Sentences with phrase «studying a group of»

Grant once studied a group of fundraisers at a phone bank where the turnover rate was 400 percent annually, «so the entire staff would quit about every two months if you do the math,» he says.

In the March 2008 version of their paper entitled «Experts Online: An Analysis of Trading Activity in a Public Internet Chat Room», Bruce Mizrach and Susan Weerts study a group of active traders who voluntarily posted their trades in real time in a free public Internet chat room called Activetrader.

Rothchild and Wolf studied a group of young mothers whose childrearing practices sharply contrasted with those of the traditional «Jewish mother.»

Postconservative evangelical theologians often find themselves more comfortable in the Evangelical Studies Group of the American Academy of Religion (begun around 1980) than in the Evangelical Theological Society.

The researchers, led by Rana Esseily, who studies emotion, developmental psychology, and cognitive psychology at Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, studied a group of 18 - month - olds — roughly the age -LSB-...]

The paper is Influence of definition based versus pragmatic birth registration on international comparisons of perinatal and infant mortality: population based retrospective study, written by multiple scientists at Fetal and Infant Health Study Group of the Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System.

and before you cite any stats, please make sure that the sample study groups of each study arm are properly matched or distributed

Two randomly assigned study groups of expectant mothers were formed over a 7 - month period (12/94 — 6/95) from three independent, obstetric practices in six clinical offices in and around the Greater Rochester, NY, area.

«Progress has already been made in understanding first language reading problems — so we co-operated with psychologists who studied a group of dyslexic readers over many years.

Researchers also pointed out that most of positive effect from flu vaccination was observed in the second study group of mothers and infants.

Working with NASA on its Wide - Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission, due to launch sometime after 2020 (see «Mapping the Dark,» page 47), Perlmutter will help choose between the different models by studying groups of supernovae that lie farther out in space than any yet studied, following the universe's expansion history back in time.

Eugenia Polizzi di Sorrentino of Liverpool John Moores University, UK, and colleagues studied a group of captive tufted capuchins.

The idea to specifically study this group of patients was based on groundbreaking research Garon published in the New England Journal of Medicine last year, which found that among patients who received pembrolizumab, those with PD - L1 expression on at least 50 percent of their cancer cells showed the longest survival and disease control.

Another problem is that modeling studies, like this one, are inherently less powerful than other kinds of medical research: randomized clinical trials, the gold standard in medical research, in which patients are randomly assigned different treatments or no treatment; case - control studies, which compare patients who have a condition with those who do not; or cohort studies, which determine the risk of contracting a disease by studying a group of people with similar demographics.

To see if these variations could predict the risk of weak bones and fractures, British and Dutch researchers studied a group of 1778 postmenopausal women enrolled in a long - term investigation called the Rotterdam Study.

Van Lommel conducted lengthy interviews and administered a battery of standard psychological tests to his study group of cardiac - arrest patients.

Scientists studied a group of 100 undergrads who had their first sexual intercourse at some point during their four years of college.

The Children's Heart Failure Study Group of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society, in collaboration with the Canadian Pediatric Cardiology Association, has developed new guidelines to assist practitioners in primary care and emergency departments to recognize and successfully manage heart failure in children with undiagnosed heart disease and symptoms of possible heart failure.

Dr. Matthew Giefer, director of gastrointestinal endoscopy at Seattle Children's Hospital, and colleagues analyzed 342 children ages 0 - 18 with acute recurrent pancreatitis (ARP) and chronic pancreatitis (CP) from INSPPIRE (International Study Group of Pediatric Pancreatitis: In search for a cure), the nation's first and only multicenter, National Institutes of Health - funded pediatric pancreatitis registry, led by Dr. Aliye Uc of University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital.

The team of multidisciplinary researchers studied a group of MSU Honors College graduates from 1990 to 1995 who majored in science, technology, engineering or mathematics, or STEM.

