Sentences with phrase «study volunteers who»

Among the 19 study volunteers who lost 5 percent of their body weight, the function of insulin - secreting beta cells improved, as did insulin sensitivity in fat tissue, liver and skeletal muscle tissue.

But it can be difficult to get study volunteers who represent a particular population.

Follow - up experiments revealed evolutionary similarities between the virus in PC64 and another infecting a CAPRISA study volunteer who developed the same type of bnAbs.

Not exact matches

An earlier study found that people who volunteered had higher levels of self - esteem and happiness compared to people who don't.

For the study, the researchers split socially anxious volunteers into three groups — one was asked to perform random acts of kindness, one was told to follow the usual course of exposure therapy and force themselves to participate in more social situations, and another was a control group who did nothing special.

The study was based on 166 volunteers who were recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk, where you can make money by completing «Human Intelligence Tasks,» and it looked at their entire Instagram histories, which came out to about 43,950 photos.

Also, many of the employees who volunteered for the study were among the youngest in the company.

Older adults who volunteered to help children with reading and writing tended to experience less memory loss and maintain greater physical mobility, one study suggested.

Studies have shown, repeatedly, that it is the Christians in this country who volunteer, support and give financially far more than non-Christians.

«Women and those who come from homes with one non-Jewish parent are also more likely to volunteer, although not more likely to become regular volunteers,» the study said.

The term «Slactivism» was born in 2009, when academic studies discovered that people who are the loudest on social media in favor of a cause or idea are the least likely to volunteer or make a donation.

I have a case study that we often provide to churches in which a pastor is informed one night by a congregation member that his son has just disclosed being sexually abused by the interim youth volunteer, who happens to be a well - known, respected elder in the church.

The introductory networking session for the scholars on Monday afternoon was a fantastic way for students to meet their assigned mentors, who acted as guides, role models and network contacts; we learned of the Crawford Fund programs and affiliated organisations such as RAID, ACIAR and Scope - Global who offer volunteering and post-graduate study opportunities overseas.

Another study by the University of Birmingham found that volunteers who took vitamin C exhibited 75 % more post exercise recovery than those who consumed vitamin E or a placebo.

Persons who had not taken vitamin A or β - carotene supplements within the past month and who were not disqualified based on several exclusion criteria were eligible to become study volunteers.

Fiona studies Graphic Design at Manchester Metropolitan University and, over the last couple of months, has been an integral part of the volunteer team who worked on the Greater Manchester College Games!

Several educational research studies support the idea that the children who are involved in programs with adult reading volunteers improve with their school success.

The Fed Is Best Foundation is a non-profit, volunteer organization of parents and health professionals who study the scientific literature on infant feeding and real - life infant feeding experiences of mothers through clinical practice and social media connections.

Phone calls from volunteer mothers who overcame postpartum depression prevent depressive symptoms in at - risk mothers, a Canadian study shows.

The study also found that people with religious beliefs do more volunteering, whilst the people who volunteer the most are wealthy people living in poorer areas.

Dressel, who conducted the study while at Dartmouth College, recruited 400 online volunteers, who were presumed to have little or no criminal justice expertise.

The folks who volunteer to lie in bed for three months with their feet elevated slightly above their heads so that scientists can study the physiological effects of being in zero gravity tend to be passionate about space flight.

The study involved 10,000 civilian volunteers in Stockholm County who were alerted by mobile phone text message to the cardiac arrest in order to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation if they were within a range of 500 metres.

Researchers in the Mid-Atlantic Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center at the W.G. (Bill) Hefner Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Salisbury, N.C., evaluated 45 U.S. veterans who volunteered to participate in the study.

For the study, Bég recruited 100 of her patients who volunteered clinical samples for testing.

«They tend to be people who are highly motivated health - seekers and science geeks,» says Barbara Bernhardt of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, who has conducted detailed interviews with 60 volunteers in the Coriell Personalized Medicine Collaborative, a pioneering effort to study the medical value of genetic information.

During the study, 3,355 volunteers who were between 18 and 64 years of age were vaccinated at 38 sites in the United States.

Marshall got the idea for the study after noticing that a sizable portion of the bipolar disorder patients who had volunteered for the study at U-M discussed problematic childhoods in the questionnaires that all participants fill out.

