Design a study that proves it is possible to cause a sneeze with touching under the nose with a feather and you will have a good design for an acupuncture study.
It is, of course, possible to design a study that shows a connection between doctor fatigue and impaired performance.
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Finally, she is working with Merck to design a study to see if Gardasil can affect HPV infection in the throat.
"It took us six to 12 months of looking at the data to figure out how to design the study, " says Cohen.
Adaptive learning is a method of education that seeks to personalize learning by using sophisticated algorithmic technology to continually assess students' knowledge, skill and confidence levels and design targeted study paths based on the resulting data to bolster students' understanding in the areas where they need to improve the most.
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After three years she decided, much to her family's disdain, to study design in New York.
She was born in Detroit and moved to New York as a young woman to study design.
The study design raises a lot of questions, from the reasonableness of assessing learning growth after only three full semesters of college to the reliability of the C.
In a type of study design known as a crossover, patients received their allotted pill (either Ampyra or placebo) for two weeks twice daily, then all switched to placebo.
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In both the design of that study and in its recommendations, the panel seemed to at least partially back up the concerns of two doctors who drew the spotlight to Natrecor.
The design of the study was pretty straightforward.
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He cited flaws in the design of the study that render any conclusions meaningless and asked whether the study passed peer review due to incompetence of the reviewers and editors or due to conflicts-of-interest among the former.
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Im not the first to point out that the study design has some issues, and in any case proving there isnt a difference is hard (this only shows that they failed to find a difference between drugs and dieting).
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According to the lead author, Dr. Paul Ridker of the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, the pharmaceutical company had no input in the study's design and didn't see the final data analysis until the study was submitted for publication.
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A.s can work one-on-one with faculty to design an independent-study thesis, often directly applicable to their jobs.
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Inspired, he left Moser for the Pratt Institute to study industrial design.
Researchers from nearby Ball State University's Center for Media Design will conduct a study of the command center, analyzing its strengths and weaknesses.
Bringing a car from concept through design to production is a study in complexity.
In 1999, one in every 19 university applicants wanted to study art and design.
Actually, the G-wagen is an interesting case study in industrial design.
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That discrepancy may therefore show a weakness in the study's design.
The decision was unusual because instead of waiting for data, Merck decided, based on the study's design, that the trial was unlikely to provide a clear answer.
What the Mother Jones study omits by design are all examples in which a civilian with a gun stopped a shooting spree before four people were killed.
His study's design imitated Milgram's, even using the same scripts for the experimenter and suffering learner, but the key difference was that this experiment stopped at 150 volts -- when the learner starts asking to leave.
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Overall responsibility for the design and implementation of the study was given to the National Institute of Child Health and Development, with input from a number of advisory and oversight committees, the Director of the NIH, and with the involvement of other government agencies (the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Environmental Protection Agency).
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The study's good design "provides a basis to infer cause and effect" between poverty and bad health, said Dr. Robert Califf, a noted Duke University cardiologist who is leading a massive study on neighborhoods and health outcomes.
The MIT Sloan School of Management and Harvard Business School have developed training courses covering topics such as course design, teaching techniques and the case study method.
"This study can also inform the rational design of novel strategies to counteract IgG4 actions, " he added.
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