Sentences with phrase «following a period studying»

Following a period studying in Germany under A. R. Penck, Nara developed his trademark language and technique, creating complex characters in a deep investigation of childhood sensitivities.

Not exact matches

A study of S corporations (small firms with 100 or fewer shareholders who are taxed as a partnership) found that those with ESOPs had higher average employment growth in the 2006 - 2008 pre-recession period than did the economy as a whole, and they also had faster growth following the recession from 2009 to 2011.

Such studies should be carried out for the smallest conceivable units (one family or clan, a local group at a given period of time, the occasional following of one cult leader, etc.).

Gustave E. von Grunebaum is an Islamic scholar who seeks to observe Islam objectively, neither as a Westerner nor as an Islamic apologist; his Medieval Islam: A Study in Cultural Orientation is a perceptive, and at times provocative, analysis of the period of development following the initial expansion of Islam.

This alternative way, one which I have followed in my The Nature of Physical Existence (Allen & Unwin, in the Muirhead Library of Philosophy, 1972), is to seek to recover the problematic of the philosophy of nature though a study of the philosophy of nature in past periods, particularly those in which it has been vigorous.

The same form is employed in the synopsis that follows, and each period is identified by the title given to it in the case study.

Since consumption of whole grain products and dietary fiber has been shown to reduce the risk of high blood pressure and heart attack, Harvard researchers decided to look at the effects of cereal consumption on heart failure risk and followed 21,376 participants in the Physicians Health Study over a period of 19.6 years.

But while an early study by Baade suggested that this period can last up to 10 years, follow - up research by Eckstein and Delaney indicates that the period has recently gotten much shorter.

Recently I've returned with vigor to this, my soul's longing, following a period filled with studies, demanding jobs, and familial responsibilities....

Studies that follow children over a long period of time show that children who were insecure in kindergarten because of their parents» conflicts were more likely to have adjustment problems in the seventh grade.

Studies show that saccadic movements - the quick eye movements used in reading - are frequently abnormal following concussion and may predict whether an athlete will suffer from postconcussion syndrome (e.g. symptoms which persist over a long period of time, instead of clearing within the first 7 to 10 days, as in the vast majority of cases)(over 90 % in one recent study).

I didn't see the actual study but I wonder if they followed up on the kids later or just looked at them over a short period.

This prospective cross-sectional study involved the recruitment of women during the antenatal period, with subsequent follow - up of mothers who delivered healthy, term singleton infants, at 6 weeks and 6 months postpartum.

For the study, parents were assessed for parenting style and competence before the start of the course, after they completed the course, and at a 3 - month follow - up period.

Secondly, the limited time horizon of the study meant that the follow - up of outcomes for both mother and baby did not extend beyond the time period of labour and care immediately after birth, or higher level postnatal or neonatal care when this was received.

The increased socioeconomic inequalities in breastfeeding observed in the intervention group supports the argument that population intervention strategies could inadvertently exacerbate, rather than mitigate, socioeconomic inequalities, particularly when the intervention aims to change individual behaviours rather than targeting «upstream» structural changes.25 Our results are also compatible with an observational study from Brazil reporting that breastfeeding rates increased first among the socioeconomically better - off, followed by increases among the poor, over a 20 - year period of active breastfeeding promotion campaigns in Brazil.26

This multi-country, population — based cohort study in eleven sites in South Asia and Sub - Saharan Africa identified 278,154 pregnancies and followed them through pregnancy, birth and postnatal period to determine the burden, timing and causes of maternal deaths, stillbirths and neonatal deaths.

The UGR researchers carried out their study doing a follow - up on 44 pregnant women throughout the whole gestation period and after giving birth.

For instance, the study of Mattar et al. revealed a marginal increase in EB at six months after delivery among the group which received a prenatal educational intervention highlighting the benefits as well as the management of breastfeeding issues as the main content of the educational material (booklet), video, coaching session and counselling, compared to the group receiving only the booklet and the video, and the one recipient of only routine prenatal care, concluding that that educational material alone in the prenatal period is not enough and that specific prenatal education that addresses breastfeeding following a single meeting through counselling can significantly improve

The study followed an action research cycle to design, implement and evaluate an educational resource for first - time mothers during the immediate postnatal period.

Additional support for the possible self - regulatory benefits associated with breastfeeding is also provided by a short - term follow - up study of 158 infants.31 This study found that between the ages of 13 and 52 weeks, breastfed babies consistently cried for shorter periods of time than formula - fed babies.

