Sentences with phrase «small control group»

Limitations include lack of randomization of participants, small control group, and lack of follow - up.

And you turn it into vomiting out questions which would have, if answered, shown an incredibly small control group with condescending stupidity thrown in.

When a community is large and can police itself — great, and when it can't, smaller controlled group collaboration may work better.

This feature was released for testing to a small controlled group of insiders in Insider Preview Build 17063and was subsequently removed after the test.

Not exact matches

In terms of the methods, there are a number of smaller scale studies, many of which did not include active control groups.

One of Canada's most dynastic companies, the Irving group got its start back in the 1920s, when K.C. opened a small service station in Bouctouche, N.B. Nearly 100 years on, the family controls more than 250 enterprises scattered across Canada and the northeastern United States.

Having started Chobani just seven years ago after taking control of a small feta cheese company from Kraft Foods Group, Hamdi Ulukaya, a US - based Turk, will take the concept to the UK.

Surrounded by small - business owners, a group the president has characterized as community stalwarts unfairly burdened by excessive rules, Trump called for «normalized control, where you can open your business and expand your business very easily.

There was a small improvement in self - reported medication adherence by the test group — those who downloaded and used the app — compared to the control group — those who didn't get the app.

We continue to artificially support this small group, barely six per cent of all Canadian farmers, by fixing prices, imposing extremely high tariffs to keep those prices high, and controlling production.

As sensors become smaller and easier to use, Dexcom and its competitors are betting that the systems will be adopted by the much larger group of people with Type 2 diabetes, which is typically controlled with medications, diet and exercise.

Thanks to the dedication of a small but growing group of programmers around the world who saw in Bitcoin an alternative route to stand apart from the control and influence of governments and banks, the sapling grew.

Because it was possible to run large - scale ASIC mining operations, mining became a way for a few small groups of people to essentially control the monetary supply of various cryptocurrencies.

It also takes advantage of a hybrid proof - of - work and proof - of - stake mining system so that a small group can not take control of the flow of transactions or changes made to it, without the community's consent.

Are cryptocurrencies actually decentralized or are they controlled by small groups of people?

The National Rifle Association on Thursday endorsed tighter restrictions on devices that allow a rifle to fire bullets as fast as a machine gun — a rare, if small, step for a group that for years has vehemently opposed any new gun controls.

In every single altcoin, it is trivial to see how a small group of people controls it.

I find it amazing when when a small group of people can control the entire country and remove things that have existed for decades atheists sue the government over everything even our money get over it

Every religion in the world, past and present, stems from the same basic premise «it's probably a good idea to be nice to each other» after that it gets twisted so that one small group of people can have some measure of control over a larger mass of people.

Despotic capitalism, on the other hand, is characterized by control of the government by an individual or a relatively small group such as military junta, an aristocracy or elite class, or a minority political party.

In elite capitalism, where a small group of families may control the vast majority of land, capital, or other resources, this openness to competition is seen as a threat and is not present.

Thus the ministers easily remained under the control of a small group in each parish — the vestry.

The most striking instance is the small group of military men who control nuclear weapons.

Women are often leaving Churches and having their own small Church groups where they can praise and worship Jesus without male control and domination.

True, there are enclaves of Italians, Polish, Irish and Chinese, but their small size bespeaks the futility of any significant control outside their boundaries, and these groups» second and third generations are moving to the greener suburbs beyond their communal turf.

No matter where you go or how small the group, someone is going to want to control it to some extent, even if they don't realize it themselves.

It can not be denied that consent operated in New England society in such a way that a relatively small group of elite magistrates and deputies managed to retain control of the colony.

For discontinuing any breastfeeding before 12 months, small socioeconomic gradients in the control group were widened in the intervention group (RR = 1.04 and 1.16, respectively, for mothers with secondary education or less).

