Sentences with phrase «scale used in this study»

After making their choice, participants reported their attachment to the two brands along the same scale used in study 3 (Batra et al. 2012).

The items were then summed to yield three scales, including the CU scale used in this study, and t - scores were computed using published sex - specific norms (Cronbach's α =.76).

This was then graded as minimal, moderate and maximal involvement using a modified scale used in the study by Anderson et al. [25].

Not exact matches

Interestingly, he and a colleague in November won $ 100,000 in grants from Microsoft (MSFT) to use that company's HoloLens headset to study «collaborative analysis of large - scale mixed reality data,» according to the Financial Times.

The days (or the millennia) of every living form are by statistical reckoning ineluctably numbered; so much so that, using the scale of time furnished by the study of certain isotopes, it is beginning to be possible to calculate in millions of years the average life of a species.

This MADM scale and MOR index are free for use in academic settings, however for any study carried out by a commercial group or if the study is wholly or partially supported by a commercial organization a fee may be payable.

(As I point out in the book, a recent study by the National Center for Education Research found that none of the many large - scale character - education programs in use in American schools produces any significant positive outcomes.)

Diagnostic criteria (DSM [23] or clinical cut - off on a behavioural scale such as the Eyeberg Child Behaviour Inventory [24]-RRB- were used to recruit populations in 48 studies and in 9 studies parent or professional description of child behaviour was used.

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

Given the ambiguity surrounding the concept of satisfaction, it was not surprising to find inconsistency in the instruments, scales, timing of administration and outcomes used to «measure» satisfaction across studies.

Another recent study in 2017 by researchers at Shandong University in China (15) used the Perceived Social Support scale to explore the relationship between social support and postpartum depression with 240 moms.

Radiologists in the study also ranked improvements in their confidence on a four - point scale when using VR compared to the standard method.

Such highly sensitive in vitro techniques permit the use of picomole quantities of an antigen in partially purified preparations for the isolation of monoclonal antibodies, which can in turn be used in biological studies and in immunochemical procedures for large - scale purification and isolation of that antigen.

While large - scale climate research models offer a systems view of what the transport sector, for example, could contribute to climate protection in comparison to the energy sector, the study presented in Science, however, examines transport - related issues within the sector by using more recent and more specific data on how people commute and travel.

And there's even a study published in India but using an American love scale called the Rubin's Love Sscale called the Rubin's Love ScaleScale.

Targeted biopsy using new fusion technology that combines magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with ultrasound is more effective than standard biopsy in detecting high - risk prostate cancer, according to a large - scale study published today in JAMA.

One reason is that the tool used by nearly all studies in this field — surveys asking people to self - report their happiness on numerical scales — is cheap and easy to implement.

Although scientists have used a whole array of experimental techniques in the past to investigate the atomic scale details of surface diffusion, they have generally studied the surfaces of traditional three - dimensional materials and have supported the notion that diffusion involves a simple random walk on the surface.

Previous studies tend to underestimate such connections as simulated land - atmosphere interaction is also resolution - dependent, which means that the signals for changes in small - scale land use are likely to be much weaker in a coarse resolution model,» says Minchao Wu.

Many previous studies have focussed on the urban nesting grounds and the gulls» behaviour around landfill refuse sites, but this is one of the first large - scale studies to investigate the use of cities by gulls in traditional breeding colonies and their contribution to these «nuisance events».

On a global scale, replacing the steel used in construction with timber such as CLT could cut CO2 emissions by 15 % to 20 %, according to a 2014 study in the Journal of Sustainable Forestry.

«The committee will systematically review new data on devices and advise on whether additional studies are needed before a device can be recommended for use in the scale - up of male circumcision programs,» says Catherine Hankins, UNAIDS chief scientific adviser.

«Billions of juvenile fish under the Arctic sea ice: New under - ice net used in large - scale study on the prevalence of polar cod at the ice underside.»

In addition, the data density and geographic extent of this study is far greater than most previous studies because over 16,000 stream temperature sites were used with thousands of biological survey locations to provide precise information at scales relevant to land managers and conservationists.

In a study, reported in the January 21, 2016 issue of Nano Letters, the team demonstrated a new redox - responsive assembly method to synthesize hierarchically structured carbon - sheathed germanium nanowires (c - GeNWs) on a large scale by the use of self - catalytic growth process assisted by thermally decomposed natural gaIn a study, reported in the January 21, 2016 issue of Nano Letters, the team demonstrated a new redox - responsive assembly method to synthesize hierarchically structured carbon - sheathed germanium nanowires (c - GeNWs) on a large scale by the use of self - catalytic growth process assisted by thermally decomposed natural gain the January 21, 2016 issue of Nano Letters, the team demonstrated a new redox - responsive assembly method to synthesize hierarchically structured carbon - sheathed germanium nanowires (c - GeNWs) on a large scale by the use of self - catalytic growth process assisted by thermally decomposed natural gas.

The study was undertaken at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, where doctors in the emergency department recorded their overall clinical judgement for ACS using a five - point Likert scale (from «definitely ACS» to «definitely not» ACS).

Based on analyses of scales from highly relevant species for aquaculture such as common carp (Cyprinus carpio), gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata), sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax), Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus), Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and pike perch (Stizostedion lucioperca) as well as from fish commonly used in experimental studies such as zebrafish (Danio rerio), it was found that glucocorticoids, especially cortisol, incorporate in fish scales over time.

