Sentences with phrase «perform controlled studies»

Maarten Hendrik Moen and colleagues performed a controlled study in 2012.

Proponents of the idea of multiple personalities have also performed controlled studies of biological differences among alters, revealing that they may differ in respiration rate, brain - wave patterns and skin conductance, the last being an accepted measure of arousal.

We also performed a control study with 35 age and gender - matched healthy control participants (HC) who performed the assessments for 6 weeks.

Not exact matches

However, a study performed at Edinburgh University found that much of our predisposition toward determination, sociability, self - control, and sense of purpose is in our genes.

For the study, the researchers split socially anxious volunteers into three groups — one was asked to perform random acts of kindness, one was told to follow the usual course of exposure therapy and force themselves to participate in more social situations, and another was a control group who did nothing special.

Some football helmet manufacturers suggest that players who wear their helmets - especially new models - may be at lower risk of concussion than those who wear competitors» models or older helmets, basing their claims on how well the new or newer helmets absorb and lessen some of the impact forces that cause concussion in biomechanical studies performed in the controlled environment of the laboratory.

The Standardized Assessment of Concussion had performed rather miserably, correctly identifying only two of the concussed athletes, missing 10, and finding that three of the uninjured control athletes had supposedly sustained a concussion, since their scores had declined compared with their baseline (almost certainly, the study's authors believe, because these young athletes were physically tired).

Grunebaum and colleagues (2013) performed this study by analyzing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data and found that babies delivered at home were almost 4 times more likely to die than babies delivered in hospitals.

To determine whether the presence and strength of the associations between individual risk factors and severe PPH vary among women undergoing prelabor CD or intrapartum CD, stratified analyses are needed according to CD subtype.To identify risk factors for severe PPH within 2 distinct CD populations, prelabor CD and intrapartum CD, we performed 2 case - control studies.

The aim of this study was to evaluate adherence to the Neonatal Resuscitation Program algorithm by subjects working from memory as compared to subjects using a decision support tool that provides auditory and visual prompts to guide implementation of the Neonatal Resuscitation Program algorithm during simulated neonatal resuscitation.Healthcare professionals (physicians, nurse practitioners, obstetrical / neonatal nurses) with a current NRP card were randomized to the control or intervention group and performed three simulated neonatal resuscitations.

Case reports of a cluster of deaths shortly after immunization with diphtheria - tetanus - pertussis in the late 1970s created concern of a possible causal relationship between vaccinations and SIDS.312, — , 315 Case - control studies were performed to evaluate this temporal association.

In order to determine if TUH's SAFE - T program was effective in reducing the rates of bed - sharing, the Temple research team performed a prospective, controlled, interrupted time series study utilizing mothers and infants who were discharged together between January 1, 2015 and November 15, 2016.

Objective: We performed a meta - analysis to summarize available evidence of the association between breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration and EOC risk from published cohort and case - control studies.

A study of mental functioning in alcoholic patients found that they performed less well than a control group in choosing the correct punchline for a joke.

A similar study was performed by the same team in 2008 using older data from a survey conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

«By taking the brain signals generated when Bill attempts to move, and using them to control the stimulation of his arm and hand, he was able to perform personal functions that were important to him,» said Bolu Ajiboye, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and lead study author.

The new study revealed the Ebola VP40 protein assumes different structures to perform multiple roles in the virus's life cycle — membrane trafficking, virus assembly and control of replication.

(1) In this study — the LIFEstyle study performed in the Netherlands — 290 women were assigned to a 6 - month lifestyle - intervention programme preceding 18 months of infertility treatment (intervention group) while 287 women were assigned to prompt infertility treatment over the same 24 month study period (control group).

In their latest study, the researchers designed and tested the instrument, which could simultaneously perform four RT - PCRs that included two controls and two patient blood samples.

In order to determine if TUH's SAFE - T program was effective in reducing the rates of bed - sharing, the Temple research team performed a prospective, controlled, interrupted time series study utilizing mothers and infants who were discharged together between January 1, 2015 and November 15, 2016.

But that study, performed in the Czech Republic, probably wouldn't pass muster today: For starters, there was no control group, no standards about who entered the study and no information about the timing of birth or placenta eating.

In future studies, scientists will test how the Tongue Drive System performs outside of the controlled clinical environment.

In other studies, scientists have documented the ecological functions that birds perform, such as seed dispersal, pollination and herbivore control.

In their study (1), Sebastiani et al. used a number of different genotyping platforms and neglected to perform data quality - control steps, which resulted in their reporting several false - positive single - nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) associations.

Other teams have performed optogenetic studies and controlled individual neurons on immobilized worms.

The short note, by Editor - in - Chief Bruce Alberts, acknowledged that the study's authors «used a number of different genotyping platforms and neglected to perform data - quality control steps, which resulted in their reporting several false - positive single - nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) associations.»

«But we think it's possible that studying reduced cognitive control can help us understand how older adults can still perform independently and successfully in their lives.»

Control studies were performed using cells expressing either wild - type PREX2 or green fluorescent protein (GFP).

