The other groups were either given no surgery or «sham» surgery so they could be
used as control groups for comparison to the first.
In view of their most recent results, it seems the key lies in the fact that chronic melatonin consumption not only induces the appearance of «beige fat» in obese diabetic rats, but also increases its presence in thin animals
used as a control group.
In addition, 20 recordings from healthy people were
used as control group data to validate the developed algorithm.
The second type of classroom, which
we used as a control group, consisted of classrooms with large test - score gains but no evidence of cheating in their answer strings, a sign of plain - old good teaching.
We don't have a second America to
use as a control group, but without the consensus messaging that's happened over the past decade, my guess is that the public would be even more misinformed about global warming than it is now.
Not exact matches
They praised a third
group,
as a
control, for a passing score, without mentioning either their intelligence or the process they had
used.
The NEJM letter also analyzed the
use of two drugs that remained stable in price over that time period,
as a
control group — nitroglycerin and dobutamine.
Electronic firearm tracking technology is defined
as «a platform, system or device or a
group of systems or devices that
uses a shared ledger, distributed ledger or block chain technology or any other similar form of technology or electronic database for the purpose of storing information in a decentralized or centralized way, that is not owned or
controlled by any single person or entity and that is
used to locate or
control the
use of a firearm.»
As sensors become smaller and easier to
use, Dexcom and its competitors are betting that the systems will be adopted by the much larger
group of people with Type 2 diabetes, which is typically
controlled with medications, diet and exercise.
I think the issue here is whether any amateur fund manager (which I think is what we all are — including those financial advisers who create their own «homegrown» portfolios
using trackers and bond funds) can seriously manage a portfolio for income or for growth and
control against downside risk (in equities or bonds)
as well
as a good active management
group like Invesco perpetual or M&G.
Fundamentalism
uses the culture, rituals, sacraments, texts, language, and metaphors and allusions and symbols (verbal, visual, musical, etc.) of religion in blind adherence to a dogma
as defined and interpreted by a person or
group who is self - aggregating and self - justifying raw personal power for the sole purpose of
controlling the lives of others.
We
controlled for a variety of other factors that may also have influenced STI rates in particular areas and we also
used older age
groups, unaffected by the schemes,
as a further
control.
They are not really against birth
control,
as they are against
using tax - payer dollars to pay for birth
control, or the government requiring churches and religious organizations to offer birth
control as part of their
group medical insurance plans.
The aim of this study was to evaluate adherence to the Neonatal Resuscitation Program algorithm by subjects working from memory
as compared to subjects
using a decision support tool that provides auditory and visual prompts to guide implementation of the Neonatal Resuscitation Program algorithm during simulated neonatal resuscitation.Healthcare professionals (physicians, nurse practitioners, obstetrical / neonatal nurses) with a current NRP card were randomized to the
control or intervention
group and performed three simulated neonatal resuscitations.
In addition, there was no effect on breastfeeding duration when the pacifier was introduced at 1 month of age.280 A more recent systematic review found that the highest level of evidence (ie, from clinical trials) does not support an adverse relationship between pacifier
use and breastfeeding duration or exclusivity.281 The association between shortened duration of breastfeeding and pacifier
use in observational studies likely reflects a number of complex factors such
as breastfeeding difficulties or intent to wean.281 A large multicenter, randomized
controlled trial of 1021 mothers who were highly motivated to breastfeed were assigned to 2
groups: mothers advised to offer a pacifier after 15 days and mothers advised not to offer a pacifier.
Miliband's repeated
use of the language of «our economy», «wages,» and «working people,» coupled with his shunning of variants of «
control» and of references to «migrants»
as a
group or in particular categories such
as students and family members, supports this sort of interpretation.
Watson claims that these
groups — previously known
as Militant and Socialist Organiser — are
using the methods
used by Militant in the 1980s to take
control of local constituency Labour parties (CLPs).
Activists point to how Cuomo has enabled Republican
control of the State Senate by failing to
use the State Democratic Party to support Senate Democrats and actively supporting a
group of breakaway Democrats called the Independent Democratic Conference that has empowered Senate Republicans in exchange for a say in policy and perks they wouldn't enjoy
as part of the minority.
Jasmine Gripper of the Alliance for Quality Education, a union - supported
group with close ties to the mayor, said that test scores shouldn't be
used as a measuring stick on de Blasio's success with mayoral
control.
A third
group of 63 people with no history of psychoactive substance
use served
as the
control.
Preliminary results of the study were presented at a World Health Organization (WHO) evidence review
group meeting, while UNITAID has issued a call for further research into the
use of endectocide class drugs, of which ivermectin is currently the only one registered for human
use,
as new vector
control tools in the fight against malaria and other mosquito borne disease.
Then they compared the Dmanisi population with a range of fossils belonging to ancient African hominins alive at the same time, and
used modern humans and chimpanzees
as control groups.
The researchers read all of those studies, looking for things such
as appropriate
control groups and whether a sufficient number of animals had been
used.
CU Boulder researchers
used functional MRI scans (fMRI) to study brain activity in a
group of 37 fibromyalgia patients and 35
control patients
as they were exposed to a variety of non-painful visual, auditory and tactile cues
as well
as painful pressure.
