Sentences with phrase «scale trial at»

The third program, developed in Australia and employed in a large - scale trial at the University of South Carolina, is called the Triple P - Positive Parenting Program.

Not exact matches

Just this month, as part of the first large - scale clinical trial of its kind, researchers working in rural India found that newborns who were given a synbiotic were at a substantially lower risk of developing sepsis, a potentially fatal condition characterized by severe infection.

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.

The drug is undergoing testing at a 3 milligram (mg) dose for long - term weight management as part of the SCALE ™ (Satiety and Clinical Adiposity — Liraglutide Evidence in Nondiabetic and Diabetic Subjects) Obesity and Prediabetes trial.

«At the same time, small - scale trials have shown that consuming antioxidant - rich foods like virgin olive oil, tomatoes and berries improved HDL function in humans.

This vaccine has been at the heart of a controversy in the US after Congress awarded the defence department $ 20 million to test it in large - scale trials in America as an immune therapy for HIV - positive people.

For example, this could support large - scale epidemiologic studies or remote pharmacological trials,» said senior and corresponding author David L. Kaplan, Ph.D., Stern Family Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tufts School of Engineering.

While a postdoctoral fellow at the Naval Medical Research Institute in Bethesda, he developed a system for large - scale efficient culture of lymphocytes that has proved to be the foundation for over 35 early phase clinical trials of adoptive immunotherapy.

But then, in 2014, two large - scale, multinational clinical trials aimed at treating fragile X by inhibiting that pathway failed.

«Because large - scale clinical trials are so expensive, we only ever really test the treatments that promise a big payoff,» says Ian Eslick, a Ph.D. candidate at the M.I.T. Media Lab and C3N's chief Web architect.

At the meeting, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) of Rixensart, Belgium, which has the vaccine furthest in development, spelled out how it might scale up production in parallel with the safety and efficacy trials now under way so that the product could be ready for wider distribution by April if warranted.

In 2002, the research team for TRIGR (Trial to Reduce IDDM in the Genetically at Risk), led in the U.S. by principal investigator Dorothy Becker, M.D., professor of pediatrics at Children's Hospital and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, embarked on a large - scale study of 2,159 infants with a family member affected by type 1 diabetes and with genetic risk for type 1 diabetes to find out whether delaying the exposure to complex foreign proteins such as cow's milk proteins would decrease the risk of diabetes.

«At their baseline, before patients started treatment, patients in both groups were on the lower end of the scale, meaning they reported lower amounts of fatigue,» said the trial's principal investigator Neha Vapiwala, MD, an associate professor of Radiation Oncology.

This service is for the moment only available for staff at Uppsala University, during a trial period, since we wish to try this approach in a small scale to begin with.

If successful, this method will be tested at scale by an industrial partner who will generate clinical - grade material for a Phase 1 trial at the end of this five - year grant.

To make these recommendations, the Task Force looks at research — ideally, large - scale clinical trials — and weighs a procedure's potential costs versus benefits.

They discuss how she came to use Carb Nite ® after trial and error to lose 90 lbs, how she used it with German volume training, and how she looks at inches lost instead of what the scale says.

At that same job, I learned how to manage large - scale, complex projects; this was my trial - by - fire experience.

Getting positive results in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) conducted at scale in real world conditions is difficult, illustrated by the fact that only 12 per cent of the RCTs commissioned by the Institute of Education Sciences, a US equivalent to the EEF, have shown positive effects.

Effectiveness trials aim to test whether an intervention can work at scale in a large number of schools.

At the other end of the scale, in the Waterberg region the Wolkberg and Blouberg mountain ranges offer spectacular hiking trials in a natural, unspoilt wilderness, as well as some excellent rock climbing opportunities for enthusiasts of all levels of experience.

The dates of the works range from the mid 1990's to 2009, with one deeply emotional large - scale work portraying O.J. Simpson's mother at his trial in 1995 and another depicting a 1990's New York City, West Village Halloween scene with yet another Marilyn reference.

Free - air concentration enrichment (FACE) technology has now facilitated large - scale trials of the major grain crops at elevated [CO2] under fully open - air field conditions.

