Sentences with phrase «study participants did»

That explains why Dr. Brooks» study participants didn't just feel better — they actually performed better.

The ethnicity of study participants didn't seem to make a difference, either.

Not to mention that the study participants didn't change any other factors in their lifestyle, and didn't even correct the underlying causes of their hair loss, like I show you how to do in this article.

Indeed, the study participants did report that exercising on the mini-trampoline was a lot of fun, and that the JumpSport choreography was easy to learn.

She said if study participants did not smoke and controlled their asthma as an adult, they could possibly reduce the impact of what had happened as a child.

«We found out that our study participants did not just use the already - known smartphone gestures on their skin, but also pushed it to the side or even pinched it with two fingers, in order to control mobile devices,» reports Martin Weigel.

Researchers and study participants do not know whether they are in the treatment or simulation group.

Not exact matches

A great study done in 2010 indicated that drinking fat - free milk immediately after whole - body resistance training and again one hour after the workout allowed participants to increase fat loss, gain greater muscle and strength, and strengthen bones by reducing bone cell turnover.

Research conducted at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, found that study participants asked to complete a survey were significantly more likely to do so if the survey included a Post-it note with a handwritten message asking for their help, akin to a favor.

The study looked at 149 participants in networking and business groups from the United States, Belgium, India, Japan, Australia and England and found that more than 70 percent of the participants who sent weekly updates to friends reported successful goal achievement, compared to 35 percent of those who kept their goals to themselves and didn't write them down.

Not only did eating chocolate immediately boost participants» test scores, the study revealed that eating small amounts of chocolate daily boosted cognitive performance over a long period of time.

In fact, a study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that participants who kept a food journal, with the goal of weight loss, lost twice as much weight as those who didn't.

The study participants who walked for five minutes each hour of sitting saw their arterial function stay the same — it did not drop throughout the three - hour period,» the research released explained.

«If you have been living with a stress - is - debilitating mindset (like most of us), you don't have to be stuck with it,» she declares, citing a portion of the study in which some participants were shown short videos guiding them to think more positively about stress.

And just how meaningful is the cortisol result when the participants didn't report feeling any less stressed, and considering that the cortisol levels for both groups were in the «normal range» at the start of the study?

One study randomly assigned participants to one of two groups: half spent time on their MySpace page (really takes you back, doesn't it?)

The participants then followed one of three protocols — the first control group did nothing in particular, the second exercised for 35 minutes 40 minutes after studying, while the third group exercised for the same amount of time four hours later.

But when it did so, something surprising happened: Half of the study participants who had been allowed to work from home decided to return to the office.

When researchers out of Russia examined the sleep and wakefulness rhythms of 130 study subjects (by keeping the obliging participants up for a full 24 hours and quizzing them periodically about how they were feeling), the scientists found that some folks really didn't prefer early or late hours.

What did the brain images of the 122 study participants show?

It's also possible, however, that the guiltiest study participants were simply right in their estimation of the uselessness of doing nothing — for them, playing a videogame or indulging in a Simpsons marathon really might not help much with their stress levels, making them completely correct in telling themselves to stop wasting time.

Not long ago, researchers at the University of Manitoba's Human - Computer Interaction Lab conducted a study in which participants were asked to do 80 minutes of painfully dull drudge work under the supervision of a human, or that of a computer named Nao.

Science says so; in one study, after eight weeks participants who followed an intermittent fasting eating schedule lost 3.5 pounds of fat while those who similarly exercised and took in the same total calories did not.

In one lab study, a group of participants received emails from friends, family and co-workers describing a time they witnessed the individual performing at his or her best, while another group did not.

One study into memory found that participants did remarkably better on a test following a nap than those who didn't sleep at all.

The first thing we wanted to do was to see if the participants in our study lined up reasonably well with Mamoon's benchmark of 4 as a goal for promising SaaS companies.

The study ultimately found that participants who stuck to a goal - oriented, written plan performed 30 percent better than those who didn't.

