Sentences with phrase «pilot studies for»

Studies employing small sample sizes are not without value; indeed, they often serve as useful pilot studies for future, more comprehensive, work.

The original pilot study for the trial involved women whose risk of breast cancer was four times the average.

I can't speak to that claim, but it does seem to get decently absorbed as I did a pilot study for them with diabetic clients and all had significant reductions in BP.

Like Cole Hawkins» dissertation, «Landowners and Cat Predation» is, at best, an interesting pilot study for subsequent work.

Nine - year - old Rhodesian ridgeback cross Gus has participated in an innovative Australian pilot study for dogs with cancer, which has...

Nine - year - old Rhodesian ridgeback cross Gus has participated in an innovative Australian pilot study for dogs with cancer, which has achieved some positive results.

This document presents an overview of the findings of the AACA Baffin Bay / Davis Strait Region pilot study for policy - makers.

Study 2 data also served as a pilot study for a larger convergent validity examination in Study 3.

Leonardson (1991), in evaluating a three - school Active Parenting of Teens pilot study for the Northeastern Drug and Alcohol Prevention Center in South Dakota, reported significant improvement in parent knowledge about effective methods of parenting and information about alcohol and other drugs as compared to a control group.

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

In the 1990s, a number of studies reviewed deregulation's impact on airline wages, attributing decreases in the range of 10 to 20 percent for pilots, and more for flight attendants.

MaRS today announces pilot studies that will position Ontario as the premier global site for pre-market evaluation of innovative, new medical technologies.

Toronto, December 6, 2011 — MaRS today announces pilot studies that will position Ontario as the premier global site for pre-market evaluation of innovative, new medical technologies.

For TV directors, the study only analyzed premieres and pilots.

Early infant crying and sleeping problems: a pilot study of impact on parental well - being and parent - endorsed strategies for management.

King D, Clark T, Gissanec C. Use of a rapid visual screening tool for the assessment of concussion in amateur rugby league: A pilot study

She was the Site Principal Investigator for an NINR - funded study investigating mechanisms of preterm labor and birth in women of African - descent, and is currently conducting a pilot project examining modifiable factors related to risk for preterm labor and birth.

A randomised controlled trial would be the best way to tackle selection bias of mothers who plan a home birth, but a randomised controlled trial in North America is unfeasible given that even in Britain, where home birth has been an incorporated part of the healthcare system for some time, and where cooperation is more feasible, a pilot study failed.31 Prospective cohort studies remain the most comprehensive instruments available.

In Montana, state school officials were looking for ways to improve children's eating habits and physical activity, and conducted a four - school pilot study of «recess before lunch» in 2002.

But on visiting each of the three classrooms, I brightened — seeing the joy and hope on the girls» faces as they talked about what they loved studying (e.g., Amharic, English, science, math), what they hoped to be (e.g., pilot, doctor, engineer, driver, teacher, community mentor for BiruhTesfa), and what the best / worst parts of their days are (unanimously, best = being at school, worst = work hours).

I do not have the details of the previous study day I attended to hand but there was a talk on Fussy eating; one on Faltering growth and safeguarding; one on milk allergies and finally a presentation from Action for Children on the Nurse Family Partnership scheme pilot run in York.

«Freezing hunger - signaling nerve may help ignite weight loss: Pilot study demonstrates safety of new weight - loss treatment for mild - to - moderate obesity.»

Willansky - Traynor, P. Manassis, K., Monga, S. et al. «Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Depressed Youth: Predictors of Attendance in a Pilot Study.»

However, available research (e.g., waitlist - controlled pilot studies) suggests that behavioral / cognitive - behavioral interventions and pharmacotherapy with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are effective for treating SM.

New York City Council Speaker Cory Johnson and Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo announced the package of 10 bills on Sunday and said the measures would be introduced this week... The proposals include: Requiring businesses with more than 15 employees to provide lactation spaces and refrigerators to store breast milk, Requiring lactation rooms in all schools, police precincts, and jails that house women or allow women visitors, Assessing the need for free and low - cost doula services in the city, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTiAtZ

The pilot is for a five - year period, and after the third year, the federal education secretary will do a study to see how the states are doing and could then open it up to all states, according to federal lawmakers.