The study, published in the June issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, reaffirms numerous small - scale studies in the United States, Western Europe and Japan, but it does so using data compiled across six middle - income nations and involving more than 30,000 subjects for a long - term project that began in 2007.

Johanne Korsdal Sørensen has previously studied the scale of substance use disorders among medical doctors in a survey among 4,000 members of the Danish Medical Association.

The study was supported by, and conducted in collaboration with Synairgen, a University of Southampton spin - out company, and formed part of U-BIOPRED, a large - scale European project using information and samples from adults and children to learn more about different types of asthma.

Their research, which also shows how chemical reactions can be studied on a microscopic scale using tools of physics, is reported in the journal Science.

«This is a very large scale study using a new, innovative statistical method,» said study co-senior author Kenneth S. Kendler, M.D., professor of psychiatry, and human and molecular genetics in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, and an internationally recognized psychiatric geneticist.

A few structures, such as breakwaters built of rock, can be studied using miniature versions, but materials such as sand, clay, and grass behave differently in small - scale models than in the real world, van Gent says.

Lead author Hilary Dugan, a limnologist at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and former Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, explains, «We compiled long - term data, and compared chloride concentrations in North American lakes and reservoirs to climate and land use patterns, with the goal of revealing whether, how, and why salinization is changing across broad geographic scales.

The most common measurement of depressive symptoms (in 22 of the studies) was the depression subscale of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS - D), a questionnaire that researchers commonly use to assess anxiety and depression.

The scientists studied Sotheby's vintage rating — a 100 - point scale used to measure wine quality in which a vintage scoring above 90 is deemed «excellent to superb» and a score under 40 signifies a disaster — and compared the trends to climate records.

Past studies showed that plants in nutrient - poor environments use animal - derived nutrients on a large - scale basis.

The advent of genomics and rapid sequencing techniques has seen HeLa cells used in numerous large - scale studies of gene function and expression.

For the protein that we used in our study we uncovered a hierarchical self - assembly process that involves three subsequent stages of self - assembly at ever increasing length scales.»

In the new study published in the journal Review of Scientific Instruments, Schlamminger and his colleagues measured the Planck constant to a high level of precision using the NIST - 4 watt balance, a sophisticated scale that measures a weight by the electromagnetic force that counterbalances iIn the new study published in the journal Review of Scientific Instruments, Schlamminger and his colleagues measured the Planck constant to a high level of precision using the NIST - 4 watt balance, a sophisticated scale that measures a weight by the electromagnetic force that counterbalances iin the journal Review of Scientific Instruments, Schlamminger and his colleagues measured the Planck constant to a high level of precision using the NIST - 4 watt balance, a sophisticated scale that measures a weight by the electromagnetic force that counterbalances it.

«It combines knowledge from the field of microfluidics, which uses fluids at a microscopic scale to miniaturize biological experiments, with the cellular, biological and molecular studies we conduct in laboratories.»

Thermodynamics is a branch of physics that studies the effects of changes in temperature, pressure, and volume on physical systems at the macroscopic scale by analyzing the collective motion of their particles using statistics.

«Conversely, in conditions involving very small size scales (the tip of a tunnelling electron microscope) such as those used in this study, the result is instead an increase in conductivity,» explains Requist.

The study, called «Modeling the effects of adopting agroforestry on basin scale surface runoff and sediment yield in the Philippines,» uses a computer - based Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) to simulate the effects of different land uses on watershed hydrology and the ecosystem services provided by the Gabayan watershed.

Using models and satellites The study authors» «cutting - edge methodology will allow observations to be used consistently to examine large - scale deforestation impacts on rainfall, and to refine and evaluate current models to support conservation planning in the tropics,» Aragao wrote.

Professor Jeremy Pearson, Associate Medical Director at the BHF, which part - funded the study, said: «By using the power of very large scale genetic studies, this research is the first to show that the known association between increased height and a lower risk of coronary heart disease is at least in part due to genetics, rather than purely down to nutrition or lifestyle factors.

One possible explanation for the discrepancy with large - scale epidemiological studies is that the new study centers on saccharin, a sweetener not used in any of the major soft drinks.

The study, published in PLOS ONE, demonstrates the first time computational tools have been used to compare world music cultures at a large scale.

In a review of existing literature, Marteau did find descriptions of nudging being used to improve health behaviors — one study reports a 70 % increase in the amount of fruit bought by school children at lunchtime after fruit was placed by the cash register — but these interventions have not been evaluated on a large scale or assessed for cost - effectivenesIn a review of existing literature, Marteau did find descriptions of nudging being used to improve health behaviors — one study reports a 70 % increase in the amount of fruit bought by school children at lunchtime after fruit was placed by the cash register — but these interventions have not been evaluated on a large scale or assessed for cost - effectivenesin the amount of fruit bought by school children at lunchtime after fruit was placed by the cash register — but these interventions have not been evaluated on a large scale or assessed for cost - effectiveness.

For example, a study by Vasilis Fthenakis and Hung Chul Kim of Columbia University (2009) found that, on a life - cycle electricity - output basis — including direct and indirect land transformation — utility - scale PV in the U.S. Southwest requires less land than the average U.S. power plant using surface - mined coal.