Sentences with phrase «study analysis group»

This page provides the final SAG15 report status reports and documents in support of the development of the EXOPAG Study Analysis Group 15: Science Goals for Future Direct Imaging Missions.

Not exact matches

The groups who conducted the study did an earlier analysis after the House passed its health - care bill in May.

«Among both groups, patients taking Entresto had a 20 % or greater reduction in cardiovascular death or heart failure hospitalization compared to those taking enalapril,» Novartis said in a statement, citing conclusions based on analysis of data from the PARADIGM - HF study.

A recent study by economic consulting firm Analysis Group and commissioned by OnDeck, measured the impact of the first $ 3 billion lent by OnDeck to small businesses and found that these loans have powered $ 11 billion in business activity and created 74,000 jobs nationwide.

The study also evaluates company market share and provides analysis on industry competitors including Advanced Lighting Technologies, Cree, Feit Electric, General Electric, LEDVANCE, Leviton, Lighting Science Group, LSI Industries, MLS, Philips Lighting, TCP International, and Ushio.

In the March 2008 version of their paper entitled «Experts Online: An Analysis of Trading Activity in a Public Internet Chat Room», Bruce Mizrach and Susan Weerts study a group of active traders who voluntarily posted their trades in real time in a free public Internet chat room called Activetrader.

These kinds of analyses — studies of the relations between ideologies and status groups — tend to become unsatisfactory to the extent that they stop with mere assertions about interests and legitimation.

This self - study included a careful analysis of the church's group structure against the background of the obvious needs of the congregation.

This work with experimental groups extended into a more chastened critical study of transactional analysis in relation to Pauline - Augustinian understandings of human bondage and freedom.4

Based on its own financial analyses and case studies, Root Capital's revised 18 - page scorecard places greater emphasis on providing farmers with agronomic assistance and including women in influential enterprise roles, each of which the group believes contributes to measurably greater financial return.

This study's findings are consistent with an analysis commissioned by FDA and updated in 2012, as well as a published ILSI survey of more than 37,000 people which shows that caffeine consumption in the U.S. has remained stable during the most recent period analyzed, while coffee remains the primary source of caffeine in most age groups.

The New Zealand Health Star Rating Advisory Group had no role in in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

The strengths of the study include the ability to compare outcomes by the woman's planned place of birth at the start of care in labour, the high participation of midwifery units and trusts in England, the large sample size and statistical power to detect clinically important differences in adverse perinatal outcomes, the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias due to non-consent, the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical risk (according to current clinical guidelines) and to further increase the comparability of the groups by conducting an additional analysis restricted to women with no complicating conditions identified at the start of care in labour, and the ability to control for several important potential confounders.

We compared socio - demographic and pregnancy - related characteristics among the three study groups using chi - square tests for categorical variables, analysis of variance (ANOVA) for normally distributed continuous variables and the nonparametric Kruskal - Wallis test for continuous variables that were not normally distributed.

One of the studies in the 2005 meta - analysis, conducted with high - risk women delivering at a hospital in India, was stopped early because of 4 fetal deaths: 3 in the nipple stimulation group, and 1 in the oxytocin induction group.

Members of the Millennium Cohort Study Child Health Group contributed to the paper through analysis and construction of explanatory variables and commented on data interpretation and early drafts of the manuscript.

The table provides information about study population characteristics; details of intervention and control groups; main results; quality assessment of studies and the outcome measure contributing to the meta - analysis.

The flavored milk «study» being promoted by the School Nutrition Association was conducted by Prime Consultant Group, a major player in consumer analysis and sales strategies that lists among clients Coca - Cola, PepsiCo International, Kraft Foods / Nabisco, Sara Lee and Proctor & Gamble.

Meta - analyses of studies evaluating these programs show positive effects on the competence, efficacy and psychological health of the parents, as well as on the behaviour of the children.49, 50 A recent implementation study of a strategy for parenting and family support showed that families in the treatment group had far fewer cases of substantiated child maltreatment, abuse injuries and out - of - home placements.51

The effect of study size, age groups at outcome measurement (comparing those aged 16 — 30 y with those aged ≥ 50 y), year of birth, the method of ascertainment of infant feeding status (whether contemporary or recalled over a period of ≥ 5 y) was examined by using meta - regression and sensitivity analysis.

In a meta - regression analysis, the mean differences between feeding groups observed in each study were unrelated to the mean total cholesterol concentrations in that study (P = 0.42).

Although the restriction of analysis to exclusive feeding groups resulted in the omission from analysis of more than half of the studies (10 of 17, 14 388 of 17 498 subjects), the effects observed were homogenous and based largely on contemporaneous ascertainment of exposure (either from birth records at the time of feeding or by maternal recall within 6 y after birth).

Again, there was some evidence that the treatment effect may be partly due to bias; sensitivity analysis including only those studies assessed as being at low risk of bias for allocation concealment showed that results still favoured the intervention group although the treatment effect was less pronounced in the studies at lower risk of bias (Analysanalysis including only those studies assessed as being at low risk of bias for allocation concealment showed that results still favoured the intervention group although the treatment effect was less pronounced in the studies at lower risk of bias (AnalysisAnalysis 1.8).

