Sentences with phrase «following similar studies»

Following similar studies performed by S&P Dow Jones Indices on active funds in the U.S. and Australia, we introduce the Persistence Scorecard to the Latin America region.

Not exact matches

Follow - up studies that targeted other «Big 5» personality traits, like openness, found similar results.

Neighbor Norway, of a similar size and featuring a similar homogeneous culture, follows the same same strategies as the USA and achieves similar rankings in international studies.

A follow - up study looking at six schools found similar results, as apple consumption grew by 70 %.

In a similar, follow - up experiment in the same study, some said the unselfish teammate made them look bad; others suspected they had ulterior motives.

(Washington, D.C.: Committee on Education and the Workforce, February, 13, 2002), http://archives.republicans.edlabor.house.gov/archive/hearings/107th/eer/enronthree21302/kruse.htm Another study comparing a matched sample of ESOP versus non-ESOP firms in with similar industries and workforce sizes among closely held companies, again, using population data on all available US DOL data followed the ESOP firms before and after their adoption of the ESOP from 1988 to 1998 along with the matched firms and found that 20 % of the ESOP firms had a defined benefit plan before adopting their ESOP, and 10 years later, after adopting their ESOP, they had defined benefit plans five times more than non-ESOP firms), 33.3 % of ESOP firms had a 401 (k) plan before adopting their ESOP with 52.4 % 10 years later (five times more than non-ESOP firms), and 35.7 % of ESOP firms had a deferred profit - sharing plan before adopting their ESOP with 51.2 % 10 years later (five times more than non-ESOP firms).

Paul G. Kuntz's interesting study of the motifs of order and chaos in religion follows a similar pattern.56 Kuntz uncovers the power and the weakness of each image.

Walter Bagehot expressed a similar idea when he wrote, in an 1854 study of Macaulay, the following lines:

All studies, including mine, follow lines that are curiously similar to the ways a family examines a house or an apartment in which it might dwell.

Other studies have found similar unhealthy food outcomes when countries enter trade or investment deals with the U.S. Examples include increased sugary soft - drink consumption in Vietnam and a spike in high - fructose corn syrup sweeteners in Canada (adding an extra 42 calories per day) following NAFTA's full implementation in 1998.

A similar study (Christensson et al, 1995) objectively evaluated differences in crying when infants were cared for by one of three methods during the 90 minutes following birth:

A similar study in Norway in 2005 — 7 found that the stillbirth rate was almost halved in women with RFM when women reported a change in movements promptly and the pathway was followed.

⇓ In total, 367 (82 %) completed six months of follow - up, with a similar number lost to follow - up in the three study groups.

When all the studies were considered, we found similar effect estimates in studies with more than 60 percent follow - up and in those with less than 30 percent follow - up, suggesting that the association between breastfeeding and blood pressure did not systematically vary between studies according to follow - up rates.

Loss to follow - up in control group was 18 % and 8.4 % in intervention group; authors stated baseline characteristics of women who were lost to follow - up in each measurement were similar to women who remained in the study.

Borough President Scott Stringer conducted several surveys following the installation of bike lanes throughout the city; I would propose a similar study about the bike share program to identify responses of users and potential improvements to the program.

These mice have been followed for several more weeks with no signs of toxicity, and Moderna has similar results from nonhuman primate studies that they plan to publish soon, he says.

Blashill is currently working on a follow - up study evaluating the indoor tanning use of 14 - to 35 - year - old sexual - minority males in San Diego County to see if there is a similar phenomenon among college - aged and young adults.

To resolve outstanding questions, on 26 April the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, asked the international community to support a Chernobyl Health Effects Research Foundation to conduct life - span studies, similar to those following A-bomb survivors in Japan.

The researchers behind the new study say that the fact that this mechanism is highly similar in human cells and yeast cells suggests that it plays a key role in ensuring proper chromosome distribution following each cell division.

In two follow - up interviews, 25 percent still claimed that they remembered the untrue story, a figure consistent with the findings of similar studies.

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.

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.»

It also discusses the inaccuracy of assuming that road networks follow a structure similar to the more commonly studied scale - free, random, and / or grid (regular) network configurations.

Follow - up studies confirmed that this cosmic infrared background (CIB) showed similar unexpected structure in other parts of the sky.

The study follows similar investigations by Garland and colleagues of other cancers, including breast, colon, pancreas, bladder and multiple myeloma.

Some speculate that studying superfluids could help understand the origins of the universe; in the moments following the Big Bang, the universe was uniform in density and similar to a superfluid.

For their study the scientists used Vimmish, an artificial language they developed themselves, which follows similar phonetic rules to Italian.

The research follows a 2015 study in Science that produced a similar 3.0 volt battery with an aqueous electrolyte but was stymied from achieving higher voltages by the so - called «cathodic challenge,» in which one end of the battery, made from either graphite or lithium metal, is degraded by the aqueous electrolyte.

In April 2012, a detailed follow - up examination of participants similar to the baseline examination was conducted at the center five years after their inclusion in the study.

The white paper recommends that practitioners follow relevant guidance documents and that deviation from consensus recommendations should be supported by clinical studies or pursued in the setting of a clinical trial approved by an institutional review board; that practitioners receive training in a new procedure before beginning its practice, that the training should include a practical, «hands - on» component and that all team members directly involved with the radiation therapy decisions should participate in at least five proctored cases before performing similar procedures independently; and that professional societies should accelerate the generation of new or updated guidance documents for the following disease sites and techniques: skin, central nervous system, gastrointestinal, lung or endobronchial and esophagus, and, while outside the charge of this panel, assess the need for updated guidance documents for accelerated partial breast irradiation using electronic brachytherapy.

