Sentences with phrase «other group of participants»

Not exact matches

The data sets aren't huge — 232 participants in October before the election and 152 after, with a total of 772 negotiations recorded — and there may be some other difference that explains the later group's more aggressive behavior, though Low tried to control for factors, like party affiliation, that might offer alternate explanations for the shift.

In a study from the University of British Columbia, researchers assigned 124 participants — students, financial analysts, medical professionals and other adults — into one of two groups over two weeks.

«There were lots of times where we would have pitch practice or other group check - ins and only half the participants would show,» Sadler says.

For instance, one study randomly assigned participants to one of two groups: One group's members spent time on their social media pages, and the other group simply surfed the Internet.

The researchers had two groups of participants complete two versions of attention - testing tasks: one simple and the other challenging.

Researchers have also found that some participants of brainstorming sessions tend to engage in «social loafing,» meaning they put in less effort because responsibility is shared with other group members.

Sixty - eight new participants were divided into 17 groups of four for a brief post-screening chat; in each group, one person had seen the highly rated film, while the other three had watched the not - so - great alternative.

The study simulated a negotiation in the context of resource allocation, in which one group of participants was given the opportunity to voice their opinions prior to the final decision, and the other group was not.

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 the second experiment, 109 participants, also business students, were split in half, with one group getting uninterrupted sleep, and the other deprived of it.

Among the many scheduled American participants were the political advisor to the head of the U.S. Northern Command, the president for the Americas of Lockheed Martin Corporation, the senior director for the Western Hemisphere of the American National Security Council, the U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Carla Hills (who was the primary U.S. NAFTA negotiator), the senior United States Air Force military assistant to the then secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, the commander of U.S. Northern Command, the chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology, Dr. James Schlesinger, the former American secretary of energy & defense, the deputy secretary of energy, plus many other top business, government and military officials, plus representatives of similar groups from Mexico.

Kate Mitchell, managing director at the venture capital firm Scale Venture Partners and a co-chairwoman of a National Venture Capital Association task force on diversity, said her group was working with Project Include because of its tech - centric, start - up approach to sharing data and information with other participants.

Participants in the experiment included Goldman Sachs Asset Management, the fund management arm of Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N), Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) and Legg Mason Inc's (LM.N) Western Asset and other investors in the certificate of deposit.

Half of the participants were then asked to remember a time they behaved ethically, while the other group remembered past unethical behavior.

A useful group - life checklist allowing participants to rate a group on communication, acceptance of persons, leadership, climate of relationships, and other aspects can be found in Philip Anderson's Church Meetings that Matter.10 Evaluation is not a frill; rather it is essential to discovering what you are accomplishing in groups and how you can do better.

The overwhelming majority of participants are Christians of various denominations, but 2 percent are Jewish, 2 percent Unitarian - Universalist, a number are Muslim and a scattering belong to other groups — Baha'i, Buddhist and so on.

What we shall be considering is the relatively close - knit unit or group, composed of a few people — normatively, of course, a family in the ordinary sense but also other possible associations that involve the presence of a person with several others, so that there can be an expression of belonging, with mutual love and concern, sympathy, and understanding, and hence the opportunity and occasion for enrichment and growth in each of the participants.

But other participants in the oppositional groups agreed more with sociologist Ehrhart Neubert, who maintained that dehumanizing forms of socialism were themselves generating and perpetuating marginal forms of religious life.

Then the participants are asked to take their several pictures into a previously arranged small group of six or seven persons — or fewer depending on the allotted time — and, using the go - around technique, share with each other what the pictures mean to them.

(4) Participants can discover and practice styles of communication that reduce polarization and increase understanding — owning and expressing one's own needs rather than trying to convert the other, listening with understanding, etc. (5) If the group learns these bridge - building skills, it can break out of the win - lose struggle and achieve a degree of difference - respecting, collaborative intergroup relationships.

She found the other participants from a multiples support group she is a part of; the other moms brought the «weapons» and she brought her camera to an open space in Westminster, Colorado to enact the destruction.

Based on her own positive experience with a moms group in New York City when her daughter was born, Szmulewitz wanted to create an environment where women could «come together with a group of others who are sharing in the same challenging experiences and learn from the other participants and the expertise of the facilitator.»

Other difficulties when conducting or evaluating research in this area include ensuring the equivalency of the control and experimental groups in randomized controlled trials (RCTs), 10 controlling for participant attrition (which may affect the validity of findings by reducing group equivalence) and missed visits (which may affect validity by reducing program intensity), 11 documenting that the program was fully and accurately implemented, and determining whether the program's theory of change logically connects program activities with intended outcomes.

One randomized controlled trial comparing home - visited families with control participants who received other community services found a statistically significant difference in mean depressive symptoms at two years post-enrollment, but this contrast was nonsignificant at three years post - enrollment.15 A second study of Early Head Start found no differences in depressive symptoms between intervention and control group participants post-intervention, although a difference was detected at a longer - term follow - up prior to children's enrollment in kindergarten.10 Other randomized controlled trial studies have not found effects of home visitation on maternal depressive symptoms.12, other community services found a statistically significant difference in mean depressive symptoms at two years post-enrollment, but this contrast was nonsignificant at three years post - enrollment.15 A second study of Early Head Start found no differences in depressive symptoms between intervention and control group participants post-intervention, although a difference was detected at a longer - term follow - up prior to children's enrollment in kindergarten.10 Other randomized controlled trial studies have not found effects of home visitation on maternal depressive symptoms.12, Other randomized controlled trial studies have not found effects of home visitation on maternal depressive symptoms.12, 16,17

Your group of 10 - 20 participants will come together at your organization's location or other location of your choice.

