Sentences with phrase «previous study groups»

Previous study groups have explored rural education, 21st century learning and technology use in the classroom, strengthening the teaching profession, deeper learning, and career technical education.

Based on a review of previous studies a group of researchers have shortlisted a number of environmental risk factors for dementia in a paper published in the journal BMC Geriatrics.

Not exact matches

NICKEL DEFICIT: The global nickel market deficit narrowed to 2,500 tonnes in February from a revised deficit of 15,800 tonnes in the previous month, the International Nickel Study Group said.

Previous Pew Research Center studies found that Hispanic Christians attend church more regularly than their white counterparts, and black Protestants are retaining young churchgoers at higher rates than any other group.

This study contrasts with headlines from previous studies on religious «nones,» including a 2012 study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life that found the group was the fastest growing «religious» group in America and that one in five Americans now identify with no religion.

In a recent «Focus Group Study» of celiac's who were not eating oats either because of fear or had previous reactions to other gluten free oats, 95 % had no problem with PrOatina oatmeal and have added PrOatina Oat products to their diets.

Interventions to improve breastfeeding initiation, exclusivity and duration are based on extensive evidence from both observational and intervention studies of short - and long - term health benefits of breastfeeding for both mothers and infants.13 — 15 Nevertheless, to our knowledge none of previous studies has systematically examined whether the increases in breastfeeding resulting from such interventions have equally benefited all socioeconomic groups.

«This study adds to previous research conducted in smaller sample groups that also showed this approach does not increase the risk of a baby choking, and indeed in the UK, supports the Department of Health recommendation that babies can have finger foods from six months old.»

In a previous study of 24 healthy women, vaginal microbiome composition became less diverse between the second and third trimesters of pregnancy and just before delivery was enriched with Lactobacillus species, likely contributing to vertical transmission of these bacteria during vaginal birth.21 In a study of 10 newborns in Venezuela, within hours of delivery, the intestinal tracts of infants born vaginally were colonized by Lactobacillus and Prevotella, whereas infants delivered operatively acquired bacteria present on the mother's skin and the hospital environment, such as Staphylococcus, Proprionibacterium, and Corynebacterium.15 Quiz Ref ID Our findings, based on a large group of 6 - week - old infants, indicated that Lactobacillus also contributes to the microbial environment of the gut but to a lesser extent than Bifidobacteria, Bacteroides, and Streptococcus.

This finding is consistent with a previous cross-sectional study in which fathers of newborns were found to have lower T compared with a group of expectant fathers, whose T had been measured during their partners» pregnancies (39).

A previous study showed that in the Campania region, the prevalence of full breastfeeding at 6 months was 7 %.12 Assuming a 20 % loss to follow - up, we calculated that we would require ∼ 240 mother and father pairs to detect a statistically significant increase of 15 % (1 − α = 95 %, 1 − β = 80 %) in the rate of full breastfeeding at 6 months.13 To avoid communication between study groups, which would be likely if people who were admitted to the same hospital unit were exposed to different messages at the same time, we did not randomize the participants as it usually is done, 14 but we allocated the 2 study groups into 2 consecutive blocks of time, after having randomly paired the 2 study groups with the 2 blocks of time.

No association between vaginal delivery and interference with daily life was observed after 6 weeks, which supports a previous study.22 Additionally, the prevalence of moderate or severe UI in the vaginal delivery group was higher than that in the cesarean delivery group at 3 — 5 days, perhaps because pelvic floor muscle strength is significantly reduced at 3 — 8 days after vaginal delivery, but this is not the case after cesarean delivery.6

In 2009, a previous version of the Department of Environmental Conservation's report, known as an environmental impact study, recommended allowing hydrofracking in the watersheds; environmental groups intensely criticized it.

The Justice for All (J4A), a civil society group, disclosed on Wednesday that in a recent independent study it conducted, it concluded that the Nigeria Police Force, in recent times, performed satisfactorily in the handling of sexual assault cases against women and minors, which is a complete departure from previous low ratings.

Previous studies of animal speed have focused only on certain groups of animals, such as mammals.

Several clinical centres in the USA and Canada recruited four groups of men with CRPC to a phase II study to receive 2550 mg of galeterone orally once a day: 22 men had CRPC that had not metastasised (spread) and had received no previous treatment; 39 men had metastatic CRPC and no previous treatment with abiraterone or enzalutamide; 37 and nine men had metastatic CRPC and had failed treatment with abiraterone and enzalutamide respectively.

Their analysis of data in previous studies done by The Cancer Genome Atlas group have shown that the types of abnormal methylation levels they found are lower in smokers who have quit for more than 10 years than those who have not quit.

«Model simulations from previous studies by other groups indicate that, by 2025, the frequency of these events could be as high as 1 every 2 years,» he says.

Previous studies by the University of South Carolina's Lucia Pirisi - Kim Creek research group had reported the existence of an HPV - inactive class in head and neck cancers and raised the possibility that HPV - inactive cervical cancers might originate as virally driven cancers and subsequently act independent of HPV.

