During these activities, the researchers took functional magnetic resonance imaging ( fMRI ) scans of the participants ' brains and were " surprised by the results ".

Ten of the tests, which had a total of 300 participants, involved subjects picking the correct chart interpretation out of a number of others which were not the astrologically correct chart interpretation ( usually 3 to 5 others ).

In 2004, there were over 25, 000 participants outside of Australia.

Many participants were among those 11 million or more protesters that on the weekend of February 15, 2003, participated in global protests against the imminent Iraq war and were dubbed the " world's second superpower " by an editorial in the New York Times.

In the late eighteenth and during the nineteenth century, Lithuanian participants in the 1794, 1830 – 1831, and 1863 rebellions against the Russian czarist rule were exiled to Abakan.

The methodologies and research questions of the participants were considered so different that the conference proceedings were published as two volumes.

A review of the methods used in trials of antipsychotics, despite stating that the overall quality is " rather good ," reported issues with the selection of participants ( including that in schizophrenia trials up to 90 % of people who are generally suitable do not meet the elaborate inclusion and exclusion criteria, and that negative symptoms have not been properly assessed despite companies marketing the newer antipsychotics for these ); issues with the design of trials ( including pharmaceutical company funding of most of them, and inadequate experimental " blinding " so that trial participants could sometimes tell whether they were on placebo or not ); and issues with the assessment of outcomes ( including the use of a minimal reduction in scores to show " response ," lack of assessment of quality of life or recovery, a high rate of discontinuation, selective highlighting of favorable results in the abstracts of publications, and poor reporting of side-effects ).

Based on the testimony of the participants, there are suggestions that it was under-rehearsed ( there were only two full rehearsals ) and rather scrappy in execution.

In the 1980s, Médecins Sans Frontières, the international medical charity, supplied photographic and other documentary evidence of ritualized cannibal feasts among the participants in Liberia's internecine strife to representatives of Amnesty International who were on a fact-finding mission to the neighboring state of Guinea.

Specific duties were prescribed to each of the participants in these sets of relationships.

As these events were developing, the growing illegal drug trade and its consequences were also increasingly becoming a matter of widespread importance to all participants in the Colombian conflict.

In this game each side fielded eleven men, participants were allowed to pick up the inflated egg-shaped ball and run with it and the ball carrier was stopped by knocking him down or " tackling " him.

Lower caste participants consisted of mostly non-farm working immigrants, who at times were provided special privileges and held high positions in society.

Other significant contrasts were seen in regards to " liberal " versus " conservative " social positions, as well as in one ’ s understanding of God, with 43 % of homosexual participants sharing the " orthodox, biblical " understanding of God which 71 % of heterosexual participants indicate they do.

Quite a few of the pioneering apologists were Baptist pastors, like I. M. Haldeman, or participants in the Plymouth Brethren, like William C. Irvine and Sydney Watson.

These were largely qualitative experiments in which selected participants sought to identify a concealed target image, or to provide accurate information about the history of a target object.

Secondly, in the viewing step, participants were asked to verbally express or sketch their impressions of the remote scene.

For many participants, the movement was a protest against the bourgeois nationalist and colonialist interests, which many Dadaists believed were the root cause of the war, and against the cultural and intellectual conformity — in art and more broadly in society — that corresponded to the war.

His performance does improve over trials, however, his scores were inferior to those of control participants.

Past participants have included John Cushnie, Dr Stefan Buczacki, David Burges, Fred Downham, Professor Alan Gemmell, Walter Gilmore, Jill Hicking, Clay Jones, Nigel Colborn, Daphne Ledward, Fred Loads, Bridget Moody, Martin Fish, David Jones, Sue Phillipps, Geoffrey Smith, Sid Robertson, Bill Sowerbutts

Faculty participants included Professor Staughton Lynd ( Yale ); Professor Gerald Berreman ( Chair, UCB Anthropology Dept.

The 14 km route taken by the participants commences in the city centre of Sydney and passes through the suburbs of East Sydney, Kings Cross, Rushcutters Bay, Double Bay, Rose Bay, Vaucluse, Dover Heights and Bondi Beach.

Dan Olinger, a professor at the fundamentalist Bob Jones University in Greenville said, “ We want to be good citizens and participants, but we ’ re not really interested in using the iron fist of the law to compel people to everything Christians should do .” Bob Marcaurelle, interim pastor at Mountain Springs Baptist Church in Piedmont, said the Middle Ages were proof enough that Christian ruling groups are almost always corrupted by power.

Berkeley political science professor Ron Hassner has argued that it was the failure of participants at the negotiations to include religious leaders in the process or even consult with religious experts prior to the negotiations, that led to the collapse of the negotiations over the subject of Jerusalem.

According to professor Frank Partnoy, the regulation of CRAs by the Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) and the FED has eliminated competition between CRAs and practically forced market participants to use the services of the three big agencies, Standard and Poor's, Moody's and Fitch.

If the focus groups are held in a laboratory setting with a moderator who is a professor and the recording instrument is obtrusive, the participants may either hold back on their responses and / or try to answer the moderator's questions with answers the participants feel that the moderator wants to hear.

In a study led by Leanne ten Brinke, a professor at the University of British Columbia, participants ' genuine and falsified emotions were studied to investigate behavioral and facial cues.

