Effects of traditional harvest and burning on common camas (Camassia quamash) abundance in Northern Idaho: The potential for traditional resource management in a protected area wet... by Devin S. Stucki, Thomas J. Rodhouse, Ron J. Reuter

“…We designed a controlled experiment, informed by a born‐in‐the‐tradition specialist, to evaluate the response of common camas populations to traditional bulb harvest, burning, and a combination of harvest and burning. …”
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Immersion Experiences in a Tablet-Based Markerless Augmented Reality Working Memory Game: Randomized Controlled Trial and User Experience Study by Bo Zhang, Nigel Robb

“…Two groups of students from two universities in China joined the study, with 60 participants for the first experiment (a randomized controlled experiment) and 51 participants for the second. …”
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Exploring the mechanistic link between corticosterone and insulin-like growth factor-1 in a wild passerine bird by Zsófia Tóth, Jenny Q. Ouyang, Ádám Z. Lendvai

“…Methods In this study, we combined field observations with a controlled experiment to investigate how circulating levels of IGF-1 change in response to stress and whether this change is due to concomitant change in glucocorticoids in a free-living songbird, the bearded reedling Panurus biarmicus. …”
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Effects of brief exposure to misinformation about e-cigarette harms on Twitter on knowledge and perceptions of e-cigarettes by Jessica Liu, Caroline Wright, Olga Elizarova, Jennifer Dahne, Jiang Bian, Philippa Williams, Brittany Zulkiewicz, Andy SL Tan

“…Methods We conducted an online randomized controlled experiment in November 2019 among an online sample of 2400 adult US and UK cigarette smokers who did not currently use e-cigarettes. …”
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Toxicity and Starvation Induce Major Trophic Isotope Variation in <i>Daphnia</i> Individuals: A Diet Switch Experiment Using Eight Phytoplankton Species of Differing Nutritional Qu... by Michelle Helmer, Desiree Helmer, Dominik Martin-Creuzburg, Karl-Otto Rothhaupt, Elizabeth Yohannes

“…Stable isotope values can express resource usage by organisms, but their precise interpretation is predicated using a controlled experiment-based validation process. Here, we develop a stable isotope tracking approach towards exploring resource shifts in a key primary consumer species <i>Daphnia magna</i>. …”
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The Effect of Acceptance and Commitment Group Therapy on Emotional Divorce and Self-efficacy of Working Couples by Elahe Afshari, Mohammad Ismail Ebrahimi, Arya Haddadi

“…Methods: This was a controlled experiment. In 2020, Bu Ali town, Hamedan province, had 338 married factory workers. …”
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Obstacles shape the way we walk at home by Mélodie Sannier, Stefan Janaqi, Gérard Dray, Pierre Slangen, Benoît G. Bardy

“…Despite the growing interest in studying our home, spurred by successive COVID-19 lockdowns, there remains a dearth of information regarding our walking behaviors inside homes, yet rich in data on the physical and sensory links between humans and their daily interior environment.MethodsThis study presents the outcomes of a controlled experiment conducted in an apartment in Montpellier, France. …”
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Impact of Navigation Aid and Spatial Ability Skills on Wayfinding Performance and Workload in Indoor-Outdoor Campus Navigation: Challenges and Design by Rabail Tahir, John Krogstie

“…To achieve this, a controlled experiment was conducted with 22 participants divided into a control (using Google Maps) and an experiment group (using MazeMap). …”
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Experimentally Determining Optimal Conditions for Mapping Forage Fish with RPAS by Nicola R. Houtman, Jennifer Yakimishyn, Mike Collyer, Jennifer Sutherst, Cliff L. K. Robinson, Maycira Costa

“…In this study, we identified optimal and suboptimal coastal environmental conditions through a controlled experiment using a model fish school containing four forage fish-like fishing lures. …”
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Assessing HapHop-Physio: An Exer-Learning Game to Support Therapies for Children with Specific Learning Disorders by Carolina Rico-Olarte, Nathalia Narváez-Muñoz, Diego M. López, Linda Becker, Luz Ángela Tovar-Ruiz