It builds upon previous studies by Ozcan's group that used deep learning to reconstruct holograms and improve microscopy.

Previous studies by this research group have demonstrated that television food advertising exposure alters children's food preferences in the direction of high fat, high sugar snack foods and also increases their consumption of these sorts of foods.

Previous studies on distracted driving have mainly focused on teenagers and young people, and programs targeting this group have decreased their number of crashes.

The group also used different methods than in the previous study, which Lamb believes results in a more accurate assessment of the actual emissions.

«Based on previous studies published by our group and others, we predicted that a brief sleep disturbance prior to surgery would worsen postoperative pain,» Vanini says.

This work stems from a previous study by Varghese's group to understand how calcium phosphate minerals found in bone tissue induce stem cells to differentiate into osteoblasts.

Previous studies suggest that certain groups prefer alternative treatments to traditional pharmacotherapy for health conditions, she said.

The study involved participants of European descent exclusively, but co-author Roy Perlis, a researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital, notes it's standard method to focus on one group as a starting point, since previous research shows genetic markers can vary by ethnicity.

In a previous study, the researchers showed that a group of self - described voice - hearing psychics had similar voice - hearing experiences as patients with schizophrenia.

«Unlike previous studies we isolated different immune cell types from the actual site of disease to determine whether specific subsets of immune cells (specific T cell groups) have equal sensitivity to vitamin D.»

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved few of these medications for the preschool age group, yet previous studies documented two to threefold increases in psychotropic prescriptions for preschool children between 1991 and 2001.

This new study builds on previous research from this group showing that elevated blood levels of SNTF on the day of a mild traumatic brain injury treated in the emergency room predicted those patients who would go on to suffer diffuse axonal injury and long - term cognitive dysfunction.

The Rutgers group's results, combined with its previous studies, show that free - form gesture passwords are a serious alternative to text or other log - in methods, especially for mobile devices, according to Lindqvist.

Three months after the emergency department visit, regardless of study group, opioid use for LBP was uncommon, with fewer than 3 percent of patients reporting use of an opioid within the previous 72 hours.

Previous studies from the UAB group first reported finding prostaglandins in worms.

Marketers could benefit from the study's findings, says Kim, by pitching brands in a servant context to population groups and regions that have been shown in previous studies to be more materialistic than others, such as younger consumers and residents of metropolitan areas.

Although in a previous study lower tactile thresholds were noted at the glans penis in circumcised men, the current investigation found no between - group differences in sensitivity across four stimulation types, lending no support to the widely accepted, but largely untested, keratinization hypothesis.

The study chronicles the use of Vasalgel ™ in groups of rhesus macaques — confirming previous preclinical findings in rabbits on the efficacy of the new device and offering a new tool to colony managers.

The research grew out of his group's previous study showing that by adding certain oils to mixed raw vegetables, the consumer experienced enhanced absorption of carotenoids.

Previous studies have shown that cardiovascular disease is more prevalent in RA patients compared with the general population, and contributes to greater mortality in this patient group.

In previous studies, Chen - Yu Zhang's group has reported a striking finding that plant miRNAs are ingested from plant diets and pass through the gastrointestinal tract, enter into the blood, accumulate in tissues and regulate endogenous gene expression in animals.

This study follows up on previous work by the same group of researchers at the University of California, Davis in 2011, which assessed the cognitive abilities of 30 people who regularly meditated before and after they went on a three - month - long retreat at the Shambhala Mountain meditation center in the US.

Most previous studies focused on one specific food type, studied outcomes in later childhood or studied high - risk groups.

Previous studies from the Wilkinson group and others have established that NMD has two broad roles.

Previous studies have modeled existing ground fractures, but the LLNL group also included fractures created by the force of the explosion.

The study was carried out by the Vision Loss Expert Group, led by Professor Rupert Bourne of Anglia Ruskin University, and shows the prevalence and causes of vision loss in high income countries worldwide as well as other European nations in 2015, based on a systematic review of medical literature over the previous 25 years.

The study's lead author, Patricia Lopes from the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich, says that previous research in wild animals has generally ignored how this change in behaviour may affect social contacts in a group and how, in turn, these changes can impact the transmission of a disease.

While some previous studies have suggested that the demise of the dinosaurs and other groups was gradual, many scientists argue that the dinosaur fossil record in particular is patchy, and can not compete with marine fossils in terms of quantity and biodiversity.

While previous studies have shown that children and adolescents who self - harm are at a higher risk of suicide, the paper by academics from UCL and the University of Leeds, argues that the risks apply to a larger group of adolescents.

For the animal study, the researchers separated 52 mice with colon cancer tumors into three groups, including a control group and groups that were fed either the grape compounds or sulindac, an anti-inflammatory drug, which was chosen because a previous study showed it significantly reduced the number of tumors in humans.

«The current study confirms the research group's previous results which showed that it is possible to use hypnotic suggestion to trigger visual hallucinations in a way that is otherwise not possible — say, through practiced use of mental imagery,» says Docent Sakari Kallio from the University of Turku.