Sentences with phrase «short study periods»

Conversely, other students may find that short study periods interspersed with other activities is the most fruitful strategy.

The authors propose that the conflicting results from previous research on organic and conventional crops» phytochemical content could be a function of short study periods and the exclusion of variables such as weather.

Due to the short study period from June to July 2013, which was chosen to coincide the end of the peak in tick abundance and the beginning of the peak in summer recreational use of the park, this research does not provide conclusive evidence that ticks are not present in Hampton Court and Wimbledon Common.

Not exact matches

How did simply chilling out alone for a short period affect the study subjects?

«If a lucky event early in a CEO's tenure is not balanced by an unlucky one is such a short time period, then that CEO could be wrongfully credited for high performance that would have happened no matter who was leading the company,» according to the study.

Johnson et al. [18] pointed out that the 18,520 mini flash crashes they studied mostly took place in time periods too short for human action.

«And even if some women weather post-abortion bouts of depression or guilt,» continues the article, «studies show that these periods are usually short - lived.»

Further, the shorter - term effects of capital punishment have been studied by examining the daily number of homicides reported in California over a ten - year period to ascertain whether the execution of convicts reduced the number.

But a recent study has shown that we can obtain health benefits from garbanzo beans even when we eat much smaller amounts over a much shorter period of time.

Second, the time periods covered by the studies are too short to adequately track significant ecological change.

But while an early study by Baade suggested that this period can last up to 10 years, follow - up research by Eckstein and Delaney indicates that the period has recently gotten much shorter.

It is so bad, that a recent study analyzing children of divorce over a 50 year period by Stanford University demonstrates that children of divorce actually live five years shorter lives than children raised in intact two - parent married families.

In a now - classic study on crying, researchers Sylvia Bell and Mary Ainsworth at Johns Hopkins found that babies whose caregivers consistently responded quickly to their cries, cried less often and for shorter periods of time by the end of their first year.

It's certainly a short period of time, but it's a very critical period of time,» said Cria Perrine, a CDC epidemiologist who led the study.

A study from 2010 acknowledged, yes, «in the short - term, kids go through a one - to two - year crisis period when their parents divorce,» but the idea of staying together for the kids is problematic, especially if it's a high - conflict family, and that previous research indicating people should stay together «has been plagued by many data problems — reliance on small samples derived from one therapy clinic, retrospective reports, and cross sectional data.»

Most studies suggest that the effect is only temporary and will normalize in a relatively short period of time.

I didn't see the actual study but I wonder if they followed up on the kids later or just looked at them over a short period.

These studies address immediate, short - term responses to exercise, and lend support the idea that school recess periods — breaks for play and physical activity — can enhance attention in the classroom.

Because of this, there are very low breastfeeding rates for premature and low birth weight infants; studies have shown that the shorter the gestational period of the baby, the shorter the length of breastfeeding.

Studies have shown that babies born with doulas present tend to have shorter hospital stays with fewer admissions to special care nurseries, breastfeed more easily and have more affectionate mothers in the postpartum period.

In a review of all 18 studies, the authors found breastfeeding for six months or longer was associated with a 19 percent lower risk compared with no breastfeeding or breastfeeding for a shorter period of time.

Limitations of the study include that the women were asked to remember information from years earlier, so they may not have remembered everything correctly, and that the reasons for not breastfeeding or breastfeeding only for a short period of time were not investigated.

In my case my not having to get out of bed, my husband continuing to sleep, the security I feel I am giving to my baby, the fact that I respond to the baby before s / he cries, shorter feedings, more sleep, the pleasure of having the baby near me all night, and an increased period of infertility, are not enough to counter a possible increased risk of SIDS that is unlikely to be backed up by future studies.

Additional support for the possible self - regulatory benefits associated with breastfeeding is also provided by a short - term follow - up study of 158 infants.31 This study found that between the ages of 13 and 52 weeks, breastfed babies consistently cried for shorter periods of time than formula - fed babies.

In one study reported in the Journal of Pediatrics, none of the infants receiving human milk as the only milk in the first 12 months of life, without other foods containing iron, were anaemic at 7 months, compared with 43 % of those breastfed for a shorter period.

In 2015, he came to the University for Development Studies, Navrongo Campus for NPP TESCON programme when I was NDC TEIN president and preached a very terrible message by asking Ghanaians to make sacrifices like the people of Ivory Coast did some years ago and that «a country smaller in size and population compared to Ghana, which had endured bloody dispute in their last election, resulting in the loss and displacing of thousands of lives, had, in a short period, turned around their fortunes.

