Sentences with phrase «test time effect»

Would taking my medication close to my test time effect it and cause such elevated levels?

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Plenty of thinkers have argued that time abroad increases important skills for business success like comfort with ambiguity, confidence when confronted with the unfamiliar, and accelerated learning, but the team of social scientists out of Rice University, Columbia, and the University of North Carolina behind this study wanted to test the effects of extended travel abroad on self knowledge specifically.

Of course, there will always be cases in which you need to analyze data on a shorter time frame — like when you are evaluating results of an experiment or testing the effect of a new software release — but for those cases you can always perform an ad hocanalysis using a temporary spreadsheet.

The small study used 53 Canadian college students as guinea pigs to test the knock - on effects on our psychology of thinking of time and money as interchangeable.

For future studies, they suggested, researchers should test the performance of doped chess players given a much longer time limit, so the study could isolate the positive effects of brain drugs.

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.

Rather, they examined returns across 37 markets within a 14 - year time period that was not tested in a prior paper that also found support for the sell in May effect.

Thus far every scientific test has shown no substantial evidence of a prayer having been answered, and actually the evidence points to prayer having no effect at all other than wasting time.

Not for reasons of weight loss (wheat makes me lose weight rather quickly due to its... side effects) or going along with any fads — I'll never know if I'm coeliac or not because I've tried to eat enough wheat to be able to take the test for antibodies reacting to it etc. and failed many times simply because after 48 hours of eating even small amounts I'm in so much agony that I have to stop!

In addition, mouse acute oral toxicity testing of the CRTI and PMI proteins showed a lack of toxic effects at dosages thousands of times more than any realistically conceivable dietary exposure from consuming GR2E rice.

There remains a need for future research to particularly show the effects of sustained or longer - term exposures to food advertising and to test whether the observed increases in intake after acute exposures are not later compensated for and, therefore, could lead to weight gain over time (54).

Individual growth curve models were developed for multilevel analysis and specifically designed for exploring longitudinal data on individual changes over time.23 Using this approach, we applied the MIXED procedure in SAS (SAS Institute) to account for the random effects of repeated measurements.24 To specify the correct model for our individual growth curves, we compared a series of MIXED models by evaluating the difference in deviance between nested models.23 Both fixed quadratic and cubic MIXED models fit our data well, but we selected the fixed quadratic MIXED model because the addition of a cubic time term was not statistically significant based on a log - likelihood ratio test.

The BPP is a non-invasive test that poses no known risks or side effects to the mother or baby, although it should be noted some concern has been raised on ultrasounds that are done for lengthy periods of time.

Their implementation came at the same time a new teacher evaluation system went into effect across New York state, using some of the test results from the new curriculum as a measure of a teacher's effectiveness and ultimately job security.

If the developers want to test the effects of a change, they can run the software and see what happens, as many times as necessary.

However, it must be kept in mind that we have not tested whether the observed sex - dependent effects of sleep loss on working memory during morning hours would also occur at other time points of the day.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

Lead author Professor Debra Skene from the University of Surrey, said: «Our results show that if we want to develop a diagnostic test for a disease, it is imperative to take the time of day when taking blood samples into account, since this has a significant effect on metabolism.

To test their effect on aerosol nucleation, Kirkby's team fired beams similar to cosmic rays through the chamber and found it increased nucleation between 2 and 10 times.

In phase I trials, researchers test a new drug or treatment in a small group of people for the first time to evaluate its safety, determine a safe dosage range, and identify side effects.

At the same time, researchers will be testing the School Reform's positive effects on other academic skills, such as reading.

By using meta - analysis, an advanced statistical technique that analyzes many studies at the same time, they performed rigorous testing to determine whether the beneficial effect of adding biochar depends on geography.

Investigators recruited 31 sedentary but otherwise healthy women and tested the effect of two different protocols, each of which required a 10 - minute time commitment, including warm - up, cool down and recovery periods.

The test showed that the facilities especially benefited from a Power Hub feature called virtual inertia, which allows part of each factory to be shut off for a short amount of time without any adverse effects.

In contrast, when Nagasawa's team tested hand - reared wolves, they found no such effect, and wolves spent little time gazing into their owners» eyes.

In hopes of limiting the disastrous environmental effects of massive oil spills, materials scientists from Drexel University and Deakin University, in Australia, have teamed up to manufacture and test a new material, called a boron nitride nanosheet, that can absorb up to 33 times its weight in oils and organic solvents — a trait that could make it an important technology for quickly mitigating these costly accidents.

Whatever the explanation, the Flynn effect is now well established, and IQ tests must be recalibrated from time to time to return the average score to 100.

His main aim is to test if the side effects would be as low in children as they were in adults, and to see if children need extra time for the drugs to work.

But at roughly the same time, he received a request from the U.S. Air Force, which wanted him to test the potential cognitive effects of exposure to monomethylhydrazine, a substance used in some rocket fuels and known to cause seizures.