The current study included 23 young and healthy men and women who performed supervised one - legged cycling, where the untrained leg served as a control.

By studying healthy nerve cells and cells from people with neurodegenerative diseases, Evans plans to find out how nerve cells perform this important quality control, and how the process might be corrected when something goes wrong.

In this study, 41 people with MS and 32 healthy controls were tested with BICAMS and evaluated for their ability to perform AR tasks of accessing the internet via computer and ordering cookies or airline tickets.

He initially performed both neutronics — the study of neutrons that emerge from plasmas — and plasma control calculations for the design of the Burning Plasma Experiment (BPX), a fusion facility that was targeted to produce about 100 - 500 megawatts of fusion power, which at a minimum would equal the heating power but was hoped to exceed it.

To study brain changes involved in IED, Coccaro and his colleagues performed high - resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans in 168 people, including 57 who were diagnosed with IED, 53 healthy control subjects and another 58 control patients with psychiatric diagnoses.

Data generated in the lab have contributed to several international T2D consortia including the Meta - analysis of T2D in African Americans (MEDIA) Consortium that has performed meta - analysis of 17 genome - wide association studies (GWAS) for T2D in over 8,000 cases and 16,000 controls.

With the aim of searching for sequence variants that predispose to SSS, a genome - wide association study was performed including 792 Icelanders with SSS and 37,592 Icelandic controls.

To determine DAXX binding sites in the PCa genome, specifically in the PC3 cell line (derived from bone metastasis of a human PCa case [19]-RRB-, we generated a stable shRNA knockdown (K / D) PC3 cell line and a control shRNA counterpart [Submitted], and performed a ChIP - Seq study.

We found no evidence of infection with XMRV among persons with CFS or matched healthy controls from the US by testing with multiple serologic and PCR assays performed independently in three laboratories blinded to the clinical status of the study participants.

One current limitation of our study, and of others performing serologic and PCR testing for XMRV, is the absence of bona fide positive and negative control specimens from infected and uninfected humans to determine the analytical sensitivity and specificity of the detection assays.

We also performed subgroup meta - analyses by type of prevention (primary v secondary: in this study, trials involving healthy populations or patients with any specific disease except for cardiovascular disease were classified as primary prevention trials, and trials involving patients with cardiovascular disease were classified as secondary prevention trials), type of supplement by quality and dose (each supplement, vitamins only, antioxidants only, or antioxidants excluding vitamins), type of outcome (cardiovascular death, angina, fatal or non-fatal myocardial infarction, stroke, or transient ischaemic attack), type of outcome in each supplement, type of study design (randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial v open label, randomised controlled trial), methodological quality (high v low), duration of treatment (< 5 years v ≥ 5 years), funding source (pharmaceutical industry v independent organisation), provider of supplements (pharmaceutical industry v not pharmaceutical industry), type of control (placebo v no placebo), number of participants (≥ 10000 v < 10000), and supplements given singly or in combination with other vitamin or antioxidant supplements by quality.

Methods: We performed a nested case - control study using register - based data from a Finnish nationwide MEDALZ cohort including all community - dwelling persons diagnosed with AD during 2005 — 2011.

To more fully explore cardiac physiology, we performed additional echocardiographic studies in another cohort of animals: 26 - month - old animals in which rapamycin or vehicle treatment was started at 13 months of age, along with 3 - to 4 - month - old young controls fed vehicle diet.

In a study at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, people who received high doses of the stress hormone cortisol daily for four days performed worse on recall tests than those in the control group.

In the study, a group of nine male subjects performed high - velocity push - ups before attempting their 1RM bench press, while the control group performed only regular - speed push - ups.

In one study, older adults who watched either a Red Skelton comedy or a montage of America's Funniest Home Videos performed better on memory tasks than a control group who sat calmly for the same period of time.

A recent Colorado State University study found that Bikram yoga — a form of yoga in which a series of 26 postures are performed for 90 minutes in a heated room — is linked with increased shoulder, lower back and hamstring flexibility, as well as greater deadlift strength and decreased body fat, compared with a control group.

An earlier study concluded that one year after being treated for back pain, only 30 percent of a group of volunteers who performed exercises for multifidus had a recurrence of pain; 84 percent of the non-exercising control group still experienced flare - ups of pain at the one - year mark.

The study's control group who only performed moderate intensity (65 - 80 % VO2 Max) cardio for 3 times a week lost 71.8 % more weight during their 4 month long study than the group who only performed 3 times a week of resistance training that consisted of 3 sets of 8 exercises with a repetition range of 8 - 12.

In a study performed at the Sao Paulo state university in Brazil, 80 women participated in a double blind, randomized, placebo controlled study.

A placebo - controlled double - blind (PCDB) study performed in the United Kingdom followed 46 men with stable angina randomized to receive either a 5 - mg testosterone patch or placebo in addition to their current medicines for 12 weeks.

One study in overweight adults with type 2 diabetes found that a high - MUFA diet led to significant reductions in liver fat compared to a control diet, regardless of how much physical activity each group performed (27).