Feature on Voya's research study revealing a high automatic enrollment default savings rate does not deter participant enrollment, contrary to most employers» outlooks.

Many of our interviews were done in strict confidence where the participant's own parents, spouses, or children had no idea they were participating in the study.

The present study was primarily interested in assessing consumers» ability to use a variety of front - of - pack labelling systems; therefore participants did not have access to other information that might also be used when selecting foods.

A recent study of the gluten - free diets of new and experienced coeliacs found that significant numbers of adult female participants did not achieve the recommended dietary intakes (RDI) or even the population averages of thiamin, folate, calcium, iron or fibre.

TLT: It's important to note that only 11 of the 50 chains studied by CSPI are participants in the Kids Live Well program (only 10 of which were studied because one didn't offer nutritional data).

The reasons are as yet unknown but the authors of the study point out that «It is possible that babies fed to a routine become relatively more passive participants in the world: feeding (arguably the most important event in their lives) is something which is done to them, rather than something which their own desires and actions play a part in bringing about.

Baumrind also points out that while some studies did not include the ethnicity of participants, some did.

We just don't have enough research to know what is going to happen to these study participants 10 or 20 years down the road.

They advocated that helmet therapy in combination with physical therapy be used immediately in severe cases, since study participants with severe cranial deformations who began helmet therapy later did not manage to recover normal head shape.

The study in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth found that participants who did have chest masculinization surgery did so because of chest - related gender dysphoria and being identified as female because of the way their chest looks.

A previous study showed that in the Campania region, the prevalence of full breastfeeding at 6 months was 7 %.12 Assuming a 20 % loss to follow - up, we calculated that we would require ∼ 240 mother and father pairs to detect a statistically significant increase of 15 % (1 − α = 95 %, 1 − β = 80 %) in the rate of full breastfeeding at 6 months.13 To avoid communication between study groups, which would be likely if people who were admitted to the same hospital unit were exposed to different messages at the same time, we did not randomize the participants as it usually is done, 14 but we allocated the 2 study groups into 2 consecutive blocks of time, after having randomly paired the 2 study groups with the 2 blocks of time.

The study did not have enough participants to determine incidence of diagnosable postpartum depression, nevertheless, women in the treatment group had significantly lower total Postpartum Depression Screening Scale scores with significantly fewer accompanying symptoms of depression.

Each week, the study co-ordinator used SPSS software (SPSSInc, Chicago, IL) to randomly assign 50 % of newly recruited participants to the intervention group, thus preserving allocation concealment (not sure how they did this using SPSS).

It was not possible to analyse the following outcomes, either because data were not reported by any studies or they were reported in a way that did not allow extraction of the necessary data for meta - analysis, or losses and exclusions were more than 20 % of the randomised participants.

The randomisation was done by the study statisticians who had no involvement in enrolment or follow - up of participants

In comparison, in healthy study participants the timing of carbohydrate intake did not play a significant role in blood glucose regulation.

In another study, participants were given lower - and higher - strength beer on two different occasions, and most did not report differences in how they felt after these sessions.

A limitation of the study was that because the aim was to provide evidence of the added value of radiofrequency denervation in a multidisciplinary setting, as done in daily practice, participants and clinicians were not blinded.

But in a more rigorous study — which randomly assigned participants to take either NSAIDs or a placebo daily for several years and administered annual cognitive tests — anti-inflammatories did not seem to help.

That validation process was done in an earlier study that included 231 study participants.

In another experiment, Casasanto's team asked right - handed study participants to wear a bulky glove that nudged them to use their left hand while doing a motor task.

The investigators hypothesized that persistent active chikungunya is responsible for chronic arthritis and joint pain and that chikungunya viral RNA would be present in the synovial fluid; however, in another study published in Arthritis & Rheumatology, the researchers did not detect viable virus after culture of synovial fluid in any of the participants who were studied for a median 22 months after infection.

At the start of the study, all the participants did some Web searching while the scientists monitored their brain activity by functional magnetic resonance imaging.