Sentences with phrase «well as the control group»

In an experiment that lasted two months, the scientists found that healthy rats with an e-dura spinal implant could walk across a ladder as well as a control group with no implant.

In every test, the Maya chose the correct answer far more often than not, scoring almost as well as a control group of Italian adults (doi.org/wvt).

The scientists found that these Amazonians were surprisingly adept at estimating the totals or differences in comparing sets of up to 80 objects, doing almost as well as a control group of French speakers.

When exposed to heat, the electrosensitive group, as well as the control group, complained of discomfort.

To test our hypothesis, we generated heterochronic parabiotic pairs between 15 - month - old (Het - O) and 2 - month - old (Het - Y) male mice, as well as control groups of age - matched pairs, namely isochronic young (Iso - Y) and isochronic old (Iso - O) pairs (fig.

Hyperactivity and impulsivity, which are important ADHD symptoms, were significantly higher in the dementia with Lewy bodies group compared to the Alzheimer's group as well as the control group.

Transfer of learning was assessed 1 week after completing the interactive video activities by all of the students participating in the interactive video activities as well as the control group.

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While the project is massive, it's just one of the Aquilinis» many high - profile, highly profitable ventures: Through Aquilini Investment Group, now more than 50 years old, the family controls one of British Columbia's biggest development conglomerates, as well as its NHL team, the Rogers Arena, blueberry and cranberry farms, restaurants and some $ 80 - million worth of vineyard properties in Washington state.

When the results of the folks who had recorded a positive memory — an intervention known as «self - affirmation» in psychology lingo — were compared with a control group from the same soup kitchen, they performed markedly better.

Diess, who now controls VW as well as many other carmakers within the group, will retain his role as Volkswagen brand chief.

His duties include oversight of Morrow Sodali's Proxy Solicitation Group, as well as special project work including bankruptcies, corporate control events, and strategic consulting.

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.

As well as acting as tribute to the early leadership of the program and the group of young people that formed around the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in HoustoAs well as acting as tribute to the early leadership of the program and the group of young people that formed around the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in Houstoas acting as tribute to the early leadership of the program and the group of young people that formed around the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in Houstoas tribute to the early leadership of the program and the group of young people that formed around the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in Houston.

Police and governmental controls on such groups — and they have in America always included a significant proportion of the common people as well as the upper classes — have been minimal compared to most European or Asian societies.

(breeding and education designed to produce only the best individual types) and racial eugenics (the grouping or intermixing of different ethnic types being not left to chance but effected as a controlled process in the proportions most beneficial to humanity as a whole), both, as I well know, present apparently insuperable difficulties, administrative and psychological.

Broadly defined, such a system is one in which the decision - making process and control are concentrated in the hands of persons or groups whose interests are so fundamentally inimical to the well - being of life as a whole.

Results The intervention group showed significantly greater improvements over time for the primary endpoint of spiritual well - being as compared to the control group (P =.03, partial η2 =.01).

Hakkasan Ltd., the prestigious global restaurant and nightlife group, announced today the acquisition of a controlling stake in Enlightened Hospitality Group (EHGRP), a San Diego - based hospitality development company, as well as a full acquisition of the renowned Stingaree nightclub in San Dgroup, announced today the acquisition of a controlling stake in Enlightened Hospitality Group (EHGRP), a San Diego - based hospitality development company, as well as a full acquisition of the renowned Stingaree nightclub in San DGroup (EHGRP), a San Diego - based hospitality development company, as well as a full acquisition of the renowned Stingaree nightclub in San Diego.

gibbs played well and deserves a higher rating so does holding apart his mistake that cost us a goal also i'm delighted for perez i've noticed on a technical level he is not what you would called a typical arsenal player his first touch & control are not the best he tends to lose a ball a bit too much and needs at least 2 touches i could be wrong and may be it is because he is just back from injury or he was a bit nervous on his return, i know people will say that it doesn't really matter as long as he scores the reason why we bought him and they could be wright anyway great win, performance and topping the group great, COYG!

This was not exactly a defensive masterclass from either side, as the 4 - 2 scoreline suggests, but at least it was Arsenal who scored more than the home side BATE Borisov to give the Gunners a second Europa League win and put us well in control of the group.

By contrast, babies in the control group fared a bit better: 5 out of 8 babies (63 %) were scored as securely attached.

Although Step 10 of the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiatives requires that accredited maternity units provide post-natal breastfeeding support groups, the availability and uptake of these services remains unclear.40 The effectiveness of peer - support for long - term breastfeeding success has been well documented in middle - income countries, 35,41 and a systematic review has emphasized the importance of skilled post-natal breastfeeding support in the UK.39 However Graffy et al. 40 concluded from a randomized controlled trial of support provided by volunteer breastfeeding counsellors that although such support was rated by mothers as helpful, volunteer support was not effective at increasing breastfeeding duration, perhaps owing to mothers not actively taking up such support.

