Sentences with phrase «study participants on»

Box 1 shows mean scores for the study participants on each independent variable.

Though weight loss was similar on the two diets, study participants on the high protein diet saw improvements in blood lipids and blood pressure.

Then, the researchers put the study participants on one of five diets for six months.

Blood tests later confirmed that fewer than 40 % of the study participants on Truvada had been taking the pills daily.

Not exact matches

In another, the researchers asked study participants to quickly assess how much a person weighed by looking at faces on a computer screen.

The study included over 200 employees at a variety of companies, and had participants self - report their performance on a daily basis.

The study's authors found that on days when participants hit the gym, they reported managing their time more effectively, being more productive, and having more cheerful interactions with colleagues.

After studying 670 participants, Dr. Calvin Kai - Ching Yu of Hong Kong Shue Yan University found that those who sleep on their stomachs have positive and wilder dreams.

Overall, the study found «no evidence that personal brain training benefited the participants in terms of improving cognitive performance, working memory, on attention, cognitive flexibility, or inhibitory control,» says Lerman.

In a study published in the Journal of Consumer Research that examined the impact of mental stress on food choices, a majority of the participants selected an unhealthy food (chocolate cake) over a healthy food (fruit) after completing a complicated memorization task.

«On March 23, 2013, 24 scientific study participants were injected with a dead strain of Escherichia coli, a bacteria that normally induces violent sickness for days on enOn March 23, 2013, 24 scientific study participants were injected with a dead strain of Escherichia coli, a bacteria that normally induces violent sickness for days on enon end.

When the researchers ran a study on the process of bidding, they discovered that when the participants were solely focused on the process, uncertainty increased their investment.

For instance, one study randomly assigned participants to one of two groups: One group's members spent time on their social media pages, and the other group simply surfed the Internet.

A study released in November of 12 participants who spent two weeks in a Boston sleep - research lab discovered that using light - emitting e-reader devices can have negative effects on sleep quality.

In follow - up studies, they found that motivation boost from uncertainty only occurred when participants were focused on the process of pursuing a reward and not the outcome.

The study was designed so that each participant won two out of the four contests, but half the group faced off against the same opponent each time and won or lost by a narrow margin; these slight victories and losses to the same opponent encouraged feelings of rivalry among participants, who subsequently reported higher scores on the Machiavellianism scale.

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.»

The study also asked participants to rank others» photos based on four subjective elements: happiness, sadness, likability, and «interestingness.»

On October 19, it released the results of an online panel study of about 46,000 adult participants, comparing them to a similar study conducted at the beginning of the year.

With the rebrand, she also accelerated the program's focus on connecting participants with investor networks — a direct response to a 2014 Babson College study that indicated only 5 percent of female entrepreneurs receive funding from VCs.

In a recent study on how weather affects mood in Emotion, a small percentage of Dutch participants were labeled Summer Haters (their mood worsened with warmer and sunnier weather).

The study's authors discovered that participants were matching faces to jobs based on a certain set of facial characteristics.

In one study Savin - Williams worked on, participants who identified as men or women were shown pornography.

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

One German study, for instance, showed that participants who had listened to music with prosocial lyrics (such as Bruno Mars's «Count on Me» or Aretha Franklin classic «Respect») were equally likely to help students with German and Turkish - sounding last names (there is a large population of Turks living in Germany).

In one study, participants were given a box of tacks, a set of matches, and a candle, and asked to affix the candle to the wall, so that the candle, when lit, would not drip on the floor.

And the study participants who frequently read for pleasure made the highest gains on the test.

The study of 1,787 US adults ages 19 through 32 found that participants who visited social media services more than two hours a day had twice the odds for «social isolation» compared to their peers who spent less than half an hour on services like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat.

One of the Mount Sinai researchers who worked on the study said that ResearchKit was «particularly suitable for studies of short duration that require rapid enrollment across diverse geographical locations, frequent data collection, and real - time feedback to participants.»

