Sentences with phrase «than research subjects»

They became something more than research subjects — something akin to family.

Not exact matches

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

Tal says his unscientific research into the subject — consisting mainly of a recent dinner with over 20 real estate brokers and agents who deal exclusively with foreign buyers — led him to believe the number of «pure» foreign purchasers in the Canadian real - estate market is «probably much smaller than perceived by many.»

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.

Helpfully, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign professor Brian Ogolsky has waded through more than 1,000 studies from 50 years of research on the subject, so you don't have to.

Tal says his unscientific research into the subject — consisting mainly of a recent dinner with over 20 real estate brokers and agents who deal exclusively with foreign buyers — led him to believe the number of «pure» foreign purchasers in the Canadian real estate market is «probably much smaller than perceived by many.»

«We find that 60 per cent of the small business deduction goes to households with more than $ 150,000 in income,» Mintz said, of research he has previously done on the subject.

Surprisingly, researchers sometimes rely on their research subjects» self - reports of exposure to video game violence even though members of the public are likely to define violence differently than the researchers.

In this case, head dominates heart, and God becomes little more than a subject of research.

Apparently I have done a great deal more research on the subject than you have.

You're simply crazy if you think your 2000 year old book of fairy tales holds more evidence than the scientific research done on this subject, research that is within this decade.

You mentioned you're going to write a book on the subject, and I'd encourage you to get your hands on a copy of mine if not for anything other than «another perspective» when it comes to your research and prep.

Now I think that in making this distinction Whitehead makes a good and original initial point; because it is the fact that philosophers, by instinct, always think heterogeneously about nature, whereas scientists, equally by instinct, don't, which, more than any one thing, makes the philosophy of science so unreal a subject for actual research scientists.

A slightly more than casual fan took time to research and write a logical, rational, fact - based article on a subject, and ESPN the alleged «worldwide leader in sports» just fires up the old «throw snowballs at Santa» thing.

Research indicates that some infants, particularly those born at less than 37 weeks gestation, may be subject to transient episodes of bradycardia, apnea, and oxygen desaturation when traveling in a standard car safety seat.

According to a review of 50 years of research on the subject, kids whose moms went back to work before the kids were 3 years old had no worse academic or behavioral problems than kids whose moms stayed home.

There's ample research that divorce isn't the worst thing parents can do to kids: Fighting terribly and subjecting them to your vitriolic hatred toward each other is the worst; staying married in such a state is actually worse for kids than if you actually got divorced.

A review of good quality research on this subject found that if the twin that will be born first (i.e. is lowest in the womb) is head down there is no good evidence that caesarean section will be safer than a vaginal birth for the mother or babies.

While small children should not be exposed to computers for more than a few minutes at a time, and should be encouraged instead to find information in books, a child of nine or ten needs to become familiar with web searching as he begins to research subjects or topics that interest him, and which may not be covered in easily available books.

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.

More than 50 years of peer - reviewed research on the subject reveals that spanking a child does more harm than good — yes, 50 years of research confirms this reality.

(I say mothers because, while most leave laws apply to men and women, women are far more likely than men to take time off and, thus, are the subjects of most research.)

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee was the subject of similar criticism after intervening in a Texas primary, dropping opposition research on Democrat Laura Moser, who made comments that she would rather have her teeth pulled without anesthesia than move to Paris, Texas.

He quotes the BBC's political research editor, David Cowling, on the subject of working class voters voting for parties other than Labour:

It takes about an hour to glue more than a dozen sensors to a research subject about to undergo polysomnography, the technology designed to monitor brain waves and other physiological variables used to characterize our time asleep.

The current system for overseeing research involving human subjects in Canada is based on little more than «moral suasion,» notes David Robinson, executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) in Ottawa.

As more and more departments begin to realise the value of enterprise for their subject areas, I believe there will be more demand for enterprise lecturers from a range of backgrounds, including Ph.D.'s, particularly if the Research Assessment Exercises (RAE, a U.K. government measurement of the quality of an institution's research) begins to recognise patents and spin - off companies as a valuable part of university productivity, rather than counting only researchResearch Assessment Exercises (RAE, a U.K. government measurement of the quality of an institution's research) begins to recognise patents and spin - off companies as a valuable part of university productivity, rather than counting only researchresearch) begins to recognise patents and spin - off companies as a valuable part of university productivity, rather than counting only researchresearch papers.

The document, which mainly focuses on federally funded dog research, claims that more than 1100 canines are being subjected to cruel, unnecessary experiments in government labs.

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.

As tissue and DNA samples are shared more widely than ever, scientists and federal agencies are looking more closely at their responsibilities to the research subjects.