One day last year, cognitive scientists Joshua Greene and Fiery Cushman, who designed the study, pulled up a series of brain scans taken as volunteers resolved the dilemma while inside an MRI machine.

Lead investigator Dr. Nicole Anderson, together with scientists from Canadian and American academic centres, examined 73 studies published over the last 45 years involving adults aged 50 - plus who were in formal volunteering roles.

Furthermore, garnering results — particularly from younger volunteers, who may be likeliest to benefit because they've aged the least — will take so long that by the time results are in, those who began the study will be dead.

The study enrolled 36 men and 36 women from two age groups — «young» volunteers who were 18 - 30 years old and «older» volunteers who were 65 - 80 years old — into three different exercise programs: one where the volunteers did high - intensity interval biking, one where the volunteers did strength training with weights, and one that combined strength training and interval training.

The study examined the effects of smoking on various biochemical processes in the blood and vessels of 20 healthy non-smokers who volunteered to smoke three cigarettes.

That's unfortunate because using citizen science in studies would not only highlight volunteers» role in science, it could also could attract more investment into future research, said Rick Bonney, director of program development and evaluation at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, who reviewed Cooper's study.

People who give up their time for online volunteering are mainly motivated by a desire to learn, a new study has found.

It also has similar side effects — like excitability, nervousness, and good mood.THE FINDINGS 36 healthy, well - educated, psychologically stable middle - aged adults who had never used hallucinogens volunteered for the study.

The tolerability profile in patients with advanced cancer was similar to that observed in two previous studies in 150 healthy volunteers who received entolimod in a similar dose range.

The study examined whether becoming a volunteer at the time of widowhood is associated with reducing the risks of loneliness, which is a significant public health concern, particularly for those who have lost a spouse, linked to poorer physical health, depression and even earlier mortality.

The test also holds promise for Mia, who was found to have five kinds of diabetes auto - antibodies in her blood when she volunteered for TrialNet, a nationwide study that tracks relatives of people with type - 1 diabetes to monitor their risk.

In a study reported in the June 2016 issue of Cerebral Cortex, Heini Saarimäki of Aalto University in Finland and her colleagues observed volunteers in a brain scanner who were being prompted to recall memories they associated with words drawn from six emotional categories or to reflect on a movie clip selected to provoke certain emotions.

Just a few weeks ago, WHO said that using any of the experimental drugs or vaccines in the pipeline simply wasn't in the cards, because none of them have been through a phase I clinical study, the type of trial in which medical products are tested on healthy volunteers to study their toxicity.

In the group who had no symptoms at the start of the study, the level of neurofilament predicted subsequent disease onset, as volunteers with high neurofilament levels in the blood at the start were more likely to develop symptoms in the following three years.

This study used «hardcore volunteer [s]» who were «using quite a lot of cannabis,» says Paul Stokes, a psychiatrist at Imperial College London who wasn't involved in the research.

Volunteers in the study who had a history of migraines experienced a significant reduction in the number of migraines they normally experienced in a month after using a technique known as caloric vestibular stimulation (CVS).

The research team studied 17 volunteers who — according to their own statement — played action - based games on the computer or a console for more than 15 hours a week.

The study — conducted in collaboration with the Santa Maria della Misericordia University Hospital in Udine, under the leadership of Raffella Rumiati, in charge of SISSA neuroscience and society lab — has involved 18 Parkinsonian patients who underwent deep brain stimulation and 18 healthy volunteers.

Dr. Ginosaur and colleagues then proceeded to studies in human volunteers, who were injected with proliposomal or plain ropivacaine at separate locations in the lower back.

Researchers studied almost 2,000 healthy women volunteers from TwinsUK who had completed a food questionnaire designed to estimate total dietary flavonoid intake as well as intakes from six flavonoid subclasses.

Researchers, professional societies, funders and lobbyists increasingly push to replace clinical trials of randomly selected volunteers with studies of interventions for select samples of people who eat certain foods, take certain drugs or behave in certain ways.

Lorimer Moseley, a neuroscientist who studies pain at Oxford University in the U.K., and colleagues repeated the rubber - hand experiment on 11 volunteers, but they added a twist: They took the temperature of the hidden hand.