Compared to a randomly assigned control, the exercises produced markedly lowered depression one year later.
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That way you have a randomly selected control and treatment group, just like in a laboratory experiment.
These analyses are based on the assumption that the animals collected represent a randomly selected and thus representative sample of the population.
We provided free consulting on modern management practices to a randomly chosen set of treatment plants and compared their performance to the control plants.
Like Harmison, Johnson sometimes gives the impression that his best spells almost happen by happy accident, his action less well-oiled machine than a randomly-firing weapon.
They might be surprised then by a recent survey out of Brown University, which found a 12 percent increase in performance for a randomly selected group of 255 call center employees who volunteered to work from home.
Finally, you can set the robot to wander around a building randomly.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration generally only accepts studies in which patients are assigned to take a drug randomly, eliminating the possibility that people who take statins do better simply because they take better care of themselves.
Both PCs were then set to visit a hundred randomly selected websites that were known to host malware such as the Blackhole exploit kit, as well as Flash, Java and PDF exploits, redirects or download link to malware, and other malicious content.
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Selecting even a small number of individuals randomly from a large population allows you to say things about the whole population.
Lottery bonds are a type of government bond that has a chance to be randomly redeemed at a value that is higher than par value.
Mr Taylor, who says he has always had an interest in business, was inspired after having a bad experience when he randomly chose a firm to do work in his house.
As soon as the uploads are complete, the content becomes viewable (and downloadable) in Kin Studio using a highly-stylized interface consisting of a mishmash of randomly-sized photo tiles on the screen and a scrollable timeline that allows you to filter your photos and videos by date.
In one study, college seniors seated at a desktop Mac were randomly assigned to use either a generic keyboard and mouse or brand-name Apple accessories.
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My latest book, The Power of Passive Investing, documented a 90 percent probability that an all index fund portfolio, holding 10 funds in different categories, will outperform a portfolio holding 10 comparable randomly selected active funds over a 5-year period.
Military commanders used to order a warhead be randomly taken out of the inventory periodically and exploded to verify that the weapons would work if launched.
These strings, the equivalent of naturally occurring molecules in a body, are compared to a pool of randomly generated 49-bit strings called detectors, the equivalent of the randomly generated lymphocytes.
If we were justifying our expense as analogous to building a database of emails, then it was a database that only allowed you to access a tiny, randomly selected, subset each time it was used.
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"The 90%" who supposedly support gun background checks is an even more evanescent construct--the result of a poll, which presumably questioned a few hundred randomly called people, few of whom likely had thought deeply about the subject.
The goal is to harvest resources (food, wood, gold and stone), construct buildings (including sawmills, watch towers and barracks) on a huge, randomly generated map in order to seek out and destroy rival races while simultaneously protecting your burgeoning town.
However, to achieve this goal the NCS planners made a decision to randomly select neighborhoods within each county and to have study personnel go door-to-door to recruit women who were pregnant or planning to become pregnant, much as census workers do to reach under-represented groups.
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According to the sources, PWC took pains to point out that its conclusions about Krung Thai Bank's credit and other practices were necessarily tentative because of the limited sample. (Citing confidentiality issues, PWC declined to speak to Asiaweek about the report.) The auditors recommended a detailed examination of 100 more randomly selected accounts, a suggestion that Mechai and his board approved in July.
There were a few vexing instances in which the cursor randomly jumped to a different part of the screen while we were typing, forcing us to backtrack and delete unwanted characters before carrying on.
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Sure, digital tuning and presets make this less useful than it might have been a few years ago, but we like the idea of being able to scroll and randomly find a station we might like, without having to wait for a station break to find out where we are.
That settled, I hashed out the text for a link on the home page and a dozen error messages that would be displayed randomly if someone entered a query in the MentalPlex search box.
Starting something at a low point pretty much insures a trend in any randomly distributed variable.
We aim to test every player at least twice randomly in a season.
The vaccine batches are then tested, with a group of people randomly assigned to get either the vaccine or salt water.
People get annoyed when someone calls randomly on a landline, and get outright outraged when an unsolicited call comes in to their cell phone.
The city of Chicago is today selecting firefighters randomly from a huge (around 18, 000) list of applicants who had passed a test-a test that 77% of test-takers passed.
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