The governor, sensing legislative momentum on the issue, proposed a pilot program for studying medicinal marijuana.

This pilot research builds on an earlier study by Milovancev and collaborators that examined the ability of MRIs and CT angiograms to detect cancerous lesions related to FISS, and another study that looked at three methods for assessing margins for canine mast cell tumors and soft tissue sarcomas.

«We're interested in determining patients» sleep patterns,» says John Kane, head of schizophrenia research at Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks, N.Y. Kane, who is conducting a Proteus - funded pilot study, says, «For certain mental illnesses, changes in sleep patterns are an early sign that an illness is accelerating.»

An accompanying viewpoint article provides an ethical justification for conducting a pilot study of a federally regulated approach to providing financial incentives to living kidney donors, with the goal of assessing donors» perceptions.

- Pilot Grant Awards The Foundation's Pilot Grants Program awards support for up to two years for studies of the clinical, biological, or psychosocial aspects of suicide.

The company has shown in pilot studies that the technology works, and it is on track to begin filing for approval with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in July.

Now, a pilot study presented here 18 April at the Federation of Societies for Experimental Biology meeting has identified 10 proteins that can distinguish ALS patients from healthy individuals.

Etzioni said the next step is to develop an interface and test the nomogram in a pilot study tentatively planned for later this year.

In a pilot study, a man whose quadriplegia kept his hands clenched was elated when, during therapy, he learned to play «Happy Birthday» for his grandson.

«Our pilot study shows that using game - based learning is an effective, cost - efficient way to teach refugee children important skills — and importantly, this structured environment provided distressed refugee children an outlet to imagine a better future for themselves,» said Sinem Vatanartiran, president of BAU International University and a Project Hope investigator.

A company called iWalk is doing further pilot studies and fine - tuning the system for commercialization, making it smaller, lighter, quieter, and easier to use.

Continued scrutiny and analysis of other studies, for example, the piloting of an age extension to invitations for women up to the age of 73 currently underway in the UK, will provide an important contribution to the discussion.»

The targeted therapy everolimus may be safely combined with R - CHOP for new, untreated diffuse large B - cell lymphoma according to the results of a pilot study by Mayo Clinic researchers published in the Lancet Haematology.

«Because most of these products have been developed for a pretty well - resourced group of people in pharma and the chemical industry, the prices tend to be pretty big,» says Alan Wolf, who helped coordinate a recent pilot study designed to find an ELN suitable for university - wide adoption at the University of Wisconsin (UW), Madison.

In a pilot study that included children at high risk for type 1 diabetes, daily high - dose oral insulin, compared with placebo, resulted in an immune response to insulin without hypoglycemia, findings that support the need for a phase 3 trial to determine whether oral insulin can prevent islet autoimmunity and diabetes in high - risk children, according to a study in the April 21 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on child health.

A pilot study by USDA scientists in Maryland added straw to a beef cattle manure pile, heating up the dense material while allowing spaces for air to penetrate.

«We don't know what exposure is leading to this susceptibility to dietary glutamate, but this pilot study suggests the need for a large - scale clinical trial, since dietary change could be an effective low - cost treatment option for developing countries.»

DATINK pilot study: An effective methodology for ballpoint pen ink dating in questioned documents, Analytica Chimica Acta (2015), 892, 105 - 114

But in a pilot study conducted on heavy smokers, 24 percent of those who received the NicVAX vaccine were smoke free for the last two months of the six - month study — double the quit rate of those who received placebo shots.

In addition to the 2 - year pilot study, USF researchers are competing to win funds for an additional 15 years of monitoring and special studies.

«This pilot study showed that the culture system not only allowed for efficient propagation of sperm stem cells, but also eliminated ALL cells,» said Sadri - Ardekani.

For their pilot study, the scientists analysed diamond samples with the world's most powerful X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source LCLS at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the U.S..

For this clinical pilot study, researchers imaged subjects undergoing routine molecular imaging procedures such as bone scans or imaging of the thyroid, eye or lymphatic system.

In a small study, supported by Ohio State's Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) Davis Bremer Pilot Award, Powers identified more than 140 micro-RNAs that are present in the spinal fluid of eight patients who had an SAH followed by DCI.