Past studies comparing the language - learning abilities of humans and other primates have looked at what monkeys can do with human language.
Clark noted that the teachers outside of Teach for America in her group's study seem to be better qualified and more experienced than the teachers to whom
past studies compared Teach for America staff.
Not exact matches
Last year, there were only 14 IPOs in Canada
compared to 73 in 2010, according to a
study from PricewaterhouseCoopers, which examined Canada's capital markets over the
past four years.
According to Jaeger,
past studies have shown the combination of resistance exercise consumption of animal - derived protein (whey, eggs, meat) had different effects on muscle growth
compared to plant - based protein (soy).
How about some ADHD discussion and
studies linking the changing landscape of parents especially mothers who abandoned their kids, stopped breastfeeding and left them to care givers who tended to be impatient and violent
compared to biological parents over the
past 50 years of feminism?
No
studies comparing parenting programmes with a control group evaluated outcomes
past 6 months and only a minority (n = 5)
compared 2 alternative interventions between 1 and 3 years.
Past research has suggested that babies who are breastfed are less likely to grow up to be obese children, but those
studies compared mothers who chose whether or not to breastfeed, so they and their children could have been different in other important ways, researchers said.
This
study aimed to
compare continuity of midwifery care with standard midwifery care in reducing postnatal depression in women with a
past history of depression.
New York State has the greatest gap between rich and poor in the United States.And the most rigorous research over the
past 15 years, including
studies comparing job growth trends in neighboring counties across state lines with different minimum wages, have found that higher minimum wages do not result in job losses.
In the
past, several small
studies have shown that
compared with general anesthesia, regional anesthesia reduces intraoperative blood loss and the need for blood transfusions.
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Studying these specimens and
comparing them with modern - day animals also helps to pinpoint existing populations that have retained some of the
past genetic diversity, much of which has been lost to industrialized breeding.
They then
compared these two sets of data to each other and to
past studies of humans and pets.
This
past January Claudio Del Percio of Sapienza University in Rome and his colleagues reported the results of a
study in which they measured the brain waves of karate champions and ordinary people, at rest with their eyes closed, and
compared them.
Much of the older research — including
studies that found more of a protective effect of fruits and vegetables — was done using a case - control method, in which one group (the «cases») already has a condition and is polled about
past behaviors and
compared with a population that does not have the condition (the «controls»).
The
study did not have a control group that received a placebo, so researchers
compared the patients» progression with historical data collected from
past NPC patients.
New data show that extreme weather events have become more frequent over the
past 36 years, with a significant uptick in floods and other hydrological events
compared even with five years ago, according to a new publication, «Extreme weather events in Europe: Preparing for climate change adaptation: an update on EASAC's 2013
study» by the European Academies» Science Advisory Council (EASAC), a body made up of 27 national science academies in the European Union, Norway, and Switzerland.
As evidence, consider that the U.S. came in dead last in another recent
study that
compared how quickly 40 countries and regions have been progressing toward a knowledge - based economy over the
past 10 years.
The
study also looked at the amount of snowpack runoff during the warmer season,
compared to what has been seen in the
past.
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Past studies have suggested that foreign degree holders get many advantages — higher salaries, easier access to promotions, bigger lab space —
compared to their domestic counterparts,» said Han.
Myers» work is among the few
studies done over the
past few decades to
compare theories of hydrogeology to what actually happens.
Past genomic
studies of cancer
compared sequencing data from patients» healthy tissue and the same patients» tumors.
In the
study, Mucci and colleagues
compared 673 prostate cancer patients to 673 men without prostate cancer, and tested their blood for signs of a
past infection with trichomonas.
Men with prostate cancer who have had a
past infection with the sexually transmitted germ Trichomonas vaginalis are at higher risk of having an aggressive form of cancer
compared to prostate cancer patients who have never had the STD, a new
study suggests
To make a long
study short, they say that
past comparisons of food costs were flawed because they only looked at price per calorie; whereas,
comparing cost per average portion is a better measure in their opinion, and one which, incidentally, shows fruit and vegetables to be cheaper than most moderation (e.g. junk) foods.
Past studies have found exercising vigorously almost every day causes some people to be less physically active overall
compared to those who exercise less.
This
study compared the basal metabolic rate in individuals who had lost significant weight to those of the same weight who had not lost significant weight in the
past.
In the
past, there have been doubts expressed about their long - term safety and increased effectiveness
compared with «balanced» diets, 25 and clearly negative opinions regarding possible deleterious effects on triglycerides and cholesterol levels in the blood.26 However, the majority of recent
studies seem instead to amply demonstrate that the reduction of carbohydrates to levels that induce physiological ketosis (see above «What is ketosis?»
