Sentences with phrase «volunteers who»

At one month, 87 percent of the volunteers who received the cAd3 - EBOZ vaccine candidate had measurable Ebola antibodies; 94 percent of the volunteers who received the rVSV - ZEBOV vaccine had demonstrable antibodies after one month.

A team led by Ian Barns and Renato Schibeci tested the change in attitude to science of a small group of volunteers who underwent a programme of education about genetic manipulation.

An experimental vaccine to prevent the mosquito - borne viral illness chikungunya elicited neutralizing antibodies in all 25 adult volunteers who participated in a recent early - stage clinical trial conducted by researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health.

They found that after six months, prefrontal cortex activity during calculations peaked more quickly in volunteers who had received stimulation than in controls.

The study enrolled 36 men and 36 women from two age groups — «young» volunteers who were 18 - 30 years old and «older» volunteers who were 65 - 80 years old — into three different exercise programs: one where the volunteers did high - intensity interval biking, one where the volunteers did strength training with weights, and one that combined strength training and interval training.

Although the primary visual cortex usually communicates mainly with other parts of the vision system, many other brain areas contributed to the processing of images in volunteers who received LSD.

But the five volunteers who improved were those whose frontotemporal areas had been successfully targeted, according to separate neurological assessments.

There was more than a 1,000-fold difference in detection limits for volunteers who were most sensitive versus those least sensitive to sour tastes.

The researchers had even greater success in an experiment they ran involving 374 volunteers who submitted web browsing information.

Researchers in Madrid examined male and female volunteers who were free from cardiovascular or chronic kidney disease.

Nacke says that 10 volunteers who tested the game were mostly positive about the experience.

The responses of those given the quadrivalent vaccine were the same as those of volunteers who received the vaccine with two strains of A and the strain of B that matched the B strain in the 2012 - 2013 seasonal flu trivalent vaccine.

«[O] ne group of researchers [has launched] a crowdsourcing initiative,» called Mark2Cure, to help researchers «find those needle - in - haystack connections» in the rapidly growing biomedical literature «by harnessing the efforts of lay volunteers who will scan papers for key terms to help create a powerful searchable database,» Esther Landhuis wrote in a Thursday ScienceInsider.

The trial conducted at the WRAIR Clinical Trial Center in Silver Spring, Md., is assessing the impact of pre-existing flavivirus immunity in volunteers who had been vaccinated against yellow fever or Japanese encephalitis — both viral cousins to Zika — prior to receiving ZPIV.

Volunteers who received the quadrivalent vaccine had superior antibody responses to the B strains and equally robust responses to A strains compared to volunteers who received the trivalent vaccines that did not contain the corresponding B strains.

During the study, 3,355 volunteers who were between 18 and 64 years of age were vaccinated at 38 sites in the United States.

Writing in February in Vaccine, the researchers reported that the stored serum of elderly volunteers who received the vaccine in 2011 showed an immune response to new strains of flu that were circulating three years later.

As it is, Knepper says that volunteers who work with the robot often find themselves talking to it, though it can not yet understand them.

But it can be difficult to get study volunteers who represent a particular population.

Their findings: the telomeres of subjects who exercised the most (an average of 199 minutes weekly) were longer than those of volunteers who worked out the least (a mere 16 minutes or less a week).

The Forest Service and the Sierra Club have run float trips on the Salmon River with volunteers who pull out spotted knapweed by its taproot.

Functional brain - imaging experiments done at the end of the past century using positron - emission tomography (PET) found marked activation in the frontal lobe of volunteers who had taken hallucinogens, in particular in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and the insula cortex.

Using electrodes, European researchers in 2015 measured the facial movements of volunteers who sniffed sweat samples of people who had watched either pleasant or scary videos — happy - go - lucky scenes from Disney's The Jungle Book versus hair - raising clips from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.

To look for the vessels, Dr. Reich's team used MRI to scan the brains of five healthy volunteers who had been injected with gadobutrol, a magnetic dye typically used to visualize brain blood vessels damaged by diseases, such as multiple sclerosis or cancer.

