Sentences with phrase «research participants after»

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The study, published in the January issue of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, concluded that after completing the course, parts of the participants» brains associated with compassion and self - awareness grew, and parts associated with stress shrank.

In a study published in the Journal of Consumer Research that examined the impact of mental stress on food choices, a majority of the participants selected an unhealthy food (chocolate cake) over a healthy food (fruit) after completing a complicated memorization task.

To gauge the effects of this creative exercise on the participants» stress levels, the research team tested their levels of the hormone cortisol, a bodily marker of stress, both before and after the art - making session.

«There was a clear pattern in the findings - the more literary fiction authors that participants recognized, the better they tended to perform on the emotional recognition test, and this association held even after statistically accounting for the influence of other factors that might be connected to both emotion skills and reading more literary fiction, such as past educational attainment, gender and age,» reports the British Psychological Society Research Digest blog, summing up the results.

Though the time spent with participants during a Keynote is brief, Jack Canfield is a master at using illustrative examples, humorous anecdotes and proven research results to present the most important highlights in a way that stays with the audience even after they've proceeded to their next program session.

After two years of planning and fund — raising, and two more of field research and analysis, the results were announced on April 16, 1984, at a meeting of the participants and the press at the Graduate Center of City University, in New York City.

Researched and written in a style similar to that undertaken by Anthony Seldon in his studies of Blair, Brown and Cameron, «Shippers» carried out in - depth interviews at the time and immediately after the referendum with nearly all the senior participants as well as bystanders.

Now, after months of research and in - depth interviews with participants, he has written a sober follow - up, Investment in Blood: The True Cost of Britain's Afghan War (Yale University Press # 18.99).

Only after completing 3 years of research training do participants in Chicago's research - residency program become eligible for board certification in, say, internal medicine and their specialty area.

After undergoing the complex process, nine of the 10 participants, who suffered from cognitive impairment or memory loss associated with Alzheimer's, displayed improvement in memory three to six months into the program — a joint venture between the Mary S. Easton Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research at UCLA and the Buck Institute for Research on Aging.

One participant is Katja Matthes, now a full professor at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, who had come back to Germany after three years in the United States for the one - year return phase of her European Marie Curie fellowship at the Free University of Berlin.

Research interviews with VIP participants that managed to maintain their weight after weight loss showed that weight maintenance was seen as balancing act, not only to maintain weight but also to manage other factors in life.

These findings were established after a research team videotaped a group of participants while watching the emotionally charged films La vita è bella and Hachi: A Dog's Tale.

Additionally, this study measured the same participants before and after a crash, unlike most research studies which only have access to participants after the negative event occurs.»

To investigate the endothelial response to exercise, the research team measured flow - mediated dilation (FMD)-- a test that measures how blood vessels respond to increased blood flow — before and after participants completed 30 minutes of exercise on a treadmill.

The research found that after an average of eight years, 1,090 participants died.

For this population - based research, investigators pooled data from large cohort studies conducted in Asia and included demographic and risk factor information collected in seven Asian regions from the early 1960s through the late 1990s (although most of the studies enrolled participants after the mid-1980s).

Research published in 2000 concluded that the bulk of participants also do their grocery shopping once monthly, shortly after the benefit is credited.

In previously released SLIMM - T2D research, participants given gastric band surgery or intensive lifestyle management achieved similar lowering of blood sugar levels after one year.

Studies of infertility have tended to recruit research participants from medical settings such as general practice, so our population - based survey sample provides a rare insight into those people who, despite having failed to get pregnant after a year of trying, did not seek help from health services.

Participants are recruited from retirement communities and subsidized housing facilities in and around Chicago to participate in annual clinical evaluations and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, and to donate their brains and other parts of their bodies for research after their deaths.

The odds of type 2 diabetes were not statistically significant after adjustment for multiple comparisons among the second generation, but co-corresponding author Dr. Sun Changhao, professor of nutrition and dean of the School of Public Health at Harbin, noted that these people were only in their 20s and 30s and could still be at increased risk as they age and that the research team will continue to follow up on these participants.

The research team, led by Sarah Markt and Lorelei Mucci at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, found that of the 6,909 study participants (both men and women, all of European - American descent) about 40 percent of them could smell these metabolites in their urine after eating asparagus, and 60 percent could not — these people they termed «asparagus anosmic.»