A study by Robert Wilson, a professor at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, and his colleagues, showed for the first time that children under the age of 18 when they were moderately neglected in some manner by their caregivers had a 3 times likely risk of stroke over those with moderately low levels, after controlling for some common risk factors ( they interviewed 1, 040 participants ages 55 or older ; after 3 1 / 2 years, 257 of them died and 192 were autopsied, with 89 having stroke evidence upon autopsy and another 40 had a history of it ).

Stockholm University Literature professor Boel Westin praised Maria Gripe to a writer for Svenska Dagbladet, declaring that her Shadow books presented an exciting narrative that enabled readers to feel as if they were participants: " She has meant a lot.

It has the largest number of delegates to Boys ' and Girls ' State, the most participants in Governor's School Gifted and Talented Program, and has competed in chemistry Olympiad, Arkansas Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, mock trial, various mathematics competitions, and the SECME Olympiad.

Many of these concepts are not directly covered in typical high school mathematics courses ; thus, participants often turn to supplementary resources to prepare for the exam.

The strongest performers in national physics and mathematics competitions and IMO / IPhO participants are granted admission without exams, subject only to the interview.

It also holds monthly meetings on mathematics education, attended by participants from secondary school boards, university mathematics departments and the private sector.

In order to achieve this, they removed themselves from the economy as much as possible and lived independently ; unlike a similar project named Brook Farm, the participants at Fruitlands avoided interaction with local communities.

While the term " anti-globalization " arose from the movement's opposition to free-trade agreements ( which have often been considered part of something called " globalization "), various participants contend they are opposed to only certain aspects of globalization and instead describe themselves, at least in French-speaking organisations, as " anti-capitalist ", " anti-plutocracy ," or " anti-corporate.

However, at the collegiate level cheerleading is a co-ed sport with about 50 % of participants being male.

For instance, at the Stanford Research Institute, in 1972, Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ initiated a series of human subject studies to determine whether participants ( the viewers or percipients ) could reliably identify and accurately describe salient features of remote locations or targets.

Factors that have been cited as leading to the decline of disco in the United States include economic and political changes at the end of the 1970s as well as burnout from the hedonistic lifestyles led by participants.

The 2001 American Religious Identification Survey ( ARIS ), which involved 50, 000 participants, reported that the number of participants in the survey identifying themselves as deists grew at the rate of 717 percent between 1990 and 2001.

Synchronous learning technology is a mode of delivery where all participants are " present " at the same time.

The bill specifically exempts fantasy sports games, educational games, or any online contest that " has an outcome that reflects the relative knowledge of the participants, or their skill at physical reaction or physical manipulation ( but not chance ), and, in the case of a fantasy or simulation sports game, has an outcome that is determined predominantly by accumulated statistical results of sporting events, including any non-participant's individual performances in such sporting events ..."

:" The common law divided participants in a felony into four basic categories: ( 1 ) first-degree principals, those who actually committed the crime in question ; ( 2 ) second-degree principals, aiders and abettors present at the scene of the crime ; ( 3 ) accessories before the fact, aiders and abettors who helped the principal before the basic criminal event took place ; and ( 4 ) accessories after the fact, persons who helped the principal after the basic criminal event took place.

Witnesses at the Azusa Street Revival wrote of seeing fire resting on the heads of participants, miraculous healings in the meetings, and incidents of speaking in tongues being understood by native speakers of the language.

:* GPS Adventures Maze Exhibit: An exhibit at various museums and science centers in which participants in the maze learn about geocaching.

Loren Miller proposed his Maximum Game Fun principle as a basis for gaming, which soon became a game system in its own right, David Dunham proposed his PenDragon Pass system, a nearly freeform game system, and several ambitious freeform games were played at conventions, such as Home of the Bold with up to 80 participants.

Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York begin to recruit 10 participants for the study in July 2012.

One of his first responsibilities was to organise SS participants at the Nuremberg Rally that September.

It is now common for this to be sung in a circle of linked arms that are crossed over one another as the clock strikes midnight for New Year's Day, although it is only intended that participants link arms at the beginning of the final verse, co-ordinating with the lines of the song which contain the lyrics to do so.

With a " concession rule " that required participants to make a certain number of concessions, early debates at IALA sometimes grew from heated to explosive.

One unusual link between Falwell and Conservative rabbi Arnold Resnicoff, a Navy chaplain, was created when President Ronald Reagan surprised the participants at Falwell's " Baptist Fundamentalism ' 84 " convention in Washington, D. C., by choosing to read Resnicoff's on-site report of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing as his keynote address.

Hungary holds the record for the longest Karaoke marathon with multiple participants for an event organised at the Honey Grill Restaurant.

There were 33 people, including 29 participants in training at the 1803 – 1804 Camp Dubois winter staging area in Illinois Territory, near present day Hartford, Illinois.

The ancient Greek lyric poet Pindar records the victories of several athletes in his Victory Odes, and two inscribed stelae recently excavated from the Lykaian hippodrome provide information about the events, participants, and winners at the games.

In Milgram's first set of experiments, 65 percent ( 26 of 40 ) of experiment participants administered the experiment's final massive 450-volt shock, though many were very uncomfortable doing so ; at some point, every participant paused and questioned the experiment ; some said they would refund the money they were paid for participating in the experiment.

Six years later ( at the height of the Vietnam War ), one of the participants in the experiment sent correspondence to Milgram, explaining why he was glad to have participated despite the stress: