Sentences with phrase «similar studies using»

They have also performed similar studies using what is known as an analogue called ambrosin — a substance similar to damsin, but produced synthetically.

Laska even has a student performing a similar study using mice instead of carnivores.

Performing a similar study using the biceps brachii, Beck et al. (2005) found that inter-electrode pair distances of between 2 — 6 cm produced similarly low levels of crosstalk, implying that increasing the distance to more than 2 cm is probably unnecessary.

A similar study using data on students in Philadelphia found that living farther from school increased absences and resulted in lower grade point averages and test scores.

Moore and Kuipers (1999) conducted a similar study using a qualified health care professional with knowledge about expressed emotion and training to specifically work with those who have psychological disorders.

Not exact matches

A similar strategy for tackling the urge to slack is to practice «productive procrastination,» a term used by Piers Steel, a professor at the University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business who studies procrastination.

Even when comparing the sexes with the same job title at the same company and using similar education and experience, the gender pay gap persists across the board: Men earned 2.4 percent more than women on average, down slightly from last year, according to a study by salary - tracking website PayScale.

As luck would have it, a similar study from BMO Bank of Montreal, also released on Monday, found that only 29 % Canadian businesses are successfully using social media.

Since Schmidt moved to the executive chair role at Google, he would not be considered as «forced out» of the CEO role, according to the criteria used in Taylor's and similar studies.

The methodology utilized was similar to the method used by Fabius et al7 in the 2013 CHAA study.

Furthermore, while Banz used NYSE companies for this study, he concluded that there is evidence that similar, if not better, results could have been obtained by investing in small AMEX or in over-the-counter stocks.

While domain authority and page authority are not officially used by Google (in fact, they are calculated and provided by Moz), correlation studies have shown that Google takes both domain authority and page authority (or something similar) into account when calculating ranks.

(Washington, D.C.: Committee on Education and the Workforce, February, 13, 2002), http://archives.republicans.edlabor.house.gov/archive/hearings/107th/eer/enronthree21302/kruse.htm Another study comparing a matched sample of ESOP versus non-ESOP firms in with similar industries and workforce sizes among closely held companies, again, using population data on all available US DOL data followed the ESOP firms before and after their adoption of the ESOP from 1988 to 1998 along with the matched firms and found that 20 % of the ESOP firms had a defined benefit plan before adopting their ESOP, and 10 years later, after adopting their ESOP, they had defined benefit plans five times more than non-ESOP firms), 33.3 % of ESOP firms had a 401 (k) plan before adopting their ESOP with 52.4 % 10 years later (five times more than non-ESOP firms), and 35.7 % of ESOP firms had a deferred profit - sharing plan before adopting their ESOP with 51.2 % 10 years later (five times more than non-ESOP firms).

The study of what used to be called «public administration» thus commands little prestige in the public policy graduate schools, which employ many of the authors represented in these and similar volumes.

In my own study and research, I use two or three other similar tools as well.

This diagram is similar to the one which Jellinek used to illustrate the lecture in which he reported on this study at the Yale Summer School of Alcohol Studies, 1961.

We used rules similar to those used in other articles and studies to clean the data and ensure the integrity of the results.

The purpose of a recent UK study carried out by Drs. Eirini Flouri and Ann Buchanan at the Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford, was to discover whether there was similar evidence in the UK using longitudinal data from the National Child Development Study (Nstudy carried out by Drs. Eirini Flouri and Ann Buchanan at the Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford, was to discover whether there was similar evidence in the UK using longitudinal data from the National Child Development Study (NStudy (NCDS).

you can't use websites as proof, you have to actually read the studies and then analyse the data and then, look at similar studies for comparison.

This list of practical, personal, and moral considerations is very similar to the list researchers studying commitment use to explain why marital happiness alone can not explain why some couples divorce and some stay married.

This rate is similar to the National Birth Center Study and to the low - risk hospital births used as a comparison group in the same study of 1.3 / 1,000 (0.7 / 1,000 excluding anomalStudy and to the low - risk hospital births used as a comparison group in the same study of 1.3 / 1,000 (0.7 / 1,000 excluding anomalstudy of 1.3 / 1,000 (0.7 / 1,000 excluding anomalies).

Using studies of twins who had been separated at birth, yet displayed remarkably similar characteristics of personality despite differences in environment, Harris demonstrated the importance of genetic predisposition as a factor in human development.

Dr. Pope's org Challenge Success, which used more than twenty studies on homework for its papers, found similar results, reporting,» [I] n a recent study comparing the standardized math scores across multiple countries, no positive link was found between student math achievement and the frequency or amount of homework given (Baker & LeTendre, 2005).

In a 2012 study, [8] researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) measured before - and - after data from the brains of a group of nine high school football and hockey players using an advanced form of imaging similar to an MRI called diffusion tensor imaging (DTI).

One study found that the average young infant spends 5.7 hours / day in a car seat or similar sitting device.126 However, there are multiple concerns about using sitting devices as a usual infant sleep location.

Rats are often used to study how mammalian brains work and many effects are similar in human brains.

Most studies have revealed protective effects of breastfeeding on common infections in the first 8 to12 months of life.8, 27,29,30 One study, which distinguished between infectious diseases until and from the age of 6 months, revealed results similar to those from our study.24 Although the authors used exclusive breastfeeding for 3 months as the reference group, exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months reduced the risk of gastrointestinal tract infections between the ages of 3 and 6 months but not between the ages of 6 and 12 months.24 We can not explain why breastfeeding duration was only associated with lower risks of lower respiratory tract infection from 7 to 12 months.

