Sentences with phrase «prior research comparing»

Not exact matches

«Prior research studies comparing brain structure in individuals who are deaf and hearing attempted to control for language experience by only focusing on those who grew up using sign language,» explains Olumide Olulade, PhD, the study's lead author and post-doctoral fellow at GUMC.

Indeed, research doesn't always support the notion that salt causes high blood pressure: A large, multicenter study known as INTERSALT compared urinary sodium levels — an accurate indicator of prior sodium consumption — with hypertension in more than 10,000 people in 1988 and found no statistically significant association between them.

«However, we found that children with obesity who were rated as more impulsive prior to starting FBT had greater weight - loss success in the program compared to children with obesity who were rated as less impulsive,» added co-author Kelley Scholz, MSW, research supervisor at Seattle Children's Research Inresearch supervisor at Seattle Children's Research InResearch Institute.

A virtue of this new concept compared to prior efforts is that there is a project in the works to test it, said Sergio Pellegrino, a senior research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif..

I've trained with albeit a very, very, different (aka scary with less than a month to race day) and reduced volume of training (compared to prior event preparation) that is still far above that which has given me and thousands of my clients, readers and subscribers better results thanks to the last 4 years of research.

Then, specific research with krill oil compared a daily dosage of 2 g krill oil for one month, following by 2 g daily for eight days prior to menstruation, and the two days during menses for another two months, to 2 g of fish oil in 70 women with PMS.

Compared with the whole room calorimetry precision of (0.5 — 2 %), the doubly labeled water technique used in prior research (21, 22) provides less sensitive and precise (∼ 6 — 8 %) estimates of EE (23).

Some of these differences include: the ability to search from a deep pool of potential partners outside of one's existing social networks; the ability to communicate online or via email prior to arranging for a face - to - face interaction; and matching algorithms that allow users to filter potential partners based on pre-existing criteria.3 Other research has indicated that the efficiency of online dating and the size of the potential dating pool compared with traditional methods make the process especially useful for people (such as gays and lesbians, or middle aged heterosexuals) who may have limited options for meeting people within their immediate geographic area or social circle.4 Still others have speculated that the rise of online dating has encouraged young adults, especially men, to forego marriage because they can always find women to date and that lowers their interest in committing to long term relationships.5

Dweck's book Mindset includes research with 373 seventh grade students with equal prior math achievement to determine how a fixed mindset (the belief that intellectual abilities are fixed) compared to a growth mindset (the belief that intelligence can be developed) impacted math achievement.

Prior to the assessment students will have researched, looked at other opinions of life after death, thought about their own opinion whilst comparing to others peoples views etc...

By comparing the educational outcomes of students who scored just above the admissions threshold (and thus were very likely to attend) and just below the admissions threshold (who mostly did not attend), Dougherty is able to account for the selection bias that has plagued prior CTE research.

«Our research design compares outcomes among teachers whose performance in the prior year happened to place them just above or just below the score thresholds that separate IMPACT's rating categories.

Finally, we compare the instructionally helpful practices identified in our research with the core leadership practices identified by prior research.

Research comparing the efficacy of full - day to part - day is limited and some was conducted prior to the Common Core State Standards and other measures holding all students accountable for achieving the same standards regardless of time - in - school models.

As described in an earlier brief, some research provides evidence that value - added measures — at least those that compare teachers within the same school and adjust well for students» prior achievement — do not favor teachers who teach certain types of students.

Prior research suggests that males outperform females, on average, on multiple - choice items compared to their relative performance on constructed - response items.

This peer - reviewed study utilized a quasi-experimental research design known as propensity score matching to compare students who took dual enrollment with those who did not, accounting for student demographic characteristics and prior academic performance.

-LSB-...] in itself is a huge success, comparing the the average results — according to our prior research, teachers estimated that more than half of their students» parents (56 %) were not fully engaged -LSB-...]

There aren't always hallmarks of a bad one as compared to an excellent no fax cash advance; a little prior research can help.

Research indicates that dogs spayed prior to their first heat have less than a half of one percent chance of experiencing mammary cancer as compared to an eight percent chance after the second heat.

Also, never compare sets which are on the show floor without doing prior research.

Objectives for future research in this area include: a) using data from representative, population - based samples, b) using well - matched comparison groups of non-fathers (to compare with fathers), c) longitudinal research extending both prior to and post the perinatal period, and d) acquiring data from both partners («dyad data»).

Research suggests sex differences in the association between partner health problems and relationship satisfaction31 as well as PTSD treatment outcomes.32 The more rigorous methods of the current randomized trial compared with prior studies, including controls for patient inclusion, treatment assignment, and blinded assessment, may also account for the different findings.

No prior research has examined and compared the associations of several communication technologies with relational outcomes in such a large and diverse sample of individuals in LDRs.

«The stronger association between adolescent outcomes and ties to nonresident mothers compared with ties to stepmothers stands in contrast to the results reported in prior research on resident mother families where close ties to resident stepfathers are more strongly associated with positive adolescent outcomes than ties to nonresident biological fathers (King, 2006; White & Gilbreth, 2001), suggesting important differences in the role of nonresident parents and stepparents by gender....

Moreover, in contrast to a previous report on the present sample (Asscher et al. 2008) which focused on short - term effects (by comparing pre - and posttest scores), in the present study we extend prior research by examining program effects on long term growth in maternal sense of competence, maternal parenting behavior, and child problem behavior over a period of 12 months.

Hypotheses: Prior research suggests that distressed couples with a depressed partner compared to non-depressed couples with a depressed partner should have more couple related stress, higher negative and lower positive dyadic coping.

Compared with prior research, our study significantly expands inquiry in this area by broadening the range of social participation indicators examined, increasing the external validity of findings, focusing on the under - studied developmental stage of adolescence, and taking an ecological approach that included many potential correlates of social participation.

In summary, compared with prior research, our study significantly expands inquiry in this area by broadening the range of social participation indicators examined, by increasing the external validity of findings, by focusing on the under - studied developmental stage of adolescence, and by taking an ecological approach that included many potential correlates of social participation.

In 2017, deal activity in the student housing sector fell 21 percent compared to the year prior, but it was still at an elevated level historically, according to Jim Costello, senior vice president with New York City - based research firm Real Capital Analytics (RCA).

The results from the current research were compared against prior studies completed in early 2016 and late 2015.

TransUnion research shows that evicted residents have nearly three times as many prior eviction and rental - related collection records when compared to non-evicted residents.