»

It tells the story of «the guinea pigs»» the people most likely to be research subjects in Phase I trials, which test the safety of a drug under development by giving it to healthy subjects and examining any side effects they experience.

On April 26, 2012, the results of a study which tested their subjects» pro-social sentiments were published in the Social Psychological and Personality Science journal in which non-religious people had higher scores showing that they were more inclined to show generosity in random acts of kindness, such as lending their po.sse.ssions and offering a seat on a crowded bus or train.

Actually the Bible has been subject to the most stringent of testing of its history and accuracy.

of the Constitution of the United States is very clear on this subject: «but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.»

She must return a third time for the ingestion of the second drug (misoprostol, used both in RU - 486 and the new «abortion cocktail»), whereupon she is subjected to a second pelvic examination as well as to an elaborate mix of blood tests.

It is customary and even ethically mandatory that experimentation that carries with it a substantial degree of risk to human subjects first be tested in an animal laboratory or, at the very least, on a computer model.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

I had a Geology professor once who candidly stated that the subject of Evolution would come up frequently during the semester, that if anyone felt uncomfortable it, to remember one thing: You «are not» required to «believe» any of the theories discussed in this class; however, you «are» required to «know» the materiel well enough to pass the written tests».

Any strong intuitive conviction must be subjected to two tests: First, does it square with what we know of God through Jesus?

The beasts may be mentioned simply to accentuate the loneliness of the desert as a place of testing and struggle, but more probably, as D. E. Nineham suggests, «they are thought of as subject and friendly to» Jesus, and, hence, «the passage should be understood against the background of the common Jewish idea that the beasts are subject to the righteous man.»

The detailed knowledge of the Precision stage is kept from being «inert» because the student tests it against the knowledge learned in the Romance stage and against the background knowledge he or she brought to the subject originally.

In Matthew one house is founded directly on rock and the other on sand; and the test to which they are subjected consists of rain, floods, and wind.

Second, the symbolization involved is governed by modes of creation and association characteristic of the unconscious and not subject to testing against receptive awareness.

Such arguments as «the Church teaches --» were destined to become less and less sufficient to win immediate acceptance for the ideas they prefaced The validity of traditions was questioned; general beliefs about physical phenomena were subjected to various tests.

This thing, however, of becoming the Emperor's son - in - law might readily be subjected to the tests of reality, so that the laborer would he able to ascertain how far the Emperor was serious in this matter, or whether he merely wanted to make fun of the poor fellow, render him unhappy for the rest of his life, and help him to find his way to the mad - house; for the quid nimis is in evidence, which with such infinite ease can turn into its opposite.

On the other hand, every propositional formulation of the truth that is disclosed, even that through which we come to the meeting with God in Christ, is subject to human error and must be tested against the revelation itself.

However, spiritual matters, which are not subject to empirical testing (there is no way to physically measure love) should be tested in the crucible of human experience and present statistical evidence by consensual (that is consensus, not consent) validation before being granted the status of a universal principle or dogma.

Here's a description of the latest such nonsense based on eye movement tests of subjects reacting to pleasant or unpleasant images.

That's about par for the course for a movie of its subject matter and release, but Easter weekend will be the true litmus test for Paul, Imagine and the forthcoming God's Not Dead sequel, God's Not Dead: A Light In Darkness.

At first I am not primarily concerned about the marital status of the parents and I do not subject them to any sort of test to ascertain their degree of practising or not practising of the faith.

These methods must provide ways rigorously to test and test again any claim to have discovered the truth about the subject under study, and the tests must be shown to be appropriate to the sort of thing being studied and to the sort of questions being asked about it.

This test of the strength of any intruding topic is healthy; where there is no planned order of subjects for preaching, the blank page for next Sunday hungrily welcomes every passing issue and invites it into the pulpit.

His book is an extended moral reflection on the subject, and it directly counters Rapp's argument that the overriding ethical concern attending prenatal testing is that of distributive justice.

Unlike peninsular constructs such as multiverse, which by themselves can not have any direct relation to the life - world, the construct of the visible universe possesses a heuristic quality of predicting some new properties of the universe that are subject to empirical testing (p. 289).