Sentences with phrase «prior studies examining»

Prior studies examining this question have focused on the district level or explored the effects of charter schools located within several miles of a traditional public school.

Prior studies examining how war may affect the HIV epidemic have produced mixed, and even conflicting, results, said senior author Mark Lurie, associate professor of epidemiology in the Brown University School of Public Health.

The authors note that two prior studies examining the association between 25 (OH) D levels in pregnancy / early life did not find an association with future MS risk in children.

Not exact matches

In the study, which examined over 12,000 customers of 212 clothes stores over 12 months, moving up one point on a 7 - point identification scale increased spending by $ 124.39, even when other factors like satisfaction, income and prior spending were kept the same

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.

This study offered insight into delayed ASD diagnosis in black children by examining whether the concerns parents reported to providers about their child's development prior to diagnosis differed based on a parent's race.

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.

Prior to this study, «the understanding of permafrost feedbacks to climate change had been limited by a lack of data examining warming effects on both vegetation and permafrost carbon simultaneously,» said Dr. Natali.

Prior studies that examined the impact of cancer treatment decisions on employment showed that patients who received chemotherapy were most likely to experience longer disruptions in or loss of employment, but changes in breast cancer management in recent years have shifted recommendations away from chemotherapy for early stage breast cancer.

«Although prior studies had shown that sport outcomes influence reckless driving, heart attacks, and even domestic violence, no one had examined how they influence eating,» says Yann Cornil, researcher at INSEAD Business School and lead author of the study.

Prior to this, though, few studies had examined possible connections between mealtime practices or family meal frequency and health outcomes in a large, population - based group of adults.

This study is the third in a series using the same cohort of mothers to examine the role of biomarkers prior to pregnancy in predicting the risk of gestational diabetes.

Mitchell's prior analysis examined lab studies that used an Alzheimer's lab mouse model that did not allow for the study of p - tau.

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.

While prior studies have examined how monarch wing size varies within a migratory season, this study went beyond to include specific measures of wing shape and color that were obtained using fine - scale computer software.

Prior to the new study, the accumulation of these two proteins has been examined by German researchers in the brains of people who have already passed away.

Most prior studies of FMc examined Ficoll - purified peripheral blood mononuclear cells.

Prior research has examined the effects of obesity on longevity, but this study is the first to examine the combined effects of obesity and smoking.

The study, conducted by S.B. Khalsa at the Division of Sleep Medicine in Brigham and Women's Hospital, examined 20 participants for two weeks prior to the implementation of yoga practice and then 8 weeks following.

In a 2014 study in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, researchers examined 15 participants with no prior meditation experience.

In a prospective study, Schmidt and colleagues reexamined women with PCOS whom they first examined 21 years prior and matched them with non-PCOS women.

«Only one study has examined the effect of fasting prior to exercise on energy intake.

A study in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research examined different lengths and intensities of a general warm up to find which strategy worked best, prior to strength training.

This study examined Career Academies in the early 1990s, before many of the occupations common today even existed and prior to the introduction of policies with important implications for secondary schools (e.g., school accountability).

These prior studies are based largely on non-experimental comparisons of survey responses of similar students in public and private schools, whereas our study is the first to examine data on the actual voting behavior of students who participated in a choice lottery.

Prior to the IES report, there have been 15 empirical studies examining academic outcomes for students participating in private school choice using random assignment, the «gold standard» of defensible social science:

This study examined the relation of self - regulation measured prior to school entry to developing math and reading ability in prekindergarten through the second grade.

We interpret the findings as indicating that systematic studies are needed that (a) investigate alternative interventions with students prior to middle school and that (b) examine the efficacy of interventions that integrate practices associated with cognitive malleability (executive functioning and self - regulation) into the treatments.

In addition, «[g] iven the model's infancy, there are no real studies to explain or define the [s] tate's value - added system... [hence, the consequences and decisions]... that are to be made using such system data should be examined and validated prior to making such decisions» (p. 12).

This Science study examines climate data from 2000 to 2014, prior to the recent surge of refugees into Europe during 2015 and 2016.

Today I offer this post as a «Summary for Policymakers» regarding my series of seven prior blog posts about a smear effort which took place back in 2007 that is a case study for examining other prior and current industry corruption accusations against skeptic climate scientists.

The easy dismissal of a mountain of prior evidence for the MWP from many fields of study based on just one newly published and barely examined study struck me as extremely unscientific.

The researchers compiled data from 208 prior studies that examined 857 species.

Using a hypothetical 40 - year - old female driver with a clean driving record and no prior claims, the study also examined the average cost of auto insurance in all 67 counties statewide, and some of the results were quite significant.

Using a hypothetical 40 - year - old driver with a clean driving record and no prior claims, the study also examined the average cost of auto insurance in all 88 counties statewide.

Using data from Waves 1 and 2 of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, I extend prior research on family transitions and adolescent well - being by examining the influence of parental marital and cohabitation transitions on adolescent delinquency, depression, and school engagement.

Only 2 prior studies have examined the stability of maternal feeding behaviors as children age.

Our study also provides new information about the associations of temporally primary mental disorders with subsequent adolescent suicidal behaviors.1, 5,6,8,9 The rates of prior mental disorders among suicidal adolescents found in our study are somewhat higher than the rates found in previous community studies of adolescents1 - 3 and adults, 40 possibly reflecting the fact that the NCS - A examined more disorders than previous studies.

This study examined the relationship of ambivalent sexism, political conservatism, demographic variables (age, education, and gender), and prior sexual experience to Turkish men's and women's attitudes toward women who engage in premarital sex.

The authors reviewed 48 studies with 82 independent samples from 1980 to 2014 examining the relationship between teacher qualification and the quality of ECEC environment, which included children from pre-kindergarten and kindergarteners prior to primary school.

Prior to joining JBA, Tess worked at the University of Washington, where she was the research coordinator for a randomized trial of an emerging home visiting model and for two national studies examining behavioral health and related risk and protective factors among tribal college and university students.

The current study examined violence prior to the birth of a first child as a predictor of coparenting quality when children reached 1 year of age in a community sample of first - time parents utilizing the Family Foundations (FF) program.

The current study examines Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) prior to the birth of a first child as a predictor of observed parenting when the child was one - year old utilizing the Family Foundations (FF) program.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) The current study examined the immediate impact of the Middle School Success intervention (MSS, now called KEEP SAFE [Keeping Foster Parents Trained and Supported]-RRB- targeting the prevention of internalizing and externalizing problems for girls in foster care prior to middle school entry.

First, prior work has examined how spousal differences in race / ethnic, educational, and religious backgrounds affect marital quality; however, studies have not investigated the implications of age heterogamy for marital quality (Bumpass & Sweet, 1972; Bradbury, Fincham, & Breach, 2000; Larson & Holman, 1994).

We are unaware of any prior studies that have examined the long - term effect of 9/11 on adolescent behavior and mental health.

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.

This study examined the sexual functioning of single adults (61 men, 68 women) with high functioning autism and Asperger syndrome living in the community with and without prior relationship experience.

Stress and coping researchers should examine carefully the psychometric properties of study measures within and between racial groups prior to conducting tests of between - group differences.

In the current study, we extend this prior work by examining whether the interaction between internalizing and externalizing symptoms in early adolescence predict escalation of alcohol and marijuana use during adolescence into young adulthood.