Yes, using mice in early drug studies can spare human
test subjects from harm, which most people would argue justifies the frequently misleading findings.
Not exact matches
As of Jan. 1, home buyers with a down payment larger than 20 per cent seeking a mortgage
from a federally regulated lender are now
subject to a financial stress
test.
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.»
Outlining classic research
from the 1970s and 80s done by a team out of Yale on the
subject, Konnikova explains that after months of interviews and a barrage of psychological
tests, the researchers «found, unsurprisingly, that blocked writers were unhappy.»
Despite the fact that websites see an average lift in responses of 13.2 %
from A / B split
testing, 61 % of marketers do not
test subject lines.
That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating
from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say
from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a
test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll
The detailed knowledge of the Precision stage is kept
from being «inert» because the student
tests it against the knowledge learned in the Romance stage and against the background knowledge he or she brought to the
subject originally.
Halpern reports: «It can be stated at the outset that not one of the Rorschach
Test records obtained
from the forty - seven
subjects could be considered a normal one.
Professor Coe had a number of persons of this class among his seventy - seven
subjects, and they almost all, when
tested by hypnotism, proved to belong to a subclass which he calls «spontaneous,» that is, fertile in self - suggestions, as distinguished
from a «passive» subclass, to which most of the
subjects of striking transformation belonged.
«Historic» or significant knowledge
from the past should always be
subject to the
tests of demonstrating that it is, indeed, historical knowledge and that the avenue, channel or point of contact between it and the man
from whom it becomes significant in the present can be defined.
We then
test those standards before bottling by
subjecting our wines to honest, blind tasting comparison with fine wines
from the rest of the world.
FDA's removal of the «primary business
test»
from the final rules was a surprise and means that many businesses that were not
subject to the proposed rule are now required to comply with the final rule.
Through the entire camp...
from the time the contract was signed he was
subjected to random
testing.
Tampa Bay quarterback Josh Freeman is in stage one of the NFL's drug program and
subject to random
testing, according to a report
from Chris Mortensen of ESPN.
As a player in stage one of the program, Freeman is
subject to random or reasonable cause
testing, but is not one failed
test away
from a suspension.
The South African runner has been
subjected to gender
testing in recent years, which has caused her to withdraw
from -0 and then be reinstated into — international competition.
figured he was alternating between field
testing the behavior of human
subjects under various conditions and hitting up the MO historical society archives to look for attested vomiting incidents
from Olden Times
The People claims that the former Tottenham and Manchester United star will be the
subject of a summer bid
from Galatasaray — in a
test of Fulham's resolve to hang on to their talismanic striker.
Or
testing could discover dyslexia or another learning challenge that is preventing him
from conquering his school
subjects.
She gives concrete how - to's on managing visits (use the in - law
test), talking to the public about your adoption (educate, use humor, ask a question or say it's private), handling difficult
subjects and feelings with your kids (depersonalize the situation), and coaching your kids on how to handle comments
from peers (choose whether to share, walk away, educate or say «it's private»)....
The team also
tested human milk samples
from subjects with mastitis, an infection of the breast tissue that causes pain and inflammation.
Every product
from Delta diffusion is
subjected to rigorous
tests carried out by international safety control institutions.
The free PDF
from Wild Olive includes designs for
test scores, grade levels,
subjects and a few more generic school icons.
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).
Just about everything in the Obama campaign's mass emails was
subject to
testing and refinement,
from sender's names to
subject lines, topics, text, imagery and link placement.
Pisa
tests from the OECD reveal that for the first time, the UK does not make the top 20 in any
subject, in international
tests taken by 15 year olds in maths, reading and science.
The Act includes 23 separate Sections of exemptions, which fall into two categories: «class» exemptions, which disqualify all information of a certain type
from the disclosure regime; and types of information which may be exempt
subject to a «prejudice»
test.
NYC students who struggle the most with state reading and math
tests are unlikely to achieve mastery of the
subjects while enrolled in the city schools, according to a new report
from the pro-charter group families for Excellent Schools.
