Sentences with phrase «study arms for»

Hence, a total of 90 patients from nine centers were randomly assigned to one of two study arms for the phase II clinical trial: the first taking capsules of olaparib (400 mg twice daily) and the other taking a combination of the two drugs (200 mg olaparib in capsule - form twice daily and 30 mg tablets of cediranib once daily).

Not exact matches

For example, studies show customers buy less when their arms are full — which is why placing empty shopping baskets or carts in the middle of a retail store can dramatically increase sales per customer.

Studies that increase the power to exploit the earth and other people, that arm one for the struggle for privilege, that prepare one to pursue his advantage more successfully, destroy rather than edify a person.

BuzzFeed: Americans Don't Know Anything About Romney's Religion — Yet Armed with fresh survey data and a counterintuitive thesis, a new Brookings Institution study released Wednesday makes the compelling case that Mitt Romney's Mormon faith, long pegged by pundits as a political albatross for the candidate, won't actually hurt him at the polls in November — and it could even help.

Admitted my sins, asked for forgiveness, asked jesus to come into my heart, was baptized, prayed, studied the bible, sang, and couldn't help wondering what was wrong with me, why all my friends would sit there with their arms raised to god, why I could not feel what they were feeling.

CARRYING: Studies indicate that babies who are carried by a parent in his or her arms or in a carrier for at least three hours during the day cry less than infants who aren't carried as much.

I kept my panic at bay when my daughter fell off her bike and fractured her arm, kept my cool when I found out my son had been lying about studying for a math test.

«This report contains some important proposals which we will study in detail because we want to build consensus for a reformed system of party funding - one that ends the arms race that drives the big money in politics and one which restores public trust in politics.

In the international Phase 2 clinical trial, two study arms enrolled 24 cirrhotic patients each, none who had previously been treated for HCV infection.

This study is a useful tool for building awareness and arming parents with some really good information.»

To identify the relevant mutations the scientists analyzed the blood samples of 1,858 men from three independent cohorts in Europe and North America: the Swiss arm of the European Randomized Study for Prostate Cancer Screening, the large American Screening trial, Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO), Princess Margaret Cancer Centre (University Health Network) and Mount Sinai Hospital (Sinai Health System) in Toronto.

But a new study by NASA scientists sounds a cautionary note in interpreting rings and spiral arms as signposts for new planets.

The study, known as Brain Computer Interface (BCI) Controlled Prosthetic Arm Movement Is Possible in the Absence of Visual Input with Proprioceptive Feedback, demonstrates that proprioception can have a powerful impact on BCI - controlled prosthetic arm movements and should be an important target for sensory restoratiArm Movement Is Possible in the Absence of Visual Input with Proprioceptive Feedback, demonstrates that proprioception can have a powerful impact on BCI - controlled prosthetic arm movements and should be an important target for sensory restoratiarm movements and should be an important target for sensory restoration.

After the release of the results, all participants in the delayed ART arm were offered the opportunity to begin ART, and the study continued for four more years.

Widely hailed as a «breakthrough» in HIV prevention by public health officials, the studies — one of which dropped its placebo arm today because of the convincing effects of the intervention — add powerful new tools to derail transmission of the virus in the population that accounts for most of the 34 million infections in the world.

It may take a legion of scuba divers armed with nets and spears, but a new study confirms for the first time that controlling lionfish populations in the western Atlantic Ocean can pave the way for a recovery of native fish.

Leonard Spector of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Washington DC told a US Congressional committee last week that in a recent military exercise, the US and 18 other nations, and «more than 12,000 participants» rehearsed ways to «prevent the transfer of chemical arms out of Syria».

For the Muscle Tendon Tissue Unit Repair and Reinforcement Reconstructive Surgery Research Study, which was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense, 11 men and two women who had lost at least 25 percent of leg or arm muscle volume and function first underwent a customized regimen of physical therapy for four to 16 weeFor the Muscle Tendon Tissue Unit Repair and Reinforcement Reconstructive Surgery Research Study, which was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense, 11 men and two women who had lost at least 25 percent of leg or arm muscle volume and function first underwent a customized regimen of physical therapy for four to 16 weefor four to 16 weeks.

The breakthrough is the latest for Halas» lab, the research arm of Rice's Smalley - Curl Institute that specializes in the study of light - activated nanoparticles.

For the study, the team implemented a low - cost 3D dipping apparatus — objects in the water tank were dipped via a robotic arm.

Both arms received paclitaxel and carboplatin for six cycles and the study arm patients continued with bevacizumab maintenance.

«Study arms sheriff's deputies with nasal spray for drug overdose victims.»

«During the past three years of armed conflict, Yemenis have been continuously exposed to serious harm and trauma, including air strikes, threats and attacks from armed groups, forced disappearances, torture, a cholera epidemic, and food and job insecurity,» said Farea Al - Muslimi, a prominent Yemeni scholar and chairman of the Sana'a Center for Strategic Studies.

Over the weekend, Phoenix scooped up a shovel - full of ruddy dirt using its 7.7 - foot (2.4 - meter) robotic arm to deposit into its Thermal and Evolved - Gas Analyzer, a suite of tiny, single - use ovens for baking soil and ice samples to study their chemistry.

The amputees in the study had previously undergone surgery to rewire the nerves in their upper bodies to act as messengers for the specific electric signals associated with arm and hand movement.

