Sentences with phrase «small study reported»

On the flip side, one small study reported in the European Journal of Epilepsy claimed that scientists were able to train dogs to sense seizures through «reward - based operant conditioning.»

One small study reported promising results with tissue - engineered products to promote healing of diabetic skin ulcers.

About half of the mothers in a small study reported that they were currently experiencing symptoms of a mood disorder.

That number might be low: One small study reported that over 70 percent of participants had used a kitchen spoon to dispense medicine.

People who received kidneys from donors infected with hepatitis C did not become ill with the virus, thanks to treatment with newer drugs that can cure the disease, a small study reports.

Not exact matches

Part of the problem, the study found, is that «existing tax rules effectively create a $ 19,399 reporting tax loophole impacting millions of taxpayers» because of the confusion surrounding the requirements for forms 1099 - K, which is supposed to be filed by companies when they earn more than $ 20,000 through 200 or more credit card transactions, and 1099 - MISC, which covers payments above $ 600 to independent contractors, freelancers and small businesses.

Total revenue of small businesses included in the initiative grew at 10.8 percent on an annualized basis between in the two years studied, according to the report.

«Mehl and his team found that the happiest person in the study had twice as many substantive conversations, and only one - third the amount of small talk, as the unhappiest person,» reports author Jenn Granneman on Psychology Today.

A similar study conducted by the Guardian Insurance Company offered even more marked results, with 35 % of small business owners surveyed reporting that they actually started their businesses to fund their retirements.

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

The groundwater study is just a small part of the 2,000 - page report, which was designed to examine how the pipeline would affect Nebraska communities and natural resources.

Studies suggest that they should add more signage, such as custom banners and yard signs — 64 percent of customers reported that they couldn't find a business due to its unclear or small signage.

The U.K. Treasury's sponsored analysis of confidential tax records on tax - advantaged share schemes at over 16,000 U.K. firms reported that broad - based employee stock ownership was linked to improved value added and productivity with correlations consistent with those in many studies of smaller numbers of firms.

Based on findings from our latest study, «Report from the Front Lines: Small Business Outlook and Ecommerce Strategies for the 2014 Holiday Season,» 76 % of small - and medium - sized business owners feel optimistic that their business will generate more sales this holiday season than they did in Small Business Outlook and Ecommerce Strategies for the 2014 Holiday Season,» 76 % of small - and medium - sized business owners feel optimistic that their business will generate more sales this holiday season than they did in small - and medium - sized business owners feel optimistic that their business will generate more sales this holiday season than they did in 2013.

Dividends are the last thing you'll hear about when reading the financial press or talking to most small investors, yet they're the lynchpin of all of those reports (such as the CSFB Equity - Gilt Study) that reassure us the UK stock market goes up over the long - term.

Join the Small Business Ideas Blog Newsletter to stay updated and also get access to member only downloads and content, including special reports, studies and articles I write on other blogs.

The seven - year study was designed to «fill the gap» left by the United States census (no questions on religion), the self - reporting of denominations («widely differing criteria»), and smaller surveys (too few questions or people).

By Hays's own admission, though, the book is small, a «sort of progress report» on what will eventually be a larger, fuller study of the «echoes» of Jewish Scripture in the four Gospels.

So thinks the Pew Research Center, which today released the second wave of a massive study designed to «fill the gap» left by the United States census (no questions on religion), the self - reporting of denominations («widely differing criteria»), and smaller surveys (too few questions or people).

A Randomized Double - Blind Study of the Effect of Distant Healing in a Population With Advanced AIDS Report of a Small Scale Study FRED SICHER, MA; ELISABETH TARG, MD; DAN MOORE 11, PhD; and HELENE S. SMITH, PhD; San Francisco, California The Western journal of medicine.

Yep, that's right: a recent study in the British Journal of Nutrition found that soup eaters tend to weigh less and have smaller waists than those who don't eat soup: their findings were based on reports of more than 20,000 Americans surveyed by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys between 2003 and 2008.

One report examined effect sizes and found that studies sponsored by the food industry reported significantly smaller harmful effects for the association of soft drink consumption with energy intake and body weight than those not sponsored by the food industry.

Although it might be inferred that confidence in addressing the needs of breastfeeding mothers translates into better clinical management of breastfeeding issues, the number of residents in this study was too small to correlate the performance of individual residents in the clinical setting with their reported confidence level.

Most health care practitioners have positive views about breastfeeding but report inadequate knowledge and desire additional training about lactation management.15 — 18 Studies have suggested that small, interactive workshops can increase the knowledge of general practitioners about breastfeeding.19 — 21 In this study, resident knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding showed a modest increase following the intervention.

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.»

According to a systematic review, a small body of research suggests that treatment may be associated with mother - reported improvements in breastfeeding, but the studies are small, short - term, and rely on inconsistent methodology.

Views are particularly polarised in the United States, with interventions and costs of hospital births escalating and midwives involved with home births being denied the ability to be lead professionals in hospital, with admitting and discharge privileges.5 Although several Canadian medical societies6 7 and the American Public Health Association8 have adopted policies promoting or acknowledging the viability of home births, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists continues to oppose it.9 Studies on home birth have been criticised if they have been too small to accurately assess perinatal mortality, unable to distinguish planned from unplanned home births accurately, or retrospective with the potential of bias from selective reporting.