The volunteers who felt the most incompetent but most empowered picked the loudest punishments — 71 decibels on average.

Today, one group of researchers is launching a crowdsourcing initiative to pave the way, by harnessing the efforts of lay volunteers who will scan papers for key terms to help create a powerful searchable database.

In another task, volunteers who sat on a hard seat were less willing to change their price in a hypothetical car purchase than those sitting in a soft seat.

The researchers compared cervical spine symptoms and evidence of injury in two groups of men: 101 men who had retired from professional rugby (mean age 40.3 years, range 35 to 47 years) and 85 volunteers who had never participated in competitive rugby or any other sport on the professional level (control group; mean age 41.6 years, range 35 to 49 years).

But there's another way to look at those data: a straight - up comparison of low - risk volunteers who take the drug with those taking a placebo.

«To be honest, it was the volunteers who found this star,» Boyajian says.

They are part of a fleet of about 60 volunteers who spend their spare time retrieving the remains of ailing or dead creatures along the state's coast.

The people watching the videos rated the women in them as being more stressed when they were exposed to the «stressed» body odors than when they were exposed to a mild neutral fragrance or to body odor samples collected from volunteers who'd been exercising.

Muscle biopsies showed a two-fold increase in a marker of free radicals called TBARS (thiobarbituric acid - reactive substances) in those volunteers who didn't take antioxidants, but no increase in those who did take the supplements — suggesting that they were indeed mopping them up.

The team found that the volunteers who swilled with carbohydrates were able to flex with more force immediately afterwards, and had a 30 per cent stronger neural response compared with those given placebo.

Volunteers who handled receipts containing the hormone - altering compound bisphenol A for two hours showed elevated BPA levels in their urine.

In the early 1960s Jrgen Aschoff, then at the Max Planck Institute of Behavioral Physiology in Seewiesen, Germany, and his colleagues showed that volunteers who lived in an isolation bunker — with no natural light, clocks or other clues about time — nevertheless maintained a roughly normal sleep - wake cycle of 25 hours.

The pair and their colleagues recruited 40 volunteers who were newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

Volunteers who listened to classical music said they would pay more for «social identity» items like gold earrings and cologne than when they listened to country music.

Neaverth said he's one of nearly 70 volunteers who will be on hand during the conference to assist in making the conference a success.

The volunteers who were hired about two years ago claimed they were placed on a GHC350 monthly allowance, and given assurance of employment when the need arises.

For volunteers who help out with our fund raisers, we issue a «community service certificate».

Ms. Pellegrino, a schoolteacher in Baldwin and a union activist, continued teaching during her campaign, which was joined by hundreds of volunteers who knocked on doors in Massapequa, Babylon and West Islip, on Long Island's South Shore.

She does this with efficiency, empathy and humor, and as a result has built a cadre of volunteers who keep us as the center of Democratic life in the county.»

«After the last election and with the marches and movement that has followed I have been inundated with emerging volunteers who have been shaken up by the results of the last election,» wrote Dittus in an email.

«I am honored that the voters of this district have put their trust in me today, and I am so thankful for the volunteers who powered our grassroots campaign,» said Alcantara.

CEC members are parent volunteers who provide hands - on leadership and support for their community's public schools.

• WNY Earth Day, an organization made up of volunteers who coordinate the annual «Party for the Planet at the Buffalo Zoo» to help educate children and their families about the conservation of Earth's resources;

Master Gardeners belong to a national corps of trained volunteers who share gardening information in their communities through the local Cooperative Extension office.

Local volunteers who maintain the garden and formed the nonprofit Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden plan to bring «dozens of residents from Little Italy, Nolita and the surrounding neighborhoods» to the YMCA on Ninth Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues in Park Slope, where de Blasio still exercises even though he lives in Gracie Mansion on the Upper East Side.

I am speaking of the restaurant owners who supplied us with the wonderful food, the musicians who entertained us all day, and the volunteers who, with their hard work, enabled us to see the day through smoothly.