Sentences with phrase «than control subjects»

Treatment adolescents, who reported either no severe physical perpetration or average amounts of severe physical violence perpetration at baseline, reported significantly less severe physical violence perpetration than control subjects at the four follow - up waves.

Results indicated that ABC participants had significantly lower scores on total child abuse potential, parenting stress, and child internalizing and externalizing behavior than control subjects.

The 2008 study published in «Eating Behaviors» found that night eaters consumed less than control subjects early in the day, but their calorie intake steadily increased throughout the day into the night, and their total calorie intake was higher than the calories consumed by control subjects.

Researchers who conducted this study found that night eaters consumed about 400 more calories per day than control subjects.

In a small experimental study, participants in an eight - week mindfulness - based stress reduction (MBSR) program — focusing on the breath, mental content and bodily sensations while walking, sitting or practising yoga — experienced notably smaller post-stress inflammatory responses than control subjects.

While all groups, on average, lost weight, the women who exercised with a PT did not lose significantly more weight than the control subjects and some women in the training groups even gained weight.

On average, both groups did slightly better on these tests than control subjects who read either a nonfiction article or nothing at all.

Not exact matches

It also said every vehicle is subjected to rigorous quality control involving more than 500 inspections and tests.

This lack of collaboration had gone unnoticed because the system was tested in conditions that were highly controlled, rather than being subjected to an open beta test.

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Whilst high yield stocks tend to be less volatile than growth stocks, they will still be subject to market forces and outside influences that management can not control.

After more than seven hours of emotional debate that hit the sensitive political subjects of gun control, education and race, the House voted 67 - 50 in favor of the bill, sending it to Gov. Rick Scott.

We believe that Low / No Moat companies are so subject to the competitive nature of the markets in which they operate that their future is far more governed by luck than by conditions within their control.

Through the churches, Chinese Christians are becoming active agents in society rather than passive subjects controlled by the government.

The Caliph, in Islamic practice, is subject to control by the nation; he has no authority other than that given to him as a representative of the people and that which is required of him as the enforcer of supernatural laws.

I think more than enough compromise has been given on this subject, but the bishops are still hollering because they want to control every uterus in this country and thereby force their dogma on all females.

In several theistic traditions karma is God's instrument and subject to God's control, rather than an inexorable law.

In this regard Hartshorne's attachment to the virtue tradition is closer to that of G. H. Von Wright, who was insistent that the path to virtue is never laid out in advance, and to that of Lester Hunt, who claims that thought and emotions are fused in virtues rather than thought controlling emotion as an alien, recalcitrant subject matter.6 In the terms of Hartshorne's process philosophy, and of his Peirceian pragmatism7, a person's principles are seen in his actions just as in Hartshorne's metaphysics universals are embedded in the world of becoming, as Aristotle and Plato (correctly read, according to Hartshorne) have also indicated.

The chief points of change are, first, that the scene has been transferred from the supernatural world of the gods to the earthly sphere of human history; secondly, that It is not a god who experiences the renewal of life (for the God of Israel is not himself subject to death and resurrection, but on the contrary initiates and controls these events) but the people of Israel, who look in hope for restoration when their existence is threatened; and thirdly, that this hope is expressed as a metaphor describing the historical future, rather than as a myth of cosmic renewal.

The plant is less coordinated as a subject than an animal and is more like a democracy of cells in which no particular group of cells has a central control.

Portuguese domination gave way to the British and Dutch colonial empires, and thus Malayan and Indonesian Muslims were subjected to European control earlier than in other parts of the Islamic world.

In subjects consuming muffins made with either whole pea flour or pea fiber, fasting insulin levels were 15 % lower than with participants consuming control muffins made with wheat flour.

Students at Elm City (86 percent of whom qualify for free or reduced - price lunch) now control their schedule and follow their own personal interests in their learning much more than they used to, and they have more autonomy in the subjects they study, including daily «enrichment» courses in robotics, dance, and tae kwon do.

We hypothesized that: (a) detection of HR by auscultation or palpation will vary by more than 15 BPM from actual HR; and (b) the inability to accurately determine HR will be associated with errors in management of the neonate during simulated resuscitation.Using a prospective, randomized, controlled study design, 64 subjects participated in three simulated neonatal resuscitation scenarios.

