Sentences with phrase «week long study»

In a 12 week long study of obese individuals that were given 500 mg of berberine 3 times a day, they lost an average of 5 pounds, and 3.6 % of their body fat (17).

At the end of the six - week long study, those taking Pilates reported greater improvements.

Not exact matches

Bill Gates is the father of this trend with his long - standing and well publicized habit of taking two «Think Weeks» for deep study and reflection each year.

A short - term study of 29 young men showed that they consumed on average 238 fewer calories each day for two weeks when they were told not to eat anything between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m. And these calories they were no longer eating were coming mostly from high - fat, high - carb foods.

The study of 400 students concluded that «those who have used Facebook longer agreed more that others were happier, and agreed less that life is fair, and those spending more time on Facebook each week agreed more that others were happier and had better lives.»

The study found that improvements in life expectancy top out at about four hours of running per week, hence the «three years longer» conclusion.

It has also run pilot programs, with San Jose State University, and the University of Central Florida, that included week - long studies with small groups of students at each school.

WBENC's Student Entrepreneur Program is a week - long business development program for aspiring collegiate female entrepreneurs studying in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) or Business.

As a second year student, Merage MBAs can also experience a week - long international study trip or quarter - long International Exchange Program at partnering schools in Asia, Europe, and Latin America.

Each Friday, the six trading strategies studied: (1) take a long position in a commodity if hedging pressure for both the commodity and the S&P 500 Index are below their 52 - week averages; or, (2) take a long position in the S&P 500 Index if hedging pressure for both the commodity and the S&P 500 Index are above their 52 - week averages; or, (3) hold 3 - month U.S. Treasury bills.

Long story, short, I studied with him for about 5 weeks, went to his church and found myself accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior.

It offers study programs that last as long as two years, as well as one - week conferences.

And if you're a pastor who saw the value of exegetical research while in seminary but no longer have the time to do it each week, BibleWorks can help you continue the process of studying the original languages, even if you're short on time or a bit rusty on all the details of language study.

Sure, you can make it yourself, but let's be honest, sometimes you want to wake up after a long week of work / study and know that you have a comforting bowl of muesli waiting for you.

This week's developments raise to a higher level the decades - long partnership between Vietnam and IRRI, which started in 1963 when the first Vietnamese scientist studied at the rice institute.

The results of the week - long study of adults prompted the scientists to begin a ground breaking study testing the levels of organophosphates in children 14 — 16 years.

One 2013 study, conducted in mice, was designed specifically to examine the long - term effects of Ace - K and took place over a 40 - week period.

At the end of the study, the curcumin group had lower levels of three blood markers of inflammation, including C - reactive protein (CRP), along with lower fasting blood sugar and hemoglobin A1c (a measure of longer term blood sugar levels).5 For comparison, the placebo group had higher blood sugar levels and increased inflammation after the eight weeks.

Maybe it's the week I have taken off from work, to study for my exams, or probably resigning to the fact that this is going to be another long hard season.

As for (1), though, you can actually NEVER prove something to be safe, especially something as difficult to study as long - term effects of a sleep strategy that might last for one week out of a child's entire life.

Mothers can continue to experience excessive sleepiness as long as 18 weeks postpartum, according to an Australian study published on PLOSone.

This week someone got in touch with me to talk about a new study in the journal Pediatrics, which suggests that there's no long - term harm associated with certain methods of sleep training.

Venneman et al 2009 were first to find unqualified proof of this long suspected fact having conducted a populations - based study of 333 infants who died of SIDS between 1998 and 2001 matched in age to 998 «control infants» born 4 to 6 weeks after the case infants.

But a later study — in which one group did slow pelvic rocking exercises on all fours for ten minutes twice a day from 37 weeks on and a second group did nothing — looked at the longer - term effect and found that an equal percentage of women (about 8 percent) in both groups had babies who were posterior at birth.

The authors concluded that the findings of this study showed a significantly increased total and early neonatal mortality for home births and even higher risks for women of 41 weeks or longer and women having a first birth.

Our specialized studies intensives (World Language and Music Teaching) require one three - week - long, on - campus summer study and one week - long teacher observation in the following school year.

