Sentences with phrase «period following the participant»

The five - year rule is satisfied if the distribution from the Roth account is made at the end of the 5 - year - taxable period following the participant's first Roth contribution.

Not exact matches

In the most recent period, following the tightening of monetary policy in May, market interest rates declined for a time as participants assessed that the cumulative tightening over the previous six months might have been sufficient to reduce the risks on inflation.

Since consumption of whole grain products and dietary fiber has been shown to reduce the risk of high blood pressure and heart attack, Harvard researchers decided to look at the effects of cereal consumption on heart failure risk and followed 21,376 participants in the Physicians Health Study over a period of 19.6 years.

Over half of participants (57 per cent) had experienced violence at least once in the 18 - month follow - up period, from the first question session.

Participants following a reduced carbohydrate diet reported a significant decrease in bodyweight, losing a median of 4.7 kg over a two year period compared to 2.9 kg lost by those consuming a low fat diet.

Participants must go to https://www.aaas.org/shr2018digital (the «Site»), during the Entry Period and follow the onscreen instructions.

Initially about one third of the 1,661 study participants received placebo, however the placebo group also received the vaccine 30 months into the study so those individuals were followed a shorter period of time, the researchers note.

A total of 19 prospective cohort studies with more than 760,000 participants were included in the analysis, and participants were followed for time periods ranging from four to 36 years.

Now it's time to do a larger - scale study, particularly in high - risk populations, and follow participants» progress for longer periods, Dong and Raed say.

Participants self - administered daily intranasal doses of theophylline for six weeks and had follow - up tests every two weeks during the study period.

She found that symptoms of depression, anxiety and guilt were more severe for those participants incarcerated during their follow up period.

The scientists used the following arrangement for their experiments: Over a period of ten minutes, 41 participants in the study were given painful heat stimuli to the hand which varied in intensity throughout the duration of the experiment.

Those who scored in the top - third in terms of adherence to the Mediterranean diet, indicating they closely followed the diet, were 47 percent less likely to develop heart disease over the 10 - year follow - up period as compared to participants who scored in the bottom - third, indicating they did not closely follow the diet.

All participants were followed over a period of nine months.

«Our study has several distinct strengths compared to prior studies including the large number of participants, long - term follow - up, large number of cardiovascular events that were confirmed by medical record review, detailed information about diet and other cardiovascular disease risk factors, and repeated assessment of calcium supplement use over the 24 - year follow up period,» said Julie Paik, MD, MPH, BWH Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, lead study author.

We will expand the study with children from the other participant countries and increase the follow - up period in comparison with our previous studies, from two to five years.

In both groups, participants consuming more than two servings a week of yogurt had an approximately 20 percent lower risks of major coronary heart disease or stroke during the follow - up period.

The 40 participants who remained in the study at this latest follow - up all reported that they continued some form of meditation practice over the seven - year period, equivalent to about an hour a day on average.

We have shown previously that Vasaloppet participants are less likely to die during the follow - up period than the general population and that mortality decreases with increasing numbers of races.

The researchers followed the 97 participants over a six - month follow - up period.

During this follow - up period, 919 participants experienced some form of arrhythmia (1.74 % of the total number of participants).

The participants were followed over a period of three years from 2010 to 2013.

The authors also caution that the follow - up period for participants in this trial was only six months per patient, so further research will be needed to see if there is a long term effect and whether maintaining the training period could help to extend the benefits of training.

During the four - week study period, participants completed a baseline survey and follow - up interviews at two and four weeks to determine the short - term impact of the ads.

After time was up, participants were shown a blank screen for a short period of time, followed by another group of objects.

After the initial 26 - week study period, all 62 participants followed the New Nordic Diet for another year.

We modelled age at risk as a time varying covariate, using Lexis expansion to stratify each participant into N observations, taking into account differing ages at risk over the follow - up period (14 - 16, 17 - 19, 20 - 22, 23 - 25, 26 - 27; Nmax = 5).

