DMS offers guidance on educational research
...nts are protected from too many or inappropriately timed projects. Other groups, such as the Evaluation Working Group, review established evaluation mechanisms on a monthly basis, keeping tabs on student competency, new research proposals, reviewing outcome data from current projects and making sure that ...Certain components of the brain's 'executive functions' are compromised early in abstinence
...oning, memory discrimination, and effectiveness on timed tasks. These deficits may very well limit a persons ability to engage in effective planning and strategizing, both in terms of their treatment compliance and in terms of their everyday lives, said Swartzwelder. This implies that, not only do the c...Left and right ears not created equal as newborns process sound, finds UCLA/UA research
... ear provides extra amplification for rapid sounds timed like speech. "We were intrigued to discover that the clicks triggered more amplification in the baby's right ear, while the tones induced more amplification in the baby's left ear," said Sininger. "This parallels how the brain processes s...Pool-bound plyometrics help you get stronger with less pain
...s they pushed against a heavy weight; and a set of timed 40-meter sprints. Exercise sets and repetitions were increased three times during the study. Muscle soreness and pain sensitivity were tested at those points. Each woman was asked to use a numeric scale that ranged from one to 10 to indicate how sore...Adding menthol to topical creams for osteoarthritis provides significant pain relief
...used acute improvements in stair climbing ability, timed "up and go" performance, knee range of motion, and a reduction in pain within 30 minutes. Additional improvements were observed after 30 days of treatment. However, this research was for the topical cream in its developmental stage and was only use...Risk of stillbirth on weekends
...of low-risk elective deliveries, most of which are timed to occur on weekdays....Even health professionals who treat obesity are biased against overweight patients
...ty, and demographic characteristics. The IAT is a timed measure of automatic associations. It was used in this study to assess overall implicit weight bias, associating "obese people" with "bad" and "thin people" with "good," as well as three ranges of stereotypes: lazy-motivated, smart-stupid, and valuab...Mouse study gives new view of anthrax toxin
...anthrax lethal toxin (LT), and then took precisely timed measurements to determine how various organs and immune system processes responded. For example, they measured levels of chemicals called cytokines, which are released by immune system cells after a bacterial invasion. Dr. Leppla and his colleagues f...Anemia elevates risk of physical decline in older people
... perform three physical tasks: standing balance, a timed 8-foot walk, and ability to rise from a chair. Each of these activities was scored on a 5-point scale (0= an inability to do the test; 4=top performance). These points were added together to create a 0 to 12 overall score. These scores were correlate...Could a mandated food additive aimed at better fetal development be a risk for seniors?
... cord that takes place during a series of minutely timed sequences occurring between the 16th and 25th days of gestation. The most extreme cases of developmental defects result in the total absence of a brain, called anencephaly. In less severe cases, it results in spina bifida. Until recently, women who ...Sense of control eases physical toll of stressful situation
... players received the same number of noise blasts, timed to follow unsuccessful catches. Yet pre- and post-game testing revealed that students' perceptions of how much control they had matched what the researchers told them -- even after they played the game. Although the findings may provide valuable insi...Playful therapy garments for children receive patent
...he garment. As Batman, Bryan was able to achieve a timed swinging goal." The third little boy, Aaron, didn't want to take his costume off at all. He became so upset that he could no longer be used for the prototype tests. Other children at the rehabilitation center where Haar was testing the therapy appare...Continued disruption of movement among alcoholics despite abstinence
...sts), paced tapping, eye-hand coordinated tracing, timed response reflecting preparation and execution time, and postural stability. "We observed that alcoholic men used rather slow movements in order to follow, with little deviation, an ideal path," said Sullivan. "By and large, alcoholic women were not ...No association between ageing gametes and birth defects
... in infants born to mothers who reported optimally timed conceptions (on the day of or one day before ovula...infants born to mothers who reported non-optimally timed conceptions (2.7% compared with 2.5%, respectively). There was also no significant difference in the...Urinary incontinence of rural older women dramatically improved by behavioral techniques
...ng, which involved emptying the bladder at regular timed intervals, gradually increasing the intervals until they were able to space them to every 2 hours or more. Other women, however, began with the self-monitoring phase, which lasted for 4 weeks. They were selected for this phase based on such factor...Tissue engineering could become new coronary bypass
...th several growth factors and to release them in a timed fashion. This new ability to deliver multiple growth factors in a controlled way has applications to many other kinds of tissue engineering beyond angiogenesis, Mooney said, since tissue formation probably rarely relies on just a single chemical sign...Failure at nonconscious goals explains negative 'mystery moods'
... Next, the same students were given a timed anagram task in which they had to rearrange the letters of words to create new words. The students were given either an easy anagram task in which success was assured, or a hard task that......aze. In trials four months later, the researchers timed the rats to assess how well they had learned the task and how quickly they recalled the location of the platform. Aged, memory-impaired rats that had received the implants performed as well as-and in one case, better than-younger rats. The aged rats......nd water erosion. We will be looking at carefully timed cultivation with different implements, along with several other techniques." These include "flame weeding", where a tractor-mounted device, fuelled by gas, heats the weeds to the point where their cell walls rupture. The use of flame weeding de...... certain cells in the brainbegin pulsing out small timed doses of a chemical signal called GnRH, forgonadotropin releasing hormone. GnRH instructs the ovaries and testes to startmaking steroids, including sex hormones. For children who start to develop sexcharacteristics very early - as young as toddler ag...