So this paper was done fine for what it wanted to measure - a between subjects design with a control group would have worked as well.

Perceived milk insufficiency was significantly more frequent among the mothers of the control group (38 [27 %] of 140 vs 12 [8.6 %] of 140), as well as breastfeeding interruption because of problems with lactation (25 [18 %] of 140 vs 6 [4 %] of 140).

Perceived milk insufficiency was significantly more frequent among the mothers of the control group (38 [27 %] of 140 vs 12 [8.6 %] of 140), as well as giving up breastfeeding because of problems with lactation (25 [18 %] of 140 vs 6 [4 %] of 140).

To ensure some quality control, the list was compiled by a team led by Keith Johnston, the current Chairman of the Government Affairs Group, carefully advised by two previous chairmen of the Group, as well as senior members of the current GAG Committee who, naturally, have removed themselves from consideration in the rankings.

Experience from other countries suggests that a majority - commanding group of parties is more likely to control the government the fewer parties there are in the group was well as greater the ideologically similarity between them.

Meanwhile they also control opposition groups as well as third - party actors.

Cuomo and good - government groups warn that a form of bribery is possible as long as special - interest groups can funnel large legal fees to lawmakers who control legislation in which they have an interest.

Speaking at Fordham University Law School, Cuomo announced he propose legislation incorporating measures designed to limit independent expenditure campaign spending as well as require the groups to disclose the identity of their owners, directors and executives exerting control.

He argues that prebendalism is the most appropriate conceptual notion for explaining Nigeria's politicians intense and persistent struggle to control and exploit the offices of the state and defines prebendalism in terms of «the historical association of the term «prebend» with the offices of certain feudal states which could be obtained through services rendered to a lord or monarch or through outright purchase by supplicants... the adjective «prebendal» will refer to patterns of political behaviour which rest on the justifying principle that such offices should be competed for and then utilised for the personal benefit of office holders as well as their reference or support group.

One of the groups is the Working Families Party, which gave Cuomo its nomination in exchange for a commitment to push for Democratic control of the State Senate as well as a commitment to let localities set higher wage floors than the state.

Districts are now shaped by a legislative panel controlled by the majority conferences in the Assembly and Senate — a practice derided by good - government groups as allowing elected officials to pick their voters instead of the other way around.

Many good government groups had the expectation that the workgroup's proposals would help empower individual members while decreasing the speaker's ability to control all legislation, something they saw as playing into the charges against Silver, who had long resisted calls for basic technological changes to increase transparency.

Moffitt notes that within the Dunedin group, the more self - control a child had, the better off he or she was as an adult.

Not only did the experimental group score better on tests of their cognition compared with the control group, but the improvement was twice as great as the one that had previously been shown for the antidementia drug donepezil (brand name Aricept).

There is a multitude of other quantum control methods and schemes under development, as well as numerous other research groups actively involved in their study.

Having multiple investors can be good as it dilutes control by any single group.

This group also clarified that Shugoshin controls DNA replication (the process by which DNA makes a copy of itself during cell division) in subtelomeres as well as higher - order structure of chromosomes.

«We hypothesized that yoga participants would show lower depression severity over time as assessed by the Quick Inventory of Depression Symptomatology (QIDS), as well as better social and role functioning, better general health perceptions and physical functioning, and less physical pain relative to the control group,» said Dr. Uebelacker.

Promising results from the new trial would be a major step forward for a field that has long been criticized for studies that are poorly designed, incomplete or lack control - group comparisons, as well as for the peddling of unproved therapies in many clinics worldwide.

Their performance was compared to that of a control group of non-experts who were attending the same meeting, as well as a group of untrained students.

In the intervention group, parenting skills as well as the child's disruptive behaviour, ADHD symptoms, anxiety, sleep problems and empathy improved significantly when compared with the control group and the results were permanent throughout the 12 - month follow - up.

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.

When Esseily and her colleagues studied their data, they found that the children who laughed at the antics of the adults were able to repeat the action themselves more successfully than those who didn't laugh, as well as those who were included in the «humorless» control group.

«Persistent VPC asthma was defined as having VPC asthma at both TENOR I and TENOR II enrollment visits; the comparison group had well or not well - controlled asthma at either visit,» said lead investigator Tmirah Haselkorn, PhD, of EpiMetrix in Los Altos, California.

In both studies, gastrointestinal symptoms were minimal and the same for the control groups, as well as in those who consumed soluble corn fiber.

An additional comparison of this study group with adults with anorexia nervosa and a healthy control group supported greater orbitofrontal cortex and insula volumes in the disorder across this age group as well.

He is now an associate professor at Weill and director of its WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, as well as leader of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's SEQC2 Epigenomics Quality Control Working Group.

Since Yamanaka's breakthrough, dozens of groups have reported other ways of reprogramming cells as well as techniques to control differentiation of stem cells into neurons, cardiovascular cells, and other tissues of interest for regenerative medicine.