Sentences with phrase «second study tested»

A second study tested the possibility that shared media is a viable strategy for those couples who don't have as many friends in common.

The second study tested this link in a birth cohort of 1265 children and concluded that there was a «direct and specific» link from adolescent depression to later depression.51 The study design provides a rather stringent test for the outcomes of adolescent depression by accounting for the effects of anxiety disorders, early cigarette smoking, CDs, alcohol abuse, and a range of other putative risk factors.

The second study testing the same hypothesis is under analysis.

Not exact matches

The second complaint said a study submitted by Theranos last year for a herpes test was extremely problematic because of improper research protocols.

While the results can't conclusively prove that all those second screens are causing the changes to the brain (differences in brain structure could also lead people to be more likely to multitask), the researchers suggest that the results should nonetheless serve as a red flag for fans of multiple devices while further studies are carried out to test causality.

Perhaps just not the same fields of study» Second — if one can't see these questions as an exercise in thought and rationale then that person has failed the test... placing opinion in the mix as to thwart the morons is just another test to see truly how moronic people can be!

They had tough test on their plates this week as they dropped a nail - biter to Team Watts in the CEA Study Abroad Game of the Day, but showed what is so vital in All Sports Series, the ability to shake things off — defeating Team Liss by 1 point in their second game of the Double Header.

Second, comparisons in milk waste data were studied using an unequal sample size, unequal variance t - test and the degrees of freedom for the test were calculated using the Welch - Satterthwait equation [21].

Ten students at a Queens school got a second chance to answer questions they had skipped on a state social studies test.

Marshmallow tests conducted over the past 50 years have found that, as in the new study, a minority of children in Western countries manage to wait for a second treat without munching the first one (SN: 11/15/14, p. 28).

In the second study, James Horne and colleagues at the Loughborough University Sleep Research Centre in England devised an experiment to test this question.

The second test, which involves a timed essay - style exam, is based on the preparation of a case study on a subject of the candidate?s choice.

In the second study, a team of Danish researchers wanted to test the effect of a change in alcohol intake on the risk of breast cancer and heart disease.

The company hopes to launch a second study in mid-2015 to determine the appropriate dose before moving on to test the efficacy of the treatment.

To test the validity of the method, a second study examined 10 key hazards under the purview of the Department, including earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, pandemic influenza, nuclear detonation, explosive bombing, anthrax attack, cyber-attack on critical infrastructure, accidents involving toxic industrial chemicals, and oil spills.

Further tests are ongoing, and data collected during the second year of the Dark Energy Survey could yield more of these potential dwarf galaxies to study.

The panel's second main source was a study in Tacoma, Washington, which compared rates of viral infection among intravenous drug users attending a needle exchange with those of people visiting an HIV testing centre and a methadone programme.

CureVac's most advanced project is a prostate cancer therapy that is now entering a second phase II clinical study; a vaccine against rabies is in phase I tests.

In the second part of the study, the so - called test phase, a second cylindrically shaped object was given to only half of the babies.

Gambetti, who was not involved in the new study, is co-author on a second NEJM paper appearing online today that shows that an assay similar to the CSF — based RT - QuIC test can pick up very small amounts of abnormal prion protein in the urine of people who have contracted a rare variant of CJD that is transmitted by consuming contaminated meat.

This study, conducted by the Gynecologic Oncology Group, a cooperative group funded by the National Cancer Institute, was the second to test bevacizumab under these conditions (first chemotherapy for platinum - sensitive recurrence), a use for which bevacizumab is not currently approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

In a second study designed to test the results of the first, though, only narcissistic women reported more frequent attempts at mate poaching, leading the researchers to conclude that it's possible that narcissistic women are more frequently guilty of the behavior.

In this second study, the researchers tested children who were in the bottom quarter of ability in reading, and found that fish oil supplements did not have any or very little effect on the children's reading ability or working memory and behaviours.

For the second part of the study, scientists tested steroids in mice.

Second, scores of studies show that self - testing is a great way to cement material into memory.

They were tested again within 48 hours after completing the marathon, including a second MRI study and final blood sampling.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is beginning a two - year, $ 16 million study of the twin - tower collapse that will address three pressing questions: whether current testing standards and building codes are adequate to resist catastrophic fires; whether building codes sufficiently take into account what engineers call progressive collapse, the chain reaction that leads to extremely rapid collapse (in the case of the World Trade Center towers, about 10 seconds); and how existing buildings can be made less vulnerable to terrorist attack.