PsyBlog explains the research on the subject: «In the study, one group of participants were allowed to get a full nights» sleep, while another had to stay up all night.

PsyBlog sums up one study on the subject which entailed showing some research participants a video on the idea that stress can be enhancing: «This led to them reporting better performance at work and fewer psychological problems over the subsequent two weeks.

The series of studies tested the effects of power hierarchies on team productivity by creating teams with either a mixed propensity towards leadership — in one case some participants were primed to feel powerful by thinking of a time they wielded power over others while others subjects were asked to envision a time they were bossed around before joining the group — or teams made up entirely of hard charging leadership types or participants primed for a meeker, go along, get along approach.

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

In an effort to help plan sponsors and retirement plan professionals communicate more effectively with participants, Invesco Consulting teamed up with the political consultants and word specialists, Maslansky + Partners, to conduct one of the largest, most comprehensive studies of its kind on financial language.

See U.S. Gov» t Accountability Office, supra, at 15 («Recent studies, market participants, and other stakeholders agree that proxy advisory firms have influence on shareholder voting and corporate governance practices, but had mixed views about the extent of their influence.»).

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

Nick is a member of the Standards Australia Technical Committee on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Standards and a participant in the International Standards Organisation Study Group on Identity on the Blockchain.

In agreement, another participant suggested that «we put too high an expectation on the seminary if we expect it to provide the integration» between theological study and parish ministry.

Since 1983 the University United Methodist Church in Fort Worth has invited chemically sensitive persons to a weekly Bible study in the church's uncarpeted solarium, where the six to ten participants sit on metal chairs at a distance from one another and the minister.

Among 11 study participants for whom data from the oral food challenge were either inconclusive or not available, a diagnostic algorithm based on clinical history, the results of a skin - prick test, and the values for peanut - specific IgE were used to determine whether or not a participant should be considered to have peanut allergy (Fig.

Harvard researchers studying the effects of whole grain cereal consumption on heart failure risk followed 21,376 participants in the Physicians Health Study over nineteen years.

Since consumption of whole grain products and dietary fiber has been shown to reduce the risk of high blood pressure and heart attack, Harvard researchers decided to look at the effects of cereal consumption on heart failure risk and followed 21,376 participants in the Physicians Health Study over a period of 19.6 years.

In this study, tiger nut milk came out on top with 61 % of participants saying it was their preferred choice, as well as producing the biggest volume and longest shelf life.

The 12 week clinical study from the US of 303 participants is the first prospective, randomised clinical trial to directly compare the effects of water and diet beverages on weight loss within a behavioural weight loss program.

To demonstrate this, one study put participants on a high - protein diet and allowed them to eat as much as they wanted.

We are indebted to Dr. Ronald Mensink for providing updated meta - analysis results, to Dr. Peter Clifton for providing risk estimates from his published study, and to the organizers of and participants in the First International Symposium on Trans Fatty Acids and Health (Copenhagen, September 11 — 13, 2005) for informative discussions and international perspectives on trans fatty acids and cardiovascular health.

A 2012 study on the experience of first - time moms who gave birth with epidurals, for example, found that participants reported that the epidural felt like a big relief, and that it helped make their birth experience more tolerable.

Often, researchers choose their cutoffs by «grading on a curve» — looking over the distribution of scores for the entire pool of study participants.

One randomized controlled trial comparing home - visited families with control participants who received other community services found a statistically significant difference in mean depressive symptoms at two years post-enrollment, but this contrast was nonsignificant at three years post - enrollment.15 A second study of Early Head Start found no differences in depressive symptoms between intervention and control group participants post-intervention, although a difference was detected at a longer - term follow - up prior to children's enrollment in kindergarten.10 Other randomized controlled trial studies have not found effects of home visitation on maternal depressive symptoms.12, 16,17

While research on fidelity in home visiting programs is fairly sparse, studies have documented some components, such as dosage and duration of services, home visit content, and participant - provider relationships.