A suggestion for future
studies is to take into account measures of
past and current physical fitness when
comparing cognition, brain structure and function in different groups of older subjects, once it is possible that better fitness is related to healthier brain aging.
One line from «Let It Rock» — «working on the railroad with a steel driving hammer» — led right into a mini-lesson on folktales and heroes like John Henry, and we
compared working and living conditions from the
past with today, which is California State Social
Studies Standards 2.1
Star and colleague Bethany Rittle - Johnson of Vanderbilt University have conducted a number of
studies over the
past decade that demonstrate the benefits of
comparing a variety of problem - solving approaches for learning math, especially algebra.
Although the percentage of white students in the country has declined dramatically over the
past 50 years, while the percentage of black students has changed very little, the achievement levels of black students
compared to white students (and other racial / ethnic groups) has barely narrowed, according to a
study by University of Illinois economist Steven Rivkin.
The
study compares vehicle problems experienced during the
past 12 months by original owners of 3 - year - old, or 2011 model year, vehicles.
Consider Rebecca's relationship with her sister Tiffany, and
compare the ways in which they deal with their complicated
past (i.e. Rachel's participation in Alistair's
study vs. Tiffany's «Family Affairs» column).
A Pew
study, released in April of this year, found that «the average reader of eBooks says she has read 24 books (the mean number) in the
past 12 months,
compared with an average of 15 books by a non-eBook consumer.»
According to the Demos
study: 31 percent of households who have had a member out of work for two months or longer in the
past three years, reported that their credit score had declined over the same period of time; households that include someone without health coverage were twice as likely to report declined credit scores; and 23 percent of indebted households raising children described their credit scores as poor,
compared with 12 percent of indebted households without kids.
Epidemiology of feline subcutaneous dirofilariasis has received little attention in the
past, if
compared with
studies carried on the canine population (Rossi et al., 1996).
But
studies conducted for the
past 15 years have consistently found no evidence of increased health risks with OVE as
compared to OHE.
Past studies have reported a 17 percent increase among all neutered dogs
compared to all intact dogs.
They have made it possible for the thousands of Americans, interested in the art movements of the old world, but who have not had the opportunity of late years to visit Europe, to see,
study and
compare the work of the founders, leaders and the followers of the various cults and movements which have so stirred France, England, Germany, Italy, and even Spain and Russia and the Scandinavian countries, during the
past decade, and which have brought about, if not an art Renaissance in Europe — a stirring of the dry bones of conservatism and conventionalism in art abroad, and have had their direct influence here.
The aim of the exhibition is to
compare these artists with the
past masters they reference: the exhibition showcases 1961 Francis Bacon's
Study for a Pope III, which hasn't been exhibited for the
past 52 years.
But
compared to Al - Hadid's more grandiose sculptures of exhibitions
past, these three works on view feel more like one - off
studies, highlighting the experimentation that's integral to the artist's process.
In the posts, Stephen McIntyre questions sets of tree - ring data used in, or excluded from, prominent
studies concluding that recent warming is unusual even when
compared with
past warm periods in the last several millenniums (including the recent Kaufman et al. paper discussed here).
Studies that
compare results between models and analysis techniques (e.g., Hegerl et al., 2000; Gillett et al., 2002a; Hegerl and Allen, 2002), and more recently, that use multiple models to determine fingerprints of climate change (Gillett et al., 2002c; Huntingford et al., 2006; Stott et al., 2006c; Zhang et al., 2006) find a robust detection of an anthropogenic signal in
past temperature change.
There were six drought years in the
past 20 years (1995 - 2014),
compared to 14 drought years in the previous 98 years (1896 - 1994), the
study reported.
The
study compared today's drought conditions in California to those reconstructed over the
past 1,200 years using the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), an estimate of available soil moisture.
These were
compared to
past global temperatures, the Palmer Drought Index, and data for the 10 East African countries represented in the
study on population size, population growth, GDP per capita, rate of change of GDP per capita, life expectancy and political stability.
The
study was carried out as part of the HELIX project, which involves more than 50 scientists from 16 institutions in 13 countries who have spent the
past four years examining the potential impacts of global temperatures rising an average of 1.5 °C, 2 °C, 4 °C, and 6 °C
compared to pre-industrial levels.
This
study compares observed, long climatic time series with GCM - produced time series in
past periods in an attempt to trace elements of falsifiability, which is an important concept in science (according to Popper, 1983, «[a] statement (a theory, a conjecture) has the status of belonging to the empirical sciences if and only if it is falsifiable»).
The
study shows a nearly quintupled number of weather - related loss events in North America for the
past three decades,
compared with an increase factor of 4 in Asia, 2.5 in Africa, 2 in Europe and 1.5 in South America.
They
studied users» activity on Facebook over the
past six months and
compared the activity of those who had died and those that were still alive in the same age groups.