Although previous research established graphic media exposure can lead to aggression, these studies only focused on the short - term effects of violent on - screen content and typically examined participants shortly after or even while they were still playing the video games.

The vaccine, which took 16 years of research, showed 31 per cent efficacy level after three years of following up the participants.

Thanks to his discovery, the three research participants following Summers regained voluntary movement almost immediately after receiving the stimulator implant.

Exactly six months after the German research vessel entered the Gullmar Fjord in West Sweden with over 30 tonnes of equipment for the long - term experiment, and exactly one month after the last sampling day, the ten KOSMOS mesocosms and extensive material for further laboratory analyses arrive at GEOMAR — eagerly anticipated by the 69 participants of the study.

He is now a participant in a Washington University research study designed to understand how the brain changes after a person loses their sense of smell.

After completing the course, the participant will be able to determine what is appropriate microscopic technique used to answer the research questions, including the preparation and data processing for publication.

Research conducted at the University of California showed a 50 % reduction in free radicals after participants drank oolong for 15 days.

While research in this area is relatively new, one study found that participants» levels of IgA (an antibody in our immune systems) showed a greater increase after listening to music compared to those who listened to a clicking sound, a radio broadcast, or silence.

And according to research published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, they work: Immediately after watching the videos and following their instructions, study participants reported feeling uplifted, calmer, and more alert than before.

A widely circulated research study from 2014, «Change in Brainstorm Gray Matter Concentration Following a Mindfulness - Based Intervention is Correlated with Improvement in Psychological Well - Being» showed that after the 8 week mindfulness - based stress reduction intervention, there was a significant increase in grey matter of participant's hippocampus; brain area associated with introspection and compassion.

On each visit, the participants arrived at the research unit in the morning after an overnight fast and took the vitamin E supplement with 240 ml of milk.

In 2007, Chris Streeter, MD, an assistant professor of psychiatry and neurology at Boston University School of Medicine and a research associate at McLean Hospital, studied the increase in GABA in the brain using an fMRI scan after study participants practiced yoga.

After a day of training and strategizing, participants will head to Capitol Hill equipped with the tools needed to educate Congress on policies that impact those with PCOS in their state and district, and why greater access to care and increased funding for PCOS research is needed.

Citing research studies that explore global attitudes of participants after such travel, Cohen makes a strong case for including travel - based courses in the college curriculum.

After - school programs can improve participants» literacy by providing intensive lessons several times a week and establishing strong bonds between instructors and participants, concludes a two - year study by New York City - based Public / Private Ventures, a public - policy - research organization.

Citing research studies that explore global attitudes of participants after such travel, Cohen makes a -LSB-...]

Research suggests that participants in early college high schools are significantly more likely than other underserved students to graduate high school, enroll in college immediately after high school and earn a degree.

Six months after enrollment, research assistants conducted follow - up visits with participants at one of the clinic sites or the home of the participant.

Participants were instructed to open their box after leaving the clinic to ensure blinding of research staff.

Stories explain, for example, how researchers may approach a community to seek support for research, how to engage participants and the users of research in the design and management of research projects, and how to ensure that research finding reach the right audiences and can be used for change after the project.

Data sharing statement Individual participant data collected during the trial (after deidentification) that underlie the publications from MySweetHeart research group will be available on reasonable request.

After exiting the cubicle, a research assistant counted the number of condoms remaining to determine how many the participant took.

In addition, APA Ethical Principles specify that «after research results are published, psychologists do not withhold the data on which their conclusions are based from other competent professionals who seek to verify the substantive claims through reanalysis and who intend to use such data only for that purpose, provided that the confidentiality of the participants can be protected and unless legal rights concerning proprietary data preclude their release» (Standard 8.14).

Prospective participants were either screened by research assistants in the practice, referred by a pediatrician, or self - referred after seeing a study - related brochure in the pediatric offices.

In research studies on family and couples counseling, the great majority of participants reported increased marital satisfaction after Emotionally Focused Therapy.

However, more recent research conducted by Vartanian and colleagues (2007) with 9,494 participants showed that parental expectations was a significant predictor of college completion for the non-Asians but not for Asian Americans after controlling for 8th grade GPA and standardized test scores.