De Groot chairs the Coronavirus Study Group of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), which took the initiative to find a new, widely accepted name.

ULTRATHIN FILMS Computer simulations reveal the properties of a little - studied group of synthetic materials: 2 - D arrays of metal atoms arranged in honeycombs (illustrated), triangles or squares.

Ari Friedlaender was among the first to study a group of Antarctic minke whales up close, near enough to attach research tags.

The researchers studied a group of crickets in which males produce exceptionally high frequency calls to determine how they attract females by using sounds similar to a predator.

The international research team, led by scientists at the University of Oxford and the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, studied a group of patients with myelodysplastic syndromes — a malignant blood condition which frequently develops into acute myeloid leukaemia.

Baudouin and colleagues studied groups of mice that had been genetically modified to lack neuroligin - 3, a gene that is mutated in some people with autism.

Researchers from the University of Bath in the U.K. studied a group of overweight males.

The tests were carried out with the financial support of the Swiss Albert Heim Foundation in the Dog Studies group of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

To try to answer that question, Élyse Caron - Beaudoin, a postdoctoral researcher at the Université de Montréal Public Health Research Institute, studied a group of pregnant women who live in the area.

Investigators who studied a group of recreational marathon runners have established that strenuous exercise such as running a marathon can damage the heart muscle.

The researchers studied a group of patients with a rare disease called hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) that often leads to enlarged blood vessels in the lungs, similar to varicose veins.

The second study group of 97 students were shown average looking men with an attractive woman who was described as definitely a girlfriend.

If this situation is occurring with butterflies, the researcher at the University of Valencia wonders what might be happening, for example, with less known or poorly studied groups of arthropods.

European butterflies have traditionally been one of the most studied groups of insects by professionals and amateurs.

While studying a group of women at risk of HIV in Mombasa, Kenya, Dr. Julie Overbaugh and colleagues found a potential vulnerability in the AIDS virus that could lead to clues for designing an effective vaccine.

Based on a review of previous studies a group of researchers have shortlisted a number of environmental risk factors for dementia in a paper published in the journal BMC Geriatrics.

While studying a group of women at risk of HIV in Mombasa, Kenya, senior author Overbaugh and colleagues noticed that one woman carried an AIDS virus that was easily inactivated by antibodies.

Dr. Mazires and colleagues retrospectively studied a group of patients in France, Spain, and Switzerland with NSCLC who carried a HER2 mutation in exon 20.

Ross studied a group of HIV - positive people enrolled in Case Western Reserve Universityâ $ ™ s HIV clinic in Cleveland.

Recently, researchers were able to identify consistent early changes in metabolism by studying a group of HD sheep.

She developed new ways to study groups of numbers or objects.

Every six months, Dr. Bridgette «Jeanne» Billioux gets on a plane to Liberia to study a group of Ebola survivors suffering from headaches, seizures, and memory loss.

Upon studying this group of animals and another group treated with a placebo, the researchers saw healthier overall lung cells and significantly less lung inflammation and fibrosis in the rats treated with lung spheroid cells.

At the University of York, Dr Ian Hitchcock is studying a group of blood cancers called myloproliferative neoplasms.

Ecosystem restoration often focuses on plant species, explains PD Dr Christopher Kaiser - Bunbury, member of the Ecological Networks Study Group of the TU Darmstadt Biology Department.

After studying a group of approximately 29,000 children and adults in the United States, researchers found that those who regularly ate mangoes consumed higher amounts of dietary fiber, vitamins B6 and C, magnesium, and potassium.

Focusing on a study group of people with impaired cognitive function, a recent experiment indicated that yoga may be the answer.

In 2010, researchers from the United States and Hong Kong studied a group of 47 older Chinese men with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

So what did Drs. Ingenbleek and McCully find among the study group of protein - deficient people?

Knowing all of this, I had to test out my theory (with a very scientific, purely anecdotal study group of myself).