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But follow-up studies have ( depending on who was summarizing the results ) failed to replicate the phenomenon or produced mixed results ( Bem & others, 2001 ; Milton & Wiseman, 2002 ; Storm, 2000, 2003 ). One skeptic, magician James Randi, has a longstanding offer — now U. S. $ 1 million —“ to anyone who proves a genuine psychic power under proper observing conditions ” ( Randi, 1999 ).
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Several of these follow-up studies, which involved viewing in group settings, reported some limited success.
PDAs have been shown to aid diagnosis and drug selection and some studies have concluded that when patients use PDAs to record their symptoms, they communicate more effectively with hospitals during follow-up visits.
Systematic follow-up studies of patients with WNF had not previously been done, so this information is largely anecdotal.
Formal gender clinics for individuals seeking medical sex reassignment began operating in the 1960s and 1970s, leading to long-term follow-up studies that began appearing in the research literature in the 1980s and 1990s.
Other follow-up studies or rehabilitation may be prescribed during and after the recovery period.
Although some follow-up studies have found supportive evidence for Chen's concerns, other studies that have controlled for Chen's concerns have not, instead suggesting that the mere act of making a choice can indeed change preferences.
* follow-up studies showing a characteristic course ( including evidence of diagnostic stability )
This and follow-up studies led the U. S. government to restrict the use of 2, 4, 5-T in the U. S. in April 1970.
Brachytherapy for skin cancer provides good cosmetic results and clinical efficacy ; studies with up to 5 years follow-up have shown that brachytherapy is highly effective in terms local control, and is comparable to EBRT.
A unique feature of the HETE mission was its capability to localize GRBs with ~ 10 arc second accuracy in near real time aboard the spacecraft, and to transmit these positions directly to a network of receivers at existing ground-based observatories enabling rapid, sensitive follow-up studies in the radio, IR, and optical bands.
Some follow-up studies have shown malignant transformation of a proportion of leukoplakias.
However, cohort studies are expensive to conduct, are sensitive to attrition and take a long follow-up time to generate useful data.
In follow-up studies pigeons categorized other natural objects ( e. g. trees ) and after training they were are able without reward to sort photos that had never been seen before.
Nonetheless, despite this criticism, outcome studies have revealed that affiliation with twelve-step programs predicts abstinence success at 1-year follow-up for alcoholism.
Long-term follow-up studies from Germany and Turkey of more than 10 years proved that these reconstructions maintain their stiffness without late complications.
A number of follow-up studies resulted in the selection of ISO as the next installment for the ESA Scientific Programme in 1983.
After the manufacturing issues were resolved, the liver toxicity warning included in the prescribing information, and the follow-up studies showed that duloxetine does not cause QTc interval prolongation, duloxetine was approved by the FDA for depression and diabetic neuropathy in 2004.
In long-term follow-up studies of infants who slept with their parents and those who slept alone, the children who co-slept were happier, less anxious, had higher self-esteem, were less likely to be afraid of sleep, had fewer behavioral problems, tended to be more comfortable with intimacy, and were generally more independent as adults.
A 2010 systematic review found that most studies suggest SM achieves equal or superior improvement in pain and function when compared with other commonly used interventions for short, intermediate, and long-term follow-up.
However, the studies that reported high success rates had insufficient controls, lacked objective measures of genuine change, and failed to conduct rigorous follow-up interviews with subjects.
There are persisting uncertainties, due to the limited number of patients included in the few controlled randomized studies performed to date, which hardly produce statistically significant evidence regarding the heterogeneity of IgA nephropathy patients, the diversity of study treatment protocols, and the length of follow-up.
Those X-ray telescopes had a certain degree of accuracy, but follow-up optical-wavelength studies of possible companions were required to eliminate a shortlist of many stars in the same area of sky.
A follow-up two-day workshop at RAND studied what vulnerabilities the Warsaw Pact might have to NATO airpower, which was followed by a series of additional studies that clearly demonstrated their reliance on the continued movement of supplies.
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These registries are sponsored by 18 national medical, dental, and veterinary societies and have as their mission the assembling of selected cases of interest to military medicine and of establishing through the mechanism of follow-up of living patients the natural history of various diseases of military-medical importance.
In a letter published in a follow-up edition of The Humanist, Sagan confirmed that he would have been willing to sign such a statement had it described and refuted the principal tenets of astrological belief.
Both institutions have as a follow-up a professional diploma, usually taken after a year or two in the field.
It is important for a patient to communicate any issues and / or uncertainties they may have to a doctor, especially a specialist such as a gynecologist, and in doing so, to seek follow-up care.
Nineteen of their subjects were described as uncooperative during therapy and refused to participate in a follow-up assessment, but all of them were assumed without justification to have successfully changed.
The authors noted that males have fewer serotonin receptors than females, perhaps contributing to the greater frequency of SIDS in males, but their follow-up 2010 paper failed to reconfirm that gender difference.
Poe claimed to have written the poem very logically and methodically, intending to create a poem that would appeal to both critical and popular tastes, as he explained in his 1846 follow-up essay " The Philosophy of Composition ".
Spraying results have been encouraging but follow-up spraying is imperative to ensure long-term effectiveness.
In February 2012, Perry Farrell discussed the possibility of releasing a follow-up to The Great Escape Artist whilst touring in support of the album, stating, " What I have not seen before is a group that's done a record, had somewhat of a theme – escapism – and then done a second record almost as if it was a follow-up movie.
Hal Moore and Joseph L. Galloway have co-authored another book together, a follow-up to their highly successful first collaboration.
The demise of Creation Records, shortly after the album's release, meant that the planned follow-up album, which would have featured Dexys, was never made.
One hundred and nineteen faculty members of the University of Tehran are said to have resigned on June 15, 2009 to protest the attack on university dorms in the wake of contested 2009 presidential elections: although clear follow-up data is hard to establish, it seems that most or all resignations were not accepted.
The opening track, " London ", was penned by Rick Kemp as a follow-up to " All Around My Hat ", in response to a request from the record label that Kemp describes as " we'll have another one of those, please ", and released as a single.
Knight Lore, and some of its Filmation follow-up Alien 8, was actually completed before Sabre Wulf but Ultimate decided that it could have a potentially negative effect on sales of the comparatively primitive Sabre Wulf, so it was postponed until late 1984 for a simultaneous release with Underwurlde.
" Crimson and Clover " was a huge success, and the group would have two follow-up hits that also reached the Hot 100's top 10, " Sweet Cherry Wine " and " Crystal Blue Persuasion ".
They studied 37 men with penis length less than 10 cm and found no significant change in penile length after using pumps for six months, although the follow-up have found 30 % satisfaction with the method.
Ornstein's follow-up performance provoked a near-riot: " At my second concert, devoted to my own compositions, I might have played anything.
On Dec. 27, 2004, USPTO's follow-up Notice of Abandonment ruled that " The trademark application below was abandoned because a response to the Office Action mailed on 05-30-2004 was not received within the 6-month response period ", adding that any request for reinstatement would have to be received within two additional months.
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