Sentence examples for form of sham from inspiring English sources

Third, we tested the perceptual effects of the different pulses by testing whether subjects and experienced investigators could differentiate Sham stimuli, and if so whether Standard and Reversed could be differentiated (which may serve as another form of sham TMS).

Nevertheless, the development of some form of sham intervention for use in future studies of Tai Chi is a desirable goal [ 12].

If the control treatment is an acupuncture-like intervention, such as a form of sham acupuncture, then it should be specified whether the sham is invasive (penetrating the skin) or non-invasive (non-penetrating).

"He rejected any form of pretension or sham".

While nearly as many patients receiving a sham form of acupuncture also reported relief, 34percentt of them needed extra pain pills, compared with just 15percentt of patients receiving legitimate acupuncture.

He even allows for the possible usefulness of public moral condemnation: "It may be that a sham form of retribution would still be moral — even necessary — if it led people to behave better than they otherwise would".

The firm is accused of forming sham companies to serve as plaintiffs in the lawsuits.

(AP) Siemens Subsidiary Charged With Fraud in Chicago A subsidiary of Siemens and two of its executives have been indicted on charges of forming a sham partnership with a minority-owned company to land a $49 million county contract, federal prosecutors in Chicago said yesterday.

Bengali collaborators in the form of armed vigilante groups, Al-Shams and Al Badr, took the lead in these murders, only two days before the war came to an inevitable end.

Alexander had planned to settle in Bahrain with Greek colonists, and although it is not clear that this happened on the scale he envisaged, Bahrain was very much part of the Hellenised world: the language of the upper classes was Greek (although Aramaic was in everyday use), while Zeus was worshipped in the form of the Arabian sun-god Shams.

A total of 19 RCTs that compared acupuncture and/or moxibustion with sham acupuncture, another form of acupuncture, or conventional treatment were included.