Most of the breastfeeding and other data were collected by a researcher who was not aware of the participants» group, and no data were collected by the LC who delivered the intervention.

Interestingly, for a third group of participants who were given only a perfunctory summary of the policy and no information about the distribution of benefits, opinion became even more favourable toward the HMID and other regressive policies than for the control group who were given no information at all.

They then compared those EEG measurements to those in two other conditions: one, in which 20 audience members were watching a recording of the first concert on a large movie screen with audio identical to the live concert; and another in which 20 participants in small groups of 2 were seated apart while they observed the recorded musical performance.

They add: «The greatest reduction in risk of developing metabolic risk factor clustering observed for intermediate levels of physical activity and leisure time sitting was unexpected and suggests that moderate amounts of both moderate - to - vigorous physical activity and leisure time sitting may be sufficient to protect against developing metabolic risk factor clustering over time... The lack of protection for the most active adults may reflect a chance finding, or confounding by other factors such as wider use of prescription drugs by participants in less active groups.

The findings were independent of other risk factors such as diabetes, and are based on data from 23,376 participants which aimed to evaluate the associations between smoking, smoking cessation and tooth loss in three different age groups.

The other half of study participants served as a control group and took part in an online program unrelated to sexuality or sexual health.

After several months of computer training, the participant pairs then joined to form a small group focused on social cognition, or thinking abilities involved in understanding others and processing social information.

Across two different cohorts of students in a college statistics class, the researchers randomly assigned half the student participants to receive the intervention prompt; the other half received no prompt, serving as the comparison group.

The last group, «injurious victim - perpetrators,» made up only 7 percent of survey respondents and were distinguished as being injured almost monthly - but were no more likely to carry or threaten people with weapons than other participants.

A group of Harvard epidemiologists analyzed data from the 121,700 - participant, three - decade - long Nurses» Health Study and found that middle - aged women who drink a glass of wine a day (or its equivalent) are 20 percent less likely than nondrinkers to suffer from age - related memory impairment and other cognitive problems later in life.

Participants employed in care work were more often exposed to sexual harassment by clients or customers — 152 out of 2191 (6.9 %)-- than participants employed in other occupational groups such as education, service or induParticipants employed in care work were more often exposed to sexual harassment by clients or customers — 152 out of 2191 (6.9 %)-- than participants employed in other occupational groups such as education, service or induparticipants employed in other occupational groups such as education, service or industrial work.

In line with other trials of a similar nature, drop - out rates were around 20 % and around a third of participants in both groups did not attend the minimum number of therapy sessions.

Approximately 15 percent of the participants were Caucasian, just over 70 percent were Hispanic and nearly 10 percent were African - American, with less than 5 percent a combination of other racial or ethnic groups.

Other participants read a «high - risk» message that focused instead on the consequences of the disease, including the fact that the mortality rate is as high as 40 % in some age groups.

One group was given 225 mg of the drug twice a day for 12 weeks and the other participants were assigned to a placebo group.

A control group of nine individuals were provided sham neurofeedback — they performed the same tasks as the other group, but the feedback came not from them but from a random participant.

What's really impressive about Babar's accomplishment is that he did the work for both papers — one on the role of a population of stem cells in lung cancer development (published in Cell) the other on gene expression in group A Streptococcus (published in PNAS)-- as a participant in summer undergraduate research programs.

The study was the first randomized - controlled trial to examine the potential benefits of the low fat diet on the management of MS.. The study found no significant differences between the two groups in brain lesions detected on MRI brain scans or on other measures of MS.. But while the number of trial participants was relatively small, study leaders believe the significantly improved fatigue symptoms merited further and larger studies of the diet.

«Although electronic alcohol screening and brief counseling interventions may have effects on participants among subgroups of university students or among other groups, the results of this study and others suggest that the effect of this type of intervention among university students is modest at best,» write Timothy S. Naimi, M.D., M.P.H., of Boston Medical Center, Boston, and Thomas B. Cole, M.D., M.P.H., of JAMA, Chicago, in an accompanying editorial.

Unbeknownst to the participants, the researchers had provided one group of diners with normal - size lunch portions for the blind meal, whereas the other group received supersize versions.

A total of 438 participants were split into two groups; one group was assessed using the app and the other was assessed using a gold - standard traditional physical examination (known as the Allen test).

Some of the participants, all 18 - to 20 - year - old men, were randomly assigned to complete the experiment alone, while others completed the task in a group of three same - aged peers or two same - aged peers and one slightly older male.

During the study, 1,003 of the participants died, including 339 deaths, or 34 percent, among those with the fastest decline in thinking skills and 664 deaths, or 66 percent, among those in the other two groups.

Explaining what they expected to see, Dr Gregory said: «We thought that when participants believed that they would be meeting the people in the scene, they would have their attention drawn towards the faces of those people more readily, and look where they looked more often, than the other two groups as the people would be most socially relevant to the participants.»

The students then rated statements designed to measure how they felt about their group (e.g., «I feel part of this group of participants,» «I feel a sense of loyalty to the other participants»).