In a proof - of - concept study, scientists selected a region for analysis on round or irregularly - shaped objects using a 3 - D camera on a robotic arm, which mapped the 3 - dimentional coordinates of the sample's surface.

The computers cued up the appropriate test for each of the six study baboons using microchips in their arms.

The study, recently submitted for publication, was conducted in India by U.C.S.F. neurobiologist Jyoti Mishra with funding from the John E. Fogarty International Center, an arm of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) focused on global research.

This pivotal trial is the largest study conducted of renal artery denervation as a treatment for resistant hypertension and the most rigorously designed, including blinding and a sham treatment in the control arm.

According to the findings, the dossier contained no data suitable for the assessment: In the only study of direct comparison, the dosage of the drug in the comparator arm was not in compliance with the approval.

Although both study groups showed a statistically significant decrease at six months compared with baseline -LRB--14.1 mmHg for renal denervation compared to -11.7 mmHg for the sham treatment control), the difference of -2.29 mmHg in office systolic blood pressure between the two arms was not significant.

For the study, Fairhurst and colleagues had infants sit in their parents» laps while the experimenter stroked the back of the infant's arm with a paintbrush.

During the last three months of the study, the team discovered that 80 percent of the infections that occurred in the scrub - the - hub arm were related to a significant drop - off in adherence to scrubbing the hub for the required 15 seconds.

In addition, the new trial randomized patients to receive their angioplasty via a catheter inserted in an artery in either the arm or the groin, thus accounting for the potential effects different catheter access points may have had on the results of previous studies.

«This study supports the positive direction being taken by the expansion of women's occupations into combat arms roles, and suggests continued support from the [Department of Defense] for women seeking occupational equality in the military setting,» write the authors.

The devastating consequences of sexual trauma in the military reported by 25 percent of female and 1 percent of male veterans who served in the U.S. armed forces don't end with psychological and physical trauma, but are associated with a much higher risk for homelessness, a study led by Utah researchers has found.

«This study shows that interventional cardiologists who are experienced with the radial approach have nothing to lose and everything to gain by using the arm as the access point for these procedures,» Valgimigli said.

We need studies like this to find out how the two are intertwined and hopefully find the right formula to help prevent Alzheimer's disease,» said Dr. Rong Zhang of UT Southwestern, who oversees the clinical trial and is Director of the Cerebrovascular Laboratory in the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, where the Dallas arm of the study is being carried out.

«Despite the limitations of a single arm, non-randomized study, we infer from these data that Interferon ß - 1a treatment is worth further consideration for the treatment of Ebola virus disease,» said Dr. Fish, who is also a Professor in the Department of Immunology at the University of Toronto, noting that the decision to undertake the clinical trial was based on previous preliminary scientific data, and on the fact that no currently approved antivirals exist to treat Ebola.

The proof - of - principle study shows a role for control of affected arm movement in the side of the brain not affected by the stroke, she says.

But in a new study in Nature, researchers show that the deep Arctic Ocean has been churning briskly for the last 35,000 years, through the chill of the last ice age and warmth of modern times, suggesting that at least one arm of the system of global ocean currents that move heat around the planet has behaved similarly under vastly different climates.

The study, entitled, «Interferon ß - 1a for the treatment of Ebola virus disease: A historically controlled, single - arm proof of concept trial,» published in PLoS One, a high - impact journal which is freely and immediately available to everyone.

Although the robot didn't offer a glimpse of anything living there — it's not equipped with cameras or a sampling arm — it did provide invaluable data for scientists studying the swift - moving Pine Island Glacier ice shelf, which might be thought of as ground zero for the biggest Antarctic mystery of all, in the minds of many scientists: What is happening to the ice?

Importantly, however, survival was equivalent in the two arms of the nivolumab study, with less serious toxicity than in the chemotherapy arm, so it also represents a reasonable option for patients with lower PD - L1 expression in their tumors.

However, half of all participants in the iPrEx study, regardless of the study arm they were in, reported depression scores over the threshold for clinically significant depression.

Inclusion Criteria: • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1 • Have histologically or cytologically confirmed advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)(Stage IIIb or greater) • Measurable disease, as defined by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1 • Known PD - L1 tumor status as determined by an immunohistochemistry (IHC) assay performed by the central laboratory on tissue obtained at Screening • A woman of childbearing potential must have a negative highly sensitive serum (beta - human chorionic gonadotropin [beta - hCG]-RRB- at Screening within 14 days prior to study drug administration Inclusion Criteria for Crossover: • Participants must have been randomized to Arm A of the study and had radiographic disease progression according to RECIST 1.1 • Participants must have a mandatory biopsy at the time of disease progression according to RECIST 1.1 prior to crossing over.

In the laboratory «Neural Basis of Sensorimotor Control» we study brain circuitry mechanisms for voluntary movement control and sensory processing that involves the arm and hand.

«This galaxy made a great target for our study of spiral arms and how star formation works along them,» said Eva Schinnerer, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, NM.

Spontaneous alternation, the tendency to alternate free choices in a Y - maze (three arms), is a model for studying short term working memory in mice [20, 21].

The vacation arm serves as a relaxation control for the meditation arms of the study, which take place at a vacation resort, given those in the vacation arm experience all of the amenities of the vacation resort and are at least partially removed from the demands of their daily lives.