Dr Cook-Deegan was one of the authors of a study that showed a significant risk of adverse selection in the market for long-term-care insurance (the sort bought by the young in order to ensure they have nursing care when they become old and infirm).
After ten weeks of Tai Chi classes, the study group showed significant improvements in tests of their memory, language, attention, stress, mood and fatigue.
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Andrew Husband, principle lecturer in pharmacy at the University of Sunderland and lead on the Gateshead study said allergies were a significant cause of avoidable adverse drug reactions among hospital in-patients each year.
But failing to perform such a study runs a significant chance of confusing cause and effect.
Since their creation in 1759, the gardens have made a significant and uninterrupted contribution to the study of plant diversity and economic botany.
One significant benefit, according to lead study author Dr. Kimberly Blackwell of Duke University, is the lack of significant side effects and a better quality of life for patients on the drug.
While this is one of many factors that influence teen pregnancy, the study is compelling, given that adolescents spend a significant amount of time watching television, Chandra said.
Perhaps most significant is the broader historical study they make of similar trends in popular culture, fashion, literature and politics.
The authors of the study reckon that it is difficult to address risky sexual behaviour when a significant segment of the population strongly believes that such behaviour is morally wrong.
However, the difference wasn't statistically significant because of the small number of women in the study who had been previously depressed, said Dr. Makrides, who is also a professor of human nutrition at the University of Adelaide.
Although two patients dropped out of the study, the remaining 14 saw significant benefits.
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Over the course of eight weeks, the study participants showed significant improvement in their balance, thus limiting their risk for falls.
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David Mechner, CEO of Pragma Securities, said this study is significant because it is the first quantitative research to show how HFT profits may come at the expense of investors.
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Because of the small size of the study, those differences were not statistically significant and may be due to chance.
Because of the relatively small size of the study, those differences were not statistically significant and may be due to chance.
There were no significant differences in performance between the groups at the start of the study yet TRNS was found to improve the speed of learning for both calculation and rote learning tasks.
The study found that 40% of women living with significant others for the first time between 2006 and 2010 transitioned to marriage within three years, while 32% of those relationships remained the same and 27% dissolved.
One study found that financial burdens of illness were a more significant worry to people than being comfortable without pain.
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The result, as the Kaiser study notes, has been a significant increase in the number of health plans that include higher deductibles.
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And, as a PEJ study of newspapers found in March 2012, there are significant obstacles in many legacy media companies to that happening.
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The effort underscores that a significant level of interest remains, at least among some researchers and executives, to study compounds in later-stage patients, despite the recent setbacks.
This year, the company has faced controversy over its drug Trasylol, used in heart surgery, which a study in The New England Journal of Medicine said may pose significant risks to patients.
The study, called SEAS, did show a significant decrease in the number of heart attacks and strokes.
James Westhead, director of external relations at education charity TeachFirst, said the study was very significant international evidence that disadvantage need not equal destiny.
Overall, more-educated workers do not (to any statistically significant extent) increase their likelihood of retiring in response to rising unemployment rates, the study found.
One study conducted in the United States found no significant difference in the incidence of death among men who were screened for prostate cancer and those who weren't.
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"This is almost the same improvement, it's just not significant because the study was small, " says Michael King , a biotech analyst at Bank of America Securities .
Donald Hirsch, a special advisor with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, said the study showed that although there was significant poverty in the former coal and steel heartlands of the Heads of the Valleys towns, it also existed in the cities.
It said that a study of US and Japanese youth had suggested playing violent video games was "a significant risk factor for later physically aggressive behaviour".
The researchers, who used a questionnaire designed exclusively for the study, found no significant change across the cycle in how the women perceived their level of commitment to the relationship or, at least initially, in their satisfaction with it.
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