Sentences with phrase «small numbers of subjects»

She added that some of the fasting studies had very small numbers of subjects and needed to be replicated with many more participants.

If that seems like a small number of subjects for a major study, consider the fact that each acoustic transmitter costs approximately $ 300 to $ 550, not counting the investment of researchers» time and the expense of chartering a boat for the implantation phase.

The small number of subjects and the limited geographic focus of the study make these findings very specific, Keating says.

Most published studies entailed small number of subjects; well - designed studies with larger sample sizes are needed to ascertain how this test can reduce clinical diagnostic uncertainty or impact treatment planning.

This «cross-over» type experiment is also good if you have a small number of subjects (which many weight loss studies do).

This allowed us to overcome the heterogeneity of misclassification bias of subgroups due to a small number of subjects in each group.

Not exact matches

Tal says his unscientific research into the subject — consisting mainly of a recent dinner with over 20 real estate brokers and agents who deal exclusively with foreign buyers — led him to believe the number of «pure» foreign purchasers in the Canadian real - estate market is «probably much smaller than perceived by many.»

As a non-diversified fund, the fund may invest in a relatively small number of issuers and, as a result, be subject to a greater risk of loss with respect to its portfolio securities.

Tal says his unscientific research into the subject — consisting mainly of a recent dinner with over 20 real estate brokers and agents who deal exclusively with foreign buyers — led him to believe the number of «pure» foreign purchasers in the Canadian real estate market is «probably much smaller than perceived by many.»

To take a single example, last year I had the privilege of participating in one of these schools in a small university town, where in a parish of about one thousand members over two hundred persons (including a goodly number of interested «enquirers» who had heard of the program through a carefully planned advertising campaign) attended eight night sessions, held from eight until ten o'clock, with a choice among eight different courses, dealing with theological, ethical, historical, devotional, and scriptural subjects.

(Revelation 14:1) That number is small in comparison with the millions who will enjoy endless life on earth as loyal subjects of the Kingdom.

The small number of Shacks included in our calculation of our average cash - on - cash return and payback period may cause these measures to fluctuate and be subject to change.

Under the Montreal Protocol, Quarantine and Pre-Shipment and feedstock uses are not subject to phase - down, while non-Quarantine and Pre-Shipment uses (i.e. those uses that do not fall within the definition of Quarantine and Pre-Shipment or the definition of feedstock) have been phased out, apart from a small number of exempted critical uses.

A limitation of the available information has been the small number of studies in which exclusively breastfed and bottle - fed subjects can be clearly defined.

Regarding charter schools — Charter schools are supposed to act as laboratories, where small numbers of schoolchildren are subjects of experiments to find better ways to educate them.

From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction.

So, by my reckoning there will probably be around 15 re-selection battles where a sitting Labour MP faces up against another sitting Labour MP on the provisional boundaries, though remember that these are subject to change (and it only takes a small adjustment by the boundary commission to shift the number of voters from an old seat above or below 40 %).

There have been significant limitations, however, beginning with a necessity to extensively catalog each subject's unique brain patterns, which are then matched with a small number of pre-programmed images.

A much larger number of haplogroup H subjects, as well as large cohorts of individuals with other haplogroups, will be necessary to analyze to dissect out other possible correlations or to determine whether or not any of the correlations we detected with a relatively small population are spurious.

Furthermore, when subjected to sphere formation, siTRF2 transfected HCT 116 cells formed significantly smaller (p < 0.0001) and fewer number of spheres compared to that of scrambled (Fig 3g - i) over a period of 7 days.

Furthermore, the number of subjects is too small to detect an effect.

Even though this is a small study of 72 subjects assessing a small number of drinks — and it definitely needs to be replicated — it's a really clarifying start to create an index for hydration.

Although more research is needed due to the small number of research subjects in these studies, why wait to begin these practices?

For the study, which was published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, a group of scientists from Columbia University and NYU gave a daily dose of flavanols extracted from cocoa powder to a small number of healthy 50 - to 69 - year - old subjects.

Furthermore, there is also little question that the vast majority of conversations, seminars and published papers on the subject have addressed gut microflora purely in terms of its role in GI health, particularly in reference to the ever increasing number of patients who present with issues such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), and inflammatory bowel disease.

While concentrating on a relatively small number of individual films, the author of Flesh and Excess steers clear of any auteurist snobbery, and brings to the subject a joyfully amorphous critical stance, deftly avoiding the canonising practices of much film criticism.

In addition, there are several thousand undergraduates training to be primary teachers, and a small number in some secondary subjects of which physical education accounts for the largest number.

He said: «The small window in which examinations can be taken, the large number of candidates taking examinations and the diverse range of subjects available to candidates, places significant limitations on the changes that can be accommodated for any one group.

If mistakes are going to be made, isn't it more humane to make them with a small number of test subjects than with the general population?

We have summarized the research on how well value - added measures hold up across years, subject areas, and student populations, but the evidence is based on a relatively small number of studies.

The vehicles were subject to three earlier recalls, but the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in a statement that «a small number of vehicles» fixed...

The idea, here, is to allow that frame to absorb impacts in a number of different crash conditions, especially the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's small overlap crash, which only subjects the outer 25 percent of a vehicle's front end to an impact with a barrier.

Many people have argue with me for years on the subject of dedicated eBook reader devices, with any number of reasons they like them, but it is really only that they can't read small print or they still want «the look and feel» of the dead trees pulp bound up in dead animal skins.

I have formatted a large number of books for a diverse set of individual authors and small publishers, and I have had the opportunity to work with books from a broad range of subject categories.

