Sentences with phrase «subjects for a study»

Whether or not Christians know that God expects Christians to make disciples is a subject for another study.

Lewis thought that, in Alfred North Whitehead's words, scientists who were «animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.»

Moreover, the academic disciplines practiced in a university are not merely subjects for study; they are forms of human behavior.

Whitehead comments that «Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study» (FR 16).

MTHFR C677T and A1298C polymorphism genotyping was performed on 374 subjects for this study, representing 197 couples undergoing IVF.

Subjects for the study had low back pain and were recruited from the University of Florida campus.

Last year the National Institutes of Health announced plans to put some 180 ex-Coulston chimps currently housed at the Alamogordo Primate Facility back in service, to rejoin the roughly 800 other chimps that serve as subjects for studies of human diseases, therapies and vaccines in the U.S., which is the only country apart from Gabon to maintain chimps for this purpose.

«Previous studies have given us a broad set of benchmarks, including the sequence of the entire genome, which makes Candida albicans a great subject for study in microgravity because we have extensive information to compare it to.»

Choosing a subject for study and action was just the beginning, according to ELISS fellow Biswajit «Bish» Paul, who facilitated the 4 December forum.

The extracellular matrix — the complex network of crosslinked proteins and polymers that connects living cells to one another and facilitates communication between them — offers a challenging subject for study.

The Siberian hamster makes a good subject for studying seasonal timekeeping.

Ravens are a good subject for study, he said, because despite their obvious evolutionary divergence from humans, their social lives go through several distinct phases, similar to people.

We are currently recruiting subjects for a study examining this option.

Because they are nonmigratory, measurements of their health are indicative of their local environment, making them an ideal subject for study.

Hamer, an agnostic who emphasizes that his research is compatible with belief in God, began his search in the late 1990s, when he assembled 1,000 subjects for a study of the genetics of nicotine addiction.

The subjects for these studies come from different Alzheimer research project locations across Europe, the UK, the US, and Canada.

We are also looking for children to volunteer as healthy control subjects for this study.

Utilizing three assistants, Clyde Martin (Peter Sarsgaard), Wardell Pomeroy (Chris O'Donnell), and Paul Gebhard (Timothy Hutton), Kinsey sets out to interview 1 million subjects for his study.

The subjects for this study were the students of two computer classes in a junior high school.

The emphasis falls on the unusual student, the difficult kid, not on the arts as a subject for study.

The federal private school voucher program is an exemplar subject for study because self - selection is assumed to be a major influence on whether or not a low - income urban student attends a private school.

The subjects for this study attended a K - 8 parochial school and were reported to be lacking motivation, often refusing to participate in writing activities and having problems with sentences, paragraphs, spelling, and other mechanics of written expression.

It is an essential subject for studying the geographic conditions around the globe which help to determine any unwanted natural activity that might harm the human population.

One prospective randomized trial did find more overall complications in dogs undergoing open castration.3 However, problems with recruitment of subjects for this study significantly limit the strength of this evidence.

How did they choose subjects for the study?

Subjects for this study come from the sibling - pairs sample of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health).

Forty - three mother - child pairs who met the following criteria served as subjects for the study: 1) the family had a child between the ages of 9 months and 3 years; 2) the child was walking; 3) the mother had a BMI over 25 kg / [m.sup.2]; and 4) the mother agreed to keep all treatment appointments.

Not exact matches

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

Recent research has looked into the health consequences of that mismatch, tracking a group of study subjects for more than six years.

How did simply chilling out alone for a short period affect the study subjects?

Thanks to technology, learners in every corner of the globe can now study nearly any subject online, often for free or next to free.

A heap of evidence shows women are assessed differently when it comes to confidence, likability and self - promotion, so the researchers only recruited male study subjects, as they put it, «to control for potentially confounding effects of gender.»

Studies that involve divvying up money, for example, have shown that subjects would irrationally rather walk away empty - handed than feel they were cheated out of their fair share.

The German academic behind the research decided to investigate by searching through all available studies that measured subjects» programming ability, personality traits, and intelligence, gathering 19 such studies for his efforts.

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.

These findings might be comforting for teens (and their worried parents) currently suffering through the trial by fire that ninth grade can be, but it also has lessons to teach those of us who are decades beyond graduation, researchers studying the subject note.

In Health Canada's 2001 National Work - Life Conflict Study — the widest - reaching survey on the subject, before or since — nearly half of respondents (47 %) considered their supervisor sympathetic to their need for work - life balance.

His findings feature in textbooks and management training courses, and his debut book, The Procrastination Equation, combines the first meta - analysis of the topic (encompassing some 800 studies) with original research, including some for which the professor served as his own subject.

According to one classic study on the subject, creative geniuses like poets, painters, and famous inventors, tend to be open - minded, with a high tolerance for chaos, disorder, and contradiction.

Legendary physicist Feynman won the Nobel Prize for his work in one of the subjects that's the most difficult for the human mind to grasp — quantum mechanics — yet his top advice for accelerating learning is actually to make whatever you're studying as dead simple as possible.

According to a new scientific study published in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, subjects who meditated for about 30 minutes a day for eight weeks had measurable changes in gray - matter density in parts of the brain associated with memory, sense of self, empathy, and stress.

The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Sydney and examined three groups of students, who were tasked with completing an «alternate uses» test — a common creativity drill wherein subjects are given an object and asked to come up with as many uses for it as they can.

As another school year begins, artistic - minded students (and their parents) are once again wrestling with the age - old question of whether one should indulge an enthusiasm for music, literature or other fine - arts subjects at school, or instead study something more... shall we say... employable?

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.

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.

In another experiment, rather than prime participants for particular roles, testosterone levels were used as a marker of which study subjects were inclined towards dominating power structures and which less interested in leading.

To figure out what can relieve our sense of time pressure, Norton conducted a series of experiments that gave some study subjects an unexpected block of free time, by sending them home 15 minutes early from an experiment they were told would take an hour for example.

Then the team retrieved the devices, crunched the stored data, and determined how often the study subjects actually got off of their butts during that period and for how long — whether they were at home, at work, or someplace else.

When I began my study of sales, I searched for the five best books on the subject.

It is not new for internet firms to use algorithms to select content to show to users and Jacob Silverman, author of Terms of Service: Social Media, Surveillance, and the Price of Constant Connection, told Wire magazine on Sunday the internet was already «a vast collection of market research studies; we're the subjects».