They found the incidence of new persistent opioid
use following surgery was 4.8 percent, ranging from 2.7 percent to 15.2 percent across procedures,
as compared to 0.1 percent in the nonoperative
control group.
Maharaj said he didn't
use a placebo
group in his study because it was too expensive and because he believes that the baseline assessment will allow participants to serve
as their own
control.
«We can
use a
group of children who do not play video games
as a
control group, in order to make a comparison.
The team has
used this model to focus specifically on how individual emotional arousal can be
used as input to
control as a
group their digital musical instrument, EMjam.
Kim's
group met this goal by making a
control algorithm that enables the tiny robots to effectively
use the shape of the electric field they're riding
as a way to detect and avoid obstacles — like a surfer reading the waves» break to steer clear of submerged hazards.
A
group of light social drinkers was
used as a
control.
A comparison
group of 210 siblings without cancer also responded to the survey and were
used as a
control for the study.
Other
groups have
used multiple color LEDs and complex
control circuitry to make lights that turn redder
as the power is turned down.
While the move has been welcomed by many
as an important step toward healthcare equality for women, religious
groups are critical of the plans to support birth -
control measures, particularly for drugs such
as ulipristal acetate, an emergency contraceptive which can be
used up to five days after sex.
A disease
as variable
as ALS requires costly clinical trials to make this comparison
using a large
control group.
As part of the Cannabis for the Management of Pain: Assessment of Safety Study (COMPASS), that started in 2004, the researchers followed 215 adult patients, with chronic non-cancer pain, who
used medical cannabis, and compared them to a
control group of 216 chronic pain sufferers who were not cannabis users.
Several research
groups are pursuing gene therapy approaches to regenerate skin, such
as using genes to
control expression of growth factors involved in skin healing.
Patients in the
control group were given the widely
used anticoagulant unfractionated heparin,
as well
as glycoprotein IIb / IIIa inhibitors, another class of anticoagulants, at the physician's discretion.
Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these
groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority
groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily
use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such
as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by
using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.
Most medical students are not planning research careers, so
using all medical students
as a
control group is not especially helpful.
To test this hypothesis, we
used independent component analysis to isolate the network in a
group of 13 subjects with mild AD and in a
group of 13 age - matched elderly
controls as they performed a simple sensory - motor processing task.
The expert review panel recommended one practice guideline based on a 2005 randomized trial that provided data to support a memory retraining protocol.12, 13 The trial enrolled 29 subjects with MS - related learning deficits and randomized them to either the
control group (n = 14) or the experimental
group (n = 15).13 Both
groups participated in 8 «treatment» sessions, which consisted of nontraining memory tasks for the
control group and the Story Memory Technique (SMT), which taught the skills of visualization and context to improve learning, for the experimental
group.13 In subjects with moderately severe impairment, 88 % in the experimental
group showed significant improvement in learning abilities compared with 38 % in the
control group (P <.01).13 Subjects with mild impairment showed little improvement.13 On this basis, the technique
used in this study was recommended by the review panel
as a practice guideline for the rehabilitation of learning and memory in persons with MS. 12
Though Dr. Solomon and his colleagues
used statistical techniques to divide the participants into three closely matched
groups, they did not explicitly
control for characteristics such
as alcohol consumption, smoking, and over-the-counter medication
use, which could skew the results.
On a health summit (Immune defense summit) the speaker did recommend that one does eat fermented foods to restore the flora (which is something one should do anyway), but for me who isn't
use to eating fermented foods, and
as if it were a
control group, can garlic disrupt the gut flora if you eat several cloves a week?
There are countless examples of «expert physicians» who have given extremely bad recommendations over the years — from insistence in the 1950s - 60s that cigarette smoking is not harmful, to cardiologists in the 1970s recommending potent (and toxic) anti-arrhythmic drugs for the treatment of benign PVCs — until randomized
controlled trials documented increased mortality in the treatment
group, to numerous unnecessary surgeries that
used to be commonplace (such
as tonsillectomies, elective C - sections, spinal fusion for back pain, etc., etc..
Using a meat - eating
group as the
control, it compared people eating like a Mediterranean - style diet that minimizes meat, versus a meat - free diet, versus a meat -, dairy - and egg - free diet.
For every 6 people with depression
using the Internet intervention, 1 person could be classified
as not having depression after completing the intervention (compared with a
control group not
using the intervention).
One taught social studies
using the project - based units we designed (the experimental or PBL
group), and the other taught social studies
as they normally did (the
control group).
Our team also observed
control -
group classrooms to gather information about what business -
as - usual social studies instruction was like, and to determine whether any
control -
group teachers
used PBL (none did).
In every experimental evaluation of private school voucher programs, the students who won the voucher lottery but did not consistently
use their voucher to attend private schools have remained in the study over time
as members of the treatment
group, and the students who lost the voucher lottery but enrolled in private school have remained in the study
as members of the
control group.
Most importantly, we tracked the performance of individual students over time to see how their performance evolved relative to that of their peers
as they progressed from grades 3 to 8, in essence,
using each student
as his or her own
control group.