Sentences with phrase «participants of scientific studies»

But this and other efforts should, at the very least, reduce the chances that the contributions made by the youngest participants of scientific studies will be lost.

Not exact matches

«On March 23, 2013, 24 scientific study participants were injected with a dead strain of Escherichia coli, a bacteria that normally induces violent sickness for days on end.

The participants were M.I.T.'s Alan Guth, the developer of the inflationary model of the universe, Lawrence Krauss, a frequent contributor to Scientific American magazine and director of the Origins Initiative at Arizona State University, John Carlstrom from the University of Chicago, who studies the cosmic microwave background radiation left over from the big bang and Scott Dodelson of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, who studies the origin and structure of the universe.

The scientific team conducted two different analyses of blood samples involving two cohorts of study participants: 147 toddlers (91 with ASD, 56 control) in the first group, 73 toddlers (44 ASD, 29 control) in the second group.

Maria Carrillo, vice president of medical and scientific relations at the Alzheimer's Association, an advocacy group, applauds NIH's giving the trial a green light: Targeting the APOE4 population will «increase the possibility that participants in the trial will become symptomatic during the period of the study so that the scientists can assess whether the drug intervention is having an impact on delaying or preventing Alzheimer's symptoms, without having to wait 10 or 15 years or more,» she says.

Kühn hopes it will provide a more realistic scientific perspective on the effects of violent video gaming in real life, and that similar studies will be done using children as participants.

In a presentation of early clinical trial data to the 20th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Neuro - Oncology, physician scientists from the University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center reported that a large number of study participants responded well to the drug combination.

However, the vast majority of study participants also associated global warming with risks wholly contrary to scientific evidence, such as an increase in the incidence of skin cancer.

Yet, many long - running volunteer efforts did not originate with the specific purpose of understanding the consequences of global climate change, and as a result, most of these projects were not designed to foster communication of scientific findings back to project participants; this is particularly true for studies using data from online repositories.

Technical coordinator of a national convention in France involving industry and universities on the same subject Since 1992: Organizer of a cycle of international conferences on «Heavy scintillators for scientific and industrial applications» First one in Chamonix, France in 1992 (200 participants), 9th one in Winston Salem (NC, USA) in 2007 (300 participants) 1994 - 2007: As Technical coordinator of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter at the LHC Large Hadron Collider, responsible for the technical development and the mass production of 76» 000 Lead Tungstate crystals (100 tons) 1994 - 2000: Organizer of the development and mass production organization of Lutetium Aluminum perovskite crystals, in particular for PET scanner applications Since 2000: Strong involvement in the development of dedicated breast imaging camera combining several modalities for a multiparametric evaluation of breast tumors (anatomic, structural and functional) Since 2002: Feasibility study and setting - up of an international medical imaging research centre, presently being built in Marseille (Cerimed)

We believe that rapid data release, particularly for studies involving human subjects and valuable samples, better serves the scientific community as well as the participants in the study than does the standard practice of data release after publication.

For example, a lot of scientific studies (including nutrition ones) exclude women participants due to the effect the menstrual cycle has on metabolism.

Participants will discover the techniques of studying river courses and conduct research under the guidance of scientific educators with the Swiss - based NGO

Recognizing that priorities for both laboratory - based investigation and community - based action are determined by the meeting participants, a preliminary menu of potential topics includes the following: 1) Advancing the frontiers of scientific research: • construct a developmental framework to study the differential effects of biological embedding of significant adversity related to age, beginning in the prenatal period and extending into adulthood.

During the course of this Programme, participants will all be immersed in different scientific studies and projects relating to aquatic life in forests and highlands.

For example, in a recent study of preservice teachers» conceptions of lunar phases, researchers reported pre - to postinstructional gains in scientific conceptions of more than 80 % for participants who used an astronomy simulation in the context of inquiry instruction (Bell & Trundle, 2008).

This report collects the results of all available empirical studies using the best available scientific methods to measure how school vouchers affect academic outcomes for participants, and all available studies on how vouchers affect outcomes in public schools.

Greg Forster of the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice collected the results of all available empirical studies using the best available scientific methods to measure how school vouchers affect academic outcomes for participants, and all available studies on how vouchers affect outcomes in public schools.

This quarterly digital update gives you the latest information on the study, as well as scientific highlights and a chance to meet some of our enrolled participants.

IIRC even as late as 1995, it was necessary for the summary for policymakers to substantially misrepresent the scientific opinions of the participants in the study.

Study 3 used a blind test in which participants did not know what (anonymized) content they were judging and what the study was about, so this is fairly strong evidence that blogosphere material was not providing a trenchant criticism of scientific Study 3 used a blind test in which participants did not know what (anonymized) content they were judging and what the study was about, so this is fairly strong evidence that blogosphere material was not providing a trenchant criticism of scientific study was about, so this is fairly strong evidence that blogosphere material was not providing a trenchant criticism of scientific work.

Specifically, the information on geoengineering that was presented to the study participants (in the form of a fictional newspaper article) bears no relation to mainstream scientific opinion on geoengineering nor, even, to the opinions of advocates of geoengineering.

The book's wide - ranging exploration of scientific studies and the encouragement to people of every age to become citizen scientists and active participants for change make this a valuable purchase.

Participants considered the importance of land ECVs in terms of scientific impact and the availability of longer - term data sets for comparison and study.

Participants in a year - long study who doubted the scientific consensus on the issue «opposed policy solutions,» but at the same time, they «were most likely to report engaging in individual - level, pro-environmental behaviors,» writes a research team led by University of Michigan psychologist Michael Hall.

To be reliable, scientific studies have to have a lot of participants, be double - blind (meaning nobody knows who's getting what), and study subjects have to be randomly assigned to treatment, no treatment, or placebo.

The only scientific research suggesting that secret relationships might be fun and exciting comes from a set of studies published two decades ago in which college student participants reported that having a secret crush is «hot» and that playing secret «footsie» underneath a table with an attractive stranger is exciting [4].

In order for the scientific discipline of psychology to exist, we need participants who are willing to take our studies, come to our labs, fill out our measures, or answer our questions online.