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So I am very grateful… (P2/female/Malaria/FGD14) That study benefits facilitated retention of participants was especially clear in the RSV-study, a basic science non-therapeutic study involving a particularly unpopular and unfamiliar study procedure, taking a sample of nasopharyngeal mucus using a flocked swab.
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The notion is that, when people are confronted with new concepts with which they are completely unfamiliar, they study the concept and try to match it with similar concepts they already know.
As a data collection tool, the Patient Log was a platform that would be unfamiliar to study participants and potentially confusing.
In one recent study, unfamiliar viewers were able to select studio-controlled images of unfamiliar faces that accentuated traits associated with specific scenarios: for example, selecting images for a resume that accentuated impressions of competence, relative to other images of that individual (Todorov & Porter, 2014, Experiments 2 & 3).
We were aware that the setup for social design feedback would be unfamiliar to the study participants, and consequently included explanatory texts for guidance and support in the invitation and recruitment process as well as for each feedback topic.
Finally, in our study, unfamiliar face recognition (i.e. recognition of pictures of faces not known to the individual) was studied, rather than familiar face recognition (i.e. recognition of people known to the individual).
Quantification of mitochondrial configuration in each cell line was performed by manual counting of mitochondria of orthodox or condensed configuration in 4 6 representative EM images (of each line) by six unbiased volunteers unfamiliar with the study.
For example, breeding experience may be a confounding factor, as individuals unfamiliar with the study site are adapted to breed in natural cavities that are likely found at higher canopy levels.
This was calculated both from the eye-tracking data (see Supplementary Table 2) and from coding of the videos offline by an experimenter unfamiliar with the study aims.
Eleven patients were selected as paired controls for the initial group by physicians who were unfamiliar with our study, and these patients were administered BiPAP S/T.
Allocation to intervention or control was determined through the tossing of a coin by an independent researcher unfamiliar with the study and blinded for the nursing homes.
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