Sentences with phrase «largest quantitative study»

Largest quantitative study of howling, and first to use machine learning, defines different howl types and finds that wolves use these types more or less depending on their species, resembling a howling dialect.

In our large quantitative study of cohabitation, we have found that most cohabiters report a process more like sliding into cohabitation than talking about it and making a decision about it.

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In one study, a large reduction in blood pressure associated with having been breastfed for at least 3 months (Web table 1) was reported to have been somewhat attenuated after controlling for current weight, age, birth weight, time of birth, birth order, mother's age, and history of high antenatal maternal blood pressure (14), but quantitative estimates suitable for inclusion in the meta - analyses were not available.

This work highlights the importance of appropriate statistical analyses of the large quantitative data sets that are increasingly being produced by experimentalists and are being used to study fundamental cellular mechanisms.

As outlined below, we used a microfluidic quantitative PCR (qPCR) system to elucidate the gene expression profiles of individual human oocytes and small numbers of cumulus cells using a combination of a large number of samples and targets [12], and then extended our studies via the use of parthenogenesis, in conjunction with gene expression profiling, as a functional assay of cytoplasmic maturation of oocytes.

The team says their paper, «What Happens After You Both Swipe Right: A Statistical Description of Mobile Dating Communications» is one of the first large scale quantitative studies to look at the way mobile dating sites are used.

Drawing on both detailed case studies and large - scale quantitative analysis, the authors show that the majority of school variables, considered individually, have at most a small impact on learning.

Although some interpret these turnover patterns as evidence of teachers» discontent with their students, recent large - scale quantitative studies provide evidence that teachers choose to leave schools with poor work environments and that these conditions are most common in schools that minority and low - income students typically attend.

She analyzes quantitative data from both NIEER research studies and additional large - scale data sets.

The study has generated large sets of qualitative and quantitative student outcome data that offer rich opportunities to estimate the impact of POS on key indicators of student success.

A third type of evidence derives from studies (also large - scale and quantitative) focused on the effects of specific leadership practices.

So, while large - scale quantitative studies might seem to policymakers to be more reliable sources of evidence about leadership effects, such studies systematically underestimate leadership effects in schools where it is likely to be of greatest value.

To put the magnitude of this leadership effect in perspective, quantitative school effectiveness studies (Hill, 1998) indicate that classroom factors explain only a slightly larger proportion of the variation in student achievement - about a third.

The second type of evidence derives from large - scale quantitative studies of leadership effects on schools and students.

I worked as a quantitative analyst at a large mutual fund complex for a number of years and did several studies of transaction costs using the firm's proprietary trading data.

The study, «Identifying anomalously early spring onsets in the CESM large ensemble project,» is partially unique for its use of what Ault defines as an objective and quantitative metric of what defines the onset of spring.

The 16 themes were adapted to construct the questionnaire «Relationship beliefs about change» for used in the large - scale quantitative study on relationship beliefs and attachment.

A notable lack is in the area of large - scale mixed - method qualitative and process studies of adolescent sexual behavior and consequences, particularly studies that include in - depth, valid measures of social and institutional context that can be linked to quantitative outcomes.

In this role, she serves as the quantitative methodologist for a large - scale, multisite study of pediatric primary care toxic stress prevention initiatives.