Participants were asked to fill out follow - up questionnaires each year until they got their first period.

Over an 18 - year follow - up period, 1,374 people (less than 1 % of all participants) were diagnosed with invasive melanoma.

During the follow - up period, more than 31,000 participants died of various causes.

Bernstein stressed, however, that while polyps were more likely in the supplement users, «no colon cancers were found in the follow - up period» among the study participants.

At the start of the study, blood caffeine levels were 51 % lower in participants identified as having mild cognitive impairment who progressed to Alzheimer's over the 2 to 4 year follow up compared to those whose mild cognitive impairment stayed stable throughout the same period.

The study protocol required participants to follow a VLCD for a period of four weeks after following a standard diet for two weeks.

Observation of participants over extended periods (follow - up rate of 12.7 years) allowed for comparing TSH serum levels in relation to irreversible neurological conditions such as Alzheimer's and dementia.

In another recent study using a nonrandomized design in which participants served as their own controls (81), individuals were followed for a period of 4 wk on their usual diet, followed by 12 wk of chickpea supplementation (mean 104 g / d, which is just over 0.5 c / d), then another 4 wk on their usual diet.

Participants not matched with a death record were considered to be alive through the entire follow - up period.

During that period I have witnessed the following to have taken place, either as an observer, as a participant in the event or as the one being helped through the Lord using the the members to help one another in chat.

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.

Participants can earn 25 SCECHs per school year, with a maximum of 75 in a 5 - year period, by fulfilling the following criteria:

I had attempted a similar project at the 3rd conference with my poster «Comparison of Climate Forecasts: Expert Opinions vs. Prediction Markets» in which my abstract proposed the following: «As an experiment, we will ask participants to go on the record with estimates of probability that the global temperature anomaly for calendar year 2012 will be equal to or greater than x, where x ranges in increments of 0.05 °C from 0.30 to 1.10 °C (relative to the 1951 - 1980 base period, and published by NASA GISS).»

During the follow - up period, 1,248 of the study participants were diagnosed with colorectal cancer.

Upon completion of the 12 - week intervention period, all participants were invited to complete a follow - up assessment.

Following Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) storage requirements, all project materials are stored for the required period of time, that is, indefinitely if the participant consents to providing their data for data pooling or, otherwise, until the youngest participant is 25 years old.

Researchers make every reasonable effort to follow each participant for the entire study period, recognising the importance of retention in maintaining the sample size, generalisability and comparability between the groups randomised to the intervention programme or usual care.

Participants were followed for an average of 7.5 years (SD = 7.1, range = 3 months to 58 years), with an average of 29 % of the participants dying within each study's follow Participants were followed for an average of 7.5 years (SD = 7.1, range = 3 months to 58 years), with an average of 29 % of the participants dying within each study's follow participants dying within each study's follow - up period.

First, the few studies that have followed participants beyond the immediate intervention period (6 months or less) have noted a decay of intervention effect on behavior over time, 5,6 prompting members of the National Institutes of Health Consensus Panel: Intervention to Prevent HIV Risk Behavior to identify sustainability of program effectiveness as 1 of the most important questions that professionals who are concerned with risk prevention face.7 A challenge for behavioral change interventions in general, this issue is particularly vexing for interventions that target decreased involvement in sex and substance use with advancing age during adolescence.8, 9 Second, multiple behaviors (sex without a condom, sex with multiple partners, substance use before sex, etc) directly and indirectly place individuals at risk for acquisition of HIV.

Limitations include no attempt was made to find out about any treatment control group participants might have sought for their symptoms during the study period, possible interviewer bias, and length of follow - up.

Limitations include lack of randomization of participants, lack of long - term follow - up and attrition of parents from the posttest period.

There were no significant differences between the treatments on the GDS or HRSD at the 2 - year follow - up; however, bibliotherapy participants had significantly more recurrences of depression during the follow - up period.

Participants were also assessed bimonthly during the follow - up period for recurrence of a major depressive episode.