Study shows significantly increased baby death after home births, especially for women of 41 weeks or longer and first - time moms: Early and total neonatal mortality in relation to birth setting in the United States, 2006 - 2009

Urinary incontinence (UI) has an effect on quality of life during the postpartum period.1, 2 Fear of UI is one of the most common reasons for maternal demand for cesarean delivery.3, 4 The muscle strength of the pelvic floor returns to the antepartum value 6 — 10 weeks postpartum in most women.5, 6 However, UI symptoms after delivery do not resolve in the long term in some women.7, 8 Studies have variously concluded that the prevalence of UI changed9 or did not change within 6 months or 1 year postpartum.10, 11 A higher prevalence or incidence of UI has been observed in women who had a vaginal delivery than in women who underwent cesarean delivery.10 — 18 In contrast, a recent study found that vaginal delivery was not associated with postpartum UI.19 The long - term protective effect of cesarean delivery has not been determined.20 Validated and reliable questionnaires to evaluate UI, including severity and quality of life, are needed for postpartum evaluation.21 However, comparisons of UI severity and the effect on daily life between women who have had vaginal and cesarean deliveries are scarce.22

By contrast, in Japan, 85 % of students achieve the equivalent of maths A-level, and Indian students study maths and science for twice as long each week at high school as their British counterparts.

Yet Levy said a study he released last week for the Long Island Regional Planning Council shows the caps may not be sustainable.

In third place this week is a report on new figures which showed that the number of foreign students wishing to study in the UK long - term has fallen to its lowest level since 2007.

A 20 - year long study published this week in Science suggests theoretical predictions have been off the mark.

On this week's show: New research shows psychoactive drugs were present at the dawn of the first complex societies, and a long - term study that questions how plants will deal with rising carbon dioxide levels

According to a study published online this week in Science, University of Minnesota researchers, building from studies of nitrogen levels in Lake Superior, uncovered a good news / bad news scenario for lake health that has long - term, global implications for pollution control efforts.

Indeed, DeMet recently studied 12 alcoholic men for 12 weeks at the Long Beach Veteran's Hospital.

«What this study clearly says is at least beginning at 30 weeks and possibly before that, the fetal brain is starting to lay down short - term memories and might even be laying down some long - term memories,» says Rahil Briggs, director of Healthy Steps at Montefiore Medical Center and assistant professor of pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

She and her colleagues will be publishing other studies in the future where patients» mental health is assessed over a period longer than four weeks.

In 1975, O'Neill spearheaded a ten - week - long study at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, working with engineers, social scientists, and other researchers, as well as architects, to see whether such structures were feasible.

Studies in rats tend to use much higher doses of THC than even a committed pothead would absorb, and rodent adolescence is just a couple of weeks long — nothing like ours.

In the study, Kohlbach and her colleagues analysed the stomach contents of the fish — which they had caught directly under the sea ice in the course of a several - week - long expedition to the Arctic Ocean on board the research vessel Polarstern.

According to Baskaran, the athletes in the study had stopped menstruating for longer than three months, or never started menses, because of too much aerobic physical activity, averaging more than 10 hours a week.

Long term exposure to air pollution may be linked to heart attacks and strokes by speeding up atherosclerosis, or «hardening of the arteries,» according to a study by U.S. researchers published in this week's PLOS Medicine.

That could mean that a longer study might uncover skeletal benefits that hadn't appeared after only 12 weeks, she says.

Their study, published in this week's early online edition of the journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution, might surprise bear ecologists and conservationists who had long assumed that black bears in the Sierra Nevada rely on lots of protein from ants and other insects because their remains are frequently found in bear feces.

Countering a widely - held view that thawing permafrost accelerates atmospheric warming, a study published this week in the scientific journal Nature suggests arctic thermokarst lakes are «net climate coolers» when observed over longer, millennial, time scales.

And participants in last week's meeting said it underscores the need for the growing corps of DBS researchers to think long - term about their planned studies.

The study, published online this week in the open - access journal PeerJ, brings the long - banished name back into scientific respectability as a genus coequal with Apatosaurus.

«We found that CDI readmissions for any reason had almost a one week longer average LOS than all - cause readmissions,» said Teena Chopra, MD, MPH, a leading CDI expert from DMC's Division of Infectious Diseases who led the study.

Last week, Congress sent legislation to Bush that would allow federally funded scientists to study cells from frozen embryos that fertility clinic patients no longer need and have chosen to donate instead of discard.

Van der Schans plans on developing such a kit and studying how long after exposure it will pick up the gas — he predicts roughly 2 weeks.