Sentences with phrase «study sample reported»

Thirty - two percent of the total population of Sweden has a college / university degree, but 53.7 % of the study sample reported having such a degree.

The authors found that over 42 % of the women in the study sample reported sexual distress; 25 % who were sexually active in the past month reported...

Not exact matches

Though only 9 % or so of consenters (4,552 people) uploaded a full week of reports on their physical activity, that's still a big sample size for an objectively measured, data - driven research study.

These studies can be problematic because they include small research samples or rely on people to accurately self - report their drinking habits.

In a sample that we studied for a recent report, there was a 27 - percentage - point difference in top - line growth between brands that scored highest in terms of advocacy and those with the lowest scores.

The drilling was conducted at the W85 deposit, which was included in the recently - reported Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA)(see news release dated April 18, 2017), and was completed to obtain metallurgical samples as part of the planned feasibility study.

Days after the report was released, the NFL released an official statement acknowledging the findings, but also suggesting that they may not be representative of all of the league's players: «The report doesn't confirm that the condition is common in all football players; it reflects high occurrence in samples at the Boston brain bank that studies CTE,» they wrote.

To be included, a study had to compare organic and conventional planting across similarly - sized areas, had to report on the sample size and error margins, and had to use organic methods that complied with the guidelines of certification organisations (such as the UK's Soil Association).

A study from 2010 acknowledged, yes, «in the short - term, kids go through a one - to two - year crisis period when their parents divorce,» but the idea of staying together for the kids is problematic, especially if it's a high - conflict family, and that previous research indicating people should stay together «has been plagued by many data problems — reliance on small samples derived from one therapy clinic, retrospective reports, and cross sectional data.»

Further design details for the cohort study, including the eligibility criteria, sample size calculations, derivation of risk status, outcome measures, and ethical procedures, are reported elsewhere.13

In a convenience sample of 45 children during a 1 - week training workshop provided by child psychologists and psychiatrists, inter-paediatrician agreement was high, with Pearson correlation coefficients of 0.80 (95 % confidence interval: 0.67, 0.89) for vocabulary, 0.72 (0.54, 0.83) for similarities, 0.80 (0.67, 0.89) for block designs and 0.79 (0.66, 0.88) for matrices.16 Since we previously reported that the intervention resulted in significantly higher verbal IQ scores in intention - to - treat analysis, 16 we focused on results for verbal IQ scores in the present study.

A reduction in the incidence rates of sepsis among human milk - fed infants admitted to an intensive care nursery has also been recently reported.20 The study sample included 178 infants ranging in gestational age from 25 to 40 weeks.

The strongest research methods for psychological studies are: qualitative findings versus quantitative; experimental rather than descriptive or correlational; controlled - experiment, meta - analysis, and observation designs over archival, case study, computational modeling, content analysis, field experiment, interview, neuroimaging, quasi experiment, self - report inventory, random sample survey, or twin study; and prospective (where subjects are recruited prior to the proposed independent effects being administered) and longitudinal (where subjects are studied at multiple time points) rather than retrospective or cross-section study.

For our study, we included fathers who reported living with their children «all or most of the time,» resulting in a sample of 1773 fathers.

The findings of the new study are all the more remarkable after re-examining the comments made by the Duke's Rob Jackson, and critics of his study, when the original report was released, specifically on the sample size and baseline data:

No random sampling; authors appear to have simply cherry - picked water wells previously known to have high concentrations of methane, although they never actually mention in the report which wells they sampled or where they're located: «Jackson said the study was indeed not random, but that was because they needed homeowners permission to test their water.»

The study found that people who were in the lowest 25 percent of the sample for socio - economic status as children had 65 percent worse self - reported health as adults than people who were in the top 75 percent of the sample as children.

«In their microbiology studies, they'll often report that they sampled «a room» or «a classroom.»

«The study showed that 2.9 % of baseline nonsmokers in this U.S. regional sample of young adults reported ever using e-cigarettes at follow - up, suggesting an interest in e-cigarettes among nonsmoking young adults,» explains Dr. Choi.

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.

An international research team reports results of a three - year study of sediment samples collected offshore from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in a new paper published August 18, 2015, in the American Chemical Society's journal, Environmental Science and Technology.

They reached out to clinicians worldwide to identify patients with arhinia — before this study only 80 cases had been reported during the past century — and gathered samples for genetic sequencing.

In a proof - of - concept study, a team led by a Johns Hopkins researcher reports that the vast majority of edible cannabis products sold in a small sample of medical marijuana dispensaries carried labels that overstated or understated the amount of delta -9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).

