Sentences with phrase «prior studies also»

Prior studies also often lack information about how services were delivered and which kinds of families experience the greatest benefits.

Not exact matches

Furthermore, we confirm that a height premium in earnings exists for not only paid employees, as indicated by prior studies, but also for self - employed individuals.

You might want to study the economic constructs of that time and place... And also then read the prior verses...

The dates of the twelve studies included within the Wax (2010) analysis is also an area of concern, with eight dating prior to the birth certificate data set change that identified planned from unplanned home births.

The study findings also indicate that how a young athlete hoped to perform affects how a parent feels prior to competition.

We also calculated outcome rates before reclassification to determine the effect of misclassification in standard vital statistics data, including prior U.S. studies on place of birth.

These babies are also vulnerable to the risk of infectious disease from bacterial and viral contamination of such milk, which was identified in a prior study by the same research team led by Nationwide Children's Hospital.

The state of NJ also requires that a home study be completed prior to the preliminary hearing, except when the adoption is occurring between close relatives.

Studies examining the effects of prostaglandins (grouped together as a class of agents) on uterine rupture in women with a prior cesarean delivery also have demonstrated inconsistent results.

Also Wednesday, the council greenlighted legislation requiring used car dealers to disclose details about a vehicle's recall history, regulating commercial bicyclists, studying the feasibility of allowing pedestrians to cross in any direction while vehicle traffic is stopped, and extending a prior legal limit on the conversion of hotels into non-hotel use — a bill backed by the city's hotel worker labor union.

Also speaking, Managing Director of Planet Projects, the firm that designed the project, Mr. Biodun Otunola said prior to the commencement of the construction, adequate feasibility studies were carried out, and that the project, upon completion, would facilitate total transformation of Oshodi and International Airport corridor.

«We launched this study to not only track how prior vaccination affects immune responses in expectant mothers, but also to see whether it affects how well antibodies against the flu are transferred from the mother to the baby.»

«Our study also suggests the need for further evaluation of patient risk factors prior to surgery and more vigilant surveillance of patients following operative procedures,» said Dr. Brooks Carthon.

Because prior studies have shown that hyperglycemic patients also exhibit elevated nasal glucose levels, it is likely that the sweet taste receptor function we demonstrate here may also contribute to the predisposition of diabetic patients to airway infections.»

The team also examined data from a prior genetic study of children with asthma and found that a variant of the dectin - 1 gene — which reduces production of the receptor — is strongly linked to increased asthma risk.

The study therefore indicates that the early terrestrial vertebrates were also able to hear prior to developing the tympanic middle ear.

However, our study also suggests that previously admitted patients, particularly those with prior suicidality, remain at a markedly elevated risk of suicide for years and should be a focus of efforts to decrease suicide in the community,» the article concludes.

A prior study by this group, which was also conducted in concurrence with the Beijing Olympics, demonstrated that pollutions levels were linked to physiological changes that increase risk for cardiovascular disease, and that these same air pollution reductions resulted in improvements in several risk factors

Mitchell's latest findings have corroborated the prior study's findings on amyloid, and also added p - tau as a key suspect in cognitive decline.

Rie Davies said: «This study provides support for prior research by Kirschner and Tomasello (2010) 1 and also highlights the need for schools and parents to understand the important role music making has in children's lives in terms of social bonding and helping behaviours.

In this study, which was also led by postdoctoral research associate Ogun Adebali, PhD, the researchers focused largely on Mfd, a protein known from prior work by Sancar and Selby to have a special — and mechanistically unusual — role in excision repair in bacteria.

This study also goes above and beyond prior research as it shows that gambling youth are not only at risk of gambling problems, which are associated with numerous adverse interpersonal, financial, criminal, and psychiatric consequences, but also at risk for sex - related behaviors such as adolescent pregnancy / impregnation.»

Prior studies of microfluidic devices have shown that motility of the sperm sample increased to almost 100 percent and morphology of the isolated sperm also was improved after microfluidic sorting.

A study examined three different factors: warmer - than - usual surface atmosphere conditions (related to global warming); sea - ice thinning prior to the melting season (also related to global warming); and an August storm that passed over the Arctic, stirring up the ocean, fracturing the sea ice and sending it southward to warmer climes.

«I knew we were increasing residents» lengths of stay based on care coordination because of the positive outcomes we observed in several prior studies, and I thought the sensors also would have an impact,» said Marilyn Rantz, Curators Professor Emerita in the MU Sinclair School of Nursing.

«This is a promising treatment option that may prove not only to be more effective than chemotherapy alone prior to surgery, it may also be better than chemotherapy and standard radiation,» said lead study author Kimmen Quan, MD, a radiation oncologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

As in prior studies among older adults, we found that obesity was associated with a decreased risk of dementia, consistent with the hypothesis that, while obesity in mid-life may increase risk for later - life cognitive decline and dementia, obesity at older ages may be associated with cognitive and other health advantages.25 - 27 The trend toward a declining risk for dementia in the face of a large increase in the prevalence of diabetes suggests that improvements in treatments between 2000 and 2012 may have decreased dementia risk, along with the documented declines in the incidence of common diabetes - related complications, such as heart attack, stroke, and amputations.11 Our finding of a significant decline between 2000 and 2012 of the heart disease - related OR for dementia would also be consistent with improved cardiovascular treatments leading to a decline in dementia risk.

