Sentences with phrase «family studies identifies»

The Australian Institute of Family Studies identifies the Second Step curriculum as one of their recommended programs for the Communities for Children Facilitating Partners initiative.

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Other studies have shown about half of the behavioral, achievement, and emotional problems seen in boys from divorced families could be identified as early as four year prior to the divorce.

In a case - control study, researchers identify a group of cases (here, the babies who died of SIDS) and compare them to a control group of babies / families with similar characteristics to find out what could account for differences in outcomes (one group died from SIDS; one did not).

Best practices from a recent study will highlight suggestions for identifying community partners, strengthening family engagement and accessing funding sources.

These differences may explain the lower rate of SIDS in this population and this study identifies these issues as clear targets for SIDS risk reduction among White British families.

This study identifies factors associated with the decision to breastfeed or bottle - feed and assesses initiation and duration of breastfeeding in patients in a family medicine center.

In our 2011 study: The New Dad: Caring, Committed and Conflicted, fathers were asked to identify where they fell on the continuum between providing for their families» financial needs and their families» emotional and physical needs.

Researchers supporting co-parenting identified a number of fundamental methodological flaws of recent studies that challenge co-parenting of infants and young children: the failure to interview both parents, small and non-representative samples and use of unreliable and invalid measures, and the fact that even these studies have actually found no significant differences in child outcomes in single versus co-parenting families.

Drawing on the services of a professional society and identifying pertinent resources from other disciplines including work / family centers and think tanks (see sidebar), literature, and benchmark studies, may well serve to expand the knowledge base and enhance the leadership around work / family issues for postdoctoral associates in the workforce.

The Fluc family of fluoride ion channels were recently discovered, and studies by a team led by Christopher Miller, PhD, HHMI Investigator and professor of biochemistry at Brandeis University, found that they are among the most selective channels yet identified.

By studying individuals with syndromic CLP from Amish and Northern Saudi Arabian families, the researchers identified the responsible mutations.

«Use of steps one to three triage criteria is not sufficient for identifying intracranial hemorrhage and death or neurosurgery for older patients who suffer head trauma,» said the lead author of the study, Daniel K. Nishijima, MD, MAS, of the University of California Davis School of Medicine in Sacramento, Calif. «While we wait for other studies to confirm our research, we strongly urge patients to make their medication history available and known to their families and EMS providers, especially for situations that may arise where they can not speak for themselves.

«Mutations responsible for cleft palate and related birth defects identified: Study of Amish and Saudi Arabian families finds mutations in HYAL2 gene that impact development.»

An associate professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, Talkowski adds, «Individuals in 10 countries — clinicians, investigators, patients and family members — helped us assemble the largest group of arhinia patients every studied, encompassing 24 percent of the previously reported 80 individuals and 21 newly identified patients.

Kranzler notes that the taste differences identified in this study could serve as protection against alcoholism but some people with a family history may also have alterations in taste characteristics that put them at increased risk of the disorder.

Once the families were identified using the chemical DNA, their evolution was studied with the help of their ages and kinematical properties obtained from the space mission Hipparcos, the precursor of Gaia, the spacecraft orbiting Earth that was launched by the European Space Agency and is almost halfway through a 5 - year project to map the sky.

That's why CIEP typically identifies by family rather than genus; genus is deduced later during the study based on knowledge of the animals present at that time and place in the fossil record.

Two new rapidly evolving protein families associated with different «lifestyles» of related plant - associated bacteria were identified in the study.

An international network of scientists studying inflammatory diseases identified four children from Pakistani and Turkish families with unexplained skin rashes and inflamed joints.

A related problem is that family doctors — to whom people who do want help often turn first — are often ill equipped to identify and provide help to victims, even though some studies suggest that screening by health professionals could be helpful.

Bierut and her colleagues analyzed data gathered through the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA), a large, multi-center, family study designed to identify genes that contribute to Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA), a large, multi-center, family study designed to identify genes that contribute to study designed to identify genes that contribute to AUDs.

The study included a total of 12,612 parent - identified Hispanic children, 66 percent of whom were from immigrant families.

There she works in computer analysis for the study of identifying fungi that affect the plant family Cucurbitaceae (cucumber, pumpkin, cantaloupe, watermelon) in order to understand them.

Researchers studying two generations of a family affected by pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) have identified an inherited variation in the ETV6 gene that is associated with an increased risk of developing the disease.

