Sentences with phrase «research participants at»

During the week of October 17th, representatives from Ekso Bionics will train staff and research participants at Kessler on using the exoskeleton.

(The authors described their report as covering protection of human research participants at UM with «special attention» to adults who may lack decision - making capacity.)

Not exact matches

To find out the pair designed a series of studies that both asked research participants to identify what sort of experiences resulted in what levels of happiness and also looked at Facebook posts, examining what activities people post at what age and how they report those activities affecting their mood.

Research conducted at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, found that study participants asked to complete a survey were significantly more likely to do so if the survey included a Post-it note with a handwritten message asking for their help, akin to a favor.

«To the researchers» surprise they found there wasn't a statistically significant correlation between the ratings the participants received when they were aged 14 and the ratings they gave themselves at age 77, or the ratings they received at age 77 from a friend or relative,» reports the British Psychological Society Research Digest Blog.

The loans are the least damaging problem, said Eschtruth at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, as participants generally do return the money to the plan to avoid the penalties.

The research Gino presented at the conference came from a series of studies involving more than 4,000 participants.

According to research conducted at the University of Toronto, study participants who read short - story fiction experienced far less need for «cognitive closure» compared with counterparts who read nonfiction essays.

Research published in April 2016 in the Harvard Business Review looked at three experiments designed to help participants learn about unconscious bias in the hiring process.

«Looking at shale resources has typically been understated by outside market participants because the geology is new and the technology is growing rapidly,» said Edward Morse, head of commodities research at Citigroup.

PsyBlog sums up one study on the subject which entailed showing some research participants a video on the idea that stress can be enhancing: «This led to them reporting better performance at work and fewer psychological problems over the subsequent two weeks.

Participants on the panel included two Fed «insiders» — Danielle DiMartino Booth, former advisor to Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher, and Bob Eisenbeis, former research director at the Atlanta Fed — and two Fed observers — Jim Bianco of Bianco Research (who does great macro research with a fixed income bent) and Megan Greene, chief economist at Mresearch director at the Atlanta Fed — and two Fed observers — Jim Bianco of Bianco Research (who does great macro research with a fixed income bent) and Megan Greene, chief economist at MResearch (who does great macro research with a fixed income bent) and Megan Greene, chief economist at Mresearch with a fixed income bent) and Megan Greene, chief economist at Manulife.

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.

One of the participants at the research conference, an electronic church broadcaster, summed up all of the data by stating, «It looks like the research is saying that all that religious TV is doing is to make people feel good and to get them to keep on doing what they're doing!»

The research team conducted a randomized blinded trial of intercessory prayer added to normal cancer treatment with participants agreeing to complete quality of life (QOL) and spiritual well - being scales at baseline and 6 months later.

According to research by Nancy Kalish, a psychology professor at California State University in Sacramento, about 6 percent of the participants worldwide noted that they married, divorced, and then remarried their former spouse, and about 72 percent of those reunions were successful.

The research was prospective in design; participants were interviewed three times at specific stages of the pregnancy and following childbirth.

Those at the meeting held at the Cosmos Club «believe a balance of legislative and grassroots outreach [to mothers 21 to 35 years old and students] is imperative to the stability of their industry; however, the association members continue to struggle to initiate research and develop a clear - cut plan to defend their industry,» an unidentified participant wrote.

Research indicates that school meal participants are less likely to consume competitive foods at school, less likely to have nutrient inadequacies, and more likely to consume fruit, vegetables, and milk at breakfast and lunch.

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.

Formal interviews were then conducted with each participant using a photo - feedback technique, and parts of the findings were exhibited at the researched schools, school - based art exhibitions, community - based arts centres, and a local museum.

She worked with these participants in developing research questions, designing field studies, presenting the results as co-authors on a poster presentation at a national conference and writing grants supporting the project.

On average, participants were able to tolerate ten per cent more pain from just ten minutes of exercise on our Jymmin machines, some of them even up to fifty per cent,» says Thomas Fritz, head of research group Music Evoked Brain Plasticity at MPI CBS.

«As part of this fellowship, I want my project to serve as a model for use - inspired, community - engaged research at Northern Kentucky University, by re-positioning community members from participants to collaborators.

