Next, the researchers had female subjects participate in what they thought was a vision test.
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The researchers had a huge sample and so even small effects could be identified.
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Things changed, however, when the researchers had their subjects do this task inside an MRI machine.
To find out how long the birds lived, the researchers had to wait until they died.
The researchers had 15 male participants abstain from drinking or eating anything caffeinated for 36 hours.
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The researchers had looked "very carefully" to see the extent to which the DNA was being broken down.
The researchers had thought the Hobbit's island-hopping ancestor was Homo erectus, which is known to have lived on nearby Java.
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As the researchers had expected, in this version of the experiment subjects were, on average, better at spotting the target image.
This seems an amazing failure of due diligence, but only if the researchers had intended to issue a balanced and factual report.
If the researchers had chosen a slightly different way of measuring the drugs' effectiveness, some argue, Lipitor would have won hands down.
The researchers had said that even the four Alzheimer's cases might turn out to be Lewy body dementia as the disease progressed.
After the researchers had allowed their wafer to cool, they bathed it in ultraviolet light and saw that some of the squares glowed bright blue.
While the work was early and crude--the researchers had merely demonstrated "read-only" memory thus far--it nevertheless predicted the dawn of a new era of molecular computing.
Then a study confirmed what the researchers had suspected: Among people taking the drug for more than 18 months, Vioxx appeared to double the risk of heart attacks.
The researchers had previously discovered that the same area of the brain affected in this study, the striatum, is activated when a person is rewarded a compliment or cash.
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The researchers had a vast database to work with.
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The researchers had no way of verifying how many patients actually filled -- and took -- their bisphosphonate prescriptions, and they had incomplete information on the participants' other potential risk factors for cancer, such as smoking and body weight.
The suicide rate then rose gradually through the 1960s and 1970s, but in the 1980s it began to decrease, continuing to decline steadily until 2000. (Anyone recall what happened to the economy in 2000?) From 2000 to 2007, the last year for which the researchers had data, the suicide rate was on the rise.
The teenagers told the researchers the course had made them feel more confident and more determined to avoid trouble, stay in education and have a career.
Because that was the goalpost researchers had set for success before the study was begun, it is said to have failed.
After excluding people with missing information about coffee drinking and those who already had cancer in 1982, the researchers still had over 950, 000 people.
Many of the same researchers who had mapped the human genome participated in the project.
Only a paragraph into this report, I began to suspect that neither the reporter nor the McKinsey researchers had any idea what was going on.
The Australian researchers had carried out a study in 1993 which suggested there could be a link between repeated ultrasound scans in late pregnancy (after 18 weeks) and growth restrictions among newborn babies.
Before genomics data was offered in the cloud, researchers had to download all the data for a given human sample and discard those portions not applicable to their research problem.
The researchers checked that the viewers had not been covertly practising the task while watching the video by recording the volunteers' arm muscle activity during the viewing.
Because these applications had already been processed in real life, the researchers knew whether each one had been accepted for a loan, and which of the accepted loans had eventually defaulted.
In order to cover all the domains in Pfam, the researchers' software had to create 17, 000 groups.
The researchers said this had been shown to boost memory performance in young people and they wanted to begin experiments on elderly patients too.
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