The Fund is subject to risks associated with investments in small - capitalization companies, such as erratic earnings patterns, competitive conditions, limited earnings history and a reliance on one or a limited number of products.

As a non-diversified investment company, the fund may invest in a relatively small number of issuers and, as a result, be subject to a greater risk of loss with respect to its portfolio securities.

Accordingly, a non-diversified mutual fund is generally subject to the risk that a large loss in an individual issue will, causing a greater loss for the fund than it would if the fund was required to hold a larger number of securities or smaller positions.

A nondiversified fund may be subject to greater risk by investing in a smaller number of investments than a diversified fund.

Here are some of ASIC «s concerns: many AFS license holders appeared to be based overseas, while promoting the security of Australian regulation; a number number of smaller licensed companies that were foreign - owned (or controlled by a foreign firm) showed lack of awareness or understanding of Australian regulations; some of the firms holding ASIC licenses had outsourced key compliance aspects to third parties, some of which were related to the AFS licensees and based overseas (and were subject to little, if any, regulatory oversight in their home jurisdiction).

Number two we don't want to drive tracking error, so we don't want small stocks to drive returns, so some things let's say 0.01 percent of the S&P 500, we don't want that driving our returns but we may really like that stock, we may think it's really cheap so we will buy more of it and we may even buy five or eight times more of it but that's only 0.05 or 0.08 percent, not really going to drive returns, we will buy as much as we can subject to the constraints that we don't want to drive too much tracking error.

Despite this, dogs remain heavily regulated: they must be licensed with local authorities, they can not go in public places without a leash (if at all), they must be vaccinated against rabies, you canâ $ ™ t live with more than a small number of them, animal control officers can seize and destroy them if they determine that they are a nuisance, and the threshold of making a determination that they are dangerous and subject to extermination puts dogs at a disadvantage, even when the facts show otherwise.

Of my writings published online on this blog and The Huffington Post since last April 2010, the ones that have in any small way gone viral, very relatively speaking, were those in which I wrote fast enough about current hot news items or ones relating or engaging with artworld celebrities: as one example, «My Whole Street is A Mosque,» written within 24 hours of the news cycle surrounding the proposal for a Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero, was picked up by various web aggregators; «Looking for Art to Love, MoMA: A Tale of Two Egos» also did very well because of my speculation about how or whether Marina Abramovic peed during her performance «The Artist is Present» at MoMA, a subject of much prurient curiosity (interesting speculation was illustrated online at New York Magazine and resolution of the mystery came in the Wall Street Journal's blog, «Speakeasy»); «Anselm Kiefer@Larry Gagosian: Last Century in Berlin,» where I tucked a critical response to Kiefer's recent show into a bit of reporting about how Gagosian Gallery was using the NYPD as its private police force, also created a spike on my Google analytics; more recently I could perceive a noticeable uptick in my readership as well as in the number and enthusiasm of my Facebook friends» comments for «Should we trust anyone under 3Of my writings published online on this blog and The Huffington Post since last April 2010, the ones that have in any small way gone viral, very relatively speaking, were those in which I wrote fast enough about current hot news items or ones relating or engaging with artworld celebrities: as one example, «My Whole Street is A Mosque,» written within 24 hours of the news cycle surrounding the proposal for a Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero, was picked up by various web aggregators; «Looking for Art to Love, MoMA: A Tale of Two Egos» also did very well because of my speculation about how or whether Marina Abramovic peed during her performance «The Artist is Present» at MoMA, a subject of much prurient curiosity (interesting speculation was illustrated online at New York Magazine and resolution of the mystery came in the Wall Street Journal's blog, «Speakeasy»); «Anselm Kiefer@Larry Gagosian: Last Century in Berlin,» where I tucked a critical response to Kiefer's recent show into a bit of reporting about how Gagosian Gallery was using the NYPD as its private police force, also created a spike on my Google analytics; more recently I could perceive a noticeable uptick in my readership as well as in the number and enthusiasm of my Facebook friends» comments for «Should we trust anyone under 3of the news cycle surrounding the proposal for a Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero, was picked up by various web aggregators; «Looking for Art to Love, MoMA: A Tale of Two Egos» also did very well because of my speculation about how or whether Marina Abramovic peed during her performance «The Artist is Present» at MoMA, a subject of much prurient curiosity (interesting speculation was illustrated online at New York Magazine and resolution of the mystery came in the Wall Street Journal's blog, «Speakeasy»); «Anselm Kiefer@Larry Gagosian: Last Century in Berlin,» where I tucked a critical response to Kiefer's recent show into a bit of reporting about how Gagosian Gallery was using the NYPD as its private police force, also created a spike on my Google analytics; 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However, in the late 1960s and early 1970s Lostutter produced a number of small watercolors and drawings of female subjects where he began to explore many of the elements seen in his later paintings.

Yet even if their numbers remain small, more and more female artists are taking on the subject of the male body.

Her painting is distinguished by constant changes, experimentation and development and her works cover such subjects as socio - political portraits, primitive masks, underwater scenes, tropical flowers and wild animals, as well as including a number of small collages.

Also found are a small number of negatives, 35 - mm slides, and color transparencies of art work, miscellaneous subjects, and people.

For over forty years the artist has painted a limited range of subjects, mostly members of his own family, close friends and a small number of models of long acquaintance.

In addition to his favourite hobby of copying the narrative «action» paintings of Old Masters, he specialized in small - scale detailed works of landscape painting, executed in oils, containing a number of human subjects and typically several features of topographical or other interest, including crowds or military scenes.

A small number of tickets will be available, subject to availability for non-Members from 13th February.

He works every day, constantly returning to a narrow range of subjects: landscapes near his studio in North London and a relatively small number of sitters, whom he will paint weekly.