Sentences with phrase «own null results»

Finally, for the statistically significant associations of breastfeeding with later cognition, 95 % CIs were narrow and exclude a null result, but the lower confidence limits include values with little clinical importance.

In all five studies, null results were reported, and a mean difference in systolic blood pressure of 0.0 mmHg between breast - and bottle - fed subjects was assigned.

But if you look at 50, even if you don't find anything, that null result still says something very interesting about whether or not life is rare out there....

If they gave out Nobel Prizes for null results, these guys would be near the top of the list.

Farah isn't surprised at my own null results.

That's why, despite 45 years of null results, many of us are more convinced than ever that we are not alone.

Despite five decades of null results and chronic underfunding, he and his colleagues are more upbeat than ever.

«This is science, so null results about our nearest neighboring Sun - like stars are just as valuable as positive ones, although they don't generate a press release,» says Jared Males, an astronomer at the University of Arizona who is working on image - processing algorithms for Project Blue.

«Nonetheless, a null result is significant as it changes the landscape of the field by constraining models for what dark matter could be beyond anything that existed previously.»

One null result, of course, did not rid the universe of the ether.

Over the past several years the two groups have achieved broadly comparable null results.

One of the latest null results in the search for WIMPs came from the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment, a third of a ton of liquid xenon held at a frosty — 100 degrees Celsius inside a giant water - filled tank buried one and a half kilometers beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota.

It delivered a high - quality null result, the scientists» way of saying that they found exactly zero evidence for a great many of the hypothesized or allegedly detected dark matter particles.

Despite the null results, Moulton thinks scientists should keep studying psi.

The first null result this summer came from the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment, a third of a metric ton of liquid xenon held at a frosty − 100 degrees Celsius inside a giant, water - filled tank buried one and a half kilometers under the Black Hills of South Dakota.

The woman's three sisters had Down syndrome, and she had been terrified of passing on the disorder but got a null result.

In what's been called the most famous failed experiment ever, their null result suggested that there was something slightly wrong with the theory.

On the other hand, studies that find no correlation — negative or null results — are tough to find (if they're published at all).

Luckily, there's now an app for finding those null results: BioNOT, a new search engine developed by biomedical informatician Hong Yu and graduate student Shashank Agarwal at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

«Null results are usually not very interesting, but in this case, it is.»

This null result prompts the question of what — if anything — was wrong with the original paper.

Journals should also devote more space to publish both replication studies and null results, the group says.

Drever has carried out experiments in a number of areas of physics, including spectroscopic measurements to look for anisotropy of mass and space - his null results providing accurate confirmations of both special and general relativity.

Benjamin Solomon, MBBS, PhD, of Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, said the null results of this study are quite clear, but there remains no obvious way to choose which patients should receive cetuximab.

«It's a very compelling null result which tells us that almost certainly CRP does not cause atherosclerosis and does not cause heart attacks.»

Fourthly, as with all observational studies, residual confounding by other factors can not be totally excluded; however, the consistently observed null results in both men and women argued against missing strong associations.

The fact that stretching and yoga turned out to produce the same results should really be viewed as a null result.

Therefore, their null result speaks more of adaptation effects rather than baseline sleep.

Ten percent might even be a high estimate, considering that researchers often don't publish studies with null results.

Moreover, although many have lamented the shortage of interventions with positive results in the What Works Clearinghouse, even null results represent progress.

If she included the other random - assignment studies, her readers would learn that only one shows null results, and the rest demonstrate significant benefits, at least for African American students.

One study in North Carolina finds null results overall and some negative results for student subgroups for a similar approach implemented as part of that state's Race to the Top program.

The null results from most studies contrast with some recent evidence suggesting that programs that combine value - added with other measures of performance, or which use only other measures, can lead to improvement.

In another blog post, AU does point to the one gold standard study that found a null result, a reexamination of the Peterson / Howell study of New York's private scholarship program.

Similar studies of teacher merit pay have shown null results in New York City and Chicago.

We are therefore confident that the null result in experiment 2 was not due to lack of power.

This supports the use of these stimuli and highlights that the null result found in this experiment is unlikely to be due to failures in producing authentic DDS or ADS when the content is reversed.

It is, however, possible that alternative explanations of the null result with adult dogs exist.

Together the effect sizes and power analysis indicate that experiment 2 had sufficient power to find differences similar to those found in experiment 1, had they existed, and therefore, we can be relatively confident in this null result.

Fahy illustrates one by citing a recent piece by Dan Vergano of USA Today in which Vergano explores the «file - drawer effect» — what appears to be a growing tendency of researchers to avoid publishing negative or null results.

They are «traceable» to a common underestimation of the prevalence and magnitude of random variation, and the desire of investigators to be associated with «discoveries» instead of null results.

The trees may be better at this than Roger Pielke Jr., who seems dedicated to building a career on null results.

We live in an insane age that punishes null results — all scientific research is currently geared towards three year renewable grant cycles so the entire concept of longer term research projects or goals is vanishing from science.

It is possible that this null result is partly due to the method of analysis, but it is also attributable to the timing of the annual peak streamflow discharge, which in the United States is usually in late winter or early spring.

What this says to me is that Steve McIntyre's proposal to explain away Parker's null result for the UHI increase is not plausible.

I would conclude that a null result for most sites is very convenient

You proposed to explain Parker's null result in seeking a trend in calm - day vs. windy - day signals by assuming a windy - day mixing of non-local (Suburban) air with the local (Airport) air.

I'd say Parker got a null result because he was looking at the wrong parameter.

Thus, by using local trends, you are pulling for the null result you got, because the places that had hot outliers would have higher trends, so the hot outliers would appear smaller in your metric?

Some people (no link, sorry) have noted that the only experiments getting actual null results were done in vacuum or solid material (fiber)-- most experiments in air (or other gases) got some shift that correlated with interferometer position w.r.t. the celestial sphere, not the Earth coordinates, so that has kept speculation alive.