It is the first time that a gene therapy based on genetically modified stem cells is tested in a multicenter, international clinical trial that shows a reproducible and robust therapeutic effect in different centers and different countries.

They assessed the effects using behavioral tests, including putting food in the middle of an open space and timing the animals» response.

Dec. 18, 2017 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists and engineers have developed a «brain - on - a-chip» device aimed at testing and predicting the effects of biological and chemical agents, disease or pharmaceutical drugs on the brain over time without the need for human or animal subjects.

Replacing animal testing, it can accurately replicate human - organ interactions for weeks at a time and can allow for measuring the effects of drugs on different parts of the body, according to the engineers.

Through «heart - on - a-chip» technology — modeling a human heart on an engineered chip and measuring the effects of compound exposure on functions of heart tissue using microelectrodes — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers hope to decrease the time needed for new drug trials and ensure potentially lifesaving drugs are safe and effective while reducing the need for human and animal testing.

Earlier time points may have offered an indication of liver function in the acute phase [50], but persistent hepatic effects were unapparent by these tests.

Factors examined as potential confounders or effect modifiers included age (at breast cancer diagnosis for cases, at time of study enrollment for controls), age at first birth, number of children, birth of a son, history of breastfeeding, miscarriage, abortion, oral contraceptive use, smoking status, age at menarche and number of cell equivalents tested for detection of FMc.

This study tested for a positive effect of donepezil (0.3 and 0.6 mg / kg, IP, 1 hour pretreatment time, start of dosing 1 week prior to swim test) on the performance of R6 / 2 mice in a simple visual discrimination task, the two - choice swim test.

«Time outside has been linked to reduced musculoskeletal pains, improved immune function, and potentially even has anti-cancer effects,» explains Jaime Schehr, N.D., R.D., a naturopath and founder of xFitlab, a scientific testing facility for athletes.

While we've long known that dark chocolate is rich in flavonoids — an antioxidant that can help regulate digestion, reduce anxiety, and even boost sexual health — this is one of the first times that the specific effects of chocolate have been tested on humans.

To see if these effects decreased with subsequent walking, they tested people who walked multiple times.

I worked out, I'm being conservative to say two times a week, heavy weight training, absolutely no cardio because I have been off because I'm dealing with some knee stuff and absolutely no cardio just heavy weights and I wanted to test whether eating a lower carb diet would have any effect on my strength because I also lowered my protein, so I want to see if my strength could increase.

The compounds of this fabulous product were tested multiple times to ensure the best results possible — with minimal chance of side effects and unpredictable outcomes.

STUDY THREE — in this study the Jamaican scientists returned to the fray to test the effect of cooked tomatoes but this time they examined lipid peroxide levels in the short term.

Nor did EGCG have any statistically significant effect in tests that Pence used to determine the amount of strength the mice could develop with their claws or the length of time they were able to run in a treadmill.

For example and in addition to the problems noted above, it also offers an approach to treat the «weak» muscle (s) of a TMJ problem; it provides a way to directly improve brain function, which in turn can correct many muscle imbalances that effect posture and gait; and, it can often eliminate the need to treat various other elements commonly employed in various muscle testing - based techniques, reducing treatment time.

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The side effects that come with menstruation — bloating, digestion issues, lower back pain, and more — can be relieved with these time - tested natural methods.

Yet different paradigms may require different treatment time courses: for example, in the thermal pain tests with a hotplate, the first behavioral effects on an acute pain response were observed after 10 days of diet treatment.

Over 8 biweekly blood tests we had noticed that every time I fasted 20/4 (20 hours water only and 4 hours of feeding window) my bloodwork showed improvements but when I went for vacation and dropped IF as low as 12/12 (12 hours fasting and 12 hours eating) my blood work did not show the same effect.

You're body is used to all these endogenous artificial testosterone, you know, your testosterone to estrogen ratio is getting messed up and so you do have to use what's called post cycle therapy when you're on pro-hormones and we won't get into the post cycle therapy as much on this podcast «cause I know we're kinda pushing for time but the problem is that if you don't cycle pro hormones, it can be tough on your liver, it can be tough on your own endogenous production so it's something that you do wan na make sure that you do, that you understand how to cycle properly and I have to be careful of course, giving out recommendations like that on this show just because so many people who are listening to this are competing in event like triathlons and marathons and thing of that nature where they're gonna be drug tested and stuff like this would be a big no - no anyways, you know, or they're going after more natural means and let's face it, prohormones can be kinda damaging to your body and the reason for that is because a lot of these side effects: acne and hair loss, breast tissue enlargement, or you know, what we affectionately call bitch tits in dudes, prostate swelling, you know, a lot of these hormonal imbalances that get created from dumping exogenous sources of hormones into your body and creating like a hormone milieu that can be a real real issue from a health standpoint.