Sentences with phrase «similar study which»

Even more promising for acne was a very similar study which compared a high bromelain group and a non-bromelain surgery group.

Not exact matches

The study, headed by Professor Edward Guinan of the school's astronomy and astrophysics department, initially looked at which crops would thrive in soil that is similar to that found on Mars (based on readings taken by the Phoenix Mars lander and samples recreated on earth).

While we can try throwing different antibiotics at any number of strange and unfamiliar bacterial infections, we have no similar sledgehammer for mysterious viral diseases, which each have to be studied carefully before we can even begin to figure out how to fight or prevent them.

A survey of New York City employers after implementation of the city's paid sick days law showed that more than 91 percent of respondents did not reduce hiring; 97 percent did not reduce hours; and 94 percent did not raise prices as a result of the law.26 In a similar study from Connecticut, which passed a statewide paid sick days law in 2011, employers also reported no effects or modest effects to their bottom lines.27 And an audit of the District of Columbia's paid sick leave law, effective in 2008, found that it did not discourage business owners from basing their businesses in the District, nor did it incentivize them to relocate their businesses outside of Washington.28

The results, which mirror those of similar, small - scale studies of the illegal drug in recent years, come as MDMA is about to enter larger, Phase 3 trials this summer.

Mr Azar was the lead author of another study, published this month, which found similar effects from overlapping shareholders in American banks.

Similar essays include Ben Avery's study of the ramifications of the Fall as they play out in Jackie Brown and Russell Hemati's «Like A Man,» which illuminates the important role of group dynamics in the nature of sin.

Partisans of the new scientism are fond of recounting the «Sokal hoax» — physicist Alan Sokal submitted a paper heavy on jargon but full of false and meaningless statements to the postmodern cultural studies journal Social Text, which accepted and published it without quibble — but are unlikely to mention a similar experiment conducted on reviewers of the prestigious British Medical Journal.

Citing a Swedish twin study in which 1,400 participants were asked to describe their parents, twins raised together gave more similar descriptions than twins not raised together.

The study of what used to be called «public administration» thus commands little prestige in the public policy graduate schools, which employ many of the authors represented in these and similar volumes.

Krister Stendahl gave voice to this in his important essay The Bible and the Role of Women: A Case Study in Hermeneutics written in 1958.6 Donald Dayton expressed a similar position in his article in the Post American: «the real question - at least for most Christians [is]: Which of these views (the hierarchical or the egalitarian — or perhaps a synthesis of the two) has the clearer grounding in scripture?

Although billions of dollars are being expended annually on family planning services in less - developed countries, and such programs have been promoted by various governments at the national level for four decades, there are only a few studies that have attempted to measure the demographic and health impact of family planning against a «control group» — a similar area which lacks the service.

Samuel Heilman reports a similar phenomenon, which he calls «symbolic murder,» in a study of a synagogue.7

All studies, including mine, follow lines that are curiously similar to the ways a family examines a house or an apartment in which it might dwell.

The historian of religions should be capable of arriving at similar results when working with religious data which are foreign to his own field of study.

This diagram is similar to the one which Jellinek used to illustrate the lecture in which he reported on this study at the Yale Summer School of Alcohol Studies, 1961.

Bruce Marshall held a similar vision of evangelical and catholic Lutheranism that he caught while studying with Lindbeck at Yale, a vision in which the Reformation is viewed as an attempt to restore genuine catholicity to the church.

But, a new study by Netherlands - based consumer association Consumentenbond, which tested gluten - free variants, found that they contain more fat, sugar and / or salt and less fibre than similar products with gluten.

At our U.S. plant, we've partnered with the University of Syracuse to do a similar energy study, which has been funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, she adds.

Another one of Campbell's studies, which he chose to omit from his book, showed that wheat gluten can create similar results to the casein protein — suggesting that perhaps a complete amino acid profile, regardless if it's plant or animal sourced, promotes cell growth, and those can be healthy cells or cancer cells.

The results are strikingly similar to those of another study Fabrizio performed in December, which examined the benefits of the contrarian investing technique to betting on NFL games.

It's a big deal in light of North Carolina's other and very similar academic shenanigans (Peppers struggled at everything but African and African - American studies classes, which we'd assumed was a more recent thing for UNC).

There are 12 high quality studies since 1995 (1 - 12) from Canada, Switzerland, Sweden, Holland, US, UK, New Zealand and Israel, which all show planned attended homebirth to have either lower or similar rates of perinatal mortality and very significantly lower rates of maternal morbidity, such as cesareans, hemorrhage, and third and fourth degree tears compared to matched groups of low risk women who plan to deliver in hospital.

Whether headgear in the women's game will actually make the game safer will still be open to debate, at least until studies can be done to compare injury rates among girls and women wearing helmets and those who don't (similar to those done comparing injury rates for girls wearing goggles playing lacrosse versus those that didn't - which showed that the goggles were effective in reducing injury rates.

Dr. Pope's org Challenge Success, which used more than twenty studies on homework for its papers, found similar results, reporting,» [I] n a recent study comparing the standardized math scores across multiple countries, no positive link was found between student math achievement and the frequency or amount of homework given (Baker & LeTendre, 2005).

