After one year, investigators reported a significant difference in BMI between the intervention and control groups.
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These are the gold standard randomized control trials or intervention studies, in which a control group consuming soda is monitored for weight gain over time against a group which stops drinking soda (and all other dietary and lifestyle factors are controlled for).
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The lower intensity of dietary intervention for the control group during the first few years might have caused a bias toward a benefit in the two Mediterranean-diet groups, since the participants in these two groups received a more intensive intervention during that time.
Researchers in Germany randomly assigned participants to a mindfulness intervention group or a control group.
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Financial intervention broadly: government control of interest rates and money supply, and long-term currency debasement are somehow non-issues even as federal regulation such as Dodd-Frank sweeps across the private financial sector.
The kidnapping came as thousands of French troops are deeply involved in a military intervention against Islamist extremists who had taken control of a big part of the West African country of Mali.
Once the pirates have taken control of a ship, military intervention is complicated because of the hostages on board.
Seven of the 23 acted as a control group, and received no intervention from Dr Bolli after the surgery.
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Not surprisingly, he does not discuss the many disasters that dot the history of public intervention (the Army Corps of Engineers and flood control come to mind).
MPs heard that "some 6, 000" postal workers are attacked by dogs each year, prompting an intervention from Labour's Andrea Leadsom who said dog control laws should be extended to private property.
One is seen as a single, modest intervention, while the other is a continuing exercise of significant control over individual conduct.
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While critics of government intervention in the private sector generally express concerns about excessive government control of private sector activity, advocates of this approach realize that in some cases the government must support ventures while being careful not to control them.
Other industry groups see any government intervention and oversight in their policies as a slippery slope toward government control of the internet.
The Fed is considered a world-class regulator, and its intervention sends a sign to markets that the government has a crisis under control.
"These findings define a new drug target with wide potential for therapeutic intervention in conditions such as hormonal-dependent cancer, abnormal puberty and control of fertility, " said Dr Samuel Aparicio of Paradigm Therapeutics.
"Parents are in a really tough position, " says Dr. Elissa Jelalian, a staff psychologist at the Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center who focuses on the development of intervention programs for children.
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All parties welcomed the plan to return control of the council to its councillors, conceding the need for intervention in March 2011.
The firm has just successfully completed tests on a 30 kW prototype to see if its control system lets it launch, hover, generate power and land without human intervention.
The nationalists, as they were called, were only willing to support American overseas intervention when it met a strict test of national interest and didn't involve ceding control to international organizations or coalitions.
If there is any talk about intervention in Iraq and all the discussion, all the talks about people or other nations exerting control over Iraq, this is not true.
There was a danger that the militants would have seized control of Bamako and the southern Malian heartland before any of the European military trainers or the West African intervention forces had arrived.
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