The results of a 2009 meditation and yoga test group were overwhelmingly positive.
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Detecting any effect would require that both the control group and the test group were enormous.
The Microsoft example is a project that came out of the test group.
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In the study, a test group of 760 patients received regular phone calls.
She has seen the numbers of overweight children rise from fewer than 1% of the test group to levels approaching 20%.
Though it is still early, the school says its first survey of the test group already points to high satisfaction with the device.
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To simulate heightened stress, a test group of men were placed in interview and public speaking scenarios and their BMI preferences compared against a control group of non-stressed men.
Separately, CrackBerry has heard the same from its sources, along with word that more internal employees are becoming a part of the beta test group (already plugging away since May on alpha dev units like the one shown above) as well.
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Mathur and her colleagues are also working with the American Diabetes Association to test a group of people with prediabetes who are overweight or obese and have elevated levels of methane in their breath.
In an article in the Huffington Post, he notes that at no time in the trial did the control group test a true low-fat diet.
Steve Shannon, vice president of marketing for Hyundai's American division, says that while Hyundai has used focus-group testing to help it select and shape its Super Bowl ads for several years this year it went even further and put its two big game spots through an additional focus group test that was done online.
So a group of test pilots got together and considered what to do.
Even before North Korea's nuclear test, a small group of people was working to actively hasten the downfall of Kim Jong Il's regime.
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Mini-experiments do not need to be expensive, they just need to involve the target customer group and test assumptions you have about your business model.
Baskar Vairmohan, the EPRI researcher who conducted the iPad test, said the group is now studying usage to understand whether the explosion of tablets is adding to power consumption or reducing it.
According to the Manhattan Institute, a research group, test scores in reading and maths have remained much as they were before the two men took over, well below the national and big-city averages.
As you can see, examining the issue of if an organization has matured beyond just a test or early adopter group was quite helpful to me to understand diversity and the necessary elements to examine this.
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Even some experts who have helped test Fosamax say this broader group is being overtreated.
The ad service remains in a test mode with a selected group of clients.
The ad service remains in a test mode with a select group of clients.
But critics like the Environmental Working Group say the test that products must pass to receive the "broad spectrum" label is weak.
Researchers at Emory University in Atlanta, US, have used footage of yawning chimps to test the phenomenon in a group of the animals.
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The FDA thus considers the test unproven for that age group.
To test out the theory the group created a virus for a smart tag that used only 127 characters, uploaded it and watched it in action.
The test was given to a group of more than two thousand freshmen in the fall of 2005, and again, to the same group, in the spring of 2007.
Dr Sweeney's team, working in collaboration with Astrium, a satellite-and-space company that is part of EADS, a European aerospace group, will test the system in a large aircraft hangar in Germany.
One large practice based on New York's Long Island, Integrated Medical Professionals, opened its lab in 2010 to control costs and because doctors encountered errors in outside test results, said the group's chairman, Deepak Kapoor.
They wanted to introduce prohibition We decided to test that one with a focus group!
The latest Chinese company to test the waters is Guangzhou Automobile Group Ltd.
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