Our study, along with prior studies, supports the notion that «cognitive reserve» resulting from early - life and lifelong education and cognitive stimulation may be a potent strategy for the primary prevention of dementia in both high - and low - income countries around the world.21 However, it should be noted that the relationships among education, brain biology, and cognitive function are complex and likely multidirectional; for instance, a number of recent population - based studies have shown genetic links with level of educational attainment, 22,23 and with the risk for cognitive decline in later life.24 Higher levels of educational attainment are also associated with health behaviors (eg, physical activity, diet, and smoking), more cognitively - complex occupations, and better access to health care, all of which may play a role in decreasing lifetime dementia risk.

A new study in Italy suggests that consuming flavonoid - rich dark chocolate instead of flavonoid - free white chocolate could not only lower blood pressure and cholesterol — benefits suggested by some prior studies — but also improve the body's processing of sugar.

Her studies have revealed that the brain does not simply rely on the incoming sounds that reach the ear to understand and retain speech, but rather also relies on information from other senses and prior knowledge to facilitate comprehension.

The CTR - IN also facilitates an «Advance to Funding» (ATF) program, which is a mock study section providing specific expertise and written feedback on how to improve NIH and other federal grant applications prior to submission.

The research establishes a new model for studying lysosomal storage disorders and suggests that GM2 accumulation not only causes neurodegeneration but also may disrupt neurodevelopment prior to birth.

He is also director of a new consortium (MenAfriCar), which is studying the epidemiology of meningococcal infection in Africa prior to the introduction of a new conjugate vaccine.

The new study reinforces the idea that habits that are good for the body are also good for the brain, says Merrill — and that they seem to have an impact on abnormal protein buildup «for years, if not decades, prior to the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.»

They also hadn't had any energy drinks, coffee or alcohol for at least 24 hours prior to each study day.

Sex differences between our findings and those of prior studies may have been due to the overall healthy sample of our study population, but could also have been due to the race distribution and relatively small size of our sample.

Surya also studied and practiced in Mysore, prior to the two of us meeting.

In the study, the most impactful result was with carbs eaten four hours before bed but it was also shown that if carbs were eaten one hour prior to bedtime, there was still a modest improvement in sleep quality.

Though studies have yet to include matcha's influence on fat burning post resistance training, since we know that the post-exercise oxygen consumption with resistance training is higher than cardiovascular activity, the suggestion is there that matcha prior to your weight training session would also boost your fat burning benefits.

But even prior to all this, we had severe concerns about VLC / ketogenic diets: the very low triglycerides that these ketogenic dieters attain were being implicated in autoimmune pathogenesis in an Italian study; the mucin deficiency that you mention were also being linked to immune (Secretory IgA deficiency); the T - lymphocyte dysfunction was being linked to ketosis and its effect on thymus; and the general leukopenic effect that a VLC diet has on everyone — this was being attributed to inflammation reduction but we were seeing WBCs fall into the 2s in many people.

A second important outcome was that the lower - performing students, so these were students who were about the bottom third of our sample, these were students who were earning Grade Point Averages (GPAs) of a C or below in the semester prior to the intervention [and were] most likely going to be struggling in school; for these students, the intervention increased their GPAs and also increased their likelihood of passing core courses like Math, English, Social Studies and Science - and increased that by around 6.5 percentage points.

This rich dataset allows us to study students» math and reading test - score growth from year to year in grades four through eight (where end of year and prior year tests are available), while also taking account of differences in student backgrounds.

He also served as the Director of Staff Development and Social Studies (K - 12) for the District prior to his promotion to Assistant Superintendent.

Although, whether in fact the systems have actually been reformed is also of debate in that states are still using many of the same observational systems they were using prior (i.e., not the «binary checklists» exaggerated in the original as well as this report, albeit true in the case of the district of focus in this study).

This study presents a refined technological pedagogical content knowledge (also known as TPACK) based instructional design model, which was revised using findings from the implementation study of a prior model.

This last point, which according to the judge «shock [ed] the conscience,» came almost entirely thanks to the testimony of Thomas Kane (see prior posts about his Bill and Melinda Gates funded research here and here) and the testimony of Raj Chetty, Kane's colleague at Harvard who has also been the source of many prior posts (see here and here), but whose research at the source of his testimony has also been recently (and seriously) scrutinized given how bias in his study actually made false this key assertion.

Recall, for example, when the Chetty et al. studies (mentioned prior as also often cited by Kane) were cited in President Obama's 2012 State of the Union address, regardless of the fact that the Chetty et al. studies had not even been internally reviewed by their sponsoring agency — the National Bureau of Education Research (NBER)-- prior to their public release?

They also dismiss the fact that Rothstein addressed Chetty et al.'s counterpoints before they published them, in Appendix B of his paper given Chetty et al. shared their concerns with Rothstein prior to his study's release.

See also a related blog post about NCTQ's prior large - scale (and also slanted) study — «State of the States 2015: Evaluating Teaching, Leading and Learning» — here.

However, accounting for prior math, science, and other scores is still important because those scores adjust for general cognitive and study skills that also influence subsequent scores.