“…Consequently, it needs to be evaluated in a controlled experiment (including a control group) to ensure that it leads to cognitive rehabilitation in reality.…”
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UAV Multispectral Imagery Can Complement Satellite Data for Monitoring Forest Health by Jonathan P. Dash, Grant D. Pearse, Michael S. Watt

“…We tested the sensitivity of multispectral imagery collected from time-series unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and satellite imagery to detect herbicide-induced stress in a carefully controlled experiment carried out in a mature Pinus radiata D. …”
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The tools we use : a study of user preferences for sketches, prototypes, and CAD models and the influence on design outcome by Tsai, Geoffrey T

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Sham sleep feedback delivered via actigraphy biases daytime symptom reports in people with insomnia: Implications for insomnia disorder and wearable devices by Gavriloff, D, Sheaves, B, Juss, A, Espie, CA, Miller, CB, Kyle, SD

“…There were no significant between‐group differences on measures of sleep‐related attentional bias [d = 0.20] or psychomotor vigilance [d = 0.12]. This controlled experiment shows that sham feedback about sleep biases appraisal of daytime symptoms, highlighting a pathway connecting sleep misperception with daytime features of insomnia. …”

Causes and associations - a developmental investigation by Das Gupta, P, Das Gupta, Prajna Paramita

“…However, even when relative salience was controlled (Experiment 7) or when single attributes were used (Experiment 4) 3-year-olds' performance was worse than 4-year-olds' in terms of choices based on causal relations.…”

Development of infinite qualitative model framework for consumer product aesthetic design by Ibrahim, Mohd Qadafie

“…The validation of the IQM design framework is achieved through triangulation analysis of results from a conducted survey, controlled experiment, and full-scale case study. IQM design framework adapts the best combination of design tools and methods with a novel approach that can potentially lead to a much better-quality product design. …”
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Effects of light`s colour temperatures on visual comfort level, task performances, and alertness among students by Mohd Tamrin, Shamsul Bahri, Chia, See Cha, Ng, Yee Guan, Karuppiah, Karmegam

“…Methodology: A laboratory controlled experiment was conducted on total of 47 undergraduate students volunteered to participate in a series of test under three coloured light sources. …”
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Alarm or emotion? intranasal oxytocin helps determine information conveyed by dog barks for adult male human listeners by Péter Pongrácz, Csenge Anna Lugosi, Luca Szávai, Atina Gengeliczky, Nikolett Jégh-Czinege, Tamás Faragó

“…We tested 40 healthy, young adult males in a double-blind placebo controlled experiment, where participants received either intranasal oxytocin or placebo treatment. …”
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Clinical and Doppler echocardiographic evaluation of rabbits sedated with dexmedetomidine in combination with midazolam and morphine by Eduarda Hoffmann Bitencourt, Marcos Paulo Antunes de Lima, Maira Souza Oliveira Barreto, Felipe Gaia de Sousa, Euler Fraga Silva, Eutálio Luiz Mariani Pimenta, Suzane Lilian Beier

“…This study was a blinded, randomized, controlled experiment that included 16 adult male New Zealand rabbits weighing 3.1 ± 0.3 kg. …”
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Long-term high temperature stress decreases the photosynthetic capacity and induces irreversible damage in chrysanthemum seedlings by Yuanda Zhang, Zaiqiang Yang, Peijuan Wang, Chao Xu

“…To study the effects of long-term and short-term high temperature stress and recovery on the physiological functions and appearance quality of chrysanthemums, a controlled experiment with chrysanthemums was conducted. …”
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Physiological Nitrogen Uptake and Utilisation Responses in Two Native Plants from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau under Different Water and Fertiliser Conditions by Xiangtao Wang, Chao Zhang, Ningning Zhao, Xingrong Sun, Shuai Hou, Puchang Wang

“…In the present study, the native plants <i>Poa crymophila</i> and <i>Stipa purpurea</i> of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau were used to conduct a controlled experiment involving water and fertiliser to analyse their physiological responses in terms of nutrient uptake and utilisation. …”
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