Sentences with phrase «study on a minute»

In the summer of 1991, neurobiologist Simon Levay published a small study on a minute part of the human brain.

Looking at all the evidence — from epidemiological studies on diet and health, to biochemical studies on the minute mechanisms of disease — the potential health benefits of taking a standard daily multivitamin appear to outweigh the potential risks for most people.

Not exact matches

But if the nice, thick - walled building would take about 15 minutes travel time, it's better to hole up in the flimsy shelter for awhile — but you should probably leave for a better shelter after roughly an hour (and maybe pick up some beers and sodas on the way: A study in the»50s found they taste fine after a blast).

Making time to go outside on a nice day also delivers a huge advantage; one study found that spending 20 minutes outside in good weather not only boosted positive mood, but broadened thinking and improved working memory...

Interestingly, the study says that while it takes an average 11 minutes for people to get distracted from a task, a good 25 minutes are consumed in focusing on the task even after getting back to it.

In one study, people keeping a gratitude journal slept on average 30 minutes more per night, woke up feeling more refreshed, and had an easier time staying awake during the day compared to those who didn't practice gratitude.»

Levy cites a 2009 study based on data from the American Time Use survey, which found that each minute spent commuting translates into a 0.22 minute sleep time reduction.

According to the study of 715 parents, every hour of touchscreen use results in 15.6 minutes less of sleep, or 26.4 minutes less total per night and 10.8 minutes more during the day, on average.

An Edison Research study on the audio habits of Americans found that podcast listeners are actually «super listeners,» consuming more than one hour and 45 minutes of audio per day than the average American, and they spend more than 25 percent of their total audio time listening to podcasts.

A sleep study conducted by Dr. Marcel Hungs on patients with chronic back pain using Celliant found the median time patients spent awake after falling asleep was reduced by 18.3 minutes.

One study found that after participants completed ten minutes of short, periodic sprints, «performance on the Stroop Test — a long - established measure of mental control, or what psychologists call «executive function» — seemed to be enhanced immediately... and 45 minutes afterwards.»

Frind's account of his own exploits, published on his blog in 2006 under the title «How I Started a Dating Empire,» says a lot about his worldview: «I spent every waking minute when I wasn't at my day job reading, studying, and learning.

In addition, another study cited that kids ages 13 and younger spend an astonishing 30 minutes a week outside, with 8 - 10 year olds racking up close to 8 hours per day on some sort of electronic device.

Bardai and Nahmiache don't put a price tag on employee fitness, but a recent study out of the University of Michigan Health Management Research Center does: It showed that even 10 to 20 minutes of daily exercise could produce significant health benefits and lower the cost of employee healthcare.

«This study showed us that looking at an image of nature for less than a minute was all it took to help people perform better on our task,» explained lead researcher Kate Lee.

Studies relying on self - reported data have come to even more alarming conclusions; a survey conducted by the U.K. branch of Weight Watchers, for example, found that people were sitting an average of 14 hours and 39 minutes a day.

Studies suggest the average worker is interrupted once every 11 minutes; it takes on average about 25 minutes for that worker to get back on task.

«We designed it to eliminate the need for clean - room facilities and trained personnel to fabricate such a device,» said Rahim Esfandyarpour, an electrical engineer who authored a new study on the chip, adding that a single chip can be made in just 20 minutes.

Meanwhile, according to a new study by television analyst Andrew Tyndall, the yellow - haired, potty - mouthed real estate mogul has received a wildly disproportionate share of coverage on the network evening news programs — a combined 327 minutes on ABC, CBS, and NBC in calendar year 2015, compared to 57 minutes each for Jeb Bush and Ben Carson, 22 minutes for Marco Rubio, and 21 minutes for Ted Cruz.

Instead of poring over the Fed minutes, investors looking to understand the direction of the economy should be studying up on the positions of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

If I make my course materials availabe to students on their wireless devices, they'll study a whole 40 minutes more a week!

Those who have had basic courses in the biblical languages and are willing to devote 20 minutes a day to such language study should gain enough language ability to base their sermon text study on the original text, and they should have enough linguistic skill to use the best of the great philological commentaries, which often cite words from the original languages.

A recent comparative study of worldwide military and social spending indicated how at present 1.3 million dollars per minute on average are spent for military purposes; during the same minute 30 children die for lack of food or simple vaccines (WMSE).

The result was that there was no statistical impact on the run, so the study concluded that «Omega 3 Chia loading appears a viable option for enhancing performance for endurance events lasting > 90 minutes and allows athletes to decrease their dietary intake of sugar while increasing their intake of Omega 3 fatty acids but offered no performance advantages.»

