Sentences with phrase «small research samples»

These studies can be problematic because they include small research samples or rely on people to accurately self - report their drinking habits.

Scientists have scanned just a few hundred brains on meditation do date, which makes for a pretty small research sample.

Not exact matches

For example, if you're trying to publish statistics on small business websites, you could collect a sample group from small business websites you find on your own, and use their sites to inform your research.

Rock Lefebvre, CGA - Canada's vice president of research and standards, cautions that its sample is small and skewed, as seven of the companies were in the mining sector.

McDonald counters that the Bernstein sample is so small as to be meaningless and says P&G's research shows that pride in the company is at 84 %.

Granted the sample of the research I am about to share is very small.

The first clue is this photo, which reveals a small sampling of the books I've been using for research.

The sample size was small, and the researchers stated that the research findings indicate the need for a randomised control trial (RCT) as RCT's are widely recognised as the best study design.

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.»

So this research doesn't target key questions about graduated extinction, and it's limited by small sample size and missing data.

«This study adds to previous research conducted in smaller sample groups that also showed this approach does not increase the risk of a baby choking, and indeed in the UK, supports the Department of Health recommendation that babies can have finger foods from six months old.»

The limitations of the research include the small sample size overall, and that although the design aimed to allow for likely contextual and practice differences across BC, the very small numbers of midwives within each stratum further limits the applicability of the findings.

Coyne's view is shaped by the small sample sizes used in early mental health biomarker research — something that can be problematic for rare conditions.

She added, though, that small sample sizes and other methodological challenges necessitated more research in order to demonstrate exactly which interventions hold the most promise for dual - language learners.

By studying core samples taken from the river delta, the research team, led by Zhen Li of East China Normal University in Shanghai and colleagues, detected patterns and sizes of charcoal to indicate fire distance (small particles can travel farther than 100 meters, whereas larger ones stay put) as well as pollen to deduce the presence of either crops or nonagricultural flora.

Much of the existing research looking at these differences has been based on small samples, where gay men are recruited from political or social support organizations.

Whereas previous research had analyzed samples of emissions from sites across the county, this time researchers focused on the risk to one small, well - defined area, trying to assess the potential of risk increasing over time.

«This has high sensitivity and we can detect tiny quantities of an explosive in a small sample,» says Dr Tsiminis, who is an Australian Research Council Super Science Fellow.

This is a small subset of all the NIH - funded research related to the work you want to do, but it is a fair sample of the diversity of androgen - receptor research within NIH.

Most research relies on small samples or college samples.

Scientists at the Shimadzu Institute for Research Technologies and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The University of Texas at Arlington have collaborated to develop a new method for detecting trace amounts of estrogen in small samples that holds the potential to improve research into cancer and other dResearch Technologies and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The University of Texas at Arlington have collaborated to develop a new method for detecting trace amounts of estrogen in small samples that holds the potential to improve research into cancer and other dresearch into cancer and other diseases.

Hawkings and his collaborators spent three months in 2012 and 2013 gathering water samples and measuring the flow of water from the 600 - square - kilometer (230 - square - mile) Leverett Glacier and the smaller, 36 - square - kilometer (14 - square - mile) Kiattuut Sermiat Glacier in Greenland as part of a Natural Environment Research Council - funded project to understand how much phosphorus, in various forms, was escaping from the ice sheet over time and draining into the sea.

For the first time, scientists from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UH Mānoa) and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) will deploy a small fleet of long - range autonomous underwater vehicles (LRAUVs) that have the ability to collect and archive seawater samples automatically.

However, the small sample of DNA concerns him, and he agrees with Thornton that more research is needed: «My guess is that the history of turkey domestication in the New World is fairly complex and that we are just beginning to see some of the outlines of it.»

But Rice and others caution that the research is still preliminary and based on a small sample.

Lynch applied for a small grant from the National Science Foundation's Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, which funded Hall to work on a project to apply lasers for slicing his root samples.

«While the study sample was small and further research is needed, the results further validate that dogs with CCD can provide insight and understanding into anxiety disorders that affect people.

Performing 800 nanoindentation experiments in which they varied the size of the indentation by varying the load applied to the diamond tip pressed into the sample, the research team found that the smaller the size of the indent, the harder, and thus stronger, olivine became.

Research reported in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, which has directly observed microbial activity in Antarctic and Arctic snow, has revealed that the composition of these small samples of gas trapped in the ice may have been affected by bacteria that remain active in snow while it is being compressed into ice — a process that can last decades.

The research team took a small blood sample during one of Sequoia's routine physicals and extracted enough DNA to get a clear understanding of her genetic identification.

Researchers then surveyed for morels in May 2014 in 1,119 small sample plots within the research site.

She cautioned, however, that the research is preliminary and based on a small sample: 42 in the «My Voice, My Choice» condition and 36 in a control condition.

Here is just a small sampling of the research accomplishments made by NIH - supported scientists in 2012.

The preliminary research had a small sample size, but provides opportunities for more research.

His research looked at only a small sample of subjects, 16 with schizophrenia and 16 without.

The Vijayanand lab has developed a number of genomics (transcriptomic, single - cell and epigenomic) and immunological assays to enable research with small numbers of cells and small - volume clinical samples.

In the new study, the research team screened 16 DIPG cell lines derived from patients» tumors against 83 possible chemotherapy drugs, exposing cells to small samples of each drug.

Here's just a small sampling of the research accomplishments made by NIH - supported scientists in 2015.

Quiz Ref IDOur study has limitations including generalizability of our findings (because it was conducted at 1 hospital), a small sample, and a lack of prior research studies on the topic.

Our study has limitations including generalizability of our findings (because it was conducted at 1 hospital), a small sample, and a lack of prior research studies on the topic.

Earlier research had indicated that the test could detect very small amounts of CTCs — as low as one CTC per billion blood cells — with that size blood sample.

It is necessary to mention that the sample size of this study was rather small, so further research is absolutely needed in order to replicate the results and confirm if the individuals truly remain free of diabetes after the seemingly minuscule fat loss from their pancreas.

While the International Journal of Biomedical Science study found that it was «reasonable» to describe maca as having beneficial effects and allowing for a «substantial reduction of menopausal discomfort» on a small sample of early - postmenopausal women, the study also stated there was a definite placebo effect, so «further, more complex» research was needed.

Overall, the evidence is limited to short studies with small sample sizes, so more research is needed.

The Center for Science in Public Interest (CSPI) has evaluated such claims on yogurt and found the evidence to be inconclusive at best, primarily owing to the limited research and small sample sizes.

Although this initial effectiveness research is promising, the sample sizes in all three studies were small, and control and randomization were not used raising questions about internal and external validity.

It's interesting to note that, from the small sample pool of fifteen people, the male celeb ratio of feminists to non-feminists seems comparable to female celebrities» — there are some «I'm more of a humanist,» some «I need to do more research,» and some «duh, of course» s. I also wonder how the media would respond to women answering with as much confidence as some of the men did here (for example, Darren Aronofsky's answer: «Yes.

Several research reports exist, but none is peer reviewed, and most offer qualitative, not quantitative, data with small sample sizes.

Qualitative research could involve evaluation of teaching tools using a small sample to create improved products, or sensitive research with small hard - to - reach groups who would not normally respond to traditional research methods such as surveys or telephone interviews.

Instead, most research into these topics has been conducted with small samples, non-representative samples (e.g., Kane & Staiger, 2012) or by research projects that use diverse instruments, meaning that it is difficult to ascertain what, if any, progress has been made toward the three goals.