The authors note that prior studies have reported elevated levels of distress among people with cancer, but they vary in quality due to small sample sizes, different diagnostic criteria and assessment standards, and an over-representation of women with breast cancer.

Indeed, U.K. labs have reported 21 similar poliolike cases in cattle and sheep over the last 10 years, and samples from some of those animals are now being studied.

This study is the first of a new article type: Telemetry Case Reports, being published by Animal Biotelemetry, which hopes to highlight small pilot studies on single individuals or very limited samples.

The study used an age - and IQ - matched sample of school - aged youth diagnosed with ASD to assess sex differences according to the standard clinical tests including the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) and the Autism Diagnostic Interview - Revised (ADI - R), as well as parent reported autistic traits and adaptive skills.

The new study, which reports adjusted dates for radiocarbon analyses (which can be substantially older than unadjusted radiocarbon dates), looked at more than 250 samples of charcoal, animal bones, and even soot smudges left on the cave's walls by torches.

«Of all the children in the sample, 31 percent were exposed to at least one ACE — the most common one being living with a parent or guardian who got divorced or separated,» said lead study author Robyn D. Wing, MD. «What surprised us was that among the children who had been exposed to 5 or more ACEs, 25 percent of parents or guardians reported that their child had an asthma diagnosis — compared with only 12 percent for those with zero ACE exposures.

Eighty - six percent of the samples reported data from studies conducted in the United States or Canada.

«This study confirms several other reports in the literature,» said Dr Letur, «with a large sample and matched control group.

Moreover, field studies have rarely reported the pH and temperature of water samples, which could have a big effect on true concentrations of contaminants.

The current study differs from previous reports in that intestinal swabs, which provided a direct method of looking at specific areas of the intestinal mucosa, were studied instead of only relying on stool samples.

Limitations of the study were noted, including that the data were self - reported and that participants were recruited through respondent - driven sampling.

Results showed that self - reported distress intolerance was significantly associated with opioid misuse in the study sample.

The work, directed by researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., found that some study participants who reported receiving flu vaccines had a strong immune response not only against the seasonal H3N2 flu strain from 2010, when blood samples were collected for analysis, but also against flu subtypes never included in any vaccine formulation.

Most parents in the 500 Family Study are highly educated, employed in professional occupations, and work, on average, longer hours and report higher earnings than do middle - class families in other, nationally representative samples.

From that larger study of adult Caucasian twins, study authors analyzed data from a sample of 1,790 men, provided through structured clinical interviews that included retrospective reports of their own drinking as well as their peers» alcohol - related behaviors from adolescence into young adulthood, ages 12 to 25 years.

The report describes baseline data and biological samples that the study should collect — a blood sample, for example, and participants» sleep and activity data with wearable devices, such as Fitbits.

The researchers report in Science that they sussed out the bug's travel plans by studying 13,000 samples of the virus collected from every continent (except Antarctica) over the past five years.

Authors of the new paper offer some advice with their data: «Following the findings reported here,» they write, «it would seem a prudent next step for subsequent studies to compare samples and protocols between different laboratories around the world.»

In contrast, alligators at two sites in the Florida Everglades exhibited some of the lowest levels of the two «highest burden» PFAAs reported across all adult alligators sampled in the U.S. study.

In a separate study, researchers report that all samples drawn from 45 crocodiles at five sites in and around South Africa's Kruger National Park contained detectable levels of four PFAAs, often in different combinations with other of the 15 fluorinated organic compounds tracked.

Their experiments suggested the high levels of perc in the air samples were influenced by East Asian pollution, as reported in the Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics study.

A study of 371 lakes published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports that many Midwestern and Northeastern lakes are experiencing increasing chloride trends, with some 44 % of lakes sampled in these regions undergoing long - term salinization.

For the study, the team analyzed viral genomic sequences from 232 patient samples collected over the 7 - month spread of the disease in Sierra Leone, along with 86 genome sequences reported earlier in the epidemic.

While the study has a number of limitations — its small sample size for one and the fact that things like disease status were self - reported — the researchers had enough information to develop a genetic risk score for smokers.

«In an earlier study at the LCLS, we reported combined XRD and XES data from photosystem II samples in the dark S1 state and the one visible - flash illuminated S2 (1 - flash) state,» says Junko Yano, a chemist also with Berkeley Lab's Physical Biosciences Division and also a leader of this research.

This study adds to that literature by reporting on use from one region in England, where a large sample was asked about e-cigarettes alongside tobacco and alcohol consumption.

Also, only one study reported on the association of smoking cessation and prognosis in a sample of patients presenting in mainly advanced disease, so the implication of these findings that smoking cessation is beneficial applies only to patients with early disease.