If he broke up his study into 30 - minute chunks, he could focus on one aspect of the offense at a time.

Studies have shown that junk food ads on TV, online, and in the real world can increase the amount of unhealthy foods kids choose to eat in as little as 30 minutes after seeing the ads.

I was a last - minute study kind of girl, and I still thrive on deadlines, but since I was wicked smart I did well each time.

Young Americans today live in a world of endless connections and up - to - the - minute information on one another, constantly updating friends, loved ones, and total strangers — «Quiz tomorrow... got ta study!»

One study from years ago said that on average we talk to our children for approximately 10 minutes per day TOTAL.

I recently read a study about the massive positive effects of just spending 15 minutes with a child every day — 15 minutes with 100 % focus on the child.

Matt Driller, a researcher working for the Australian Institute of Sport performed two studies to measure the effects of compression garments on back - to - back 15 minute cycling trails.

In another article on ScienceDaily.com concerning cutting of cords, studies suggest that delaying the cutting simply by two minutes, decreases the infant's risk for iron anemia and boosts its reserves.

An easy, two - minute vision test administered on the sidelines after a young athlete has hit his or her head can help to reliably determine whether the athlete has sustained a concussion, according to a new study of student athletes, some as young as 5.

In one study, researchers wanted to know if IUI treatment would be more effective if the woman remained on her back for 15 minutes after the procedure.

She cites some of the studies of infant carrying of the time, including that from Dr. Knowles on the transport response, soothing a baby with a 90 beats per minute walk or bounce.

But a later study — in which one group did slow pelvic rocking exercises on all fours for ten minutes twice a day from 37 weeks on and a second group did nothing — looked at the longer - term effect and found that an equal percentage of women (about 8 percent) in both groups had babies who were posterior at birth.

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.

The one study they included to try and argue that travel time matters even in highly integrated areas was based in the Netherlands and looked at travel time for all births (not home versus hospital) and was based on travel time of 20 minutes or less versus more than 20 minutes [9].

Studies done by the Touch Research Institute in Miami, the first scientific center to study the biology of touch and its effects on health and development, have shown that premature infants who are massaged for 15 minutes three times a day gain more weight and are able to be released from the hospital sooner than those who are not massaged.

*** Relief measures for sore nipples: allow nipples to air dry after feeding, sunlight on nipples for ten minutes twice daily (lying down on floor under a window is a good way to do this), express breastmilk onto nipples and allow to air dry, one study suggests that Lansinoh is effective and not harmful when applied sparingly, do not use Vitamin E oil.

In the Consortium on Safe Labor study discussed earlier, although the mean and median duration of the second stage differed by 30 minutes, the 95th percentile threshold was approximately 1 hour longer in women who received epidural analgesia than in those who did not (20).

The peer counseling model was based on published studies that demonstrate that, among peer counseling programs for low - income mothers of term infants, in - depth, in - person peer contacts are most effective.13, 15 Emphasis was thus placed on face - to - face contact, with meetings lasting at least 30 minutes.

A couple of Occupational Therapists completed and published a research study that compared two groups of babies, one group spent 30 minutes minimum of tummy time per day and the other group did not, the tummy time group scored higher on developmental assessments, so perhaps 30 minutes in a good goal per day; most helpful if broken up into mini sessions throughout the day.

Personally, I am not comfortable leaving my children to cry on their own for any length of time, but I do recognize that there aren't specific scientific studies saying that leaving a baby to cry for 5 or 10 minutes would cause damage to their brains.

A recent time to eat study, «Impact of School Lunch Period Length on Meal Consumption», found that compared with students who had a least 25 minutes to eat their meal, students with fewer than 20 minutes to eat were significantly less likely to select a fruit (44 % vs. 57 %).

For this study, the researchers focused on the total number of minutes the new fathers spent in positive engagement activities with their infants on the non-workday.

For instance, every serious candidate suffered from some piece of unflattering content spread online from person to person: McCain sang «Bomb, Bomb Iran,» Edwards had his two - minute hair - brushing episode, Clinton was greeted with children and flowers while landing «under sniper fire,» and a comparison of Mitt Romney's past and current statements on abortion rights made for a fascinating study in contrast.

In the first study, the sportspeople completed ten 2 - minute stages of increasing exercise intensity on an exercise bike.

Data from a 2008 Furman Center study of the policies in California and Massachusetts indicated that IZ programs there resulted in only slight increases in housing costs and only minute decreases in new construction, or have no impact on the market at all.

Last February, just as a final report on the safety of fracking was due to be released by Martens» agency, Cuomo abruptly announced that his health commissioner, Dr. Nirav Shah, would conduct a last - minute study, which Shah promised would be completed in «weeks.»