To decide a group is crazy all too often lets Political Risk Analysts off the hook, as such a characterisation implicitly means that analysis is simply impossible, as the group in question is not sane enough for rational analysis — the kind capable of being studied and assessed — to be made.

But it also presents grim funding questions for the MTA and other big - city transit agencies, according to the analysis, a joint study from transportation advocacy groups Riders Alliance and the Tri-State Transportation Campaign.

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.

The group also analyzed data from national forest inventories across Europe, making the study one of the most comprehensive analyses of forest ecosystem functioning at this scale to date.

Using techniques drawn from the analysis of music, astronomers have been studying how galaxies form into progressively larger groupings

«Loki formed a well - supported group with the eukaryotes in our analyses,» says Lionel Guy, one of the senior scientists involved in the study from Uppsala University.

Black, non-Hispanic service members had a rate of 24.4 new diagnoses of hypertension per 1,000 person - years (p - yrs), nearly 50 percent higher than the rates among members of all the other racial and ethnic groups studied, according to the analysis published in the Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, a peer - reviewed journal on illnesses and injuries affecting service members.

An analysis of 41,302 blood samples taken from the entire study at different time points found that a child who had an intermediate antibody level and became infected again had a 7.64 times higher risk of being in the small group that developed DHS / DSS, researchers report today in Science.

Their data set had many more ornithischians — the group that includes Stegosaurus and Triceratops — than other such analyses; one of the conclusions of that study was that theropods and ornithischians were more closely related than once thought.

While their scores had not caught up with the other two groups by the midpoint of kindergarten (the final point of analysis for the study), Choi expects with more time DLLs with limited English skills would eventually match or even outperform English - only peers as they learn more English and become bilingual.

The analysis, by researchers at Duke University, King's College London and the University of Otago in New Zealand, combined data from a long - term study of a group of people born in the same year in Dunedin, New Zealand with their electronic health records and governmental databases on such things as health, welfare and criminal justice.

She and other US scientists, in a collaboration known as the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group, have been churning out studies on how future missions might answer key science questions.

Next on 23andMe's agenda: applying the same approach to rare cancers, such as sarcoma and a group of blood cancers called myeloproliferative neoplasms, that are difficult to study but that might be ideally suited to this kind of analysis.

The new study is a meta - analysis of three randomized controlled trials conducted by the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology (formerly Cancer and Leukemia Group B)(CALGB) with support from the NCI, Intergroupe Francophone du Myélome (IFM), and the Gruppo Italiano Malattie Ematologiche dell «Adulto (GIMEMA).

The Chronic Hepatitis Cohort Study is an analysis of records from a large, geographically and racially diverse group of 9,783 patients receiving care at four large U.S. health systems: Henry Ford Health System in Detroit; Kaiser Permanente Northwest in Portland, Oregon; Kaiser Permanente in Honolulu and Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pennsylvania.

The study divides 177 blood and 27 post-mortem brain samples into several groups, establishing that careful analysis of RNA transcripts in blood samples has the ability to distinguish early clinical AD, Parkinson's disease (PD), and cognitively healthy patients.

The new analysis, including the largest group of studies to date, suggests that gabapentin has a «significant role... not only for alleviating postoperative pain, but also for preventing PONV,» Dr. Grant and coauthors conclude.

The bigger hurdle to realizing the study's vision of a national grid, however, may be persuading policymakers, utilities investors, and landowners that it's a good idea, says Susan Tierney, a former U.S. assistant secretary of energy under President Clinton who's currently an energy consultant at the Analysis Group in Boston.

Phylogenetic analysis of this study revealed that Chupkaornis is one of the basal hesperornithiforms, thereby providing details of the evolution of this iconic group of diving birds.

The findings of the study conducted by a working group at UC Santa Barbara's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) and funded by the National Science Foundation were published today in the Proceedings B, a journal of the Royal Society of Biological Sciences.

Coupling the extensive field study with in - depth network analyses revealed that parrots — at least those in captive groups — do show a strong preference for associating with a specific individual and are usually found nearby their mate.

By using a statistical technique known as Bayesian analysis — which combines probability with archaeological information to improve precision for groups of radiocarbon dates — the study authors were able to produce a high - precision chronology model for early domestic horse use in Mongolia.

Contrary to earlier studies, the analyses divided orb weavers, the many spider species that make the classic spiral webs and cobwebs, into two groupings and put them on very different branches of the tree.

Analysis of captains» responses to the interventions show that: • All four groups increased their implementation of fuel - efficient behaviors, demonstrating that informing captains of their involvement in a study significantly changed their behavior.

Based on analyses of hundreds of fossils, the study strikes down a fundamental split of dinosaurs into «bird - hipped» and «reptile - hipped»; it also shifts the charismatic theropods — the group that includes Tyrannosaurus rex and eventually gave rise to birds — to a new spot on the tree, closer to the bird - hipped dinos.

The meta - analysis of findings from 15 studies by the European Eye Epidemiology Consortium found that around a quarter of the European population is short - sighted but it is nearly twice as common in younger people, with almost half (47 per cent) of the group aged between 25 and 29 years affected.

Giovanni Amelino - Camelia, who studies quantum gravity at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, is thrilled with the quality of observations and the analyses carried out by Laurent's group.