A small observational study found that women who reported having sex after 39 weeks were much less likely to go post-term or need to be induced.

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.»

Independent observations of change were on the whole smaller than parent - report (SMD of 0.4 compared with 0.7), and very few (7/25) of the included studies had provided an independent assessment of outcome.

In 2007, in an effort to establish whether certain lifestyle factors offered any preventive measure against various types of cancer, the American Institute for Cancer Research released a report of a meta - study it had conducted (over five years, compiling results from several smaller studies).

My new doctor also knew about the case reports of seizures, but she brushed off the study, saying it was too small to be conclusive.

Given the results of a a new study reported in the British medical journal, The Lancet4 that children and young adults scanned multiple times by CT have a small increased risk of leukemia and brain tumors in the decade following their first scan, parents should make sure a CT scan is really necessary in treatment of their child after head injury.

Both studies reported some increased risk in morbidity among women with more than one prior cesarean delivery, although the absolute magnitude of the difference in these risks was small (eg, 2.1 % versus 3.2 % composite major morbidity in one study)(74).

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

Mothers who breastfeed have been found to report lower levels of perceived stress and negative mood, higher levels of maternal attachment, and tend to perceive their infants more positively than mothers who formula - feed.9, 19 - 21 There is evidence to suggest that breastfeeding mothers may also spend more time in emotional care and be more sensitive to infant emotional distress cues than bottle - feeding mothers.22, 23 Relatedly, a small fMRI study of 17 mothers in the first postpartum month, found that breastfeeding mothers showed greater activation in brain areas involved in empathy and bonding than formula - feeding mothers when listening to their own infant's cry.24 These brain areas included the superior frontal gyrus, insula, precuneus, striatum and amygdala.

Although some SIDS experts and policy - makers endorse pacifier use recommendations that are similar to those of the AAP, 272,273 concerns about possible deleterious effects of pacifier use have prevented others from making a recommendation for pacifier use as a risk reduction strategy.274 Although several observational studies275, — , 277 have found a correlation between pacifiers and reduced breastfeeding duration, the results of well - designed randomized clinical trials indicated that pacifiers do not seem to cause shortened breastfeeding duration for term and preterm infants.278, 279 The authors of 1 study reported a small deleterious effect of early pacifier introduction (2 — 5 days after birth) on exclusive breastfeeding at 1 month of age and on overall breastfeeding duration (defined as any breastfeeding), but early pacifier use did not adversely affect exclusive breastfeeding duration.

Indeed, the risk posed to any one baby by misuse of these products is likely very small; according to Scheers» study, for instance, the CPSC got reports of only 23 bumper - related deaths from 2006 to 2012.

That is, we found some evidence that small studies (i.e., those with higher standard errors, located to the right of the figure), compared with larger studies, reported larger mean differences in systolic blood pressure between infant feeding groups.

Fixed - effect models are reported throughout, because these reflect only the random error within each study and are less affected by small study bias (usually the result of selective publication of small studies with extreme results)(39).

The strength and consistency of reported associations, the extent of small study bias and publication bias, and the potential contribution of confounding factors were examined where possible.

The amygdala, the small group of nuclei critical to emotional learning, is the brain area that has been reported most often in studies regarding attitudes to race.

Jon Gower Davies, a former Head of the Religious Studies Department at the University of Newcastle and a Labour Councillor on Newcastle City Council for 20 years, has written a report for the think - tank Civitas, entitled «Small Corroding Words: the slighting of Great Britain by the EHRC», which advocates the abolition of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, currently chaired by Trevor Phillips, the ex Labour member of the London Assembly.

The Cuomo Administration report has angered business groups, who say the study is skewed, and does not look at impacts a two thirds wage hike would have on small business owners, small farms, and local governments and school districts.

It's a disservice to discount «small donors» who gave as they could over the months — that the point, the «spirit» of the Obama effort that your reported study misses the point of.

The 146 - page report, issued Friday by an independent commission convened by City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and tasked with studying the issue, calls for the closure of the Rikers over the next 10 years through a mixture of alternative sentencing, bail reform, and the building of five smaller jails, one in each of the five boroughs.

The study is in keeping with DNAinfo New York's reporting from last year, which detailed the plans to close Rikers Island's jail facilities and enumerated a plan to replace it with smaller jails across the city, which the mayor rejected as «untrue» at the time.

The new study analyzes a 430 - million - year - old fossil found recently in southern Scotland that, unlike previously described fossils, had a tail preserved in a highly curved configuration, suggesting it would have been well - equipped to finish off prey held firm with its small front limbs, the researchers report today in The American Naturalist.

A 2006 study of 77 pregnant women infected with West Nile virus reported that two had infants with microcephaly, the birth defect lately associated with Zika that results in unusually small and damaged brains.

By that point, the average African mammal was already 50 percent smaller than those on other continents, the study reported, despite the fact that larger landmasses can typically support larger mammals.