The recent study follows a similar paper published earlier this month by developmental neurobiologist Jian Zuo, of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, who damaged sensory cells in live mice.

In his talk, McAdoo will present case studies that he and his colleague Vivienne Bryner compiled comparing death counts and economic fallout following geophysical events of similar magnitude in areas with different levels of economic development.

Of the 898 high risk women followed in the study, only 3.8 % of women with concentrations less than 10 ng / mL (tested at 18 - 21 weeks) delivered before 34 weeks of gestation, a similar rate to that expected in a normal pregnancy.

A similar analysis of 690 Filipino women revealed no such difference (Kuzawa is now conducting a follow - up study to see if there are any long - term effects of early nutrition on the birth weight of these women's offspring.)

A new study published by senior investigator Maximilian Riesenhuber, PhD, a professor in Georgetown University School of Medicine's Department of Neuroscience, and fellow Georgetown neuroscientists Xiong Jiang, PhD; Mark A. Chevillet; and Josef P. Rauschecker, PhD, is the first to provide strong evidence that learning in sight and sound follows similar principles.

In a follow - up EEG study, we used a similar design to examine auditory gating and network activity while shamanic practitioners (n = 18) experienced rhythm - induced trance and a control state.

The Joslin studies show a similar error — this time directed to heart tissue — occurs in patients with type 1 diabetes following a heart attack.

A study led by Massachusetts General Hospital investigators has found that, even among those at high genetic risk for heart disease, following a healthy lifestyle can cut in half the probability of a heart attack or similar event.

Collectively, these studies by multiple research groups in multiple mammalian species following treatment with an array of antimicrobial drugs, including doxycycline, ampicillin, amoxicillin, ceftriaxone, and tigecycline, have documented a similar outcome: persistence of non-cultivable B. burgdorferi following antibiotic treatment.

So Wilkinson, who performed a similar study in 2012, before the removal of age limits, decided to do a follow - up study.

In the longer of the studies, IER (two ~ 75 % ER days per week) demonstrated equal efficacy to CER (25 % ER / day) at reducing body - weight, adiposity and CRP after 6 months, whereas a post-treatment increase in adiponectin occurred only in the IER group.41 In follow - up work by the same group 48, subjects were assigned a similar two - day IER protocol with the addition of a 5 % weight - loss after three months, whereas body - fat losses in the IER group were significantly greater.

Stress resistance has not been assessed however and so the biological relevance of this finding is currently unknown.32 Several IER trials (75 - 85 % ER on restricted days) in overweight / obese populations have reported reductions in various markers of oxidative stress 37, 41, which in one study was accompanied by a complementary increase in the anti-oxidant uric acid.37 In a direct comparison of IER (75 % ER for two days / week) and CER, both ER strategies displayed equal efficacy in reducing levels of fast - acting advanced oxidation protein products (AOPP) after six months, which displayed a tendency to occur earlier (i.e. at three months) in the IER group.41 Levels of slow - acting (i.e. long term) AOPP tended to decrease in the IER group and increase in the CER group which the authors proposed may have resulted from IER - induced activation of autophagy, a key homeostatic cellular process in which dysfunctional or unnecessary cellular proteins are degraded and recycled.41 On the other hand, a follow - up study using similar IER / CER protocols demonstrated comparable reductions in AOPP in both groups after three months.48 Summary and Future Research Directions

Findings from this study are similar to those conducted with younger yoga and meditation practitioners where the volume of certain brain regions implicated in thinking, planning, reasoning, and memory were enhanced following regular practice.

A 2001 study from East Tennessee State University demonstrated similar findings with obese subjects who followed an 8 - week program of HIIT workouts.

With rudimentary laboratories, one could argue that more was accomplished with regards to the effect of diet on cancer in the former half of the century, as revolutionary researchers like Tannenbaum, Rous, and their colleagues provided us with dozens of animal studies linking diet and cancer by exposing mice to free radical - laden vegetable oils.32, 33 Several decades later, two other researchers, Dayton and Pearce, provided one of the few studies revealing what happens when we give humans vegetable oils and their accompanying free radicals when they randomized men to a corn oil solution and a similar rise in cancer followed.34 It is no surprise that corn oil is often used in animal studies to cause cancer, as the ingestion of damaging free radicals predictably hastens cancer development.35 Furthermore, these scientists were the first to show that fasting, restricting calories, and cutting carbohydrates could lower the chance of cancer in animals exposed to dangerous chemicals and carcinogens.

These followed the smaller (but the biggest in its day) China - Oxford - Cornell study which came to similar conclusions in 1990.

Another similar study out of Spain followed 80,036 women who participated in the Nurses» Health Study and found that coffee reduced the risk of stroke among this group of women as study out of Spain followed 80,036 women who participated in the Nurses» Health Study and found that coffee reduced the risk of stroke among this group of women as Study and found that coffee reduced the risk of stroke among this group of women as well.

It was more than likely a follow - up study to test the reliability of the first research paper, as the design was very similar.

Similar fructose increases have been reported in healthy volunteers who consumed fructose loads between 0.5 and 0.75 g / kg34 and in individuals who consumed fructose - sweetened beverages with mixed meals.35 Leptin and ghrelin levels were indistinguishable following acute ingestion of glucose or fructose, a finding possibly attributable to the short time interval of observation; leptin levels typically change 4 to 6 hours after glucose administration.36 Although fructose was previously reported to be less effective than glucose in suppressing ghrelin, such differences may be attributable to the different conditions and timing of ghrelin measurements.10 Little is known about the acute PYY response to fructose ingestion compared with glucose ingestion, although 1 study in rats found higher rather than lower PYY levels after 24 hours of glucose but not fructose feeding.11 Whether such disparities are related to study design or species differences remains uncertain.