The participants meditating also showed improved mental and cognitive functioning and lower levels of depression compared with the control group.
Dr Roi Cohen Kadosh, study author from the department of experimental psychology at the University of Oxford, said the noise stimulation group showed improvements in cognitive and brain functions compared with the control group.
Among the meditation group, there were 20 such occurrences, compared with 32 in the control group.
Even so, the students given the marked chips ate 20 and 24 chips on average (for the seven-chip and 14-chip tubes, respectively), compared with 45 chips in the control group.
The government of Sudan has reached a peace agreement with the main rebel group fighting for control of the troubled Darfur region.
Students were tested before and after the lessons with a control group learning with traditional resources only.
It compared the 1, 100 clients who had taken out an auto lease in the past with a control group of 14, 000 other members.
In that study, the students whose tubes had markers after every 5 chips ate 14 chips, and those given tubes with markers every 10 chips ate 16 chips compared with 35 chips in the control group.
After 4.8 years of follow-up a primary endpoint event (the composite of MI, stroke, and death from CV causes) occurred in 3.8% of patients in the Mediterranean diet extra-virgin olive oil group, 3.4% in the Mediterranean diet with nuts group, and 4.4% of patients in the control group.
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Neither company will comment on its work, but Pfizer recently published an animal study showing that a leukotriene blocker called CP-105, 696 shrank artery plaques dramatically in mice that were fed the compound for 35 days, as compared with a control group that didn't get the compound.
The dozen men in the control group with no regrafting showed no return to potency.
The unfaddish Weight Watchers preaches portion control and reinforces the sermon with Alcoholics Anonymous-style group sessions.
Tang Dagang, director of the Vehicle Emission Control Center, a policy research group also affiliated with the ministry, said pressure increased last year to tighten diesel fuel standards after the State Council, or cabinet, announced stricter air-quality rules.
Ketter and his colleagues compared a healthy control group with bipolar patients, depression patients, and a control group of graduate students in writing and the arts.
Assistant Treasury Secretary Alastair Fitzpayne wrote in a letter Tuesday to congressional representatives that the famous hip-hop couple traveled to Cuba with a group authorized by the Office of Foreign Assets Control to promote people-to-people contact in Cuba.
In 1973 he was involved in a bitter struggle for control of the group with Robert Edgeworth, resulting in both declaring victory and delivering acceptance speeches.
Jeff Klein, leader of the Independent Democratic Conference, a group of senators who share majority control of the Senate with Republicans.
Overall, a quarter with advanced cancer said they had worked night shifts, compared with a third of those with borderline disease and one in five of the control group.
In a statement released by the gun control advocacy group she started with her husband, Giffords said that "no one piece of legislation" would have prevented the shooting.
With the IPO, he is wresting control of the 157-year-old firm away from a powerful group of nonworking partners led by Michel David-Weill , a descendant of the founder.
Equipped with ample political connections and control of the airwaves through his group's powerful TV Globo network, Marinho, now 95, gained a reputation in the 1980s as a kingmaker for selecting one Brazilian presidential candidate and influencing more than one election.
Seven months after it closed the ruling Labour group lost control of the city council for the first time in 28 years with the leisure centre seen as a key factor.
BBC: The leisure centre attracted over 750,000 visitors a year
In the other town, the small coastal resort of Herceg Novi, a group of parties committed to preserving ties with Yugoslavia managed to wrest control of the local assembly from the ruling coalition.
Today, the group is "a hodgepodge of smaller organizations that seeks alliances with street gangs to keep control of their territory and businesses, " according to an InSight Crime profile of the group.
The success of that study led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to launch a similar 16-week program in partnership with the YMCA and UnitedHealth Group.
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That compares with a 7% remission rate for the patients in the control group.
As with the field experiment, some participants were placed in a control group, others engaged in activities that stressed individuality (creating personalized nametags, for example), and some focused on the identity of the organization (such as creating a logo for the research lab).
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Last week, two studies from Sweden found that one hour a week of hypnotherapy for 12 weeks eased symptoms of irritable-bowel syndrome in 40% of patients (compared with 12% in a control group) and that the positive effects can last as long as seven years.
With a Yahoo buyback in sight, and full control over the group, founder and CEO Jack Ma can focus on building an even better engine for online trade.
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The study had important limitations, including the small number of patients and the lack of a control group that was followed with standard therapy to compare benefits and side effects.
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