STUDY DESIGN: Using methods similar to those in the 2001 study, we computed current costs and compared them to the projected costs if 80 % and 90 % of US families could comply with the recommendation to exclusively breastfeed for 6 moSTUDY DESIGN: Using methods similar to those in the 2001 study, we computed current costs and compared them to the projected costs if 80 % and 90 % of US families could comply with the recommendation to exclusively breastfeed for 6 mostudy, we computed current costs and compared them to the projected costs if 80 % and 90 % of US families could comply with the recommendation to exclusively breastfeed for 6 months.

«Right now, cfDNA is being studied for use in low - risk women, and the accuracy seems to be similar to that for high - risk women,» says Dr. Hill.

An UpToDate review on «Planned home birth» (Declercq and Stotland, 2015) stated that «Large cohort studies using intent - to - treat analysis of midwife - attended, planned, out - of - hospital birth of low - risk women in developed countries have reported reduced rates of cesarean birth, perineal lacerations, and medical interventions, and similar rates of maternal and early perinatal morbidity and mortality compared to planned hospital birth.

One study found brain hemorrhages in mouse fetuses exposed to pulsed ultrasound at doses similar to those used on human babies.

In future updates, we will use fixed - effect meta - analysis for combining data where it is reasonable to assume that studies are estimating the same underlying treatment effect: i.e. where trials are examining the same intervention, and the trials» populations and methods are judged sufficiently similar.

A study done in 2009 found that children ages 4 - 8 using a booster seat saw a 45 % decrease in injury when compared to children of similar ages that only used a vehicle seat belt.

In this study, the frequency of fan use was similar in young and less educated women as in other women; thus, fan use can be easily adopted by these populations.

The prone or side sleep position can increase the risk of rebreathing expired gases, resulting in hypercapnia and hypoxia.54, — , 57 The prone position also increases the risk of overheating by decreasing the rate of heat loss and increasing body temperature compared with infants sleeping supine.58, 59 Recent evidence suggests that prone sleeping alters the autonomic control of the infant cardiovascular system during sleep, particularly at 2 to 3 months of age, 60 and can result in decreased cerebral oxygenation.61 The prone position places infants at high risk of SIDS (odds ratio [OR]: 2.3 — 13.1).62, — , 66 However, recent studies have demonstrated that the SIDS risks associated with side and prone position are similar in magnitude (OR: 2.0 and 2.6, respectively) 63 and that the population - attributable risk reported for side sleep position is higher than that for prone position.65, 67 Furthermore, the risk of SIDS is exceptionally high for infants who are placed on their side and found on their stomach (OR: 8.7).63 The side sleep position is inherently unstable, and the probability of an infant rolling to the prone position from the side sleep position is significantly greater than rolling prone from the back.65, 68 Infants who are unaccustomed to the prone position and are placed prone for sleep are also at greater risk than those usually placed prone (adjusted OR: 8.7 — 45.4).63, 69,70 Therefore, it is critically important that every caregiver use the supine sleep position for every sleep period.

Although some SIDS experts and policy - makers endorse pacifier use recommendations that are similar to those of the AAP, 272,273 concerns about possible deleterious effects of pacifier use have prevented others from making a recommendation for pacifier use as a risk reduction strategy.274 Although several observational studies275, — , 277 have found a correlation between pacifiers and reduced breastfeeding duration, the results of well - designed randomized clinical trials indicated that pacifiers do not seem to cause shortened breastfeeding duration for term and preterm infants.278, 279 The authors of 1 study reported a small deleterious effect of early pacifier introduction (2 — 5 days after birth) on exclusive breastfeeding at 1 month of age and on overall breastfeeding duration (defined as any breastfeeding), but early pacifier use did not adversely affect exclusive breastfeeding duration.

A similar reduction was found in the current study with the use of nutrient - enriched donor milk.

I am unsure why you disagree with using data / results from studying other animals that are known to be similar to humans — I see studies all the time that correlate results in other species (eg, to demonstrate the carcinogenic properties of something, they give it to rats and watch for tumors).

However, these studies used different data sources, differing definitions of postpartum hemorrhage and varying methodologies such that it is not clear if these results are widely generalisable and hence whether a similar pattern is likely to be observed in other high resource countries.

And some use just the Picture Study, Composer Study, and other similar components.

A similar pattern of differences was observed when postprandial measures (ie, 60 min after feeding), which were available in 3 studies, were used (mean difference: − 4.07 pmol / L; 95 % CI: − 7.51, − 0.62 pmol / L; P = 0.021)(5, 31, 35).

Other council members pointed to studies showing plastic bag use is on the rise in cities that have instituted similar punitive fees, like San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

A related paper, involving Svendsen, his colleague Gad Vatine, PhD, and a team from University of California, Irvine, published the same day in the journal Cell Reports, used a similar approach to study Huntington's disease.

That study showed how a similar model can be used to understand immune response in patients with pancreatic cancer who survive longer than others.

Lead author Marie Bragg, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Population Health at NYU Langone, conducted a study three years ago of celebrity athlete endorsements using similar methods.

Data centres based on disc drive arrays use over 200 times more power than would a tape library of similar size, according to a 2010 study by The Clipper Group, a technology consultancy based in Rye, New Hampshire.

A similar study was performed by the same team in 2008 using older data from a survey conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The researchers found similar results in two other studies — one that used the same set - up to compare in - person impressions to those obtained through looking Facebook photos, and another that compared in - person meetings to simply watching someone as a passive observer.

Even more important, this seminal work opens the road for comparative neuroimaging studies in which humans and other animals perform similar tasks using similar methodologies, and the results can be analyzed using similar strategies.

Young birds running up steep ramps flap their wings before they can fly, and scientists studying the energetics of flight have found that birds use far less energy running and flapping up steep inclines angles than they do flying at similar angles.