Given some trial you mentioned had some data on how much additional carbon was sequestered it should be possible to do a calculation on whats possible at larger scale and over what time periods

Notable mandates: Acting for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador regarding the development and financing of the Muskrat Falls Hydroelectric Project, also known as the «Lower Churchill Project»; acting for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador concerning the development and operation of the Hebron offshore oilfield project and the Hibernia South oilfield expansion project; acting for developers and placing financing on new hotel developments in downtown St. John's; defending class action claims involving product liability and taxation issues at a certification hearing and a common issues trial and appeal; acting for mining corporations involved in large - scale mine development projects in Labrador

After the trial, the totality of the evidence presented at trial by the plaintiff rests on one side of the scale.

On the other side of the scale is the totality of the evidence presented at trial by the defendant.

At the beginning of the trial, the scale is empty and rests in the middle.

At Altman & Altman, we have the resources necessary for large scale litigation and will not hesitate to take your MA Chemical Burn Lawsuit to trial if an acceptable settlement can not be reached.

The MA Propane Explosion Lawyers at Altman & Altman have the resources necessary for large scale litigation and will not hesitate to take your Propane Explosion Lawsuit to trial if a settlement can not be reached.

[105] When I assessed Ms. Suthakar's pre ‑ trial loss, I estimated a low likelihood that she would have scaled back her work hours at the second job in the absence of the Accident.

It is only if the trial judge is unable to reach a conclusion about the transferor's actual intention at the time of the transfer that it may become necessary to apply such presumption to possibly tip the scales in favour of the transferor of property or the donor of funds.

The Court subsequently awarded the former employee double costs of trial at Scale C (the highest tariff level): Canuck Security Services Ltd. v. Gill, 2015 BCSC 43.

City, in its Complaint, had sought $ 1,250,883.28 for both past rent / prospective rent, but then scaled back at trial and only sought $ 212,261 in past rent damages.

(3) then, even after Plaintiffs have chosen to take the serious adverse costs risks of such trials, and even after they have been successful at trial and have received costs awards under Rule 49.01 (1) on a substantial indemnity scale;

On the other end of the scale, I also acted for a lady who had negligent surgery to her ear and only recovered # 35,000 at the end of a 3 day trial, but her solicitors recovered around # 250,000 for this piece of litigation.

Despite the rhetoric regarding the benefit of SNHV, this is the first trial in Australia to test, at scale, the benefit and cost - benefit of an intervention programme that is delivered within the context of an existing (and therefore sustainable) universal health service system.

Importantly, states were required to spend at least three - quarters of the federal funds on home visiting models that met federal standards of evidence - based effectiveness.1 As many policy scholars have noted, that a national initiative brought the importance of evidence - based practice to the forefront of public policy is a triumph for social science and demonstrates the importance of rigorous program evaluation.2 With that triumph, however, comes a responsibility to ensure that the public's expectations for success of these programs are consistent with what researchers understand about the empirical evidence — will the same positive outcomes found in programs» randomized controlled trials emerge when those programs are taken to scale?

Narrow issues so identified can be submitted at pre-trial, thus reducing the cost and acrimony of full - scale trial.

301 people aged 18 — 65 years (218 without carers, 83 with carers) with non-affective psychosis (ICD - 10 category F2 and DSM - IV) and a second or subsequent psychotic episode not more than 3 months before the trial began, plus a rating of at least 4 for one or more positive symptoms on the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS).

Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of psychological treatments in adults with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that met the following criteria: PTSD was the main target of treatment; participants had PTSD symptoms for at least three months; at least 70 % had diagnosis of PTSD; PTSD measured using recognised scale; report at least pre - and post-treatment measures; and at least 50 % follow - up.

Few studies have specifically addressed this issue.14, 15 A large scale randomized control trial (RCT) comparing CBT, counselling and psychoanalytic therapy with routine care found that, while all active treatments were moderately effective in treating depression and brought about short term benefits in the quality of the mother - infant relationship, there was limited evidence of benefit to infant outcome; and effects (including those on maternal mood) were not apparent at follow - up.16, 17 Similarly, a recent RCT found that, although interpersonal psychotherapy was effective in treating maternal depression, there was no benefit in terms of observed mother - infant interactions, infant negative emotionality, and infant attachment security.18