The strongest research methods for psychological studies are: qualitative findings versus quantitative; experimental rather than descriptive or correlational; controlled - experiment, meta - analysis, and observation designs over archival, case study, computational modeling, content analysis, field experiment, interview, neuroimaging, quasi experiment, self - report inventory, random sample survey, or twin study; and prospective (where subjects are recruited prior to the proposed independent effects being administered) and longitudinal (where subjects are studied at multiple time points) rather than retrospective or cross-section study.

«To deny New York City's 1.1 million students anything less than the full preservation of mayoral control is to subject them to the dysfunction and chaos of the old system, as well as risk an end to higher test scores and graduation rates.

And although this subjects schools to central rather than local control, it is because the centre wishes to liberate them from standardisation that it will, paradoxically, allow variation and ethos to come back into play.

If they can win the argument that control orders in practice do more harm than good (for example by alienating «moderate» Muslims or because some of those subject to control orders still manage to evade their restrictions), then they can win over millions of voters.

«We found the FA patients had serum ApoA - I levels that were lower than healthy control subjects,» said senior author Ian Blair, PhD, a professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics.

Afterward, subjects often voted to kick out of the group computer - controlled players who put in more points and took less than the others.

The study showed that 13 trauma patients who had hit their heads and had CT scans showing new brain damage, as well as 39 trauma patients who had hit their heads and had normal CT scans, had significantly less ability to coordinate their eye movements than normal, uninjured control subjects.

Whereas the researchers were expecting that the subjects would be slower and less accurate that those in a control group of people without any hearing difficulty, to their surprise they found that certain deaf people completed the task quicker and more accurately than their normo - hearing counterparts.

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.

Participants who had meditated missed 76 percent fewer days of work from September through May than did the control subjects.

When, for example, subjects were asked 20 times in succession to estimate the duration for which a square — displayed for exactly one second in each case — appeared on the screen, the estimates given by patients with schizophrenia exhibited a much higher level of variability than those of the control group.

To better understand the genetic components of longevity, the researchers analyzed the DNA of more than 800 subjects between the ages of 95 to 119 and compared it with DNA from random controls.

When prompted by a leader, those that had moved in sync earlier drove 54 percent more insects into the extermination boxes than did out - of - sync control subjects.

The research looked at more than five million genetic variations, called single nucleotide polymorphisms or SNPs (pronounced «snips»), in each participant in the study and compared the frequency of these SNPs with that of the control subjects.

When the researchers turned the shared control off, forcing the subjects to constantly concentrate on controlling the robot, the subjects took considerably longer to navigate the maze than when they shared control.

At two and a half, the autistic subjects» brains were 7 percent larger on average than the control group's.

This image shows regions of the white matter skeleton in which connectivity in IED subjects was significantly lower than healthy controls.

The researchers then confirmed with a controlled experiment that environmental cues were likely to have caused the effect: participants who were primed with images of churches proved less likely to support a stem cell initiative than were subjects who were shown more neutral images, such as office buildings.

Healthy control subjects and patients with Alzheimer's disease remembered more emotional than neutral images.

«When studying magnetic resonance images of the brains of patients suffering from CRPS, we noticed that the choroid plexus was nearly one - fifth larger in patients than in healthy control subjects,» says Postdoctoral Researcher Guangyu Zhou from Aalto University Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering (NBE), who analysed the images.

IED - diagnosed subjects scored much higher on both measures than either control group.

While heart function dropped by almost 50 percent in the control group following chronic stress, the subjects with the switch turned off fared much better, showing less than a 10 percent reduction in heart function.

The new relationship between sleepwalking and conscious movement control offers new insights into the brain mechanisms of sleepwalking and could potentially be used to aid diagnosis of sleepwalking while the subject is awake, rather than requiring an overnight stay in a sleep laboratory.

The study was also the first to study gene expression in children over the course of their allergic reactions, allowing each subject's reaction to be compared to their own pre-reaction state, rather than to a control group without peanut allergies.

Other studies have shown that asthma patients experience more constricted airways than healthy control subjects in response to emotional stimuli.

Our findings are in agreement with a recently published study by Oskarsson et al. (2015) in which Tg mice injected through the tail vein with in vitro — generated aggregates from synthetic peptides containing the sequence of IAPP developed a higher percentage of IAPP aggregates in the pancreas than did untreated controls when subjected to a high - fat diet.