Their review identified 14 studies investigating the role of family environment and child and adolescent temperament in the development of adolescent «externalizing problems.»

Their results corroborated previous studies that identified some bacterial families — including Enterobacteriaceae, Pseudomonas, Sphingomonas, and Methylobacterium — that increase during fermentation.

Olson and co-authors Nicholas Eaton at Stony Brook University and Aidan Key of Gender Diversity, a Seattle organization that provides training and runs support groups for families of gender - nonconforming children, specifically focused their study on transgender children who were living as their identified gender in all aspects of their lives, who came from supportive home environments, and who had not yet reached puberty.

«Scientists sequence genomes of microscopic worms beneficial to agriculture: Study identifies gene families in five nematodes that are likely to be involved in parasitism.»

Such families can be studied by modern molecular genetic methods in ways that allow the causative gene to be identified.

A year ago we started thinking, why don't we select a single family with an interesting disease and see whether studying a smaller group of related individuals makes it possible to identify the genes involved in that disease.

Aside from listing their spouses and family members at each follow - up, participants gave names of close friends who would likely know their future whereabouts; more than 70 percent of these were also included in the study, creating a dense social network suitable for identifying epidemiclike effects.

Researchers at the company and at National University Hospital, both in Reykjavik, studied the nationwide genealogy database to identify families with more than one late - onset Parkinson's patient, eventually turning up 117 people from 51 families.

In future studies, the researchers hope to identify good predictors of which autism therapies fit best for different children and families.

Aung Ko Win, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., M.P.H., of the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and colleagues conducted a study that included 1,128 women with an MMR gene mutation identified from the Colon Cancer Family Registry.

Initial results from a pilot study show that a new program called «Building Bridges for Asthma Care» — an initiative that helps school nurses identify children with asthma and support them and their families in getting the care they need — is helping reduce absenteeism.

Through the program, school nurses work with children identified with asthma and their families, as well as their primary care providers to address asthma so the child does not miss as much school,» said study lead author Jessica Hollenbach, PhD, Director of Asthma Programs, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford, Ct..

«So, the second aim of the study is to try to identify genetic markers that might influence how a disease manifests in a family with a known genetic condition.»

According to their study, published in the current issue of the journal Cell, these genes — from the Wnt family — interact with another set of previously identified growth factors to induce limb formation in chick embryos.

ROCKVILLE, Md. and LA JOLLA, Calif. — Aug. 28, 2013 — The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a not - for - profit genomic research organization, today announced that the Ruggles Family Foundation and Mr. and Mrs. Rudy L. Ruggles, Jr. have made a $ 1.25 million donation to JCVI to identify and study biomarkers associated with healthy aging.

A family of receptors that enable disease - causing toxins produced by the bacterium Clostridium difficile to enter host cells in mice is identified in a study published in Nature this week.

In this study we aim to identify new genetic causes of PCG and JOAG using the newest genetic technologies (exome sequencing) in families, and to evaluate the role of such new genes in POAG patients.

«Identifying caregivers in need, and connecting these caregivers to effective and accessible psychosocial services, are imperative next steps to improve comprehensive care for families facing cancer,» study leader Kelly Shaffer said in a news release from the American Cancer Society.

The study also revealed that girls from poorer families in single - sex schools received better GCSEs than their counterparts in mixed schools, whilst less of an advantage was identified for boys in single - sex schools.

With guidance from Harvard faculty and district and community leaders, participants study best practices in family engagement and identify strategies they can use to promote student learning and improve educational outcomes for all.

This study is designed to identify family and school factors that drive the development of children's socio - emotional skills and how these skills in turn help improve children's future outcomes.

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.

The four promising practices in afterschool for homework help identified in the Afterschool Training Toolkit are as follows: Involving Day Schools, Families, and Communities; Managing and Organizing the Homework Environment; Monitoring and Communicating About Student Progress; and Tutoring, Mentoring, and Building Study Skills.

Instructional activities in writing, math, visual arts, science, health and safety are organized to help students identify the characteristics of family in relation to their social studies unit.

The purpose of this study was to identify barriers and facilitators to family engagement in schools implementing schoolwide positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS).

In their synthesis of several dozen studies of after - school programs, Little, Wimer, and Weiss (2008) identified three key features necessary for successful programs: sustained attendance, quality programming and staffing, and strong partnerships between the program and other places where students learn, including schools, families, and community institutions.