Sentences with phrase «which arm of the study»

Participants are informed by their health visitor as to which arm of the study they have been allocated to.

Not exact matches

For example, studies show customers buy less when their arms are full — which is why placing empty shopping baskets or carts in the middle of a retail store can dramatically increase sales per customer.

The study was designed to accumulate 1,612 MACE at which level the study was robustly designed to have 90 % power to detect a 15 % relative risk reduction in MACE between the Vascepa and placebo arms of the study.

However, in contrast, the observational arm of this study (in which infants were not at high risk of developing atopic disease) did not demonstrate differences in the incidence of atopic dermatitis.

«This report contains some important proposals which we will study in detail because we want to build consensus for a reformed system of party funding - one that ends the arms race that drives the big money in politics and one which restores public trust in politics.

The study, which maps noise levels across the United States, is «a call to arms,» says Nathan Kleist, an ecologist at the University of Colorado in Boulder, who was not involved in the work.

Widely hailed as a «breakthrough» in HIV prevention by public health officials, the studies — one of which dropped its placebo arm today because of the convincing effects of the intervention — add powerful new tools to derail transmission of the virus in the population that accounts for most of the 34 million infections in the world.

The scientists documented almost 100 percent mortality of purple sea urchins and six - armed sea stars over the study area, which stretched from southern Mendocino County to Bodega Bay in Sonoma County.

The real advance of the study, he says, is that the team was able to figure out which neurons they needed to record to control two arms working together.

For the Muscle Tendon Tissue Unit Repair and Reinforcement Reconstructive Surgery Research Study, which was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense, 11 men and two women who had lost at least 25 percent of leg or arm muscle volume and function first underwent a customized regimen of physical therapy for four to 16 weeks.

The U.S. Army, which supported the study, could use this type of information to better develop strong, cooperative teams in the field, Melamed said, adding that the armed forces could also use the science to seek ways to undermine enemy forces.

To examine how the availability of food may have affected armed conflict in Africa, the study relies on PRIO - Grid data from over 10,600 grid cells in Africa from 1998 to 2008, new agricultural yields data from EarthStat and Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset, which documents incidents of political violence, including those with and without casualarmed conflict in Africa, the study relies on PRIO - Grid data from over 10,600 grid cells in Africa from 1998 to 2008, new agricultural yields data from EarthStat and Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset, which documents incidents of political violence, including those with and without casualArmed Conflict Location and Event Dataset, which documents incidents of political violence, including those with and without casualties.

She runs the Gambian arm of a trial which seeks not just to treat trachoma a bacterial infection that can cause blindness, but to eradicate it from the countries where the study is being run.

In a proof - of - concept study, scientists selected a region for analysis on round or irregularly - shaped objects using a 3 - D camera on a robotic arm, which mapped the 3 - dimentional coordinates of the sample's surface.

Joseph Poole, M.D., Ph.D., of the Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, and colleagues studied whether therapy with granulocyte - macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM - CSF), an agent that functions as a white blood cell growth factor, would improve walking performance in patients with symptomatic peripheral artery disease (a form of vascular disease in which there is partial or total blockage of an artery, usually one leading to a leg or arm).

The study, entitled, «Interferon ß - 1a for the treatment of Ebola virus disease: A historically controlled, single - arm proof of concept trial,» published in PLoS One, a high - impact journal which is freely and immediately available to everyone.

Although the robot didn't offer a glimpse of anything living there — it's not equipped with cameras or a sampling arm — it did provide invaluable data for scientists studying the swift - moving Pine Island Glacier ice shelf, which might be thought of as ground zero for the biggest Antarctic mystery of all, in the minds of many scientists: What is happening to the ice?

The vacation arm serves as a relaxation control for the meditation arms of the study, which take place at a vacation resort, given those in the vacation arm experience all of the amenities of the vacation resort and are at least partially removed from the demands of their daily lives.

The first method is to study the density of the neutral hydrogen (HI) in the plane of the Galaxy which is enhanced in the spiral arms.

But a new mouse study out of the Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) shows that a natural sugar called trehalose can actually arm the immune system with more of the machinery it needs to combat atherosclerosis, a dangerous condition in which plaque build up hardens and narrows the arteries.

We have continued our work on the extension phase of the study, which includes: recruitment of additional African American participants into the sequencing arm and re-phenotyping of participants with monogenic findings.