The subject pool was more than 2,000 undergrads from multiple sections of an introductory psychology course who volunteered as research participants over the past few years.

Courses often cover legal issues, like how to handle research involving human subjects, rather than examining how funding may influence scientists or how cutting - edge research such as genetic engineering may affect society at large.

However, we found the previously suggested causal direction to be erroneous: lonely people spend more time on the Internet rather than Internet use making people lonely,» Song concluded, adding more research on the subject is needed.

That the Parliament recognises that contract research staff in Scotland's universities and research institutes are one of the most significant assets in Scotland's knowledge economy; notes that more than 90 % of such staff are employed on insecure fixed term contracts, resulting in a systematic failure to properly exploit our science and social science base to the benefit of the Scottish economy and society; further notes that this highly educated human resource, comprising graduate, postgraduate and postdoctoral level workers, is subject to constant wastage, to the detriment of Scotland's universities and economic potential; and believes that the Scottish Executive should act with clarity, urgency and determination to secure a complete overhaul of the management of the contract research workforce with a view to eliminating the current insecurity and wastage and establishing a radical new approach in partnership with higher education employers and representatives of the research staff.

More than two - thirds of the research subjects used vocal fry during their readings, the researchers will report in a future issue of the Journal of Voice.

Dodson estimates that the world spends less than $ 1 million a year (excluding salaries) on research in the subject.

A United States federal panel of scientists and security experts has identified 11 microorganisms that it wants designated as Tier 1 select agents, a new category of biological agents that would be subject to higher security standards than other pathogens and toxins used in biomedical research.

Since then more than 100 of his epileptic patients with electrodes implanted in their brains for diagnostic purposes have volunteered as subjects for basic research.

The study is published in Cell Death Discovery, a new translational medical research journal from Nature Publishing Group, and comes at a time when more children than ever before are subjected to dental surgery — and local anaesthetic — because of tooth decay or the other orthodontic conditions.

A research group led by Ryota Hashimoto, an associate professor at Osaka University, Naohiro Okada, a graduate student at the University of Tokyo, and Kiyoto Kasai, a professor at the University of Tokyo, replicated prior findings that the volume of globus pallidus (one of the basal ganglia in the brain) in schizophrenia was larger than that in healthy subjects.

Further research indicated that female subjects were more sensitive to the behavioral effects of methylphenidate than the males.

Within the Department of Commerce, NIST's core research laboratories would be subject to a $ 30 million or 4.3 percent cut below FY 2017, much less severe than the 13 percent reduction called for by the Trump Administration.

Less well known are other higher titanium oxides — those with a higher number of titanium and oxygen atoms than TiO — that are now the subject of intensifying research due to their potential use in next - generation electronic devices.

As pressure mounts for farmers to grow enough healthy crops to meet a burgeoning population's needs, and for new land management strategies that improve soil carbon storage to reduce atmospheric CO2 and produce healthy soils, the soil microbiome is the subject of more in - depth scientific research than ever before.

A 2005 IRS ruling implies that all postdoc income be subject to these taxes, including postdoc fellowship income; however certain fellowships and traineeships, in particular the NIH National Research Service Award (NRSA), are not because the research conducted by these postdocs is considered non-compensatory (i.e. the stipend is more like a grant than a wage paid for seResearch Service Award (NRSA), are not because the research conducted by these postdocs is considered non-compensatory (i.e. the stipend is more like a grant than a wage paid for seresearch conducted by these postdocs is considered non-compensatory (i.e. the stipend is more like a grant than a wage paid for services).

The new network is also taking steps to standardize the prioritization of new studies and to put in place a unified system — including a central institutional review board that will cover studies conducted by the entire system — to protect research subjects at more than 3,000 clinical trial sites.

Ongoing T2D research activities at CRGGH include 1) whole - exome sequencing of African families with at least four affected members (data generation is complete and analysis is ongoing), 2) GWAS of 1,200 cases and 1,200 controls from West Africa using the new and more efficient African - centric Affymetrix Axiom genome - wide array with more than 2 million markers, and 3) whole genome expression analysis on skeletal muscle obtained from biopsy from 45 subjects (expression QTL (eQTL) studies on the dataset are complete).

An Australian study published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research showed that when weight - trained subjects performed incline bench presses, the muscle activity of their upper pecs was only around 5 % greater than the upper pec activity during a flat bench press, which is kind of a shocking discovery considering the status that the incline bench press has enjoyed up until now.

Research conducted on brain samples have reported that the concentration of aluminum was higher in the overall brain samples, neurofibrillary tangles, and plaques from subjects with Alzheimer's disease, than the controls.

Exercise scientists have been researching the subject since the 70's, repeatedly confirming that eccentric - only training regimes produce greater strength increases than their concentric - only counterparts.