«The digital library will provide a repository of contents which include 2,000 study aids on core
subjects from primary to senior secondary school curriculum, over 1,600 tutorials, instructional videos and selected e-books for primary to SS3 approved texts, brief history of Lagos State, online forum, podcasts and exam - mate (A
Test Resource).
They conducted a large controlled trial of 1,200 students aged 14 - 16 in 70 classes
from secondary schools across the south and south west of the UK, in which students were
tested for acceptance of evolution and understanding of evolution and, as a control
subject, genetics.
In closing, remember that this new interviewing style differs
from the «normal» interview much like the difference between two types of
tests — a
test on an academic
subject you have studied and a generalized intelligence
test like an IQ
test.
His
test subjects include Abraham Lincoln (who reportedly suffered
from depression), Winston Churchill (bipolar tendencies), JFK (manic traits, compounded by steroid use), and Hitler (bipolar tendencies, exacerbated by abuse of amphetamines).
But the one case is disturbing nonetheless: The
subject — who first
tested positive for HIV 5 years ago — already is showing signs of immune damage
from HIV.
It can precede the classic motor signs of the disease by several years, and olfactory
tests have been shown to do a better job than motor function
tests when it comes to distinguishing Parkinson's patients
from healthy control
subjects.
In studies of women with only one X chromosome, he found that
test subjects who inherited their X chromosome
from their fathers had better social skills than those who inherited their X chromosome
from their mothers.
The researchers
tested samples of brain cells
from people with MS and healthy control
subjects and found evidence of the virus in the olfactory bulb in both groups.
But the more powerful evidence of the device's utility is revealed in the response of some of the
subjects from outside the lab who have
tested out the ankle, and their loved ones watching them walk.
As the authors note, the blood
test's» accuracy may be even higher as some of the «false positives» — healthy cases mischaracterized as AD — may be
from subjects who are actually positive for pre-symptomatic manifestations of Alzheimer's.
So what I did was I recruited 28
test subjects and had them complete three laps on the game Gran Turismo 3 for PlayStation 2; and they had a steering wheel, an acceleration [and] brake pad to simulate a real driving experience, and I counted the number of crashes they made during each lap, which was the number of times they hit the wall and also the number of times that they deviated
from the course.
«One of the surprising findings
from this study was that even the
subjects who had extreme exposure — two
subjects who went to a music festival with 16 hours of exposure at 101 to 103 dBA (A-weighted decibels), which is around 1,000 percent of the daily occupational noise limit — had only temporary changes on some functional
tests, with no evidence of permanent pathology,» Le Prell said.
When this idea was
tested on human blood samples, the researchers found that
subjects who suffered
from depression had unusually low miR135 levels in their blood.
By capturing water
from these areas and
subjecting them to the same
test, it may be possible in the future to understand the consequences of an uncontrolled release of oil in these areas in greater detail.
With this setup, the experimenters could then
test how hungry the
subjects were some time later, and tease apart the purely physiological aspects of hunger (having to do with the volume consumed)
from the cognitive aspects of hunger (having to do with impressions and judgments about what was consumed).
After a pause, they
tested episodic memory by asking the
subjects to distinguish these words
from new words.
Researchers gave personality
tests to 235
subjects —
from teens to people in their 60s.
The longer the delay between flashes, the more likely the
test subjects could correctly discern two flashes
from one.
In their study, University of Nebraska researchers Yulie Meneses and Rolando Flores
tested wastewater
from whey of Cheddar cheese by
subjecting it to reverse osmosis and ultrafiltration, as well as an additional step of spray drying.
Back in the 1950s, Lilly was a National Institute of Mental Health neuroscientist who dabbled in isolation tanks, darkened chambers of lukewarm water in which a
test subject — often Lilly himself — could float serenely, completely cut off
from the outside world.
The team then
tested the algorithm on a second set of scans
from 148
subjects.
In Nucleix's experiment, researchers took a small bit of DNA (which can be collected
from an object like a cigarette butt)
from a
test subject, replicated it millions of times over, and used it to build an artificial DNA sequence.