Loss to follow - up was a particular problem in studies where women were recruited in the antenatal period and, as we have described above, we have not included any outcome data from studies that were otherwise eligible for inclusion in the review because of high levels of attrition for all outcomes.

Initially about one third of the 1,661 study participants received placebo, however the placebo group also received the vaccine 30 months into the study so those individuals were followed a shorter period of time, the researchers note.

A total of 19 prospective cohort studies with more than 760,000 participants were included in the analysis, and participants were followed for time periods ranging from four to 36 years.

The study focused on how the biodiversity and biological characteristics of fish communities changed in the marine reserve following a sustained period of sea warming in comparison to nearby sites open to fishing.

Through a prospective study using 4,798 patients, they showed that their PWV measurement was significantly associated with the onset of cardiovascular diseases over a ten - year follow up period.

During the follow - up period, 21,157 heart failure events occurred, representing 18.7 percent of the people studied.

Now it's time to do a larger - scale study, particularly in high - risk populations, and follow participants» progress for longer periods, Dong and Raed say.

A study of the fossil, led by the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath, suggests that following the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana in the middle of the Cretaceous period, a distinct dinosaur fauna evolved in Africa.

A new study shows that older people who followed a Mediterranean diet retained more brain volume over a three - year period than those who did not follow the diet as closely.

Now, researchers have carried out the first ever longitudinal study — a study that follows the same cohort of people over a long period of time — to examine the link between these markers in childhood and subsequent mental illness.

Participants self - administered daily intranasal doses of theophylline for six weeks and had follow - up tests every two weeks during the study period.

Adults who closely followed the Mediterranean diet were 47 percent less likely to develop heart disease over a 10 - year period compared to similar adults who did not closely follow the diet, according to a study to be presented at the American College of Cardiology's 64th Annual Scientific Session in San Diego.

The scientists used the following arrangement for their experiments: Over a period of ten minutes, 41 participants in the study were given painful heat stimuli to the hand which varied in intensity throughout the duration of the experiment.

When we standardized all the estimates to a common scenario — i.e., the same exposure to screening, and a similar target population, period of screening, and duration of follow - up — the magnitude of the difference between studies dropped from twentyfold to about fourfold.»

Between 1988 and 1998, sperm motility declined by 2.5 per cent per year and following a short period when stud dogs of compromised fertility were retired from the study, sperm motility from 2002 to 2014 continued to decline at a rate of 1.2 % per year.

A total of 166 955 people developed one of the 22 cancers studied over the follow - up period.

«Our study has several distinct strengths compared to prior studies including the large number of participants, long - term follow - up, large number of cardiovascular events that were confirmed by medical record review, detailed information about diet and other cardiovascular disease risk factors, and repeated assessment of calcium supplement use over the 24 - year follow up period,» said Julie Paik, MD, MPH, BWH Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, lead study author.

The study, funded by a grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, followed nearly 300 patients over a six - month period following admission to an outpatient dual - diagnosis treatment program that provided both substance abuse and mental illness treatment.

We will expand the study with children from the other participant countries and increase the follow - up period in comparison with our previous studies, from two to five years.

«The follow - up period was relatively short — six weeks — and the study was not statistically powered to measure clinical outcomes,» said Tindle, who served as the lead study physician while working at the University of Pittsburgh through the summer of 2014.

The 40 participants who remained in the study at this latest follow - up all reported that they continued some form of meditation practice over the seven - year period, equivalent to about an hour a day on average.

Among the 5,787 women, 2,274 did not have oophorectomy, 2,123 had already had the surgery when they began the study, and 1,390 underwent oophorectomy during the study follow - up period.

The unique feature of this study is that the same people were followed up several times over a long period of time.

The training route that most sport psychologists take is through a degree, usually in psychology or sport science, followed by postgraduate study in sport science or sport psychology and a period of supervised experience such as the one offered by BASES, the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences.

The findings, the researchers say, need to be confirmed with a large prospective study that follows patients over a long period of time.

The UGR researchers carried out their study doing a follow - up on 44 pregnant women throughout the whole gestation period and after giving birth.

With 4,000 patients followed over a five - year period, the study is one of the largest and longest of its kind.

Researchers also conducted follow - up visits with the children three months after the initial study period and found that their improvement had been maintained during that time.

In their analysis, the authors found the following over the ten - year study period: