Sentences with phrase «while prior studies»

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.

While prior studies of decision - making have focused on group effects, or the ways everyone's brains are similar, the new study focused on individual differences.

Lead author Dr. Stefan Gravenstein, a professor at both the Warren Alpert Medical School and the School of Public Health at Brown University, said that while a prior study showed that older individuals could respond better to the high - dose vaccine, that study focused on relatively healthy older adults.

Not exact matches

The Harvard paper cites a 2000 study by Bhide that finds «a substantial fraction of the Inc. 500 got their idea for their new company while working at their prior employer.»

While former CIA Director William Colby was publicly taking the line that the President has constitutional power to conduct covert operations, Colby himself had approved an internal CIA study which found that, prior to the 1974 Foreign Assistance Act, there were no legal or constitutional grounds for covert action without the advance approval of Congress.

While Boobie Bar ® has not been included in a peer - reviewed clinical study, Nurse Wendy conducted anecdotal research prior to launching her product and found that among exclusively pumping women with an established milk supply, the average daily increase in supply is 1.5 to 4.6 ounces.

While we are unaware of any prior studies relating As biomarker concentrations to rice intake among infants, associations have been observed in pregnant women in our cohort, 19 children in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 16,18 and multiple studies of adults.11 - 15

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.

«While this ant - plant mutualistic interaction has been well - studied, our research showed that this keystone interaction is even more intricate than previously thought,» said Prior.

«While tumor profiling holds the promise of improved therapeutics through personalized medicine, it is important that both clinicians and patients discuss the possibilities of incidental findings prior to ordering the testing, as the findings can have serious implications for both the patient and their family members,» said Melinda Yushak, M.D., M.P.H., first author on the study and a medical oncology fellow in Yale School of Medicine.

While all individuals in the TBI group were at least six months post-injury at the time of the study, the average length of time since injury was eight years with no history of any significant, clinically - diagnosed neurological or psychiatric disorders prior to their TBI.

«While the association between chronic pain and drug addiction has been observed in prior studies, this study goes one step further to quantify how many of these patients are using these substances specifically to treat chronic pain.

It isn't known how commonly drivers get behind the wheel while high on 4/20, but a 2011 study of U.S. college freshmen found 44 per cent of cannabis users drove soon after consuming marijuana in the month prior to the survey.

While researchers acknowledged the use of self - reported physical activity meant levels were possibly misclassified, the questions on physical activity in the Cohort of Swedish Men were validated in a prior study using a sub-population of the participants.

Another possible reason, he adds, is that prior studies explicitly asked individuals how far they thought into the future while the PNAS paper used the implicit measure of previous tweets.

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.

«Prior research had revealed an increased risk to children while parents were deployed, mostly due to supervisory neglect while parents were overseas,» said the study's senior author, David M. Rubin, M.D., MSCE, the co-director of PolicyLab.

«While previous research in evolutionary biology has identified a number of paths for the evolution of cooperation, this study introduces a novel, previously under - appreciated but very powerful mechanism: conditioning acts of extreme cooperation on shared prior experience,» UT's Gavrilets said.

People in the fitness tracker group lost, on average, 7.7 pounds since the start of the study two years prior, while those in the self - tracking group lost an average of 13 pounds.

While the women were already aerobically active before the study, they were not using weights at least eight months prior to the study.

While this shouldn't be used as an excuse to «not eat» during exercise, it would be quite interesting to see studies of children given a higher fat intake prior to exercise compared to children given primarily carbs.

Hey Doc I started training at the age of 13 and literally never stopped ever I have had major knee surgeries 5 or so years ago I have had countless stressful jobs I could not stand I finally said enough is enough and pursued by Personal training career I have an unbelievable passion for the fitness / nutrition lifestyle I'm 26 now at the age of 22 - 23 I achieved body fat percentage of 2 percent while working a back breaking job and literally sleeping 2 - 3 hours a night due to my hormone imbalance I didn't have a spoil meal in 8 months I was finally achieving the look I've been longing for for the 10 years I was already training and it was due to proper training times and nutrition little did i know I was already deep in a over trained zone for years before that I used to spend 3 - 5 hours a day in the gym from the age of 14 through 19 years old i just loved it so much and though more was better as I got older I got smarter I studied non stop this all leads to my decline at age 23 I look back and I know every little thing I did wrong basically al all started at work 3 years ago to make a very long story short I had continued dizziness lack of sex drive for years insomnia all of the above to the 10th degree I know I've abused my body not many can say they have done the work i have done in gyms over all these years I left work one night with sharp pains in my abdomen got blood work done got called back a week or so later and was notified in A very unprofessional way that at the age of 23 I had a testosterone level of 73.6 I have all the blood work to prove it from then on I was treated horribly by doctors none believing what I havenput myself through in the prior years basically going into every appointment and teaching each person endos euros physicians etc..

While Gaal was already actively making films prior to Applause Please, the project allowed him to work on a larger scale and set him up for formal study at Swinburne Film School.

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.

Another important finding of this study was that, while prior effort did have an effect on current achievement — learning is cumulative, after all — the effect was much smaller than that of current effort.

While prior evidence of strong academic performance is essential, evaluators also consider a candidate's course of study, content assessment results, commitment to Boston's children, and work experiences.

Effective strategies should support teaching throughout and beyond the certification process by allowing prospective teachers to study theory and practice during their training while they apply prior experience.

While prior research on the use of video in teacher preparation has provided support for its use as a tool to develop future teachers» ability to attend to the details of student thinking, this study extended that work in two different ways.

While in the conclusions section of this article authors stretch this finding out a bit, writing that «Overall, this study finds that there is promise in teacher evaluation reform in Chicago,» (p. 114) as primarily based on their findings about «the new observation process» (p. 114) being used in CPS, recall from the Review of Article # 4 prior (i.e., # 4 of 9 on observational systems» potentials here), these observational systems are not «new and improved.»

While a formal civics course is not offered until high school, kindergarten students learn to «identify personal traits, such as courage, honesty, and responsibility» and third - graders learn to «explain how local government officials are chosen, e.g., election, appointment,» according to the Idaho State Department of Education's social studies standards.22 By the time students reach 12th grade, they are more prepared to learn civics - related topics, such as the electoral process and role of political parties; the methods of public participation; and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, than students with no prior exposure to a civics curriculum.

In addition, while in 1993 16 % of owned cats had a litter prior to altering, in the current study this figure was less than one - half of 1 %.

While the introduction of our Nature paper highlights the lack of consensus in studies published prior to October 2012, the community has reconciled most of the previous differences through the IMBIE study.

While Mass was not involved with the new study, his prior research reached similar conclusions regarding a strong influence of Pacific Ocean cycles on changes in annual snowpack levels in the Cascade mountains.

The prior phase, CMIP3 was used heavily in studies included in the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, while CMIP5 is used in many studies evaluated in the upcoming IPCC Fifth Assessment report, due out in 2013.

While prior DOE research and outside studies have confirmed that the methane hydrate resource volume present appears to be substantial and the accumulations that can be explored for and produced using existing technologies are potentially numerous, significant research remains to:

«Prior to our study, it was not known whether the catalysis, which takes place on the surface of the cobalt oxide crystallites, happens at every cobalt center on the surface at the same speed, or whether a subset of cobalt sites does most of the work while other subsets are slow or merely spectators, Frei says.

What is amazing about this study is that: «Half of the judges rated current photos downloaded from law firm websites, while the other half rated college yearbook photos of the same individuals, which on average were taken 33 years prior.»

While it could be argued that many of the new rules are merely codifications of general principles that were in existence prior to the introduction of the new BC Code, the new sections are worthy of note and study nonetheless.

A Canadian study demonstrates that while most patients preferred to donate their embryos to research prior to undergoing IVF, and indicated this preference on their consent forms, many had a change of heart after completing IVF and decided to discard them.

Without any prior working experience or anything related to the role you are applying for, implementing a little summary of skills you have attained while still in studying that is relevant to the job would highly help.

• Documented all studies conducted in the sonography room while adhering to the issued guidelines • Analyzed studies conducted for diagnostic reporting and obtained images from the same for referral cases • Performed recommended measurements and calculations prior to each examination

currently a nursing student at Pacific Lutheran University studying for my Bachelor of Science in Nursing in which... acquired in the nursing program thus far, while gaining experience in the field of nursing prior to graduation... experiences including geriatrics, medical / surgical nursing, mental health, pediatrics, and obstetrics

This can involve facilitating cash payments (known as «Crisis Payment») to be provided to people released from prison outside business hours, assistance with issues relating to proof of identity and study expenses while in custody, prevention of debts upon entry to prison and better access to Centrelink services prior to release.

In a recent study, researchers randomly assigned 293 men and women (averaging just under 19 years of age) to either a bogus pipeline condition, in which they were hooked to a lie detector and reminded that the equipment would detect their deceit before answering questions verbally, or to an anonymous questionnaire condition, in which they answered questions on a paper and pencil survey while hooked to the same machine.1 However, in the anonymous questionnaire condition, researchers told the participants that the purpose of the machine was to measure participants» anxiety prior to the filling out the survey (and were not told that it would flag false answers).

As this study shows, when the «dose» is large enough, parent training seems more effective than when data from all participants are used in an intent to treat analysis; (c) the present study provided a more rigorous test than most prior studies by only admitting children to treatment who met DSM - IV criteria for ODD; and, perhaps most importantly, (d) this study was designed as an effectiveness trial, while most prior studies were efficacy - oriented.

In a study of twenty - four highly motivated California families who pioneered joint custody on their own prior to the law's express authorization of joint custody, while most children adjusted, twenty - five percent were confused and unhappy because of the demands of living in two households and remained stressed by the living arrangements.

Dr. Steinman reports, in a 1978 - 80 study of twenty - four families who pioneered joint custody on their own prior to express authorization of joint custody under California law, that while most children adjusted, twenty - five percent of the children were confused and unhappy because of the demands of living in two households.

In general, attachment to parents was significantly linked to delinquency in these studies (e.g. Bernburg and Thorlindsson 1999; Ford 2005; Laundra et al. 2002; LeBlanc 1994) or attachment was even the most important predictor of delinquency (e.g., compared to other family factors and economic factors, Mack et al. 2007), while some studies found only weak links between social bonding and delinquency (e.g., compared to prior delinquency and delinquent peers, Agnew 1991).

Our study also has key strengths: 1) analyses were based on a community sample and we were able to estimate the burden of behavioural problems associated with food insecurity among children in the general population, while most prior studies focused on high - risk families; 2) longitudinal follow - up of children's mental health allowed us to distinguish different types of symptoms and their developmental patterns over up to 7 years of follow - up; 3) statistical adjustment for multiple individual and family factors potentially associated with children's outcomes.

In reporting on findings of the independent actuarial study, HUD indicates that while FHA continues to be impacted by losses from mortgages originated prior to 2009, this report does not directly affect the adequacy of capital balances in the MMI Fund.