A second Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology study by the group, which included pregnancies undergoing screening at three UK hospitals between March 2006 and May 2012, found that effective first - trimester screening for Down's syndrome could be achieved by cfDNA testing contingent on the results of the combined test done at 11 to 13 weeks.

In addition, Celvive has partnered with a US - based FDA - approved manufacturer to produce the StemCure ™ cell isolation and delivery system which has been tested to prepare for an IND application with the FDA for the second phase of clinical studies in the US.

In the second half of the study, we will test whether our gene therapy vector is effective at halting the progression of an optic neuropathy in rodents.

Government regulators have given the go - ahead to a second study that will for the first time carefully test a treatment created using human embryonic stem cells in people, according to the company sponsoring the experiment.

A second study conducted in Thailand found that the digit span test was effective in identifying mild cognitive impairment, while the verbal fluency test did not demonstrate that ability.

A second double - blind study tested proteolytic enzymes to see how they faired for treating pain in the hands, elbows and knees.

In a second study performed at McMaster University, test subjects who used CELL - TECH for 8 weeks significantly increased their strength on the bench press by 17 %, leg press by 29 % and biceps curl by 28 % respectively.4

MERCURY IN PROCESSED FOOD In 2009, The Washington Post reported that «Almost half of tested samples of commercial high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) contained mercury, which was also found in nearly a third of 55 popular brand - name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first - or second - highest labeled ingredient, according to two new U.S. studies.»

According to two U.S. studies, almost half of tested samples of commercial HFCS contained mercury, which was also found in nearly a third of 55 popular brand - name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first or second - highest labeled ingredient.

This device does not determine air pressure setting for continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment, so to avoid a second study in a sleep lab, your doctor must prescribe either an in - home titration test to measure your airflow, or instead, give you an APAP (automatic positive airway pressure) machine — which automatically adjusts the air flow within a certain range based on how you're breathing.

All the subjects had cognitive function tests at the start of the study, but only 334 of them, or about 75 %, completed a second round of brain evaluations at the end of the trial (after about four years of follow - up) to assess the impact of the diets.

In the test involving the young men, mild dehydration caused some difficulty with mental tasks, particularly in the areas of vigilance and working memory, according to the results of the second UConn study.

A second study, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by Gary Chamberlain, using the same data as Chetty and his colleagues, provides fodder both for skeptics and supporters of the use of value - added: while confirming Chetty's finding that the teachers who have impacts on contemporaneous measures of student learning also have impacts on earnings and college going, Chamberlain also found that test - scores are a very imperfect proxy for those impacts.

In our study, we randomly assigned second - grade teachers in high - poverty schools that had low performance on state tests to two groups.

Teachers must pass a test in basic professional studies and a second test in their subject area.

Two recent experimental evaluations of the Louisiana Scholarship Program found negative effects of the program on student test scores but one study was limited to just a single year of outcome data and the second one (which I am leading) has only analyzed two years of outcome data so far.

In Mike's second post criticizing our study he claims that the test score effects of choice programs do reliably and positively predict their attainment effects because, after throwing out some cases (I'll get to that later), «both short - term test scores and long - term outcomes are overwhelmingly positive.»

This project developed and tested a vocabulary intervention as part of a larger vocabulary study designed to improve language and literacy skills in Spanish / English bilingual second graders.

The second study also tested the effect of online algebra, but on a very different population: high school students in Chicago who had already failed a face - to - face version of this math class.

I compare the impacts of increased family support on student test scores from these four studies with the impacts of pre-K school readiness interventions using, first, a synthesis of findings from 67 pre-K evaluations of test outcomes 2 - 4 years after pre-K, [xv] and, second, the follow - up findings from the Head Start Impact Study [xvi] for 3rd graders.

Second, qualitative studies suggest that teachers actually have a difficult time adjusting what they do in the classroom based on student test scores.

Second, the Department said it is studying how to determine whether a test actually measures college - and career - readiness.

A second study, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by Gary Chamberlain, using the same data as Chetty and his colleagues, provides fodder both for skeptics and supporters of the use of value - added: while confirming Chetty's finding that the teachers who have impacts on contemporaneous measures of student learning also have impacts on earnings and college going, Chamberlain also found that test scores are a very imperfect proxy for those impacts.