Sentences with phrase «study subjects reported»

In a clinical trial, 20 % of study subjects reported significant improvement within 24 hours, 70 % by 48 hours, and 90 % claimed complete cure in three days.

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In a case study, subjects reported significantly higher feelings of respect and fondness for their colleagues who used this technique.

Levy reported that in a 2004 study of suburban rail commuters taking the train from New Jersey to Manhattan, «Wener and his coauthor Gary Evans found that the longer their test subjects» journey was, the higher the levels of cortisol (the primary stress hormone) in their saliva, and the more difficult they found to focus on the task of proofreading assigned them at the end of their commute.»

An April study of more than 3,300 people by the National Research Center for the Working Environment discovered that people subjected to bullying in the workplace were more likely to report sleeping difficulties.

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.

In 2011, the Securities and Exchange Commission published a report titled «Study on Investment Advisers and Broker - Dealers,» which recommended that ALL financial advisers be subject to a uniform fiduciary standard.

The Joint Economic Committees Minority Staff Report Study predicts that in just eight years after the Cadillac provisions take effect, the average priced insurance policy will be subject to the Cadillac tax.

The best way to get a thorough understanding of these two subjects is actually read, compare and understand many reports on resource estimates and economic studies, in various stages of development.

The study's subjects were selected entirely by the Mattachine Society, a group that H00ker herself admitted in the report had «as its stated purpose the development of a h0m0 ethic.

The preferred term was «global outreach» and a «Global Outreach Task Force» had been appointed to study the subject and report back to the church.

Avoiding commitment as to any specific attitude which the church and Christian men ought to adopt toward war when war comes, the conference report contented itself with exhibiting the various views which Christians actually hold on that subject and with saying that while the church could neither affirm that any one of these was right and the others wrong nor acquiesce in the permanent continuance of these differences, it should promote the study of the problem with a view to a better understanding of the purpose of God.

In all studies, analyses with glucose AUCi, insulin AUCi, measured meal GI and GL, and II values, with the exclusion of a possible outlier (which was defined as any data point beyond 2 SDs from the mean value), did not alter results, and therefore, the data for all subjects who completed all interventions are reported.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

Almost half of 11th and 12th grade athletes report having been subjected to hazing, according to a 2000 study.

The first of these assertions comes in for particular scrutiny, specifically the sub-claim that AP classes increase a student's chances of academic success in college; «[A] closer look at studies [on the subject] reveals some potential problems with the notion of causality,» reads the report.

Recently, as I searched for some long term evidence of the benefits of parent - infant co-sleeping, I came across a study of college age subjects which found that males who had co-slept with their parents between birth and five years not only had significantly higher self esteem, they experienced less guilt and anxiety and reported greater frequency of sex.

The strongest research methods for psychological studies are: qualitative findings versus quantitative; experimental rather than descriptive or correlational; controlled - experiment, meta - analysis, and observation designs over archival, case study, computational modeling, content analysis, field experiment, interview, neuroimaging, quasi experiment, self - report inventory, random sample survey, or twin study; and prospective (where subjects are recruited prior to the proposed independent effects being administered) and longitudinal (where subjects are studied at multiple time points) rather than retrospective or cross-section study.

Seven studies (291 subjects) reported on the association between breastfeeding and preprandial insulin concentrations in infancy.

A number of studies reported inverse associations between breastfeeding and blood pressure, including two (of three) with more than 3,500 subjects each (20, 43), suggesting that these findings are unlikely to be due to type 1 error alone.

These pooled estimates are similar to those found by Owen et al. (48) in a recent review, even though the current report includes recently published data on an extra 10,062 subjects from three studies that included more than 1,500 participants each.

To date, only two cohort studies have been reported on this subject.

Seven studies [4 conducted in adults (6, 10, 11, 18) and 3 conducted in children (15, 30, 33); 5261 subjects in total; 6 observational studies and 1 trial] reported on the association between infant feeding and fasting blood glucose in later life (Table 1 and Figure 3).

In all five studies, null results were reported, and a mean difference in systolic blood pressure of 0.0 mmHg between breast - and bottle - fed subjects was assigned.

The estimates for the 7 studies reporting exclusive feeding were more homogeneous (χ2 = 8, P = 0.23) than were the estimates from all 17 studies; the overall mean difference in total cholesterol from the 7 studies reporting exclusive feeding was stronger (mean difference: − 0.15 mmol / L; 95 % CI: 0.23, − 0.06 mmol / L; Figure 3) than that in the remaining 10 studies (14 388 subjects) that did not report exclusive feeding (mean difference: − 0.01 mmol / L; 95 % CI: − 0.06, 0.03 mmol / L; χ2 = 14, P = 0.12; test for difference between groups, P = 0.005).