These new governance structures must be able to address the concerns of research participants while at the same time ensuring effective data sharing that promotes public trust in genomics research.

«Unexpectedly, in elementary school - age participants we found that overall eating frequency and snacks positively contributed to diet quality,» wrote Evans and colleagues from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, where Evans did the research under the guidance of senior author Aviva Must, professor and chair of the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine..

«We have now found a potential mechanism, and at this point in our research, we need to test human participants in a blinded, placebo controlled clinical study — the same technique we used to study the behavioral effects of acupuncture in rats,» says Eshkevari, a nurse anesthetist and licensed acupuncturist.

The research led by Fernando Genta and Hector Diaz at the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (IOC) in Rio, Brazil included Rod Dillon of Lancaster University as well as participants from the Laboratories of Molecular Biology of Insects; Epidemiology and Molecular Systematics; and Ecoepidemiology of Chagas disease at Oswaldo Cruz Institute.

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.

Participants also noted that staff scientists are much more common at research institutes in other countries, such as Germany's Max Planck Institutes, where grants to institutions rather than to individual investigators are a common funding mechanism.

CubeSats are also opening space to new participants; Bruce Yost, deputy manager of the small spacecraft integrated product team at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, calls it «the democratization of space.»

The study involved participants of European descent exclusively, but co-author Roy Perlis, a researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital, notes it's standard method to focus on one group as a starting point, since previous research shows genetic markers can vary by ethnicity.

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.

The research looked at more than five million genetic variations, called single nucleotide polymorphisms or SNPs (pronounced «snips»), in each participant in the study and compared the frequency of these SNPs with that of the control subjects.

The research team collected thousands of air pollution measurements in the study participants» communities and at their homes.

Participants in the study are the Institute of Diabetes Research at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, the Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden at the Technische Universität Dresden, the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU).

She's a participant in the New England Centenarian Study, a long - term research project at the Boston Medical Center that studies why people like her enjoy such exceptional longevity.

When The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network reported its genomic profiling of clear - cell kidney tumours, about one - quarter of participants (126 patients) had been operated on at Memorial Sloan Kettering3.

A drug used to treat men with late - stage prostate cancer proved effective in stemming progression of the disease in research participants who had not yet received chemotherapy and extended their survival, according to results from a multi-national Phase III clinical trial led by the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).

The double blind Phase III study included 1,717 research participants enrolled at 207 sites globally between September 2010 and September 2012; 872 received enzalutamide while the others received a placebo.

For the Muscle Tendon Tissue Unit Repair and Reinforcement Reconstructive Surgery Research Study, which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense and is continuing to enroll new participants, five men who had at least six months earlier lost at least 25 percent of leg muscle volume and function compared to the uninjured limb underwent a customized regimen of physical therapy for 12 to 26 weeks until their function and strength plateaued for a minimum of two weeks.

The research team explored data from more than 100,000 participants in the Nurses» Health Study (NHS), looking at rates of cardiovascular disease, specifically incidence of coronary heart disease and stroke.

A fourth article looks at inaccessible research, noting that «half of health - related studies remain unreported, and few study protocols and participant - level datasets are accessible.»

The participants were visited in their homes twice by the research team — once when the child was 15 months old, again at 3 years of age — and each visit lasted 60 to 90 minutes.

Many participants professed surprise that institutions follow the scale for NIH's National Research Service Award fellows, which starts at $ 26,252.

The research team found a 24 percent increase in the risk of developing cancer among participants with severe periodontitis, compared to those with mild to no periodontitis at baseline.

While controlling blood pressure, blood sugar and LDL - cholesterol levels reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease in people with diabetes, only 7 percent of diabetic participants in three major heart studies had recommended levels of these three factors, according to research from the Heart Disease Prevention Program at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine.

Participants were Marc Blackman, chief of the endocrine section at the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at NIH; Andrea Dunaif, chief of endocrinology at Northwestern University; Ginger Constantine, vice president of women's health and bone repair at Wyeth Research; Sara Rosenthal, bioethicist and medical sociologist at the University of Kentucky; Adrian Dobs, professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University; and Michael Thorner, professor of medicine at the University of Virginia.

Salimpoor, now at the Rotman Research Institute in Toronto, Canada, wondered if the response was due to the music itself or to participants» emotional attachment to it.