In «The Voice of the Dolphins,» which is a tale about how the nuclear arms race ultimately ended in the 1980s, he wrote in the 1960s that there was a joint U.S. - Soviet study center in Vienna and that they enlisted dolphins, who had the biggest cranial capacity of any mammal, and they taught them language and they taught them math and the dolphins worked up all these wonderful solutions that won them Nobel Prizes.

But a new mouse study shows that a natural sugar called trehalose can actually arm the immune system with more of the machinery it needs to combat atherosclerosis, a dangerous condition in which plaque build up hardens and narrows the arteries.

The study is an arm of the Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI), which was launched in 2010 by The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research to help define one or more biomarkers of PD.

The universal body language of sports The Olympics are a good place to study the gestures of victory and defeat — raised arms, slumped shoulders — many of which are consistent across sports and cultures.

WHI Study (Second Arm): All the women in the second arm of the WHI study had prior hysterectomies (uterus absent), so they did not need the synthetic progestin, called Provera, which is required to prevent the endometrial cancer caused by Premarin aStudy (Second Arm): All the women in the second arm of the WHI study had prior hysterectomies (uterus absent), so they did not need the synthetic progestin, called Provera, which is required to prevent the endometrial cancer caused by Premarin aloArm): All the women in the second arm of the WHI study had prior hysterectomies (uterus absent), so they did not need the synthetic progestin, called Provera, which is required to prevent the endometrial cancer caused by Premarin aloarm of the WHI study had prior hysterectomies (uterus absent), so they did not need the synthetic progestin, called Provera, which is required to prevent the endometrial cancer caused by Premarin astudy had prior hysterectomies (uterus absent), so they did not need the synthetic progestin, called Provera, which is required to prevent the endometrial cancer caused by Premarin alone.

The arm movements associated with using an elliptical machine do not seem to provide much of an upper - body workout, but they do increase the activation of muscles around the hip joints and in the lower back, studies show, which would be useful for people who want stronger midsections.

One of these trials was a 12 - wk study of weight loss in 32 nonobese individuals, which confirmed the loss of 6.5 % of body weight in the ADF intervention arm compared with the nonfasting control arm (36).

Tough alludes to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) studies, which show that a young adolescent's score on the Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) is the best single predictor of later income.

The data came from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002, which was conducted by the statistics and research arm of the U.S. Education Department.

Researchers of a brief released from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the primary research arm of the United States Department of Education (USDOE), recently set out to «shed light on the extent to which disadvantaged students have access to effective teaching, based on value - added measures [VAMs]» as per three recent IES studies that have since been published in peer - reviewed journals and that include in their analyses 17 total states.

In 2009, 68 percent of Americans said they participated in some form of loyalty rewards program, an increase of 10 percentage points over 2007, according to a study by Colloquy, the research arm of LoyaltyOne, which manages rewards programs for companies across a range of industries.

Included were 7 drawings of arms and hands by Leonardo da Vinci, one of which was thought to be a study for the Gallery's portrait of Ginevra de» Benci; 3 drawings by Raphael; and 4 by Michelangelo.

Michelangelo's «St. Peter (after Massaccio) with Arm Studies» (1492) is on view as part of Dürer to de Kooning: 100 Master Drawings from Munich, which continues at the Morgan Library & Museum (225 Madison Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan) through January 6, 2013.

Like the protesters at last year's Climate Camp who turned pages from a climate change study into gloves, and marched under the slogan «we are armed: only with peer - reviewed science `, the CCC seemingly wave science around to legitimise policies which will have far - reaching effects on society, and to justify the existence of a political elite which is increasingly estranged from the public.

Although many treatment studies do not report treatment attendance figures, these results compare favorably with those of the Treatment for Adolescents With Depression Study, a well - known, highly controlled investigation in which approximately 82 % of participants remained in their assigned treatment arm through 12 weeks of acute treatment.50 There is potential for MF - PEP to be cost - effective since clinician time is maximized by having multiple participants in each session.

Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and quasi-RCTs (in which the allocation to study arms is not truly random, for example, a form of alternation such as days of the week or by date of birth).

As for limitations, this study relied on self - report to obtain cost data, but this was regarded as acceptable against the background that studies have demonstrated high convergence between registry data and health economic estimates collected through self - report.37 A second limitation was that we did not include a treatment arm of face - to - face CBT, which constitutes a highly important comparison treatment.

Such a modification is seen in the introduction of an open verum treatment arm, in which participants are certain to receive the study drug.

There's a couple of studies out which show that with the exception of if you sell it, like, to your relative, which isn't really an arm's - length deal, sellers make more money and buyers get better deals when they have an agent than when they don't have an agent, even when you factor in the brokerage fee.