Since publication of the first Purdue study, similar findings about the effects of RHI, both in the short - and medium - term, have been reported by researchers [8,9,16,19,21,22,26,27,28, 29 - 38], with several of the studies finding changes which persisted for weeks and even months after a football season ended.

Most studies have revealed protective effects of breastfeeding on common infections in the first 8 to12 months of life.8, 27,29,30 One study, which distinguished between infectious diseases until and from the age of 6 months, revealed results similar to those from our study.24 Although the authors used exclusive breastfeeding for 3 months as the reference group, exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months reduced the risk of gastrointestinal tract infections between the ages of 3 and 6 months but not between the ages of 6 and 12 months.24 We can not explain why breastfeeding duration was only associated with lower risks of lower respiratory tract infection from 7 to 12 months.

He notes that patients in the studies were being treated for reflux, which has symptoms similar to heart disease.

Except for male sex, which was not a risk factor in study participants, the ORs obtained from participants were similar to those obtained from all eligible cases and controls, providing no evidence of a noticeable selection bias.

Well, one of the studies they cited as having similar intrapartum mortality rates was a study of South Australian homebirths which found that homebirths had an intrapartum mortality rate seven times that of hospital birth.

Statistics from the Infant Feeding 2000 survey, however, suggest that rates of breast feeding in the UK20 are similar to those of Singapore.7 Our results were also consistent with the results of PROBIT study in Belarus, in which 36 % of women in the control group were breast feeding at all at six months.21 Around 90 % of the women in our study had monthly household incomes of less than Singapore $ 5000 (# 1630, $ 2413, $ 3294).

A sensitivity analysis omitting the cluster - randomised study (Ochola 2013) for which a design effect could not be calculated demonstrated a similar positive treatment effect (average RR 0.80, 95 % CI 0.71 to 0.89).

I could list several recent large prospective studies (this one out of Canada, this one out of the Netherlands, and this one out of the United Kingdom) all comparing where and with whom healthy women gave birth, which found similar rates of baby loss — around 2 per 1,000 — no matter the place or attendant.

A similar pattern of differences was observed when postprandial measures (ie, 60 min after feeding), which were available in 3 studies, were used (mean difference: − 4.07 pmol / L; 95 % CI: − 7.51, − 0.62 pmol / L; P = 0.021)(5, 31, 35).

The Institute for Fiscal Studies's Mirrlees Review of the tax system proposed replacing council tax with a housing consumption tax, which if charged at 0.6 percent of property values, would raise a similar amount to council tax in aggregate.

This is the first comparative study of alcohol availability policies in these two countries, which share similar drinking cultures.

Constantinides proposed an addition to PlanNYC requiring that at least 20 percent of new constructions be carbon neutral by 2030 and a study of the Bowery Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant in Astoria to see if it could be into a park, similar to Riverbank State Park, which is built over a sewage treatment facility on the East River.

Previous studies of MERS outbreaks in early 2014 estimated the infective potential at between 2 and 6.7 in Saudi Arabia, similar to the numbers for severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, which has an infective potential of between 2 and 4.

The next step was to search the scientific literature to find out which academic groups were studying similar approaches to treatment for the same indications.

The phenomenon of similar, repeated recommendations from multiple expert studies producing relatively little change is not unique to these types of workforce issues; a similar, steadily growing series of careful, judicious, and thoughtful reports has accumulated over recent years in the field of laboratory safety, which is also beset by serious problems.

Two years ago, even this hypothesis was knocked down by a detailed study of pigeon brains, which concluded that they are, in fact, organized along quite similar lines to those of primates.

The study, «Accretion - induced variability links young stellar objects, white dwarfs, and black holes», which is published in the journal Science Advances, shows how the «flickering» in the visible brightness of young stellar objects (YSOs)-- very young stars in the final stages of formation — is similar to the flickering seen from black holes or white dwarfs as they violently pull matter from their surroundings in a process known as accretion.

The study was conducted in rats, which included 24 pregnant subjects; 12 were fed standard chow and 12 were fed a high - fat diet, similar to the typical American diet.

Hrabowski studied various minority programs in creating his curriculum, including similar programs at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and Uri Treisman's methods, which have improved calculus scores for African Americans at UC - Berkeley.

Even more important, this seminal work opens the road for comparative neuroimaging studies in which humans and other animals perform similar tasks using similar methodologies, and the results can be analyzed using similar strategies.

A Japanese and American team also conducted a simulation in which bct carbon produced x-ray patterns similar to those seen in the 2003 study.

Icarus Interstellar is supporting a study called Tin - Tin, which would also use an ion drive or similar tech to send a 20 - pound probe to Alpha Centauri.

A new Journal of Wildlife Management study conducted in South Africa has found that black - backed jackals, a similar species to coyotes and dingoes, prefer to eat livestock rather than similar - sized wild prey, which has important consequences for livestock husbandry and the management of predators.

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The study first examined how mice in which almost all beta cells were destroyed — similar to humans with type 1 diabetes — responded to injections of caerulein.