Sentence examples for manipulated the amount from inspiring English sources
The researchers manipulated the amount of pride each participant felt in his or her score.
That's at the heart of a controversy about a new study, in which researchers from Facebook manipulated the amount of positive and negative material in users' news feeds in an attempt to see whether social networks can lead to the same kinds of "emotional contagion" — a person "catching" other people's emotions from interacting with them — that exist in real life.
It's emerged that Facebook "manipulated" the amount of positive and negative news in the feeds of almost 700,000 people as an experiment.
In a first experiment, we manipulated the amount of rainfall in a factorial combination that included three levels of rainfall size (1, 5 and 15 mm), three soil covers: vegetated areas (VEG), biological soil crusts (BSC) and bare soil (BS) and two nearby sites: a natural grassland and a degraded grassland.
In the next experiment, we manipulated the amount of visual complexity in the image.
We manipulated the amount (set size of 1, 3, and 5) and content (ratio of left and right pointing arrows within a set) of the inputs to test competing hypotheses regarding mental operations for information processing.
VW admitted in September that its cars were fitted with a software device manipulating the amount of emissions in official tests.
According to Kessler, tobacco-industry patent filings and internal documents uncovered during some of the product-liability litigation of the past several years, the industry has developed sophisticated technologies to manipulate the amount and intensity of nicotine in a cigarette.
Mr. Elles, 55, is accused of manipulating the amount of discounts that Carter's, based in Atlanta, granted department store chain Kohl's, from 2004 until last year - in an effort to get Kohl's, its biggest wholesale customer, to buy more product.
The silica nanostructures are controllable by manipulating the amount of the silica precursors.
The thickness of SnO2 shells can be controlled by manipulating the amount of stannous chloride.