A spokesman for the governor declined to comment on the contents of the proposal — which are subject to change until the panel, convened by Cuomo in October to study the issue, finalizes and releases its report.

For the purposes of facilitating the actions of the Legislature, the Chairperson designates committees to study and report on specific subject areas.

A crucial National Research Council report issued in 2009 noted that most forensic disciplines have not been subjected to rigorous scientific study, arising as they have from crime labs, not academia.

Earlier studies had suggested that the Abu Dabbab earthquakes were caused by magma rising through the crust, but the new report «found that a volcanic origin of the seismicity is unlikely, and the area is not expected to be subjected to volcanic hazard,» said El Khrepy.

Federal regulations on working with human subjects, for example, require filling out detailed applications on study design and subsequent reporting.

A damning report on how the University of Minnesota (UM) protects volunteers in its clinical trials concludes that researchers inadequately reviewed research studies across the university and need more training to better protect the most vulnerable subjects.

Study subjects who received a 3 - milligram (3 - mg) dose of liraglutide lost an average of 8 percent of their body weight (18.7 pounds), compared with just 2.6 percent (6.2 pounds) for subjects receiving a placebo, or «dummy» drug, the investigators reported.

The study, published in Nature Scientific Reports, coincides with another publication on the same subject but based on other mathematical models, published in Nature Physics in December.

«In both clinical and non-clinical subjects, we see some of the same brain processes at work during conditioned hallucinations as those engaged when voice - hearers report hallucinations in the scanner,» said Corlett, senior author of the study.

According to a more recent study, the drug could also help nondiabetic individuals lose weight as well: Subjects who received the drug reported losing three times more weight over a six - month period than those who received a placebo.

In the original study, Scott Campbell and Patricia Murphy of Cornell University Medical College in New York state reported that by shining light on the backs of the knees of human subjects, they could shift the so - called circadian clock that governs sleep - wake cycles (Science, 16 January 1998, p. 396).

By increasing the pH of the stomach, PPIs also boost the risk of infection: studies published in JAMA in 2004 and 2005 reported that subjects on acid - suppressing drugs are nearly twice as likely to develop pneumonia, and nearly three times as likely to acquire a potentially deadly infection from the bacterium Clostridium difficile, as unmedicated subjects (although the overall risk is low).

She notes that in one study she worked on, three - quarters of the subjects reported having excellent memories.

A crucial National Research Council report issued in 2009 noted that most forensic disciplines have not been subjected to rigorous scientific study.

The change creates an opportunity to raise what the report labels the «low levels of post-16 participation in science and mathematics» by encouraging students to continue their studies even if they are not planning to major in those subjects at college or attend university at all.

Schools should use both ability grouping and acceleration to help academically talented students, reports a new Northwestern University study that examined a century of research looking at the controversial subject.

► «A damning report on how the University of Minnesota (UM) protects volunteers in its clinical trials concludes that researchers inadequately reviewed research studies across the university and need more training to better protect the most vulnerable subjects,» Jennifer Couzin - Frankel wrote Monday at ScienceInsider.

In the first study, Sara Mednick of Harvard University and her colleagues investigated the role of sleep in perceptual learning by training subjects to report the direction of colored bars superimposed on other lines on a computer screen.

A new report, published online October 24 in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, reviews 18 carefully controlled laboratory studies that tested human subjects» physiological and behavioral responses to sleep deprivation as they relate to metabolic health.

Brazilian researchers from Federal University report in the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology that more than 80 percent of the 99 study subjects had a reduction in the circumference of their upper and lower thighs after slathering on the cream; nearly 68 percent also reduced their hip measurements.

In one study, 90 percent of subjects reported they were confident in their memory recall, when in fact only 60 percent of them were accurate.

In one as - yet unpublished study of 156 addicts ranging in age from 24 to 68 at a methadone clinic, the subjects» reported levels of boredom were the only reliable factor that predicted whether they would stay on course, Todman notes.

In his study, McGowan reviewed medical records and police reports and interviewed family members to determine whether a subject was abused early in life.

Cate Taylor, assistant professor of sociology and gender studies at IU Bloomington, designed and carried out an experiment that subjected both men and women to the negative social conditions that many women report experiencing in male - dominated occupations.

It has also reviewed hundreds of thousands of reports to aid in distinguishing the best - quality research from weaker work, including studies on such subjects as the effectiveness of charter schools and merit pay for teachers, which have informed the ongoing debate about these issues.

So far, the team has recruited 1000 prisoners into their pilot study, which will report preliminary results once the 5600 subjects have gone through the program.