Typically in a lab study, researchers recruit an equal number of male and female participants from a specific locale.
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The purpose of the lab study was to determine whether the distraction created by the temptation of outside activities was indeed what caused a decrease in worker productivity on sunny days.
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Hawkins, who will continue to work as chief technical officer of Treo maker palmOne (nasdaq: PLMO - news - people ), already has his own research lab to study the neocortex, a massive part of the brain thought to hold such higher level functions as language, learning, memory and complex thought.
Institutional affiliation is also a factor -- a study from his lab found that Berkeley students tended to like their school colors, blue and gold, more than their rival school Stanford's colors, red and white.
To study friendship in the lab, many use a protocol called "Fast Friends, " which helps strangers establish "interpersonal closeness" in 45 minutes.
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He delved further into lung development, spending his study leave in 1971 in a lab in the old Radcliffe observatory in Oxford.
At issue in the study is a quirk of billing for lab procedures.
The study was based on observation, not lab research, he says.
In my discipline, for example, each school differs slightly on how to teach general chemistry, varies in where inorganic chemistry is placed in the plan of study, and has different laboratory equipment and thus varying lab curricula, etc.
The study found that doctors' practices that do their own lab work bill the federal Medicare program for analyzing 72% more prostate tissue samples per biopsy while detecting fewer cases of cancer than counterparts who send specimens to outside labs.
Melton landed enough money to start a separate lab, and he works on turning his stem line into insulin-producing cells to study where they go wrong in diabetics.
To find out, the propulsion research lab at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio the same cutting-edge lab that helped bring stealth technology and lasers to the Air Force commissioned a study.
Last year, one study showed that bumblebees exposed to high doses of the neonic imidacloprid in the lab, then released to forage in the field, had sharply reduced colony growth rates and produced 85 percent fewer queens to found new colonies.
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In a similar study presented at a conference last year, 75 lean women ate buffet meals for several days in a lab.
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