Verbal IQ deficits among children of mothers with lower education compared with those who completed university were somewhat smaller in the intervention group than in the control group: 5.2 (95 % CI: 3.1, 7.3) vs 6.5 (95 % CI: 5.6, 7.4) points deficit among mothers with partial university education and 10.7 (95 % CI: 8.4, 12.9) vs 11.7 (95 % CI: 10.2, 13.2) points among those with secondary education or less.

No socioeconomic inequalities were observed in the control group, whereas a small gradient was seen in the intervention group (RD = 0.06, 95 % CI: 0.03, 0.09 for mothers with partial university education; RD = 0.10, 95 % CI: 0.06, 0.14 for mothers with no more than secondary education).

In the control group, a small gradient was observed between maternal education and complete breastfeeding cessation (weaning).

Socioeconomic inequalities in breastfeeding by maternal education were absent or small in the control group, in whom the standard practices were provided.

A prospective, controlled study of the effect of breast milk on infection among low birth weight infants was conducted in India in 1981.18 Although the sample size was small, 62 infants, the study design was a randomized block design in which feeding schedules for breast milk or formula were randomly allocated within groups of infants that were determined to be relatively homogeneous with respect to factors predisposing to infection.

The differences were small, though — in the latter study, the babies spent eight minutes less in REM sleep, on average, in those first few hours than babies in the control group did.

Criticism of crying it out and sleep training: Though CIO critics sometimes point to a 2012 study finding that babies» levels of the stress hormone cortisol remained high even after they stopped crying and went to sleep on their own, that study has since been under fire for being too small (just 25 babies ages 4 to 10 months old) and flawed because there was no control group and no baseline cortisol levels reported to define what study author Dr. Wendy Middlemiss of the University of North Texas meant by «high.»

On the other hand, fine motor development is mainly about the baby gaining ability to control small muscle groups for fine - tuned movements such as feeding, drawing and manipulating small objects.

Overall IQ: Tests after 20 years show a small but significant (3.6 percent) advantage in overall intelligence (IQ) for the most fragile KMC babies (those with an abnormal or transient neurological exam at 6 months) compared to similar infants in the control group.

A small 2013 study reported that infants with colic showed lower diversity and stability in their gut microflora than the control group.

This has its root in the ability of small groups of people to control the countries» political parties and large sections of the public administration.

The report examines the relative spending presence of non-candidate groups, candidates, and small donors in these races - «which will likely determine which party will control the House.»

The report examineed the relative spending presence of non-candidate groups, candidates, and small donors in these races - «which will likely determine which party will control the House.»

The report examined the relative spending presence of non-candidate groups, candidates, and small donors in these races - «which will likely determine which party will control the House.»

Its political system is actually similar to ancient Roman Republic's system: a small group of elites, rather than just one dictator, controls the entire country.

The big winner is Oxford Health Insurance, part of UnitedHealthCare, which controls roughly 70 percent of the small group market, and is owed $ 315 million from the Risk Adjustment program.

• Countywide Animal Control program • Cooperative purchasing of paper and other items through the Empire State Purchasing Group • Bulk purchase of LED Lighting • Shared printing through BOCES • Shared police dispatching • Formalizing agreements among Highway Departments • Joint bids for landscaping and custodial services • Dissolution of small village courts

In front of a small crowd of supporters and Syracuse University students, congressional candidate Steve Williams said the United States is becoming an oligarchy — more controlled by a small group of wealthy elites.

The Assembly has already voted to approve the Dream Act — a state version of the federal proposal to allow certain illegal aliens to gain access to a variety of government programs — but it is opposed by Senate Republicans, who control that house in coalition with a small group of Democrats.

The governor's push for both a hike in the minimum wage and paid family leave faces an uphill battle in the Republican - controlled Senate, and business groups argue that both proposals would be burdensome for small business owners.

It's a small clique of people who happen to control a ballot line, a little insider group.

And the governor must do business with Republicans who have partial control of the State Senate, with a small group of independent Democrats, and are never eager to raise taxes.