These can be for a study or research period of 1 to 10 months (see bursaries for short and long - term visits) or might allow you to carry out your Ph.D. or an entire postdoctoral project (see DAAD - Leibniz and Helmholtz - DAAD bursaries).

Initially about one third of the 1,661 study participants received placebo, however the placebo group also received the vaccine 30 months into the study so those individuals were followed a shorter period of time, the researchers note.

The new study shows the formation of dikes can occur in larger segments — and over much shorter periods of time — than previously thought.

Across all three studies, the researchers noted that meals with higher calorie content were ordered and consumed when there were shorter (or no) waiting periods between ordering and eating.

The shorter period reduces the cost of fish - tagging studies, as the manual labor of handling fish and inserting tags is the most expensive part of these studies.

Between 1988 and 1998, sperm motility declined by 2.5 per cent per year and following a short period when stud dogs of compromised fertility were retired from the study, sperm motility from 2002 to 2014 continued to decline at a rate of 1.2 % per year.

How can anyone reasonably argue that the system is overwhelmed by people fighting to get a job where you study for 4 years, earn almost nothing during the study period, and finally become professionally qualified only to find yourself in the position of being unemployed, or employed only on short - term contracts?

Also, the 32 - year period studied in the project provides a good indication of the mechanism involved, yet is too short for definite conclusions.

«The follow - up period was relatively short — six weeks — and the study was not statistically powered to measure clinical outcomes,» said Tindle, who served as the lead study physician while working at the University of Pittsburgh through the summer of 2014.

Studying women who had undergone gastric bypass surgery, the researchers found that those who had consumed the equivalent of two drinks in a short period of time had blood - alcohol contents similar to women who had consumed four drinks but had not had the operation.

Dietary changes were measured only for a short time and caution must be used when extrapolating the study data to dietary changes over longer periods of time.

And while CCS could theoretically be used to retrofit coal power plants, the study shows that hundreds of power plants would need retrofitting in a short period of time — a lot of pressure on a technology that as yet remains both technically and politically uncertain.

While previous research had predicted the feedback effect, until now nobody had been able to prove its existence except for case studies limited to single sites and short time periods.

The co-authors suggest that future studies looking to find and study possibly habitable planets around short - term binary stars should focus on those with longer orbital periods than about 7.5 days.

Previous studies have proven the benefits of vigorous stair climbing over sustained periods of time — up to 70 minutes a week — but scientists set out to determine if sprint interval training (SIT), which involves brief bursts of vigorous exercise separated by short periods of recovery, was an effective and time - efficient alternative for improving cardiorespiratory fitness.

He is also unconvinced by the team's assertion that most studies fail to take account of fluctuations in our cognitive prowess that happen over a period of hours or days and might affect results more than a short sharp zap in the head.

When the x-ray source sent out pulses as short as 80 millions of billionths of a second, the researchers could see the first short period of the crystal melting, which occurred in an unexpected way: The atoms diverged from their initial energy equilibrium while the average crystalline structure remained — a rarely studied behavior that could not have been seen as clearly with other techniques.

A boat can «mow the lawn» over a large area in a relatively short period of time, while stationary recorders on the seafloor have great temporal coverage, but they record only within a certain range of the hydrophone,» said Selene Fregosi, a researcher at the Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies, Oregon State University and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Newport, Oregon.

By studying the model of the microcephalic brain, the team found that the period of stem cell multiplication was shorter than usual.

But the study looked at departures from average conditions over shorter time periods, and may not be a good indicator of how people will respond to sustained warming.

It does not, however, specify when that activity should take place, and as the authors state: «The current study is the first controlled study conducted in free - living adults with T2D that has aimed to determine whether prescribed walking taken for short periods after meals confers longer - term benefits than walking on a single occasion at any time of the day.»

This explains why close - ups of an actor appear on screen for shorter periods than shots in which the person's face is smaller and is surrounded by distracting objects, according to a study by James Cutting and Kacie Armstrong of Cornell University in the US, published in Springer's journal Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.

In the largest study to date of the relationship between sleep apnea and diabetes, a new study of more than 8,500 Canadian patients has demonstrated a link between obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and the development of diabetes, confirming earlier evidence of such a relationship from smaller studies with shorter follow - up periods.

Previous studies looking at extremely preterm infants - babies born after only 22 to 28 weeks of gestation - typically only look at short periods of time and often use data from specialized centers with the latest technology and treatments, Malloy said.